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Thursday, November 21, 2002

A while back, I was nosing around amongst enneagram sites, and posted some compilations of Type 1 and Type 6 (counterphobic) descriptions that seemed remarkably apt for Fraser and RayK respectively. Just recently, while looking for something else, I came across this description of Types 1 and 6 in relationship, which also seemed spot-on to me.

(What I was actually looking for was stuff on 5 + 5 relationships, as a way of thinking about me and P., and that description is also pretty damn spot-on. Hey, some people do on-line quizzes, I noodle around with the enneagram, we all have our hobbies, 'K?)

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Tuesday, November 19, 2002

I am such a hopeless gizmo-whore.

See, I have a perfectly fine digital camera. Nice quality, takes really good pictures, etc. But ... it's a bit large and clunky to carry around routinely, and the moments of routine movement through the day are when I usually find myself wishing I had a camera at hand. So I did some idle window-shopping through camera websites, and came across the Canon S200, and was smitten. I spent some time being firm with myself, and then some time rationalizing, and finally I caved, and it arrived yesterday. Oh my golly. Not only is it ridiculously pretty, but it is tiny -- exactly the size of a pack of cigarettes, so that I can simply drop it every morning in the little inner pocket in my leather jacket.

I haven't had a chance to put it through its paces yet, but I took a quick shot yesterday on my way home from work, which I might pretentiously title "Moonrise with Grain Elevators." It's not good-- grainy as hell, because of the very low light conditions--but I rather like the impressionistic quality the grain lends, and hey, if it weren't for the convenience of this little gadget, I wouldn't have had the picture at all.

Electronic stuff is to me what shoes are to some women. (The downside is that it's generally more expensive. Ah well.)

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Sunday, November 17, 2002

Boy, it's a day of executive decisions around this place. #1 was the opening-up of the LJ (all the original fatuous drivelling! but now, with twice the coverage! Yes, it's Dupli-Kat, the blog that reads like an LJ!). Other decisions include the following:

#2: I've added some more people to the sidebar (elyn, Jessica R.-going-as-Tzikeh, Lum, Gwyn), and also moved the pretty graphic that deejay so kindly made for me up to the top, so it's more visible.

#3: This is it; I take the public vow; I am going to get the first draft of the story finished by the end of the year. You are all authorized to mock and humiliate me if I fall short of this goal.

#4: I am going to cheer the fuck up. Yes! I'm taking Sheila and Nia as my role models in this endeavor, and though I shall not sparkle, I shall at least cut the gloom; the self-talk will be less about you hateful idiot and more about Smile, dammit!

In other news, I just saw a squirrel out in the backyard that had hit the motherlode; he'd somewhere scavenged an entire bagel, and was alternately gnawing it, and picking it up in his teeth and trying with great difficulty to haul it toward a tree. It looked like an illustration for that old Kliban book "Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head."

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Admin note:

No, I'm not migrating to LJ. But several people have told me lately that they have trouble accessing my blog on the mrks.org server, so at least for the time being I'm using LJ as a kind of mirror, and entries I post on my blog will be copied there. Because god forbid anyone should miss a word of my golden prose or Deep Thoughts.

I'm not migrating completely for several reasons, most of them having to do with the fact that I'm a control freak--I like having my blog run off my server and I like being able to configure the thing however I want. But I recognize there are some cool features to LJ, especially the e-mail notification of comments (when that's working, which apparently it hasn't been lately). I've updated my Friends list to include (I think) everyone I have linked off my blog, despite my deep ambivalence about the potential for interpersonal weirdness that seems inherent in the whole "Friends" terminology. But anyway.

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