The Muse of Maggie
Still arranged in most-recent-to-least-recent order, yadda yadda yadda.
Wednesday, January 3, 2001
Oh, wow... so much to tell, so very much I won't even attempt to tell you. I got married, for the main thing. In fact, I've been married nearly a month now, haven't I? I suppose you could call the last weeks our "honeymoon", though I'd much rather it not be called that at all, because it really wasn't. If I don't call it my honeymoon, I should think that might increase the chances of my actually eventually getting a nice, long, scenic trip for just-the-two-of-us, with nothing and nobody bothering us and twenty-four-hour access to a large and comfy bed. *Sigh.* Perhaps next year...
Anyway, it hasn't been bad, just long, complicated, and frustrating. All four of our parents, we've come to realize, have somehow metamorphosed into boring, frumpy, and altogether depressing people; generally exhibiting any number of random mental quirks, ranging from the incomprehensible, to the doltish, to the utterly psychotic. But we love them!! Then, there are our brothers: Casey has gotten engaged to his longtime companion, Jennifer. I look forward to having a sister-in-law, though it won't actually happen for a few years yet. Henry and Albert are just as cool as they can be... although I must say, they could stand to have better organization skills when it comes to managing their friends, i.e. deciding what to do and who to do it with in enough time to actually do it. It was only a short three days we spent there, but there was enough craziness crammed in there to last us a while. Mildly pleasant craziness, however. The only time Greg and I have gotten to be alone in the entire month since our wedding (and that includes the week immediately following it, since our bridesmaid Beth had an unfortunate problem with her car and stayed with us) has been the hours we've spent driving to and from Chicago and Florida, and a small amount of time in various hotel rooms during which we were actually awake. (I refuse to count us sleeping passed out in a king-size bed-- we didn't even touch most of the time!-- as time together. I mean, really.)
So, that concludes our abbreviated news-brief on the last month. I've been thinking about changing my website soon, so this gargantuan entry may not survive. Nor may any of them, really. But I doubt that would be skin off the nose of the two people I know of who ever go here! :)
Take care, and maybe I'll write again soon...
Sunday, October 29
It irks me that I don't get here and muse more often. Seems that all the cool and vaguely productive things in my life (at least on the private scale, mostly) have been sucked up into this whole WEDDING thing, and are going nowhere. So I suppose once a month is the best we can expect, eh? And the time is going quickly: there's only a little over a month left till I'm Mrs. Christie. (THEN can I have my life back???) The things that will most make this next month crazy for me are that election day is coming very soon, and I've got to help out with that as well as allow my fiance to be invisible for the preceding weeks. Next is that pledging is starting up again, and I'll have a new little to deal with. I look forward to this, of course, but I know that it'll play havoc with my work schedule, and I'll be lucky to remember to get observations in, which is the reason I fucked things up before. Before I know it, it'll be Thanksgiving, which is like the point of no return. Like, look around now, because in the next 2 weeks everything goes psycho. Then, we get married; short and cheap honeymoon; back to Chicago for another reception; down to Florida for the new year; and then possibly pick up and move to Maryland. Eep. Wish us luck.
Sunday, September 3
Well! I've done a bit of Internet chatting, first time since the 19th Hole waaaay back when... 1996? Geez. I was lucky enough to weed two lovely, intelligent people out of the cyber-sex-crazed masses. In fact, I talked for FAR longer than I should have. I just needed to get a little conversation with some new people that I didn't already know everything about, and who didn't know everything about me. Which meant that I would have things to talk about that wouldn't be regarded as the same old things that I'm always talking about. :) Anyway, I hope to keep in touch with them both, at least for a little while past today... maybe I can get one of them to spring for Albrot's CD. Wouldn't that be surprising, for my brother to recieve money from Australia! :)
Wednesday, August 23
Wow, guess I haven't written in a while. Well, I'm not really doing much this summer, except planning wedding stuff and working on working... things like that... We have to go to Chicago tomorrow to register for a china pattern and pick up my repaired engagement ring. I really wish Greg could get his new car soon.
