It has been a while
I have been a bit busy and a lot lazy this week so I will just summarize my activites in the last four days. Tuesday: Asscrackofdawn- went to the diner. Their grill was broken- alas no country omlettes for Jessy and Alex. :( Got by on softboiled eggs and toast. Went to the bank and wired a Fuckload of money to St. Peter's College, Oxford. Went home, got my mail (Malkavian Clan Book!) and watched bad 80's movies - Pricilla Queen of the Desert (a bad drag movie w/David Bowie) and The Sure Thing (a teeniebopper girl next door love story with a Very young John Cusack). I also watched Aladdin again for the 8 millionth time and recited the entire thing to my dog who looked at me with pity and disdain. Why is it that some movies just implant their scripts into your brain and so even if you haven't seen the movie in ages you can still recite it word for word. At this point, I can recite that movie cold. I went to walmart- the place where you can buy lots of cheap stuff in the same place for not really that cheap. While there I got a phone call from Shannon. Eventually I made it to her place where she introduced me to the wonders and perils of anime. Utena to be specific, and she sent me home at 1am with 5 dvds worth of episodes. I proceded to watch them throughout the next several days interspersed with reading shiny insanity in the nifty gaming book that I got in the mail. So really nothing has happened in the last few days so there was no reason to post but as I had been getting annoyed messages, I relented and did so. Now leave me in peace so I can rewatch all of this fun and nifty anime!

Bah! I am such a geek! First, Trek (from the cradle), then, sf/f novels (as soon as I could use a library card), X-Files (from the very first episode onward), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (from the third episode to the bitter bloody end), then marching band (when being a band groupie just wasn't enough), writing tutors (because we somehow became a network of ordered insanity), techie stuff (which helps me survive being a writing tutor and really stemmed from the birth of Theseus my faithful and noble laptop), blogging(because it was the next logical step), gaming (when being a gaming groupie just wasn't enough), and now bloody freakin Anime! I am swiftly losing the functions of my geek immune system. It has grown so easy to become infected... I suspect a conspiracy...

Memorial Day Weekend or Cranky Campers in the rain




I hate rain. I hate holiday weekends. I really hate cranky campers. All of them at once is just too much for me. I have blocked out the last three days. I don't want to think about them. I want to think about babies. Little fawn babies. Nice spotty fawn babies. I like deer. They don't think that it is somehow my fault that it is raining. They don't even care that it is raining. Nice green grass and bits of birch trees and a salty hand to wash, that is all they want. I like deer. People are insane. I will leave it at that.



"There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death." Fran Lebowitz, American Writer

Amusing Quotes


Here are a few quotes from a book that I have recently purchased. They were chosen at complete random so enjoy!



I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.-- Logan Pearsall Smith- English writer and critic



If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.-- Anne Lamott- American Writer



The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.-- Robert Graves- English poet



I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.-- J. Edgar Hoover- American Federal Bureau of Investigations Director.



There are many many more but I will save them for another day

Beware the contagious Gaming disease!
Yesterday was my day off. I got a chance to sit in the sun and stay white in some areas and get sunburned in other areas. I don't understand it. I also was converted to an official gamer. I have always been a gamer groupie but yesterday I crossed the line. Ah well, 'twas bound to happen sometime. So last night I wandered back on campus and sat in the writing center to work on creating a character that is by far more insane than I am. Frightening thought that is! But she really is whacked farther out of her gourd than I am. She whistles and writes down lyrics by They Might Be Giants ...whenever she is bored... and needs...to...see everything...Shit! She is just as off her pillar as I am... dammit.



Well that blows that idea. She should be easy to play then I suppose...

Damn School Trips



We had a hundred 2nd graders in the store today. They actually weren't really that bad, although a lot of them didn't understand the concept of sales tax. I don't really blame them. If something says $250, then it should cost two dollars and fifty cents and no more. They did not recycle however. My father is the recycle nazi. He is absolutely obsessive. He made the head teacher of the school group sort the trash and pick out all the bottles and cans. The funny part is that they always listen to him.



