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Funny how standing on your head for a few minutes can seriously improve your outlook. I've been a fucking mope-job for, uh, too goddamned long. Did my first head-stand and a bit of shoulder stand and now I feel like a million bucks.

Hell yeah!

My horoscope for this week, creepily on track seeing as I've been using the pony metaphor all week:

Michel Gondry's got you thinking that a vivid imagination is a good thing, but the wrong kinds of fantasy only generate paranoia and persecution complexes. You feel like everyone's moving ahead while you're stagnating, and you worry you're not getting checked out as often as you used...
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This was an exciting weekend, all things considered. Went to go see E, aka the Birthday Girl, on Friday... Saturday I hung out with the lovely December at my favorite martini bar, then did an interview that got cut short due to technical difficulties (and yet it took 3 times as long, due to trying to get back on the line), then I enjoyed yet...
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Things are proceeding more or less normally now. Nothing great, nothing horrible. 2 weeks till Montreal, which means I need to hurry up and finish my presentation this week. That panics me a little, which keeps the excitement about traveling under control. I've also decided now is the time that I need to start getting rid of stuff. A lovely recliney chair, maybe a papasan,...
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Yesterday was a much better day. Got a good subject to blog on at work, got some effusive compliments on my blogging style, bonded with my new manager, traffic was clear, my favorite pen mysteriously started working again, took a vegan breakfast cooking class (which also meant sampling some delicious baked goods and stuff), and then caught up on talking and snuggles.

Highlights of the two days since I've been back:
Old problems with a formerly close friend rear their ugly head again, decide I'm not gonna have any sort of b-day thing now that I'm back.
Wake up yesterday, discover a nastygram from my apartment complex over $10 they forgot to charge me at the beginning of the month.
Go to put my laptop in its...
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I was kind afraid that this birthday was gonna kinda suck ass, since things weren't going according to my usual plans. I decided to come to Eugene to try and salvage things as well as get a little vacation, but I kinda figured I'd be a big ol' mopey mess under it all. And yet somehow that hasn't even materialized a little. I went out...
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Let's see if I can recount all the crap that's happened in the last 3 days. Tuesday, found out coworker's mother was killed by a hit&run driver. Found out said coworker had scheduled a presentation that he was not going to be able to do. I offered my services, booked a flight to LA for the next day and whipped up a new and improved...
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Today was a day of fun and adventure, hooray.
Last night was a night of drinking and eating sugary things which led to a very, very sick me at about 3 in the AM. Which led to nightmares and general queasiness till I gave up on sleep at 8. Sat around reading and keeping the queasy at bay for a while till my friends called...
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Everything still is calm and contented here. I'm happy to see people seem to be coming back out of the woodwork. Must be the return of fall weather. Suddenly I want to clean and redecorate. Nesty.

Oh god, I have a colon again for the first time since Valentine's day, it feels so weird! I kept expecting there to be just-a-hole when I put my...
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