"You know, owls can twist their heads 270 degrees." ---Tom, 8/7/03 (Lexi tries it.) "Hm, I can't." ---Lexi "Well good, now we know that you aren't an owl." ---Tom "Yeah that'd be quite the identity crisis..." ---Lexi "Whooo-whooo am I?" ---Jenny, out of NOWHERE!!! Hahaha

"You have bipolar disorder, but without the depressed part...you're just MANIC-MANIC."

---Matt, sometime in June

August 8, 2003
An Update For Diana

time 2:59 pm feeling TGIF!!! reading nothing wearing LEIs, some shirt music Hendrix ready for naptime next get pants fixed...I hope...

Diana just wrote me this (after sending in that 'I'm so bored!!!' comment you'll find on my FX poll):

"HAHAHAHAHAH yes that's me, of course. how could you tell? they literally had NOTHING for me to do for most of yesterday. and this morning. anyway, i mostly watched music videos and gym videos. god bless the internet.

it's the freakin weekend, baby i'm about to have me some fuuuuuuuuun. actually, not really. ooh, unless i hook up with aruek from ggmb...but she's only 17, damn it, i want booze!

you should get msn and then we can chat.

ok, i'm going to do this really menial task they found for me.

diana x"

So evidently at least two people rely on me for relief from boredom, or at least when at work (D is working at Microsoft this summer) or waiting for a plane home (J back from Spain). Ha! That's pretty funny. I can appreciate that. The point is, I have nothing about which to update, however, I'm just trying to do my work as an entertainer (or lack thereof). Thus this will be a senseless update with no apologies for its meaninglessness..I'll just try to ramble on from my consciousness for a few paragraphs, then email D.

It's 8-8-03!!! There is like nothing worse than that, two eights in a row!!! I have this thing about numbers. Oh man my sister and my mom are arguing about a blender. I have got to get out of here, I am definitely not helpful when it comes to fights because I like to get in them...I have some sick perverse fascination with irritation I think. However I like to believe otherwise, so I'll try here. However I am also thankful that my mom will fix my pants for this 'wedding' tomorrow. Speaking of weddings...well nevermind, no one from Memorial reads here any longer. Let's just say I was greatly surprised!

I went to gymnastics last night, I am going to have to 'retire' soon! It sucks to see how far you've come from where you used to be, I mean, I really suck now as opposed to sucking just a little bit. OK this is all relative, don't come crying, 'you don't suck!' to me because you know what I'm saying, just in MY mind. I know that most people can't even walk without falling (not that I can do that necessarily either). You get the idea. It was so much fun though because Alissa and Mary Kate were there, they are level 6s. I used to coach them when they were 4's so it was weird to work out with them, but I got used to it. They are so funny!! Alissa is 9 and Mary Kate is 12, and they are just a riot. At one point Tom was talking to Jenny about her giants and I look over at vault (where Alissa and Mary Kate are 'working out', read, screwing around) and I see Mary Kate walking down the runway with her arms outstretched like a zombie and her eyes CLOSED and Alissa DIRECTING how she should walk ("OK, a little to the left Mary Kate...")...playing some 'blind man game' I assume??? Psychotic! ("APPARATUS?!" "Psiotic?!" ---Alissa) WOW. They are damn funny. I can't even tell you... Tom's shaking his head, oh-so-thrilled with their behavior..."how much are those tickets to Amsterdam? Want to coach for me for a month?" Hah. "I landed in the same spot!" ---Alissa "You mean you STUCK it?" ---Tom

Oh yeah and Tom compared me to Hitler. Hitler! NOT QUITE THANKS. We were talking about my nickname there, 'freakazoidal dictator.' (Which D and I are now with Gymnastics Club, but don't tell our subjects I mean members!) I am much better now though, I'm just trying to help everyone out. Whatever man. I did nine handstand pushups, Jenny thinks I did that many just to beat her but honestly I thought I was going to crush my skull at the end. Bah. I worked on bar dismounts. I HATE MY MIND!!! I have the most beautiful fulls ever when I do them right (okay, so I don't get to brag about my skills that often 'cause they suck, so bear with me when I can), but 90% of the time, including 100% of all meet situations, my mind freaks me out and I do it completely wrong! ARGH. Just like the damn front handspring. Tom suggested electric controls...that'd certainly do the trick. I suggested drugs. ("I prescribe sleep!" ---Danny, 6/00)

Remember I was obsessed with getting a new computer?? I might actually do it! I posted about how horrible this was, seeing as my computer's fine and there are people in the world with a much more difficult life than mine, but Alyssa had a solution...donate my computer to a worthy cause thus I should feel better. Eh? Does that work? Does anything work? I don't think so. However perhaps I will investigate further once finished with the Nonsense Update For Diana.

Matt moves in a week! Well, Matt and every other UW student in existence. They are crazy around here, I just don't understand. I am excited for them though, each of them will have his own room finally...woo hoo. Plus it's only a few blocks from where they are now. Plus we don't have to find him any furniture!

We went to Great America, it was awesome! You have to go just to go on Superman, it is amazing...you really do feel as close to flying as ever may! I was so impressed with Matt and Erik, they did every rollercoaster we asked them to! This from being scared of heights (both) just a bit before that...wow.

Worlds! They are in eight short days. The US will rock, as they did at Pan Ams. I am too high on our country, I will be totally blasted away. Anyway they are in CA so hopefully will be televised appropriately. Oh the sadness of being a gymnastics fan...

I totally lost my steam plus I am pretty sure now is pant-fixing time. So Diana dearest, this is for you, ramblings and all...have a great rest of the day out there in Seattle, and watch out for GymNASTY!

EDITED TO ADD: Now I got this from Diana:

"yeah sure...even if your other readers will think i'm a lush. say i'm not a lush, ok? i just don't have anyone my age to hang out with and my job is kinda meh right now, so i could use some gin.

you should still get msn messenger.

i'm gonna keep checking your site for updates.

can you proofread for spelling checks before you put it up? i wanna look like an educated lush, at least.

and i'll probably instantly reply to any and all emails i get today.

i'm a bit bored.

diana x

PS speaking of british signatures, i was thinking the other day i should do my fake english accent to record my cell phone message. but then employers would call me and think i was english, so i'd have to do the whole interview in queen's english. and then when they hired me, i'd have to give it up and speak american, and then they'd be all DAMNIT i called the wrong person somehow...i wanted that english chick! that is all."

OH MY GOD you are too funny. You need to come home!!!

---Lexi