July 3, 2000.  Monday
 

 
    One of my favorite movies is on right now, Operation Petticoat.  I'm not sure why I like it so much.  Maybe some sort of old nostalgia.  I remember watching it with my dad once when I was a wee tyke.  I guess it reminds me of Sunday afternoons, watching TV, in a time when there was no such thing as homework.  But it's still an awfully amusing movie.  It stars Tony Curtis and Cary Grant, set in WWII.  I dunno. It's kinda funny.  By the way, it's almost midnight, and I haven't left the house today, and I'm feeling kind of restless.

    I've spent the day in isolation mostly. I was supposed to go visit PFC Caryn at her house on Long Island, which I was supposed to do yesterday, but like yesterday I woke up too late today.  I felt kinda bad, but when we spoke around 1:00 she didn't bring it up and niether did I, so I guess we both assumed that I wouldn't be going.  I wouldn'ta minded going out to the Island and maybe getting some excercise, but it was a shitty rainy day today.  So it was best spent indoors.

    Not that I woulda minded going down to Great Lakes or anything. I did feel like being around people for a bit.  But it's kind of a long walk.  It's really not that far to get there, but I have this saying: "If you walk there, you gotta walk back."  walking one way is ok, but it's really the return trip that gets me.  Once I leave a place, I'm ready to go. I want to be home.  I hate that long walk, and it's all uphill. Anyway, I didn't feel like going down by myself either, so I just stayed in and read a book.  Jed hasn't been around today, as he had to work.  So it's been a Greg day today, watching TV, eating a lot, excerising as much as one can indoors, and leaving the house in search of food.  That was really about it.  And a little bit of time spent on web project things. I have another Survivor article to do, but haven't really felt like doing it.  I'm finding that having a job justifies, in my mind, doing just about nothing.  i mean, i'm on a break from work, right?  Still, I got that damn lingering anxiety.
 

    To sum up, it's too muggy today to do anything that can't be done in my air-conditioned room.  I have a phone, TV, computer, guitars, video games, music, books.  Not much else that I need.  Except maybe things like sunlight, fresh air, and interaction with other human beings.

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By the way, in yet another late-night nostalgia fest, I was reading my old entries. I found June 18th, 1999 to be sort of amusing. A little tale from DC.  Nothing like that happens to me anymore.
 

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