Wednesday, June 7
Hah--shows what happens when you obsess, I guess. I wasn't even obsessing THAT much, and I didn't get the job. No biggie.
Tuesday, June 6
Um, not much is going on here. I made one abortive effort to actually clean up the apartment last evening, which I suppose was made out of desperation. I find out sometime today whether I've gotten that job or not (god! like 15 hours a week is something to obsess over!!) --so I figure, I'd better clean up the house now, before I possibly start working and therefore don't have the energy, time, or will to take another crack at it. Unfortunately, the Cartoon Network eventually won out in that battle. You can see that we've lived a life unparalleled in sheer excitement, since we got Cable. (oh mighty Cable, thou leadest us through commercial breaks...and ay, though we walk in the valley of home shopping networks...)
Wednesday, May 31
Lookie, it's the Month With No Updates!!! Yay! Actually, this month hasn't been too bad, I guess. School ended with a bang--er, I mean a honk... a superhuman (if I do say so myself) performance at the graduation ceremony. (That solo went on forever!) That night we left for Florida, to spend an intensely stressful week with my parents. Luckily, they left town 2 days before we did, so we got to spend quality time with my brothers. And, Mom and Grandma helped me find the perfect wedding dress, and offered to pay for it too, so I can't complain. Even though we DID have to drive back through the North Carolina monsoon. And that was my turn.
Shortly after we came back from Florida, it was Marcon time again. It's technically the third year I've gone, but this year was the first year I was registered, and the first I spent more than one night at. I had a lot more fun than I expected to (I guess I'm just a geek at heart), even though the Gaming section (where Greg and his pals holed up all weekend) had been unexpectedly moved a quarter-mile down the convention center. Literally. I plan to take action for next year: I'm going to label a large cardboard box "Marcon", and for every generic or gift Lucite carving or other art piece I do, I'll try to create one to add to the box. By next Memorial Day I should have quite a bit of art to enter in the show, and hopefully I'll be able to turn a profit. Lucite sheets, after all, only cost $1.30, and a dragon or wizard carving will sell for at least $20, easy.
Today I went to my first REAL job interview, and I'm happy to say it wasn't half as bad as expected. I'll find out if I'm the Danter Company's new assistant copy editor by Tuesday. If I get that job, I'll only be working 15 hours a week, so it's possible that after June is over I'll start a second part-time job to bring in some more savings for the wedding. Let's see, is there anything else to update you on? Hm... not right now, anyway.
Wednesday, May 3
I think it's almost time for, at the very least, a new index main page. I think I'll get to work on disco-button graphics, and see what I can do to spiff up the place. And take off the background graphics-- they aren't MY art, I shouldn't rely on them. In other news, we had the APO Mourning Party tonight. (Tuesday night.) It was fun, but rather anticlimactic, since most of our actual seniors failed to attend. Oh well. Anyway, best of luck to everyone who's moving on. It's been fun.
Sunday, April 30
God, my head hurts. Had a talk with my mom, hopefully things will be OK. Right now I'm more concerned with school, and how Greg is handling things. I really can't wait to be done with all this, so that we can get to the fun part: working, planning, and losing lots of weight, yummy. But... well, until I get the ultimate secure site, I can't tell "my public" (hah!) my innermost thoughts. (The innermost ones are in this case, of course, defined as those thoughts which I don't mind baring to the world in an artistic release, but which I utterly and totally abhor the thought of my parents seeing.) Whatever. For now, let's just say that there are things in the works, and I hope that a certain old Bostonian fart does good things for me. Hehe, that really sounds terribly intriguing, doesn't it?
