The journal lets you write about a day from your life.
The photo on the left shows what Jeff Harris was doing on that day.
November 10, 2005
Today I heard on the radio about how someone's great aunt wanted to be buried with her cat when she died. Well, when the great aunt died... the cat was alive. So, the family put the cat down.
November 9, 2005
Tonight I went to Dairy Queen with the love of my life. I offered to get her a blizzard and I told her I wanted to get my own, but she said she just wanted some of mine. So instead I offered to take her to 7/11 which ended up in her telling me that I must not love her. The blizzard wasn't even that good and now I feel sick.
November 7, 2005
I ran around False Creek this morning - the whole thing! I feel great. Vancouver is magnificient whenever the sun shines on it, which is rare in November.
November 5, 2005
I turned 30 today! We rented a cabin in the woods and brought our dog. It rained the entire time, but we didn't mind... nothing a few puffs, a few tabs, some beers, lots of great music and warm clothes couldn't handle. The cabin had a wood stove and it got so hot we had to open all the doors and windows in the middle of winter! It was hilarious. By the end of the night, he was so wasted he ended up pissing in the fridge, I tried to make him realize what he did, then I heard him pissing again and this time he had pulled out a wood dining room chair and was pissing on it. What the hell? I have never seen anyone so oblivious to the world. Can you say hammered?? Funny stuff, I tell you, and I have evidence...
November 1, 2005
Last night was the first night in my new apartment that I wasn't woken up multiple times by a malfunctioning doorbell.
October 26, 2005
Last night I spent the night with the girl whom which I am totally in love. There was no sex, or even a kiss. Although we don't talk about it, we both know how important we are to one another. I just don't know how to tell my wife.
October 24, 2005
I started a new job last week and today I had to repeat an organic chemistry experiment that I tried in the first week. I did the experiment independently and was both relieved and impressed that I got the same results! I love science!
October 23, 2005
I just read this story: In late 2003 and early 2004, a team of large ladies was robbing clothing stores at gunpoint for money, sunglasses, purses, and plus-size clothes.
October 19, 2005
I'm planning my next tattoo, and I'm using the internet at work to research it. I'm feeling pretty slack these days. I need a vacation...
October 16, 2005
Today I was notified by CitiBank that my interest rate was going up. I was pretty happy, until I realized I do not have a bank account at CitiBank. Wow.
October 7, 2005
I'm having phone sex right now, and the challenge is to type this message while listening to what he's telling me to do...
October 5, 2005
I woke up at 12:30am thinking I would be late for school. I got all ready to have a shower but decided I didn't care if I was late for school and went back to bed. I woke up at 6:30am thinking about the crazy dream I'd had and then noticed I'd stripped all the sheets off my bed. I hate sleep disorders.
October 3, 2005
After watching an episode of Full House, I have come to the conclusion that my life is a complete waste.
October 1, 2005
My friend Ivy was throwing a rave called 'Here We Go' the night before my birthday. At first it seemed like everything was going to shit, it was 9pm and there were no DJ's or security or sound crew. But by 10pm all was good. I decided to roll (do ecstacy) for my birthday so I first dropped a blue champaign, then as a present I was given a blue diamond, and then about 4am I decided to drop a third pill called a McDonald. It was a triple stack and it hit me pretty good as I was coming down off the first two I had taken earlier in the night. I had also been consistantly smoking chronic and I also drank about one ounce of liquid Salvia. I don't remember exactly how I got to Amy's house but I arrived with Chris and George there were three others including Amy at her house. Somehow I ended up buying two paper hits for everyone there, it was an insane day, evening, and night. Me being diabetic, I hadn't eaten anything other than Blow-pops since Friday morning. I ordered a pizza but didn't eat any of it. We managed to drive to the beach and back, over an hour drive away with no sober driver. We climbed on the roof of Amy's house, and thought we saw like twelve mail trucks on Amy's street not to mention various other things that I can assure you weren't there. I wanted to go all out the next night for my 23rd birthday and I managed to but when it was all over I had learned something about myself that no one could have taught me, and that was: I was going nowhere, I had given up on myself as well as my dreams, I had lost touch of everything that had ever meant anything to me and although I hate admitting that anything good can come from a night of insane drug use, I got my life and my sanity back.
