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7:56 am Saturday 28 October 2000

(dream)

at the really and went to call my mom and instead she asked if she ocould talk to kT or asked if she could send kT a message through me and then she wanted to just talk to kT. I felt a bit dissed, but was all, yeah I can go get her.

"maybe you can just go listen for her" said my mom.

"No, I'll go find her."

There was a lot more before this in the dream but I don't remember.

9:09 am

Austin, mesmerized by the keyboard in his sleep deprived state, opened the keyboard slowly, tried to click the Visor into place.

I clicked it into place and started typing. "That thing works??" he exclaimed.

"Hey do you have a mouse that goes with that?" he asks now.

Bryn is still on the phone and I talked to her just after I wrote my dream entry. Now Nathan is talking to her. It's now 12:13 am tomorrow where she is. It's time to play Silent Football at Bryn's house!!!

breakfast was yummy Art-cooked pancakes. Oh! That reminds me the reason I'm writing. Austin walked up. "Can I have some pancakes?"

"there are no pancakes," I told him.

"No, I see them right there."

"There are no pancakes."

He finally got a pancake and then grabbed a nearby coke can. "Is this syrup?" and he poured a bit of coke on his pancakes.

9:21 am

Austin just spoke with Bryn and hung up with her.

I signed Tanner's jumpsuit's butt for Bryn: "HI From down under SMILE!"

10:31 am

Fucking fucking shit!!! I had an alarm set on my visor and it went off but didn't auto-power-off after one minute. Now the batteries are all low and shit. I'm only pissed about it because I'm a programer and my program would fucking work and turn the shit off!! I'm doubly pissed at it because I haven't been able to recreate the not-turn-off error to tell handspring when it happens. Piss.

Anyway, a bunch of people were at the tie dye workshop, dyeing shirts, socks, bras, shorts, and anything white. Sean and I were all helpfully teasing each other when Wende was all, "um, be careful not to get dye on your [new] shorts, and I got dye on my shorts. Oops. So I came up to change. I hope it comes out. Wende says it won't.

Before the tie dye workshop we were playing hacky sack and having all variety of fun, making Kung Fu noises with each kick. At least Nathan and Sean and I were. The rest of the group just played. We talked funny movie stuff like the Matrix cause I leaned back and the bag went just over my shoulder like slow bullets over Neo. Nice.

11:38 am

We just played fuckaround frisbee. As opposed to ultimate frisbee, with rules and stuff, we were just tossing it around. Fun stuff. Lots of wind. Bibbster and Mattboy competed for the disc several times. If someone caught it, usually it was Matt. Sean got it once or twice, but most often they dropped it.

12:39 pm

We are convening for the YAC meeting. We grabbed sandwiches from the lunch line and when I got to the couch, I realized I had forgotten to get mayonnaise. "Karen, will you get me a packet of mayonnaise?"

"Okay." as she was leaving the room.

"Wow" I said to Russ, I didn't expect her to say yes.

Karen came back, "they didn't have packets, so I got you a napkin full."

"Wow. You are the best, Karen. Absolutely great."

I smeared the dollop of mayo on my sandwich, even though Sean and I aren't sure that dollops are legal in Texas. Once I smeared the napkin mostly clean, I wadded it up and tossed it onto the table.

The napkin perfectly bounced and landed on Austin's plate, right in the bite taken out of his sandwich.

Laura grabbed it out of the plate.

Sean's all, "no leave it! He couldn't do that again if he tried."

"Give it to me." I have a feeling about this.

Laura tossed the napkin to me and I tossed it again. It perfectly bounced onto the table and right onto Austin's plate by the bite in his sandwich.

Awww yeah. Sean conceded and gave me 5.

Austin came back. "First of all, what is this? and why is it on my plate?"

"You missed it. You'll read all about it on Rob's website!"

True.

12:47 pm

YAC meeting begins without Elizabeth.

1:50 pm

We have been discussing selection of SWUUSI staff. Not selecting SWUUSI staff, but just discussing selection of SWUUSI staff.

2:09 pm

According to Austin, during his notes from the board meeting, Two twenty dollar bills weighs .062 ounces.

