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The Serenity screening kicked ass. I noticed a lot of things that I didn't notice the first...uh...three times. Admittedly, those were a while ago, and all close together...

They sold out. There are 47 other towns/cities doing the same thing. Yowza. A guy from Portland Browncoats said they estimated that $65,000 had been raised for Equality Now. That rocks. I'd love to see the final count. They had a bunch of sponsers, including my credit union, First Tech. They're the credit union for tech places (including Intel and, I believe, Microsoft) and Nike. So, I'm guessing there's a few geeks in there.

There were people in costume, but surprisingly few of them. The Portland Browncoats had tshirts and patches galore, it was wild!

I went with sagcat (yay for last-minute social plans), and we ran into galactogogue and a friend of hers and hung out with them. I also ran into a woman I'm friends with in chorus and her partners and said hi.

galactogogue gave myself and sagcat a ride back to the eastside afterwards, and we were subjected to bad pop and rap music. It was amusing.

When I got to rikell42 and jenhowell's place, the door was open. What I assume to be Bert (the landlord) and a friend of his, are sleeping on the futon in the living room. WTF? Bert has his own, rather large, bed. That futon is kinda harsh even as a couch.

Maybe it's not Bert?

I feel redundant here. Although I guess since my job is to catsit, and Bert probably doesn't do much taking care of the cat...speaking of which, Lucy wanted into J's room when I got online, and after thoroughly sniffing around, she settled on top of the monitor! I've never seen a cat do that before. I should take a benadryl, I know she's been on the bed. That and my allergy eye drops. I should take a picture of Lucy on the monitor.

Just did. I don't think I have a way to upload them here, though; unless J has a smart card port or something.

Plans for tomorrow: Spend a day, all by myself, doing whatever the hell I want. *lol* I want to meander around in Saturday Market. J's not a huge fan of ambling through booths just poking around and semi-shopping, and even with friends I know I'm going to find things interesting that they don't and vice versa. So I'm going alone. I was going to buy a straw hat if I saw one I liked, but after Serenity, and seeing someone dressed as Kaylee complete with little buns, mandarin jacket, and parasol; I might go to Finnegan's and buy an actual parasol. I'll be in jeans and a halter top and carrying a parasol. Whee! I can take it to SCA/pirate events, too. I also want to stop by the new secondhand goth clothing store--Scarlet Garden?--at 23rd. I should have done it today, but noooo I spent too long in Powell's (and only bought one book, I'm so proud).

Whether or not I go to bellydance class tomorrow depends entirely on what time I wake up. I'm not setting an alarm, I want to get however much sleep I need, even if that means missing dance class. I wish I could see the alarm, it's all the way across the room. I'll keep my cell phone nearby to check the time, if I remember.

Sunday I have a ship meeting. Aaargh. *lol* I saw someone's license plate recently that said just that: "AAARGH". That kicked ass. I also saw once a few weeks ago that said, "BURNIN8". Wonder if he's a fan of Trogdor. *giggle*

Anyway. Off to bed, all alooooone.

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Okay, so I know some of y'all are better with the trickier elements of LJ design, yes?

I've seen journals where people have a static image in the background--if you scroll up and down, the text etc. moves, but the background doesn't.

I took this picture a few weeks ago at the Rhododendron gardens and I'm kinda proud of it. I'm thinking of using it for a background image. If anyone knows how, drop me a line...

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Lucy already has me well-trained. She jumps on the sink, and I turn the faucet on low so she can drink out of it. She loves doing that.

Just woke up. Well, I finally crashed at three, and then woke up at eight because the phone rang. I didn't answer it--Bert's home, and I'd assume if anyone wanted to call me, they'd call my cell phone. I sat reading my new book for a while: The China Study. It's good information, but a lot of it I already knew. I skipped around a bunch. But it did help me get back to sleep. *lol*

Speaking of which: Despite what I just said, The China Study is a damn important book. Unlike the vast majority of "diet" books out there, it's actually dependent on science--especially a wide-scale epidiomological study of China. Any information that came up, he took back to his lab and studied further. It's fucking awesome. Near the end he also points out why Americans are given such terrible information about how they should be eating.

I have to say, it bothers me immensely that the focus is on finding a cure for so many cancers, when they're so preventable. Many of the most expensive diseases to treat (autoimmune disorders, cancers, type 2 diabetes) are diseases of affluence--only wealthy countries get them. Mostly because we have such awful diets!! But noooo, see, drugs make money. Telling people to eat less sugar/simple carbohydrates, fat (especially animal fat), and protein (especially animal protein); and instead telling people to eat more whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and legumes--you won't make much money doing that. But it would cause the rate of many diseases to nosedive.

I wish I could get my dad to read this. :^( I might try.

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I need to take a shower and leave the house already. Sheesh.

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So, Saturday market.

I bought a skirt. Because gods only know, I don't have enough of those. *rolls eyes* It's really cute though...a dark rose over a light rose, cotton wrap-around thingie--like a half circle with ties, so it crosses over in a neato way. It felt so wonderful with it being so freaking hot today. It's also really flattering. I'll probably wear it to Oregon Country Fair. I also realized as I walked around that it's a popular style--there are several booths selling them.

I keep thinking it would be easy to copy--except for the super-narrow hems, on a curve. *wince* Um...no.

I bought Lucy a catnip mouse. There's a booth with a woman who sells damn strong catnip. When I came home I just kinda tossed it in her direction. She gave it a sniff and then spent a good ten minutes alternately biting it, and rubbing it with her head. I took a few pictures, it was just too funny. "KITTYHOOCH.COM" is sewn into the side.

I'm really picky about hats, and didn't see any I really liked. After eating at Veganopolis I headed up to Finnegan's Too. The parasols there are only $6.50, which kicks ass. It's paper glued to bamboo, with a wooden handle. There's an image painted on of some birds, and a bunch of Chinese writing. It was too windy to really use it today, which sucks because the sun was sure out. I damn near bathed in SPF 30 before leaving the house though.

On the way home I stopped at Mirador, on SE 21st and Division. They have the neatest stuff.

I just put a beer in the fridge. I'm going to poke around the cookbooks here and think of something to eat for dinner later--I'm thinking something that doesn't need cooking, like coleslaw. By then the beer will be cold, yay! I'm thinking of finding something to read and hanging out (literally) in the hammock in the front yard. Oh Yes.

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Odd thought o'the day:

If I move into this house, there will be three copies each of each of the Sarah Kramer cookbooks (of which there are three), and I believe Vegan with a Vengeance (written by isachandra. The VWAV cookbooks are even all signed!!

Oy vey.

But I did make a spinach and strawberry salad out of La Dolce Vegan, one of the books by Ms. Kramer. OMG. So yummy. There was too much dressing (next time, less oil!), but that worked out because there was more spinach than would fit in the bowl. I've eaten it down a little and when the next batch of spinach finishes drip-drying I can tear them up and toss them in there. I'm hoping there will still be some left when rikell42 gets home. But it's so damn good....*lol*