Month: November 2000

Say you’re at a costume party trying to hit on a girl dressed as a Girl Scout. You think, “I know, I’ll ask about her cookies! Girl Scouts sell cookies, don’t they? I shall win her with my witty repartee, my sly double entendre.” Unfortunately, your cookie joke is not the first she’s heard. She nods vaguely and lumps you with the forty other Cookie Guys she’s met this evening. Some of the better lines I heard:

  • Pure in word thought, and deed?
  • (From the guy dressed as an environmentalist.) It’s not easy being green.
  • I�ll bet you’re prepared for anything.
  • I don’t have much to offer, but I’m totally willing to be your good deed for tonight.

10:38 a.m.

A post I relate to from Onfocus:

“This whole daylight savings time thing is throwing me off. I find myself wide awake at 6:30, trying to do math. The
groggy internal dialogue goes something like this: now is it really 5:30 or 7:30? should I be more tired than I am?
why am I awake if it’s really 5:30? it must be 7:30. should I sleep for a while to try to acclimate to this time?
should I just get up? Then I lay around, awake. Not being productive at waking life. Not being productive at
sleeping. In a hazy purgatory of hours rolling forward and backward. ”

12:40 p.m.

Things I heard in the Castro last night:

  • Guy in a Renaissance-Faire-type outfit: “That’s exactly the kind of Spock costume I want. Blue, the badge… original series.”
  • Girl in Viking Hat with Large Group and Large Beer: “I’ll be 18 in TWO HOURS! WooooooooHooooooooo!” Much high-fiving.
  • Naked Playing Card Girl: “Have you seen the rest of my deck?”
  • Twelve 20 year olds who had climbed atop the bus stop shelter: “ROCK AND ROLL! ROCK AND ROLL WILL NEVER DIE!!”
  • Luke to Princess Lea: “Where’d I put my light saber? Do you have it? Shit… I think someone ripped off my light saber.”

11:22 a.m.