The following is the log from my IM session with Beth shortly after posting the previous entry. I post it because, as mentioned in the last entry, you’ll do just about anything to pass the time when you’re stuck in a Ramada Inn in Laramie, Wyoming.

Beth: hey
C.H.U.D.: there’s new pie
Beth: omw in a sec
Beth: what color sweater did you order?
C.H.U.D.: frost
Beth: lovely. and it’s such a good color for you
C.H.U.D.: I think it’ll bring out my diamonique clip-on earrings I bought to go with it
Beth: i hope they’re dangly
C.H.U.D.: Now they’re pushing the Deirdre McGuire Pima Cotton Mockneck Turtle Sweater for Retail $392, QVC special $229.60.
C.H.U.D.: It’s great.
Beth: omg
Beth: who is dierdre mcguire?
C.H.U.D.: Coming up is the “Rose of Tralee Celebration.”
C.H.U.D.: Who cares?
C.H.U.D.: It’s PIMA COTTON, honey!
C.H.U.D.: In a MOCKNECK TURTLE!!!!!
Beth: oooh, gotta get me some of that
C.H.U.D.: You really can’t understand how bad Pride is unless you actually watch it.
C.H.U.D.: But don’t, because you’ll be scarred.
Beth: no interest
Beth: but I tivo’d I Love the 70’s
C.H.U.D.: I knew it was going to be bad just on GP: John Goodman, animated, animals, sitcom, ABC, Siegfriend & Roy…
C.H.U.D.: But I had no idea how bad…
Beth: yes, i heard about it
Beth: soooo less than no interest here
C.H.U.D.: Honey. They used VOICES.
C.H.U.D.: I mean character-type voices.
C.H.U.D.: Raspy Brooklyn. Haughty British. Etc.
Beth: lovely
C.H.U.D.: Oh, it hurts.
Beth: it’s hurting to hear about. so stop please
C.H.U.D.: You know what you should do? Take a page from Gavin’s journal and post this conversation as an entry in yours.
C.H.U.D.: It’s got me in it, so it’s guaranteed to be good. And it’s vaguely amusing. AND it’d be a new entry!
Beth: why?
C.H.U.D.: You win 3 ways!!!!
Beth: i put one up earlier today
Beth: smartass
C.H.U.D.: Damn, honey, first I set you up with a journal and now I’m writing it for you!
C.H.U.D.: How lucky are you???
C.H.U.D.: Hello?
C.H.U.D.: Are you there?
C.H.U.D.: Honey?