UPDATE: Boo decided to come home at half past midnight last night...and absolutely nothing is wrong with her....She apparently just didn't want to come home for a few days...

Our cat is lost. :-( We haven't seen Boo since Friday morning. We've searched for her all over our yard, called for her, driven around looking for her, set off the alarm clock that she loves to cuddle with, shaken water bottles (which usually make her come running)and even went to the closest animal shelter to see if she was there. And no result. Nothing, zip, zilch, no sign of her.

I keep hoping I'll come upstairs and she'll be sleeping on Sean's chair, but so far all weekend she's nowhere to be found. I posted an ad on Craigslist. She has a collar with a tag that has my phone number on it, but apparently if someone did find her they either 1) don't care and are keeping her anyway or 2) don't have a cell phone and don't want to make a "long distance" call since my number is a 406 number.

Perhaps she's just out and about and she'll come home on her own. Or perhaps she's stuck in someone's garage who hasn't left at all this weekend and she'll come home starving Monday morning as soon as she can get out.

COME HOME SILLY CAT!!

But something has REALLY been annoying me lately. Now that I've been regularly going to the gym I don't understand the people who are either:

1) Lazily waltzing around the gym on their cellphone for hours - do you just do this so that you can say you go to the gym for 4 hours a day when really you aren't doing anything but walking around? Don't you have better places to be than the gym NOT working out and just chatting on the phone?

2) "Exercising" on the treadmill/elpitical machine and taking on their cellphone. First of all, if you can carry on a cell phone conversation that isn't a bit breathy you probably aren't working out enough to get results. Sure you should be able to carry on a conversation, but I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be a "Yeah, and then I went to the mall and got some new jeans...." as if you were standing still.

So, yeah. I just needed to complain.

I'm so excited! I got summoned to Jury Duty!! I'm supposed to report on 1/2/07, but I'll be in NJ then, so I have to reschedule it for a week later.

Happy Day!!!

Date:	2006-06-08 08:26
Subject:
Security:	Public
Mood:	cranky

Okay, you know what pisses me off? People in LA who seem to think that 3 cars are allowed through the yellow to make a left turn. Everywhere else I've lived, everyone has commonly accepted that when the light turns yellow the two people who are ACTUALLY IN the intersection get to go. But apparently here in LA people are too special to wait their turn, so the freakin' third person who isn't even into the crosswalk thinks it is their right to make a left hand turn on the what-was-yellow-when-the-second-person-went-through-but-is-now-red-light. Sometimes I wish I was a cop so I could give people tickets for doing things like this.

This is really the beginning of a larger post about how I hate how people in LA think they are somehow special or more entitled to something than other people. Get over your freakin' self, you are just a mass of tissue just like everyone else....GAH!

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Date:	2005-10-31 18:56
Subject:	:-(
Security:	Public
Mood:	crushed

Mischief died last night. My kitty from when I was in second grade. He was supposed to die about a year after I got him from the pound because he had a tumor in his mouth. They did a biopsy and got inconclusive results. Because of that he always had just canned cat food. I of course was very upset and convinced my dad to get me a puppy. Casey lived a long life and was put to sleep on September 11, 2001. Mischief outlived him. My parents got another dog that they rescued from a shelter. This dog was severly malnourish and had been abused. He died a year and a half later. Mischief outlived him. My parents got two more dogs, Toby and Tina, two German Shorthaired pointers from a rescue organization. Unfortunately, Mischief didn't outlive them. The kitty died in my mom's arms last night. They had him cremated this morning at the vet's.

Its hot as balls, the valley is burning down, I feel like I am living in a campfire, I'm breathing ash, my dog is sick again?/still?, and I'm really tied. Way to go today...

Date:	2005-09-19 18:37
Subject:	Analogies
Security:	Public
Mood:	contemplative

I may have made the best analogy of my life...(okay that's exaggerating, but I am proud of the analogy I made) In the los angeles community there was a post about people leaving LA. Basically the person who wrote the post was asking if people in LA are that bad in general that people need to leave. I made the analogy of finding the perfect place to live to finding the perfect person to spend the rest of your life with. (See post here: http://www.livejournal.com/community/los_angeles/1844006.html ) What I said is currently about halfway down the page. Anyway, I want to hear some of your opinions, do you think that it is all what you make of it or are there certain places that are more suited to certain personalities?

So I am only posting this because it is correct within 6 months...freakin' weird...

