so in an attempt to reach new levels of absurdity, the gods of the california gubernatorial election have thrown a real screwball - gray davis (y'know, the guy everyone's trying to toss out on his ear...) went on the air yesterday to give a speech about the recall election and his bold new plans to lead california into the future.

now, you have to ask yourself, where were these new plans before the recall initiative began? or even while signatures were still being collected? has this man never heard of "too little, too late"? i mean, surely he doesn't think that a last-minute - nearly last-second - speech like that is going to save him from being voted out? i mean, there's a lot of voters in california who are as dense as last year's fruitcake and might not see this for the cunning ploy it is, but for them there's ahnold.

which, incidentally, is not to say that the terminator wouldn't be a good governor... just that in addition to whatever his politics may be he's certainly got the star power. contrary to kafka's statement, it is in fact action movies that are the opiate of the masses. or for those a litttle more satirically minded there's gary coleman - america's first black midget gubernatorial candidate. just think of the demographics he covers!

anyway. that's enough incisive political commentary. gotta go to work - and i probably won't think about this again until election day, whenever the hell that ends up being.

to be fair, the main reason i'm updating is to pass on that my evilstan .mac account expires in 34 days as of right this very second, and i am tooooooooo cheap to pay to renew it. i'm planning on adding evilstan as an additional email address to my _other_ .mac account so no need to scurry and change address books, but the web address will be changing.

oooh, also, will be putting up pictures from my trip to the baltic soon! url will be posted here once iphoto generates it for me :)

well i felt guilty. it's been quite some time (for the new me) since i've posted - but in my defense there's not a whole hell of a lot going on. oooh, except that we got a new toy which means that we can watch buffy and enterprise and more buffy and darkwing duck and knight rider and and and. so now we'll have even less time to do anything. it's a good thing that we're in temporary exile from the 8 1/2th circle, because if we had to administer our domain as well as watch several shows a day we'd never get anything done and stupidity would soon triumph.

we've also learned that when we write our blog late (for us) at night and jacked on caffeine, we tend to get into first person plural.

furthermore we are aware that we have promised an update on the slobber files to be released soon. we kinda lied, which is ok because we are after all evil, and the update will not be released 'soon' at all. if everyone including ourselves (ourself?) is lucky it will come out between our birthday and our trip out to new haven. if the collective we are unlucky, who knows when it will be released.

blargh. *twitch*

blue like water
blue like heaven is all of the time
i'm all right
i'm just gagging on all the all right

-marcy playground, "opium"

so i've heard from some of y'all that you've missed The Adventures of Evilstan in Autismland. you'll be pleased to know, therefore, that i'm working on a writeup of the kids that i've been working with lately. i expect that it'll be out at some point in the next week, so you'll get to hear all about the annoying little fucks... i mean, charming and special children.

meanwhile, however...

well i just had a huge rant all typed up and waiting to be loosed upon the world, about the evils of my timecard - trust me, it's above and beyond the punishments i mete out to the lost souls of the 8 1/2th circle, and that's really saying something - but then something that was supposed to open in a new window didn't, and i closed the window, and it was actually my blogger window, and now i am sad because i typed for a really long time but to no avail because now it is all gone; but perhaps i need to make this sentence a little longer because virginia woolf would have wanted it that way, even if she was a raging evil bitch - though not really of course, she was just a hugely depressed englishwoman, it's just her books that are evil, along with their horribly long sentences.

but anyway. point being you get to skip out on the timecard rant, except for one line: LET IT BE KNOWN THAT THE TIMECARD SYSTEM MY JOB USES SUCKS HAIRY RAT BALLS.

so now on to the cheery stuff - i actually had the day off today, and got to a) sleep in, b) hang out with a friend i haven't seen for 2 years, c) chat with a friend i haven't seen since 1997, d) knit, e) read lots of arwen/éowyn fanfic and look at this pretty picture, f) discuss with friend #2 a business venture to design satanic lollypops of the seven deadly sins - have you ever considered what a lust lollypop should taste like? what about a greedsicle?, g) tromp around san francisco, h) hang out with my boy, i) back on friend #2, read excerpts of the harry potter slash she's writing, which involves snape buggering draco in the bathroom of a bdsm club............ oh, and j) do timecard, but we're not thinking about that anymore.

yeah. it's been a good day.

so friday night, the boy and i went out to dinner with one of his friends for said friend's 20th birthday. of 14 or so people at the dinner, a grand total of 3 were straight - 4, if you count me in my long-term heterosexual relationship. the remainder were either gayboys who work for apple or gayboys who go to stanford. it was an extremely amusing gathering, but it made me miss quite a bit. first and most associatively obvious, i miss my fabulous gayboy friends, particularly scott and most specifically me and scott breaking sam's brain that one evening on the couch. next, i miss that part of my circle of friends that in my head falls into the category of cheerfully lascivious - granted this is most of king house, but also some friends from highschool and one long-lost gothindustrial from bryn mawr - lilith sprague, where are you? also i miss my rovie-monster, particularly as the evening went on and some of the boys started getting lovey dovey and i really wanted a neck to chew on andor flashing neon signs andor parcheesi. and no, you probably shouldn't ask but of course i am sweet and innocent.

but mostly i found that i miss having people to hang with. it's a tossup - in college i didn't have my boy but i had a very close circle of friends, while here i have my boy and *drumroll* coworkers. i regret, sometimes, being the kind of person who doesn't form new associations easily - and i believe my close-friends roster is full anyway. i've hit quota. of course, i never get to see most of the integral parts of my social web. stupid other side of the country... if we lived in leichtenstein, this would not be an issue.