effing winter...

i'm friggin freezing here. But my pride will NOT allow me to turn on the heat!
When I was a kid, the heat was never turned on until Veteran's Day, unless there was some climatic abnormality that necessitated it.
Last night Dave got into bed after me and snuggled up behind me whimpering about how cold he was-- while he was on the computer, he hadn't noticed, but when he put his arm around me his hand was like ice. So I used my warm toes to try to ease the chill of his block-of-ice feet, and he stuck his cold nose in the back of my neck. I think I got him to a tolerable temperature before we fell asleep.
From where I'm sitting, I can just see the end of the bed. A moment ago he stretched (I heard the blankets rustling), and his toes appeared at the foot of the bed, all stretched out. It was aDORable. He's curled back up again, now, and I see the blankets moving a bit with him. He may be up soon.

Was ruminating upon hypertext, and ended up writing quite a diatribe about it in one forum. Ah well. The field of study is ridiculous, but the genre is perfectly alive and vibrant and totally, blissfully ignorant of the body of scholarship concerning it.

I'm freezing...
I came up with a list of works I have to produce for my portfolio. It's long. And I don't know how to do some of it, properly; I'll have to learn. I do want a complete portfolio, though.
Some of it, I'll do facetiously. No problem. But some of it, it occurs to me I should probably seek out a charitable organization that needs work done so I can actually apply the work it will take me to generate one to a worthy cause. Anyone need a newsletter, a tri-fold pamphlet, a press release, a marketing letter, a tutorial, or a powerpoint presentation?

I just yawned and hurt my jaw.

I see toes again. Going to go see what he's up to.

new lj client. hmm...

this is called xjournal. saw it while browsing communities this morning. don't know if i'll stick with it. thought i'd give it a shot. the other one i've been using, i've lost a couple entries when it crashed for no reason, and if i look in my logs, it's the most frequently buggy program. also, it keeps your mood from post to post, which is why sometimes i've had a really odd mood for four or five different posts-- i just didn't enter a mood, and it kept the old one while resetting absolutely everything else. which you have to admit is just bizarre.

anyhow, giving this a shot. already had trouble trying to figure out how to log in...
ah well.
supports multiple accounts, which would have made me happy a while ago but i don't do it anymore, so...
ah well.

it only puts the song name in though, not the artist or album, which is bizarre.

Suji Kim's .plan file, from 1999

I was looking through my old files and I found this.
Suji Kim lived on my hall freshman year. She was a year older, a very pretty Korean girl, born in Korea but raised in the U.S. She constantly struggled with her identity-- did she want to hang out with the Koreans, a powerful clique? Did she want to hang out with the Christians, another clique? Or did she want to hang out with the crew team, another solid group? Some of the cliques weren't forgiving of their members hanging out in other groups.
Her early time at UR predated Instant Messenger and ICQ, which became popular only when I was a freshman and sophomore. So instead of IM profiles, she and her friends used their .plan files on Pine, the Telnet mail client. (Most of you probably don't even know what that is.)
In her .plan file, she put a list of the 100 things she was looking for in a boyfriend. She was, as I said, quite pretty-- beautiful, even-- and had a lot of suitors.
Anyhow, here follows the list, and as I found it I was struck by how cute it was. So, I post it here for your amusement and reflection. Remember Pine, anyone?
12/8/99
SUji's list (as of today):

" 1. taller than me

2. bigger hands than mine

3. at least as smart as me

4. not afraid of the same things that i am

5. shares well

6. can carry me

7. dresses well (no, does not have to be "trendy asian") ;)

8. cute when sleeping, and thinks i'm cute when sleeping

9. will nap with me

10. can take the "6 cracker challenge"

11. IM's me first sometimes

12. makes me laugh

13. knows my favorite things (color, food, season, chapstick flavor)

14. uses flavored chapstick, if any

15. hugs well

16. has a nice voice

17. not a vegetarian

18. makes my heart pitter-patter, and tummy flip-flop

20. takes care of me when i'm sick

21. likes my friends

22. weighs more than me

23. likes "ham" and "tangerine"

24. will play with me

25. knows what 11:11 means

26. shorter hair than me

27. lets me wear his clothes sometimes

28. knows my phone number by heart

29. blushes

30. is ticklish

31. does not have a perfect girl list

32. kind and considerate

33. cute

34. has a best friend

35. tells me secrets

35. has priorities and knows i have them too

36. warm hearted

37. good imagination

38. doesn't smoke

39. smells nice (dave this means daily showers) ;)

40. has a brother or sister

41. calls just to say "hi"

42. will not let whitey eat me

43. dances

44. good sport

45. will do things he normally wouldn't do if i asked

46. humors me

47. can twirl his pen

48. is a fun guy

49. collects something

50. does not try to embarrass me in front of trendy asians with head tubes

51. silence is comfortable together

52. photogenic

53. is silly

54. has a nice laugh, and laughs alot

55. can spell my name

56. is sweet

57. good company

58. nice to my brother

59. not obnoxious

60. has a talent, as in can do something, anything really well

61. sleeps with more than one pillow

62. is not "used"

63. leaves me interesting, non-generic phonemail

64. changes his plan often

65. has excess billy rubin (haha dave, you'll be the only one to fit this one)

66. trustworthy

67. plays with my hamster

68. makes wishes

69. knows when i'm kidding

70. does not annoy me (the all encompassing requirement-thanks anne)

71. visits me

72. spends quality time with me

73. will watch cheezy movies with me

74. will kill bugs in my room

75. can run faster than me

76. affectionate

77. has nice arms

78. good study partner

79. knows that chivalry is not dead

80. trusts me

81. makes me feel special

82. reads (for fun)

83. a sparkling conversationalist

84. straightforward

85. wonderful to his parents

86. will go shopping with me

87. persistent

88. will be my "flashlight"

89. will play with my hair (can braid, or is a good hair brusher)

90. not condescending

91. amuses me

92. remembers important dates... (my birthday!)

93. within the 6 year limit (can be stretched up... but not down)

94. good at scrabble, or will at least play

95. insightful

96. charismatic

97. even nice to those he dislikes

98. warm

99. dreams

100. does not grind his teeth in sleep"