Domesticated ..... Blah!
Oct 29, 2000
I just received an email from my best college buddy, Meg, who I haven't spoken to in a couple of years. I found a business card she gave me with an email address on it so I decided to write and see if it was still active.
Meg and I were very good friends in college. We used to run around naked together at pagan festivals, pick up guys at college bars and she's the one who got me started as an exotic dancer. She made my wedding dress and I talked her through dumping several boyfriends. We once went to san Antonio, TX with about $20 between us and all our dance clothes, went to a bunch of clubs until we found one to hire us for a week then spent the time down there on a busman's holiday. In short, we were mates.
So after all this, I get my email and I guess I was expecting Meg to have been up to something good. Maybe she opened her own business, maybe she was in Italy - something.
Turns out, she's living in Topeka, KS, married with a child and selling Mary Kay. I'm glad she's happy but wow.
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Juneau Alaska: First Impressions
Sep 13, 2000
I've been in lovely Juneau for almost a month now and I think I'm starting to get the flavor of the place. There are bears and eagles and lots of cheap salmon. When the sun comes out it is a cause for rejoicing and when it doesn't, people go about their lives.
There are internet cafes and tanning salons and salad bars in the grocery stores and cable television but going to the next town takes three days of advance planning.
All in all it's a mix of modern life and the edge of civilzation. Sometimes it feels like I'm in a suburb or Seattle but then I remember that the major roads all dead-end 20 miles outside of town.
Juneau is officially on mainland, just on the other side of the mountains is Canada, but for all intents and purposes it's an island.
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North. To Alaska.
Jun 26, 2000
I've recently (like about an hour ago) been hired to be the webmaster of the Juneau Empire Online.
This will involve transporting me, my belongings, and my two cats across the United States and the length of Canada.
While I'm still adjusting to the idea of moving from sunny Georgia to Juneau (400+ inches of rain a year), it's the idea of coordinating a move of such distance that's got me worried.
I have a long and mixed history of moving. There's usually a horse trailer and some string involved and invariably half the silverware gets lost.
Who know what could happen this time.
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First entry
Jun 15, 2000
I am a little leery of the whole journal thing. I was an ardent writer in high school and kept a daily journal that spans pretty much the whole high school experience. Almost as soon as I graduated I stopped. Don't ask me why, just did. I'm still trying to figure it out seven years later. (Did I just date myself?)
At any rate, journal-keeping as been getting a rather froufrou reputation of late. In the past, journalists and writers kept journals and the hoipoli kept diarys. Then Oprah appeared and began recommending "journaling" as a cure-all for what ails you. Yeah..........OK Oprah.
Whatever it's become, hopefully I'll be able to string two thoughts together on a semi-regular basis to make this worth while.
Finis
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