Wednesday July 4, 2001

You know when your first day back you get free ice cream and meet Woody Harrelson on the 4th of July (Florent's Day) that things aren't all bad.

And a Bar-B-Que at Buddy's and hanging out on the beach in Marina Del Rey to watch the fire works is super cool especially when Jen has a license saying she still lives in MDR. I think we should move there some day. But then again if we can make some money off this site it sure as hell wouldn't be bad living in Taiwan for a few months out of the year, either.

Working really fucking sucked but playing was worth the whole trip. I got this Red Coral which is RARE to make with my necklaces. On top of that we went to the most amazing Lover's paradise. Florent wants to move there. I don't think I can object too much. It's sad when you come back from Asia and the air is so different and you feel so cold. I'm in LA where everyone is wearing shorts and stuff and last night Florent and I were both covered from head to toe because we are used to burning up.

There is something really weird about the atmosphere there. It's rich and loving, very sensuous despite typhoons and earthquakes.

We made love on the beach. It's been a crazy couple of days. Ones I will live over in my mind again and again. We tried surfing but were entering from the wrong way so we didn't get far at all. I barely had any sleep at all traveling on shitty buses.

That's why I am exhausted today. Couldn't sleep on the plane, couldn't sleep on the buses, couldn't get comfortable. When I finally did fall asleep on the plane a baby started crying and wouldn't stop. I wanted to die.

So I watched The Mexican. "When two people really love one another but they just can't get it together when do you say enough is enough?"

Damn, that rang true to my heart.

Saturday July 7, 2001

It's our 8th month today. Wow.

I am beginning not to trust anybody. Jen pointed out to me that I need to let people help me more.

Sunday July 8, 2001

Matter is neither created, nor destroyed.

I have been thinking a lot about stuff lately. Who knows this might even be a marathon entry but my arms are sore.

So since matter is not created nor destroyed then.... what's it do?

Are thoughts just simply musical notes upon a caprious wind? Just because I write these words does it matter?

I have been thinking about what makes people happy a lot lately, and lamenting the fact that I still live like a teenager. I guess one thing to ensure happiness is to release unobtainable goals that you have in life. To give up control and see if you like the ride.

Lots of sex varying upon individual tastes.

Quit worrying about money because as long as you have enough to do what you like then what more is there to it?

Quit picking on your face because you are scaring it.

Monday July 9, 2001

Have you ever woke up and just felt so completely stupid?

I have been taken advantage of too much. Too many times. It's over. I'm sick of it. I am going to become the bitch I have always wanted to be. I don't care anymore because I am sick of people taking advantage of my kind nature and costing me money and time.

We cut up one of those nasty black eggs that Asians eat. Blech. It was green on the inside. I will not eat green eggs and ham. I will not do it Sam I am.

"I thought of a new way to say I farted. Oh eh-Jenny Jenny bang bang we love you." I am dying. We spent the whole day together. Heidi ran away last night when I wouldn't let her sit on my face because she was scared of the fireworks. I'm sorry but I just can't handle a dog's butt in my face but I love Miss Heidi.

I feel like I am changing a lot. I feel like I have grown up 10 years in one month. That I have new goals I would like to meet by the time I am in my thirties. Fuck.

Tuesday July 10, 2001

I had this super weird dream last night. I was on a river and there were waterfalls and what have you. A big boat with logs went down it and I thought it would be sooooo cool to do that.

Then I saw the rocks on bottom and thought better of it.

I don't want to grow up...

I have been thinking about changing my site a lot. And it's July, the month I usually write the least and try to created the most.

I felt like I was back in Kentucky yesterday with a breeze coming in and making tea. Jen was here all day and we just chatted and enjoyed one another's company.

I feel stuck. I feel like I need to make a game plan.

We walked along Venice beach this morning with Heidi. I was so hungry and naturally we are broke again and Clive still hasn't paid us. What the fuck ever. I have a feeling he is going to try to make us sign some other frightful contract before he attempts to pay us our money.

Whatever. I am letting it go. Water under the bridge. It will work itself out. I found that I would stress out about a lot of shit lately that just needed some time. I also find it interesting now that we are back in LA our relationship has gotten better in some ways. Amazing what captivity can do to your mind. How easy it is to turn against the one you love and hurt them the most.

