Monday, February 1, 1999

We buried mom a year ago today... I hurt really bad, and I can't make it stop. I can only ride the pain. Although it's been an amazing week all at the same time. I wish I could write and write about all the cool stuff, but all I can think about is how I feel like I constantly fucked-up. I hate feeling this way. I want to fill light and just enjoy what is going on, but there is so much going on that now that I have some down time, all I can think about is how I can remember what I wrote in my diary a year ago, how Nate looked into her casket. I want someone to tell me what to do, I wish I could relent much more easier.

Yeah, what the fuck ever, like that will ever happen.

I need to sleep, and cry. We are driving up the Pacific Coat highway to San Francisco today.

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I thought today would be horrible, but I had the most amazing dream last night, thank God. I dreamt my mom came back to life, and it was a good thing, although I couldn't help but think in the back of my mind the story of The Monkey's Paw.

Anne had died though too, and she was back to life as well. Mom just laid in her bed and radiated love to me, and for that, I feel especially grateful. It was so weird... I can't even remember how to tell it. I just woke up and I feel refreshed and happy, but that could also be because we are driving up the coast today to stay in a lighthouse that has a jacuzzi. I should get a bathing suit... oh well.

Hope you are having a good day, it's bright and sunny in LA!

Monday, February 8, 1999

So I finally decorated my computer. There are all these stickers all over it now and maybe some people would think that decorating a piece of machinery this expensive would seem like a weird thing, but I am Cathy Clay, and sometimes I can't help but do weird things.

Actually, after being in L.A. I don't feel like such a freak anymore. I feel pretty boring, no, not boring, maybe just a little normal. Was I really in L.A.? That all seems like such a dream.

That was the best fucking... wait, there was no fucking, that was the best vacation I have ever had and some of the details I will forever hold sacred and others... they will slowly leak out.

We got along for the longest time... I suppose after I was dumped in Paris by two freaks I have been feeling that maybe I am not such a great travel companion, but I know that's just not the case. We are all human, and if you can work on getting that yucky part out so you can hang out with other people then you are pretty cool.

Not that I was yucky in Paris, the guy I was with was a fucking hick that had barely been out of the state and I don't think he realized that getting out of the country meant that you were encapsulated in someone else's culture that you really have no fucking clue about until you are there and can experience it.

You know, I didn't care so much that they dumped me in Paris, I can't think of a better place to be dumped, it was just that they didn't wait for me in Moscow or even try to call me that hurt (since I was there on my birthday and they were suppose to help me celebrate it). I am more careful about my travel companions now and I think if I can travel with Zack and Syndy around the country every couple of years then I will feel fulfilled. Sometimes traveling alone can suck but this was one of those trips where it was much better having other people around because we all appreciated everything so much.

I love Zack so much. He is just so perfect. And now I love Syndy too. It's not everyday you can have a lesbian put lotion on your back.

Tuesday, February 9, 1999

So I met Duane Michaels last night at my university. I asked him to come look at my photos of my Russian Gay boys and he was very surprised to see that a woman took the photos.

He is a very famous photographer and what he had to say to us as a group of people was very motivating. I just can't fucking believe it. Because I looked at him and talked to him directly he responded to me the most afterwards. I was sitting on the floor and when he would talk about something I would always be beaming up at him or just enthralled with everything that came out of his mouth.

It was quite a fluke that I met him too. I went to pay my lab fees so I can start printing again and low and behold, there were people talking about him. I still hadn't picked up my photos from a year ago, they sat in the Student Art League Gallery for over a year and I just happened to be in the right place at the right time, and now I am glad I left my photos there.

I have to go, he is giving a lecture soon. Last night we just ate dinner and I want to have his attention and captivate him with my lovely personality... Besides, I was the only one in the group that could laugh at his dead momma jokes.

Wednesday, February 10, 1999

Anne was here earlier.

I think maybe I did a stupid thing yesterday, but I don't really give a fuck. Mr. Michaels was giving a speech to a full auditorium of people and no one was asking questions so I shouted out some.

"who is your greatest inspiration?"

You...

"Thank you!" I felt so awesome. I should have stopped but there was another lull.

"What's your greatest fear?"

You. Who are you, Barbara Walters? She's the kind of person that would ask King Hussein 'if you were a tree...'

I am going to be dammed if he is going to do that kind of shit to me... "I would never say that!!! I would ask him his favorite sexual position!"

How tacky!

Then he was mad at me for not bing sweet, so I kissed him on the cheek and he had my lip imprint on his cheek I guess until someone told him. Anyways, The head of the department was sitting right next to me, and those people that knew me were just laughing, but they were all laughing at his tree joke, and dammit, if I am going to be made fun of, you better do it on my terms.

Anyways, he doesn't think I suck as a photographer, so you know what that means....

Whoosh

Whoosh

Whoosh

I just have to be careful that my head doesn't pop off, and I need to set aside my ego long enough to get a fucking job.

"Find something you love to do and get someone else to pay you to do that."

Hmmm.... hmmm.... I'm scared. But god dammit, I have to make something of myself or I am going to die. Oh shit, I am going to die anyway. I think I will definitely put myself in an uncomfortable position, but not abusive...

I have to get my portfolio together.

