Q'n'A

Recently, I have some questions, maybe you have answers.

Is there really an internet archive? Someone said something about it last night at dinner, and I just don't know if it can be real.

What is Kelly's address? I asked her, but she won't get back to me.

How do you tie an obi? I can't figure it out, even with printed directions.

Did someone really fall through a subway grate once? I thought about it while walking to work today, when I saw some lady take this huge step to avoid walking over one. I think I remember someone telling me once that some girl fell in one.

Will my bathing suit from H&M fall apart? I'm in the market for a better one, but at least this one matches.

Finally, what ever happened to Lauren?

sincerely

I'd like more emails that are barely decipherable and end like this:

i am sdtil sobersd most,yl. iexcedot not really.

cloxoxoxox

(Today I went to CVS and bought a children's paintset. It's not too late to start, right?)

Things I Learned

from my surgery - just a couple

My head pusses out all the time. I'm resigned about being gross. People care less than I thought.

I got okay with being alone. Sometimes I even choose it now on purpose.

Not shopping for 4 weeks was fine. Granted, one of those weeks I was in the hopsital, and the other weeks I wasn't really going places, but I didn't feel the urge, which was good.

Super short haircut is fine, and super easy.

Having tons and tons of time on my hands made me less creative, and way more into tv. I had big plans.

old grind

Back to work and everything; today is day two. Before work though, I had to go to the dental school to take care of broken tooth (number one). Oh - they can't. They didn't get medical clearance. Cool. I'll just come back to the end of the earth* next week for the chip and then make a few appointments for my first root canal.
Instead of getting my grilled fixed up, we talked about Long Term, and payment. It's cool, I'll just power through and pay a few hundred a month for the next eight years. If I get approved. Lawsuit, hurry up. One way or the other, just let me know.

Last night we went to Trader Joe's with about 500 9-5er fringe types. I'm trying to eat out less, or not at all, but am Very Bad at shopping. The whole trip was kind of ill flavored by Conrad and I trying (failing) to be nice to each other for like an hour. Check out girl was particularly perceptive about this.

After that? Monsters vs Aliens, which was WAY worse than Monsters Inc, (or Aliens for that matter). It was in 3d though, and had one funny joke about Steven Hawking.

*West Philly

song lyrics

Today is Back To Work, and it's Not That Bad.
I have lots of nets to catch up on, a minimal amount of work, letter writing & sending, Scrabble games started a month ago, ordering digital cameras online, etc.

First up: I want to really do Fleisher this summer. I say that most seasons, but always have a trip, major surgery, or something where I'd end up missing some of the classes, which makes it kind of a bust.
But this summer, thinking about
Quilt Arts, Watercolors, or Stitch and Surface (experimental embroidery).
The only thing that I'm going to let cut into this is too many trips, which, with my life, probably won't happen.
I also want to start or learn how to draw things, but it's way too late in my personal chronology to take a drawing class. I just don't think I could.
Anyway, looking for co-learners.

Next: I want to quit eating and drinking out. I have SO MUCH lately, and it's dumb, cause I just eat bad food, feel kind of gross after, and then am poor. A proposition - can we all just have each other over for dinner all the time? Kampers? WH? Andy? Conrad? HZ? I'm talking to you. We all have kitchens. Let's do it.
Also: intrigued by, but not sold on, the idea that some of these people do where you see if you can eat for $1/day or $25/week or whatever. I just can't figure out if it's an exercise in frugality or what, but I do like a monthly challenge, and I'd rather pay medical bills than eat expensive food so...

Anyway. What's new with you? I've been drawing pictures.

just four

Some things that are dumb.

The 47.
People who bring babies to Royal Tavern.
The wind, which blew a piece of gum out of my mouth today.
Boys who play (bad, top 40) music on their phones at full volume on the Chinatown bus.

The good news is that Halloween costume planning 2k9 has commenced.

keeping blogging

Here's just a bunch of things that have been happening lately. I guess I blog less cause I compute less or whatever. So: updates. We'll shoot for ten.

1. Maybe trips. My life now includes a couple maybe trips (Cape Cod? Tuscany?) which is great cause I've been having a little cabin (Philly) fever (phever?).

2. Marilyn met Henry Winkler.


3. My head started leaking, and it's super gross, and I won't talk about it more. It's nothing to worry about, just gross.

4. Conrad has a blog now I guess, about his new intentional unhappiness, which is kind of his thing usually/anyway, but now you can read about how he's doing it on purpose for a month.
Question (that I guess Andy already posed): for someone who's main thing is thriving on attention, isn't it counter-productive to make a blog about it (if you're trying to be unhappy)? I also didn't really realize that that's what is was about, I thought at the beginning he was just trying to detox or something. I guess it grew.

Anyway, Conrad, I know you usually get really unhappy when we hang out. So, whenever.

5. When my iPod is working, I've been taking long walks with Sarah Vowell, trying to learn some things about dead presidents and patriotism. I'm not sure if it's working.

6. We're really working our way through that candy. You can come over and eat some Now and Laters, I quit them.

(Also, good news? Getting my tooth fixed for free on Tuesday. Toothsday.)

7. Ex-boyfriend's (or whatever) moms who I haven't seen in years have been getting in touch with me this week. Kind of out of the blue, kind of surprising.

8. Today, I GOT A PAYCHECK FROM CHA-CHA. Remember when I used to work for them? I am really excited.

9. I wear Crocs around the house sometimes. Marilyn got me a charm.

I'm sorry, a "jibbet". A silver starfish. Accepting more, if you guys see a good one.

10. April Fool's jokes. Apparently you have to go all the way to New York to see them happen. But they were good. Nice job Carl, you really made it happen. Sealed beers filled with water? Explosive properties of Mentos?

(Also guys, I saw Christopher in New York? He was having a super hard time with the stairs and I think he told me he got hit by a car or something, but I couldn't really hear him and kind of just did a lot of nodding. It was noisy.)




I guess I need a new camera so I stop using M's all the time.

(This is kind of funny, I found it on her camera).

Does anybody do anything anymore? This is my final weekend of endless weekend.