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April 30, 2005
jump around!
last night before the hitchiker's guide movie, there was an unusually long series of previews, including two that made me want to jump out of my seat and squeal like a little girl.
first there was the new tim burton animated feature, the corpse bride. given that 'the nightmare before christmas' is one of my all-time favorite films, you can imagine. i am very excited about this movie and i can't stand that i have to wait til fall! but it will be so great in the fall. ohboy.
the second Very Exciting Preview was for 'Serenity', the new joss whedon film. you know, JOSSS! it's based on his short-lived tv series, 'firefly', which didn't pick up a big cult audience like buffy, but should have-- man, it was a great series. and it looks like the movie is going to kick ass. it was all i could do to remain seated.
happily, those next to me were excited about these movies, too, so i didn't feel too dumb expressing some of my feelings on the matter :)
i thought it rather odd, though, that they didn't show this preview. i guess burton only gets one slot.
Posted by lisa at 09:21 PM
April 29, 2005
my schedule today
MORE...Posted by lisa at 08:28 AM
April 28, 2005
WXDU Record Sale - this Saturday
hey bloggers... please spread this around the blogosphere!
This Saturday, April 30 WXDU will be having its rare and randomly-occurring record sale. A whole lotta CDs and a bunch of LPs will be on sale for obscenely low prices. It all goes down at the Duke Coffeehouse on Duke's East Campus from 8:00-11:00am. Cash only will be accepted as payment.
Posted by lisa at 09:27 PM
a memo... (grossout warning)
MORE...Posted by lisa at 08:40 PM
plants in the ground
it happened. i cleared a space in the weeds, i dug in the earth, i saw the earthworms and i put plants in the ground. i watered them and put their little white plastic spikes next to them.
the soil in my raised bed is pretty good, if a little compacted. i dug wide holes and crumbled up the earth so the new plants will have a little breathing room. and i made sure the earthworms were put back around them.
they are so tiny and that bed is so big and weedy.
Posted by lisa at 09:13 AM
April 27, 2005
das boot!
the boots arrived yesterday right after i got home from work! zappos is so fast!
i could put them on but they were pretty snug. one of my feet is bigger than the other and that foot was quite misreable, so i have shipped them back to exchange for the next size up. i hope they take them-- the soles aren't scuffed, but it would have been impossible to put them on without crinkling the leather slightly. we shall see.
they're damn cool looking. under jeans, they are a little like cowboy boots, but with a very odd heel. i think in a bigger size i can manage wearing them to work or out in the evening, but not for longer than 8 hours.
Posted by lisa at 08:24 PM
i had this plan, see
and the first part went really well. inconveniently, the sun has gone down, making it impossible to proceed with part 2.
part 1: prepare actual healthful foods with fresh ingredients purchased at whole foods last night. CHECK! (salad rolls and garlic spinach, if you're wondering. with fizzy raspberry lemonade.)
part 2: plant herbs purchased at whole foods (just two small ones.. a start) in the actual ground. oops. maybe tomorrow morning.
i'm pretty sure i've never planted anything in my yard, this will be my sixth season in the house. i've removed a lot of stuff. i've mowed a lot of stuff, and weed whackered a lot of stuff. pruned and trimmed and mulched. but never planted. maybe i'll get more satisfaction out of it if i plant some things of my own.
last night i drew out a design for the back yard that would be fun to implement. i can't see it happening any time soon, of course, having two other major projects in process, but at least if i add things, or change things, i have some guidance as to where and what to add or change.
Posted by lisa at 08:07 PM
the deepest sort of insanity
the first i heard of it was an april-fool's-day quiz on the NARAL web site. that the bush administration is putting forth the idea that condoms don't work and actually cause STD's and pregnancy.
it seems so absurd.
notification #2 is at the beginning of this salon article, the phrase, "anti-condom campaigns".
it comes as no great surprise to me that anti-abortion campaigners have now turned their attention to chemical means of birth control, because these means often do not prevent conception, only implantation. but barrier methods? condoms in particular?
i guess the basic delusion behind abstinence-only campaigns is that people are actually capable of following them. but we've got millions of years of human history that indicate that we aren't.
that's a reality the bush administration firmly refuses to grasp. but, you know, even if humans were capable of abstinence on a mass scale, can you really expect every single one of us to abstain? always? without fail?
jeez, at least leave us condoms.
