Things you shouldn't tell people over the phone

Saturday evening I fell asleep for a couple of hours and woke up just in time to clean my apartment a little before my friend Poppy came over. She's in grad school and she's just gotten home from 2 months of traveling around Eastern Europe, including spending some time at this Polish student work camp. Poppy is crazy. At some point during her recent jaunt through Slovakia, she got her nose pierced, which I think is pretty hardcore. A few years ago she even spent 6 months in the Peace Corps in Uzbekistan, which is also hardcore.

So, we hung out and had some drinks, and we had a lot to talk about. A few weeks ago, she had an affair with another traveler and told her live-in boyfriend about it over the phone, and he flipped out and sent her all these crazy angry emails, leading her to worry that he would harm her two cats. So she emailed me to see if I could go to her apartment and rescue them, but my building doesn't allow pets at all, so I emailed my mom to ask if she could take them in, and she was willing to, but by that point Poppy's boyfriend had sent a calmer email and she decided things were okay, so we could scrap the whole Mission: Save Cats thing.

But when she got home last week, her boyfriend had moved out and taken all his stuff with him (amazingly, he didn't trash/take her stuff, although he did rip up all the photos of her), and she has no idea where he is. The whole thing is just very dramatic and insane.

We talked for a long time and then went out for drinks and talked some more. It is so great to have her back in DC again!

In other news, apparently at one point the official Bush/Cheney site had a banner-making feature, where you could type in some text and it would produce a sign with your slogan on it, but they got so many anti-Bush visitors to the site making disparaging banners that they ended their little project real quick. This site is a collection of some of the slogans, and it's pretty funny, if you are of the more left-wing persuasion. It plays a stupid song though.