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how are you today?

i am... fine, i think, except i feel semi-guilty because i skipped out on a class and e-mailed the prof the paper i had due instead of handing it in like a sane person. as my self-inflicted punishment i have to go to a "career roundtable" starting in an hour and a half, and i don't particularly want to go but there may be someone there who can give me a lead on a paid internship.

― children of mentalists (get bent), Thursday, 15 February 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

i am pretty good today. woke up feeling crappy but have had a pretty productive day at work, including a fun meeting with a band, and going to see another band i work with later tonight, so we'll see. lately it seems like work really sucks at the beginning of the week, then gets better.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Thursday, 15 February 2007 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

February makes me shiver.

― PPlains (PPlains), Thursday, 15 February 2007 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Tired but happy. Roll on BLAMFAP on Saturday.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 15 February 2007 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link

ah, the art of self-compromise... go to the roundtable, yeah
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i am fine today (and was fine yesterday even). i went for a run (at the gym - the blowing snow and freeezang world is not so good for running in), did some yoga, read/wrote, watched Lost, watched oprah (b/c it was about psychics and talking to dead people! awesome), read more (mostly internet), am making sausages and farinata for dinner, then watch the o.c., hang out, practice singing, psychic abilities, etc.

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 15 February 2007 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Waiting on phone call from bossclient with final changes to magazine...got it nice and toasty in office...put feet up on desk and snored for twenty (20) minutes...

Went on a long walk this morning. It was about 25 degrees -- chilly, but there are too many people around here who live where it's REALLY cold for me to complain. It got me wondering, like in Chicago and places where your eyeballs could freeze, do people wear goggles if they have to be out walking a long way in single digits?

― The PEW Research Center for Panty-Twisting (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 15 February 2007 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link

was talking with cashier in the fruiterie this morning about the cold and she said she'd seen people wearing goggles! and then i left and not 5 minutes later saw a hipster/office-worker wearing GOLD goggles!

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 15 February 2007 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link

What is 25 degrees Fahrenheit in Celsius, about -2? When growing up I was regularly subjected to -40 Celsius, and my eyes never froze. That must be a myth!

― Servetus (Servetus), Thursday, 15 February 2007 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm batshit today. Pros/Cons:

+Grew a pair and started posting for realz.
+Parlayed said pair into meatspace extroversion, and probably found a few key folks for my next movie film.
+Train downtime = A nice hour to read Kafka on the Shore and pretend that I, too, live in a small private library and eat rice balls while devouring Soseki books.

-Roommate's rent check bounced, putting my bank account in the very red.
-Still recovering from subconsciously-enduced Valentine's sleep-a-thon.
-Stomach hates me for drinking a large black fair trade coffee without first putting food in it.
-Frozen eyballs.

― en i see kay (EstrangedNative), Friday, 16 February 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Have fucking headache and am working hours that basically involve little to no human contact outside of the office each day. Haven't eaten *real* food for about a week. Actually happy despite all this.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Friday, 16 February 2007 00:04 (seventeen years ago) link

If not for my sweet boyfriend - whose feelings I hurt by being an insensitive bitch this morning - this day might have been one that ended with my neighbors being quoted in the paper as saying, "she always seemed like such a sweet person, who knew she had it in her?"

― luna (luna), Friday, 16 February 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

i had a peachy day filled with praise at work followed by a baby shower in my and pleasant plains honor. these guys showed up at the beginning to meet pp, because they found out what his job is, and then left right away when they realized he wasn't coming. pish. now ive just realized i forgot to get cat food so ive got to go to stupid kroger so stupids

― sunny successor (katarina), Friday, 16 February 2007 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I feel sick, and I'm supposed to go out tomorrow night and have dinner in town with some people I want to see, but I just don't want to go out, but I feel guilty because I'm always so unreliable when I make plans with my friends.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 16 February 2007 00:23 (seventeen years ago) link

these guys showed up at the beginning to meet pp, because they found out what his job is,

Oh, that's certainly something I enjoy hearing.

― PPlains (PPlains), Friday, 16 February 2007 00:29 (seventeen years ago) link

my dad is helping me with airfare to PHX for cousin's wedding in April. I hate PHX, but have some good friends there and the weather is lovely in april.

boss is doing this thing he does every few months where he freaks out that he's slacking (we dont see much of his superiors) so he schedules all kinds of meetings where we end up discussing what we have always done but in new ways. he feels better, re-energized, and the a few months later he's back to coming in late and going home early.

w33d and b33rs on the golf course while on the clock tomorrow, surfing on Sunday.

