finished. 4 part cruise story:

pt 1
pt 2
pt 3
pt 4

i am shorting out a lot of electronics. it’s driving me crazy. i’m having to write from both explorer and firefox because one or the other keeps freezing. cellphone has crashed twice, iPod won’t turn off and freezes, the router keeps disconnecting. this is life, right?

my friend aubrey told me once that some people have stronger electromagnetic fields. he wonders if that’s why i tend to have more problems with technology than most. i notice this happens more often when i’m in a place where i’m very creative. those times when the output is coming in a way that’s almost unconscious.

i wonder if that’s what makes it hard to get close to me. i still stand by the theory that the optimal distance to appreciate me is 3 feet. any closer and your electronics go haywire, any further and you don’t get the benefits of my warmth.

one funny thing. at the airport in vancouver, on the way back to cali, edison suggested that he and i should get married. he was very timid but cheerful about it. i told him i couldn’t marry him and he asked me why not. i told him it was because we’re cousins, but when he gets older, he’s going to have a lot of girls around him. so i want him to bring those girls to meet me, and i’ll make sure they’re good enough for him. he said, okay.

i like being able to talk to 5 year olds like adults. they’re so much easier to talk to than adults who act like 5 year olds.

it is written. but i’m going to give it a day while i go lay on the floor for a while and stare at the light bulb.

for a writer who hates writing endings, this is a hard one.

but she needs to learn, i hear the voice say.

she needs to learn…