Friday, April 14
Still not too much of importance going on, really. Greg, Chad D, Nicky and I are going to UD for APO Sectionals this weekend... leaving in about a half hour or so... It should be interesting. Especially since Greg and I will have to be peacekeepers between Chad and Nicky... woohoo :) But I'm not complaining. I love going places for APO. It's always a good time, somewhere along the way. Happy Belated Birthday to my maid of honor, Christena!!!
Friday, April 7
Wow, twice in one week... I may get back into the swing of things yet. I changed the background because, well, I just can't get into the old one anymore, and it takes too long to load, anyway. When I find something else that's nice and small, we'll see about that. Well, I haven't got too much of importance to say this morning, however. Still, I guess it's good to check in once in a while. I'm very happy that Albert finally updated a little bit... but now if he could only keep it up? It's not like I ever get to talk to him in person or anything. Having the boys to visit, if only for one night, was really great. I like my brothers a lot! And miss them, too! Too bad we've got to deal with the wardens... (wink!)
Wednesday, April 5
The recital is over and done with, but even after that stress is gone I just can't seem to get moving again. I've been exhausted for the last month and a half... and sick too, for half of that... and even when I have motivation mentally my body refuses to cooperate. I don't think it's possible to find a louder alarm clock. Oh well... hopefully things will start looking up soon.
Friday, March 17 Well, I did say that my recital got postponed, but it only got postponed one week. I suppose that's better than nothing. I've had a real emotional roller coaster of a week, and today was about the worst of it. But I got to talk to Greg on the phone, and despite my deep-down fears that if he wasn't there in person, he couldn't really comfort me much... it helped. I didn't calm down immediately, of course, but after a happy WW Methods class (amazing what playing a bassoon for the first time can do for your mood), and a good nap at home... a nice talk with Matt A. and a happy movie... I finally got over that mental block I had the last few weeks. Yes, I practiced. And I didn't suck! I know, I know, it doesn't seem like much but I was really not mentally ready to have this recital. NOW, I'm pretty confident about the solo work, and I know that what I play will sound good if I don't psyche myself out. Still, this next week is going to be a hellish time for the trio. Gotta get it together!!
Happy St. Patrick's Day.
Oh yeah, I finally updated Ian's poetry page like I promised. Ian-- remind me to give you that disk back at the meeting...
Wednesday, March 15
Wow. It's been a while... I've been sick, things have happened, more is coming. My little is now an active brother, yay Yertl... my art portfolio for the APO comission is FINALLY ready to be photographed... Dad Christie is feeling better, thank goodness... my recital got postponed, WHEW!... The Wiz went off marvelously and the cast/crew even gave me a keychain, neat... and, um, probably some other stuff I forgot, too. But gimme a break, I haven't had much good sleep lately. More later.
Friday, February 25
OHMIGOSH!!!!Is it seriously already the 25th?? Geexers, I have done nothing at all of importance this week! In fact, I missed my *%&^!!#$* midterm!! And it wasn't even my fault! What a terrible week.
Monday, February 21
OK, hopefully you will see my new animations scattered around my site. If not, get a version of Internet Explorer that was made sometime in the last Ice Age. Sheesh. I am so frustrated by the fact that nobody at school can possibly see the cool stuff I've done on the page. All right, all right, I know nobody at school has ever bothered to LOOK on this page, but let a girl dream, would ya? At any rate, take my word for it-- it's cool. If I find it's absolutely impossible to show them in animation, I may put the original still frames on display somewhere around here. But I don't really see much reason to do that.
Sunday, February 20
Wanna see something cool? Check out the new animation I made, which is temporarily stuck down at the bottom of the i wish... page! It's my best bud Brian! Oops, I mean Will... whatever...
Thursday, February 16
What is wrong with me?? I am going nutball on my page-- call me the Amazing Update Witch-- and I strongly suspect it's just so I distract my attention from how much I'm procrastinating on the important stuff. I think I'm in some serious state of denial or something. Ack.
But hey, at least the page looks nice!!
Wednesday, February 16
Sorry Ian. I fixed it, see?
