Below are the 9 most recent journal entries recorded in Lex's LiveJournal:

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003
12:47 pm	"You're solving the wrong problem!!" -- Dilbert I think that David Bowie and Paul Simon should make a "Good Omens" album: one should write the music, the other the lyrics, and then trade. And there should some sort of constant narrative to the songs. Also, HTML is smarter than I am. Current Music: Paul Simon- Graceland (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 10th, 2003
12:50 am	I went for a walk earlier and a little white seashell fell at my feet! I was looking down at the time, so I have no idea where it came from... (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, April 21st, 2003
9:13 pm	Kinda high on White Out fumes Today was my first day of work and it was, well the White Out really helped. First, I just deleted first names, but then I played Catch 22 and declared war on adverbs and then adjectives and then nouns. At the end, only the conjunctions survived. They have phone books in the office. How funny would it be if tomorrow I declared war on the number 2? (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 10th, 2003
12:49 am	All I really need to know... I taught the cutest little ones ever in my swimming classes tonight! A five year old explained to me how chlorine and goggle lenses work (this is the same little boy who explained to me last week, I think, that when you take a deep breath, that's called 'expanding your lungs'.) And the three year old and I are on speaking terms again (last week, she told me that she was very mad at me- because I took her into the pool- and that I should give her space... this from a child who can't, in actual fact, touch the bottom of the pool. And yet watches Oprah?) Oh and has anyone else ever tried to get their body to pump coffee instead of blood and then gone swimming? If not, then please let me save you the trouble. I really don't suggest it. I'm down to four cups today though! (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 6th, 2003
11:24 pm	I just finished reading Wonder Boys, and I'm really sad because I'm not ready for the characters to leave my head. I'll miss them! I miss them already. Maybe I should read the book again. Maybe I should read Summon the Keeper again. At least when I'm done reading that book, I won't want to be a junkie writer and/or editor. I'll want to be a keeper... P.S. that's fair warning for Katherine (when I finally track you down) that I'm going to need help finding direction (that doesn't include (a) changing my name to Crabtree and being an editor, (b) being a keeper, and (c) being an old-school country singer or runaway convict... I just saw O Brother, Where Art Thou?) Maybe I'll just find a job that starts right away... Oh... and five cups of coffee, so far, and counting. (Comment on this)
3:13 pm	Ok, now Andrea and I are opening a bookstore. We've decided that we want to sell new Canadian novels, and other non-Oprah-book-club stuff that isn't really stocked at Indigo. Maybe we're doing the publishing company thing too; we haven't really discussed that. Also, last night I went to the Symphony TSOundbyte with my brother and had an amazing time. We met Stew for coffee first (my sixth cup of the day, oh dear oh dear) and so we hardly even walked into Roy Thompson Hall before I had to run and find a washroom. I think I may have a wee problem. I've known this for a while though... ever since having seen every single washroom in Lisbon, Portugal, although that again was arguably due just as much to Portuguese water as it was due to Portuguese coffee. But in any case the concert was fantastic. The conductor was the greatest; he explained all about the piece they were about to play, and I totally fell in love (I think it was when he said, “I know! The composer really likes melodic inversions. Isn't he cute!”) Isn't that cute?!? On our way home, Kier and I decided that we're going to move to France (to Paris: arguably the mental asylum of Europe, to drink wine and flirt with waiters to get free stuff.) Maybe the publishing company can be based there... Current Mood: restless Current Music: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Comment on this)
Saturday, April 5th, 2003
12:31 am	Andrea's thinking about opening her own publishing company. I've been recruited to be her partner, and to figure out what, exactly, publishing companies do. She also said that she'd publish what I'm writing. (Completed to date: chapter four and part of chapter one, of something, although when I told her that, I think she got scared and is now rethinking the whole idea.) In other news, today I learned that computers and coffee machines work better when you plug them in. Current Music: The Comedian Harmonists (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 3rd, 2003
12:39 am	I just accepted a job that I know very well will make me miserable. Oh well. Just for the next four months? After having done that, I spent the day looking up grad programs in environmental physics. This I can’t explain. I think I only want an excuse to move to Newfoundland. Current Mood: gloomy Current Music: Aimee Mann (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 1st, 2003
4:25 pm	So my sanity and I seem to have parted company for a little while, which is fine. I blame TV, and an assortment of other things. It’s alright though, because as old cliché as it is, we’ll always have Paris, my sanity and I. That’s where we bonded. I lived alone in Paris for about a week. My sanity and I bonded over cheap coffee at the McDonalds on the Champs Elysees, where I went every morning to sit and watch people go Christmas shopping. How creepy do I sound? But anyway, at the moment, we seem to have called it quits. It may also be the slight caffeine overdose. Woops. The reason that I think that I’ve lost it (at least temporarily) is that just a few moments ago, I had to put yogurt in the fridge at the same time as my mother had to put a package of something odd into the freezer, and we were at a complete standoff for a least five minutes. That’s a long time to hold out a carton of yogurt and maintain a confused, kinda helpless expression. Oh well. And since then, I haven’t really been able to focus on anything. Until I sat down to type this all into a livejournal so that nobody would ever know that I’d lost it. I really don’t understand anything. But shhhhhh… don’t tell! Oh and I just told Stew that I don’t even keep a normal journal because I’m afraid people will find it and think that I’m crazy. His reply: people don’t have to read my journal to tell me that so I might as well start one of these. Well then! (2 Comments |Comment on this)