Brilliance.

Just what I needed, I must say, is to get up and check my home e-mail first thing--to discover that oh hey! There's an email from gaiaonline.com and one from Paypal saying I bought gaia cash from them using my Paypal account. Guess what I had *not* done? :o Nice to be barely awake and scrambling to change my Paypal password and reporting the fraud to the gaiaonline website.

At least action's being taken fast. By the time I was out of the shower, I had another e-mail from Paypay saying that they'd been notified of a third party access to my account, had locked it and were investigating. Am hoping by when I get home that it'll be resolved and maybe I'll get my money back. Just not the sort of additional stress I need right now, know what I mean?

I have to give props to the people at the Starbucks I frequent, again (the 120 and Center one). Wandered in this morning--was bad, self-medicated with a mint chocolate chip frappucino and a chocolate donut :| --and happened to mention being out of sorts about the Paypal thing. So when ringing me up, the gal cheerily informed me the frappucino was on the house today. >o< They didn't need to do that, oh man♥ They're always so damned nice to me. And yeah, I know I'm in there a *lot*, but still. ♥ Such good people, they're just cool. (And that mint chip frappucino has chocolate whipped cream on it >o< !! Om nom nom nom, indeed.)

Had a very decent night of raiding last night (even got some loot, yeeha). Trouble is that means we very possibly will have to work on Teron Gorefiend tonight, if we get through Supremus and Akama ok--or at the least, we'll for sure have to work on him Sunday. BALLS. I know we can't avoid that fight forever, but still. Asdfdskjsfdjfk.

verse(us)

So the drywall that's been encircling the temporary archives area up on the third floor here is to come down soon. And, suprisingly, the panels with the turtle graffiti will be saved--I guess the Save The Turtle campaign was successful. However, the poetry and quotes written on another of the walls will not be saved. And so the following came to mind.

Yeah, I just wrote it on the drywall along with the other poetry/quotes when I came back from the 1st floor desk. I should edit in a note for when it all disappears. [Ed: They were really fast in taking it down--the panels were removed from the metal framework by late afternoon.]


Wall 529

I know one day
this poem will go away
in time this rhyme
will be a ghost
that fades
Still, I'll write it anyway
so it echoes within memory
reminding us
I was here today
with a pencil
and just a little to say.

[dvad 5/29/08]


(No, didn't put my intials or date, that's just for here. I do wonder where the drywall section with the turtle graffiti will be kept.)


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If words are wings
mine are still curled up,
wrinkled & drying.
I'm trying to unfurl them,
to ride the windcurrents of story,
to display in the sun
all the colors inside my head.

(dvad 5/29/08)