Saturday, June 28, 2003
argh! this new blogger interface just ate my last post, in which i answered this week's friday five, linked to this, (which is hilarious and true) and a few other things. lacking the time or energy to re-think most of those thoughts, i'll just go ahead and try this friday five thing again. 1. How are you planning to spend the summer? working! 2. What was your first summer job? volunteering as a junior keeper at the audubon zoo when i was 13. 3. If you could go anywhere this summer, where would you go? tyler, texas. 4. What was your worst vacation ever? don't think i've had a worst. i've had some bad experiences, but never an entirely bad vacation. 5. What was your best vacation ever? backpacking europe in '95 after studying abroad. Saturday, June 21, 2003
please, please, will someone tell me why, when i'm at the point of collapse from exhaustion after pulling an all nighter at work thursday night (for naught, as it turns out, because this morning the project was expanded and the "fedex it by friday night" deadline postponed) and it's three in the morning on saturday, i can't get to sleep and am instead seized by a burst of initiative, immense and magnetic, to do all the things around the house i've been putting off for the longest: cleaning, vacuuming (a no-go at this hour), re-organizing my cds, painting, reading, and of course, writing this to tell you all about it. inevitably, though, i will crash, and awake this afternoon, minus my midnight motivation. Tuesday, June 17, 2003
have i mentioned that lately i'm strangely addicted to dharma & greg reruns? true. Sunday, June 15, 2003
1. What's one thing you've always wanted to do, but never have? travel to colombia - bogota - to meet all my family there. unfortunately, nobody in the family there considers it too safe, and i don't particularly feel up to being held for ransom by armed guerillas. i know this is paranoid, but the fact remains. 2. When someone asks your opinion about a new haircut/outfit/etc, are you always honest? generally, though the value of diplomacy and tact can never be underestimated. 3. Have you ever found out something about a friend and then wished you hadn't? What happened? not unless you count finding out (on a couple of separate occasions) about girlfriends lying to/cheating on me, but then it was good i found that out, right? though i wished i hadn't had to. and that was a long, long time ago. by-gones. 4. If you could live in any fictional world (from a book/movie/game/etc.) which would it be and why? the thing about fictional worlds, see, is that our beloved protagonists are, quite often, trying to get out of them. that being said: Wonderland & Looking-Glass Land; Never-Neverland; Halloweentown; Pangloss' "best of all possible worlds". 5. What's one talent/skill you don't have but always wanted? blind faith. can't do it. is that a skill? Friday, June 06, 2003
there's a whole lot of end-of-an-era stuff going on around new orleans these days. i just got back from the shim sham club, from the last 80's dance night there, ever - because this morning, in about three hours (6am on 6/6), the shim sham club will close forever. pleasantly, i saw all the familiar faces i had hoped to. in the four years it's been around, i've made lots of great memories of that place, through various 80's nights and concerts and $1 pabsts without number. it was a great venue, and a great bar - hard to believe it's only been four years, it seems so much longer... oddly, it's also a place i associate with several farewells over that time, and i guess i can add tonight to that list. i'll miss it.
cheers, shim sham, we hardly knew ya. on a different note, since i said i'd get back into the habit, here's another friday five, and it looks like a good one. 1. How many times have you truly been in love? too many? none? one? at least one, but i'm not sure which. 2. What was/is so great about the person you love(d) the most? the mental connection. telepathy, almost. 3. What qualities should a significant other have? tolerance, patience, humor & empathy. and fun. they should have fun. 4. Have you ever broken someone's heart? maybe a little, once. 5. If there was one thing you could teach people about love, what would it be? cliche but true: you've got to love yourself before you can really love another person properly. and that's harder than it seems. (get your damn mind out of the gutter!) |