I think I am going to be neglecting my diary for a little while (yeah, I always say that) so I can scan some of the zillions of photos I have. Plus I have a lot of work to do. (there is a new photo on my welcome page)

Friday, February 12, 1999

The guy I have been seeing was on the news the other night. We don't get to see each other a lot, and part of me likes that I don't have that constant responsibility of seeing him, but then I am horny as hell and am going a little mad.

He's cool and I like looking at him. He's a very handsome man with a very nice... You know what cracks me up? Sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings but to me, size is very important and so when I am with a guy... and he is so big it takes a while for the blood to dissipate... so basically what I am saying is that if you ever doubted how big you are and you have this problem, then bells should be going off in your head that you have a big dick.

Maybe I should think of 10 ways to tell you might have a big dick.

  1. When you get a hard-on, and you have problems thinking...
  2. You still have a hard on after you have cum.
  3. A girl falls to her knees and exclaims "THANK YOU JESUS!"
    (the closest I have ever come to having a religious experience)
  4. Your best friend can't look you in the face after seeing you at the gym.
  5. You can use BOTH hands at the same time to beat off.
  6. You can suck your own dick.
    (I don't care how you do it but I have seen it done, so I know it's possible)
  7. A girl looks you in the eye and tells you you have a huge cock.
    (Just because we don't have one doesn't mean we don't know)
  8. She mounts you and starts screaming "Giddy-up!"
  9. A standard condom pops off while in use.
  10. Don't leave cum stains on a blue dress.
    *This can be said by a male too.

    That's not the most important thing, because I have been with guys that were so big they scared me but the sex was so bad because he didn't know how to use it. Thank God that guy didn't do that swirly thing with his hips or I would be pissing out of my eye.

    I can't complain that way without bitching at women too because most women are so uncomfortable with their bodies that they make it virtually impossible to enjoy fucking. I wouldn't enjoy fucking me if I was overtly self conscious and self critical. Hell, if you can't fuck yourself with some aplomb...

    And I have had lovers that were itty bitty but god damn they did things with their mouths that no man has done before.

    But I suppose the most important thing is how he uses it. I am not side stepping this issue anymore. If women have to please men by being beautiful and all that other societal bullshit, then fuck you, men should have big dicks. Go to the plastic surgeon and get inserts. Or go see Dr. Jorn Ege Siana.

    I know I can personally put up with a lot if I feel satisfied. I don't have the biggest cunt in the world, but there is nothing like an ultra snug fit.

    Wha HOOO!!!!! First count the President is NOT GUILTY!!!

    I am going to jump up and down today because my mom was WRONG and she isn't here to see it! There are some moments in time where you remember exactly where you were when it happened. I am sitting here naked as a jay bird gloating to myself and all the fucks that thought he would be impeached.

    There is going to have to be a change... there has to be some kind of control on our government, because it's getting out of hand. People HAVE to start taking responsibility for their lives.

    I heard the other day that the government is going to try to sue tobacco companies to try and re-coup some of the money they have spent on smokers.

    FUCK THE GOVERNMENT!

    They subsidize fucking tobacco and give people money so they will fucking grow tobacco and then they are going to turn around and sue the companies? Come the fuck on! It's like prohibition.

    If you smoke, and you are too stupid to realize it more then likely WILL cause health problems, then fuck you. You have control over your own fucking life and if you... blah....

    The great thing about this whole Monica thing is that we got to see her cherubic face plastered all over the media for over a year and that means... that means that if a fat girl is good enough to suck the president's dick then all fat girls should have some kind of honor in having Monica as a sexual liberator.

    The president could have had ANY of those skinny chicks any fucking chick he wanted to suck his cock but he chose a fat chick from Beverly Hills. Too bad about all the other shit that went around with it.

    Fuck I just started my period. I am going to take a nap.

    Sunday, February 14, 1999

    I have no idea what I did a year ago on this day. Andy was never that romantic and never really tried to do anything special on these kinds of days so I basically put my heart aside.

    Well, fuck that, if some guy I am dating doesn't want to at least get me a card on Valentines Day, he can lick my bloody cunt.

    I have so many fucking things I want to write about...

    Elena keeps the apartment so tidy that I have no excuse not to do other things anymore. You know, as long as I needed to do the dishes or something, then I could keep myself from being better organized. I don't want to come to depend on her to do these things, but it is nice coming home and not having to worry about the dishes. And she cooks.

    I hate asking her for anything because I am so used to being so independent, but I really like that I can care for her, offer her a place to live and emotionally support her (really she is emotionally supporting me) so that she knows things here aren't so bad, and show her the ins and outs of living in this culture.

    It's so interesting the conversations we have been having about the main differences between our cultures, so I am gaining a better understanding of Russian culture as well.

    I wake up every day and I am so happy to be alive. There is always something new to discover or something really cool to show her and this makes me feel so good that I can do it and I can explain my culture or the way I see it to her. But I am also excited about learning new Russian words and phrases and hanging out with other Russian that are here in Kentucky.

    So... one of the last times I saw my father in court (my mom was trying to get support from him) he had us all testify. This was about the seventieth time my mom had been to court over us in 10 years time because she didn't want him to raise us, but we were already teenagers.

