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How about getting in touch with me when you get back & sending me those 50 postcards that came with 1000 Journals #685. It's been long enough now don't you think?

from almostgoldsf :

have fun!!! I just returned form Paris last night (that sounds obnoxious, I know), and did not encounter any hostility or weirdness around my Americanness, and am sure you'll encounter plenty of folks who likewise can separate the way they feel about US politics from the way they treat the folks who live in the States. Can't wait to hear your travel tales!!!

from bugginyou :

Bizarro...I just downloaded those two Pixies songs *literally* 10 minutes before I read your entry.

from nolimetanger :

gah! you are so totally correct. I just read yr latest and you are so right--I am from a family that Doesn't Travel in general and feel sad about it...I've always said if I ever make enough money I will take my mom to russia. so it's totally sweet (not manipulative--although I understand reading the thrill of giving in that way) to take your mom along too. ahh! I can't even explain it but you've made me feel like maybe this isn't the dumbest choice I've ever made...but that's what big sisters are for, right?

from bugginyou :

I want Kimberley Caldwell to get the boot, too. I can't put my finger on it, but she drives me apeshit for some reason. Is it time for Europe yet?

from frostedlemon :

let's get one thing straight: i know some pretty self-indulgent people (say, daikiri for example), and you are nothing like them in the least. in fact, dare i go so far as to say that i really do think that you're one of the most generous, nicest, honest, most open minded, supportive (on and on and on) people that i have had the PLEASURE of getting to know through your WONDERFUL journal (and, y'know, diaryland indirectly). and i'd think that regardless of whether or not you decided to close up shop here or not (be sad, ya, but... wouldn't change my opinion of you). so... i'm not an inherently violent person... but lemme at that insensitive prick anyway. *cue snarling and gnashing of teeth* see, i'm dangerous. rawr.

from libraryvamp :

i hate the gym too. however i'm needing some exercise so i'm going to try this joint called curves. i think they have them in vegas. they have no mirrors and it's for women only. also, it's totally organized, and you walk in and they make you try different machines. i need someone to boss me around a gym, otherwise i'll just fart around. i'll let you know how it turns out.

from kittym55 :

Oh my God, I do live in your old room. That's so weird. Was Middle East the Spanish House when you lived here? Did NEFA wake you at 3am on a consistent basis? I realize that this is way too giddy.

from nolimetanger :

omg, the funny thing is that everyone I talk to abt that mondrian course is like, "uh, isn't he the square guy? yr gonna spend a whole quarter with squares?" and I can't seem to explain why it's so exciting, which is why I'm glad you Get It. wanna take a correspondence course? I'll email you the reading list and tell you what we're talking about in class...

from bugginyou :

Cooool! I'll be in A'dam from May 10-13th...we should totally hook up! Where are you staying?? Email me! [email protected] We can discuss Europe with each other, since it seems we're making everyone else puke by talking about it so much!

from frostedlemon :

"just don't let the narrow-minded conformist breeders-of-the-future get you down." totally my new away message :D

from frostedlemon :

thanks for the birthday wishes, belated or not. if you'll kindly notice, i'm late in thanking you (and everyone else for that matter), so there are no worries. at least you have an excuse. i'm just lazy. :D and i so wish that i could join you on your travels. it's been so long since i've gone on a a real vacation, not one prompted by a need to see family. sigh. someday.

from libraryvamp :

Hey JD, you've probably already had a chuckle over this, but just in case. . . http://www.theonion.com/onion3906/girlfriend_stops_reading.html

from libraryvamp :

i loved bowhead uno!!! hoping things get better for you. hugs to the kitwits and all.

from jessicam :

Dude, I totally think you are me, from the obsessions with foreign food (I think half of the stuff I brought back from my semester abroad was contraband food items...) and now there is this store in Pittsburgh (hometown) that has like, every sort of candy from Europe that you can think of, and its a total hazard to know that I have Kinder Buenos readily available, aughhhhhh. Those are literally my favorite things ever. And my stepdad! Thinks that a jar of anchovy-stuffed olives is like, a meal. Not to mention the hours of my life spent playing on Travelocity.com. It's rad that you are going on yr big trip! I have yet to go to Asia. My Hollins roommate went on a J-term trip to NEPAL sophomore year. Right now I am in a little "prudent" phase, excepting places in the East within a 10-hour driving radius. I'm kinda focusing on postgraduate plans right now. HAAAHAHAhahahah. Kinda.