You Are 24 Years Old

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

Okay, so I am all excited to apply for this awesome job at RAND Corp, one of the best think tanks in the country. So I check the "How to Apply section" Typical things, Cover letter, Resume/CV, and a writing sample. Okay, I've got this under control. For the writing sample pretty much they want something that has been published. UNLESS, you are applying for a Research Assistant position, great, that's the position I am applying for. In this case, they will accept a senior thesis type paper. Wonderful! I've got one of those, and I'm pretty proud of it, or so I thought. I go to get the Word Document to look it over. Can't find it on my computer. Right, its new, it wouldn't be on here. It must be on Sean's computer from when I backed my stuff up. Nope, EVERY OTHER PAPER I HAVE EVER WRITTEN BACK TO 1998 IS ON THERE!!!! Okay, calm down. It must be on my old computer. Check there. Nope, not there. Hmm, we have a cd with some of my documents on it, maybe it is on there. Can't find the flippin' CD. Okay, deep breaths, I'll find the actual paper in my old notebook. I can always retype it. ESPECIALLY SINCE THE CHARTS I USED FOR IT ARE ON SEAN'S COMPUTER!!! Argh. Find old notebooks. Good. Not the first one, not the second one. The third on is Sean's notebook. WTF?!? Where is this notebook? Hmm, maybe it is out in our storage area. I'll check. Trudge out to the storage area. NOPE. I have managed to lose all copies of my senior thesis paper. Who does this? How freakin' retarded am I? So now I have to decide if my "Computer Usage as a Function of Gender, Education and Income" paper is good enough. It's only 10 pages, and I believe RAND wants 15. GAH! I am so mad/sad/pissed/upset/who knows what else.

I didn't happen to send a copy of it to any of you did I? (Yeah, right)

I've become a Su Doku whore...how trendy... it makes me want to barf.

Date:	2005-06-15 21:44
Subject:	Beauty and the Geek
Security:	Public
Mood:	geeky

Okay, so my roommate had this show on tonight, Beauty and the Geek, and I watched the second half of it. You might think being a sociologist, that I would find this show to be interesting. But it really just pissed me off. I mean seriously, so if you are intelligent you are immediately a social reject who can't function? And if you are in anyway attractive at all you are a complete moron who doesn't even know that the sun is the closest star to the earth? I don't know, it just really bugs me for some reason. Maybe it is because I am a major geek. I mean I play a MMORPG for fun, a lot of the time. I like to write and answer trivia quizzes as another past time. I am not fashionable, I don't care about movies, and pop culture. But that doesn't make me an inept gorilla when it comes to social situations. I like to go out to the bar and go dancing. I enjoy meeting people. I am perfectly capable of talking to a member of the opposite sex (and same sex for what its worth) without drooling on myself. Why do these things have to be mututally exclusive? The qualifications for the guys being "geeks" is that they are a member of Mensa, or that they are in medical school studying neurology. That makes them geeky? How about that makes them successful and probably the people that these girly sorority girls will be trying to get money from in ten years. I guess this is just turning into a "I hate labels and generalizations" post, but it just really really irks me. I'm so sick of hearing from guys "oh I wish I had a girlfriend" or "oh Sean is so lucky to have you as a girlfriend, you are so cool" Just freakin' go talk to a girl, they aren't aliens, they aren't going to bite your head off. Just talk to them. Yes, I am semi-different compared to a lot of girls, but I am also very similar to a lot of girls. They are plenty of cool girls out there that play video games, or who don't harp on their boyfriends, or who don't want you to buy them flowers every day. I don't know, maybe I am being too harsh, but it is just annoying. Maybe I need to be more girly, maybe that's my problem. If I was more girly, boys wouldn't tell me things like this. But now they feel comfortable telling me anything and everything. I don't know, maybe those girls on the Beauty and the Geek show don't have it all that bad, sometimes I wish I could just be stupid. Then I wouldn't think nearly as much as I do, and I probably wouldn't have nearly the amount of issues as I create in my own little head. I wish I could just be ignorant and happy being that way... ever notice that stupid people are generally really happy? I guess they just don't know enough to not be...

