Last night I met Clay Aiken. He was participating in a World Idol-type competition with about 50 other singers from around the globe. Everyone pretty much figured he'd win it, but when he got up to sing, his mic didn't work. He sang anyway, projecting well into the balconies, and the audience was dead quiet so they could hear him. Sadly, Clay lost to Sven from Sweden. (It was really Mika Hakkinen, but he insisted his name was not Mika, it was Sven, and he insisted even more that his was from Sweden, not Finland. Guess he was looking for a new career.) Clay was cool about it though, like he really didn't care. I was pissed off about the Swedes sabotaging his mic and cheating in the competition, and insisted the police be called in, but Clay just shrugged. "I've got a hit single, a CD that's sold really well, and a college education," he told me. "What the hell do I have to worry about?" Then I shrugged, too, and we went to a lounge together where we sipped martinis and talked about shoe shopping.

Yes, I do have very strange dreams, and sometimes I'm even lucky enough to remember them!

Tonight I have my Memoir Writing class. I just barely got my writing assignments done, then remembered I have a couple things to read in the text as well. Luckily the class is at 6:30, and there is parking closer to the building. I'm actually quite pleased with the two things I've written, and plan to post them here; I just haven't decided whether it will be before the feedback or after. I never get feedback on my journal entries, and I rarely go back and edit after they've been posted, so I might just post them this weekend regardless.

Good Lord! Next Tuesday is my journal's fifth anniversary! FIFTH! I've never in my life kept a journal this long. I'm actually quite proud of that accomplishment. I keep thinking I should do something special - a redesign, a special entry, something. I just don't know what. I don't know if I really want to do anything particularly special, or if I just want to say "Yay! I've been journalling five years! Go me!" That's probably all I'll manage to do, since I'm just too darn busy to spend much time with the journal. I'm still trying to move the rest of my main website over to its new host. It's been a pain, mostly because I don't know what I'm doing. I transferred my domain name before downloading all the content off of the old host, and now I can't download any of the pictures or graphics. I'm sure I have some of them on my computer at home, but I haven't had time to sit down and hunt for them, let alone upload them to my new host. I've wound up doing a lot of purging on the sight, and may do more purging yet. The poetry and haiku sections might just go bye-bye. They took up a lot of space, and I don't think anyone really went and read them anyway. I might keep some of the newer stuff somewhere, but just a quick page or so. Ditto with the photos. Many of the older galleries will not be included, just the newer stuff, and some of my favourites. I'm hoping to find an easy-to-use gallery program to make storing and displaying my pictures easier and prettier.

I guess that's it for now. I can't think of anything else. I need to go finish my homework anyway. Wish me luck!

Reading: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold; Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir by William Zinsser

Classic Book: Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.

Previously: Animal Farm by George Orwell.

Listening to: Nothing.

Writing: Just putting the finishing touches on my class assignments. I think they turned out okay.

Gratitude: A chance of showers.