i'm sick of IT. i don't want to talk about IT, i don't want to read about 
IT, i don't want to think about IT anymore. i have so many other more 
important and far more productive and happy things in my life other than 
IT, and it seems like i keep getting sucked back into IT anyway. i wasted 
two good years of my life on IT, and i refuse to waste any more time. i'm 
over IT. time to move on.

in order to cheer myself up from the most recent worries with IT, i've 
compiled a list of things that make me happy. in descending order. 
concerning the internet, as my life usually does.

    i'm all about some random family heritage.
    i like webcams.
    i like space ghost.
    "everything's funnier with monkeys." - Alestar
    stupid and meaningless laws.
    the dialectizer.
    stinkypuss, who i was just introduced to today. he will be the wave of 
the future.
    blather, which i don't get to visit as often as i should, but i love 
all the more.
    the christmas present Dust created for me: sad-eyed lady of the 
lowlands - es mucho bueno.
    the truth is out there. i'm all about debunking some urban legends.
    this cartoon network parody. this is my theme at the moment. i have 
scheduled a few minutes out of every day to watch it. it's wonderful!



wow. i think it actually took me longer to compile a list of neat stuff i 
like than it did to write an average entry. ah well.



jesus?
march 23rd, 2000

sometimes my completely non-christian upbringing becomes much too 
apparent. i went to my grandparents' house over spring break, as i know 
i've already mentioned, and while i was there i noticed this strange 
crotcheted sign of blue and white which looked to me all the world like it 
was written in some form of alien language. i sat there for about fifteen 
minutes trying to figure out if it was some sort of masonic symbol or some 
sort of series of runes, fearing that my grandparents had decided to join 
some strange millenium cult in hopes of meeting little green people from 
another planet. eventually, i gave up, and cornered my grandfather about 
it.

"what is that thing?" i asked him.

"you mean you can't see it?" he asked.

"see what? it looks like some sort of bizarre alien language!"

"focus on the blue. the white is just the background."

then suddenly, whoosh! JESUS was staring right at me in big, blue bulky 
lettering. apparently, i had thought the blue was in fact the background 
and the white spaces in between were the lettering. my entire family was 
laughing at me for not seeing the letters right away. what made me think 
of it again today was that while i was walking out of class, i came across 
the same design on a license plate, and at first, again, thought it was 
some sort of strange series of runes or a bizarre fraternity symbol. see, 
this is exactly why i can't see magic eye pictures.

i'm trying to look up a copy of this image somewhere on the internet so it 
will be easier for you to understand what i'm talking about, but so far 
i'm having no luck and pulling up every scary fundamentalist website in 
the world. i have such a hard time understanding how a religion based on 
someone who was all about love and peace can be twisted so horribly into 
something to justify hate and destruction. i just don't get it.

things should be getting a lot easier for me from now on. tomorrow is my 
last day of spanish, and then i only have one more week of english, and 
then my second section of spanish takes up, but that will be my only 
class. and i'm doing so very well, in spite of my sleep deprivation. i was 
falling asleep all over my spanish test today, so much so that when i 
turned it in my professor told me to go home and get some rest. :) i love 
my spanish professor. she rocks.

well, i'm having absolutely no luck finding a picture of the jesus logo i 
was talking about, so you'll just have to fumble with my description. and 
as the starfish is calling for me, i needs go.

oh, but one thing i forgot to mention in my list of happy stuff - if you 
haven't done this yet, you need to! call 1-800-578-7453 and listen until 
they tell you to press one. it's the greatest thing! :)