Tuesday, August 8, 2006

Ok. Where to start?

Saturday. I did shave my head. I did jack off. I did finish cleaning my room, but I didn't dance naked to the Pet Shop Boys. lol

Sunday. I did wake up at 5am. I assumed I'd get back to sleep later, and I continued reading the latest Star Trek: Enterprise novel "Last Full Measure", which I'd heard really great things about. First of all, it's set within the 3rd Season of that series, which is my favorite season of the show. Secondly, it was written by Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels, who have written several fabulous Trek novels that I've enjoyed over the last few years ("Section 31: Rogue", "Mission Gamma: Cathedral", "Lost Era (2298): The Sundered, "Worlds of DS9, Book 2, Trill: Unjoined). They wrote the 2-part Ishtar Rising story for the ongoing Starfleet Corp of Engineers E-Book series, which will be released in paperback (#30-31) this November. They've also contributed several stories to a variety of Trek anthologies ("Prophecy & Change", "Tale of the Dominion War", "Tales from the Captain's Table) and wrote the first two novels in the Titan series ("Book 1: Taking Wing" & "Book 2: The Red King") which tell the stories of Riker & Troi on his post Nemesis command, and which I'm looking forward to reading; I already own them. I've loved most of their books because they're such good stories, in which the characters behave as the characters would on the shows that inspired them. They also have a knack for including GLBT themed characters, which I appreciate, and they make no apologies for doing so. They're also sticklers for continuity - which I also greatly appreciate. And the other reason I thought I'd really enjoy this latest Martin/Mangels novel was that I'd heard that this new Enterprise book's prologue/epilogue were added to the novel to set up the next book "The Good That Men Do", which will serve as the Enterprise relaunch novel! ;-0) All good things indeed!

Well...I never did get back to sleep, as I was completely sidetracked by my brain's inability to comprehend where the hell this new trek book takes place! lol. I know, I'm a Trekkie Geek, but that doesn't bother me. This new book has a Historian's Note in the front, which are now often carried in newer Trek books, letting the reader know exactly where the book takes place within the Trek universe - only I don't think it can possibly take place where it says that it does... So I started referenceing and cross referenceing, and I didn't even finish that because I had to eat, and do my laundry... And then I realized that I didn't have time to take a nap before work! lol I still have to figure out that Trek book - but I sat it aside while I waited for my clothes to dry, and continued reading "Magic's Price", which is as good as I remember it being.

So, I was washing all of my work clothes, and they were in the dryer, but I put them on the wrong setting, and they weren't dry when it was time to leave for work. I reset the dryer at the correct setting, and called work to let them know what was going on. Andrea aswered the phone, and told me she'd tell Heidi? I didn't know why she'd do that, since Heidi would be leaving in a few minutes, and Nate was closing the store...

When I got to work, a half an hour late, I was surprised to learn that Heidi & Nate had changed shifts, and so I'd be closing with Heidi instead, which was great news! I love Nate, but I haven't seen much of Heidi lately, so this was a welcome surprise! And working with Andrea to boot! That was all I needed to not have any stress, and not freak out at all over the lack of sleep thing, and we took care of business as it were.

I went to the McDonalds on Zeeb during my lunch, and ate inside. The cute McDonalds boy, with the makeup, and the attractive voice was there. I gave him my webpage addy weeks ago, and he'd never mentioned it to me, so I figured it freaked him out, which was fine. But he said that he'd just checked it out, and when asked he said that it didn't traumatize him; and he joked a bit about it, which was cute. That all made me feel good. Plus I now had calories to burn at the bar later. ;-0)

When I got back to work, Heidi told me that my friend Carrie Knauss had been by while I was gone, and that she'd meant to return soem of my property, which I didn't get at the time, because I didn't think Carrie had anything of mine. Later, I remembered that I'd let her borrow Season 1 & Season 2 of Hercules, and Season 1 of Xena, plus Season 1 of Justice League, so she actually has quite a lot of my property! lol I also noticed that missed a call from Jeremy, who didin't leave a message, which isn't like him. I called him back to find out what was going on, but he said he didn't leave a message because he realized he called for a stupid reason. He was going to ask me to buy him some cigarettes on my way to the bar, but he realized that if he was too lazy to get them in the first place then he really didn't want them very badly. Jeremy doesn't usually smoke, but he sometimes does while he's at a bar.

Heidi let me go just before midnight. I went to the bank to get some cash, and then headed directly to Club Divine. I'd been planning on going since last Sunday night, when I'd dropped by to see Jeremy, and then had a great time, that didn't stem soley from seeing him. But truth be told, I was extremely tired from my lack of sleep, and had considered not goiong...only as I drove down the expressway, blaring the new Pet Shop Boys music, I got my second wind, and was really jazzed about going to the club.

I've now been writing this entry for 2 hours (if you can believe that), and I'm going to take a break and get something to eat. ;-0)

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