friday-things that astonish me

• my friend miss m
• her amazing play, lift, which i predict will win a tony award in the near future. (i'm serious. if you live around here, it's still playing tonight and tomorrow. go. get in on the ground floor. save your ticket stubs--they'll be worth something one day)
• that nix and i are still capable of staying out until almost one on a school night (that's not an indication of how long the play is, just of how much fun miss m herself is, and of how poor is the service at a theatre adjacent bar)
• the grammar in that last parenthetical

thursday-things that make the heart beat faster

skidding on black ice.

i've resisted putting that one on, as i feared it would be bad karma. i am now convinced it will snow again.

wednesday-things that are orange

ha ha

tuesday-things that displease me

• verizon
• dirty dishes
• commercials that animate mucus or fungus
• this new daylight savings time--i think my body has rejected it. i cannot fall asleep at night or get up in the morning. what is the point of an extra hour of light in the evening when it's 42 and raining, and we have to wake up in the dark?!

monday-things that please me

clean sheets (forgive me--i really didn't want to get out of bed, and am now quite singularly focused)

special bonus weekend edition

pajiba calls it five songs
the a.v. club calls it random rules

i call it, i'm working on my bibliography and bored out of my skull, so here it is:

name the first 10 songs that play when you put your ipod on shuffle, and as a special bonus, name the first 5 songs in order of most played:

shuffle:
love me or leave me by nina simone
old joe's place by "the folksmen" from the movie "a mighty wind"
by your side by sade
stay by alison krauss and the union station
donegan's gone by mark knopfler
drive on (live) by johnny cash and willie nelson
carrick fergus by the peasall sisters
the coo coo bird by the be good tanyas
every mother's son by peter mulvey
don't get around much anymore by willie nelson

my ipod seems to be in a country mood this morning

most played:
ain't no sunshine by bill withers (76)
ashes on your eyes by deb talen (71)
fly me to the moon by astrud gilberto (70)
mad world by gary jules (69)
when you say nothing at all by alison krauss and the union station (61)

friday-things that amuse me

the electric company--nix got the dvd for me from netflicks, and i was so wonderfully amused by morgan freedman as easy reader (umm, umm-umm). i had forgotten...

also--i saw a crocus today! spring is coming!

thursday-things that make the heart beat faster

the view from someplace very high

i grew up next to a mountain, and there is nothing quite like standing at the top and looking down at the world below. once upon a time, on a school trip i sat on the edge of an aqueduct where even the toughest kids were cowering a few steps back. a classmate accused me of faking a fear of heights on the plane.

i love heights. i hate flying.

wednesday-things that are orange

tuesday-things that displease me

after spending all weekend transcribing all the notes from my recalled book, i brought it back to the main university library. while i was there, i picked up some other books, and then went to the smaller university library next door. you can see where i'm going with this. there was a copy of my recalled book in the library next door!,

yes folks, someone recalled my copy because they didn't want to walk to 50 yards to get it from the other university library.

monday-things that please me

• that my thumb finally looks like it's healing
• that at some point yesterday evening, i finished transcribing all my notes from that book.
• veronica mars: at 8:30 last night when my brain was so entirely fried and there was nothing on, nix suggested that we start watching the first season (which my sister had lent me). we are now 4 episodes in, and i'm hooked.

friday-things that DO NOT amuse me

• that some horrible little undergrad keeps recalling the books i have out from the library--including the 600 page biography of my author, which i have read, and marked with post-it notes, but hadn't started transcribing quotations until last night. there goes the weekend.
• the snow storm headed up the east coast

things that do amuse me

• duke lost

thursday-things that make the heart beat faster

mexican hot chocolate with a shot of espresso

i could go for one of those right now, actually...

wednesday-things that are orange

a gift from a.l. for my birthday

p.s.-this is the one year anniversary of this site. i'd link to the original post, but i can only seem to link to march 2006. if you'll scroll to the bottom of that page, you'll find that on 14 march, 2006, i was displeased by little bits of cork in my wine.

tuesday-things that displease me

my thumb--which i managed to put quite a gash in while attempting to grate an onion on saturday. if i was less kind, i would post a picture of the borderline gangrenous thing, but i will spare you this time.

don't ever say i never do anything for you!

monday-things that please me

and old school sesame street. we've missed you, mr. hooper!

friday-things that DO NOT amuse me

that tomorrow is my birthday and that i am advancing to a year that ends in a zero

guess i'm over denial...how many do i have to go before acceptance?

thursday-things that make the heart beat faster

i had a dream last night that i was the trapeze artist in a circus. (kitten, if you're reading, it wasn't that kind of trapeze artist!)(ps-ye gods, check out the plot key words in that last link. imdb, it's not that kind of movie!! who writes this shite?)

anyway, it was that 100 feet above the ground part of that dream that woke me up with the greatly elevated pulse.

it must be because nix and i were talking about the story song, damn everything but the circus over dinner last night

wednesday-things that are orange

tuesday-things that displease me

the complete lack of moisture in the air.

i swear that my eyebrows have dandruff, my face is so dry! and no amount of lotion has made me stop scratching the skin off my legs.

i need spring now.

monday-things that please me

that the associated press ignored paris hilton for a week, just to see what would happen.

now if they could only do the same to ann coulter...

friday-things that amuse me

kids with bubbles

(on this miserable morning, i wanted to remember good weather)

thursday-things that make the heart beat faster

exercise--or so i've heard...