GF has declared she does not like living here, despite her career really starting to take shape.

chances look good that i'll be part of a rotating DJ residency at a club i really like.

just realized a tire on the car is literally falling apart and i have no spare.

― Rick Gibralter (grady), Friday, 16 February 2007 00:32 (seventeen years ago) link

more cheerful than yesterday, but woke up sore and coughing. at lunch i was persuaded by a roommate to skip my classes, and spent the afternoon shivering and sleeping. i'd really like to spend my evening the same way but i have to write a response paper. grr.

― Maria e (Maria), Friday, 16 February 2007 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link

this stupid gas controller finally works = good

― they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Friday, 16 February 2007 00:59 (seventeen years ago) link

(Oh, it wasn't that bad.)

I am COLD. I am also officially past deadline on a minor assignment I should have done in advance, broke, and balancing the joy of the roommate moving out in three weeks with the resulting expense. The short story I liked most was just rejected pretty harshly, and I've rewritten the chapter of the novel that caused me to be late on the other thing three times without coming up with a version I'm happy with.

But. The girlfriend's awesome, grocery shopping and Amazon brought major material pleasures (monkfish, duck, Ramsey Campbell, H.P. Lovecraft, Cherry Coke Zero), Lost is back and Friday Night Lights isn't cancelled yet, and when the roommate's gone I will resume my tangential position to the ongoing drama of my family.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 February 2007 03:39 (seventeen years ago) link

i am better. got a free dinner at the roundtable thing (dinner = a couple of mini-wraps, some swedish meatballs, and a diet sprite), met some good people, and had a great workout at the gym later. ran into a friend there and we decided we're going to become GYM BUDDIES together. i'm glad cuz she's in awesome shape and i need inspiration.

― children of mentalists (get bent), Friday, 16 February 2007 04:26 (seventeen years ago) link

+good day hiking/skiing on tues
+snow!!!
+hour in the climbing gym today (bonus: pretty ladies!)
+getting organized
+maybe more AWESOME SHREDDING this weekend with homey from college

-woefully unprepared for orgo test tomorrow
-no valentine's ;_;
-broek, slipping into debt

― giboyojimbo (gbx), Friday, 16 February 2007 04:38 (seventeen years ago) link

came home after gym last night to maker's mark and fresh pork and leek dumplings. awesome!

― Lauren (lauren), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Been having bad dreams of heartbreak all week, miss my car (in shop for 2nd week), and today I have horrendous hummus gas.

― nklshs (nklshs), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

But my haert will go on...

― nklshs (nklshs), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Tired, hungover, anxious, a little depressed, all possibly interrelated except for the school-related anxiety which has been my constant boon companion for the last 2.5 years.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

depressed. the little relationship i'm in is a mess.

― hm (modestmickey), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

count down 7 more days until freedom to go outside though!

― hm (modestmickey), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

You've been sitting in a room for a year?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Kudos, srsly. (xpost)

― The PEW Research Center for Panty-Twisting (Rock Hardy), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

6 months

― hm (modestmickey), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Planning to drown my slight post-VD funk in birthday libations for my best friend.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

This has definitely kickstarted my morning.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

3 day weekend here! am going to the track, MAYBE, on monday!

― AiLien (AMD), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

x-post: !

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I feel quiet, for a change...? Reading Craig Childs book about giving your mind up to the desert, making the boundaries of personhood more and more porous...it's lending me some perspective but also propping me open to all kinds of excess of feeling, liable to be overwhelmed all the time. O cycles. Hard to be in the busy, noisy city today, taking it all in is so much work but I don't want to close the door.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

M., I'm very sorry to hear about your VD and your funk.

― The PEW Research Center for Panty-Twisting (Rock Hardy), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't close the door, Laurel, just make sure there's another door open as well.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, thanks, I was thinking -- I just need to find the right place to sit in the flow. Am getting there.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

M., I'm very sorry to hear about your VD and your funk.

Ha ha!

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

now regularly sleeping 2x a night, watching movies 2-4 a.m.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

you should go to the desert, Laurel! i am going there this spring, i hope. i used to go to the desert every spring -- cleans you right up.

