Thursday, July 13, 2000
College: -27 days and counting. Maybe if I close my eyes and click my heels I'll magically reduce that to zero days.... damn it.
Spent the day helping Jane make a video documentary of her home for use in future art projects or a tell-all autobiography, she's not sure which. Filmed Trent asleep, rusting sculpture in front yard, The Great Dandelion Forest, her mom's kiln (needs repair after last explosion), Jane's smelly closets, stuffy attic full of artistic junk, cats napping under sofa, red stain inside refrigerator, basement on side where Spiral practices. Jane found a plastic bag containing questionable herbs behind washing machine, buried it in backyard wrapped in plastic and tape under new gazebo. Will check back in a year to see if seeds grew anyway.
Saw Quinn reading a book at dinner. Thought at first it was a romance, but then saw it was about financial planning, money management, how to become rich. Q was reading so intently she reached for her milk and knocked it over. I was going to make a sarcastic comment, but decided not to. It occurred to me that she might very well become rich, and it would be wise to let her finish the book in case I need to make bail one day.
Got off computer a few minutes ago after chatting in Area 51. Some of the usual suspects have decided to investigate a peculiar murder that happened in Highland (TX), of all places. Was tempted to ask if it was anyone I knew, decided I didn't want to know. The gang thinks it has something to do with Earl's tale about stopping an alien invasion in 1996. (Must ask what medication he is taking.) The group invited me to come along to Texas by bus, but I begged off, said I could not leave my job at the Kennedy Space Center. NoGoB wanted to know what I was working on; I said it was for the Department of Defense and couldn't talk about it until I was 80. NoGoB seemed skeptical, said he didn't recall an Esmeralda anywhere at the Cape. Will have to think of a more believable excuse next time.
Not sure what to think about this Scooby-Do-esque excursion Earl is leading. Was surprised to hear that TOH and sister are the conjoined twins Jane and I saw on SSW a few years ago, assuming she/they isn't/aren't on medication, too. Earl says he just met her/them in Brooklyn today, however. Going with them is that lady with the big nose from the Pasquale Mendosa show about the invasion, and some hairy guy named Kang that TOH's sister likes. (How would that work? Never mind, don't want to know.) I thought Nose Lady might be "ratttgrrrl" from the Area 51 group, but apparently not. Ratttgrrrl was very encouraging about the trip, go team go, etc., but Sue was not. Euro-Psion (must remember to ask about that name) said he and his two kids were not far from Highland, might meet others there if they can hitch a ride. All the while MIB007 was ranting about radioactive space viruses in the drinking water. I told him they weren't space viruses, they were ebola. Asked how I knew; I said because I had put them there. Not able to understand his typing after that.
Tomorrow have to work at Mom's office filing legal papers and shredding old files. Remember to save anything that looks interesting or incriminates mother.
