Wednesday, May 31, 2006

it's pouring outside...

the evil bird left his poop upon my car
the evil bird left his poop upon my car
the evil bird left his poop upon my car
and the rains came tumbling down

bye, bye hot pink bird poo. while your fluorescent presence was certainly a curiosity, i bid thee farewell.

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

shat...

is there such a thing as hot pink bird poo? my car has been christened with such a substance, and i'm curious as to its origin.

regardless, it's gross. and fairly substantial.

when i finally get a job, the first thing i'm going to do is pay someone to clean the inside and outside of my vehicle. until then, i'm praying for rain...

Friday, May 26, 2006

recommended reading...

what could closure mean to a believer in an eternal soul? what could closure mean in the shadow of an all-seeing, all-remembering god? even to someone whose faith is as shaky as mine, it seems simply common sense that true stories do not end.

from vows: the story of a priest, a nun, and their son by peter manseau

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

a cornucopia of musical offerings...

ticketmaster is once again singing to me its siren song. listen to this...
  • toad the wet sprocket - sunday, july 23rd at the uptown theater
  • lyle lovett - tuesday, july 25th at the uptown theater
  • laci's 30th birthday - saturday, august 5th (well, technically, that wasn't on the ticketmaster website...)
  • ben harper - friday, august 25th at starlight theater
you have got to be kidding me. how in the world to choose?

Thursday, May 04, 2006

the jukebox in my head...

is currently stuck on one particular line of an alabama song.
i'm guilty of love in the first degree
you have got to be kidding me...

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

i am a sunburned moron who CLEARLY doesn't learn from her mistakes...

so when my mac died earlier this year, you would have thought that the threat of losing all of my thesis work would have made me religious about backing up my computer.

you would have thought that, wouldn't you...

well, monday i narrowly avoided DISASTER when the blue screen of death appeared on my PC. the PC with ALL my email on it. with EVERYTHING regarding brian's booking. the last time i'd backed that up was in january. do you know how many emails i've sent since january?

i said a very short prayer (over and over and over...) that if my computer would just start for ten minutes - just long enough for me to back this information up, i didn't care if afterwards it burst into flames.

it took about an hour and a half for my miracle to come, but god delivered in spectacular fashion. i now have a comprehensive set of backups. stuff i know i'll need, stuff i'll likely never need again. spare copies of it all.

perhaps you, too, might take the time to back up your computer today. no doubt there are files on it that you would be loathe to lose to the irretrievable ether of a crashed hard drive.

technology - i shake my fist at you!

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

kerrigan v. harding, the opera...

MEDFORD, Mass. -- When Tufts music student Abigail Al-Doory sought inspiration for her opera, she looked not to Wagner's "Ring" cycle but to the Olympic rings, where themes like power, envy and greed are plentiful.

In "Tonya and Nancy: The Opera," Al-Doory provides 18 movements on the scandal that turned the once-dainty sport of figure skating into a soap opera of whacking, wailing and time spent in jail.


Scheduled for two Tuesday night performances, the production portrays the skaters not as rivals but as a pair, singing for the audience's sympathy as the tawdry affair unfolds.


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