(oh, i know, i know. freely available condoms = teenagers with ready access to a means of making sex safer = end of the world.)
Posted by lisa at 08:47 AM
April 26, 2005
dreamishness
maaaaaany strange dreams and awakenings at odd hours last night. the one this morning i still have some memories of; i found a late model, rust free vw beetle at a yard sale and paid cash for it on the spot. this segue'd into one of my travelling dreams (a very common theme in my dreams; i travel great distances, over all sorts of terrain, often covering entire cities). the end goal of my travels was to drive the beetle to... school. my old high school in raleigh. on my way in, i stopped at a clubhouse where my fellow students often stopped, to see if anyone i knew was there. at that point, the beetle, which i'd had trouble driving due to the seat not being adjusted properly, became a sort of rideable umbrella. like riding on a motorized pogo stick. as i entered raleigh, the sky turned cloudy, then dark as night, and i wished i'd driven spacepod. the difficulty with a rideable umbrella, see, is that you can't ride it if you need to use it as an umbrella! i met a man as i was crossing a street, and told him i was going to school... "high school, actually!" he didn't seem to think this was odd, though I certainly did. aren't i a little old for high school? i was glad to see that the walk/don't walk sign was also flashing the time and temperature, and that i had 20 more minutes to get to school.
Posted by lisa at 09:13 AM
April 25, 2005
sometimes i think i am, too
"#1 in the #2 business!" --slogan on a truck, this morning on I-40.
to be filed under "who do i think i'm kidding?", i bought those boots. because that's what i thought on my way home today. "who do i think i'm kidding? work them into the budget? i'm going to buy them no matter what."
Posted by lisa at 06:41 PM
ah, the slackness
it seems like slackness should be much more enjoyable. if i feel a truly compelling need for slackness, i can usually absolve myself of all guilt over it and just get into it. but yesterday i was bored, restless, yet outside of two hours in the yard in the morning (a promising start, i thought at the time), had no desire or motivation to actually accomplish anything.
i even went to dsw, but knowing i wouldn't be buying anything made it pointless and dull outside of the initial shock of so many shoes upon walking in the door. the style i am seeking does not seem to have made it into dsw, although it's very popular this season.
in other shoe news, the crazy boots i've been lusting afer since fall are now $100 cheaper than they were, so I am going to see if i can work them into next month's budget.
the rest of the weekend was good, though, and included an off-trail scramble with the denizens of whig hill, and about four hours or so of westy sanding time.
i am totally putting off going to work. maybe i should take a day off this week or something.
Posted by lisa at 09:16 AM
April 23, 2005
your basic nightmare.
"thin. pretty. big tits. your basic nightmare." –marie, "when harry met sally"
Posted by lisa at 09:51 PM
horse wrestling
MORE...Posted by lisa at 09:33 PM
April 22, 2005
now there's a good quiz.
You have an entrancing kiss~ the kind that leaves
your partner bedazzled and maybe even feeling
he/she is dreaming. Quite effective; the kiss
that never lessens and always blows your
partner away like the first time.
What kind of kiss are you?
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Posted by lisa at 08:56 AM
April 21, 2005
secret option #7: both
well, i did take a little nap. sometimes i think the nicest way to appreciate a beautiful day is with a light nap in a bright, airy room with open windows. then i headed over to the garage to try out some new paint removal strategies.
finally some good progress tonight! i used my little orbital sander and 120 grit sanding discs. i discovered something that i'd started to suspect-- the sandblasting wasn't actually reaching bare metal. there's three layers: brown paint, white primer and dark gray primer. i guess they are primers or one primer that separates into two layers. i was only getting down to the dark gray primer and it looked similar to metal, plus it is more difficult to remove than the first two layers.
anyway, it's incredibly gratifying to see the bright, silvery bare metal! it's exactly what i had hoped for, all light and sparkly. with a coat of high gloss clear epoxy it's going to be incredibly eye-catching. i'm getting excited.
my hands feel funny and my ears are ringing a little-- i should bring some ear protection next time.