September 23, 2005
Today I got a UPS package and I hadn't ordered anything. When I opened it up, I saw a box of Centrum. I was like, "What kind of joke is this?" and just thought it was a free sample. The box had a colorful Spongebob Squarepants design. So, I tore it open, thinking maybe there weren't really vitamins inside. There were. What? Then I saw an envelope with my name and address handwritten on it. When I ripped that apart, I found a poem! This was a present! What kind of gift is a bottle of multi-vitamins? And bad multi-vitamins at that!
September 16, 2005
I got a 31 cent raise this week. Which I was kinda excited about, until I realized that it's a 31 cent raise. Basically I can buy a gumball now. Woo hoo.
September 14, 2005
Last week my boyfriend of six years broke up with me. I've just finished packing and tomorrow morning the movers will come to move me out of our home to one I will live in by myself. I'm scared that he won't even notice I'm gone and will be dating his co-worker by the end of the month.
September 13, 2005
I am sitting in my cubical staring at the calendar. Two more days and I leave for vacation! It's absolutely horrible that this is the only thing I can think of and it's only 8:54 AM. Screw working, let me just imagine climbing up the Mayan Ruins and being wrapped in my boyfriends arms as we look at the sunrise from the top of one of the pyramids. Damn... to think I work year round for two weeks of peace and to get away from it all.
September 8, 2005
Last night I was the last thing a dog saw before it died. It wasn't my dog and she didn't like me. She screamed when she got the shot.
September 5, 2005
I went swimming in my favorite place for probably the last time this year. I will miss it a lot.
September 1, 2005
I fell in love with a beautiful German girl. Too bad she was only here for 2 weeks. I knew she was good when she commented, in broken English, "We have poor spacetiming."
August 27, 2005
I heard about this book, a book of cures, that is not allowed to be sold in the United States. It has cures that have been found for AIDS, cancer, diabetes. Supposedly, the U.S. won't allow it to be sold because they make too much money on people's health downfalls... no government wants these secrets to escape. WHY? If this is true, I want to see this. I want to get this book. I was diagnosed with diabetes 13 years ago, when I was five. My father passed away from diabetes, my grandfather passed away from this as well. My brother is suffering. My cousin is suffering. My God, I am living day to day via a machine, an insulin pump. Please God, let this not be true.
August 24, 2005
The coyotes have been keeping me up at night. Oddly enough, their cries sound like pre-teens at a slumber party. What are those puppies up to?
August 22, 2005
Today is my first day on my own at my new job. I'm in so far over my head it's not even funny. How long until they catch on??
August 21, 2005
I was sitting on a lawn chair in the middle of the night, staring at the sky and thinking while I shivered at the cold night air... 'well, it would be really nice if I had someone to share this with right now,' and then realized that the response is more like a joke than an actual reality...
August 19, 2005
She's so pretentious and she doesn't even realize it. The big words don't cover up the fact that she's lonely and imperfect.
August 18, 2005
Yesterday someone told me about Steve Jobs inspirational speech to the graduating class at Stanford. I read it online and today resigned from my company. It's a new chapter now!
August 13, 2005
I got up early this morning and peddled to Brixton to pick up a skirt my mother had posted. It was really quiet in the streets and I didn't wear my helmet for once, so feeling a bit reckless I cycled into the skate park by the Academy. The ramps looked bigger up close and all of a sudden I felt a bit too old. So I cycled along the pavement to the Portuguese bakery and bought a pastry for breakfast instead.
August 12, 2005
I decided to stop trying so hard to have a baby. After five miscarriages in two years, I'm just so tired of trying and have forgotten why I wanted to have a baby in the first place. I'm taking a break even though I'm not getting any younger. I just need a break.
August 6, 2005
I am spending the summer at the cottage. Today, just like every other morning, Max, a dog from two doors down, came crying at my door, ready to come in and start the day with a snuggle. It is Max's summer camp.
August 3, 2005
I got a letter from my ex saying that I 'blew it' when I ended our relationship. Uhm.. he's the one that was calling me twenty times a day and hanging up when I answered. Who blew what now? I'm thinking it wasn't me, stalker boy.
August 2, 2005
I told him that I wanted to make love for my birthday, to have that physical satisfaction. I left work early and met him in the hotel near my office. I needed that. I really did. Tonight, I'm going to buy myself some diamonds.