    So, we had been living with my mom for a few months. I know I don't remember all this right, and the time frame maybe wrong, but I was about 17 and I was still trying to have a relationship with my father and I told him that mom was crazy. Well, after all the hell he put her through and the hell they put us through, I could understand why she was crazy.

    Crazy is such a relative term. Singing songs from the sound of music with your children in the woods is not crazy. Not doing their laundry and it piling up does not mean she was unfit, after all, my lazy bastard of a father could have gotten off his dead ass and done it just as easy as she could have... oh I forgot, she was having her first surgery to cut the Cancer out of her womb, what was I thinking? She was having some problems so maybe he could have gotten off his dead ass a little easier then she could have.

    I could understand her madness, though, because I saw what he did and how he obliterated any spark of individuality she had, which is why mine is INEXTINGUISHABLE. Which is also why I am the uncontrollable cunt because I see that shit for what it is and I fucking refuse to put up with it from ANYBODY. (sometimes, this causes me problems... only sometimes)

    So, the last time we were in court with him, he made my sister out to be a slut because her boyfriend was living at mom's house. He made my brother out to be the fucking loser he is and the worst thing he could say about me was that I said my mom was crazy.

    Why would you want to have anything to do with a man like that, ESPECIALLY WHEN HE ENCOURAGED OUR SEXUALITY!!! I remember being fucking 13, Anne was 11, and he made dinner one night and it was just the three of us (I think my brother was at my mom's and who knows where his slut of the week was) and he very uncomfortably looked at us and said "blah blah blah... Girls, if you ever need birth control or an abortion, just come to me." What a fucking joke.

    When Anne was sexually assaulted he treated her like a whore and didn't believe that a woman could be raped. Or maybe he just didn't want to think that people he defended all the time were capable of penetrating his family.

    So you can see another reason why I will never have anything to do with that fucker again, because he found a weak point in my sister and my brother and exploited it for his own purpose, something he was liberal in thinking but when it comes to protecting himself, he exploited them for something that was not socially acceptable.

    What I want to know is why or even how can someone be so cruel to his own fucking children. If I were Anne, and my dad made me out to be a slut, I would NEVER fucking have ANYTHING to do with that bastard, but that's just me and my own character. I realize she is still trying to find something in him that she will never get and I can't condemn her for trying.

    I would rather waste my energy on people I know are worthy of my affection. My father and most of the people on his side of the family are not worthy of my certain kind of freakyness. Aunt Betsy understands it now. From what Anne said, my Uncle Richie has been reading my dairy but doesn't have the balls to sign my guestbook or even e-mail me, and I suppose if I were him, I wouldn't know what to say to me because I condemned him and his family for treating us, his flesh and blood, like shit just for being my father's child, instead of thinking about how much pleasure I, personally, brought to him when I was a child and he would lay on the swing in the lake house and I would give him back rubs.

    I can forgive you of that, Uncle Richie (or should I call you Uncle Dickie) because that's the kind of person I am, but I don't think I could ever have any kind of solid relationship with you. I will tell you that if what I hear is true and you refer to one of your daughters as "stump" you need to cut that shit out now and fucking tell your daughter you are a fuck sometimes and you make mistakes and maybe you will be the only Clay son that doesn't have a daughter that tries to commit suicide. Maybe I am wrong, but I know those are the kinds of wounds that never heal unless you confront them or move on.

    I wonder what it was like to drink Drano. I preferred my method of taking 88 muscles relaxers when I was that fucked up. Thankfully I didn't make a tablet cocktail or I wouldn't be here now bitching about my life.

    Well, so this is my relationship Valentine to all those special people out there. Just be aware of the decisions you make to the people you love because ultimately, you are responsible for how you affect those people's lives.

    Love,

    Catherine

    Monday, February 15, 1999

    My cat is laying next to me... He's being all lovely dovey and I don't think I can deal with it.

    My SCUBA instructor scared the living fuck out of me yesterday. We were practicing what happens when you run out of air with your diving buddy and I was minding my own business and I looked over and there he was hanging upside down.

    I think I will like diving just to watch the people underwater. He is so graceful.

    SO I have been trying to talk Anne into taking SCUBA with me, but I don't think that's her thing. I know one day she will be like "Why didn't you tell me this was so much fun?"

    I have so much shit to do... sigh...I hate being overwhelmed anymore. It's like when mom was dying, I always tried to stay overwhelmed so I wouldn't be depressed, but now... I think it sucks to over extend yourself.

    I don't know what the hell happened... but the other night on Saturday Night Live, they were actually fucking funny for a change. It's like they watched Mad TV or something and finally realized they fucking sucked for a while and now they are trying to be funny. No, they actually are being funny, which makes me happy.

    Tuesday, February 16, 1999

    I feel so weak right now. I had to send my NEW POWER BOOK G3 back to apple to be serviced. Now I am beginning to regret my decision to get that fucking computer because in the back of my mind I think "if I am having problems now, what's to come in the future?"

    Fuckers... They have this delicate little wire that goes in the back of the computer... HELLO... like anyone that doesn't use this fucking laptop, maybe it will work for those kinds of people that are gentle with it but for someone like me that uses the fucker every fucking day... what a poor design.

    If it were up to me I would have made it industrial strength so it would take a fucking bomb to destroy the thing, but then again, I am Cathy Clay and I can destroy anything.

