i’ve never been too good with secrets
Thursday, 27 January, 2005
it takes one “the new year” and almost one “we looked like giants” for me to get all the way from the bar to my front door.
life is good. today i got a good volunteer cataloging gig and the card of the guy i want to work for at corbis. and it is almost the weekend.
(song: “we looked like giants,” death cab for cutie)
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In the catalog under nothing
from the passenger seat as you are driving me home
Wednesday, 26 January, 2005
i am skipping work today to sit at home in my pajamas, sniffling miserably and impatiently waiting four hours so i can take the next dose of cough syrup. i could be using this opportunity to clean my room, take out the garbage, start piling things up to go to goodwill … yep, i could do that.
(song: “passenger seat,” death cab for cutie)
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In the catalog under mood/sick
but the bread’s too stale
Wednesday, 19 January, 2005
today it is warm! it gave me a headache but after i got better i realized it was the perfect day for drilling holes in garbage cans (compost pile!) and learning to belly dance.
(song: “ice cube,” clem snide)
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In the catalog under mood/happy; gardens
but till then i look up to the sky
Monday, 17 January, 2005
three unrelated paragraphs day:
i feel like it hasn’t rained in forever but it is finally raining today. i had forgotten that i like waking up to rain-sound. unfortunately the lovely greyness of today also made me very lethargic so i didn’t get as much homework done as i had hoped. this is the Term of Keeping On Top Of My Shit because taxonomy class is one big group project, my independent study is one big group project with one other student and the instructor, and the distance class has some busy work every week just so the instructor knows we’re all still there.
had some therapeutic shopping girl time (what has happened to me?!) today with blythe, whose schedule almost never meshes with mine. i went in search of a HARDCORE BRA!!1! for the bridesmaid dress and returned with a hardcore bra, new underwear, three pairs of argyle socks, and two stripey shirts (one with shiny!). exciting.
my new organizational system involving actually using my calendar book and also using notecards seems to be working (knocking on wood - it’s only been one week). i had a list of several things to be done during the week, and i did them all! i didn’t forget anything during the week either. i think this will be good for keeping on top of the little things in all three of my classes, as well as the programs i have to plan for work. look at me, i’m playing grown-up!
(song: “raining in hattiesburg,” kasey anderson)
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In the catalog under list; weather
me and this girl, we’ve been working it out
Thursday, 13 January, 2005
this week, the student chapter of the american society for information science and technology is putting on icareer week, with a bunch of panels and things. this morning i went to the taxonomy panel and it was fabulous. i surprise myself sometimes: sitting there listening to these people who build taxonomies and manage projects and whatnot at microsoft, amazon, corbis, and moss adams, i realized i understood what they were talking about. it was very disorienting, as i still think of myself as being in way over my head here. but i have had a few epiphanies this week about career-type things, mostly along the lines of “i can do this!” and “taxonomy and information architecture are so interesting!” and “i want to work at corbis!!”
(i want to work at corbis.)
knitblog updated with pictures; kitchenisms updated with recipes.
(song: “oppenheimer,” the old 97s *sigh*)
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In the catalog under school; work
red wine is fast at the lip of your glass, and i’m gonna ruin …
Tuesday, 11 January, 2005
i get to build a controlled vocabulary about fashion design. it’s very exciting. no, really. it is.
snow day was good but monday was stupid again.
(song: “outro (with bees),” neko case. sorry for using the same song twice. it is just the right song to use right now.)
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In the catalog under mood/grumpy; school
‘cos there’s no sure footing
Sunday, 9 January, 2005
look what i did!
the snow gods have heard my call for Sunday Snow Day and have allowed me not to have to go to work!
if only i could get the i-don’t-want-to-do-my-reading gods to listen.
(song: “outro (with bees),” neko case)
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In the catalog under mood/happy; pictures; weather
if you don’t know where you are, you might be lost
Friday, 7 January, 2005
in direct opposition to ‘most everyone else ever, as far as i can tell, i am pleased that it appears to have decided not to snow, at least today. on the other hand, i was kind of excited about the idea of a snow day, so i’m declaring sunday to be Snow Day even if it’s not; this calls for pajamas and woolly socks and hot chocolate and video games.
saturday would be designated as Snow Day (too/instead) if i didn’t have to do residency for my distance class. i am resentful of having to spend all saturday afternoon on campus, but i’m looking forward to the class - government publications! - and since it’s distance, this is the only time i will ever have to sit in a classroom for it, so i suppose i can suffer through the afternoon.
last night i stopped by the college inn after class, which is uncharacteristic (i’m usually at kai’s), and there ran into a bunch of folks who i don’t see very often, as they’re mostly on the information track of the library and information program … that was fun. i’ve been feeling antisocial lately, both self-imposed and due to circumstance, so it was nice to run into people.
there is reading and listening to do for residency this weekend but i am in denial! i must go find another way to procrastinate!
(song: “don’t follow me, i’m lost,” bobby bare jr.)
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In the catalog under school; weather
to the extent that it’s absurd
Monday, 3 January, 2005
i had one thing on my agenda last week - one! - and i managed to avoid doing it all week. i made stitch markers with little beads; i made crêpes and ratatouille and salmon with green sauce and blueberry sorbet and cherry sorbet; i finished two books; i spent a whole day putting songs on my new fianc�, ipod (yes, i’m going to marry an ipod); i started a new game (silent hill 2) … but i did not, as i said i would, go to the gym.
and now school has started.
but the (only?) nice thing about the ischool cutting back on interesting day classes is that when one’s entire schedule for a term consists of an evening class, a distance class, and an independent study, one’s days are very free and one can (supposedly) motivate oneself to go to the gym.
one hopes.
(song: “clark gable,” the postal service ♥)