6:00 pm - Sunday 7th May 2000

Ahhh… I'm looking forward to this shower…

Today, more excitement of a car related manner. This morning the battery refused to supply enough power to start. After chatting to Mum on the phone in the afternoon and discussing it, I called Soba and we drove down to the big shopping complex in Woden and picked one up. I also bought a top and I convinced her not to buy an expensive under-quilt. Back to the car-park, after a few false starts, some extra oil and getting covered in grease… it worked! Good heavens, car maintenance, maybe I do have some boi genes left! ;)

The rest of the day. A early and lazy morning, I walked up to the Botanic Gardens to look at the Science Week exhibition on floral illustrations. Then some writing in my paper diary and more lazing around in my sunny bed in the afternoon. After the rain during the week it was nice to get some warm days.
Tonight I will have a shower and then go into town to obtain some vegetables. My skin is not happy, and that I believe is the reason. The other possibility is that I am starting to cut back my Androcur to 100 mg a day (which is still a relatively strong dose). That way I can pop one tablet at night and not worry about falling asleep in the lab all day long. Testosterone controls oil production in the skin to a certain extent, and it's been over 4 months since the end of the Roaccutane.

7:40 pm - Steph - Slave to the custard lattice. Mmmm… :)

I rang Mum to let her know the car was working again, and I was feeling a bit mischievous because I'd just had a shower and was looking nice (IMHO). So I rang her up and the first thing I said was "Mum! Guess what! I'm pregnant!" After a few seconds of shocked pause I said "I'm joking". It was pretty funny, and we both had a good laugh. We chatted for a bit and it was nice. It may seem strange that I'm more verbose and chatty in girl-mode, but it comes back to me being happy about the way I look and hence being in a (mostly) good mood. It is going to be a bit sucky until Thursday because of my electrolysis session planned for Wednesday afternoon, but I'll be able to shave after that and hopefully cover up the scabs with some concealer.

8:35 pm - I think I may rug up and head over to the lab for a brief bit. I want to know if I can use the flash printer to print out my diary entries.

10:40 pm - I got back from work just a little while ago, and I've printed out and organized about 200 or more diary entries into a paper hard-copy. I'm missing the entries which were written after the CD was burned, and also a few from the very beginning which are on my site but not on my hard-drive. I think that once I hit 300 entries, that's where I'll draw the line for the first hard-cover volume. There are several hundred pages here already, and any more and it will begin to be difficult for the binders to bind.
I guess I'm always paranoid about somehow losing all this work which I've put together, some people write the most fascinating stuff, but one bad virus and they could lose it all… I on the other hand write utter crap, and it'll be with humanity until the end of time… ;)

Bugger, I just realized that to get to 300 I'd have to print out another 80 entries… maybe I'll just make the first volume #1 to # 250 instead…

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