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Don't have anything much to say, other than that I'm feeling a bit sad and melancholy at the moment. For no reason, just one of those things.

It may be because the weather's beginning to turn. Tonight is cold, brrrr, and yesterday, I saw the first scattering of dry, red leaves and realized that fall is here.

It's rained off and on the last few days, too.

Puts me in mind of Washington, and what it will be like to look at a sky the color of fingernails gone grey from lack of oxygen again one day.

Strangely enough, I'm feeling homesick. Even while knowing that I'll be leaving behind a sky so blue it seems retouched, sunsets so vivid you'd swear that they'd been photoshopped just to enhance your personal experience of being under them.

For everything a man takes with him, there is something he must leave behind.

Story of my life.

Well, it's a ways off yet. I'll likely still be here this same time next year.

But shortly thereafter, if everything goes according to plan - do things ever? - I'll be back in the Northwest.

For now - time to go to sleep.

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Can't wait to get my student financial aid - er, next week (won't be able to stand in line Friday because of work).

Because I have GOT TO GO TO VEGAS.

Ahem.

I have absolutely no interest in gambling - the only time I ever spent as a gambler was during that brief period in time when all the internet casinos would give you FREE MONEY to play as an incentive to then bet your own money. Heh-heh. For abut six months, I played all the casinos with free money, only ONCE betting my own ($30) - and over all, I cleared about $2,000. Then they finally got smart (there were a LOT of people doing the same thing, and hey, when it's not against the rules, it's like free money - who wouldn't?) and changed the system - so I stopped gambling. Phooey on that.

But I have GOT TO GO TO VEGAS now.

To explain: I now work in the Tech Services part of the library now - and we get the new acquisitions before they go on the shelves. And today I checked in one of those coffee-table-type pictorial books about some the of odd and gorgeous things there - Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, the drive-through pawn shops, the Cathedral-ish Church of Scientology, and Star Trek Experience in (I forget which) hotel - and of course, all the theme-parkish casinos and all that stuff.

If I go back to Washington having spent 7 years basically just down the block frm the world's biggest adult playground without ever having gone to it - I will deserve the world's biggest ass-kicking. Yay, verily.

Not entirely true - I went there once about 11 years ago, and spent all of 48 hours there with a sullen traveling companion who made it as excruciatingly horrible of an experience as he possibly could - which was pretty excruciating. So really all I saw of Vegas was the inside of a cheap, dirty motel room and Circus Circus.

So, when I get my financial aid and plot out my budget for the next three months - I want to try to manage some way to finagle a little vacation out of it.

Anyone want to come?

C'mon - you KNOW you wanna...

The Little Filmmaker Who Roared

It ain't over 'till it's over - ( or so the fat man sings it. )

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Poli-Sci short essay due tomorrow.

Supposed to be 2-3 pages.

I've got 1 3/4 pages.

Whether it hurts my grade or not, I'm turning it in ( just like this. )