The Matrix Reloaded or Jessy is Angry



Josh and I just went to see the Matrix Reloaded. I want to hurt something. I will not give anything away, but I will say that I am eternally frustrated by cliffhangers and that if what I think will happen does happen my brother owes me money. Why is it that writers of movies and books create cliffhangers that can go any way and then wait until I have nearly forgotten my theories on what will happen next before they actually tell me? I know, I know. It sells books and movie tickets but I don't really want to care about that. My problem is I have a sufficiently active imagination that I come up with alternate endings when left to my own devices like this and then get angry at the writers when the do tell me what actually "happens" because it was not as interesting as the "Er ending" that I had created for myself. Bah! I give up; I am making myself more frustrated because all of my favorite authors are between books right now. The pile of unread books has dwindled to almost nothing and while I just was in the bookstore today, I mostly just played the "have it" game with Josh. (We discovered that between us we own most of the inventory of our local Waldenbooks.) I did pick up a couple of interesting looking Gaming books that were on the clearance rack. While I am not a gamer, I have numerous friends that are and I like to be able to follow our conversations. The mall trip was not entirely fruitless as I also purchased a new keypad for my cellphone because I had worn out the old one.



For those of you who are interested, the fawn is doing well and we still don't know what gender it is yet.

Almost forgot our newest addition!


We had a fawn born today! Around three thirty this afternoon, one of our tame whitetailed deer gave birth to a healthy looking fawn. The mother (I am pretty sure it is Daisy because Martha wouldn't have given me that look and anyway Daisy's eye shadow is much lighter than Martha's) was really good and washed and nursed her baby right away. We came back a little while later and we couldn't find the baby right away -- which, for those of you unfamiliar with whitetails, is just what Daisy should have done -- and Mommy was eating alfalfa pellets like they were going out of style. I think the geese are jealous because the little kids that were feeding them and their goslings decided that the baby deer was much more interesting and abandoned the feathered pains in the butt to pull up clover for the deer. We will refrain from naming the fawn for a week a) to find out what sex it is and b) to make sure that it is healthy. Unfortunately we have had several fawn that did not live through their first week and we try not to get too attached. Survival of the fittest my shoe! I want to take this one but I will be gone for six weeks and will not be able to take care of it the way I did my girls last summer. (An update on the girls-- Sophie and Jane are doing well but are not as social as they were before the winter of no people. I hope the lure of treats gets them coming up to people again. Unfortunately we lost Flash over the winter so we no longer have his social influence on the rest of the herd. *snifs* I miss him terribly. Ah well, I just need to keep telling myself that eleven was an ancient buck.


If you can think of a good name for Baby, please comment! (no bambi please!) Martha is expecting and we have no idea what to call either of these babies.

Ah yes! The end of a weekend! The end to smelly lady and waterfun! How sweet it is!



Here is a little background info for those of you just tuning in to the continuing saga of Jessy's life. I work at my family's campground in Northwestern New Jersey. We are the home of the Lakota Wolf Preserve, a separate entity that uses our land and facilities for free. In return we get a great draw for our campers. Unfortunately for me this just means that I have to deal with the public more often than I did before. Although the campground has not grown any in the five years since the preserve has been here, we now get at least twice as many people through the office because of the Wolf Watch. I love the preserve and everyone involved in it and wish them no ill will, but I do dislike (no dispise is the better word) the public. Weekends are of course the busiest time for the campers and the random wolf people (weekdays are filled with schools of late though). Thus my hatred of the whole calendar system.



Back to what I began with. This weekend was particularly unpleasant because this weekend was the first weekend this season that I was back full time. The end of the spring semester heralded the beginning of the summer for me. Back to forty hour weekends and thirty hour weeks! Bah! Well I don't know if it is because I am out of the habit or what, but this weekend seemed particularly foul. Foul is the correct word and I shall begin by describing one of our camping guests that our employees have dubbed Smelly Lady.



