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October 31, 2005
Oh yeah... and I had to get a new computer. Panic! Debt! But also fun...
Dennis and Lauren's Halloween party on Friday night was really fun. Dave and I had gone to visit his cousins for a kid-cenric party in Longmeadow earlier and so had a last-minute costume scramble right before heading over to Orchard Street. In the end, I was Salvador Dalí and Dave had a plastic axe and a temporary-tattoo scar. Yup. Creativity abounds, in our house. Eliza accompanied us to the party in her new bowling uniform, but had other commitments and so left early.
The Bunwinkies were perfectly ghoulish and lovely, in the way only they can be. I like them more each time I see them play. All in all, it was a very good night.
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October 28, 2005
Apparently Clem and Rosa would like dinner before two, if possible.
Sometimes, moms are really nice. Cats, on the other hand: not nice.
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October 27, 2005
It's way too easy to close tabs when you just want to click on them.
I just wrote a post and lost it. Summary: Winterpills good. I don't have a Halloween costume.
The end.
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October 25, 2005
I'm about to read "Discipline and Punish." Maybe it will help me deal with the cats.
My current struggle is to finish all my reading for the rest of the week today, so I can make it out to the Winterpills show tomorrow night (opening for The Mountain Goats, who I just don't feel like linking to, at the Iron Horse). Wednesdays, as you may have heard, are not good for me. If all goes as it normally does, I will hopefully arrive in town on the bus with just enough time to leave my books at home, turn around, and head to the show. If I get stuck at UMass after my class ends, I will be heading directly to the Iron Horse, with all my crap in tow.
The good thing, besides just seeing Dave play, is that my sister-in-law is supposed to be there with a friend, so it will be really nice to spend time with them. (Anyone who was in on the Sarah's-coming-to-town secret is off the hook. She told Dave already.)
Okay, I really need to wrap up this break and get back to Foucault.
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October 24, 2005
And I can't even successfully print out photos of celebrities, which I was sure I would be good at.
Today was another long day for me- longer than it needed to be. And last night I went to bed and dreamed of (seriously) words on a page. I don't know if I was writing them, or reading them, but it was fucking boring (sorry Kirsten). The cats also decided to punish me at bed time. Clem literally cleared everything off the bedside table so he could sit on it and look at me and meow. He got rid of books, papers, a glass of water, and the alarm clock. Rosa just walked over me and chirped. I woke up in a terrible mood which never really left me today.
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October 21, 2005
I am out of touch.
Did you know that the Bunwinkies are at the Eagles Club tomorrow night? Did you know that Lord Russ is playing at the Basement tomorrow? And Jello Biafra and the Melvins are at Pearl Street? (Tomorrow has a lot of stuff going on...) The one I wish I had known about/wish I didn't know about: Broken Social Scene at Pearl Street Sunday night. I so don't have time for that. But I so wish I did. Should I pay more or less attention to the goings on in Northampton? I'm not sure.
I missed the SFH show on Wednesday, but I will have to make it to the Winterpills show at the Iron Horse next Wednesday.
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October 19, 2005
My head hurts, too. Do you feel bad for me yet? Boo hoo.
I think I will never get used to my Wednesdays this semester. Of course, my sister gets out of work and goes directly to wait tables at Moshi until 10, so I feel kind of bad complaining. But not really.
For some reason, I go to my methodology class and end up feeling like a shitty teacher. I know it's not the fault of the class itself, because there's no reason for that to be the case. The class is interesting and helpful in many ways. But I get in there and, maybe it's because I'm tired, or maybe because I never have enough time to do everything I need to do, but I end up just feeling like "what am I doing here?" I have days in my teaching that I feel really positive and successful, and other days when I feel like I will never get the hang of this, ever. Put me in an environment centered around reflections on my teaching, and you'll have me on the verge of tears on a Wednesday night bus ride home.
At any rate, I have too much to do so I've skipped the SFH show tonight, as sad as that makes me, so I can read Cervantes and fill out progress reports for my ten athletes. And if I start thinking about grading essays and tests this weekend, I'm likely to cry again. And I have to plan next weeks lessons, too...
Today, in a discussion of Marxism, our literary theory professor asked (in a different context), if you won $20 million, would you quit graduate school? I think it would depend on whether I won on a Wednesday.
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October 18, 2005
As Rafa Gomez would have said, "Scary in the.... sewing pattern?"
Okay, back to Marx.
