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Friday, December 13, 2002
2:07PM
'i'm in love
what's this song?
i'm in love
with this song.'
-'alex chilton',the replacements
today's wakeup music:
alex chilton,the ledge,never mind, and skyway
from 'pleased to meet me',the replacements
paul westerberg is my generation's jack kerouac,only not quite so sad
Current music: perfect circle-r.e.m.
new england winter...arghhh!
last night it was a bit icy on the drive home,but the road i drive on is pretty well travelled so i guess it gets taken care of well plus people driving on it probably keeps it from freezing as fast,i would guess...the friction,right?
anyhow,black ice is scary.i drove a bit slower last night just in case,but it seemed okay.
now i'm really pissed though.tonight it's supposed to be freezing rain,rain tomorrow,and freezing rain tomorrow night again. fuckity fuck. since i get out of work at 11:30 p.m. and have a 30-40 minute drive home,i'll get the brunt of all this crap. and i missed work (and the 60 bucks i make in a day because i ran out of sick time) on wednesday because the roads were horrible and i didn't go in.
this sucks. why the hell haven't i packed for vancouver anyway?*
speaking of going to canada,every day the headlines read like a very predictable tv movie script.i don't really like john wayne,er,i mean,george w. bush movies. and i'm not even terribly fond of tv these days.of course,i haven't had cable until recently,but i'm still not watching much.anyhow,i so often think i could write a better script.i have the ideas,i just don't really want the chore of actually writing the damn thing.i'm more of an idea person.and this isn't making much sense. well,it does to me,but that's because i know how i think,but...
almost time for my mac and cheese.yum.
*probably because my mom's in a nursing home here and due to having als,is probably only going to live a couple of more years,and i can't take her with me.
Current mood: slightly chilly
Thursday, December 12, 2002
er,we got snow.
i went to bed a half hour early last night (though i meant to go to bed a whole hour early,but just wanted to stay up...which is typical of me) so i could get up early this morning and move my car for the snow plow guy. ha. he was here around 8:30 and i just couldn't drag myself out of bed.if i don't get enough sleep,i have a headache all day. and for some reason i need a long night's sleep which is quite inconvenient when there aren't enough hours in the day to do what you want and/or need to do.how tragic.
( oh how i do go on )
Wednesday, December 11, 2002
The Too Good to Hurry Kilt-Wearing Dude
certainly.
*mischievious grin*
see previous entry
Current mood: lazy Current music: now on the spin cycle
i just remembered this really weird dream where i was in a remake of 'the sound of music' (a movie that i have adored since i saw it on the big screen at the age of six,i think...oh and i got to see it on the big screen again when i was in college...god,it's gorgeous...) and i was playing the maria von trapp role (of course...my mom used to always give me a funny look when singing 'how do you solve a problem like maria...how do pull a whirling dervish out of whirl? etc...')
and kenneth branagh was playing captain von trapp. KENNETH BRANAGH? why in the hell did my subconscious mind choose him? he always seems to be overacting,though maybe it's because i've only seen him in shakespeare thingies,in which overacting seems required. (not that i'm opinionated or anything)
now who would be good for captain von trapp? hell,i'd play opposite christopher plummer TODAY rather than kenneth branagh. kenneth branagh is one of those good looking people that i just...don't ...really...like.
now lets see...my current favorite male actors are, not surpringly,scottish,but i really can't see ewan mcgregor or billy boyd as captain von trapp (maybe i lack imagination) even though i think they're both good actors.
good heavens,who am i going to cast as captain von trapp? this could keep me awake for days...
Current music: tick tock,very peaceful
i'll drive in a blinding blizzard,and certainly have done,but not on ice.
which is why i am home typing this right now. the forecast was for really horrible road conditions tonight,possibly starting around suppertime rush hour and since i go in at 3 i couldn't see the point of going in only to come back in bad weather with a pack of mostly nutcases who inhabit this planet and also drive vehicles.
just a wee bit,damn,what's that word when you hate people?
anyway,of course i feel guilty and when i called work i said,hey,at least they were going to save money on payroll,though it sucks for me to have been out sick so much this year and to have long ago run out of my six sick days and two personal days per year. oh,well,better luck next year i hope!
on a happier note (ha ha,yeah right) i read an interview in a new book put out by the disinfo.com people (or person,richard metzger) with howard bloom. really interesting stuff,but let's say a wee bit gloomy. basically he says that it's us vs. bacteria and it's most likely that the bacteria will win.
when he says bacteria,he's talking about stuff that causes the flu,etc. i thought that a bacterial infection and a viral infection were two different things though.hmm...anyway,his theories are very interesting and make a lot of sense to me. for instance,he mentions about how antibiotics are becoming less effective.
well,i hope that doesn't BUG anybody.
Current mood: sated/just ate Current music: indigo girls
1:06PM
i can't post the photo directly as i don't have a computer but here is a lovely picture of billy boyd very finely dressed for the paris two towers premiere. : )
Sunday, December 8, 2002
8:35PM
just watched the charlie brown christmas special and got all weepy. i first saw that when i was 7 years old,37 years ago. it's still one of my favorites,along with rudolph the rednosed reindeer,which is a very subversive story...'it's good to be different'. not exactly what western society usually reinforces,which is more like being the man in the gray flannel suit (or to update it,being the adult with the cellphone and suv).
so,it's getting christmasy. hey,it looks christmasy enough. we've gotten snow,unlike last year and it's been cold enough so it hasn't all melted. it's nice to drive the backroad to work on saturday (when my usual road is far too trafficky,filled up with the mad shopping crowd) and see fields of nondirty snow.
driving home from the grocery store,i noticed the folks in the bungalow on the corner had put up some decorations...i love colored lights,one of my favorite things about christmastime.
well,i'll be going over to visit mom tomorrow unless the place is still under quarantine. last week they wouldn't let anyone visit because tons of the old folks had the stomach flu.i think my sisters were going to take mom christmas shopping on saturday,but i'll bet they weren't able to. meanwhile,my sister sara,who is rarely on the computer,was spamming me last night. well,at least i usually like some of the things she sends and i send her things occasionally,like the time i found a website that had online u2 paperdolls. that was a riot.
well,time to put the laundry in the dryer and brush and floss my teeth and pay some bills and write a new to-do list. oh joy.