A Bic lighter that's half full weighs .674 ounces

3:45 pm

Still YAC meeting. Talked about Jahnny Depp and fundraising and smoking policy and Social Action Conference.

6:27 pm

YAC meeting ended at 4:30pm; then I listened to the anti racisim workshop given by someone from Anytown USA.

I chilled with Amanda on the couch for a second then Christina and Amanda went to go put flowers in Amanda's hair. It sounded too suspiciously like, "let's go smoke" to me, so I asked Lilly (Amanda's friend) to go find them. She did so and I have seen Lilly since then, but I don't know what was discovered.

Now Lacy, Aaron, Sarah, Chandra, Kevin, and Mandy and I are playing I Spy.

Joan and Annie just walked up; Annie exclaimed that she has never seen this computer thing before. Now they are saying that I'm looking around but actually writing and now I'm going to write that they are saying I'm going to write something about them saying that I'm going to write something about them saying that I'm going to write something about them saying something about me writing.

6:42 pm

"I infer something red."

Annie: "The red light absorbed by the green grass."

me: "Yes!!"

7:56 pm

I might have found the pattern of when this does not turn off after an alarm is triggered. It just did it again (special thanks to Susie for getting AAA batteries for me) It just stayed on again and the Memo screen (where I type my journal entries) was active. Maybe that's it.

7:59 pm

Anyway, the reason I'm writing: Wende and I talked about the possiblity of her being the CoCo with Debo for SWUUSI and I think she may choose to do it.

Now the YAC is addressing all the youth about the stuff YAC discussed in the YAC meeting.. Oh my gosh!! This is so funny: Karen is consulting notes written on her forearm. hahahaha

This is the coolest computer in the world.

8:17 pm

YAC elections were so fast!! Only 3 people were to be elected and only 3 people ran.

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9:16 pm

Sara and I just wrote our song for talent show. I'll type it at some point.

Laura did a great job on the Continental Awareness workshop.

I walked into a discussion between Wende, Ty, Debeaux, maybe Steve from Shreveport, and Karen, talking about prisons, schools (and their similarity to prisons), death penalty, etc.

Laura walked up and Wende was all, "Rob! Doesn't Laura look like _____ from the movie Long Kiss Goodnight?

"Um... no."

"Picture her breaking the neck of a deer!"

Laura gave a bright smile and twisted her hands in a deer neck breaking motion.

"Nope. I still don't see it."

9:30 pm

Debi stuck her finger through the bottom of a plastic film canister thing and effectively got her finger stuck. hahaha that's pretty funny. I helped her get her finger out.

10:04 pm

Deba, Wende, Nancy, Ty, Laura all planning what we would do in Ty's Intentional Community. Wende will help organize horticulture therapy and Laura will be the deerslayer, and Ty will be the one who decides who gets to be part of the Community.

10:22 pm

We may live in yurts at Ty's Intentional Community. Nick, Annie and I wondered where we might buy yurts.

Yurts R Us
Yurt Barn
Yurt Emporium
Yurt for less
Yurtmart
Yurtworld
Yurt Plus
Yurts n more
Yurtzens

hey rob,
this is annie b from okc. oh goodness, mojo knows how to spell "yurt". yeah, only three more rallies left for me and here i am discussing the function and spelling of the native yurt. ack!
Love
Annie

11:35 pm

Worship consists of burning little scraps of super fast burning paper with negative feeelings written on them after a mock demonstration of hatred.

Karl flipped his up into the air. Sean and I were all aw yeah.

12:24 am

Before the talent show, Nick and I just got some big boxes of Nerds. We drove to HEB and I pulled my sweatpants legs over my feet so I wasn't precisely barefoot. Aw yeah.

12:34 am

Talent show

David and Joan just did some fantastic swing stuff, including some wacky "pretzle" twists andsome killa flying htings kinda. Shoulda been there.

Robby just did some human tricks, including pushups, and then clap pushups, "can you clap behind your back?"

He obediently clapped behind his back and thump landed flat on the carpet.

Shira then did a totally awesome 1 person skit with 4 characters all distinct in their mannerisms and voices and all their parts mixed up quickly together. She consulted her notes a few times but it was still fly.

