Thursday, October 30th
6:57 am
Sorry for not writing yesterday; I didn't start an entry when I got up in the morning, and by time I got home, I just didn't feel like it. Mom and I went to the Columbia mall, and the walking around was enough by itself to wear me out, but then after lunch I got sick (I think it was too rich and my tummy didn't want to keep it) and that wiped me out the rest of the way.
I came home, take a bath and called Jevim to ask when his volleyball game was. I was hoping we could talk for a bit, but he said he'd just gotten into a discussion with someone (or someones) and so I let him go and soaked in the tub while I read some of the new book I bought at the bookstore. I bought myself a Cherished Teddie, and Mom bought me one of the ones that's being retired, [to give me] for Christmas.
My stomach eventually got to feeling somewhat better, and after a couple glasses of hot tea (we didn't have any cola and I don't know if it would have stayed down) to get some caffeine into my system, my head stopped pounding.
Jevim had a late game, and I had classes, so we didn't chat a whole lot last night, and didn't play any games, but we did talk on the phone for a while before he went to bed, and I wound up staying up on IRC until midnight. I woke up at 5:45 this morning and wasn't really sleepy, but Jevim has helped put me back to sleep. He just left, and so I'm going to head back to bed for a while. Bye for now...
Half past Midnight
Okay, technically, it's tomorrow, but I haven't been to bed yet, and I never got back to typing here earlier.
I went back to sleep, and dreamed, about me and two supposed friends (female friends my age or maybe younger) who ganged up on me and in the end practically tried to drown me. Not a nice dream, but it was too far-fetched to be very frightening.
I woke up again just a bit past 10 am, and got dressed and went with Mom to Wal-Mart, where I got Riven after a little prodding in customer service. Apparently I wasn't the only one who wanted to buy it on Tuesday, so the electronics department manager locked it away somewhere and didn't tell anyone where. Then he was off the day it was supposed to be out (it was even in their ad), so someone had to call him and find out where it was. The guy who called the manager was really nice and went back and got me a copy and brought it up to customer service where I paid for it.
After Wal-Mart, Mom and I went to the grocery store, and then the post
office and the library, and I renewed the anthology of 1995 Nebula Award
winners and picked up a couple other books by authors mentioned in that
one. Came home, installed Riven, and played that for quite a while,
more or less until Jevim got home from work.
He and I chatted and played some backgammon... I quit at first after
he won the match we had started the last time... he really beat me in
the first game we played, and I thought I'd call a quit to it before my
losing streak got to the point where I got upset. He was unhappy about
that, because he didn't want me to be upset, and I guess he thought I
already was, but I explained it to him, and said that I worried about
us a bit when it came to games. He said that it was just games on the
net and that when we played in person, we could beat each other and then
cuddle away the bad feelings, but I reminded him of when we played
Qubic (three-dimensional tic-tac-toe) and he beat me and tried to teach
me some strategy (which I took as a lecture) and I got very upset.
Anyway, I told him I really wasn't upset, and I was waiting for him on
FIBS, the backgammon server, so he joined and I invited him to a 10-point
match. He won the first game and I won the second, and then we hopped off
to talk on the phone for a bit, and he headed off to bed.
I'd started watching ER, and so I watched the end as I got Riven fired up for another go-round, and I played til about 11:20, when I hopped back online and on IRC. I started keeping a Riven Journal to keep track of my explorations, and I'm thinking of putting that online somewhere. We shall see. :) The writing style doesn't sound like me, exactly, and it fits in with the Riven world, at least in my opinion. I haven't figured out much yet, but I'm getting an idea of where things are, at least.
Enough rambling for tonight... I really should get to bed as it's a quarter to one and 6:30 comes early. Goodnight!
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