2.11.98

so today i had cocoa with mr. evan knott. the coffee-house worker didn't use soy milk in my cocoa as i had requested, but it looked like she was new so i didn't say anything. sometimes it's just not worth it, especially when the problem is something small like the absence of soy milk.

i also bought some soap because i was running low. also, it's clinique bonus days, which means that you get a "gift with purchase." i went home and unwrapped my goodies and marveled at how clean makeup is before it's used. i don't wear makeup, really - maybe just glide lipstick over my lips on special occasions - but still, it's free and it's clinique! yay! new lipstick looks so perfect and smooth, and even though this sounds insane, it looks rather tasty. it's almost as if the lipstick was saying to me, "just bite into me! really, i will taste so good! look at me! the presentation is key, and i look so so delicate yet firm!" now, i didn't eat my lipstick. but imagine if i had! i would have lipstick all over my teeth and mouth. i could be famous! when i walked around campus and smiled, people would call me vampire girl and run in fear from my red, bloody-looking smile. now that i think about it, i don't think i'd like to be famous because people thought i was a vampire. i don't think i'd like people to think of me as a lipstick eater, either (don't insane people do stuff like that?). it doesn't matter, really, since the lipstick is still flawless in its happy little green-and-silver tube, living in my medicine cabinet with all of its other unused clinique sisters.

also, i was quite upset to receive this mail:

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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 19:57:04 -0800
From: netgreeting@techwave.com
Subject: You've got a NetValentine waiting for you!


Cupid has sent you a NetValentine.
Pick up your NetValentine at

http://www.netvalentine.com

Your CardID is: 21198110101116163721
You can retrieve your NetValentine by entering your CardID into the Pick-Up window on the front page.
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naturally, i was all excited about this because i love getting valentines. i went to the site, entered the card id, and received no valentine. instead, it was a ploy trying to get people to buy some roses or something. how rude! spam is bad enough, but what kind of spammer is so cruel to get somebody's hopes up and then throw an advertisement in his or her face? why not just send a message saying, "ha, ha, ha! you are a loser!" or something. it's not like valentine's day makes everybody feel good, anyway. imagine how excited someone might be at first, thinking that they might have a secret admirer. load up the ol' browser, paste in the URL, and watch that heart sink a few more notches into loneliness. some people have no sensitivity.

so to sum up:
cocoa = tasty
lipstick = not something to eat
netvalentine.com = insensitive, shifty spammers