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10:20am CDT Thursday 12 September 2002

I have found a relatively good way to keep myself feeling productive and even keeled, stable (not like a horse house, but like a rock), happy, etc. That is to make a simple list of things to do each morning. I've known this for years, but haven't really done it every day since my personal schedule would be so wildly chaotic and my work schedule would be relatively rigid.

So what'd end up happening is I wake up early one morning and be all relaxed and take time to write up a list of thingies to do that day and get some shit done and feel all productive and basically on top of stuff including go to work and it would be all great.

And that might even go on for a day or two, but sooner than later I would stay up late late late one night and drag my ass out of bed just in time for work and not take a moment in the morning to figure out what kinda stuff I should do and take a moment to breathe and all that, and my sense of productivity would collapse in a heap, leading me to feel relatively poopy and not wanting to take time for myself, for who would want to take time to hang out with an unproductive slob like me?

So today I wrote a list of stuff to do, and I've done about half of it, most of which I could do online (contact peeps, look up phone numbers of other peeps) and some of it is time dependent (visit a store that opens at 11am, see Sally at 4pm) and some of it is not Urgent right now (capital U from Seven Habits... book) so I'm not doing it; and some of it requires me to overcome some hurdle or decide if it's 'worth it' (to spend the money, or do I really want to talk to this person ). And to be certain, I haven't done this for more than 1 day in a row, but my previous list was on the 8th, so only 3 days skipped. Maybe I'll keep it up.

Sally

3:32pm CDT Thursday 12 September 2002

Whoo! I'm chillin' in the A.C.E.S. room 2.302, an auditorium in which Ted and Sally will each be doing their thesis presentations. Just got a quick version of Ted's presentation. Sally isn't here right now. We joked about her having forgotten about it. Not too likely, but still funny.

This building is apparently sporting a wireless network, but it's down from today through the 16th. Funny.

7:56pm

Back at Fred's apartment now. After Sally's thesis thing during which she appeared calm cool collected and faced the audience in a bright smiley way and I understood almost none of it, we (her chicamow (mom), dad, advisor Jay, me) went to Trudy's for dinner. Her friend Suzanne showed up after a bit and Sally chatted with her, while her mom chatted with Jay, and I moved my chair over and talked with her dad who has worked as a security manager (I'm making up that term) for Saudi Arabia since 1978. He had a few things to say about the current situation. And by few I mean like five.

Before the reseating, Sally had been sitting across from me and we played footsies a lot. I really really really really really really really really really like her. a lot.

oh, before her presentation was Ted's presentation, and Sally held my hand a bit :-), mostly cause she was way way nervous about her presentation.

9:29pm

Talked funny stuff (XXX starring Vin Diesel, MIIB starring Will Smith, etc starring whomever) with Bill and Fred while waiting for Sally to call. We ate banana/orange/strawberry(?) yogurt smoothies.

Sally called and I'm chillin' with her now. Actually she is on the phone, but yeah. bye.

1:00am

SO Much Fun!! Sally and I started for a walk outside her hotel and then she was all, "wouldn't it be cool if we had bikes??" But we do! Zipped over to Fred's apartment and got a Bibby Cookie each and my bike and Fred's bike and rode all over downtown Austin, from his apartment around the capital to thin brick paths steeply coursing through a park to a spooky spooky dark sidewalk along a creek and under some bridges totally dark and slowly right past a guy sleeping on the ground. I was quite startled by him but didn't say anything until later "was that a guy?" how wild!

After rolling around the board chalk of white bumpy rocks, followed our ears to music and rolled Into 6th street type area with empty streets blocked off just for us to roll in huge sine wave designs between rows of parked cars and inebriated folk walking along the sidewalks. Sally bought a bottle of water for us to share. Out of that area and down a long hill with 4 Way STOP signs through which I rolled really quickly trusting that any cross traffic would stop.

Down to the small creek river thing beside which people play disc golf and found a park but kept rolling till we found a spot to chill on some lumpy rocks within the middle of the creek bed. We drank water, marveled at the beautiful variety of sights we had seen in such a short period of time! Remarkable.

We lay facing the stars (could see approximately 3 through the overcast sky) with my leg as her pillow and our water bottle as mine. She told me how thankful she was that I had come to see her presentation and I was all, "you're my favorite favorite favorite!"

After our rest, we returned along the trail and wound our way under another bridge and up some streets to arrive back at Fred's apartment.