lauren's

in the morning after it rained
today it is cloudy and much colder than earlier this week and i am pleased.
i get to register for classes at uw soon. but they tell me what to take so it's not really that exciting.
i think i will be posting at the other page now that i've got it somewhat set up. please read and comment there. my comments are lonely.

you're taking a gamble on a little sorrow
head hurts. can't think. why am i writing? oh yes: bill is impatient.
we made really good time on the way to seattle; we left just after 3 and got there at about 8:30. dropped eric off at shelby's, then sho and i went to shan's, where we sat around until ten, at which point we went downtown to marcus' martini heaven. they had a drink called san sebastian, but i did not get it; instead i got a scooter which was amaretto, brandy, and cream, and which was also very enjoyable. after that we went to the j&m, which was very loud, had girls dancing on the bar, cost $5, and made me scared for my life because all i could think about was what if there was an emergency? we would be trampled, or the roof would collapse on us, or something. but there were mirrors on the walls, hung at angles (as opposed to flat on the wall) which for some reason pleased me, and the dj was up in a cool pulpit-like thingie. except there were dancing girls on his stairs, so he wouldn't have been able to get out, either. after that we went down the street a little ways, and eric, shan, and kristen had gyros, and shelby and sho had bagel dogs, and i had a pretzel with mmmsalt. we went home after that, and shan and sho and i (why does everyone's name start with sh-?) talked about random things like the mark of the beast, which frightens shan, and the nature of evil, if it exists at all. we were up really late, and sho had to get up and move his car at eight; i felt bad, but since my car-moving skills are non-existent, i couldn't help him.
saturday we did the obligatory trip to pike place market. i was excited about all the fruit and vegetables. cherries! asparagus! artichokes! peaches! honey! yay! (yes, i know honey is neither a fruit nor a vegetable. but i like it a lot.) i am really looking forward to having a market every day, instead of just saturdays and not in the winter, like here. also we went to the fun store on the bottom with the comic books and toys and a lot of pictures of legolas, who, as everyone surely knows by now, is my boyfriend. i was particularly happy about that part. it was weird, though, because every other time i've been to that store, i have not paid attention to the comic book section, which is really a significant part of the store. this time, especially since we were with sho, i looked at a lot of things that he said i would like. (i have not gotten to the stage where i call them graphic novels. i always feel like that sounds more like it means porn than that it means comics.) anyway, we wandered around at the market, ate lunch, went to imax (saw mt. st. helens one and fishies one) and then went back to shan's to nap for a while. later we went to a party as moral support for kristen, but didn't stay very long because we were meeting nic and eric wagner (whose web page is boring) at a bar near shan's house called flowers. we stayed up too late again, this time talking about things like aphids, which apparently freaked sho out, but not as bad as the mark of the beast did to shan. we didn't talk about anything that freaked me out. then sunday morning we had brunch with shelby and then we took off.
on the way back, we stopped at fry's, where i got two new computer games on sho's recommendation, torment and arcanum. have been playing torment, but i think i messed up and left a place i can't get back to before i finished everything i was supposed to do. gr.
other than that, nothing much is going on. my life is boring. i am excited about the reappearance of grilled eggplant in my life, which occurred last night at sebastian's. apparently the math boys barbecue a lot. before i left i had to go to safeway and get my own eggplant, though it is not nearly as good cooked on the stove as it is on a barbecue. that's ok. eggplant is my friend. also, it's funny to say. eggplant eggplant eggplant!