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anonamys and freudianslip sent me. It's loaded up with all kinds of music. yay, me! yay, them! I read so much that I'd read about several of these groups without ever having actually heard them, or at least not KNOWING that's who I was hearing. I now have actual ear-time with the Meat Puppets, Live, Incubus, Live, The Vines and Queens of the Stone Age, as well as knowing that I've heard "Whatever I fear" by Toad the Wet Sprocket lots of times, but thanks to secretive DJs, never knew who it was. I like what I've heard so far of Train (esp All American Girl.) That voice is familiar, so I might have heard them before, too. Much of the music fits neatly into a niche in my collection that was almost empty before-- new/current music. I'm going to enjoy this.
Weather here is beautiful today, at least right now. I think it's supposed to come a gully-washer later on this afternoon, but right now it's mid-to-upper 70's, mostly sunny, with a few puffy clouds. There is a breeze, but nothing you'd be concerned about. Except for that huge-ass tree branch that fell out of the tree this morning-- something must have stirred it a little bit, anyway. Sucker must be 25-30' long. It was around the corner, with a whole wing of the building between me and it, and it made such a whump/thud that I heard it clearly; it scared the cats badly, not to mention a couple of 20-somethings that were out walking their dogs and saw it come down. It took out some electric lines, etc, but landed on the grass instead of some VERY nearby cars. Just a little excitement here in beautiful Sunnydale....
My head has been hurting badly for the last couple of days. I had said I'd go out to Cattle Raids after class, and managaed to get out there. The drugs finally kicked in- 30 minutes got me mostly pain free, but it took and hour and a half or two hours before I was pain free, and then I was all draggy. It was still fun-- that's a great event. Glad I didn't have to miss all of it, like I will miss War of the Wings. Ysolt and I went to dinner at Crazy Fire after court, which was nice. We had an eminently ogle-worthy waiter, which made it even more entertaining. Ysolt doesn't usually comment on eye-candy, but she did a wonderful double take after he left the table. Heh. I was brave beyond counting-- they were out of my usual favorite lime-ginger sauce, so I had to put together something myself.... some ginger oil, some lemon juice.... oh, hell. Maybe just a leeeeetle dab of the mango-habanero? I guess it was maybe 1/2 a teaspoon, and it was exactly the right amount. Hot enough I could feel it, not so hot it was painful. I'm not into pain. Guess I get enough with the head? Whatever.
I was feeling so full of myself because I started way early doing research on the paper(s) I have due this semester. The first, shortest one is due Oct 9 and I was going to write about parchment and vellum. Now I think I'm going to include iron (or oak) gall ink in combination with that, and make it my long paper. Which is cool, except now I have a paper due on Oct 9, with no clue what to write about. Sigh. The plight of students everywhere. I'm not quite the stereotypical student, though.... I still have a couple of days worth of clean clothes left before I need to do laundry, (ie, I don't have to resort to the prom dress just yet, which is a damn good thing since I didn't go to the prom, and wouldn't be able to still wear the dress if I had) and I have a pantry full of food more expensive (and nutritious) than Ramen noodles. Right now I'm what I prefer to think of as an "intriguing blend" of crazy cat lady and grad student. Yeah, that's it.
anonamys and freudianslip sent me. It's loaded up with all kinds of music. yay, me! yay, them! I read so much that I'd read about several of these groups without ever having actually heard them, or at least not KNOWING that's who I was hearing. I now have actual ear-time with the Meat Puppets, Live, Incubus, Live, The Vines and Queens of the Stone Age, as well as knowing that I've heard "Whatever I fear" by Toad the Wet Sprocket lots of times, but thanks to secretive DJs, never knew who it was. I like what I've heard so far of Train (esp All American Girl.) That voice is familiar, so I might have heard them before, too. Much of the music fits neatly into a niche in my collection that was almost empty before-- new/current music. I'm going to enjoy this. Weather here is beautiful today, at least right now. I think it's supposed to come a gully-washer later on this afternoon, but right now it's mid-to-upper 70's, mostly sunny, with a few puffy clouds. There is a breeze, but nothing you'd be concerned about. Except for that huge-ass tree branch that fell out of the tree this morning-- something must have stirred it a little bit, anyway. Sucker must be 25-30' long. It was around the corner, with a whole wing of the building between me and it, and it made such a whump/thud that I heard it clearly; it scared the cats badly, not to mention a couple of 20-somethings that were out walking their dogs and saw it come down. It took out some electric lines, etc, but landed on the grass instead of some VERY nearby cars. Just a little excitement here in beautiful Sunnydale....
My head has been hurting badly for the last couple of days. I had said I'd go out to Cattle Raids after class, and managaed to get out there. The drugs finally kicked in- 30 minutes got me mostly pain free, but it took and hour and a half or two hours before I was pain free, and then I was all draggy. It was still fun-- that's a great event. Glad I didn't have to miss all of it, like I will miss War of the Wings. Ysolt and I went to dinner at Crazy Fire after court, which was nice. We had an eminently ogle-worthy waiter, which made it even more entertaining. Ysolt doesn't usually comment on eye-candy, but she did a wonderful double take after he left the table. Heh. I was brave beyond counting-- they were out of my usual favorite lime-ginger sauce, so I had to put together something myself.... some ginger oil, some lemon juice.... oh, hell. Maybe just a leeeeetle dab of the mango-habanero? I guess it was maybe 1/2 a teaspoon, and it was exactly the right amount. Hot enough I could feel it, not so hot it was painful. I'm not into pain. Guess I get enough with the head? Whatever.
I was feeling so full of myself because I started way early doing research on the paper(s) I have due this semester. The first, shortest one is due Oct 9 and I was going to write about parchment and vellum. Now I think I'm going to include iron (or oak) gall ink in combination with that, and make it my long paper. Which is cool, except now I have a paper due on Oct 9, with no clue what to write about. Sigh. The plight of students everywhere. I'm not quite the stereotypical student, though.... I still have a couple of days worth of clean clothes left before I need to do laundry, (ie, I don't have to resort to the prom dress just yet, which is a damn good thing since I didn't go to the prom, and wouldn't be able to still wear the dress if I had) and I have a pantry full of food more expensive (and nutritious) than Ramen noodles. Right now I'm what I prefer to think of as an "intriguing blend" of crazy cat lady and grad student. Yeah, that's it.
