Sea Monkey Heat Exhaustion Deaths

The heat went all the way up to 104 Thursday or Friday, before coming back down to the normal Boston summer temperatures in the mid eighties. While we roasted in our apartment with no air conditioning, I kept my cat Mr. Puck amused with ice cubes in his water bowl, and kept my roommate amused with stories about how the winter extremes had freaked me out. My Sea-Monkeys died because they got too hot in their little tanks, but a couple of days later after it cooled down, their eggs hatched, so all was not lost.

I had a lot of fun last weekend with the digital camera I borrowed from Simmons. I took pictures of all the grocery stores in the neighborhood and some of my apartment. I also got a little lost on an Urban Hike, trying to find the Allston Library. I used directions from MapQuest, and they hideously wrong. While I ended up no where near the library, I did find a shortcut through a Brookline neighborhood that led me straight to a fabulous bakery and decent video store, some things I've felt the lack of acutely. So this weekend I wrote like a daemon, I painted some, I watched "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" twice again with my roommate for her 30th birthday. We enjoyed chocolate cherry cake and ice cream. I received packages in the mail from my Great Aunt Beth, Dustin, Christy Ford, Christi Underdown, and my Dad.

A lot of things have gone well in the last week. I'm trying to concentrate on those things because some things went spectacularly wrong. My modem refused to work no matter what I did to it - I even went so far as to open up the computer casing and tried to physically unplug and reseat the modem itself. All I accomplished in this was accidentally disconnecting the lead from the power button. Once the lead was off, I couldn't figure out where it went again. When something disconnects from a car when you're working on it, that's Okay, because you can usually see right where the piece should go back on, and how. I'm usually so good with such things - just sort of tinkering with machines until they work again - that it just infuriated me that I couldn't figure out how to fix the darn power button on my computer. It was just that the lead fit on two little pins, and there were dozens of little pins on the board.

So I had to call in Ryan. He came over and fixed it right away. We were Okay as long as there was a job to do, but after that I tried to open conversation a couple of times and he just sort of shut me out. I don't think he even realised what he was doing - or maybe he did - but I was sort of hoping that the good thing that would come out of my computer trauma was that he'd hang out a little and we could re-establish the friendship we had for two years before dating. But that just didn't happen. Still, it was nice of him to come by and reconnect the lead, even if we didn't reconnect as people who really talk to each other. If we weren't still friends, he wouldn't have come over to help, so I guess I'm asking for too much when I say that I wish we could talk the way we did before we dated, and everything went wrong somehow.

My modem was still broken after Ry left. Worse, my Dad was even nice enough to mail me a spare modem he had around, but it didn't fit into my computer the right way, so I still don't have a modem. Maybe I'll be able to find one in Nashville next week, when I go down South for a wedding in Atlanta. Well, at least that'll be fun, if I can get there.

When I booked the airline tickets over a month ago, I couldn't believe the price! They were so cheap! When I told my Grandfather the deal I got, he said, "Well, I hope they stay in business!"

Well, they didn't. I had to re-arrange everything today, because Midway airlines declared bankruptcy and canceled a bunch of flights. Hopefully I'll still get where I'm going to go next week without to much hassle, but now I'm worried that I won't.

Still, this has been a nice month off from school, and I'm staying pretty busy.