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I am sitting around defiantly not doing my work. I think I finally have collected enough fun stories to compose an entry.
Sorry this place has been so stagnant. In addition to nothing really happening, low entry levels also happens around graduation times. JUST YOU WAIT for the influx of entries after graduation… in my post MFA jobless stupor.
ANYHOW.
Let’s tell some good time stories.
VALENTINES.
Now, I don’t believe in Valentines Day. It’s such a candy company Hallmark manufactured holiday. Not to mention the endless years of my life that day has made me feel completely useless and alone. So when this Valentines rolled around and I actually HAD a sweetheart, I was in a conundrum, kind of. Not really. He asked if we should do anything on Valentines, which would be difficult because we had class and I said, “meh. Let us not really. Valentines is lame” to which he replied: “yea verily.” Also, I am very, very poor these days, so I don’t have any money to spend.
Later, however, I started thinking. I know So. Africa has a history of bad Valentines—as it’s the anniversary of the day his best friend was killed in a car accident. I thought then, I would like to do something nice for him, just so he could have some happy Valentines memories as well.
One thing I knew with certainty, I wanted to give him something special and different. I had wanted to start a hollow book, so that seemed like a good gift.
I went out and bought a pretty book for cheap. It had a nice hard cover and gold leaf pages AND a ribbon bookmarker.
And then I started away at it.
PEE ESS Guys I will never make another hollow book. I can’t cut straight and repetitive precise tasks like cutting out 800 pages? INSANITY. One night I got so upset because I cut a bunch of pages crooked I just cried and cried.
I started to want to add some more things to the book. Like what surprise could I hide inside? I had an idea to take pictures of signs outside to spell a message. If you look at my last entry, those were some of the pictures! I took a day and snapped a bunch of pictures around Hollywood and Glendale. What I made for a card here, was just part of the message! While out I also bought some brocade to line the inside of my book box.
This is where things get cool. I remembered back to before I had decided on a gift, I was talking with Glinda about what would make a fun Vday present. I said it would be funny to tell your boyfriend something like, “here is a good snuggle movie to turn off the lights to and enjoy together” and just when they are thinking, “Christ, Bed of Roses” you could give them “Aliens” or something like that. Glinda said, “do it, do it!”
And maybe it was a the outside air, which I never breathe these days, but I drove down to Amoeba Records which is this HUGE warehouse place which sells used and new movies and music. I thought I would like to get So. Africa Alien or Aliens, because those are two of his favourite movies. And there—GET THIS: I ended up getting both—FOR NINETY-FIVE CENTS. That’s 95 cents for the two together, not 95 c. for each. I was SO PROUD.
At this point, I was really, really excited because in my wallet I discovered a gift credit card from Christmas, which I hadn’t used. It was one of those things, you could buy anything you wanted with it types of cards. And I knew what I wanted!
Flowers!
I know flowers are a typical Valentines gift, but I love flowers and by now I had a new plan forming.
I had actually looked into flowers earlier, but they were so expensive, there was no way I could purchase them. BUT with the advent of gift credit cards—I could and it would cost me nothing! So I ran back to the flower place and made an order for an arrangement centered around “blue” which is So. Africa’s favourite colour.
By now, I was SO excited. I had the flowers set to be ready by the 13th. I went home, printed all the sign pictures, printed them on FINE photopaper, had them cut and packaged. Lined my box. Wrapped the DVDs.
Then I started writing some notes.
I decided to do a treasure hunt! I was going to leave little gifts all over the place.
I called a friend who lives in So. Africa’s building and asked if he could let me in. He could.
So I went picked up the flowers and got let into his building. The flowers were beautiful by the way. All blue!
I went up by his door and put the floor right there on his threshold with a little note marked “<3” which said: “look under your car!” Then under his car in the parking lot I hid the movies with another little note marked <3 which read, “Look in your mail box at school!” Then I drove to school and hid his book in his mailbox with another note: “come find me in class!”
See, this was the crux of my whole plan. We had class Valentines. So when he went to leave for class on the 14th, he would open his door find the flowers, definitely get to his car AND school!
WOO.
The last gift was just a love type letter I wrote for him.
I was so excited at this time. I seriously didn’t think I would sleep.
I waited and waited and eventually a call came and I could tell he found his presents!
I love giving So. Africa gifts because he’s always so, so, so surprised anyone would give him anything it makes the gift giving really rewarding. It made me so happy—
He found the flowers and the movies and when he found the book he honestly thought I had just marked a poem, so he opened up and was surprised again when photo messages spilled out!
He said he couldn’t wait until class to see me, so in the afternoon he came over and this time it was MY TURN to be beyond surprised, because he brought me a dozen pink roses and a little tiny gift. I didn’t expect anything after I told him, “VALENTINES IS STUPID, let us do nothing.” When I opened it, it was a little tiny ipod shuffle! I was so surprised I cried!
It was a very sweet gift.
At that point it was time for our evening class, so we went. NO ONE was in class, ha. We didn’t want to stay for the whole class (which runs until 10:30 at night). We thought we could watch the film, then go (it’s this stupid international film class, don’t get me started on how boring and bs-iful it is) but then the teacher—OF ALL NIGHTS, complained about how people left in the middle of class and if you were going to get up and leave early, he’d rather you leave before the film began.
So. Africa and I looked at each other…
Ok.
And we left.
We went back to my house and I made dinner, which was fun and nice. I’m vegetarian, but vegetarian type foods upset his stomach, so I made this chicken cutlets. You roll them up with swiss cheese and tie them up, then cook in spices and white wine. I also made a salad and potatoes and peas. MMM. For dessert we had pomegranate icecream.
The COUP DE GRAS, however?
We had dessert in front of that Desmond episode of LOST. Basically PROOVING it was a great day, because that episode is the only decent one of this season!
Anyhow, it was a great day.
I spent so long typing this up, I think I will cap the entry here and pick up later with my other stories.
COMING SOON TO THIS JOURNAL NEAR YOU:
Shades’ Bday/Soviet Union Annoyance
Science Mentor
Pushing Story
Sebastian walks: doggies, nose snuzzing and his girlfriend Jane.
Those are the most important. Though I guess I can talk about 300 or my thesis and other suches if I want to as well.
suddenly i was @ 04:50 am
(no feathers)