from almostgoldsf :

i am excited for you!! i need to get plannin' my february trip now too... 3 weeks in Paris is looking lesslikely, since the course I wanted to take has been discontinued (wah!!) and the next best course is $4200, plus airfare, plus 3 week's worth of spending money...ugh. :-(

from almostgoldsf :

i'm pretty sure i'm going to attend a 3-wk Paris study program this Summer...and my winter excursion to Rome *may* be stretched into London as well, mostly because Interpol is playing in London and I miss my friend who lives there, either of which provides an excellent excuse to go...

from frostedlemon :

hallo, just wanted to know if you'd like a key to read my "secret" *cue spooky music* journal. if you're interested send me an email: [email protected]

from libraryvamp :

Read "the murder of bob crane" by robert graysmith- i hear it's the book they used for much of the film. librarians always want to push books, don't they??? and eerily enough i discovered buy olympia tshirts just hours before i read your entry. coincidence?

from jessicam :

Um, if you want to see something scary that I just discovered, check out www.bobcrane.com, where we can all pay to see said scratchy videos and photos, thanks to the wonders of the internet and bob's kind son! ew, ew, EWWW. i left you a really long note a little while ago cos I was so excited to find someone else who buys old stamps on eBay!! but then my computer burped and i was too tired to write it all in again. but yeah. bob crane. man.

from nolimetanger :

hey hey. I forget that there are people out there who have lived to tell about this feeling--instead of whining into a webscreen I should have gone straight to the source. thanks for the stiff-upper-lipping. ps, how far is seattle to vegas, and could I come visit sometime?

from nolimetanger :

I wish you could have made it to PDX, but there will be other readings, other attempts to navigate that city of impossible bridges. for now, did you realize we are well on our way into november? and that once that milestone passes, things will go very quickly? always when I have to do something hard I think, jesus christ, no way is this going to get done: this will be the thing that breaks me. but it never does, and I get to look back on that thing and be like, damn! I can do anything! try to resurrect that feeling from your days of yore (maybe the whole passing law school or being a child prodigy thing might jog your memory of past achievements?). this will not be the thing that breaks you. I don't know if that's comforting or what, as it sort of implies that eventually something will (how do you like your blueeyed girl now mister death?), but it's what I like to hold to, at least--in the grand scheme of things, eventually this will matter maybe a lot, but not a life-threatening amount, not a change your name and move to a foreign country-lot, not a prize-in-hollins-literary festival lot.

from potatoelf :

yeah, I know, but I still can't help but feel as if, when it comes to tee-vee, I've been locked outta the ol' fruit loop. Television is stoopid, but I still love it, and I had cable this summer at TWO (2!2!) different professorial residences, so I'm sorta longing for the Daily Show and interminable reruns of SNL right about now. I'm in Dana. Yeah. I'm checking my e-mail in Dana on a Friday night. Bowface, I am pathetic, with or without tv.

from frostedlemon :

ha... thunder sticks her paw in my mom's mouth when she doesn't get her breakfast in the morning. and licks her face, pulls on her hair, meows, paws at her, and bites her nose. isn't she a darling? :D

from paper-rose :

Hi! Someone googled me for "diaryland hollins" so I checked it out and you were #1 on the list. I went to Hollins for my freshman year, but left because of lack of moolah. :P Wish I could have stayed, but oh well. I'd be a senior this year. My friend Robin (diaryland username rabean) graduated two years ago from HU. Sorry, random bits of info, but it's always nice to find another Hollins girl, don't you think?

from frostedlemon :

heh heh heh. want to know where the idea for that poll came from? katie m. and i were trying to decide where the best place would be to send all the stupid people, madagascar or fiji. heh. ;) i decided that it would be a great question to just randomly ask people i was chatting with right then, and then i got bored and stuck it back up in my journal. wee. now you know the secret. you're special.

from nolimetanger :

your postcards crack my shit up, as the kids at work say. many a-guide recommended I visit the liberace museum and I don't know what went wrong with me that I didn't ever go. stupid, stupid. guess I'll have to come back to lv and right that wrong at some point. also, if you're thinking future pdx jaunts, let me know--even if it's calling from a cell phone as you're driving over the columbia. on october 17 pinckney benedict, hollins prof and my personal mentor, is reading at reed. he's giving a reed-ing, haha, get it? yeah. you should take a long weekend and come on up, pardner.

