**^^^^^happy face emoticon [temp]

92. came home to package from friend in australia including a cd-rom with some demo game things he made a long time ago and a letter in html format that has links to things he talks about and a mix of mp3s with a table of: song artist album/source comment (!) and an australian wildlife calendar and a cool towel with koalas on it and a dvd!
awesome surprise!

i know i always am going on on this thread but hells, happy things are happy:
93. the show was really great! and the other bands great as well. (the playhouse sound is good. aesthetics need work but hey. lots of mirrors. ugly chairs. but awesome star/sun-shaped light above the stage.) we were loud, fairly tight. and we have more fans now :) - "will totally come to next show A++"

http://www.ime-usa.com/media/ice_fest/gallery/images/beacon%20search.jpg

SUMMER FOREVER

BWAAAAAA ^___________^

finally obtained actual copy of 'le 12 mars 1977', really the best shit ever

also got:

104. new job
105. new apt
106. free cable by putting splitter on internet line (cable guy left it for me and said "don't connect that until after we leave, He he)

113. rewatched '40 yr old virgin' earlier and laughed out loud a lot (to counteract wrong move of dl-ing and watching terrible crappiness that is 'art sch00l confidential' (ffwded through parts, immediately deleted, yaaay))

114. was talking about needing a haircut and friend said i have 'stoner hair' (though i am not such a stoner not really) and when i asked her what that meant she said my hair reminds her of
http://media.godashboard.com/heart/dreamboat_annie_album.jpg

115. listening to panda bear 'bros' on repeat and dancing to fend off bummerz mood. not really listening to lyrics though. going to sleep soon and don't have to wake up early. **tomorrow = better day**

a good thing

also, this guy was there:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/gradygillan/rubyshot.jpg

other cool, slightly more cheesy story from today's symposium:

118. there was a lady who was a 10 year old navy brat in 1941 and was at a "Jitterbug Contest" on the military base the night before the PH attack. the band leader knew she was a very good jitterbugger, but knew she didn't have a partner so asked the crowd i some young gent would come and dance with her. a uniformed sailor walked on to the dance floor, danced with her, and the two won the contest, each taking home a trophy and never even getting eachothers' names. (no doubt a HUGE thing to happen to a ten year old girl in 1941). the attacks happened the next morning and the little girl survived, lived on Oahu during all of WWII, and went on to live in the Southeast. She always wondered if the serviceman she danced with survived the attack and if so could she one day reunite. long story short, she finally tracked him down, alive and well in 1998, (they had been living 15 miles apart for a few decades) and at the 60th anniversiary gala in 2001, they danced the jitterbug together for the first time in 60 years. they were both in the room as me today while she told this story and will dance the jitterbug again at tonite's 65th aniv. gala.

both this lady and jim leavelle are being covered by NBC this week, so there's going to be stuff on nightly news and today show on wed and thurs. probably.

i think i always knew it subsconsciously.

-- grbchv! (reduhnekkisssss...), December 6th, 2006. (gbx) (later) (link)