Monday, September 7, 1998
Peanut, the new kitten, came in at 6:15 this morning, telling me it was time to eat. He'd slept with Mom, but apparently he thinks I'm the one in charge of the food. I wasn't too upset, since it meant I was up in plenty of time to talk to Jev before class. Jev didn't show up until 6:50 though, and he wanted to be off by 7:15 my time, so we didn't get to talk all that much.
I went back to sleep for a couple hours after he left, then spent most of the day doing catch-up maintenance on one of my webrings, and working on cross stitch. I finished stitching the ornament I was making, then modified the pattern I'm going to be doing for my friend's wedding.
I played around at the Virtual Fridge, too, and left another poem, or at least the beginnings of one. I found the website yesterday, while Jev was playing one of his web-based games, and composed a little verse that I thought was fairly good. Jev commented on my use of meter, which I really hadn't given much conscious thought, and I was surprised that he thought it good.
I've always said that I can't write poetry, but I think my problem in the past has always been that I've tried to make my poems rhyme. For some reason, when I'm doing the "Magnetic Poetry" and picking words from the pool, I start thinking more about how the words are related and what I want to sy, and it just flows. It's kind of like trying to paint a picture, just with words... if you use the same shapes over and over, you usually don't wind up with a very interesting picture. But if you choose different shapes, colors, and textures, and layer them together just right, you wind up with something really special.
One frustrating thing about he Virtual Fridge's Magnetic Poetry is that you get to needing a certain word, and it's either very hard to find, or not in the word lists at all, and it can become very annoying. It does, however, get my creative juices flowing, and even though I've only posted the two poems so far, I've played around with the words a number of times.
When things are going right, playing with the words is very relaxing to me. I guess words and stories have always been my friends, and they are familiar and comfortable, like a broken in pair of jeans.
Besides the aforementioned activities, I got to chat with Connie, and then with Bratlynn, as well as some of my IRC friends. Jev made the trip home this afternoon with a classmate, to get another of his computers and set it up as a FreeBSD (?) machine to do assignments for his Operating Systems class.
He wasn't online by seven my time (he'd said this morning he'd talk to me this afternoon), so I got a little worried. But I found one of his friends who'd seen him at dinner, and she told me where he'd gone for the day. When he did finally hop online, I teased him and asked if he'd gotten lost on the way back home, and I caught him off guard. I had to explain to him where I got my information, and I think he was just a bit disappointed, because he'd wanted to tell me himself. I'd just been getting worried and didn't want to wait any longer, not knowing.
For some reason, I'm getting very sleepy as I write this, so I suppose it's bedtime. Goodnight!
