So here I am again in geek heaven, leaning against some pillows, some Mountain Dew floating through my system, and a nice warm laptop in my lap. What more could a good geek use? I guess it would be best if I did not go to random websites that people send me to, but then my world would not be as cool.

I realized today that a healthy dose of insanity can be a form of job security. As this is now the topic of my Masters Thesis in Weirdness, I can not expound upon that more here, but when I have my weirdness degree safely tucked away, perhaps, I shall be able to share. For now, this is Bella signing off so she can wander around complaining about the heat in her house. Have a good one.

It appears that I have neglected you all again, but I assure you it was with good cause. Aside from a lack of interest in doing anything for a change, I also seemed to be overrun with random strange men wandering in and out of my house, before you get any ideas, I must remind you of two things 1) yesterday was Memorial Day and 2) I am just one of the guys. Which could be why some of the guys have taken to asking me to introduce them to my "HOT" friends. Men are whacked, I will get over it.

My father decided to visit and bring my brother--a true dwarf. I am not sure how it happened, but I am a hobbit and he is a dwarf. I am short with furry feet (once the cats get done rubbing against them anyway). I love to eat--three or four breakfasts is fine with me and don't forget, lunch, dinner, and tea (in my case a glass of lemonade and some cookies will do just fine.) My brother is short and stocky and periodically decides to grow facial hair. He, also, and this is the inevitable proof, works in a mine. You add up the figures--go ahead.

Then a Therrin and a Koa showed up to entertain me, by eating banana nut bread and watermelon and chatting. If you have never seen a Therrin eat watermelon, you have no idea how to appreciate watermelon. He smiles while he eats it and continues to look content even as he is shoving the last piece into his mouth before anyone can whisk it away. They then tried to give me a cat who was not yet born--odd concept, eh? Well, their hearts were in the right place, but my baby boy would not like that. No, Rodney would suffer from intense bouts of jealousy, which would lead to much hairball hacking and ankle-biting.

Then a whole bunch of happy, shiny people came over bearing a movie and some pizza. I provided the aforementioned lemonade and orange juice for our thirst quenching needs and we were off. We watched AI (as in Artificial Intelligence). I am sorry to say that I found the movie somewhat more than disturbing. Let me just say this much--Gigolo Joe is not the name of a character in a movie I desperately want to see. Bladerunner was a more interesting take on the future of artificial intelligence.

In comparison, today has been a rather dull day, but I have work to brighten my spirits and enhance the happiness of my mind. Perhaps, I shall discover something else cool on which to babble later. Enjoy!!!

Another beautiful day in Bella-land dawned this morning, when Ziggy leaned over and gave me a love bite. Considering the fact that she has fangs, my arm did not feel too loved. She then proceeded to rub against me, trying to awaken my circulation system so that I would get up and feed her. Don't worry, her mission was eventually successful and I arose to another glorious day of room upheaval. I have part of my geek trap set up and when I am done, no one will ever see me again as I plunk myself down in front of my computers and disappear forever.

Among my longterm goals for the moment is to get usable guild information for each guild, so I can give people all my hard work and tell them to go make the morts have fun. Sounds like fun, doesn't it? Calm down, I am not accepting applications at this time, since I have only just begun this project. I also hope to finish my forty percent of the areas without acquiring enough to make it a full fifty percent. BTW, are you playing right now? Well, you should be. More and more surprises everyday brought to you by the staff of Horizons.

There is nothing quite like hanging out with five or six other beautiful young women, sewing a quilt. In fact, even though I had the joys of paint and vacuuming call me from a whole walk away, I stayed for 5 hours, pinning and sewing and chatting. Yeah, I know what you are thinking, "They trusted that woman with a sharp pointy silver object?" Wipe that incredulous look off your face. I can wield a needle against you just as well as I can wield it against a quilt.

Anyway, it is early and I have a busy day ahead of me. One of my coworkers is leaving us and we are having a party for him this afternoon. Aside from that there is an rp tonight at 7pm. That was a hint for the morts. Oh yeah, my life rocks on and on and on.

I saw Episode II the other day and I have been so busy plotting the seduction of that buff stud Yoda that I did not get around to updating this loverly website. I know you are all depressed, but Yoda is too cool to let get by me. I am working on a machine to take me to a far off galaxy in a long lost time. I have also been refilling the role of paint master in my spare bedroom. I have one more wall to go before the whole thing is country white.

Well, as always, Bella is very, very busy, so I will have to entertain you more later. Please, don't cry, I promise I will be back, and if I am not, will anyone notice? *goes invisible*

I feel like that cute hamster from the Blockbuster commercials. You know what I am talking about. *shakes what her momma gave her* *falls over* In fact, I feel like singing. *clears her throat* "I just can't hide it. I'm so excited, I'm typing like I never typed before." Oh sorry, I must learn to control these urges. You know me though, my self-control is not the best. Would explain all the chocolate in my house that I have yet to eat. And now I don't have roommates to chuck it at. I must work on this problem.

Anyway, life in microfilm land has kept me on my toes thus far. They get up and dance for me when no one is watching me through the huge windows at the front of this room. I continue to feel like some rare, exotic animal in the zoo. Someday, I might get over it, but I sure hope not. Speaking of, there is a new hope for me this beautiful, chilly spring day. I get to go see my precious Yoda on the big screen if all goes well. Oh yeah, baaaaby.

I did it again. I deserted you in your time of need. It's okay, I am still here and I am still alive. I know you were all worried. Yesterday, I got to prove that I should not be a painter. I am painting one of the spare bedrooms in my apartment in the hopes of making it look better. One of the previous tenants used two-sided tape and in getting it off the wall, I took some paint with me, so I have to fix it. We shall see how that goes.