from nolimetanger :

happy freakin' bday!!! I love it when wacked-out shit happens on bdays--makes the whole thing more memorable. since my bday is valentine's (vday bday, also dday) I am almost guaranteed some kind of wacked-out shit each time. two years ago it was karaoke outkast in the irish bar in downtown roanoke, but who knows what lies ahead...also: why didn't you TELL me you were going to be in pdx! it's a super-short hop down there from seatown and I totally would have gone to hang at club bowhead. you'll have to let me know next time you're coming--we can stalk the members of s-k, drop in at reed college for a reading, ooh and ahh over michael graves's portland building, and overspend at powell's (which I hope you did anyway).

from frostedlemon :

maddie looks like tikken. awwww yay.

from nolimetanger :

I sat down to write you a postcard today and realized I have no idea what your real name is. I was going to address it to "chief noc-a-homa" but decided to go the classy route instead. speaking of classy, I want in on the ground floor of the print version of club bowhead, puhleeeease!

from potatoelf :

Wow -- I was just gonna ask if I could have one of them thar bowhead zines. It sounds like quite a rag! Anyhow, it's ironic that I'm so adamant about not showing up on google, because if I hadn't conducted a google search, I would have never uncovered the hollinsian glory that is your diary. Ironic, huh? I guess that I want to kill potatoelf b/c I can't really control what she writes; she's an extremely blunt and honest prose stylist (a little screwy and absentminded, too, but always, always truthful), and she doesn't want to be haunted at the 10 year reunion by something that she said in one horrid and embarrassing paragraph, like, last March. I mean, if a certain professor (who happened upon some arcane reference to a book he wrote thirty years ago on some site called swingin' ladies or something like that) knows that I have mysteriously "met" you -- which he does -- who's to say that he wouldn't eventually find my diary and buttloads of other ones? And it's not just profs. It's my family, too, and people who might lift certain lines and make them all their own in a different forum. Okay, yeah. I'm retarded. BUT YOU CAN E-MAIL ME (!!) at [email protected], and I'll respond in a relatively timely fashion, I promise. Cheers!

from nolimetanger :

bah! I miss you already. I hate you, google searches! what am I going to do without routine visits to club bowhead? cry, that's what. maybe--and suddenly I am very shy at the prospect--maybe we could have an email correspondence? I just hate the whole "extended hiatus" thing. it takes me back to when sassy magazine folded, dark days like those. big, comforting e-hug. it'll all be okay. we won't let the bad hackers get you. I am club bowhead!

from potatoelf :

awww. thanks for the encouraging words and empathy re the roadkill sitch. i mean, if i had killed a kitty or someone's bichon frise, i'd be suicidal right now, but maybe the world is better with one less fox trotting through its pastures. or, maybe that fox was destined to kill farmer bucky's chickens, and i swooped in with my four tires and prevented such a travesty from ever occuring. sometimes, the imagination is a handy tool. your postcard was awesome, btw. it made me woozy with wanderlust!

from nolimetanger :

augh! I got yer postcard today and it rules, rules, rules, although I too hoped for a luciferean dung-heap. alas. we will just have to build one, I guess, like that guy and the crazy horse monument. if you send me your address I'll send you a carte poste from the wilds of the big p-n-w and sign it with my own confusing blend of initials. hearts, moons, and blue stars, kate

from potatoelf :

uh, so this is supremely anal, but I accidentally put "your" instead of "you're," so consider this a form of editing, cuz I can't fix a note that's already been sent, now can I? Anyway, I'm very careful about my contractions. It's like the whole its/it's thing. How do people mess that up? It still happens, though. Righto. Cheerio. Carry on, then.

from potatoelf :

I told a certain prof that you said hi, and he's completely confused. He asked me how I knew you, and I refused to divulge my diarysource. He mentioned that you were a lawyer, and I said "yeah! She lives in Las Vegas!" He glared at me with utter suspicion until the phone in his office rang and his thoughts were derailed by something else. I love confusing that man! It's so very difficult to do. Anyway, your probably in the midst of your glorious trip, but I just wanted to say hello and stuff.

from nolimetanger :

oh. my. god. this really is the smallest planet ever. I can't wait to tell my friend annie, who is his intern. whatever, getting kissed by random hot girls was the best time that guy will ever have, and it shows. but I gotta know: tongue or no tongue?

