Saturday, January 18, 2003
After a day of being generally bored and boring (as was riding buses for eight hours and did nothing but sleep, which is why I am still awake at this ridiculous hour), I came home to discover two packages awaiting me and considering the fact that I never get snail mail, I was really excited. One was full of hamster goodies and the other was full of me-goodies. I need to buy a new turntable. My maternal grandmother gave me first edition Beatles vinyls from way back in the sixties a while ago. I'm sure they're all pretty valuable. I think they're British imports, too. She is really cool, being one of the first people in Korea to own a camera because she was the president of some chapter of a really big department store. I looked through old photo albums from when my grandparents got married in the fifties, and she looks like Audrey Hepburn. I mentioned this to my grandfather, who then proceeded to answer "What are you talking about? Your grandmother is so much prettier, she doesn't even being to compare to Audrey Hepburn." I thought it was too sweet and went into my room and giggled at them for a while.Pete and Shelley seem to like their new wooden barrell, as they've been running through it a lot. I also bought some plastic tubes to connect their cage into this little loft thing. The stupid people at the company sent me tubes that don't have enough stepping rims on the inside for my little hamsters to go up through, so now I have to carve them in or attach little clay rings on the inside of the plastic tubes. I highly suspect they'll chew on the clay, so I'll probably just carve little stepping rings.
And and and my grandfather also bought his first computer at the age of sixty six, and he's learning to send e-mails and such. My mother also wants to buy a new, expensive computer and I'm kind of hoping they'll maybe toss in a scanner or a cheap digital camera in with the computer. Scanner would be preferred because then I could scan in my comics, too, but digital cameras do sound convenient. BAH to digital things. Analog is the way to go! I am as much a child of the nineties as anyone else and I'll admit to not being able to write by hand for long periods of time but there's still something left in human communication other than the internet. I think it would totally blow my mind to go to Britain and actually talk to Alistair because I'll be like "Wow, you actually brush your teeth and put on clothes in the morning and drive or ride to work and maybe spill coffee on your shirt and do all those little daily things that every person does!" I had a point somewhere along here, which will be sorted out tomorrow morning. Or today morning, as it is nearing three o'clock on early Sunday morning. I hate long bus rides.
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