Posted by lisa at 10:29 PM
options
option #1, leave door open, listen to neighbors' air conditioning unit try to die.
option #2, close door, shut out the sound. ah, that's better.
option #3, listen to sound of neighbors' incredibly loud music through shut door and over the sound of the simpsons on tv while eating dinner on the sofa.
option #4, eat dinner in another part of the house. like, the dining room. which is full of yard sale crap items of great value. ok, return to option #3.
option #5, go do something.
option #6, be lazy and do nothing.
i'll let you know on that one.
Posted by lisa at 06:31 PM
lizzie comes to visit
well, an experiment was tried last night, something i have never tried before-- lizzie the dog came to visit.
moses has always seemed to be afraid of dogs, although now that i think about it, the dogs that live next door seem to bother him a lot less now than when we first moved in. i assumed that as soon as lizzie walked in the door, moses would bolt for the bedroom and we'd see nothing from him for the rest of the evening.
what actually happened was, he acted freaked out, made his body look as large as possible, growled, but kept a safe distance. he also let me touch him without attacking me, so it was a sort of a combined agressive/submissive response. catious, but not stupid. lizzie is a lot bigger than he is.
i put him in the bedroom for the first part of the visit, then later let him out. he took a turn around the house once or twice, but mostly stayed in the bedroom, on the bed, looking alert but not distressed.
after lizzie left, he sat on the sofa with me and did all of his "i am very happy" stuff, like rolling on his back, looking up at me, smiling, and purring. so there seems to be no lingering resentment.
Posted by lisa at 07:40 AM
April 19, 2005
go go girlgonemad!
since its inception, i've been reading the nerve blog-a-log. perhaps the most naturally talenter writer they've hired so far is a girl who goes by the handle "girlgonemad". if you're ever looking for reading material, check out her archives. she's crazy, vulnerable, and fucking funny as hell.
well, nerve finally got the clue and hired her as a regular... she's their online dating advice gal.
and speaking of hot, damn. tonight's forbidden makeout scene in veronica mars was oh so very. mad props to leesh for putting me on to this awesome show! with buffy off the air, we needed another teenage girl character who is totally hardcore.
Posted by lisa at 10:08 PM
BOTWORLD
i don't know what's cooler... creating a web comic while in second(?) grade, or having a mom who can find a free web host that is specifically for web comics.
Posted by lisa at 09:59 PM
hellogoodmorning
made a conscientious effort yesterday to lay off the caffiene and eat better during the day, which helped a lot. my mood is better, not surprisingly, and when i got home i did some yard work before meeting the xdu crew at federale as has become our habit. i suppose the beer i drank during dinner didn't hurt my mood much either.
opened up the house this morning and have been watching moses scoot from room to room, ears forward, checking things out. this is one of my favorite moses things, i call it "activity cat". well, when i'm fully awake i enjoy it. at 5am, or 3am, i don't mind it so long as it doesn't involve climbing across my head over and over, which it inevetably does.
suppose i had better go to work.
Posted by lisa at 08:58 AM
April 18, 2005
CSS Reboot
wouldn't it be cool if i could get a new xdu site ready in time for the may 1st css reboot?
yeah, it would be, but it ain't gonna happen-- dammit.