I can't believe how close to the surface all those feelings of resentment lie just underneath my skin and how they bubble out to caustic melonomas under the right circumstances.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

Wednesday July 11, 2001

I'm laying in bed. I don't know how people function when it looks like they, personally, were responsible for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I'm dying. I could die. I have lost enough blood to donate to a hemophaliac short 3 pints of blood.

My husband is calling me a monster. I feel like a slug. I can't even make it out of bed long enough to take a shower. How do women work when they feel like this?

There is blood every where. I feel like I am going to pass out when I stand up. Too bad no one tells you when you are a teenager that bleeding will suck you dry the rest of your natural born life. There was one advantage to Depo, at least I felt like this just every once in a while.

I hated taking that shot at first. I didn't have a period for 6 weeks and then for 6 straight weeks I had a period. I understood what my sister went through when she was on chemo and wouldn't stop bleeding.

It's not a good thing.

I want to write and write and write. I want to go sit in the sun too. I want to clean up my room. Be a master flash programmer and learn how to do a ton of shit by hand but I don't think I ever will.

Sigh... I am going to go back to sleep for a while.

* * *

It's almost midnight now. I have slept most of the day away because I felt so bad. I should go to the doctor or something. I usually like figuring this shit out for myself. I ate 2.5 Snickers bars today trying to get some energy going through these veins.

I don't know why I date such introverted men. I am so not introverted in the ways guys are. I have been thinking about a lot of differences between men and women lately. I think we are completely different.

I think that since the media is run by men and this is an old boys network they project their feelings of how they think women are by the ways they have made us behave.

Do you really think people like Rosie and let's see, Martha Stuart are chicks you would want to hang with? FUCK no. Because then you would have to listen to them bitch and no one wants to hear shit come out of your mouth when you are one of those kinds of people, huh?

Maybe I am just now like "DUH! Do you believe ANYTHING you see on TV?" Do these people really lead a better life than me? I would have to say HELL No. I would hate to live in a gilded cage and feel like I had to live the perfect life just to make everyone happy. I have never been like that what so ever anyway.

I read an article about Lauren Hutton the other day and I really appreciated her in a different light. She was slammed against the floor of the desert and ripped apart and put back together again. She had an ex steal her money, promise to have kids one day and then turn around when it was too late and tell her he would always be her baby. And she still loved the bastard!

Saw him as a god.

How fucking stupid does a woman have to be? I hear these words coming from Florent's mouth that would melt butter and I still stop and wonder to myself "Is this fucking real? Does he really think I am going to believe that crock of shit?"

Maybe that's the problem I am having with Florent now. We get in these stupid contests to where it isn't even fun to argue because he doesn't know how to argue. He gets pissed at someone or something and he won't tell them SHIT but he will sit there and complain incessantly to me about something.

I feel like when Jen and I get together we have to talk about all the bullshit we have to put up with on a daily basis. I know what's going to happen when she goes to Europe, She is going to get over a bunch of Shit.

I feel like every time I get away from this place I get to see the world for what it is and not how it's portrayed for me through the media, mine included. I think I have a very warped view of the world now. I have seen so many weird things in my life that I don't know what to believe anymore.

Thursday July 12, 2001

Take Two.

A girl sits inside the bath tub, red water swirling around the aurora of her nipples. A closer look and the blood gets brighter and brighter and brighter.

I sit and watch the red water swirl around my body. The closest I will ever be to acting in a Quieten Taratino movie. I have never bled like that before or sense. It was very frightening.

Saturday July 14, 2001

Why walk on water when I prefer to swim?

I feel like I am everyone, everything, every moment, every breath, every sigh, every orgasm right now. I am so open to the world again. I think my prior captivity made me realize that I really need to get off my ass and do something about this career as a photographer. I think it's time I started working for magazines.

I am getting really serious. I contacted an agent who wants to see my portfolio. I have to get together about 20 images I think and have them professionally printed. I have to look into Digital Printing because if that is cheaper and I like the results better then that's what I am going to do.

