Clean up. I just cleaned up three years' worth of dead links from the sidebar. It's interesting to see who's still around and who's disappeared into the ether.

Also, Tim just came home, and the apartment suddenly started smelling like ramen noodles. Which reminds me...I am hungry, and I haven't eaten yet. Maybe I should take care of that.  ¶ 3/05/2005 07:56:00 PM

  So, then. As one of those shitty yarling bands says, "it's been a while." So I guess it's time for me to catch you up, though there's probably nobody even bothering to look at this because it hasn't been updated in two-plus years.

I got married last October in a lovely, not-very-traditional-at-all ceremony with a funky reception and a colorful cake. I avoided the color white whenever possible. We had some white tablecloths, but that's because the party rental store only had white and some ass-ugly color that wouldn't go with anything. Being married is nice, but I can't say it's changed my life all that much. I have a new and exciting last name, but I kept the old one for kicks. So now I'm Nanette W____ D______. I've moved up from the end of the alphabet to the beginning.

Amusing side anecdote: the person I dated before Tim once told me that every girl he's involved with marries the next person they date. I'd set up some kind of racket with him selling his name, address, phone number, and AIM screen name to marriage-crazy women, but I think he has a girlfriend.

I graduated from library school and got an awesome job at a nice library. Tim moved down to live with me, and now he's in library school, too. He's the techie, I'm the traditionalist, although we often agree on stuff like "what a nice OPAC would look like." We also frequently discuss the content vs. container debate.

I turned 30 and didn't cry or bitch or moan about it (much). I stopped going to shows because I don't like standing around for hours, and I don't like smelling like smoke. I squandered most of my Jeopardy! winnings on meaningless crap. I didn't keep a paper journal, though I tried. I had a couple of other short-lived weblogs, but there wasn't much fun in it. There's something about the chick and the amplifier and the beautiful rock hair that brings me back.

I traveled some. Went to Hawaii, to San Diego, to San Francisco, to Boston, to Philly. Got stomach flu in Portland (Oregon, not Maine) and spent three days alone in a posh hotel room barfing up my guts. Visited an old boyfriend or two, avoided a few others.

Sometimes I feel clever, sometimes I do not. I don't right now. I don't know how often I'll post to Amplified, but you might just get lucky. You might.  ¶ 3/05/2005 07:20:00 PM