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So I'm reading Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine today, and there is an article about 'flounder gigging'. This is the act of wading along the beach at night with a stick and a Coleman lantern looking for flounder. When you find one, you hit it in the head with the stick, or 'gig' it. Then you stick it on a line and carry it along behind you as you look for more. I can only assume you eat them after all this...

The point of this story is that when done reading this, I thought to myself "That sounds like fun!".

Someone come take me out of the country please...

So Trey has now confirmed that he will go with me to Southern Decadence. I haven't been to Southern Decadence since I went with Felipe and the gang back in 1998. This should be lots of fun.

I've also decided to let go of some of my past. In a big box sitting in the top of my closet are mementoes (the FRESHMAKER) from my past. Sitting in a ring box, all protected and shit, is the ring I gave Wes when we first started going out back in 1992. We had matching rings, we both bought them at the same time, and when we broke up, we gave them back to each other. The first time Wes and I went to Mardi Gras together, I caught Wes making out with some random guy on the dancefloor at OZ when he thought I was at Bourbon Pub with our friends. (dun dun DUN!! I've never been good at picking up on foreshadowing...) So anyway, when I caught up with him, I tore that ring off his finger and threw it down Bourbon Street into the crowd. He freaked out, I -was- freaking out, and one of my friends because Wes had no friends of his own went and -found- the damn ring in the gutter in that crowd. And Wes and I dated for 5 and half more years. The majority of which he was cheating on me. He even cheated on me with a straight engaged guy that was at his job. I found this out later from the guy's ex-fiance while working at Forum. I found out about a lot of it while working at Forum. But I digress. When I go to Southern Decadence this year...I am taking that damn ring. I'm going to finish what I should have finished that night. I'm gonna skip that thing so far down Bourbon Street no one will ever find it again. And then...I'm going to get very drunk.

Hilarity will ensue and a good time will be had by all...

I must have!!!

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So while I was playing World of Warcraft, I met a really cool couple from New Orleans. They have invited me to come and stay with them for Southern Decadence. So with the owrry of having to find and pay for a place to stay gone, it looks like I will be going. I'm just waiting to hear from Trey whether he can go or not, otherwise I'll have to bus it I guess since everyone else I know flies to SD now. :P

What's really great is these guys live one block from the Quarter, so the bathroom won't be an issue. YAY!!

I have been very sick for the past 2 weeks. In fact, for some unknown reason, I have lost 75% of my hearing in both ears. My mother of course wants this fixed as soon as possible. I however am enjoying the break from her constant screaming.

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I notice that it has been over a year since I have gotten on here and updated anything. Mostly it is just that I am too busy playing mmorpg's, of which EVE Online is the current favorite. But also it's the fact that the only reason I ever log onto this site is to make sure that my ex boyfriend is still doing well. This is the only way I have to find information about him. Sometimes I wish I could be like some of my friends who are dating a new boy every month, and with every boy it's 'love', at least for that month or series of months. It must be nice to be able to get over so many different people so easily. It's sad that I just can't get over him and move on with my life, but there it is...

Please feel free to pity me and call me pathetic now...I won't read it for a few weeks anyway.

There is absolutely nothing going on. I have not been into town since the middle of January. I probably won't be in town for antoher month or so, as I am trying to get some stuff straightened up. I have taken care of my warrant that was preventing me from getting an ID, and now, not only will I be getting an ID, I will be getting an actual -driver's license-. That won't happen for another two weeks though. Other than that, I have been helping out my Mom. I've started getting up at 7 am for some odd reason, but that will probably switch back after my first weekend in town. Then again, maybe not. Anyway, that's my update. I don't have exciting boy and work and social problems like everyone else. And even if I did, I doubt that you'd hear about them. But who knows?

I was watching Lilo and Stitch for the first time today, and I cried...and a few weeks ago, I was watching Shrek 2, and I cried...I must be going through something hormonal...

I thought this was interesting...found it in a book called 'Sexy Origins and Intimate Things'. "Homosexual" is -not- in the Bible--- 'To clear up a common misconception, the remarkably new word "homosexual" does not appear in Hebrew or Christian Scripture. It simply didn't exist back then. As Yale historian John Boswell writes in Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (1979): "In spite of misleading English translations which may imply the contrary, the word 'homosexual' does not occur in the Bible; no extant text or manuscript, Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, or Aramaic, contains such a word. There are of course ways to get around the lack of a specific word in a language, and an action may be condemnedwithout being named, but it is doubtful in this particular case whether a concept of homosexual behavior as a -class- existed at all." The Bible does clearly state prohibitions against same-sex acts, but at the same time is states that a child who curses his mother or father shall be put to death; that a man who touches a menstruating woman, even his wife, shall be exiled from his people; that a susepcted adultress is required to drink poison as a test of her guilt; that a leper's infection is a sign of his moral guilt. These are all ideas that religion has grown beyond. All but one, that is.' I thought that was terribly amusing. I"ve gotta remember to tell those people that tell you it's in the Bible that their opinion doesn't count anyway cause I'm sure they've touched some woman on their period once and are therefore no longer actually a part of our society. Now let's find some adultresses!!

So I managed to clean my room today. I've been putting it off for about, oh...2 years. I threw out two bags of stuff, gathered a bag of things to return to their original owners, and managedto stack all of my books rather than just having them strewn all over my dresser. they're stacked to the ceiling, mind you, but stacked. I can't seem to get rid of books, especially if I have the complete series. I sure do have a lot more room in here now though, and that's nice. I managed to get rid of a lot of clothes that I can't wear anymore, only keeping a few things for sentimental value. I told my brother he could go through the rest before I got rid of them, but he probably won't take anything because he knows absolutely nothing about fashion. I also finally got my computer fixed, thanks to my own stunning computer ingenuity. Well, mostly it was due to a reformat and fresh install of XP, but whatever. I got my World of Warcraft back, only to find out that I don't like playing it as much as I used to. I've discovered the joys of television again. Let's see..Mom is sick, and has already packed to go to the hospital, even though I don't think she looks that sick. She expects to go though. I sent in the money to pay off my warrant from like 11 years ago...so all I have to do is take a class now and then I'll be able to get my ID. That will be something new. I'm sure I'll go club crazy for awhile. It's an 8 hour class on a Saturday though, and that sucks. Nothing else terribly interesting going on. I spend my evenings waiting for Drawn Together or Aqua Teen Hunger Force to come on.

Wee.