i’m having a really hard time not hyperventilating right now. 89.3 The Current is playing my all-time favorite Matthew Sweet song ever, Super Baby. THEY ARE PLAYING SUPER BABY! ON THE RADIO! i love this song even more than someone to pull the trigger. and it’s on the the motherfucking radio. good, i am in [...]

at 10:27 i dropped the e-mail to the sister club announcing that i was going to move. a mere 22 minutes later there have been 16 e-mails exchanged. i think that might be a new record, even for us.

now that i’m away from the mold carpeted apartment, i think i’m getting sick. i’ve got soda pop in all my sinus cavaties, or at least that’s what it feels like. of course, until i move (which i have decided should be April 1) any and all ailments (including degenerative bone disease and the itchy, [...]

i think i had the closest thing to a migraine that i’ve ever had in my entire life. a blinding headache that made me feel nauseous and pretty sure that my brain was trying to escape from my skull. of course i don’t think it was an actual migraine. i’ve heard horror stories about those [...]

This is one of the books that is part of RP2005, where i re-read books that I’ve read before. I loved this book the first time I read it and loved it even more the second time. It’s such a fast paced story that you read through it so quickly the first time that you [...]

i’m currently, right this second, listening to a portuguese version of “Rebel Rebel.” though i know what the words are in english, it’s still quite weird because this version is all slowed down and acoustic and since i can’t understand the words, it seems like a brand new song. and i kind of like it. [...]

it’s four in the a.m. and i’m still awake. i probably have to get up in like three hours. but you know what? i don’t even seem to care. it’s a little hard to care when the radio is playing your new favorite band Tegan and Sara, and when you’ve just finished a rewrite of [...]

i came home to the swampy living room with the couch moved, the heater dismantled and no note, no message, and a seriously still wet carpet. WHAT THE FUCK? i even called again this afternoon to get an update on how the repairs were going and the woman at the property management company who runs [...]

• webboy, because he made me laugh so hard at lunch that my forehead hit the table and stuff shot from my nose.
• Hershey’s Take 5 candybars. forgive me darling ones for i have sinned. i told myself i could never, ever buy another one of these chocolate covered crack confections, but when i went [...]

my living room has turned into some sort of tropical jungle swamp. it’s 80 fucking degrees in here (and the heat is off) and the entire living room carpet is wet, like step-on-it-water-squishing-up-between-your-toes wet. right now it looks like one of those dance mats with the footprint on it that teach how to do the [...]

Kristy has just pointed out one of my fatal flaws. . . i’m a terrible e-mail/comment responder. really, i am wretched. which is terrible because i get all whiny when someone doesn’t respond to my e-mail. i make it a resolution every three months or so, to respond to all e-mail within 24 hours of [...]

first, if you don’t read bluishorange you probably should. and second, you should totally go read post secret, which is so amazing that it held my attention for a full 30 minutes (the time it took me to read everything there).

one of sister #2’s friends died on saturday, he was 30 years old. she didn’t get the news until today and was off to the wake leaving me to wrangle with the kidlings this evening.
“mommy’s friend died,” jaycie told me after her parents left.
“i know,” i said.
“are you sad?” she asked.
“yes, it’s always sad when [...]

if you take a look at the playlist it is abundantly clear that 89.3 The Current loves me and has my best interests at heart.
and right now, right now, they are playing the postal service again. how can anyone deny that this radio station isn’t catering to every single one of my whims?

yesterday afternoon, when i finished reading Douglas Coupland’s Eleanor Rigby, i shut the book, curled into the fetal position and started to cry. a reaction that even surprised me a little bit. i cried, and i don’t want to give too much away, because there was a (albeit far-fetched) happy ending.
i needed this book [...]