June 4th, 2003
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2:51pm

my hair is getting longer. i can actually spike it up now a bit :)
yay :)

sorry there hasn't been pictures in the last couple days..i am have been so busy with errand type stuff!

 

12:00am

i can't believe it's june.
time goes by way too quickly...

 

hmmm!!!!!
someone just wrote this to me:

"You may have already seen this: I picked up the new Margaret Atwood near-future-biological-disaster novel _Oryx and Crake_ (Nan A.Talese/Doubleday, 2003) and ran across this passage, which starts on p. 84 andgoes to p. 85.
Atwood's protagonist, Jimmy/Snowman, and his best friend, Crake,are hanging out as teenagers and surfing the web:

'Or they would watch At Home With Anna K. Anna K. was a
self-styled installation artist with big boobs who'd wired up her apartmentso that every moment of her life was sent out live to millions of voyeurs. "This is Anna K., thinking always about my happiness and my unhappiness," was what you'd get as you joined her. Then you might watch her tweezing her eyebrows,waxing her bikini line, washing her underwear. Sometimes she'd read scenes
from old plays out loud, taking all the parts, while sitting on the can with retro-look bell-bottom jeans around her ankles. This was how
Jimmy first encountered Shakepeare - through Anna K.'s rendition of
_Macbeth_.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death,

read Anna K. She was a terrible ham, but Snowman has always
been gratefulto her because she'd been a doorway of sorts. Think what he might not have known if it hadn't been for her. Think of the words. _Sere_,
for instance.
_Incarnadine._
"What is this shit?" said Crake. "Channel change!"
"No, wait, wait," said Jimmy, who had been seized by - what?
Something he wanted to hear. And Crake waited, because he did humour Jimmy sometimes.'
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Sounds somewhat familiar, don't you think? Sure there are lots of people with cams now, but it's striking. I'd read that as a sincerest form of
flattery, I think. There's another reference to this "Anna K." on p.187, where Jimmy reflects back on this experience and realizes that she did a better job at Lady Macbeth than the pathetic student actors athis college.
Keep up the good work. "