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The Shed
We went with our good friends to the Shed on Saturday night to see Death Vessel as well as some other cool stuff. So, the shed, being a shed, was really small, but it was such a nice place to see a show. Everyone seemed really happy to be there, there was a little fire going outside which everyone stood around between acts. It's nice that the kids living in Palmer have had this place to go hang out and see cool shit. It's sad that this is their last series of shows; they'll be closing up in less than a month. You should try and make it out there before it's all over. I hope we'll be able to go again. Just ask Dennis for directions.
Okay, I have work to do- stop distracting me!
One more thing: this is probably one of my all-time favorite purchases. It came up twice yesterday, so I thought I'd tell you about it. Best wallet ever.
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October 14, 2005
You missed my complaining, didn't you?
Sometimes I really enjoy being back at school. I'd say most of the time, these days. I find it really interesting and challenging. I'm meeting great people that I like a lot. Sometimes I miss my old life. That's today.
But it's Friday. Hopefully it will be a weekend during which I get to spend a lot of time with Dave, unlike last weekend. What's going on in town this weekend? Anything? On Wednesday, Spanish for Hitchhiking is at the Iron Horse, opening for Stars (who I'm too lazy to link to, but Dennis will do it for you.). That's at 10PM, which works for me, since Wednesday is my day from hell that doesn't end until 6:30. I was so afraid it would be an early show. But, that's exciting, for me. Aside from the benefit Sunday, Spanish hasn't played in a while, right?
Anyway, I am off to do more schoolwork before I pretend I'm a normal grownup for the weekend.
Update: Death Vessel is at the Shed in Palmer, MA tomorrow night. Every bit of that sentence sounds weird to me, but what do I know about Palmer?
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Rosa sometimes likes to chew on the corner of the computer screen. She's about to start.
It's one of those mornings where, as soon as I got up, I was thinking about taking a nap when I get home this afternoon. It was a short week, but a very busy one. (As you can probably see from my lack of blogging.)
I also never said anything about the benefit Sunday night. It was really nice. Really beyond description.
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October 12, 2005
Why we did not attend the Moshi Moshi sake social:
Yesterday was Dave's and my second wedding anniversary. We had a really nice evening together with dinner at Circa and Six Feet Under on DVD at home. Here's to many more.
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October 09, 2005
Things that are disappointing:
It's really sort of striking, to me, the lack of any mention of a relief effort for the victims of the earthquake in Pakistan. I guess that we can't follow every disaster with a fundraiser of some sort; maybe that would just be too much for the world to handle, or something. But in contrast to the efforts following Hurricane Katrina and the Asian tsunami, it just really stands out to me that none of the usual suspects (for me, Amazon and Apple) have a link where you can donate your $10 to help out the people in Islamabad. I mean, isn't it kind of weird? Maybe we just don't care about earthquakes because they are always this destructive and we need to be really surprised in order to want to help. Or maybe we (Americans) just don't care about Pakistan because it's a Muslim country. Although, I'm pretty sure (without really feeling like checking) that Muslim countries in Asia were affected by the tsunami as well. Maybe we (Americans) just don't care about Pakistan because it's Pakistan. In any case, it seems quite sad to me and it must be really sad to the Pakistanis, if they've seen any news of the relief efforts in other disasters.
Update: I did a little more research, and you can always donate to someplace like UNICEF or International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (although the latter is a little complicated seeming, since it takes three weeks to charge your credit card and convert your money to Swiss francs...).
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I'm reading essays this weekend.
Here's a sentence I don't want to see again (but I'm sure I will): "Yo lata conseguir enojado." Sometimes, the Spanish dictionary is not your friend.
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October 07, 2005
The hunt is over!
We were just watching an episode of Six Feet Under on DVD when I heard a loud banging sound from the kitchen. Rosa, who had been sleeping on the couch next to us, ran off to investigate; I followed. Clem, of course, was jumping into the depths of the cabinet under the kitchen sink: the mouse was back.
As the episode came to an end, the jumping turned into scurrying and squeaking and, to make a long story short: my cats utterly suck at mouse catching, but I am the best. Clem and Rosa chased the mouse all over the kitchen, under the dishwasher, and out into the TV room, causing me to freak out (I've got a lot of shoes scattered around here; I don't need this!). The mouse was cornered for a while behind the TV until the cats finally managed to chase him back out into the kitchen. He made one more escape under the dishwasher, which rolls, so we moved it one more time and I quickly trapped him under a shoe box. The kitties were very excited and kind of jealous, and threatened to ruin the whole plan by knocking the box over, so we tossed them in the bedroom and slowly, slowly began sliding the box across the floor and toward the kitchen door.
