Mar. 28, 2005 - 5:37 a.m.

I don't want Diaryland to delete my diary due to lack of use. And I certainly don't want my three remaining readers to think I've died or lost interest or anything like that.

Well, I did lost interest for a while, and I don't have anything particularly gripping to write about tonight either. But I'll babble for a while, and everything will get back to normal.

So, in May the ACLU is hosting a dinner to honor people who have been helping the local Bill of Rights Defense Coalition. The goal of that group was to get Unibrow to go on record as wanting changes to the Patriot Act, and it worked. We were the 350th city to speak up to Congress about it. I did my part - or rather, a part. A little one. I went out one day and stood with one or two others, holding the clipboards with the petition on them. yes, I was one of those irritating petition people. Hey, at least I didn't spray perfume on anyone against their will.

So, the Yahoo Group they set up to keep in contact with everyone who helped out had the announcement on it a couple of months ago, about the ACLU dinner and speech thingy. We're all encouraged to go if possible, because even if we only had a small part in this thing we will have our names read during the later bit, where they're thanking all the volunteers. So I thought I'd go and hear my name read. Might be fun, or incredibly boring. One of the two.

So I printed out the pdf file of the flyer for the dinner, and looked at it. Apparently this thing is $35 per person. I'll have to e-mail the group, or the guy in charge, to find out if they're serious about that. Man, I just wanted to be there because I volunteered a little and it would be nice to hear them thank me, among all the others. But if I have to pay to get in, there's no way. It sounds like a really boring night anyway, and I'm not going to pay to be bored out of my mind. I can do that at home, and eat whatever I want instead of having a choice between three things that don't sound good at all.

So I may or may not go. I'm leaning toward not.

On the other hand, one of the local department stores is hosting a tea gathering and bra fitting on April 21st. I e-mailed all my female friends in Unibrow to invite them. I think this could be incredibly funny. Tea at a department store, and trying on underwear? I'm there.

Oh yeah, one more thing. My graduating class is having the reunion this year. Apparently, the class of 94 is so quirky we can't have a normal 10-year reunion like everyone else. No, we've got to have an 11-year reunion. Oh my, what bizarre folk are we!

I'm guessing someone either forgot or didn't get the mailings out in time last year, and decided to skip it and pass it off as a quirky and fun idea this year, to do an 11-year reunion instead. Either way, I'm kinda looking forward to it. Kinda dreading it also, and I just got the mailing about it a couple of days ago.

I'm not going through the usual "must lose weight" concerns you see in the movies. I was overweight in high school, so if I suddenly dropped a bunch of weight no one would recognize me. I'm mostly just nervous, I think. What else is new these days?

My best friend from high school also got word of the reunion, yesterday in fact. I called her in the evening, and she'd heard from her dad that afternoon. She'll come in for it, but she may only stay for the weekend. I'm trying to convince her to drag her husband with her, and that they should stay for a couple weeks. I haven't seen her husband in years, and I'd like to get to hang out with both of them, introduce them around, that sort of thing.

Anyway, not much else is going on in my personal life these days. Blanche Blank has had some medical issues, and I've been going with her to doctors, and will continue to do so this week. I have to be up in just a few hours, in fact, so I'd better sign off and get some sleep. If that's possible.