    My grandmother used to often lament "if you want it destroyed, give it to Patsy or Cathy." Patsy was my mom's name... I don't think I ever have written her name... funny.

    We used to call her Vern. So when Dale looked up at me once and I hadn't told him that he said "Hey Vern" like Jim Varney in those old Convenient commercials I teared up. I miss him, but I don't miss his shit. Too bad you can't have one without the other.

    That and my car is leaking radiator fluid. I have crap in the back of my throat from where this weather is so fucked up my sinuses are draining constantly and I feel like I have the fucking flu because I am so exhausted but it's just from this fucking weather... last week it was in the 70s and the very next day it snowed. This is Kentucky weather. Oh, and I am exhausted because my period said "Bitch, we are getting revenge on you for all those years of birth control... ha ha ha... bleed... bleed... BLEED."

    But all that aside... I was watching Nightline last night and they did a special about the living conditions of women living in Pakistan and I wrote this the old fashioned way, by hand.

    To live in a place where I am not a valued member of society... what a horrible concept.

    I once met a girl in my Women and Religion class from Pakistan. She was such a beautiful girl and she moved here with her parents so her father could do business. One day I asked her about this girl that I had seen her with and it turned out to be her twin sister. She had gone to school at U of L and met an American man and they had fallen in love and gotten married.

    I watched her one day as her sister anxiously awaited for her to come out of class... and as I watched them (I am an observer to the extreme) they were looking over each others shoulders as if they were committing some crime.

    It wasn't until I later talked to her and saw this program what kind of crime they were committing. They were breaking the BULLSHIT Muslim rules where a woman's worth is boiled down to what she possesses between her legs.

    When I think about it now, my American sensibilities and my blood just fucking boils at this outrage.

    Then I start to remember that we are not all of one culture... then I remember further that it is just who I am and I am always saying "fuck you" to the system.

    I don't understand how these girls can feel like they have betrayed some bullshit honor system. Fuck honoring you mother and father as well because chances are they have not honored you... or this just happens to be my case.

    Then I start remembering that not everybody can tell their parents to fuck off. They feel like they need that love that only parents can give and since I no longer have that anymore with my mom, I am at a loss, and I have never really felt it with my dad. I keep thinking and thinking about how I was just able to think of all the fucked up things my father has done to me and I know that I will not abide by his system or his rules and that I will make my own up as I go along, this is my character, but some people need that structure because they do not trust themselves to do it right.

    There is no right or wrong way to living your life. You can only do what you feel comfortable with. So while one sister was disowned by her father for marrying an American, the other was still in favor because she was to marry a Pakistani-an man, or already had. But she was dishonoring her family by visiting her sister.

    If it had been me, I would have told my parents to fuck off and spent time with my sister because that is one of the few bonds in life that is more permanent. Your parents die, but your sister is hopefully there for you most of your life. But then again, it took me to realize this only after my mother died.

    In some ways, I can respect this culture... that women are to be honored in such a manner, but when it goes to extremes such as this... what a fucking joke.

    Women are killed everyday in countries such as this. What kind of life can that be where half of society is not free?

    And it's almost like a game now. A hunt. If a woman dishonors herself or her family by just showing a sliver of flesh, she can be murdered by a bunch of stark raving lunatic men... and they say we are hysterical. I suppose that madness manifests itself in many forms and this just happens to be the way of the fundamental Muslims.

    There is nothing more dangerous then an ignorant mind... except that of an underdeveloped genius.

    I was at Marina's place with Elena and a man from Iran and they all have to wear that shit when they are out on the street. I got into a lively debate with him and he said he couldn't do anything about it but I think that's because he doesn't want to. So many people feel like it's not their place to say anything and I will never subscribe to that way of thinking because I have to live on this fucking planet too and when I hear about this kind of shit I know the only thing I can do at this instant is to write about it and educate.

    It's your planet too.

    Sigh... Well, I have a cunt, and I also have something many of these people, both men and women, will never have and that's a US Passport. Even though I bitch constantly about how I think the way the government should be moving at least my cunt is valued over here to some degree, bloody or straight, she's still my cunt.

    Wednesday, February 17, 1999

    So far today has just been one of those kind of non discrept kind of days, but I know that will change since I have Kloner and Zigler's class tonight. I always think too much when I am in class with them.

    Last night I finished watching the special on Nightline and at the end of the program... I heard Stone Phillips start to announce a guest and I looked at her and thought maybe she was at Yale or Harvard and it turned out she teaches HERE AT U OF L. I was like Whoo-hoo... there goes one for the hicks. Then on Conan, this Noxema girl was on for her new movie and he asked her like 50 billion questions about what it was like to be from Kanfuckme. Gayheart... I can't remember her first name but her last name is Gayheart.

    Sniff sniff... kind of makes me all well up with Pride because you know we are all related down here.

    I am not so overwhelmed at work now. Earlier I was feeling a sense of dread as all the unorganized tasks were coming down on me, but today's meeting alleviated part of that problem.

    I have a big crush on this red headed guy that works over in IT so whenever I see him I try not to act like an idiot. Trouble is that I rarely see him but he is so fucking smart and that just makes my blood boil for some reason. Plus he is just a little bit cocky and grrr... uh...

