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wednesday, september 30, 1998, 03:19 i was about to reflect upon the strangely soothing nature of scooping the litter box. something about being cleansing and all that. but then i actually got down and did it. and i can tell you that there's nothing at all soothing about scooping a day's worth of cat shit. and for some reason, that stands out as the most memorable part of these last couple of days. of course it isn't, nor should it be and nor does it really organize itself in my head that way. but for right now, with my head all clouded with sleeplessness and cold, that seems to make sense. it's now been almost a week and i still haven't written of my adventures up in boston at Web98, the "largest collection of web brilliance the east coast has ever seen" (or something like that, i can't actually find the copy right now). and while i don't know about "brilliance," it was a chance for me to finally meet some pretty interesting people and also to prove to myself that if you look like you know where you're going and where you're supposed to be, that people will just assume that you're wearing your $1,200 conference badge instead of your free event pass, the former allowing entry into all the neato speakers and the later allowing entrance into the not-so-impressive show floor featuring an incredibly large display by IBM and a couple of other large vendors and not much else. well, there was some cool furniture over in the lounge area which was all made of plywood and funky shaped cushions and threaded pipe which i couldn't begin to describe but which i wouldn't mind having in my apartment if my apartment happened to be a hip loft-type dealie in the middle of some trendy city. and looking back at the conference, it was a great amount of fun, which left me more confused about where i want to end up living after school, but putting it in the perspective that some people [or their company] paid over a thousand dollars to watch this stuff, i can't imagine that it's worth that expense to anyone. and it also showed me that the conference circuit is one to get on, paid trips to go and talk aobut things you know and hang out with people that you like. rough life. not that it's a life unto itself, but it could certainly act as a nice break from life every once in a while. or coulld be. of course one of the most interesting things about this conference day is that i was heading back to the train to take me back (here), fixated on a man holding a large sign asking for a handout of 50 cents, which i had misread as 50 dollars and i was reading and re-reading the sign to make sure that i was actually reading everything correctly, when i heard a voice calling my name, confused and surprised. i turned and saw a face i had met just weeks before. on a cruise ship. in alaska. and that's my "randomly meeting up with someone you couldn't have found if you were looking for them" story. oh, and a show that i was designing the lighting for opened and closed. which would account for the fact that as i sit here, eyes heavy, pulling themselves shut, i can still feel the tension in my shoulders, built up over so many weeks, never to leave my body until i can find someone to work thse knots out. (yes, the was an invitation) interesting to note about this play is that it's the first design in about a year with which i have been very happy. the process was hell and i learned a lot from it, but to watch the final product restored my faith in the theatre, and more especially, my place in it currently. and now. now i'm done with a recap of my life until now. and for all that it's been going through right now, i think that it's held up pretty well. yeah.
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