Today I am a moderator again. This is the third or fourth time, I think, in the last couple months. I must be a super-average user.

So we finally got our treadmill hooked up, which is very cool. The thing no one ever tells you about treadmills is the vertigo you get after you get off of one. It's sorta like when you were little, and would stand in the doorway and push your arms against either side, then step away to see if your arms would float upward on their own. When you get off of a treadmill, it's like every step you take your legs just want to keep walking without you.

I left all my good lip gloss at home today, which is very annoying. I'm left with only an average pot of Burt's Bees Raspberry Lip Gloss, which is neither glossy nor raspberry-flavored. That's $4.00 I'll never get back.

It occurs to me that today I have typed in capitals. So much for consistency.

yah, so this is my first journal entry. i haven't decided if i want to write journals in all caps or all lowercase or what yet. all i know is today i feel like lowercase plaintext, and so it is.

anyway, today i had my midterm in eecs 591. distributed systems, in case you are that curious. it wasn't as bad as i expected. i think i at least passed, maybe even did well.

so maybe since you are here, you want to know something about me. well, i won't tell you much because how do i know you aren't some kind of weirdo stalker or something? but here's a few tidbits. my name is dawn, twenty-somethingish, married to greg almost a year. i like linux (debian is best) and security-related things. i write perl, c, c++, java (not necessarily in that order) and all sorts of web stuff. i live near school, because i'm a grad student right now. and um...i like to cook (food network rules) and decorate (trading spaces rules) and watch 24 on tv. and that's all i'm saying for now.

sooooo...i think that's enough about me. maybe i'll say more tomorrow. or maybe i'll just let you wonder.