    I feel myself getting the vapors...(not like I have really ever seen Gone With the Wind)

    Anyways... he would probably never notice me and I am sick of chasing guys, dammit.

    Sigh... I have to go to another meeting but at least now I am not so overwhelmed.

    Thank God for aerobics... I finally went last night and worked my ass off. Oh shit... I don't have an ass. I hate that all my weight is centrally located but I guess that can be an advantage.

    Jason Clark, a co-worker just told me that the derriere is just a novelty and you can't really do anything with it and if you can believe it, I just flushed right into a blush because the objects that are more centrally located... well, you can do more...

    I think by summer I may even get to wear a bikini.

    Every fucking muscle in my body is sore because she changed the routine over the three weeks I was gone and it was especially grueling. I love aerobics, I can't help it I just do. There is no better way to get this sexual frustration I have been feeling lately out then by pushing my ass harder, and I can tell my body is becoming more streamlined, which is strange for me.

    Well... I have to go to class now. Do zaftra.

    Thursday, February 18, 1999

    I don't have any time to update this... I have to go to aerobics now...

    All I have to say is last night was one of the coolest nights of my life and a testament that I have really great friends because I was with Margaret and Jacinta and Elena and they all come from radically different cultures; Latin America, Southern, and Russian. We got along so magnificently.

    The worst thing going on in my life at this current time is the phone bill, and I think if that's the worst thing that can go wrong with my life this month, then I am a very happy camper...

    Friday, February 19, 1999

    How do you tell a man he needs to get laid?

    I read some kind of article in Maxim last month that was "When to tell your best friend he needs to get laid." How does a straight woman tell a straight guy "honey, you need to go get fucked?"

    When I am famous, I will only date porn stars or pro wrestlers.

    A girl has to have her standards.

    I was watching wrestling with my grandfather, as I have most of my life, last time I was in Danville and there was some German dude skipping and hopping on the mat like it was nobody's business and I thought to myself "Mmmm mmmm... yummy. I would like one of those to go... if a man can do gymnastics for a living..." I just won't get started on that.

    I think they are getting sick of me here at work. Maybe not all the designers but they are not used to me being here all the time and I am taking up space on a communal computer and it's driving most of them batty. Plus you know... I have that Cathy Clay attitude right now and I need it fucked out of me.

    Trouble is I am entering a phase in my life where I am sick of being with jerks. If you are going to use me for sex, dammit use me for sex and if you want some kind of commitment... well, I am all for commitment, but for now I want to explore my options and see what kind of people are out there.

    I have to go pick up Liuda's I-20. I think she is actually going to get to come!!!!

    Sunday, February 21, 1999

    Isn't it cool when life takes the unexpected turn?

    I keep thinking that maybe tomorrow I will wake up, and my world is going to crash again, but I know that isn't true.

    My computer is still on the fritz. The wire on the power supply is gone and they didn't replace it. I was hoping that maybe I could sit on my ass this weekend and do some work, but I have only gone out and had fun since Friday.

    There is so much going on right now that I can barely keep my head up and my fingers wagging. I need to go to the grocery store now anyway.

    Yesterday was a wonderful evening or day or just experience. I told Elena we had to go to my nephew's birthday party and we had to be there at two but we didn't have to be there until three. It took us forever to get ready so by the time we showed up, we were early, but I didn't tell her that.

    Granny and Pop were there and Pop was being so funny. It's funny how he is in such a good mood and how humorous he is. I think I get part of my sense of humor from him, and if that's the case, then I am really fucking happy that I have that piece of him in me.

    We went from there to go out with one of Lena's friends that met us at Oliver's and then took us to Oldenburg. Then we met up with Jacinta and some of her friend's at Molly Malone's.

    It totally rocked and I ran into one of the guys my sister in law used to fuck and we sat around and talked about how she and my brother both deserve one another because they are both shallow empty people that deserve to be happy in that shallow, empty way.

    I just wish he knew how sick my brother is so he could fully appreciate the talent it took to bring them back together.

    But that was an miniscule part of the evening, but one of the most humorous.

    The best part of last night was talking with Jacinta. She came back to my place and ate some food and then we just kept on talking until she was finally ready to go and she got up to leave and said if she had a place to put her contacts she would spend the night so I found her a cup and we ended up talking about all different kinds of things.

    I told her how I don't talk to Priscilla anymore and I feel kind of bad about that but she said a bunch of shit that hurt my feelings when mom died. I understood she was fucked up because she was ending a relationship and all and Jacinta told me that she probably didn't want to deal with me and my problems because she was so wrapped up in her own.

    We talked about her and her boyfriend and I asked her if she felt like the emotional relationship was worth it. I also explained to her that now that mom was dead, it's very important to me to have those emotional relationships where everything is somewhat stable and I told her I couldn't afford to lose her emotionally.

    And I can't. I can't imagine not being her friend forever, she is too interesting and we have so much in common while we are so different as well. I think these are the best kinds of friends you could have because I know people look at us and hear me say something and look at her and see how proper and beautiful she is and sometimes wonder how we can be such good friends.

