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Thursday December 14th - Another Fish Story
My new PO Box is:

Heather Shaw
P.O. Box 13222
Berkeley, CA 94712-4222

Tonight was nice. I came home through the blowing rain - nastier than it usually is here in the Bay Area, plus I was wearing a skirt with a slit that was no protection at all - to my nice warm bed. After stripping off my confining office clothes, I curled up in my flannel-covered, feather comforter and promptly fell asleep.

David, who came by an hour later with his recycling, woke me up. I really didn't want to crawl out of bed and do recycling, but afterwards we sat in the living room on the couch of wonder (wonder why it deposits you on the floor), enjoying the Xmas tree and the lights and watching the Simpsons.

David left and Todd, Jen and Ellen came by around 7 and picked me up. I directed them downtown to Ichi's Japon, where we proceeded to gourge ourselves on raw fish and such (well, I think I'm the only one who gourged). Ichi gave me the picture of myself that he had taken months ago, and I found the double on the wall above the sushi bar. When we left, everyone agreed that it was an awesome sushi place - reasonably priced, good, fresh fish, excellent presentation and a great personality in Ichi himself. It was good to sit beside Todd and Ellen - Ellen especially, as I got her talking a little bit about her world travels. She looks like a smilely punk chick, and I think if I didn't know more about her, I would've made wrong assumptions about her intelligence and experience. And this time I remembered to dress down (green cargo pants and my black barcelona t-shirt), so I didn't feel out of place with Todd and his crowd. :-) Good people. They are good people.

I was on a protein, or maybe it was an omega-3 fatty-acid, high afterwards, but they didn't come in to hang out. Oh well. The weird thing is that I slept ok for the first 4 hours, then woke up and was mildly stressing about stuff (money, mostly). I read for a bit, and finally got back to sleep only to have distressing nightmares until morning. Extremely annoying.

Anyway, I do want to thank Tim for the lovely red hawaiian girl ornament! She's just perfect for my tree - she actually encompasses both the "cute" side and the elegant "Victorian" side - ties it all together well. Anyway, she really makes me smile, thanks again!

Exercise log:

Lifted weights: chest and triceps. Did 20 minutes on the precor machine and a 15 minute abs class.


Writing log:

Finished the third, fourth and final drafts of my article on Octavia Butler for Strange Horizons.


I'm currently reading:

Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. LeGuin

Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier

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