cry baby cry, make your mother sigh
Thursday, 30 October, 2003
today is a good day!
even though paul mccartney had a baby! and now probably will never marry me after all!
baby’s name is beatrice milly mccartney. she was born on tuesday. i suppose he had to marry heather and not me because he wanted more babies, and he knew i didn’t want any. though he didn’t ask … i might’ve done it, for him.
anyway, reluctantly, yay for them. i’m sure they are very happy.
today i have class for a million hours but life is good. i just had a salt bagel with chive cream cheese, and i also had scotland tea for breakfast. these are not the reason that life is good, but they are nice too. it’s thursday! which is my friday! so i don’t have to do homework tonight.
and tomorrow is hallowe’en! i wonder what i will do. prolly sit at home and knit. yay!
(song: “cry baby cry,” beatles)
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and now that i am leaving, now i know that i did something wrong …
Wednesday, 29 October, 2003
oh yay, so exciting.
ok.
so debbie stoller is the editor of bust magazine, which i love. also she has just written a book called stitch & bitch about which there has been much discussion on various knitting forums. we had our own stitch & bitch at our house last night, and there was also much discussion about this book there. apparently debbie stoller is coming to seattle on a book tour.
so this is all exciting and fun, yay. we talk about all going to see her as a group.
then this morning i got an email from megan, who is newly in our s&b and who is a famous designer over at knitty, which i adore. anyway megan referred us to her post about the s&b book. and she got a comment from debbie stoller! which said, essentially, that the day she’s going to be in seattle is her birthday, and she has nothing to do, and would some of us like to go have drinks afterwards?
so, yay!! drinks with debbie stoller!
other than that … nothing.
school is boring. i have to do lots of awful reading that puts me to sleep. this weekend will be busy and i am somehow not excited about it. i think i have to rip out about four inches of knitting. i can’t count. gr.
but:
yesterday there was a leaf falling in an aesthetically pleasing manner, all twistily, so i stopped to watch it, and then i was happy.
(song: “stay,” lisa loeb. song would be more accurate with a tense change, but that’s ok.)
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in all the motions and the things that you say
Monday, 27 October, 2003
i hate all my clothes. i want all new clothes. i want the weather to make up its mind to be cloudy or sunny. i don’t want to go running and i don’t want to do my homework. i don’t want to put the laundry away because i hate the clothes and i don’t want to look at them.
gr.
fortunately i just got some new things to listen to, and i am going to take a nap instead of doing my homework.
also exciting is that i finally got to see the home movies episode where brendon’s stepmom has a baby. AND, it looks like there will be new home movieses coming soon! this is very exciting.
nothing else to say. forgot why i was posting in the first place.
i’m grumpy.
(song: “gravity rides everything,” modest mouse)
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what can i do? what can i be? …
Saturday, 25 October, 2003
i dreamed that sho and shan and i were riding elephants, and i got distracted by a display about fossilized jawbones, and another guy in the tour (who shan and i work with) yelled “you’re lost! you’re stupid! get back over here!” at me. when i protested, the tour guide stood up for him and said if we had a problem with him, we should leave, so we all left, ‘cos he’s annoying. then we were writing nasty letters to the tour company about how mean the guide was. then i became awake at 8:30. this was semi-lame because i did not go to sleep until after 1:30. =)
incidentally, big bunny is awesome.
nothing else of consequence to report. except sweater, which is super exciting, but which i will not discuss here as it has its own blog.
(song: “got to get you into my life,” beatles)
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there is something i’ve been dying to do — i’ve been meaning to tell you
Friday, 24 October, 2003
i wish i could play my drum better. i want to be the guster drummer boy. actually, i just want to be a drummer, not a boy. being a boy would be lame.
josh and i just drank two pitchers of beer. mm, newcastle!! we played pool, and i am really bad at it. we also played darts, which was more fun; i like to throw things. i got five bull’s eyes, but we weren’t playing normal darts. we were playing something called cricket, so only the first three counted. anyway then we talked, and it was good to talk to josh.