The mouse is gone. I really hope he was the only one, but I somehow doubt it. The cats are now lurking around the kitchen, looking in all the places where he had been hiding in this last chase. Rosa is still fairly convinced he might be behind the trashcan, but she doesn't really want to find out.
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Concert check-in
So remember when I outlined all the concernts I was looking forward to this fall? Let's see how I did:
Seu Jorge, Sept. 9, Pearl Street Too expensive for a poor grad student
Of Montreal and The Management, Sept. 14, Pearl Street Studying
Winterpills CD Release, Sept. 17, Iron Horse Check!
Tortoise, Oct. 6, Somerville Theater Forgot
The Decemberists, Oct. 9, Pearl Street (PENDING)
Will I go to the Decemberists? I don't know. I know I want to go to this and I kind of feel like I want to stay for the whole thing and skip the Decemberists. I guess I'll just see how it goes.
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October 06, 2005
So, in actuality, after that post I wrote, my Tuesday kind of blew. Today was nice, though.
So, even though the O.C. isn't on this week (thank you, baseball), Eliza came over for dinner. We made ostrich. Weird, eh? We went to the grocery store. We looked at fish, at steak, and settled on ostrich because she had eaten it in South Africa and said it was just like steak, basically. It was good. We just put a little salt and pepper on it; next time, a marinade might be a better choice, but still: very satisfying.
I had a nice day today. One class, some reading at Woodstar, some wine, and now a little relaxing time with Dave. If I'm feeling really rebellious, I might even watch an episode of Six Feet Under!
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October 05, 2005
How I spent my afternoon, evening, and night.
I was hoping to like Derrida. Lots of people seem to like him, I guess. But right now we're not on speaking terms.
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October 04, 2005
I really should read, however, internet. Stop distracting me!
Tuesdays are by far my favorite day of the week right now (with the obvious exceptions of Saturday and Sunday, when I don't have to take the bus to Amherst). On Tuesdays I have one class, Cervantes, which starts at 11:45, so I am able to wake up at 8:00 and have three hours before I have to get on the bus. Three hours spent drinking coffee, reading next to the cats, maybe blogging just a little. It makes all the difference in the world to have these hours in the morning (compared to my usual wake up at 6:00 get on the bus by 7:45 routine) because it makes me feel like maybe I can get everything done that I need to do. I tend to go to sleep on Monday nights feeling like I don't have anywhere near enough time for all the reading, thinking, and writing I have to do by Wednesday, but I wake up on Tuesday and realize that I have three forgotten hours to spend working at home. It's nice.
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October 03, 2005
I spend this much time away from the internet, and this is what happens.
I don't understand why the dumpster outside my apartment building has been full for so very long. I'll admit that I have no idea when the trash gets emptied, but I would have at least expected it to happen on a weekly basis. I know one thing: it doesn't happen on Mondays, or I would have taken out some trash today. Don't you think it's getting sort of depserate when the first thing you do upon arriving home is look out the window at the dumpster? Yeah, me too.
Since I've already decided I won't be returning to my reading until after Arrested Development (although I did get a good chunk done at the laundromat), I shall procrastinate a bit longer. A friend and I were talking today about Anthropologie, because he had never really known about the store before. I like a lot of the stuff in their new catalog. I can sense how not surprised you are- but there really was a sort of weird dry spell for a month or two there, when they only made really weird, Victorian looking shoes!
I present, for your reading pleasure: the latest things I like at Anthropologie:
Sweater with a fake shirt: like a real shirt, but with fewer steps!
Stork club dress, not that I ever have cause to wear a dress, but I'd like to.
Dollyshop skirt, again, back to the days when I only wore tutus and ballet slippers. I can't escape it.
Glass poppy blouse. The names they give their clothing are so funny, aren't they?
$300 shoes, of course. Is there any way I can get hired somewhere to just pick out the most expensive shoes in a store? Because I'm good at it.
Not to mention the Andiamo purse.
What I really wish is that I had time to continue my adventures in skirt making. I still have black twill and brown wool just waiting to be turned into cute pencil skirts. I will never have time for this. Just like no one is getting any knitted presents this year. No craftiness! Boo. Everyone can have research papers for Christmas, how does that sound?
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