from nolimetanger :

welcome back! boo. I know the feeling. I read a newspaper article in which was revealed the mindblowing fact that vacations actually make people more tired. take that, labor party! also: sean nelson (of harvey danger) works at the paper where I intern. he likes talking about when he was in a band, but gets tetchy if you mention said band's name. also his hair is out of control.

from nolimetanger :

aughhh! my email is down and I thought I had missed the chance to club bowhead myself up but quick like a bunny I will leave this and cross my fingers. kate preusser 10659 marine view dr seattle, wa 98146 I wish you buckets brimming with fun and lots of good food on your way! also I'm wicked jealous. say hi to the open road for me.

from potatoelf :

Obviously, I would like a postcard. OBVIOUSLY. You can send it to P.O. Box 9535 Hollins Univ. Roanoke, VA 24020. Obviously. PS: You give me hope for my post-Hollins existence (I used to think that that concept was, in itself, an oxymoron, sorta like "jumbo shrimp" or "military intelligence"). You mean that the intelligence and moxie and verve doesn't just atrophy and flicker away? Hooray! Have fun on yr trip, and keep me posted. So to speak.

from nolimetanger :

for your vacation, you should go to san simeon, ca, and visit hearst castle. because even if you've been, it's so worth going again, and even if you're hot, it's less hot when there's an ocean to jump into. but I think you should run a poll in here and let yr faithful readership vote on where club bowhead goes on the road. party on, wayne.

from nolimetanger :

yr latest entry made my fingertips tingle. even though I just graduated, I haven't been writing as much as...well you know how that sentence ends. hollins should really prepare you more for the fact that in the Real World, no one is going to be asking you to write. which is why I think I like dland so much, because it's a way to summon those workshop vibes again and feel like I have a duty to produce some-thing. which then gets me writing and in a good space to do real writing, which unfortunately never gets done because I go upstairs and promptly fall asleep. ah the dilemma of the working girl. BUT. your latest entry reminded me how important it is to keep up with that, to make any room that octagonal room with the heavy-paned windows and incredibly ugly portraiture, and the musky organic smell that was, yes, all over campus; the scent of all that creativity running free, I guess. and there it is in your template, that verdant glow and yellow hum like the sun breaking over cemetery hill, and it can be found again, it can all be felt again.

from nolimetanger :

no it's not weird because that is totally me! how flattering! too bad I am so fond of throwing my own name around in my diary, else it might have been more of a mystery. alas. you want work-induced bitterness? check me out five entries ago. I feel you, hollinsister.

from nolimetanger :

you are what I want to be when I grow up. so hollins doesn't wreck one, after all. good to know as I sally forth into the postgraduate world. also: kingman arizona is a hole, but the rest of your taste is exquisite.

from potatoelf :

okay, it's quite strange that you went to school with Julia. I met her at the Creative Writing Reunion a few years ago, and I initially thought she was a student who I hadn't met yet -- were you there? I was the one dirty dancing with a blow-up doll. My best friend was the one wearing the chicken suit and the roller skates. Yup. Anyway, it's nice to have Hollins connections, and I'll tell RHW that you said hey, but I will not tell him about diaryland, because I will die if he ever finds my webpage. Ditto Julia. Ditto Jeanne. That's all! Nice to meetcha, kinda.

from potatoelf :

i have no earthly idea who you are, and how i stumbled on your page, but i wanted to tell you that your layout is gorgeous. let's just say that i have a special fondness for the Green and the Gold and typing messages to HU alums in DANA. it truly is a small world, and the internet makes it even smaller! long live the hollins diaryland community!

from frostedlemon :

change is good, eventually. i promise i'll believe that. eventually.

from panzer-kitty :

How can you hate peaches?!? heh. Thanks for filling out my survey, you had good answers and the 80s were wonderful... I wish I had been born a few years earlier so I could have enjoyed them more. ;)

from libraryvamp :

I, too, admit my love for the Strokes. Are we growing elderly? Are we losing our cutting edge?

from apexsensatin :

Thanks for taking my quiz. You totally rock!

from libraryvamp :

Dave Wallace has a new book coming out soon- a nonfiction thingie about math. I'll find out the pub date.

from frostedlemon :

AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU! dude, you just totally made my day. totally. wow. i thought it was just a fluke that i got the gold member notification list joining thingy in my mailbox. dude wow. thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!

from libraryvamp :

The girl cats will work out their difficulties soon- at least to the point where they will grudgingly tolerate each other. we have 4 cats and most of them resisted change at first but now we can at least be all in the same room together. i promise it will work out.

