7:50 pm - Sunday 6th November 2005

Doesn't remind me of where you are.

Gosh, I need to keep writing my diary if I'm to avoid falling into a slump like I did a few months ago. I keep coming back to this diary when big dramatic things happen in my life, and yet it's the little things that I want to remember most.

This week has been ok. After the dentist debacle on Monday, I felt much better after a night's sleep. Daylight savings has done strange things to my body clock, so that even though it's easier to get up in the morning, the nights feel very long. The prospect of Friday's phone interview cheered me up significantly.

On Tuesday morning there was an exam for my chemical engineering class, but it is a silly class and it was a silly test. I lost a bunch of points because I didn't remember what states other than Florida shared a border with Alabama. That gives you an idea as to the overall relevance of the exam. I had class in the afternoon and did a bunch of generic tasks. Tuesday evening I played cards in the evening with Lois, Lori and Chris. That was a nice distraction, and they are wonderful people to be with. I wonder if Val and Chris are having some marital problems, because I never see them together. It's none of my business of course.

Bonnie had spent the weekend in Chicago at a Siebel Scholar conference, which she had enjoyed and then spent Monday night in the Castro at the enormous Halloween celebration and street festival. I was very jealous of course. However Wednesday night she was in a down mood, courtesy of an icky day and other things. I talked to her for 2 hours in an attempt to cheer her up. Happily she felt better on Thursday.

On Thursday I received the results of my exam (average), and I missed my second class because I was out buying gold. Yes, gold. I need it for some of my experiments (No, really I do!). It was really quite expensive, as the price of precious metals has been spiralling upwards since the stock market has been doing so poorly.

Friday I was a little nervous going into my interview. I had lunch at the union building and ran into a whole slew of people. First Bonnie, then Lori P, then Dixie and then finally Rafaela. It was nice to see them all, because everyone has been so busy. I had lunch and made it back for the phone interview.

The interview itself went ok, although I have never participated in one before. There were the usual canned questions for about 15 minutes, and then I had about 15 minutes worth of questions for them. I sent a thank you letter afterwards, and I hope I'll hear something this week. I haven't heard back from the school in Indiana yet, but perhaps this week. Both of these school had due dates in mid-September, so I might not hear back from the other schools before Thanksgiving. I guess I'll just have to keep my fingers crossed.

Friday night I left the lab about 5 pm, because there was a movie night on at Alanna's place. She was having a little lesbian get together with dinner and a movie. Her place is close to campus, and so I grabbed some wine on the way over. In attendance were Alanna, Beckie, Lois, Shuan, Jean, Nikkai, Kadie, and myself and we watched the 3-hour BBC adaptation of “Finger Smith”. It was a very cool Victorian period piece with lesbian themes, a great many plot twists and a happy ending. I chatted with Kadie afterwards as I had seen her at the Unitarian fellowships, and she seems friendly.

Saturday was a lazy day, and in the evening I had the Unitarian fundraising dinner to attend. I had to call Bonnie for directions, as it was so very dark as I walked over to where the dinner was being held. I was a bit upset not being able to find the place at first, but cheered up after finally finding it. I was dressed up quite nicely and had a good time. The wine was good, Judy Fjell did the music, and the evening was a lot of fun. I was home by 10 pm, and watched some DVD's from the library before bed.

Bonnie was having dinner with Shelly, a woman from Colorado who is a friend of Judy's. They went into San Francisco and ended up at the Lexington, but ironically we were both jealous of what each other were doing. The Lexington (San Francisco's only dedicated lesbian bar) sounds alluring from a distance, and yet apparently it is really quite small and in a really dodgy part of town. I suppose that it takes on much more of an allure from so far away as Montana. Bonnie and I are putting together a list of things we'd like to do when I go down there for Xmas, since with someone else you have the motivation to get up and do something.

Speaking of which, today (Sunday) was meant to be lazy and I didn't end up going to the UU service in the morning. I was going to have brunch with Lori and Rachel, but instead Dan offered to drive me to *-Mart, an offer I couldn't refuse. I bought lots of food, and even *sigh* a new pair of jeans. I put all that away, and then came over to work. I called Bonnie from the lab about 1 pm, and heard about her interesting night. We'll be sure to grill Judy when she comes up to Bozeman. ;)

Kadie called and asked if I wanted to go for a hike. That sounded like fun, so I got changed, and so two of her friends and us drove out to the “M”. It was chilly, but the climb quickly warmed us up. The very was very overcast, and we were snowed on during our descent. It was fun to get out of town even for such a short time. They dropped me off at home and I had a shower and a nap. Then later on I came over to the lab, and even though I haven't achieved all that much I still think it has been a good day. I talked to Bonnie, and we mutually procrastinated.

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