    I appreciate her a lot more now then I ever have and I keep telling her that but I am not sure she is convinced which brings me to something Lena and I have discussing. Lena is stuck here without her boyfriend and she is hopefully going to go home next month. She is about to die. We have been talking about the differences between men and women and I like how in Russia the roles are more clearly defined.

    I asked her if she was worried if he would not love her when she goes back and she looked at me and told me "It is nothing to change a man's heart, but usually it is the woman that changes her mind."

    Then she asked me "would you rather give your love to anybody or would you rather someone love you first?"

    Monday, February 22, 1999

    I looked at him with the biggest fucking smile and said "no, my mother died."

    Don't you fucking hate men sometimes? I mean this asshole looked at me and said "Did your daddy buy it (my Leica)?"

    I should have answered him, "No, my pussy is lined with gold so I get whatever the fuck I want."

    What a pompous asshole.

    I just got an ICQ with WHY WHY WHY? (did I do the uncontrollable cunt).

    Because I can.

    Then I got a lovely lady (she didn't leave her e-mail so her entry was deleted. Look, if I have the ovaries to say what I think and attach my fucking name to it, then extend me the courtesy of leaving yours) that tried to sign my guestbook and tell me a thing or two about how when people aren't sexually active they usually aren't getting any.

    Have you ever fucked so much that your cunt or cock was sore? I have, it was this past summer in Amsterdam. I met Keir in Amsterdam and the first thing we did after we dropped my things off at his parents boat was find a motel and fuck our brains out.

    As soon as she showed us the room and I said "we'll take it." He went down to the street and got me some water (which is so fucking awesome) and as soon as he got back I reached behind him and took him in my hand and we were all over the place. He made me come just a little and he thought that was the extent of what it was to female ejaculate and then I started coming in waves.

    We fucked so much that week. We would walk around Amsterdam, come back to the hotel and fuck. Wake up and fuck. Fuck in the middle of the night. We were fucking fools. We were both so fucking sore and still we would fuck. Go check out the live sex show, go to a porn theater and then come back and fuck.

    I have never been fucked so hard and long by someone with such an amazing cock in my entire life. So maybe I am not getting any great sex now, but I now know how it feels to fuck yourself into a friction burn. I can't believe we kept fucking. I mean there was a point where we were trying to not touch one another and there we would be, fucking all over again and it hurt too.

    You would think I had enough sex to last me the rest of my life, but after that... I wanted more and more and more.

    There is no doubt in my mind I am a nymphomaniac, and I think it's a good thing because every once in a while a man needs someone that just enjoys fucking for fucking sake.

    I wish we could put all the people that aren't comfortable with their bodies and all the men that feel the same in their own little state so that all of us that like fucking a lot can just go about their own damn business fucking their lives away.

    My definition of work: a place you come to check your e-mail when your computer is down.

    Oh, I have to plug Joe's new site. He's going to be a rock star.

    Did you know Gene Siskel died this week? I found out just last night. It made me a little sad because I don't particularly care for Roger Ebert. I always wanted to see Gene body Slam Roger. He probably died of cancer.

    Tuesday, February 23, 1999

    Some guy told me I was offensive. Fuck you. I swear to God that people that are easily offended by some of the things I dare put into writing then you fucking offend me with your fucking narrow ass mind.

    I make fun of myself a lot. I do it so no one can really say anything to offend me, although I am entering a phase in life where I love to constantly blush. Isn't that funny? Catherine Clay blushes. There should be a headline and all the people that can accomplish this feat should get an award.

    Anyways, I am sorry... fuck that, Syndy and Zack told me that if I apologized for being a cunt on our trip one more time they were... going to tie me to the front of the car with my legs splayed all the way open so I could get some fresh air in my cunt.

    You know what cracks me up?

    You never know when you open your doors to someone how they are going to react or just exactly what they have come from.

    Everyday I am around Elena and I learn something different about her I just have a greater appreciation for her.

    There is nothing more I hate in this world then to listen to an American bitch about money. I have felt this way ever since I returned from Russia the first time and now I feel it even stronger since I was there when the fucking market crashed.

    Elena has her own business with her boyfriend in Volgograd. It's a sports bar. To run a business in Russia... If you thought the market falling was bad then you have no idea just how fucked the infrastructure inside that country is. Regulations for regulations for regulations. It's all a bunch of bullshit.

    Plus when you own your own business in Russia, you get to be rather intimate with the Mob in the way that a woman is raped by someone she knows.

    All that aside... when the market fell this summer, she and her boyfriend lost over 20K. 20 fucking thousand dollars.

    What would you do if everything you had scrimped and saved for personal use or business use was suddenly devalued to almost nothing?

    I know money isn't everything, but it does allow you a certain amount of freedom.

    So what did Elena do when everything fell apart? Did she sit on her ass and mope, for a while she did. Did she do something incredibly stupid like go out and lease a new Porsche? Fuck no, it's Russia. If you don't have the cold hard cash, you haven't got shit.

    She came to America. She found a way to try to pick herself back up from all the heartache and loss she has suffered, her country is in turmoil, her boyfriend is far away and so is her family.

    She came here with $300.

    Can you fucking imagine? And then she lived with a horrible woman that treated her badly. I found out that that fucking cunt paid for her plane ticket here but didn't provide her with a round-trip ticket.

