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updates these months southern belles in london sing 04.01.05 reality is overrated 03.27.05 storytime revisted 03.23.05

southern belles in london sing 04.01.05 22:01 i'm going to have a cheap weekend. today was lenior for lunch, rounding up $2.14 from my pockets, desk, and floor to get dinner at cosmic, and finding an excellent cd in the free bin at schoolkids. in case you're curious, it's wet from birth, by the faint. somewhere between rock (maybe even punk) and dance and i don't know, it's just good. and it was free. and there's a trombone player in the credits, but i've yet to notice any trombone. hmm, maybe i'm just not a good listener. anyhow yes. proof (as are most of the posters on my walls) that the free bin at schoolkids is a wonderful thing. last week i got an astralwerks sampler out of it, but i lost it in the pile of laundry and books by my bed, and i already knew that astralwerks was a good label. oh and further along in my cheap weekend, tomorrow is the really really free market in carrboro. read about it here in a post on craigslist, an excellent resource for whatever you might want, cheap, free, and otherwise. aimee found her bookshelf on there for free. and hm, what else shall i do in my cheap weekend? i guess staying in and trying to round up people to play frsibee with me tonight like i've been doing (unsuccessfully, hence this post) is a start. oh, damn. i just remembered that i bought tickets to a concert while i was at schoolkids. that kind of ruins the cheap weekend. but hey, i wanted to go anyway, and would've felt bad walking out without buying anything since i rummaged through the free bin and wandered around the store for 20 minutes talking to wil, partially about music i should get. he's heard the new mountain goats. i'm jealous, i want it. NOW. it was reviewed in the dth this week and it got my hopes up that it was out, but no, nooooo. not until april 26th. and i just checked the date on that and saw that there's an ep from the sunset tree's recording sessions available online...but it's not free :-{. that defeats the purpose of online, i think. ah well. april 26th. and at the cradle may 2nd, woo. speaking of which there are a lot of interesting concerts coming up, most notably jump on the 14th, dizzee rascal the 21st, then the mtn goats. that's all at the cradle; of montreal is in raleigh next friday, the decemberists are in asheville may 8th, and the junior boys at local 506 may 9th (the day before my last exam. *curses, kicks something, resolves to go anyway*). with all that and the new albums coming out (found out today the books have a new one out too), i will have to exercise a great deal of monetary restraint in the next month or so. wow, this is all about music. so let me switch gears. the whole town is shutting down this weekend for basketball and i find it quite funny. and beneficial, because the planetarium is part of the whole town, and we're going to close for evening shows tomorrow because of parking (no one wants to put a car on franklin st if there's a chance we may win and go to the championship game on monday, plus everyone will be watching the game anyway), which means i get a night off. excellent. now i can join the masses in watching us play michigan state. and also, two of my professors moved assignments/tests back because of the game, at least partially anyhow. physics test was tuesday, now is thursday, and short story assignment was due tuesday, also now thursday. i think it's going to jinx us and make us lose. and speaking of short story, damnation of damnations, i didn't get into advanced fiction. not entirely surprising, but disappointing nonetheless. so i'm going to try to take stylistics (though i may well not be accepted into that class either) and try again for advanced fiction in the spring if i think i can handle it...my schedule will be intense. yay for junior year. but hey, adv. fiction conflicted with thermodynamics, so now i get to take that. yummy, thermodynamics over creative writing. can't wait. hm, this has now approached what i would term indimidatingly long, so i'll stop here and go renew my frisbee efforts. oh, but here there are a few pictures of me being a crazy woman in our spanish skit this morning--we were the only ones brave enough to do a live performance, hah. too bad we messed up the lines pretty horribly in the middle, but it's ok, we get bragging rights for trying. so hah. top

reality is overrated 03.27.05 21:01 happy easter everyone, but it's an unhappy sunday night. sunday nights mean work. this sunday night means lots of work, because i did a nice round absolutely nothing school related this weekend, and did very little school related last week. which was amazing, and not normal reality. the ncssm out of state world went on spring break last week, and that means the out of state world came to visit unc, where most of us less than out of state ncssmers go to school these days. that means that i saw a whole lot of people i dont' normally see, almost none of those i normally do, and almost none of the inside of any books. ah spring break. i lived vicariously since i was sick during my own and didn't get to do much. and i started posting this sort of to let people know i'm alive with minimal effort...but now i realize that pretty much everyone who looks at this (i think) was probably one of those lucky ones on spring break last week who saw me. ah well. i should do work now. i think that sounds unfun to the extreme. i've wasted an hour since getting back to school now, most of it looking at travel stuff to go to europe this summer before eric's study abroad thing starts and i have to come home to work in chapel thrill. europe! raahhhhh! adventure! no definite plans yet, but they're forming. it will happen. i insist. and in other news, the decemberists' new album is out. i have yet to listen to it. i am torn as to whether i should obtain it through legal means or not...i did, after all, buy one of their albums AND go to one of their shows, and am trying to get to another (early may at the orange peel in asheville; the exam schedule may be uncooperative, however). maybe that's enough? damn my expensive habit of wanting to support the artist. it's all john darnielle's fault, with his guilt trip to someone on his forums i read last summer. grrr. i would wish him ill, except i like his music. alas. top

storytime revisted 03.23.05 02:13 so here i am a month later updating this page. i'm sorely tempted by a redesign from seeing friends' blogs that use wordpress, which seems nifty and, most importantly, is free. i also have the distinct feeling that if i didn't do this all in hand-coded html, i'd update it more often. even though it really probably takes the same amount of time now that i've got a template laid out and know lots of useful little tags. meh. there are several things of note to be discussed. one is that i have now linked to people under "friendly linkage." you should look at their sites, they're much fancier and more frequently updated than mine. katie tells me that aimee's portrays a much more scandalous side of my life than mine does, however... so maybe you should look at your own risk. me being slightly scandalous also appears on albert's, but only if you know my screen name (which no doubt you do, if you're bothering to read this). plus it's funny. right. so thing of note number two is, speaking of katie, she came eastward! yay for katie. but she's going home tomorrow. boo for that. thing of note number three is that i am officially a rambler. yeah, yeah, you protest, we've all known that for years. but no! i mean to say, at work, at the illustrious morehead planetarium and science center, i have given my first carolina skies show. being a rambler denotes such status (the show used to be known as sky rambles). and, not only have i given my first cs show, it was to 258 people. and by people i mean schoolchildren. and by schoolchildren i mean some were in 4th grade, some were in middle school, and some were high schoolers. yeah. so you should be impressed, i know i was. and nervous as hell. i actually had a nightmare about it two days beforehand. but apparently i did a good job. so i'm told...i have a tape recorder sitting on my desk full of 45 minutes of me talking about astronomy in the dark dome. have yet to listen to that. jesse warns me that i'll despise that tape. i'll get back to you on that. in the meantime, you should come embarrass me when i have my public carolina skies debut weekend, march 31, april 1, and april 2, at 7 pm each night. if you tell me you're coming i'll get you in free. ok, so that's largely it for things of note, other than i need to go to bed. bed it is! raaahhhh! top