Posted by lisa at 04:53 PM
Koyaanisqatsi
balance seems to be a struggle for me again. i can see the signs that something bigger than a brief crying spell in my office might be on the way. there is a great deal of revision happening in my life at the moment. relationships are changing, new ones are forming and old ones are fading. my house is, literally, on shaky footing as the water presses in and wears down the foundation. as i struggle to bend the westy project to my will, i have to question whether i should be making an investment in such a rusty old vehicle, especially since i have no plans for a proper mechanical restoration. work is demanding and scary; i can't speak much of the scariness but it is there.
coming up in may is a trip up to see my mom's side of the family, with mom. although i will enjoy it, it will be difficult as well. i will see grandma and she is not the person i once knew, so that will be sad. now i know that if i do not improve my state of mind before then, i will have a hard time making that trip. i feel many pressures and no way to release myself from them. as i was mowing what passes as grass in my vast back yard, i suddenly felt overwhelmed and defeated by the house, in over my head.
i tell myself to appreciate what i have and not complain. i remind myself constantly that i am master of my own life, if i choose to be.
Posted by lisa at 11:27 AM
April 17, 2005
kraftwerk @ the 9:30 club
is anyone interested in travelling to DC or NYC to see kraftwerk?
they are playing may 30 & 31 @ the 9:30 in DC; jun 1 in NYC. sadly none of these dates are on a weekend.
i missed them when they had their "comeback" tour a few years ago and i was pretty bummed about it. it's one of those things where i don't necessarily expect it to be that astounding of a show, but they are one of Those Bands... like Neubauten, or Throbbing Gristle, that are so important to the development of the music i like that seeing them gives me a shudder.
and hey, if i come home with an air compressor, all the better.
Posted by lisa at 01:27 PM
turkey bacon
verdict: i think this might be the answer to my desire to eat meat products for breakfast.
although the atkins diet does give one license to eat all the fatty pork products one wants, that still doesn't mean it's such a hot idea. the sodium and the saturated fats were getting me down, plus the fact that i'm not actually on atkins at the moment.
turkey bacon does bear a disturbing resemblance to soy bacon while in the pan, but the taste and texture is very different. it's also very different from pork bacon, but that's ok. i still like it, and it doesn't have the guilt factor. plus, you can microwave it.
Posted by lisa at 01:19 PM
April 16, 2005
fuk yea
just home from a hard evening's sandblasting and i was about to give up on my persuit of 21 jump street, but i've hit paydirt this time. it's an episode about punks, they dress johnny depp up as a punk which is so hot and they've got agent orange playing the live band. and jason priestly as a little babyfaced punk who lives in a squat.
the unfortunate thing is that in the second part of season one, the show went from being character driven to being issue driven, self-consciously moving from one Important Issue to the next. and the focus is less on depp, which is a total mistake. i mean, duh.
anyway, the sandblasting is going slow but it's going. i feel bad every time i fire up the compressor, because my landlady is usually out working in her yard and it's all idyllic and the compressor is damned loud. but she seems to be pretty tolerant of it. the compressor has trouble maintaining the pressure needed to blast effectively, but being slow about refilling the sand hopper gives it a chance to recover. after about an hour it stops recovering quickly and starts to sound funny so i shut it off at that point.
leaving the garage door definitely solves the ventilation problem and i'm not unusually tired like i was the first time.
Posted by lisa at 09:35 PM
April 15, 2005
the badger brought me a book
it sat on my desk, taunting me with its fascinating cover art, yet still i worked late. you see, i am in the throes of a new design, the rare state from which i can barely wrest myself.
now kitty is finishing off my grilled cheese and i am enjoying the hairstyles in 21 jump street. also, the appearance of sherilyn fenn. and, of course, his extreme hotness johnny depp.
Posted by lisa at 06:51 PM
April 14, 2005
daaaaaaaamn
don't ask me why i decided to look at the fluevog site. the list of fluevog's i'd like to own is growing. damn his eyes for designing so many gorgeous shoes.
yeah, i still want these:
hotttt
yeah, i still want these, too
sigh.
classy.
Posted by lisa at 08:59 PM
April 13, 2005
like clockwork
last night was a bit of a loss. working late, eating late... the whole evening shot, then managed to be awake til 2 due to unwise caffienation. ugh.
tonight, i determined, would be different.
5:25pm, leave work. it's still light out!
5:55pm, arrive home.
6:05pm, cat is fed. mail is sorted. dinner is heating. dishes are being washed.
