Saturday, July 22, 2000

Rachel and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day 

Found my savior page. Blogger. I think I finally found a way to make it easier for me to express myself. twelve:thirty-three pm

Made some good additions to the links page. Go. eleven: ten pm

Well, it seemed like I had just gotten my life  back on track. But I was wrong. For days now, there has been no internet access for me. For some reason, my dad was able to completely crash the system that we as a family dial into. You see, we actually dial into a server at UCLA, and my dad was working on the computer that we dial into, and all of a sudden, kaboom. Lights out. But you see, this happens often enough that I've found other ways to go online. For example, Freewwweb, NetZero, and Gowin. But Freewwweb just joined with Juno, and I hate Juno because it has a million ads, my NetZero program just dies every time I open it, and GoWin has recently been disconnecting me about thirty seconds after I get online. So, are you convinced that my luck is bad yet? Well, if you aren't, this may convince you. The other day, I looked into my fish tank to discover a very limp and lifeless algae eater. My first thought was, "He's not floating, so he must be sleeping." But I realized that he was dead after he didn't wake up for a whole day. And if that wasn't enough, I noticed a large growth about the size of a small pea on the side of my catfish. Turned out to be a form of a fungus, and he was a goner within 24 hours. And that isn't it. You see, a fungus doesn't just grow on a fish, it grows into the water, and starts infecting other fish, so for all I know, another one of my three fish could get a pea-sized fungus growing out of it any day now. Oh, but that isn't it, no no. Turns out this house has bugs. A whole lot of them. It isn't like there are flying bugs that can kill you all over the place. It's just a whole bunch of termites. And any minute now, this house could fall down because of how much the termites have eaten away at this place. It was built in 1913 for god's sake! We have also got a bit of spiders, because I have recently received three wonderful big red spider bites that just itch like there's no tomorrow. I'm in HELL! Today, I was doing my laundry, and when I pulled out my stuff from the dryer, I heard something clunking around. I looked in to discover an orange chapstick that I must have left in one of my pockets. Not only are there little oily spots all over my clothes, but they're goddamned ORANGE!!! I'm WAY behind in my Caswell Scholars reading, my website's failing, I have a constant ache in the back of my neck, it seems as though I might have a back problem, and I broke my goddamned fingernail. Does this EVER END? But things have been starting to look up in the past few days (thank god). My birthday is in 8 days. I'm making a lot of money. I just set up a checking account. It's brought a marvelous feeling of maturity upon me. I feel like because I can write checks, I'm a grownup now. And I'm going to have a VISA check card too. That means that I can use it as a credit card to order stuff over the internet. And I'm only fourteen. It seems like just when you think life is winding up to kick you in the back, it saves you, and gives you a pat on the head. Tomorrow I'm off to a Barenaked Ladies concert with Alexis, Christina, and Natalie, and I hope that is fun. And next weekend I'll be celebrating my birthday, and I hope to high heavens I'll still be alive.ten:thirty-eight pm