When she forgot a line: "Who's the idiot now, mamma?"

After Shira's performance, Nick and I began ours. The goal: to each eat a 7 oz box of nerds. Box and all. After we started, Steve F played "Rocky Raccoon" and something else on guitar as Nick and I sat on the corner of the stage like a small window on the corner of a TV.

1:03 am

Nick and I are in the nidst of eating a 7 oz box of Nerds each, including the box as Grantly is dressed beautifully in drag, dancing and collecting dollar bills.

1:18 am

Amidst a peanut butter phuuf on Seth, who just gave his literary resume', Nick and I are calling it a draw.

1:37 am

Sara and I just sang our song that gets on everybodys nerves.

This is the song that never ends
yes it goes on and on my friends
some people started singing it
not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it
forever just because

This is the song that never ends
yes it goes on and on my friends
some people started singing it
not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it
forever just because

(pause)

I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves
everybody's nerves
everybody's nerves
and this is how it goes

I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves
everybody's nerves
everybody's nerves
and this is how it goes

This is the song that never ends
yes it goes on and on my friends
some people started singing it
not knowing what it was
and

I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves
everybody's nerves
everybody's nerves

Because this is the song that never ends
yes it goes on and on my friends
some people started singing

(pause)

The song that gets on everybody's nerves
everybody's nerves
everybody's nerves

and they'll continue singing it forever just because..

(pause)

this is the song that gets on everybody's nerves
everybody's nerves
everybody's nerves

this is the song that never ends
everybody's nerves

this is the song that never ends
everybody's nerves

this is the song that never ends
everybody's nerves

this is the song that never ends
everybody's nerves

this is the song that never ends
everybody's nerves

this is the song that never ends
everybody's nerves

and that was how it went!

Very nice. Super great congratulations to Sara for getting up on stage at her first rally!

Karl just did a card trick.

1:55 am

Ryan just did a set of cool card tricks, mixing and matching 8 cards.

1:57 am

Aaron is playing some super fly piano piece that he wrote.

1:03 am (including 1 hour back)

Sean is writing in the fourth rally book. It has black thick paperboard covers.

I almost spilled Laura's groovie juice on the carpet and my sleeping bag.

Frank and Gene made the Grooovey Juice tonight. It tastes like a tea base with lots of sugar and Nerds.

3:33 am

Silent Football is turning into a funny funfest as Phat Pat is prompting Mr Fwopping (formerly known as Mr Cole) in the song Little Bunny Foo Foo.

So funny: Mr Fwopping heard "dunking the good fairy" instead of "down came the good fairy"

hahahahhahahahahahahahahahah!!!

Mr Smoochy has 4.99 penance points

Mr Pat said something like I would like to say to Mr Fwopping "belss you" and then Mr Pat rephrased it to Mr Pat would like Mr Fwopping to be blessed.

4:09 am Now we are playing Mafia with Ryan as narrator

4:21 am

I just got picked off by The Mafia in Mafia. I was the first to go. They musta thouht I was too big of a threat. Muwahahahahahaaha!!!!

I think that Sean and Aaron are Mafia. I don't have a third guess.

4:24 am

I was close. Sean and Chelsea are Mafia. Chelsea is next to Aaron, and I thought he was mafia because Ryan's voice pointed that direction when he was talking.

Daniel said, "are you quoting me?"

4:59 am

I was Commissioner in the most recent game of mafia. I guessed Pat (correct) and Sam (correct) And hopefully I gave them away. But the mafia killed me.

5:07 am

Townspeople won this last game. Looks like most people are going to sleep.

5:12 am

Pretty much everything is quiet except for maybe two conversations and some wandering people, who are probably looking for that last fix of fun before cleanup, or for a nice place to quickly sleep.

So I was commissioner in the last game of mafia, but I'm not really clear on the best way to reveal what I know to the townsfolk without the mafia knowing who is the commissioner.

Ah well. Maybe later I will see a great commissioner in action.

I'm pretty much awake now and could play more games, including Silent Football, but I know that sleep will overwhelm me quickly as soon as I lay down.

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