6:15pm, become industrious and clean disgusting windowsill over sink. rearrange items around sink so that sill is completely clear, and carefully arrange folds of lace curtain to be perfectly even.
6:35pm, i am fed.
7:00pm, tax return is under way.
9:15pm, tax return is complete and filed. return amount equals exact amount i paid for westy, just as planned one year ago when i bought her. let it not be said that i don't think in the long term.
the tax return plus a hopefully generous payment against the hvac debt next month will bring the debt down to a slightly less frightening level.
i'm having a most unfortunate desire to celebrate with real ice cream from ben & jerry's, but i don't need to be caving in to any sugar cravings right now. being able to sleep tonight would be nice.
Posted by lisa at 09:27 PM
April 12, 2005
lost songs
there are a few songs, just a very few songs that i once had access to through some emphemeral means (an album on loan from a now out of touch friend, a cassette recording that is lost or destroyed now) and have not been able to identify and locate through the magick of the interwebnet.
one of them i did find tonight; it is "persian love" by holger czukay and there's a sample of it on amazon, just enough to confirm that i want to hear that song again, but not enough to pay amazon price for the whole cd. of course, it's not on iTunes. maybe the station has it. i knew it originally through one of the old WOMAD compilations of the 80's, and only knew that it was by czukay and that it sampled a shortwave broadcast from the middle east.
funny thing is, i found it because someone else who was looking for it, and found it in a much more unlikely way, posted his story of finding it on this holger czukay guestbook. (find on WOMAD to see his post.)
the other one is a song i've never been able to identify. i recorded a snippet of it off WXYC while i was in high school, probably in 1984 or 85. i haven't been able to find the cassette it was on for some years now, or i would have digitized it and made all my friends listen to it.
i think the band sounds a little bit like the three o'clock, but no searches through three o'clock discographies or lyrics sites yield any results. the only lyric i remember went something like, "Julie's not Julie anymore."
oh, and there's a shrimp boat song that i once had a dream to that i've never been able to find. but since all shrimp boat songs sound basically the same, that's ok.
Posted by lisa at 10:49 PM
wrestling horses
MORE...Posted by lisa at 10:02 PM
April 11, 2005
spring
MORE...Posted by lisa at 05:52 PM
April 10, 2005
blast
finally decided this morning to stay home today and not go to the massive auto-fair in charlotte. i was pretty torn, but there's a lot to do at home.
got the westy into the garage and spent about an hour sandblasting. it's going to be a very slow job i think. anyone who is interested in trying sandblasting is welcome to come help. as renovation projects go, it's actually not that unpleasant, but it's also probably not as sexy as it sounds.
apparently it does help ya work up an appetite, though, because i'm starving now!
Posted by lisa at 03:52 PM
April 08, 2005
rollin'
westylicious is fully operational again (or as fully operational as she ever is) thanks to MFM, and fully loaded with my crap wonderful stuff that all the yard sale shoppers at 1917 GLENDALE AVE IN DUKE PARK will snarf up and give me all of their cash.
:|
the arty young woman on tonight's WNTW is someone that i can totally relate to. she dresses the way i probably wanted to dress when i was in college but never really achieved. out shopping on her own, she's buying mostly accessories and things that feel safe. she can't bear to contemplate the money she's spending. yep. i remember that...
too bad no one threw $5000 and a couple of stylists my way at the time. i sure as hell would have filled those dresses out a little better...
Posted by lisa at 09:40 PM
April 07, 2005
ride to lonnies
can anyone give me a ride to lonnie's from my house tomorrow (friday) after work (say around 5:30 or a little earlier)?
i think the westy will be ready provided MFM can dislodge various rusty brake components successfully. here's hoping.
