well 89.3 The Current launched this morning. if they were trying to seduce me into falling in love, they’ve done a damn good job. with an opening line-up that included the ‘mats, wilco, hank williams, death cab for cutie, son volt, ani difranco, and the Iron & Wine cover of that postal service song, it [...]

1. catch up on that backlog of e-mail and feel really good about it.
2. play Avatar High like you’re some sort of anti-social 12-year-old, get really made when the stupid fuckers won’t play basketball like you tell them to. laugh when the chracter AJ dumps the Sweet Rob character.
3. rip your CDs to mp3 as [...]

i want it marked down in the annals of history that today, Sunday January 22, 2005 i waited until 5:49 until indulging in a diet coke with lime. that is all.

i’ve been happily chugging through Douglas Coupland’s Eleanor Rigby all weekend. i’m pretty much loving it except for one thing. the narrative jumps around in time quite a bit, some of it takes place in 1967, some in 1997 and some in 2004. i can mostly keep up with the time shifts, though some of [...]

the first time i read Cat’s Cradle i must have been in my 20s. when i re-read it this week as part of RP2005, it was as though i was reading it again for the first time. i knew the basic premise of the story, but so much of it i didn’t remember. since i [...]

i just got home from work. please note that it’s a friday and i am home and it’s not even 7:30 p.m. the weather is so bad that bowling was cancelled. there’s about six inches of snow on the ground now. the fact that MPR kept saying over and over that this is the latest [...]

you know that radio station i was super duper excited about? the one that’s gonna have Mary Lucia and Mark Wheat as DJs? well guess what? it goes on air monday at 9 a.m.. all y’all minnesotans should totally dial in to 89.3 at 9 on Monday. and let’s all hope their first song is [...]

seamus just stopped by.
“hey,” he said and pointed at me. “there’s this song that i’ve been meaning to ask you about because i just know you’ll know it.”
“how’s it go?” i asked.
“see, i heard it last week and last week i could sing the chorus, this week i can’t remember it.”
“hmm,” i said.
“it was [...]

the other day i made a big vat of chili, right from scratch. i make a mighty mean and tasty chili. i don’t make it too often because it’s just me and i don’t need that much chili, ever. plus, you can’t really make a smaller portion because i can’t seem to find ground turkey [...]

doot-doot-doot-doot- went the broken dial tone announcing that voice mail is waiting for me. i had to go over to my desk to look at the bright pink post it containing the voice mail number.
you have four new messages.
message one sent Monday January 10,
“hi jodi, it’s mom i just wanted to let you know that [...]

a couple of weeks ago i noticed a weird ache in my left foot. it was just a weird ache so i sorta ignored it. but then the weird ache eventually grew into full-fledged pain. i’m sure it didn’t help the weird ache growing into a pain by jumping up and down on my left [...]

for reasons that remain a mystery to me i woke up this morning with a Barney song stuck in my head. it’s the apples and bananas song. the one that goes “i like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas.” and then you go through and switch out the different vowel sounds through each verse [...]

UH, just so you know. this totally made me cream my jeans.

Yesterday UH left a comment that in my honor he was gonna read The Catcher in the Rye this year. He’s never read it before. Which amazes me a little, because I had to read it in high school. I thought it was one of them books that everyone had to read before they graduated [...]

i have just returned from that place i go to everyday because they pay me. except today, for the first time in about 3 months, they actually made me do stuff for my minor ducats. it was, i must admit, almost refreshing. it’d have been totally refreshing if PMS and a really boring task hadn’t [...]