Jen and I spent last night at Michaels looking for shit to put my work in. I am special, I am talented I did not want a book to show someone of my photographs in a regular binder. I found one thing that looked too standard. Then I picked out this cool black alligator covered binder with two gold stripes going down the side. I opened it up and it's on acid free paper and I just get so excited. I think I can shield the photos in plastic but then I thought that might look cheap. So I told Jen I needed corners and acid free stuff and if I found them I was going to use them, which I did.

Then we went to the 3rd street promenade in Santa Monica. I love Santa Monica. If I make enough money I am moving there one day. The junior college is like a private college because all the flaky people end up dropping out but if you are a California resident the tuition is like $18 an hour.

So I would want to live there because it's sweet and happening. With a view of the ocean.... dreamy.

I love where I am living though... The air is fresh, we are mildly secluded and we are in a house that is calm and peaceful. It's never hot here because of the trees and bushes that have grown up around it. The back yard needs some work but... it's not mine.

So I for went one project for another. Getting my shit together V. renting the room out for more money.

Sunday July 15, 2001

My dog has fleas...

Been cleaning the lice infestation out of our bedroom all fucking day.

"See honey, this is what happens when you don't wash your hair. This is what happens when you don't have good hygiene." Mine were killed as soon as I bleached my hair.

Can you say THAT'S FUCKING GROSS!

I want to vomit. I can't believe I saw a full grown louse my husband picked out of his head. I don't know how in the hell I didn't see them when he had me look in his head. He was in the bath tub and I ran to the store to get the shampoo and he said they were jumping onto his hands. I am sure they were yelping they were so happy to be in his head.

The water had lice carcass floating all around. It was gross.

Florent has been having a hard day. It's not every day that you find that kind of shit.

He dug this black shit out of his head using his newly grown fingernails that are almost as gross as the lice. Not to disparage anyone with long fingernails but when they are rubbing against your clit, it really fucking hurts. I could never in my life figure out how girls with long nails would jack off. Every time I grew my nails I cut those bitches off.

Maybe those girls and boys that do that are just more careful. Or maybe they don't jack off as much. Who cares. I hate nails. I always end up biting mine off.

I wrote this to Josh.

Where are you going?

I am sorry I couldn't get on line. I had a lice infestation that I HAD to deal with all fucking day. Re-washing all the sheets I had washed 2 days ago. Bleaching shit out.

I will never cast away the power of peroxide. At least I killed mine when I got home although I have had that feeling that I needed to get rid of that shit for a couple of days now.

My scalp is tingly. It kind of hurts because I knew if Florent was infested as bad as he was that I was too. Washed the hair, stripped the beds. Washed everything laying around. I am thinking we need to have an exterminator come in as well but am not + that is the right thing to do...

Fuck... how gross. I believe in your God. If for any reason I think that there is a lesson to be learned and something to concrete and seal in the point is that this is the icing on the cake. Those mother fuckers are so fucking nasty that I would love to pistol fuck them with a bamboo shoot and launch it to a fucking M1 and blow the mother fuckers into the god damn space shuttle as it takes off to oblivion.

When I think of torture my eyes glaze over and I think that sometimes just imaging the revenge is sweet enough for me.

Or laugh because I know one day they will be impotent.

Take Care of yourself. Love,

Cathy

It was too fucking funny to pass up.

Art I tell ya.

So... I don't think I will ever work for Clive again.

I got new sheets today just because I am wanting to feel like a woman again. Laundry detergent, 3M sponges because you can throw them away and get rid of the bacteria. New mop sponges. New Brita Water Filters. Cheese. I have been making Spinach salads lately for lunch and they are yummy. Today with Granny Smith apples, walnuts, Kismo dressing (Japanese), plums and Blue Cheese.

We haven't slept well lately and now I wonder if it's because of the lice. Florent has been kicking me. I wonder if having lice drives you crazy to a certain degree. Poor Florent. He has so much hair and no one would have ever noticed. I hope they all go away because I don't know how many weeks I can keep up with cleaning the sheets all the time.

Jen and I put stuff in clear boxes and then tossed them out in the shed. I got everything all organized. I pulled out my negatives to start figuring out which photographs I want to have professionally printed. Part of me is so neurotic that I want to rent lab space and just print the fuckers myself.

When you develop large color photographs you have to do everything in complete darkness. When you are printing your own shit all the time in the darkroom you get used to the dark.