Current mood: recoverin from being verklempt Current music: hark the herald angels sing
5:37PM
you know how they say never go grocery shopping when you're hungry? that goes double for when you're hungry and pmsing. oy.
Current mood: bummed out by lack of daylight Current music: invisible sun-the police
Saturday, December 7, 2002
i was looking at my movie listings on my yahoo page and i can't believe the local drive-in theater is still open! i'm mean,come on,new englanders are a hardy bunch (though i loved last winter's 'pacific northwest' imitation) but that's kind of ridiculous. or maybe it's just an old listing,because i thought they closed after halloween.
i guess drive-ins are a dying breed,but there's still one here...right next to a huge cornfield. great juxtaposition,if that's the right word.
Current mood: overdue for elevensies Current music: dark iniseoghain-deanta
Friday, December 6, 2002
i like the fluffy kind,if we have to have any at all.
went i set off to work around 2 in the afternoon,we'd already gotten some snow.i thought,shit,if it's supposed to snow all night we're going to get tons of it...grrr...
well,i got out of work at 11:30 and even though it had been snowing steadily,the snow didn't even go above my ankles,for which i was grateful. and it was that nice fluffy stuff (it really is quite pretty,i'll grudgingly admit,because i dislike new england winter and its cold and inconvenient masses of snow). that made it a heck of a lot easier to clean off my car.i guess the fluffy kind doesn't really accumulate that quickly.happy dance.
geez,i was surprised at how slippery it was,though i'm always careful if there's snow on the roads anyhow. i dont' really fishtail every time i drive in snow,but i did last night. which is exactly why i always leave plenty of space between me and other vehicles in bad driving conditions.
well,so i'm driving slowly..yeah,a mere 25 mph which makes for a long drive home,but it's wise on these roads. and i see in front of me a huge tractor trailer truck in the road,but it's not moving. hmmm...
so i slow down and i see people in the road ahead. well,i couldn't really see much of anything because i was behind this huge truck...maybe it's just as well because after about ten minutes, a fire truck arrives,then another one,then an ambulance,then another one.jesus.
( nothing to see here,move along )
Current mood: hungry Current music: everlong-foo fighters
Wednesday, December 4, 2002
i'm so proud of myself.i just figured out how to program mom's vcr without a manual. because god only knows where she put the manual. and then the vcr spit out the tape,and i pushed it back in and it spit it out again and i even remembered it was because i had to put tape over the punched out part on the tape i was using.yay!
so if i've indeed programmed the thing correctly i will have myself a copy of 'return to middle earth' on wb tonight when i get home.
the last time i tried to tape something was david gray on some nighttime show and i put it on the wrong channel.and that was a couple of years ago.
Current mood: rushed,gotta floss,go to work. Current music: edge's wailing guitar on dancing barefoot-u2
Tuesday, December 3, 2002
i just realized that i accidentally bought something on 'buy nothing day'. but it was a pint of ben and jerry's frozen yogurt,i.e.,an emergency. ahem.
last week i found a hidden track on my u2 best 80-90 and it pretty much flipped me out.i guess i forgot about it,though,because it flipped me out again today. so,'all i want is you' ends and y'know,the cd's over.yeah. and then...the piano of 'october'...it's so beautiful i tear up immediately and get very verklempt. sniff. beauty and sadness.
couldn't resist taking this one:
Which U2 are you?
brought to you by Quizilla
one of my favorite bands in one of my favorite movies.yowza!
Current mood: sleepyish Current music: nah...very quiet late night/morning.time to sleep.
Monday, December 2, 2002
i must have cheated on this quiz.i like the picture of marbles though.
what sort of weirdo are you?
this quiz by belle
Current mood: sorry my weekend is ending Current music: she just wants to be-r.e.m.
i miss my silly mom.
but i did see my silly dad who was actually quite grumpy but you would be too if you lived in new england and your furnace isn't working too well and your landlord seems to be slow to attend to it.anyway.
planning on seeing silly mom next week.
anyway,is it me or has lj been really wonky lately?
Current music: virginia woolf-indigo girls
i wrote this a couple of years ago.still sounds good to me.
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this part of heaven looks a lot like scotland,only it doesn't rain as much,and it's a little warmer.i'm on one of the islands.there are not a lot of people there,but everyone who is,is just wonderful.many have scottish accents.many know a lot of different languages.there's a love of words.there's music...live and otherwise.there's silence too,and just hearing the waves and the gulls.
( oh and there's more )
Current mood: dreamy Current music: ghost-indigo girls
"The world is often a wicked place, when you look around, but its also full of beauty.. and beauty is the consolation prize really.. and we just have to find more of it and we have to look for it in unexpected places.. its not just in those fashion spreads, that's not real beauty.. There is beauty to be found in everyday things." -Bono
Current mood: dancy Current music: indigo girls-3 hits
Sunday, December 1, 2002
9:46PM
i just got a paid account.yippee!
Current mood: paradoxically peaceful&excited
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