Posted by lisa at 10:08 PM
let's discuss shoes, shall we?
what with everyone talking about shoes these days, i feel all inspired.
so this week, i wore a lot of non-hobbit, cute shoes. tomorrow, i think i might wear these never-before photographed shoes. they look very nice with my springtime raincoat, which i might just need tomorrow.
i went up to the attic this evening and pulled down all of my summer shoes. it's like suddenly getting a bunch of new shoes all at once! how i do heart some of those shoes. i had forgotten about the little lavendar ones. i will have to wear those soon.
i also pulled down a lot of clothes that have got to go. i know they probably won't sell so well at the yard sale, but one way or another they are leaving the house this weekend. a lot of things that i think i held on to because i was afraid i'd gain back all the weight i lost. but the thing is, even if i do gain it all back (let's hope not), i will never wear those kind of clothes again (i hope). no vast, shapeless shirts, no high-waisted, tapered jeans. time to let all of that crap go.
there's one category of clothes that i just don't know how to handle. i have a vast array of roswell-related t-shirts. they're incredibly unflattering and mostly downright ugly so i'll never wear them, but i can't quite bear to part with them. i've got a few wxdu and one starlite t-shirt that fall into about the same category. i do have the space in my attic to store them-- but what's the point? oh well. i guess i'll defer the decision to be rid of them.
Posted by lisa at 09:47 PM
crack o' dawn
of course, this freewheeling 10am - 6am work schedule has got me all spoiled. i get all the sleep i need most days and have all but forgotten to think it's normal to feel tired during the day.
this coming week will be a bit different, however. saturday it's the yard sale, and we all know those are crazy early. there will be no slouching on sunday, either, if i want to make it down to charlotte and actually locate Team UMJ as well as take in the very vast car show. monday i'll strive to be at work at 8am for early testing of the project. i guess i get a bit of a break until thursday, when i come in for a 9am meeting that should be... interesting.
i know, i know. i'm totally spoiled.
Posted by lisa at 12:32 PM
April 06, 2005
that's better
towards the end of the day i pretty much signed off on the high-profile work project. when it goes live monday around 10-11am, y'all will get to see it. i'm iffy on linking to it from my blog, but let's just say that if you know who my employer is-- ya ain't gonna have too hard of a time finding it. unfortunately, unless you're an html/css geek, it won't seem very impressive or mean much. view the source, and look at the css to see my work on the page.
a former co-worker's husband died earlier this week-- he was only ten years older than i am. heart attack. the visitation was tonight and i considered going, but i already had plans to see mom for dinner, the visitation was out in garner, and i was dressed wildly inappropriately in a pink t-shirt and jeans. so i will show support in another way.
mom wanted to see me because, after a year of work, she has finished her first knitting project! not only was the yarn she used difficult to work with (eyelash), but the kneedles were very large, and of course it being her first project, it was slow going anyway. she got frustrated many times, and even left the first attempt in a plane in italy! but i swear she is the definition of determination and she finished that dang thing, and now she's like, "what will i knit next!!!" anyway, i had to teach her how to cast off. here she is wearing it for the first time.
we had a nice dinner at neo china and i brought home a ton of yummy leftovers. they've got wireless in the house now, and i had my laptop with me, so i was able to show them my work projects. wayne liked the interface i did for my other big work project and said, "hm, i might have to steal some code from you..."
i have to say that it's always very nice and relaxing to hang out with them. i'm very lucky to have a family that i enjoy, since so many people seem to find their families stressful.
Posted by lisa at 10:33 PM
convincing people
MORE...Posted by lisa at 12:43 PM
another pink bus
the shade of pink isn't my favorite (or maybe that's the lighting), but i love the neatly tied back pink curtains, the white interior, and the delicate white flower vine along the side.
Posted by lisa at 09:02 AM
April 05, 2005
blasting
i'm pretty hyped. i think i've got what i need to get started on sandblasting the westy this weekend. many thanks to jason! for showing me how to use my air compressor last night.
one of my co-workers was very interested in the project, and he talked to a friend who used to work in a body shop. the friend says the size of sandblaster that i have is similar to what they used in the shop and i should not have any trouble getting the paint off. here's hoping that's the case!
of course, time is a problem. on saturday, i've decided to sell things in the big duke park yard sale, rather than buy them, and that will take up a lot of the day. on sunday, i want to visit sarah at the big car show in charlotte. hopefully i can work in some westy time around those things.