    What kind of fuck up human being would do such a thing?

    Sometimes I fell like my tits are too big.

    Yesterday after work I went home and Elena was waking up. I called Andy from here and told him to take us out. Kevin shows up in his kick ass black something or other car that goes really fast, and that's all that really matters to me.

    We went so fast, I was just squealing like a little girl with delight.

    They took us out to Tumbleweed for 99 cent marguritas. Kevin told me all kinds of news. Like when I went to their Christmas party I told the president of the company to "get the fuck out of my seat."

    I didn't know who the hell he was, and I am sorry, I just don't play those kinds of respect me because I have the corporate penis games. He was sitting in my fucking chair, my coat and everything was there. Hello... I'm a lady, god dammit, treat me with the respect I deserve!

    We sat around and talked for a while. I drank 2 marguritas. Then he took us home because Elena had to do homework. Jacinta called and said there was a surprise birthday party for Usie, Sabel's boyfriend. Usie is from Finland and Sabel is Turkish. There were people from France, Spain, Germany, and Latin American countries.

    I like hanging out with the International group. They are more open to ideas.

    On my way to the party I almost ran over Natasha. She was walking home from one of her friend's houses. She was a sight for sore eyes and I got some bitching about why I didn't go to see her parents when I was in Moscow. Fuck, now I am starting to write like I have to speak to Elena. I want to talk more slangy with her, but she can't get it all right now.

    It's funny how we perfectly understand one another.

    I love Jacinta. She is so fucking cool. A big group of us are planning on going to Florida for Spring Break. I have to finish my SCUBA certification along with Marie (French).

    Everyone wants me to do photos of them now and I am just like... what the fuck ever. I explained last night to Elena that if I don't think the person has a pretty personality, then I just can't take a photo that is worth a damn, to me.

    I didn't go to sleep until 2:30 and I woke up with a horrendous pain that only a sinus infection can bring on. I looked at the clock and it was 7:30 and I called out "devoshka" and Elena was not happy because she overslept.

    She got her first checks in the mail and I had to drop my kitty off this morning to have his teeth cleaned. He hasn't been eating hard food and I don't want to feed him soft food the rest of his life so his teeth rot out so he is having his teeth cleaned and the one that broke grinded. Plus all his shots.

    I fucking hate having a sinus infection.

    Wednesday, February 24, 1999

    So... the sky is yellow today. It warmed up enough for all the freshly falling, sticking snow to melt, and it's a lot warmer today then it was yesterday, and when the barometer changes so drastically it usually is indicative of tornado weather.

    My sinuses are feeling the effects of this natural phenomena today.

    I am feeling rather like my brain is clouded.

    I am not being a very good friend today. From where I am so exhausted and yucky, I am not listening to much.

    Elizabeth gets here on Friday. I didn't give her a Christmas present and I feel kind of bad. I am really bad about sending stuff off. I just now sent off some photos I did of Roman and that was from summer.

    I haven't sent anybody any photos except via e-mail from California. I need to get on the ball. I hope to be caught up with everything soon. Or as caught up as I can be.

    I have to write a 2 page paper for SCUBA class. We are going down to Florida for Spring Break to be certified, but I think I have already mentioned that. I'm hoping to go to Turkey this summer and naturally back to Russia. I really really want to go to Siberia. I think this is the last summer I will get to travel in this manner unless I can start selling my photos.

    I am starting to think that this year I might have a graduation party. I know I was suppose to graduate last May, but I just couldn't get out of my funk. Plus there are other girls that are going to have one.

    Actually, I am thinking about throwing a little party. I would like to rent a hall and have everyone dress up however they wanted and just have a ton of people there. I think I am going to do it when Liuda is here.

    Zack is designing a site for our trip. I have already made a directory and scanned in a number of images so I am going to use his words with my visuals. I should send him the video so he can take video transfers. Or maybe I will just go and have it copied.

    I need to make a list of things I need to be doing, one of them is printing some of my photographs.

    Thursday, February 25, 1999

    I am in such a foul fucking mood now.

    I'm sick of hearing Elena bitch about her problems. In the wise words of Tanya Johnson once people perceive you as a strong woman they never give you the opportunity to be weak.

    And it's not just her. It's everyone right now.

    I have been through a whole fucking lot, but I am not a bitch about that kind of shit because even when I was a young girl and my dad was abusing the shit out of me, I still had to go to school and act like I was everyone else.

    I also decided back then that I would never use my anger as a weapon to hurt people I care about. This leaves me at a disadvantage today because now I don't know how to deal with these feeling of being taken advantage of besides welling up and getting angry.

    Now I have to learn how to deal with my anger and try not to hurt other people's feelings in the process.

    Perhaps it's that I don't feel appreciated. Part of this comes from being a Clay and I know it.

    I wish I could eradicate anger from my emotional well-being, but then all that would be left to feel would be rage, and I don't think feeling that way is very healthy.

    I also think that if you give people an inch to go on, they will take it a fucking mile. I hate when I tell someone what I think and they ignore it.

    I also can't stand when people don't want to know or don't care to know my birthday. My fucking birthday matters more to me then anything and last night Dan didn't want to know it. It's not like it's all that fucking hard to forget, either, since I was born on Marylin Monroe's birthday.