Smelly Lady



This title may seem somewhat mean but believe me, if you had come within twenty feet of this wretched excuse for a human, you would no doubt agree that 'smelly' is a kind term. She was camping in our primitive tent section this weekend with several other people who seemed otherwise normal. Her companions, when not in her presence, smelled normal for campers- a bit smoky but otherwise fine. Smelly Lady, however, must have avoided the campfire to preserve her stench (a mixture of soiled underwear, unwashed armpits, and various other things best left unidentified) because smoke would have been blissful compared to that. She decided to harass the wolf watchers by shrieking at the animals while the talk was going on. Worse, she found browsing in the gift shop to be an amusing passtime so we were all subject to her pungent presence. Even worse still, she had three dollars to her name so we could not even say that her foulness was worth it. I do not understand this! We have twelve clean hot showers in which she could have rinsed away some of her stench. Nor do I understand the other people who were camping with her; I cannot imagine sharing a tent made so putrid. Ah well, I am just thankful that her party decided not to stay the extra night that they had reserved for; although, according to my brother, their campsite was as foul as she.



Other fun this weekend included the discovery of a water main leak and a large group of early/ late wolf watchers on very expensive Goldwing motorcycles. The water main got a quick fix and the cyclists had a picnic while they waited so that did not suck too badly. I am always thankful for being the indoor worker on sundays and thursdays. Sundays "the boys" as I call my brother and his friend, get to pick up a ton of trash and recyclables before the bears do. (Yes we have black bears-- more than our share really-- the state drops the relocated ones not too far from here) Thursdays are worse though-- pit toilet day. They get to scrub down the four outhouses located at the extremes of the campground because there are only flush toilets in the main building (our ground sucks for septic systems). I simply have to sit in the store and sell people stuff and answer the continually ringing phone with the litany "Hello! Camp Taylor, we are completely full for Memorial Day Weekend youshouldhavecalledinJanuaryifyouwantedtocomecampingonaholidayweekendsorryCLICK!" It is surprisingly effective at reducing the amount of time spent on the phone.



fun fun fun all the time! Thank you for camping at camp taylor campground:)

I am Radioactive Man! See which Simpsons character you are! Thanks to panajane for this site!


What Less Common Simpsons Character Are You??

rain


Why do people expect the weather to be the same everywhere. It isn't raining here but I have gotten about thirty calls from people wanting refunds due to the pouring rain. I have to be polite and tell them that it has not rained here at all and in fact the sun was out just a minute ago. We got approximately three drops of rain today and still we had people cancel due to weather! Bah! I am just happy that tomorrow will be nice so that Commencement will be outside in the pretty sunshine!

Chaos Theory


I have decided that my life is dictated entirely by the movements of tiny interplanetary dustmotes. All things are random. I try to do things and shockingly random coincidences either prevent me or help me to do them. For example, this morning I wanted breakfast. I opened the freezer and two frozen waffles fall on my foot. I was not permitted to make a breakfast choice this morning. It had to be waffles. They jumped out of the freezer and said "Eat us!" Another example occured at 2pm this afternoon. I was at work. I grew thirsty, looked at the soda cooler, and bitched at my boss that we did not carry anything good to drink. He walked over to the dairy fridge and handed me a chocolate milk. They were going to expire today. I did not even know that we were stocking them again. I love chocolate milk. Yet another example of random food today-- dinnertime. At 5:30, my mother and I expressed the desire to eat some food. We discovered that there was very little in the kitchen at work that fit such a description, and we knew that the only thing to eat at home was a little bit of left over pasta and broccoli. Upon opening the fridge for the sixth time, she noticed a shrub drinkmix bottle from the Village Cafe (a favorite restaurant that the rest of my family does not appreciate) and said that we should go out to eat. She even suggested that we go there. It was very weird. Everything I have eaten today has been predestined! I could be exaggerating though. Perhaps everything is just now catching up to me... Ah well.


Another random thing today was finding this interesting blog when I logged on. Very weird. Really neat though. See it for yourself -- random guy. Also random was the fact that he used the same template as me. Weird.


I now have comment capability! Please let me know what you think of my silliness!