― giboyojimbo (gbx), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

That would probably be awesome, and good for you! I think it's a place that you can die, though, and I don't have the skills that apply there. I will think of some other purge/renewal.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Find someplace honestly silent. Pretty hard to do but not impossible.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i had a CRAZY dream last night and woke up very unsettled! it wasn't a scary dream, but a really vivid and action-packed one. it's long and complicated, but it ends when some guys with superpowers who've finally been defeated and left to die at sea on a grim prison boat are tagged as dead and tossed into the water, where we see their souls arise and hurtle up into space on a trip to heaven. heaven's great but these guys are troublemakers and want to see the "girls" in hell, so they fly around some more and find the secret door to hell. i wake up when they're being chased around by the meanie hell baddies and trying to escape back to heaven.

― children of mentalists (get bent), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Blah. This past week has been pretty shitty. My Gram passed away on Valentine's day and am now planning a trip back up to Buffalo for the memorial service. I've been cooking a lot though, reading Pema Chodron, and knitting, so things are getting better. I've had a constant headache for the past week, and am thinking some rye may be the perfect medicine (when I get home from work, of course).

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Molls, have been thinking of you all week. Knit and drink all the rye and be well, my friend in the south.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks, Laurel. You're the best. Knitting will come first, then drinking. The two, when mixed, have disastrous results.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Knitting will come first, then drinking. The two, when mixed, have disastrous results

My sister challenges your wussiness on this front. (Knitting while in a dive bar getting hammered is a kind of specialty with her.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

(And far more seriously, v. sorry to hear about your grandma.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

http://photos1.flickr.com/2198300_47ea23dec0_m.jpg

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Exactly how do you get a spider stoned?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw Europe on Valentines Day, they were great. Sang along to Carrie, Rock the Night, Cherokee, and The Final Countdown. Seriously, they are better than IKEA and ABBA.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Jel you are a man of wonder. How big was the venue?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Ned, really!? She's my new hero! I can't do it! I drop stitches like nobody's business, and then lament my drunken decision the next day.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Shepherd's Bush Empire, musta been about 1500+ people there! I sat behind a big metal dude with an Opeth t-shirt on, at one point another metal dude tapped him on the shoulder to say "hey". After that Opeth dude started rocking out a little more. The world is a beautiful place!!

On Sunday, I saw Bonnie Prince Billy, the audience was full of bearded intellectuals :(

EUROPE >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>bpb

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

On Sunday, I saw Bonnie Prince Billy, the audience was full of bearded intellectuals :(

jel, I saw him in Nashville a while back. Same beardo audience.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

That last point goes without saying, Jel!

Molly: it takes years of practice in places like Zeitgeist. M. knows what I'm talking about.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah! He must fly them in!

I went home and shaved after the show.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Half of them were probably bears.

(Oldham looked kinda hot in Old Joy, and I don't usu gun for paunchy beardos specifically)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Hah. Bears with a western wear shirt fetish.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, and nauseating bearded intellectuals with cute girlfriends, I forgot to add.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I remember the random cowboy hat, which I hope you did not experience. 1) No one wears cowboy hats in Nashville, and 2) You're blocking my view, jackass.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

No one wears cowboy hats in Nashville

Never been to 2nd Avenue?

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Tourists. All tourists.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Bears with a western wear shirt fetish.

Hell yes. Try D.C., Denver, SF etc. (specific bars, even)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Morbs, what was that bar you'd been in before you met us at the Kilowatt?

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

haha, that's just normal dudes in MT

― giboyojimbo (gbx), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Tourists. All tourists.

true dat

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Michael, that was a Latin gay bar with giant happy-hour mojitos. Didn't see any rancheros there, tho.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, OK.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 16 February 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

fuck this stemmed glass shit, time to drink straight outta the bottle

― they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Monday, 19 February 2007 08:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm just tired of being sick. This cold will go on and on. And it has taken a toll on my semester. But I'm getting out of it. That one paper? It will be done when it is done, OK? I'm not any happier about it being not yet done than you are.

― Casuistry (casuistry), Monday, 19 February 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Seeing as was on about concerts here...

Last night I saw Bowling for Soup/Wheatus/Son of Dork.

Son of Dork are truly awful. I enjoyed BFS, and got to sing along to "Teenage Dirtbag". Anyway, the point of the story is, I was standing near a fruit machine, and two horrible teenage dudes (emo hair, skinny jeans, bright t-shirts) approached us, and one of them motioned me to move with a parting of the red sea gesture - in order to retrieve a can of Tennants with a straw in!!! The uncouth pair proceeded to drink from the can and sort of dance in front of me and my pal, before going away. I was very much affronted by their rudeness, but why the hell did I get out of their way in the first place?

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

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