Tuesday, February 15
Hooray! APO pledging is off on a roll, and it's already a case of mass insanity. Brandi is my little and I really love my little!!! Jeff and Maria are doing marvelously... Stewart is hopefully on his way to having a big... and what can I say about Newanda? He's amazing!! I look forward to including him as I develop the creative aspects of my site!! Yay Ian! (hi!)
Saturday, February 12
I hate losing touch with people. I especially hate the fact that once you lose touch with someone, no amount of half-assed "people finder" sites will turn up a single result on that person. Not a one. God, I can't even find people that I KNOW exist... I know where they live, their phone number, everything, and the damn computer can't find their email address?? The internet is a lot suckier than it makes itself out to be.
So this weekend I'm looking forward to a) seeing my ...because... entry go up on earthman's site-- yay me for being the first! Come on people, submit, you know you want to!...; b) partying with Nicky and a whole gang of cool people, BECAUSE SHE SAID SO...; c) getting a little--woohoo! And Yes, Goddammit, I Want Brandi!...; and d) tearing all my hair out because I am the most pathetic procrastinating loser that has ever walked the halls of the Capital University Purgatory of Music (and wanted to do a run-by shooting at Beauchamp's office. BANG!) AAGH!
What a fun, fun, fun weekend.
Monday, February 7
Yet another late night for no other reason than that I'm bored and inspired. Found a veritable universe of amazing stuff on the net, which pretty much killed me as far as doing homework went. I think I'm addicted. Now, if only I could remember my dreams better...
and, hello to Anthony if you've checked out my site! Sign please!
Wednesday, February 2
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho. It's off to clean my apartment I go. Thanks to Brandi, it's looking a lot better now, and I must say that isn't all her work, either. But I'm losing my mind for other reasons, not the least of which is that I just spent an hour reading and contributing to mass fiction. An hour! Ye gods, what I should have used that time for. Critiquing the poetry of my writing classmates, for instance. Some of them are pretty damn good, barring the occasional stupid line, but there's always that one, isn't there. Something about iridescent butterflies in a snowglobe, or the like. Gah.
Tuesday, January 11
Expand your vocabulary! Today's mind-wrenching definition:
jarble, noun: garbled jumble. Example: This whole site is nothing but jarble! (Thanks Chris!)
Sunday, January 9
I DON'T WANNA GO TO SCHOOL!
I DON'T WANNA GO TO SCHOOL!
I DON'T WANNA GO TO SCHOOL!
There, that feels a little better.
Monday, January 3, 2000
Well, here we are. The beginning of the last year of the millenium. Nothing happened...NYAHH NYAHH! :P Anyway, I'm engaged now and that is a very happy thing. Another happy thing is that Greg is going to finish school before the wedding. Unfortunately, that leaves us with the inevitable downside that neither of us has a job. Ack. Lessee... nighttime secretarial work on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights... and Saturdays too...?
Song lyric/poem of the day:
The lifetime I have left
I open up to you
To tread upon
And travel through.
You pave the road
I'll follow,
You build the bridge
I'll test it first.
Poem: Rod McKuen, song:Me
Tuesday, December 14
Gosh, do you even REALIZE how stressful it is to go into the library for the express purpose of cramming the required materials you haven't touched for a particular exam the next day, and finding the TEACHER of that very class watching a video (that you probably have to watch) where you would be?? I can't possibly do this studying NOW; she'll know I haven't done it, she'll be sitting right next to me! Plus, I can't figure out from this vantage point whether she's watching something I have to know, or just getting in my way... ARGH!
Oh yeah, and by the way, today's warm hug goes to Chris V. for being a great guy and for being in a lot of emotional stress right now. Feel better, Chris!
Friday, December 10
OK, this is a new thing which is slow to take effect. So don't be pissy with me. I *said* there was a muse on your shoulder... now, did I happen to say it was mine, by any chance?
I thought not.