(everything’s fine if i could keep my mouth shut tight, tight)
i have no balls.
(clearly.)
shannon says this is fun.
also, i seem to have drunk a whole pitcher of beer this evening.
shannon also says josh is right about being direct. there’s [sic] two of us, both can’t be right.
disappearing information on the internet is a real problem. however, i’m not as brave as shannon wants me to be … sorry.
(song: “i spy,” guster)
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the things you try to tell yourself to make yourself forget
Tuesday, 21 October, 2003
the strangest thing … i just paid money (ninety-nine whole cents!!) to download a song! what has happened to me? it’s ok, though; it’s a new counting crows single, and i’ve already given them enough of my money (4 cds, 3 concerts) that $.99 doesn’t seem like a whole lot.
counting crows have a new single! which means that soon they will have a new album!! i’m very excited.
the river on my sidewalk has dried up today. this morning on KUOW they were talking about several schools being closed for flood warnings or something, and then this afternoon when i finally was released from my interminable (well, 5 hour long) class in my windowless classroom, i was pleased to discover that there was sun! and no rain! my walk home smelled clean like fall.
some i-statements (remember those? or was it just my lame elementary school?):
i hate homework, i don’t want to do it anymore, i’m not going to do it anymore.
i have had a headache for the past four days. it won’t go away, although last night it switched sides.
i dreamed i had a laptop and i was so happy.
i found (well, sho found and informed me of) a really awesome website: game girl advance. i really want a pink game boy advance sp, too!
i mostly want a playstation 2 though, first. or a digital camera. i can’t decide which i want more.
i am pretty sure (though everyone is trying to convince me otherwise) that i’m making up stories in my head and that i should stop believing in them, because they are made up. this makes me sad but it is better that way, i am sure.
some non-i-statements:
my sister is awesome. she’s the best sister.
andi is the best too. but she’s not my sister.
school is going better than previously expected. i talked in both (!) classes today, and the funny alt-country boy next to me said i made a good point. it was about linguistics. the teacher totally misconstrued it though. it’s ok, ‘cos everyone else got it; the teacher was just being dumb. also, a nice cute girl with a big smile saw me in the library this morning or possibly yesterday, and she said hello, and then she sat by me today and we talked. yay!
(song: “anna begins,” counting crows)
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you’ll never see my eyes
Sunday, 19 October, 2003
also, this is too good to not share, tho’ possibly only shelby will identify:
a penny arcade archived strip, girlfriends, tribes, and you.
(song: “the frug,” rilo kiley)
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i’d be lyin’ if i said i didn’t
i wrote this post a couple weeks ago when i was looking at myself in the mirror and i suddenly thought, “i’m silly for saying i’m not creative at all. i have two things i’m creative about.” then i sat down and typed this first bit, and by the time i was done, i’d forgotten what the second thing was. but here’s the first part:
i always say i’m not very creative, and i do think it’s true, but there are two things about which i am very creative:
1. things that can go wrong. i honestly don’t know where some of the things i worry about come from. what if the waiter dropped my napkin on the ground and it went right where someone had been standing who had just walked in grass that a dog had peed on, and then i wipe my hands on it and then i touch my food? what if a crazy murderer has broken into my mom’s house and is killing her and my sister as i am leaving a message for them, and laughing maniacally at my message, knowing they won’t be found for a couple of days? what if there’s an earthquake, and i won’t fall very far but the other floors will fall on top of us and we’ll be trapped? what if there’s a small earthquake while i’m at work but the glass of water on my nightstand spills on sho’s comic books? …
2.
that’s as far as i got. in any case i probably waste a lot of time and energy thinking about things like that. when did i become such a worrier? i hope this doesn’t mean i’ll be a crazy old talking-to-myself never-leaving-the-house lady.
in other news, today i ran a 5k. this isn’t that interesting, actually, because i try to run 3ish miles at least once a week. but i got a t-shirt, which is fun, and it was timed, so now i know how long it takes me. according to the email i got, “You finished the 5K with a Gun* time 34:07 placing you 346 in the overall results. You placed 217 in the F1829 division which had 316 in it.” obviously this is not the best time in the world. however, it’s also not terrible, i don’t think … in any case i’m going to do it again someday, i hope.
absolutely nothing else is going on, except that i have to write a paper but i’d much rather watch several of the episodes of home movies i downloaded yesterday.
