Midnight.

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Wow, I should get to bed. wendolen has already gone ahead to bed without me, which means she must be tired.

It was a nice night. I actually went to bed and took a nap around 6:00 this evening; I was feeling really dizzy and headachy from low blood sugar, but didn't want to eat anything, because wendolen would be here soon and we'd have dinner then, so I figured I'd just sleep through the dizziness.

wendolen bought me dinner, which was a welcome surprise. (I just found out this week I don't qualify for unemployment after all, so what money I have I'll need to start keeping a closer eye on .... ) Then she talked me into taking her back to Central Market, a big fancy grocery store she's fallen in love with. It seems like we were just there; on the other hand, it was before 9/11, so it feels like a lifetime ago. It was fun doing a little window shopping with her. Being with her makes me laugh more than I would have imagined I could.

I got e-mail tonight from treebyleaf, forwarding a post she made to alt.gothic: "some days retail is worse than others," where she talks about the increased demand at her work for flags, for red, white, and blue ribbons -- anything. It made me want to smile and cry all at once. (And reminded me how badly I wanted to smack a good friend of mine the other night, who was complaining about "knee-jerk flag-waving." *sigh*)