6:20 pm - Sunday 6th January 2001

Re-entry into the electronic continuum...

Well, for the first time I am able to type up my diary! Yay! I bought this little "Mail Station" device which allows you to type up your emails (or diary entries) at home and e-mail it to another computer. Anyway, I haven't yet got the dial-up connection fixed yet, but hopefully in the next little while. Either way, this is a lot more private than typing it up on the work computer. Also, I'm way behind on my emails, and so this is perfect to help me keep up. (Plus I'm not reliant on a Windows OS!)
Today was nice. Allison and I drove down to Key Largo and had fish and chips on the way back. It was really pleasant, but the weather was cool, so we decided against going for a swim. Yesterday Allison was really sick, so we only got out for a little while before her allergies started playing up and we came home. She goes back home on Tuesday morning which although sad for both of us, is for the best. She has to work on her film, and I really need to throw myself into my chemistry.
So far, we've had a really nice time. We didn't do anything much for New Years, though we have driven up to Fort Lauderdale, and also visited Coral Castle. We saw Lord of the Rings as well as Jimmy Neutron which were cool (the audiences sucked) and hope to see Monsters Inc perhaps tonight.

I'm still fairly paranoid about my supervisor, I had a reaction on Friday which didn't go to completion, so I feel I need to go into tonight in case he asks me about it tomorrow morning.
Anyway, over to my co-writer for this entry...
Under penalty of death by flogging (with various and sundry sizable trans literature), I have been ordered to say "Hi" and relate a few words. So, what did Steph and Ally do in Miami over Winter break? We ate pizza like it was going out of style. If there was a pizza within a three mile radius chances are we ate it. We ate flan, the creme caramel brought to these shores by the gods... er, the gods who knew how to enslave that Steph person! *smile* We ate... Wait a minute! We also ran to and fro (and this was not due to and illness keeping us from sitting down!). The Biltmore... the Venetian Pool... the Coral Castle... Key Largo... All in all it's been a quite wonderful time. But as all things do, it must end... for the moment. I wish that we both were returning to LA LA Land, but that would not be the case (provided Steph wants to stay in the country... or continue a career!). Leaving this place and her (mostly her) will be difficult but unavoidable. Oh to time and the heart... but now I'm blubbering... and not even in my own diary (which seems lost the last few months in a remodeling state)! So, with that I'll leave you intrepid reader... back to your regularly scheduled hostess... same bat time, same bat channel... -- ALLY!

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