sunshine and rope swings

6.21.2004

little fish..big fish..swimming in the water..

we set up the african cichlid tank yesterday. it's a 30 gallon tall (which means that it's taller than it is wide) and so far there are 5 brightly colored cichlids in there with the pleco that got moved from the jel's 20-gallon hippie tank (its new name - inspired by the hippie commune's drum circle we drove by about five times yesterday) and so named because i have all the lovey, peaceful fish that make friends instead of eat each other (like cichlids sometimes do). it's so very much a jel tank. but i'm excited about this cichlid thing. i've started reading up on them on-line. if none of them kill each other, then we can consider it a success.

work today seemed never-ending somehow. perhaps that is just how monday's go. i did eat lunch with balazs though - in the midst of insane thunderstorms, and i'm about to go have dinner with davis - which i'm much more excited about...balazs says she's so much happier now that she quit her ph.d. program..and plans to apply to other schools in another program, but i still feel that it was a stupid idea. and the fact that she's going from clinical psych to school counseling is a bit crazy in itself. but it's not my life, is it.

i came to some pseudo-conclusion on the sprout thing. as much as i really want the chance to verbalize her behavior to her, i'm just going to let it go. not what she does, just her. i don't ever have any urge to even call her. so why pretend. and why make it ugly. she's still so much more drama than i want in my life that it's not worth it. she'll figure it out eventually. and i'll probably be the bad guy (or girl -- but girl doesn't have the same connotation in that phrase) who was a bad friend and ignored her. oh well.

i'm hungry. and we don't know where we're eating yet. i'm feeling sushi though. maybe thai bowl. or ru san's. or nickiemoto. hopefully we'll be there soon enough.

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