I suppose I will pay a lab to do it. I might end up wasting more money doing it myself. But if I don't like the results I think I am going to break down and do it myself. I'm also going to see what prints from a CD look like. I am curious.

I am beginning to think that I am going to stand on the rock that faces the mouth of the ocean and scream "Come on... is that all you've got for me? GIVE ME MORE!!!"

Wednesday July 18, 2001

Scrubbing. Cleaning. Bleaching. Drying. Vacuuming. Mopping. This has been my hell for the last couple of days. Let's not leave out chastising.

I'm learning all kinds of new tricks. I didn't know you could tell someone No! I am such a wus. I am going to start practicing. I need to be a No person.

"No sex tonight because you stink." I didn't know No was so easy.

I do know that Florent doesn't know how to clean to save his life. Is cleaning a lost art form? Am I being overtly neurotic?

I feel like this wave of responsibility is washing over me. Yeah right. I was out with Jen yesterday and we got lost going to the Federal Building. It was fun and she was laughing about it and I can see myself totally into that lifestyle. Not working too hard and hanging out with my best friend all day.

We got photos from Taiwan back and I am not loving some of them. I could run and hide. I think it's time to make more drastic changes. I have been eating a ton of fruit and salads lately but...

I think it's time to strip down the bed and wash all the sheets again. I have to do this for 7 more days.

Scrubbing. Cleaning. Bleaching. Drying. Vacuuming. Mopping. I feel like a mother already.

Friday July 20, 2001

I printed yesterday. Photographs that are totally awesome. My little superstars and ones I have never "seen". I have sorted through thousands of negatives. I printed like 20 and only half of those prints are any good.

It's weird to be exposed to places I have been.

I have been cleaning all day. Yesterday... Rocked.

I am being pretty boring lately. I know. But for some reason I am just not in the mood. I think it's July. Historically July is the month I write the least although I have been writing lately to Succubus.

I love her writing. It is so beautiful. We have so much in common that it almost scares me.

God... these prints look like ass now. I hate looking at shit this long and getting them perfect. It makes me nervous.

Sunday July 22, 2001

I went to a party laster Saturday night... It was fun. A couple of architects live across the street. Claudia invited us over. It was my first LA party.

I think I got obliterated. From what I don't remember or care to report.

I think I am going to be moving my journal again.

Some fucking cunt chooses to tell me how gross and sick I am and I am going to flush her out. I don't need trash reading my journal. I am going to track IPS and figure out who you are and then ban your fucking machine from reading another God Damn journal entry. Or maybe you can start fucking paying.

Monday July 23, 2001

Maybe I am just a cunt but I think I have enough problems on my own without adding to having an asshole that loves to be critical and comment harshly on shit. Maybe it's just one of my friends fucking with me but I really don't appreciate it. If I wanted to be treated like that then I would take the passwords off this place and let any fucking moron in. Of coarse "she" doesn't even have the ovaries to leave a real e-mail address. What a fucking coward.

Or I could just step aside and let you be me for a while. Walk a god damn mile in my fucking shoes. See how you like being berated or try and have some asshole make you feel insecure about something you can do nothing about.

I'm not feeling very creative these days. Maybe because I am actually focusing on other shit.

Tuesday July 24, 2001

I'm not going to do this. I don't give a fuck what other people say like I used to. This is my journal. You can think whatever the fuck you want. You can judge me however you want. You can say whatever the fuck you want. Just make it fair and leave your fucking e-mail, pussy.

I think I am getting in touch with my rage. Some times I feel it off in the distance. I think I have been somewhat oblivious about things that matter to me as a person.

I think I lack goals at this current moment in time and have since my mom died.

I have learned through living life that there are just a few things that you can control. How you react to people and what kind of path you make. I know what I am writing fucking matters to people and I was curious to see how many people were really that interested. It's nice to see people hanging in there and every once in a while I read shit that upsets me but at least I know that if you are reading you are doing something. You exist in your miserable, fucked up little way and enjoy tormenting me, or pleasing me, or comforting me.

I write for you. Because I am not sure what else to do. Maybe it's compulsion. Maybe it's just life. I don't know.

I am very sad. I miss my mommy. A lot.

An ache in the pit of my stomach. A Jerry Springer life.

God am I ever going to get it together?

