Alien Dude is dead.
For those of you who haven't seen it or have no idea what I'm talking about, "Alien Dude" has, for the past 5 years, referred to my glow-in-the-dark alien keychain, which, I now recall, used to creep Andrea out. Heh. Anyway, he looked like this:
...except that he had pink-eye. I normally keep the keychain hooked onto the handle of my lamp, so that at night when I turn the lights off, he's nice and glowy.
Right now, since I haven't bought the requisite lighting yet, my room isn't bright enough at nighttime. So, two days ago, my mom came up with the brilliant idea of swiveling my lampshade around so that the lightbulb would be facing the ceiling -- to give off the same effect as more ambient lighting. Seemed like a good idea at the time, and it did help...only, when she did it, she didn't realize that my keychain was attached to the lamp, nor did she notice that after the lampshade got turned over, the keychain was now resting directly next to the hot lightbulb.
SO, eventually she came back in and was, like, "Aah, something's burning!" And I had no idea what she was talking about because my sense of smell tends to come and go, and at the time was in a "go" phase and I couldn't smell anything out of the ordinary. So, now the lamp's fine, but my Alien Dude is just...gone. His head is fine (sort of), but the body was just desecrated. And even though he isn't a
real alien, having a dead alien [keychain] sitting in your room has just
got to be bad cosmic, universal karma or something. Arrgh.
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Question/Comment: gr8gonzo here. Don't know if you saw this on rym or not, but it's fascinating. It's kinda sad, but profoundly moving: http://postsecret.blogspot.com/This looks like a pretty interesting site, which invites people to share their secrets on one side of 4"x6" postcard and send it in. Neat.
Question: Gonzo again. Never thought to ask you before - Does it weird you out that some old guy you don't know enjoys reading your blog? Do you secretly wish he would stop commenting on your posts or is it cool with you?Nah, it makes me happy that
anyone enjoys reading my blog, and though I of course love the fact that my real-life friends visit here (love you guys!), it's nice to know that someone enjoys reading my posts who doesn't have any of those I'm-here-to-support-my-friend motives. :)
Gotta go -- have to leave for class in about a half-hour, and I need to eat a snack or drink something or at least take a nap. Ha ha. :)