I went out last night to a club in Hollywood, it was tons o' fun, I got to dance *insert wacky dance here* The funny part is that I took a nap before we went out, along with Sean, and he woke me up at 11 pm, the time we were supposed to meet there. Oooops! So I jumped in the shower, and found some clothes and we got there by midnight, which isn't bad if you count in the fact that Sean and I both had to shower, and it is in Hollywood, which takes about 15-20 minutes to get to on a Saturday night at that hour, plus we had to find parking. The parking gods were looking upon us though, because we found a spot (actually like three) within a block of the place, right away.

In other news, I got a kitten. She's tiny and cute. And her name is Boo. Sean's the one that named her, and he likes to cuddle with her, and he sometimes refers to her as his cat, but don't ask him about his cat, or he will get all defensive and claim she's mine. Quigley gets along well with the kitten and in fact they are playing right now. Boo likes to bite Quigley on the nose since Quigley's nose is always conveniently in Boo's butt and/or face. (I say and/or because Quigley's snout is about as big as the kitten, so technically it is possible)

In other plans for the weekend, I am going to play WoW, and sleep and yeah, that's it for plans.

Oh and I suck at updating...the end.

Date:	2005-04-06 07:01
Subject:	Fauxhawk
Security:	Public
Mood:	tired

Sean has a Mohawk, well more like a fauxhawk. He was shaving his head last night, like he usually does when it gets hot and/or his hair just gets too long, and Justin suggested he shave it into a mohawk. Sean wasn't too keen on the idea, but we convinced him to do it just so we could see. Then he finished and it looks soooo cute. Or at least I think it does :-) So Justin and I convinced him to keep it. And then our two house guests (one is a semi-roommate now and the other is leaving today) also chimed in that he should keep it because it looks good. Sean was still tentative, but we told him he had to keep it for at least a day. I hope it lasts longer than that, cause it is awesome. We'll see....

Okay, I really need to update more. I say that like every three months. So anyway, it was my birthday on Thursday, I'm old. I'm going to move on from this topic and I am sure you all have heard it beat to death.

I'm getting humped. On the shoulder.

Anyway, I got new surround sound speakers from Sean on my birthday. They rock, I am so excited. I love them. I now have an awesome new computer, with awesome new speakers, and an awesome Night Elf Priestess on WoW in order to utilze them.

Oh right, the original topic of this conversation. I stayed out until 4 am last night. Woot! Back to Rockstar Status. I haven't been up that late since, well since Bozeman that's for sure.

Gwen Stefani just came on the radio. Reminds me that if anyone (Andrew, this means you) talks to Michael, he needs to know that I work with her dad. He's the one person I know that would appreciate that fact the most.

Back to the party last night. It was a housewarming party on the West Side. Lovely house to warm, which we did with people and candles. Met lots of new cool people and had a great time overall. Hopefully, the people we met we will see again and it won't be one of those "wow, these people are really cool." and then you never see them again.

Must clean our house, do laundry, write a rent check, go to the bank, do laundry, take the dog to the dog park, and go to Gnomeregan...

Date:	2005-03-29 00:18
Subject:	Serious Updating Issues
Security:	Public
Mood:	tired

Holy I haven't updated in forever. St. Patrick's Day was fun, albeit, no Butte. I can sum up my life the past month or so in one small phrase "World of Warcraft"...need I say more? I shall update more in the future, I think...

Date:	2005-02-06 20:42
Subject:	Foreshadowing?
Security:	Public
Mood:	curious

It is the Chinese New Year... it is now the year of the cock. I wonder if that is foreshadowing or what...

Date:	2005-02-06 12:18
Subject:	Busy Weekend
Security:	Public
Mood:	tired

Friday night Sean and I went out to a club in Hollywood called Clockwork Orange. It was a ton of fun. There are three rooms, one 80's, one pop/hip hop and one goth-ish. Its also 18+, so when Jenni and Ren come down we can go there and dance. So we were out really late and Sean and I slept almost all day yesterday. Then last night we had a birthday party to go to that was alright. It was for Joeby, Sean's old manager at the movie theaters in Bozeman. Its the third Joeby party I have attended, and they are all very similar with a lot of film/tv industry people so I end up being like...Hi I don't watch movies, I haven't had a tv in pretty much 4 years and I have no clue what you are talking about. Plus a lot of them are incapable of having a conversation that does not have anything to do with film. Anyhoo... came home, went to sleep. Today we have a superbowl party to go to that I am really not wanting to attend. But we kind of have to. I guess we will just make the best of it and maybe make an early exit excuse. I wish it was always the weekend...I need a new job...