(song: “designs on you,” old 97s!)
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and help me understand
Saturday, 18 October, 2003
i have finally hooked up my record player so now i can listen to my new lp (new lp!) of rubber soul, which i found for $5 at a lovely store on the ave. it’s very exciting.
my assignment for one of my classes on tuesday (it’s 520, information resources, services, and collections — doesn’t that sound like such fun??) is to read an e-book that’s on reserve at the library web page. now, if i were desiging e-books, i would say to myself, “in order to make e-books better than normal books, i should make it so that more than one person can read it at the same time!” but these e-book designers seem to not have had this idea. so every person in my class (maybe 30-35 people) has to read two chapters of this book, but we can only get one copy, so i have to keep checking to see if anyone else has it out. i’m sorry, but i’m not getting up at four in the morning to read some stupid chapters. i don’t care that much about finishing my reading. i don’t even finish my reading when it’s sitting right in front of me and i paid money for the book.
i just went to see lost in translation with shelby and eric. it was good but now i’m semi-depressed and confused. not about the movie or what happened, just in general. i guess that means it’s good, though, because the whole thing is about being confused and sort of muddled. i liked it more than i liked the virgin suicides, which is the other movie i’ve seen by sofia coppola. in fact, i liked it a lot. go see it!
my super-exciting friday night was spent … cleaning my room and generally being a hermit. yes, i suppose if i went out and did things i would meet people and therefore not have be a hermit anymore, but i don’t think the kind of people i want to meet go to loud dance clubs to meet people.
anyway i kind of like being a hermit sometimes. i think living alone did it to me.
(song: “if i fell,” beatles)
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to keep my feet from jumping from the ground
Wednesday, 15 October, 2003
scottish vocabulary word of the day: haver (havered, havering). verb. to talk nonsense. (pronunciation: hay-ver.)
today is a good day! today it is good to be lauren!
first, this morning, i went running. this was a long time ago and i almost forgot about it but it might be why it was a good morning. also i ate breakfast. i always forget that i get really cross if i don’t eat enough. anyway i ran 2 miles. then i went to work semi-late but no one cares. it was raining so i got to use my lovely umbrella. it’s sunny inside my umbrella so umbrella days are always good days. then after work, i went to my espresso roma, which i am becoming used to, though it is still not painted orange and yellow and there are no nice men who call me chiquita. but the boy was nice and talked to me. we talked about pinball. it is always a remarkable day when random boys talk to me.
which makes today is doubly remarkable, i guess, because then i went to have a nice dinner alone with my guinness — fish&chips at the irish bar up the street.
possibly the most useful thing about being a graduate student in library science is that it’s a very good litmus test. for example, when a boy who has just been staring at you when he is ostensibly at the bar to watch the cubs/marlins game decides to make small talk by asking what you are reading, and you say “library science,” and he looks startled or confused or scared or makes a face, you know he is not a boy you are interested in anyway. but if, on the other hand, when you meet people or when you tell people you already know that you are studying library science, and they say that it’s interesting and look like they mean it, it makes you excited to talk to them/happy that they are already your friends.
anyway then shan and i went to a really interesting talk (can y’all get into these links, or does it ask you to log in?) about the lindisfarne gospels by ewan clayton, a funny former monk who is also a calligrapher. he wrote a book about it too. it was really fascinating, actually. ohh, i would love to be a manuscripts person. so cool.
am such a geek.
oh, and on the way there, i found two really awesome leaves — one all red with pink veins, and one all yellow with red edges. i am making them flat and putting them on the wall.
and … yeah. life is good. i’m … a giant freak. yeah.
arr!
(song: “i’m on my way,” the proclaimers.)