laurenisms

i just got in a random bad mood, but have been planning to post for days, so i will break the no-posting-when-grumpy rule for today, because there is much news to share!
that’s a joke.
eugene never changes. shelby is a little farther away, and so is andi, but other than that, pretty much everyone that was here last summer is still here, including my bartender john, so it’s almost like i never left. which is strange. i’m even listening to the same albums as last summer, blue horse and yankee hotel foxtrot, with the addition of the first CD i have bought in about a year, her majesty, by the decemberists.
work is going ok now that i think i kind of know what’s going on. i feel like i wasted a lot of time last week because my fieldwork goals are not fully established yet, but now it looks like if it changes it will only be a little bit. i get to make a database! and a web page! and look at lots and lots of collections and get all dusty! yay!
my class for the first part of summer term was postponed, so hasn’t started yet, which is nice because i have a lot of free time to sew. my poncho yarn disappeared but i made two ribbon belts the other day, and i have mostly finished a top, and i’m going to make a blue hoodie. i can’t finish the top until i make a masking-tape-&-pillow-stuffing dressmaker’s dummy. or is it still a dressmaker’s dummy when it’s only a torso and isn’t on a stand? anyway i’m going to make my torso. it involves being all taped up. fun.

(song: “only in the past,” be good tanyas)

yeah, so i’m a liar. didn’t post last week. sorry. i know i disappointed my fans. (pffffffffft.) (that’s me scoffing at the idea of having fans.)
but, it’s not my fault. there was nothing to talk about. went to rennie’s with heath, who lent me some new cds, since no one else heeded my call for music recommendations. (actually, to be fair, heath didn’t either.) read some books. started a new sock, which is very exciting. i think i might start a knitting blog, either here or over at blogspot or something. i made bill give me the ability to start new blogs, but he doesn’t want me to use it. oh, yes. on thursday i went to see my boyfriend adam and his lovely band. unfortunately, this was the first concert i have ever been to that started on time and with no opening band; it was also the first one i have been half an hour late to. this was v. disappointing because i was not interested in john mayer, who was the other band playing; i hoped he would open but i guess twelve million sorority girls’ preferences get precedence over mine. so i missed the first half hour of the counting crows set, which turned out to be only slightly less than half of it. i was sad. oh well, i will just have to go see him again elsewhere, i guess.
and then i went to seattle on friday … sebastian came, which was an adventure. i didn’t think he would, but then he did, and then i felt responsible for making sure he had fun, and i don’t think i did a very good job. most of saturday morning, he read while evi and shan and i went apartment hunting. the end result, fortunately, is that we got an apartment!! i’m so excited about moving in with the girls and also really really relieved to not have to worry about it anymore.
anyhoo, just went to the library and got new books so i shall go read them and work on my sock. since it’s too hot to go running … stupid hot.

(song: “i’m so tired,” beatles)