28/366

1. i want want want a glow in the dark bike. what a great idea.
2. a lot of things are hard right now when they should be easy. what the hell.
3. i just took a bunch of people i’ve never really had a conversation with off myspace. they were clogging up my bulletins. also, i’m having weird issues with friending people from college on facebook. i went to a super conservative christian college, and i am none of those things. (in my defense, i wasn’t really then, either). i always feel so defensive when i talk to people from my past. i probably don’t give them enough credit.
4. the indigo girls concert last night was cancelled due to illness, so we ended up at the gay bar instead. it was cool to hang out with laura et al for a while but it was pretty terrible overall. glad i don’t depend on that scene for my social life.
5. can’t wait for the new mountain goats album to come out. seriously.
6. also, really in to LOST lately. we’re almost done with season 2.
7. best drink of the week: 1/3 simply limeade, 1/3 simply lemonade, 1/3 vodka.

medieval times

Emily and I went to Hawt-lanta for a get-out-of-dodge/birthday weekend trip. We stayed at the Hyatt downtown (god, I love priceline) in an upgraded room (no charge – god, I love nice front desk people who love lesbians) and had a blast. Emily wanted to go to Medieval Times, so we did. I had a few drinks, and it went from being … interesting … to being pretty freaking fun. We also hit up Ikea and the Flying Biscuit (best. tofu. scramble. ever.), and managed to get home before Emily had to go to work.

It was a really fun trip. We’ll have to take more day trips like that.

24/366

i like how this photo sort of looks like music notes on the left and then that gradually turns into vibrations on the right.

things are really busy right now, and only bound to get busier as we increase our supported area by 300 on feb 1. there will be someone(s) hired, but they won’t be hired by the 1st. so, busy me. i supposedly have the day off tomorrow, but i’ll be at the coffeeshop trying to get caught up on work projects.

i’m a little disappointed that kucinich has dropped out of the race, even though i knew he would not go the distance. i have to decide whether to vote against hillary in the democratic primary, or against huckabee in the republican primary. i don’t have enough faith in the american political machine to vote for someone.

i’m just a bundle of joy tonight, huh?

16/366

I am learning the difference between being chaotically busy at work and actually having a plan to get things done. Having a plan makes things a little less overwhelming.

Once is an amazing heartwarming musical film, with a brilliant soundtrack, and you should at the very least watch the trailer.

I am homesick for adventure.

i made those!

I was VeryProductive this weekend around the house. Go me!

Other events:
1. we went to the Pompeii exhibit at the art museum at the same time with about 600 elementary school kids. it was interesting but also depressing. nature always wins, yes indeed.
2. we went to ‘sips and strokes’ and painted pretty pictures to hang in the bedroom. it was fun and they look awesome, even though i sipped more than i stroked.
3. we also went out to eat and drink for trey’s birthday. we ended up at speakeasy on 80s punk night and drank expensive (and delicious!) drinks out of beer glasses.
4. got to food not bombs on sunday and lo and behold, the city has removed all of the benches from the 5 points area in southside. what the hell? it is time for action, i believe.

i need a haircut very very badly.
also, super mario galaxy rocks.

7/366

Cmon emusic, renew my monthly downloads already!

6/366

It has been a year of disasters so far, and late Saturday night I had a moment of clarity. I’ve spent far too long in my life preparing for (and worrying about) various permutations of all sorts of situations that I may or may not get in to. It’s time to stop that. I’m wasting too much energy trying to prepare for life, and not enough energy actually living it.

1/366

My goals for this year are similar to the ones I had last year: meditate often, read more, listen more, write more, play more. I’m going to take a photo every day this year (see project 366 stream on flickr) – and play with my big girl camera once a week.

I need to come up with some goals for work, too, which is harder than it should be. I’d like to become more specialized in the things that I do – which is something I’ve always had a mental block about. I’d like to learn in-depth two programming languages/environments this year (probably PHP and Flex). I also need to focus on keeping things updated (even the things that need to be compiled from source), and on automating the things that can be automated.

Look out world, fun times ahead!