Posted by lisa at 08:25 PM
April 04, 2005
huh.
apparently there's some sport thing tonight or something.
i don't get it.
Posted by lisa at 05:17 PM
anxiety dreams and pointy shoes
awoke this morning to an anxiety dream about the westy, then found that other, completely unrelated anxieties started to surface. are early morning anxieties more founded in reality or more groundless? at first i thought, i should listen to these since they seem to come from a deeper part of my brain, but as i became more awake, i remembered that i don't want to allow my anxieties-- which are often generated by insecurities, not intuition-- to be in charge. so they've been duly listented to then packed away as best i can.
throughout the week, the shoes i wear collect near the front door and provide a picture of how i've been dressing recently. in a very general sense, i have two classes of shoes: shoes that are comfortable, look like hobbit shoes and are generally black or gray, and shoes that are not all that comfortable, look ladylike and feminine, and come in many colors.
at some point this weekend, i looked down at the puddle of recently-worn shoes and felt distress over their rounded drabness. there were no special shoes in that pile (except my converse). things have been like this for some weeks now, dating back to the start of the Furnace Troubles i suppose, but this is the first time i felt distress over it.
so this morning i felt for the first time in quite a while the desire to dress a little more like a girl and even had a skirt in my hands when i realized that my legs were not really ready for display under a skirt. i might hope that no one will look at my legs closely enough to notice, but that is probably a futile hope. so i put the skirt back.
instead i wore the pointiest of my pointy shoes. they have slippery soles and stay on precariously, largely due to toe-pinching. i wore a different, more comfortable pair of shoes to drive to work and walk across the parking lot. a lot of trouble; what makes me willing to go to this trouble one day and not another?
Posted by lisa at 12:39 PM
April 03, 2005
the downtown scene
saturday evening visited the baldwin lofts open house with d&s. they're nicely appointed, but they're all studios. sounds like rent ranges from $825 - $1200, and that seems to include wireless internet and direct tv. given that there's also a strong sprint signal inside the building, one could conceivably save a lot not having to pay for cable, high speed internet and a land line.
we walked around downtown a bit, and managed to meet the fellow who owns the building with the florist sign attached. there's no florist there anymore, and he's trying to sell the place so he can move to seattle. he's asking $250k, but has no takers. right across the street is a place that looks pretty rough and completely empty, with $150 spray painted on a window. i'm guessing that means $150k.
:|:
this morning i did a good-enough-for-now repair on the westy's gas pedal and took her for a spin around the block. brakes are still soft so she'll be off to My Favorite Mechanic as soon as possible. it was marvellous driving her even that short distance, though. i miss her!
after the all-dj meeting, which was about as tedious as one might suppose, i headed out to see sin city with sarah & georg. it was stylish, violent, and actually pretty good. we had a nice discussion of the timeline and other oddities over dinner at the shaque de q.
feels weird to do so much stuff in a weekend. unfortunately, it means the weekly allowance goes very fast.
Posted by lisa at 08:52 AM
April 02, 2005
that was fun! or me him lizzie and fifty horses.
last night i actually left the house on a friday night, amazingly. it was cool. i was viva'd at the The Jett Rink show then went to jo & joe's where, i can assure you, despite rumors to the contrary, the queer girls do still flock on a friday night. there was also a reconnaissance mission out to the starlite to take a visual survey of the state of things. there are poles, and there is the bare framework of a new fence, but no plywood has been applied to either structure. i was contacted by an n&o reporter for more information and have advised him to visit the weekend flea market to research the issue.
this morning i went and banged on the door of the local whig hill office and the occupants of said office took me on a guided tour of rural bahama which involved a lot of mud, a swampy field, a nap on a hill, and a surprise encounter with a very large and rowdy group of horses and people. we stopped to watch a couple of balls-out horse races down a gravel road. it was really quite the scene.
Posted by lisa at 04:22 PM