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seabird78I want a moist chocolate brownie with fudge on top.
I also want some pretzel rods with extra salt.
Soupbox soup with some of their crusty italian bread would be nice as well.
I've been watching some old IWA footage on YouTube. The biggest thing I take away from it is the fact that Ian persisted in putting on shows even in the instances when there was only a tiny audience in attendance. I keep drawing parallels between that and my literary pursuits, both the novel, and my reading series at the Tamale Hut Cafe. Reminding myself that it's not the size of my readership or the number of people sitting in the audience at Tamale Hut that matters. Cause if I'm able to offer something deeply meaningful to only a select few, doesn't that mean I've proven my worth as an artsy/creative type?
While I'm on the subject of the Tamale Hut, I think you should all come to the show I'm putting on this Friday, September 25 at 7:30 in the p.m. Stephanie Kuehnert is gonna be in the house, and she'll have copies of Ballads of Suburbia for you to buy and get autographed.
And while I'm on the subject of literary events, there's one for you Chicago folk that is a must-see. My good friend Christine Fletcher is appearing at Harold Washington Library tomorrow from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. I'm going to be going, and you should check it out too! More info can be found here: http://www.chipublib.org/events/details/id/30418/
I keep thinking about my sister's two new kitties. I can't help but feel strong affection for Hunter, the four-month old, knowing that he hissed at my mom, perhaps sensing that she is not always worthy of unconditional love. Makes me want to take him home, especially since Becky half-jokingly offered him up, seeing as how he's not happy about sharing the apartment with Fluffy, the two-month old kitty who was brought in later and disrupted Hunter's sense of himself as king of the castle. Too bad the prospect of caring for another living thing scares me to death. Too bad I can't even sustain plants, let alone an infant animal.
I also keep thinking about the conversation I had with my sister regarding the crop of boys she's currently involved with. She consistently, and I mean consistently attracts obsessive, possessive, jealous fucktards, and I really want to understand why this happens. I also want to find a way to make her understand that this kind of attention is NOT better than nothing, but much like our mom she has never learned how to be alone, and I think she sees me as something of an alien for choosing to be single and not embarking on a mad, desperate dash to land my next boyfriend.
I feel really good about having a semi-productive writing session with Steph last night that also included a two-episode binge of Veronica Mars. We're so close to finishing the series and I find that I'm approaching it much like I did the reading of Chris Jericho's book...I'm resisting my urge to devour every last delicious bite because I know it's something that's meant to be savored. I don't know how I'm gonna fill the void when we're done...I mean, I'm loving that new series Glee, but there's not enough episodes of that to consume in mass quantities. We've tentatively discussed Gilmore Girls as the heir apparent, and I still have loads and loads of DeGrassi: The Next Generation to catch up on. I've been sort of getting into some of the programming on the CW, but I don't know how long I can stand to look at Ashlee Simpson on Melrose Place, 90210 is okay, but not obsession-worthy, and the same goes for the adaptation of the Vampire Diaries. I guess I've never been all that much of a TV person, so I'm sure I'll get over this dilemna pretty quickly.
I have a thesis meeting tomorrow after work. I should probably go home and figure out how I want to approach that.
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I also want some pretzel rods with extra salt.
Soupbox soup with some of their crusty italian bread would be nice as well.
I've been watching some old IWA footage on YouTube. The biggest thing I take away from it is the fact that Ian persisted in putting on shows even in the instances when there was only a tiny audience in attendance. I keep drawing parallels between that and my literary pursuits, both the novel, and my reading series at the Tamale Hut Cafe. Reminding myself that it's not the size of my readership or the number of people sitting in the audience at Tamale Hut that matters. Cause if I'm able to offer something deeply meaningful to only a select few, doesn't that mean I've proven my worth as an artsy/creative type?
While I'm on the subject of the Tamale Hut, I think you should all come to the show I'm putting on this Friday, September 25 at 7:30 in the p.m. Stephanie Kuehnert is gonna be in the house, and she'll have copies of Ballads of Suburbia for you to buy and get autographed.
And while I'm on the subject of literary events, there's one for you Chicago folk that is a must-see. My good friend Christine Fletcher is appearing at Harold Washington Library tomorrow from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. I'm going to be going, and you should check it out too! More info can be found here: http://www.chipublib.org/events/details/id/30418/
I keep thinking about my sister's two new kitties. I can't help but feel strong affection for Hunter, the four-month old, knowing that he hissed at my mom, perhaps sensing that she is not always worthy of unconditional love. Makes me want to take him home, especially since Becky half-jokingly offered him up, seeing as how he's not happy about sharing the apartment with Fluffy, the two-month old kitty who was brought in later and disrupted Hunter's sense of himself as king of the castle. Too bad the prospect of caring for another living thing scares me to death. Too bad I can't even sustain plants, let alone an infant animal.
I also keep thinking about the conversation I had with my sister regarding the crop of boys she's currently involved with. She consistently, and I mean consistently attracts obsessive, possessive, jealous fucktards, and I really want to understand why this happens. I also want to find a way to make her understand that this kind of attention is NOT better than nothing, but much like our mom she has never learned how to be alone, and I think she sees me as something of an alien for choosing to be single and not embarking on a mad, desperate dash to land my next boyfriend.
I feel really good about having a semi-productive writing session with Steph last night that also included a two-episode binge of Veronica Mars. We're so close to finishing the series and I find that I'm approaching it much like I did the reading of Chris Jericho's book...I'm resisting my urge to devour every last delicious bite because I know it's something that's meant to be savored. I don't know how I'm gonna fill the void when we're done...I mean, I'm loving that new series Glee, but there's not enough episodes of that to consume in mass quantities. We've tentatively discussed Gilmore Girls as the heir apparent, and I still have loads and loads of DeGrassi: The Next Generation to catch up on. I've been sort of getting into some of the programming on the CW, but I don't know how long I can stand to look at Ashlee Simpson on Melrose Place, 90210 is okay, but not obsession-worthy, and the same goes for the adaptation of the Vampire Diaries. I guess I've never been all that much of a TV person, so I'm sure I'll get over this dilemna pretty quickly.
I have a thesis meeting tomorrow after work. I should probably go home and figure out how I want to approach that.
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Date: 2009-09-23 04:03 am (UTC)Oh TV. How I hate that you suck me in. Especially the CW. Glee is AWESOME. I think I buy at least one song a week from iTunes that they do. Go Degrassi!! I will admit, once the second wave of stars started leaving and going to college, the show had a bumpy season... but I think things might end up ok.
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Date: 2009-09-23 10:49 pm (UTC)I've only really seen the Degrassi episodes with the first wave of stars, because most of the episodes I've seen fall between seasons 2 and 5. You'll be amused by this....once i took a friend who's a huge DeGrassi fan to an AAW show...this would have been about a year and a half ago. She had never seen wrestling before and when Jimmy came out she observed that he bore an uncanny resemblance to the kid who plays Marco.
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