from frostedlemon :

trust me - the fruit flies are coming from the plant. we had the same problem over winter - my mom got a couple new plants and for weeks all you ever found were dead little fruit fly bodies in HEAPS around the plants and in various locations near them. it's the plant... or the potting soil. trust me.

from almostgoldsf :

i'm happy to see my advice panned out!

from whitneykate1 :

How the hell do I get in to read your diary. You got to read mine, and sign my guestbook. Now I get to read yours!

from frostedlemon :

wee, you're great. alas, my best friend's ambition is to become a housewife/mother. it's nice to see that i'm not the only one who finds that motivation depressing.

from libraryvamp :

bowhead are you looking to be set up? because I know the perfect man for you! except he's moving to CA.

from almostgoldsf :

Santa Cruz should be nice and mellow, though a bit cold this time of year...I want to go to Santa Cruz to visit Bonny Doon, Ridge, and the other cool Santa Cruz wineries.

from frostedlemon :

i believe it was "anyone who makes this comparision deserves a lot of money and recognition." or something along those lines. i hadn't realized that it got cut off. darn character limits! they'll be the death of me...

from almostgoldsf :

Several people I know have found interesting people to date through Nerve's Web site (www.nerve.com -- a.k.a. the Web site and magazine for literate smut, such as Henry Miller, Anaiis Nin, etc.) Surely there must be one interesting boy in Vegas who is on there...I went out w/a cute skater boy off and on during high school who lives in Vegas now, so I know there's at least one good one there. ;-)

from libraryvamp :

my mother has a small collection of dead hummingbirds that mistook her sliding glass door for a nice expanse of sky. she dried them out in the garage. hope your day gets better.

from tinkagrrl :

Ooooh, I usually drop in but this is the first time I realised I could actually *write a note* saying that I like to drop by every so often. Heh.

from libraryvamp :

and also, thanks for the links!

from libraryvamp :

My friend bought me some AWESOME san-x stuff at the columbus ohio comicon! I am so excited! And in related news, I just bought some more san-x notepads from ebay (of the little chestnut man, i forget his name). I should put a block on my computer for ebay.

from senator :

hello; i have been reading "Club Bowhead" ever since you left me a note some months ago, but only just thought to let you know. Why? 'cause i'm a scab of an individual? I'm glad practicing attorneys still have time to have a life; it gives me hope for a far-distant, more equitable, future.

from almostgoldsf :

i *joined* the david lynch diaryring due to your profile...but I found you thanks to Steingarten and his book "The Man Who Ate Everything" -- I've loaned out or given copies of that book to 5 people this year. It's one of the best non-fiction books I've read in ages! Here's my white trash dip recipe: 16 oz (1 large tub) sour cream plus 1 packet lipton onion soup mix. Mix well. Serve with large bags of tortilla chips or ridged potato chips. Yum!

from almostgoldsf :

i saw Fire Walk With Me in a theater in San Diego the night it opened...three people walked out, including one person who was so rude as to whine and complain graphically on his way out. I, of course, loved it (the film and the silly people's reactions.) Looking forward to reading more of your entries...also, since you appreciate a good bowl of dirt, i'd be happy to share my white trash dip recipe with you if you need an appetizer for a potluck.

from libraryvamp :

another message from me- the EXCITEMENT! thanks for your note. you are the cool one- nevada lawyer to be pretty soon! if i ever need an attorney, i will notify you posthaste. You are my first choice in lawyerdom! hey, if you ever feel like you need a break you can come visit us. nip that workaholic habit and come eat with us at our fave place, iguana's cantina. it's really good. :) i enjoy your diary! ~mimi

from libraryvamp :

JD: it's that weird nervousness girl/nina fan again. anyway i thought you might like my other hobby outside of nervousness.org, which is much more laid back and easy going. it's way cool and lots of fun. PS: sometime we'll have to talk d.f. wallace talk. http://www.postcardfairy.cjb.net/

from libraryvamp :

jd- don't let the bastards get you down. all those nervousness.org people can get lives and wait a couple of days for their tidbits~ as a 10 year veteran of vitamin Z, (zoloft) I get you.

from libraryvamp :

bowhead, dammit, after seeing your diary (via nervousness.com) i was so inspired, and went and signed myself up. another thing to slack off with, so it's a good thing. hi to nina.

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