Sleep, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the sleep ship Naptime. Its continuing mission, to seek out new dreams and new unconsciousness, to soundly sleep as no one has slept before!

sleep deprivation is a major issue with me-- not enough sleep is just a prelude to disaster and bad poetry starts to come out of the walls. I generally don't inflict it on others though. Yawn! too tired to type anymore

The constantly surprising blog of an old friend. She is a sweetie and her views of the world, while slightly skewed, are fairly valid and almost always amusing. Pure, Unadulterated Psychobabble

TODAY

I spent much of today repairing an entire semester's worth of damage and neglect in my house. Cleaning was the order of business. Whenever I got tired of cleaning, I read a book--for pleasure. I have been unable to do that since December. In the last three days I have put a serious dent in the stack of books that I have purchased in the last six months and have been unable to read. The count as of Thursday was 18. Now the pile has dwindled to 7. I feel the need to visit amazon.com. My credit card is dusty with disuse...well not really. But it does miss buying books. Well my house is much cleaner than it was this morning and I am 100 pages away from checking another book off of that list. It was a good day.

Last Night

Last night was fun. Unfortunately I fell asleep on the satellite chair and now I hurt. I shall live, I suppose. I realized that I know every single word in Aladdin and I cannot help myself and must recite it under my breath through the entire movie. That may also have something to do with the Malibu rum and Vanilla coke that I was drinking though. I still have a few questions though. Why doesn't the Cave of Wonders flip out when they walk on the Carpet? Why does the vaulting pole shrink when Aladdin passes it to Abu? I thought of others last night but I cannot remember them now. Most movies have little things like that in them that bother me. I think that I am just too screwed up for words.

Driving Day

I just got my car back from the shop this morning and I have already put 60 miles on my car today. I had to run to Centenary and when I got there I realized that my computer was being helpful and downloaded the email that I had sent to myself which I needed when I got there. I had to go back home, chase down my dog, whom someone had let out while I was gone, find a floppy, and go back. fun fun fun

Tonight I am going to visit a friend of mine, meet her new boyfriend, and have an end of semester party. Lots more fun than driving to hackettstown in a thunderstorm. It might be just as loud though...

All Done


Well that is all folks! I am finished with classes for this semsester. I am not sure whether to be thrilled or depressed. It is just too weird. I do not want to go back to this insane work schedule that I have over the summer, but I need the money for Oxford. Ah well, I can't get out of working so I had better just suck it up and deal.




On Another Note


I have a minor obsession with pallindromes. The coolest one that I have found so far is "I madam, I made radio! So I dared. Am I mad? Am I?" Though right now, I think that "Are we not drawn onward to new era?" is more appropriate. This site has some great palindromes and a whole list of links to other palindrome sites. It is really surprising how many people are amused by palindromes and other word game type things. I was turned on to them when I read Spider Robinson's book Callahan's Crosstime Saloon because the chapter headings are all palindromes and there is a scene where the characters are having a palindrome contenst. Gah! I am such a freak!

OOHHH Thunder!
Hooray for the thunderstorm! Lightning is my friend! I love when it rains at night! The sky lights up and all the raindrops sparkle and my dog comes and hides under my arm and tries to help me type. I can hear the rain on my windows and on the leaves on the trees; I can smell the clean spring storm scent; I can feel the electricity in the air. It is just spifftaculous!

I think that I am getting the hang of this! Today made my brain hurt. Why do people pick a day with miserable weather to do outdoor activities and then complain to me that they are outside in the rain? This is not fun. I take back every wish for the end of this semester. I want the summer to end now. I know, I know; I should just make up my damn mind but I had forgotten how many hours it is possible to work in one weekend. Bah!

Silly Jessy Quote
Shiny people live dull lives.

I guess jessy needs to learn more html. But right now Jessy is going to go to sleep!

Hooray for blogs! Alright all of you silly people who yelled at me, Jessy has entered the blog world!

A note on what has happened today -- Mother's Day Kiddie Kraft - I hate little children! it wasn't really that bad but I still have a headache. I worked from 7:45am til at least 11pm and did not get out of there til one. fun fun fun.

Silly Jessy Quote
Only the ones with the diamond eyes can see through the hardest heart to the truth.