I think I am too impatient.

* * *

Le sigh. I have been combing through craigslist.com since I finally got my access back today. It's a grim situation up in SF. I am SO glad we fled when we still had the chance.

Things may not be all rosy here but at least we aren't stuck in the fallout of the dot bombs anymore. It's a real mess up there. And they think that things will recover in a couple of years.

I have been bleaching, stripping, oiling my hair because now Florent isn't the only one with nits. I thought I might have had them because my head itched so much when we were in Taipei and I couldn't wait to get home and bleach my hair.

I am glad that I did do this. I took all of our clothes and set them out side when we got home so that if we brought home any critters they would remain outside and from traveling to Russia I knew to wash all my clothes in hot water.

So now that I have white blonde hair again it's impossible to pick the nit out from my head. I went through Florent's head and hopefully they are all dead. I should wash and spray the bed for the next week to make sure none of those little fuckers are hatching again and I think tomorrow I am going to spend the better part of the day printing again.

I am going to sign up for classes at the Santa Monica college. I am naturally going to take a class in photography so I can have darkroom privileges and I think a class in French. Maybe I will be daring and take a class in Java if they have one although an online class doing database Admin looks appealing as well.

I should just break down and be a career student.

I am stressed. I am scared. I am indeed impatient. I feel like I am never going to get it because I can't figure out which angle to penetrate "it".

I do feel consoled by Mike's words of advise. Thank you because I needed to hear that shit happens like this and it doesn't make me a bad person and that no matter what there are assholes anywhere.

I want to write something meaningful.

If you can possibly imagine I have always been an impatient girl. I remember being 17 and waiting for the doctors at the Mayo clinic to get my head examined. Granny and I sat and waited for hours and hours before I was rushed in to see my neurosurgeon for like 25 minutes.

He went over my scans and then told me they were going to do a sterotatic biopsy on me that next Tuesday.

I remember just sitting there, waiting for the longest time. That was one of the worst waits of my life.

Then there was the last time my mom had surgery. Or the time before that when they ripped out her guts and stapled her back together. That was pretty horrible waiting for 10 hours especially since I had just had brain surgery a couple of weeks before that.

I made my grandmother a bracelet waiting for my grandfather to come out of having his stomach ripped out and re-attached to his throat. That was an awful wait too.

Sometimes maybe waiting is the best thing to do.

I bought some PMS stuff today from GNC because I am being too much of a cunt and my moods are considerably sour. I don't like feeling the way I do right now.

The network was down earlier so Florent and I took that opportunity to fuck and sleep. I made him stop for a while because he wasn't playing fair. We laid in bed and talked about all the things going on in our lives.

It was funny to listen to him describe me. I guess Cinderella doesn't only exist as a bad thing for women. I wonder if anyone has done studies on how it affects men as well.

Or Snow White.

I have been thinking about the many things I take for granted lately.

It's funny how as children you often don't appreciate what you have because it's simply there. And as an adult you take things for granted for the same reason.

Thursday July 26, 2001

I'm hot snot! I'm hot snot! I'm hot snot!

The people at Yahoo! love the site I did for Ori so much that they are going to let him upload it to his Yahoo! shop and he is going to be the first person that is going to ever get to do this.

He was telling me how he asked the lady if he could put his site up and she looked at gallerywholesale.com and was so impressed that she had all the people in the office come ooh and ahhh it!

I keep squealing with girly delight.

Florent and I had Jen's car today. After doing "Tea-bo" this morning we packed up and went to Fry's. It was so nice having the convertible for the day. It totally makes my hair look naturally white when the California sun hits it.

I can tell the results of working out already. I know it's weird to say that but my body seems to be coming together. Kinda strange. I am afraid I will always have these gigantic titties.

It's also weird driving down Lincoln Blvd. and hearing the electricity running through the damaged power lines. I think that's going to cost more to replace all those cables and conductors than all the money they lost during the "rolling blackouts."

We drove everywhere looking for stuff to use to make business cards.

I talked with Anne yesterday and she is thinking about buying a horse magazine. I would put stuff up on-line. It sounds like it could be a gem.

My life is getting back to normal. I am pretty happy about that.

Saturday July 28, 2001

Last night was the best fucking night. So unexpended. So unplanned. So fucking awesome.