    Maybe I am just being overtly sensitive because I am coughing up chunks of my lungs bit by bit today.

    Maybe I am just going mad. I don't know how to deal with being angry and it's very hard to learn once you are an adult.

    I made fried chicken last night for 6 people. It was just suppose to be 3 but I got an e-mail from Dan and invited him over and then I called Jacinta to come by and then Allege from Brazil came over to see Elena.

    Jacinta told me how much she missed my cooking and it made me feel so good.

    I made mashed potatoes and gravy, it was all very yummy. I put smoked Gouda cheese in my potatoes and they are so full of flavor, it's as if they have a life of their own.

    Elena was trying to sell me to Dan more and I hate that. I am not ready to be married and I don't even want to commit to a man that does care to know when my fucking birthday is.

    I know guys have dumb brains so they can't remember certain dates, but that is such a crock because usually when I don't want to know something, I really don't care about it and maybe I am just projecting. But I don't care if I am because my birthday means something to me now... more then it ever did before.

    Maybe I am just mad because... I like to believe in astrology, even though I know the stars aren't properly mapped and there are really like 15 star signs in the sky. I don't care, it makes me feel good and it gives me a good laugh every once in a while.

    Maybe I am feeling like a Christian when I tell them religion sucks and I don't believe in that shit. But then I have had Christianity shoved down my throat since I was born. Not necessarily by my parents, because after the divorce we only went to church to get food.

    My mom belonged to an Episcopalian church... she took us to all the different churches in Crestwood and the Episcopalian church was the only one that served food after the service and since we didn't have any money to get cereal... it was a welcome change to have all kinds of sweet confections at our disposal.

    Mom would want to sleep more and more and the church was always trying to get her to give more money, so she quit going. I still wanted to go to Sunday school. I remember when I finally out did my brother in something and it was learning the Our Father prayer.

    We pasted cut-out circles we had colored with the prayer on to a yellow ribbon like piece of paper. It delighted me so much and I felt even more special because I had more circles on my ribbon then my brother.

    That's about the only good memory I have of bing in church. All the rest was political bullshit. I quit going to my grandparents church the day I heard the pastor say "All Jews are going to Hell because they don't believe in Jesus Christ."

    What a fucking crock of shit.

    I even got into an argument with my grandmother about it and then I realized that some people need that structure in their lives.

    Last night in class PhD. Kloner was talking about how people need that rigidity and structure in their lives, that relying upon the imagination was just too much for them.

    I don't think it will ever work between Dan and me because he is not imaginative enough. And he's not very flexible. I think Syndy was right, one of the most important characteristics a person can have is flexibility.

    The more I listen to PhD. Ziegler, the more I appreciate him because I was wrong in my assessment of him last year, he's a brilliant man too. I am glad I got the opportunity to re-evaluate him because this time around I can appreciate him more.

    I also realized last night that we need to share what it means to be human with other humans. People that bottle up their emotions, like I used to do, feel like they are missing out on something because they don't share.

    That totally perplexes me when I listen to people and what they are saying why they don't like people being like I am because they are afraid of expressing themselves in a manner which isn't always socially accepted. You can't live your life like that or you will always be miserable and bitching because you aren't sharing yourself with other people and understanding that you aren't so crazy.

    I just got an apology for the birthday thing.

    Maybe I just take things way too seriously. I try not to but I can't help it and I usually listen to everything someone is telling me.

    When we were on vacation, one of the first things Syndy said to Colleen was "Don't tell Cathy you want to do something unless you really want to do it because she takes everything seriously."

    Maybe I am just overly sensitive and I take the Golden Rule to extremes. One of the things my dad use to lecture us on always was that we needed to treat other people like they treated us, and I guess since he preached this sermon so much, I took it to heart.

    Maybe that's why I want to hurt him so much now so he understands how much he hurt me. I don't want to think that way, that I am treating him just as he treated me, but he really had the opportunity to be something great in my life and he chose to be a selfish prick and I don't respect him for that.

    Fuck him. I want to talk about good things.

    So, I got rid of some of this sexual frustration last night. I don't have much privacy now so we ended up going out on the steps of my apartment building.

    I live in a historic house so the stairway is really nice and I thanked him when he was done because I know I needed to be serviced very badly.

    Friday, February 26, 1999

    One and a half cans of Ravoli. I am so hungry.

    I am at home. I am glad to be here. Jason came up behind me yesterday at work and told me he was in charge of watching me. That really pissed me the fuck off because how I work and stuff is none of his fucking business. I have worked there a lot longer and fuck that shit. I hate when people stand behind me and tell me what to do. I would rather not do it.

    That's one thing... I wish I could be more affectionate. I like being touched by Dale, but I haven't really felt that way with many other men. I do not see myself as an affectionate person. My dad never let us kiss him on the lips so I thought kissing was dirty. Then Andy and I both got Mono and he wouldn't kiss me (even though I had it) but he had no problem fucking me. I never understood his thinking on that. His mommy told him not to kiss me so he fucked me instead.

    I just don't get it. Anyways, ever since then, I haven't been too keen on kissing. I wish I could. I am glad I can still learn.

    I paid 68 cents for a gallon of gas yesterday. I couldn't believe it.

    I have to go now...

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