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05-20-00

I just got home from work. Changed into my jammies. Took out my contacts. Kicked back to do a little netgeeking, when Dana sends me a message telling me that if I go to the Alleycat at 11, I'll get a great surprise. I tell her I could go, if only I knew what for. She tells me the reason is that if I don't go, she'll never speak to me again.

Hmmm. I am sort of comfortable in these jammies, but I do value her friendship. What a quandary. I guess I'll go, but it's against my will. I'm being coerced, in the worst sort of fashion.

And I just have to add that I am the happiest girl in town because yesterday I bought Tinkerbell panties. They literally have little Tinkerbells all over them, and they proclaim, "Cute Little Pixie," all over their body. That rocks. Oh, and "princess" lipstick from Revlon. I had to buy it for the name alone, even though it isn't nearly as cool a color as it could be.

That's all for now.

1:35 addenum: Dana sez, "I'm gonna go home and post on the internet that Kristen Loper puts out on the first date."

I reply, "Duh, ask anyone."

I had a good time, after all. I got to see someone I haven't seen since January, and it was all 'a big surprise.'

Woohoo.

Yesterday and Tomorrow.

From coygirl, coygirl.com:

"kristen lxxx puts out on the first date."
"duh, everyone knows that."

from Popsicle Love, popsiclelove.tripod.com:

So I went to my so called friend Dana's website the other day because she's really smart and a great writer and tight with all these famous people like suzanne vega and was told that "Kristen Lxxxx puts out on the first date", and being the adolescently minded person that I sadly have become, I decided to go see what this wanton woman had to say, and was surprised to learn that not only does Kristen Lxxxx put out, but she also binds books, much like I do! The core difference being of course that I bind books out of a physical necessity that I have towards eating in that somebody pays me a little bit to bind these books, while Kristen Lxxxx does this as a hobby. Now, I have to say that when it comes to bookbinding I'm of a mixed mind. To someone such as myself who binds books because they have to be able to afford the cereal in the dog's bowl somehow, binding books as a hobby seems much like doing some other form of factory work, such as working on an assembly line, as a hobby. Not the sort of thing I'd do for fun. So I signed Ms. Lxxxx's guestbook by saying as much. Now, don't get me wrong, on the other hand I realize that somewhere, somehow, the tradition and beauty of the lithography craft must mean something to someone, and I could even say that when I'm not bitter about the fact that I work in that damn factory 40 hours a week that I myself appreciate the fine art of bookmaking, but it's rather necessary that I keep up the facade of not caring if I ever want to walk through the press room with my head up ever again. If it wasn't for the anonymity of having a web page that nobody ever sees except for the few vague friends I coerce into looking at my page I probably wouldn 't be expressing these things. A lot of the press people are really social misfits who happened to find out that they can make like $16 an hour if they worked on the presses until they got hired by Ford's and got under the collective skirt of the United Autoworker's Union. So anyway, Ms. Lxxxx responds to me in her own guestbook , which seems to me to be a breach of guestbook etiguette, but I digress, and tells me that the art of bookmaking is a lot different than the mass produced volumes that fall out of the end of the casing inline in the factory, which while it doesn 't seem necessarlly untrue, does seem a bit unfair, doesn't it? So what is the right choice? Talk like I don't care about bookbinding and listen the bookbinding hobbyist degrade the quality of my work, or talk about the beauty of bookbinding and have rubber bands shot at my ass each time I walk through the press room until I run out of there in a hysterical fit?