Anyway, I am working like a fiend today because the Union lists need me. That and the sugar that I partook of this morning is keeping me going. BTW, can we all say Star Wars? Yeah, you know what I am talking about. Yoda...Yoda...Yoda.

I have reached a new level of cool. I have been watching the old school matrix spin. You know--microfilm reels slowly pouring out their tidbits of data across a screen in black and yellow and gray. I know how impressed everyone is by my cool job, but you can't have it. I love my cute little micro-forms too much to entrust them to someone else. I am sure you will someday get over the pain this sends to the core of your being.

On another note, the town is slowly clearing out. The five billion reckless drivers who normally try to flatten me on my way to work in the morning were not around to try their culinary arts. In fact, the parking lots look rather empty and lonely. Not that I mind. It's good to have a break from all the people who don't realize how many one way streets this crazy town has. Although, seeing people driving the wrong way up a street can be amusing if no cars are coming in the right direction, I prefer not to risk death.

For what you ask? Now that is truly silly of you. Are you ready to read some more random babbling by Bella? I know you must love them dearly because you keep coming back. So here goes.

1. Have you ever considered that the Internet is a cheap form of publishing. Of course, the cheapness goes both ways, unless you want to give me monetary donations for my babbling. *wink*

2. You know we are only five hundred twenty-three years from finding out how accurate that song is. "In the year 2525...". We also already got to party like it was 1999. Man, I loved that song three years ago.

3. Someone said to me, only yesterday, "Kids are like cats." They really are, but not because they should be someone's problem. Think about it. They both get into everything and demand your attention until you want to give it to them. I have to love them.

4. If I were any quilt in the world, I would want to be gray and blue. Heck, I am already gray and if I learn to play an acoustic guitar with a nickle, I may be able to be blue.

5. The world would stop turning if I no longer exited. If only as far as I am concerned.

6. Have you ever noticed that people inevitably talk to you when you are preoccupied? Have you ever noticed that they don't stop even after you ignore them for ten minutes? Or does this only happen to me?

7. Before the advent of 42, (If you don't know what I am talking about, you should go find some literary taste.) 7 used to be the number of choice. 42 must be 6 times as lucky.

Working in a library gives one the opportunity to sneak up on all sorts of innocent people who are just trying to accomplish work. Today, I got to talk to someone I used to have history classes with in high school. I think I may have bored him to tears (just like I am boring all of you), but he was polite nonetheless. Good to see you, Justin. *smiles and wanders off* I will babble more later, but I have a friend named Madeline who needs me. I would explain, but then I would be telling secrets--dark, forbidden secrets.

Well, I am not the quilting queen, but luckily, she is a close friend of mine.It has been an eventful day in the land of fabric. Blueberries, blue, and gold have collided to begin taking shape as a masterpiece of hard work. Add to that some red and green and it is quite combo. Obviously, I need to get my beauty rest this evening, so I shall make my way toward that, but rest assured that I love all of you. Sweet dreams!!!

Well, don't I feel all sugared up. The candy jar got a refill of massive proportions and I had to partake. Then I dragged Aravan to my house and we had cake and ice cream. Yummy cake...yummy ice cream. I took a picture of the cake, so assuming that the film is good, I will be able to share its oddness with all of you. She seemed pleased by the massive amounts of sugar and wandered off with a proud box of cupcakes. She is probably still bouncing off the walls from all the sugar. I have such an influence for good in this world, don't I?

On another note, I finished my precious micro-cards. I am sure more of them will become my friends before my career as the micro-forms queen is over, however, so don't cry too much for me. In honor of my charming micro-cards, I have another top ten list for you--no real offense meant to the magical microfiche.

Oh yeah, Miss Aravan thought she could avoid me today, but she was so wrong. How the heck could she avoid me? I am everywhere. I left an extra long message on her machine, called and sang to her in mogwai, and now she will have to read this on my web-page. Muhahahahahaha. Why do I go to this much trouble, you ask? Well, I'll tell you...It's because Miss Aravan is one step closer to being an old woman. It's her b-day. Oddly enough it is her handsome prince's b-day as well. Now isn't that sweet and cute?

Well, I have a million things to do today, but if you are lucky, I shall update you on the rest of my day. I know you all need boredom to cure your insomnia. *wink*

Another day is slowly passing me by, so I sit upon my bed and cry, wishing others would take pity and come forth and rhyme with me. If you don't know what that was all about, don't ponder it too deeply. I am working on yet another area in which the morts can dig in their little fig leaves. I am also working on another great masterpiece of mine, but I can't tell you what it is because Aravan still hasn't answered my question. I have also started production on the little books that make people wonder about my sanity. I make little journals out of scrap paper and maybe I will get a digital camera someday and take glamor photos of them for your viewing pleasure.

On another note, I fear that my time with the micro-cards may be drawing to a close. Soon I will have to say goodbye and cry bitter tears over these thin, white friends of mine. In the meantime, I shall be the copy editor for people's papers as the semester draws to a close. Yes, you can all say it together in purple:

Only two weeks and a day until the next great Yoda movie if I am not mistaken. Is everyone else out there as psyched as I am? I figured as much, everyone loves Yoda because green guys rock. And even if they don't love him, I know that there are people out there who are hoping to see a hottie Padme who rocks as much as hottie Leia. It seems only a couple of years ago, I was sitting in a restaurant/bar with a bunch of wild men screaming "HOTTIE LEIA" and hoping to get some free tickets to the midnight showing. Before you ask, I was screaming hottie Leia top of my lungs too (there was a toy on the line), and I got to see that first showing. What bliss.

On another note, I am losing geek points by sitting at home when I could be chilling with other true believers in the joy of Linux. I have a semi-valid excuse though. I seem to suddenly be paper-proofreader now that the semester is drawing to a close. I am building up my Karma Kredits in the hopes of getting cool prizes.