Salamander
Fire Walking

Thanks for the warnings, but not to worry, guys. You'd have to have personal experience with Mr. Eccentric to know what I'm talking about, but he is not your stalker type. Consider him somebody else's slightly wacky uncle and you have a close idea of the gentleman in question. If it wasn't for the incident I described in my entry from yesterday, I'd consider him entirely harmless instead of mostly harmless (in-joke for all you Douglas Adams fans).

I figure I must be PMS-ing at the moment. I found something in a back file that The Professor had sent me last year ago today. It referred to a (non-romantic) anniversary of sorts that we had coming up on the 26th of August. Mind you, he had sent this reminder to me last year. So I thought it would be cute if I sent a copy back to him today. His response? "And your point is? Hmm? Hmm?" For some reason, this really pissed me off. Last year he sent it as a romantic reminder and when I resend it this year he blows me off. Yes, definitely PMS-ing.

As for the anniversary on the 26th ... it was the first time The Professor and I had any kind of direct conversation. He had posted a joke, which I then proceded to call pretty lame (and it was). His response was "Screw you, Salamander." Not an exactly auspicious start, huh? We've both had a good laugh at how prophetic that actually turned out to be.

By the way, the "Screw you, Salamander" was intended and was taken as a joke at the time. You had to be there.