Charles took us on the boat he captains, The Lady Ashlee. She was Pristine. White carpet. White engines. Charles almost sunk her a year ago. Everything was replaced. You could eat off his engine.

"How much is this boat?"

"3 Million."

I fantasize about being out on her, running my fingers along the white suede ceiling.

I could live on that boat. It would be a dream because everything is brand new.

Charles made us chocolate/chocolate chip cookies vanilla ice cream sandwiches. I was in heaven.

Before that we were at The Cinema for some ribs. Rod, the owner, invited us by Friday for some ribs he had. Just so happened to be a dotbomb party. I felt for them. I ached for them. I wanted to scream that the people at Yahoo! were looking at me.

But I refrained.

Sunday July 29, 2001

We went on a picnic at the Will Rodgers State Park today. It was rather uplifting. Walking along the trails you could see far and away houses of Los Angeles tucked here and there on hills and valleys.

I have been feeling a bit of the spark coming on to me. Like there is a flame inside a 15 minute candle that has to burn down the wick all the way off or it will never be tossed away to the side or in the refuse container for the men to take it away to where ever they send such things.

I thought of a sketch I could do and how a woman is more simple than men originally thought because you can tell when a woman is happy by the kind of shit she takes.

I have been in a powerfully silent mood these days. Enjoying the beach, the soft cool sea caresses tickling my pink lungs, the feel of Heidi's silky coat running inx between my fingers.

These times are silently feeding that flame, that passion, that desire inside the lair of my stomach approaching erupting just as the volcano in Sicily throws itself down the walls that contain it.

It has been precisely 2 days since my husband has mounted me and taken me so gently. He is troubled by the untimely demise of his nanny that once picked his nose and cleaned his bottom while his mother slaved away for Shell only to be fired after 37 years of mindless devotion. When you are Catholic it seems to give you this unwavering sense of loyalty and honor that such hierarchies as corporations are not deserving of.

I thought to myself how I would love a job long enough to be collecting unemployment like half of the folded dotcomers are doing.

I should be out tonight, faking my way through some pointless sketch that would hopefully get me noticed as a comedian. Maybe even that is too much to dream about but I am finding that the dreams of everyday people are coming to life more so than TV stars and various sorted celebrities. We are the ones we most want to watch. Pretty soon the Internet and TV is going to blend into itself causing a haze to appear before everyone's eyes.

We have come for your children, the ads will say subversely. You sit them in front of this here computer and we will show them a life here they have never seen. One you are just too fucking old to ever imagine. Place your credit card and expiration date on the form to become a 'lifetime' member.

Life will never be the same.

Monday July 30, 2001

Up and down and all around. Damn I need to get this PMS under control.

I went on an interview and I was supposed to hear something but haven't so let's see what happens. I dropped my photo book off too. I am very nervous.

So either something is going to give or I will slum it for another month.

I think I am willing to go somewhere and get a job doing something because I have been consistantly arguing with Florent for the past couple of days.

"Oh I know why you have pimples." Um because I am about to start my period. "it's because of this shit that you eat."

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Tuesday July 31, 2001

its been very tense today...if you must know, we can hear the tanks and machine guns in the back groung (in a town called Gilo, where my step sister and her family live)...not very pleasant...and its going to get a lot worse...

It's not a good time to be in Isreal. I'm kinda worried about Josh.

can her lots o helicopters in the background now...

"Where are you living?"

in jerusalem...a block away from the prime ministers house...two blocks away from the presidents...about a 10 minutes walk from the old city...

* * *

His cock slowly enters my body. I am hot and waiting for him to enter \ my body. He moves over and in and out. Up hooking my gspot. I ask him to move a certain way and soon I feel myself opening like I imagine a flower as the sun's rays kiss it awake in the morning.

We start talking about life. Talking talking talking, a rarity from him after he has worked so hard.

He's been reading about the philosophy of Capitalism. He figured out that Americans are rational and not emotional. He tries to tell me that I am not emotional. He tries to define me through words he reads. I guess he is trying to understand what I am all about.

Josh is up again bad dreams ....then i wake up to tank fire....

We are living in odd times. I wonder if this economy is ever going to striaghten itself out. I'm losing hop

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