sadly, carrier pigeons can't fly between planets. otherwise, they'd be so useful for the interplanetary internet implementation.

hey! cindy rotthoff or hannah feldman, if you are vanity surfing and see this, email me at betsy@mooseparty.org.

i am back from wiscon now. it was an amazing amount of fun. i didn't get to sleep until 5am this morning, so i shan't describe it in detail, but if you are familiar with conventions, you know that not getting to sleep until 5am this morning is a good sign. i stayed up that late talking to an old friend who is becoming a new friend, and it was really really good.

plus, wiscon has hotdogs in their consuite. did i mention that part? mmm, hotdogs.

my friend heidi says:

"I try to be good, and remember that I like people even if they require work from me, so maybe other people are willing to do that, too."

yes. like that. i try to remember that when i am having a bad day about how much of a weirdo i am. i have been having fewer and fewer days like that recently, so maybe i'm finally beginning to actually understand this.

jon carroll writes wonderful, funny, true columns. this i bet you already know. but i wanted to point out a bit of the column from may 16th, which is called
A little something about you. it's about how on the internet, no one knows you're a dog.

"And that is the glory of e-mail. Online, no one knows you're a woman over 50 -- or a man over 90. No one knows anything but the rhythm of your thoughts and the force of your personality. The more adept you become at manipulating language, the more you can swim like a fish through the culture. There was that kid back east who got arrested for making millions by pretending to be a stock market guru -- he thrived in the redefining of self."

WisCon is coming up this weekend. i was sort of feeling blah about it, in that whole "oh, i have to drive to madison and i hate long drives and i'm going by myself and it'll be strange and i'll probably have fun but who knows..." way... and then i read the programming schedule.

now i remember why i go.

nate and i went to a wedding on saturday. on my planet, we do not practice this "marriage" tradition. i find it confusing and strange. i am fond of nate, and on his planet they do practice "marriage", and since it was important to him, and he is important to me, well, then, here we are.

i still keep forgetting that we're married, though. fortunately, nate says this doesn't bother him particularly. whew.

i really love unamerican.com. while i am not as articulate as !!srini, i agree with him on a lot of things. for instance, that people should write shit down. that's what i'm trying for here. i just want to get this out of my head, and on to the screen, and go from there.

i live too much inside my head. i need to try to break out of here. interacting is more fun than just making stuff up.

(besides, i live in fear of my life turning out like the last bit of chasing amy. you want to talk about someone who lives inside his head too much? now there's an example for you...)

some days i think about moving to canada. they'd take me, i think. but i like minneapolis, and nathan likes minneapolis, so mostly i just look at the Citizenship and Immigration Canada | Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada site wistfully.

ian's changing his blog, Corn & Death. way to go. i am having trouble not saying something stupid like "keep it real!", here, so you'll have to forgive me if i sound stilted while i avoid that.

i'm doing this blog not because i want to point everyone i know at the k-k00l stuff that i see on the web, but because i want a chance to write more. usenet used to fill that gap for me, but right now i'm not using it in that way. on my own site, maybe i'll just talk some, and it'll help me figure out more what's in my head.

so i also figure that other people's blogs should be all about doing what works for them, as well. good for you, ian.

it's recordbreakingly hot here in minneapolis today. the first time we've broken 90f since august. pretty unreasonable, if you ask me.

oh, now i am so excited that this works. but i won't inflict that on you much, because i have to go home soon. but i am, just so you know, all excited.

eventually i will be able to make this work correctly, and then i will be able to get started on the brave new world of bitching that blogger is taking too long to publish posts. however, right now, it's not posting at all. this is not a step forward in my estimation, you understand.

yes, i would jump off a bridge if all of my friends were doing it.