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when we were in college, the director of the honors program gave us this lovely farewell speech at the spring banquet. celebrating the entire honors class from the university of puget sound, 2001, i bet you were not expecting this to come back and bite you in the patootie. this is what we get for me moving and cleaning and rediscovering lost paperwork. shame. acres of shame. and also a befuddled regret as to why erica and i don’t have a club already. what the hell.

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i just got home from dropping jason off and as i was walking up to my door, i saw something small, and black and white moving across the sidewalk. instantly i panicked thinking it was moo who had somehow managed to escape the locked doors and windows. but then i noticed the odd humping movement of the lower back as it walked and concluded, skunk. how is it possible for a skunk to live in the middle of the city? sure the park is pretty close by, but why then is the skunk not IN the park? i am upset by this blatant disregard for property lines. he’s totally going to get hit by a car. i therefore must feed him from my dwindling supply of cat food which my mother provided me with upon moving. poor little skunk guy.

it’s a SKUNK! what am i THINKING?!

there’s this thing i found out about called “jump the shark” wherein there’s a specific episode in every television show’s life where they do something so absurd to garner ratings and just then plummet into stupidity. it seems to be very related to bringing animals onto a show. like on friends when they introduced the monkey as a character. this also works for all those old movies of reagan’s with the ape. fucking monkeys. i think it does not count if you’re speaking of mr. ed though. because hell, that horse was clever.

anyway, it’s kind of fun to look up your favorite shows and see the voting process about which episode it was that flirted with shark bait death.

coachella time! time to begin the rabid obsession which is me.

the concert is may 1st and 2nd.

so far confirmed that i have read about on the webpage are: (drum roll) the cure, radiohead, and the pixies. jacob, tell me you are soooo going.

there should be more info soon. but if those three are true, then holy shit, who needs more info?

just went to the cure webpage to confirm and it says kraftwerk and the flaming lips! flaming! i am so there!!

i feel lately like someone who just pops in here once a week and never has time to post. this is probably because it is true. damn not having internet access of my very own yet. sucks so much ass.

anyway, today was very busy in the east bay as i used part of nuala’s christmas present to go see ‘win a date with tad hamilton’ (thank you, nuala, thank you so much). and then i got film developed, bought a new laptop, did laundry, caught up on the internet, scanned all the photos, and uploaded them. plus i stole a microwave, snuck into ‘the butterfly effect’, and am carting off a certain mooser poosers in a carrier.

i really have nothing else to say about myself. i put more pictures in the musical filming folder. and then i created new albums for my apartment pictures and for that party at erica’s when jolie was here. so enjoy. and…maybe i will be able to post again soon with my new laptop if it can actually access the internet. we shall see.

in a tone of pompous self-importance i announce that i have a one bedroom apartment in san francisco, land of oppurtunity (to blame nuala) or at least really high rents. in the outer richmond. walking distance to china beach, all the asian food i could ask for, a movie theatre, and a gigantic gold domed church.

there will be a party. soon.

if you want to offer help in carrying boxes from the street into the apartment, feel free. (that’s happening this sunday afternoon)

this morning i spent some time scanning and uploading various photos from the past like 2 months. so we gots some halloween, some musical filming, some pregnant ellie, some cirque du soleil, a little bit of nuala’s birthday thrown in for good measure, and some random christmas cards.

let me walk you thru them.

first off, ellie. she’s been pregnant. kristen asked for a picture and i took one about 2 months ago. she is so much more pregnant now, but that is besides the point.

she’s so cute! and she hates having her picture taken, so this means she really must like you kristen, to let me take her picture for you to see. or at least it means she likes me. she wants to see return of the king again too, maybe we should all see it together and then you could see her in super preggers mode with your own two eyeballs.

next up we have halloween. we already had gene’s pictures of the self-same event, but i have a couple more. =)

i like the one of erica by herself best. something about the hair and the shorts and the socks, really it was just great. kind of mesmerizing.

nuala’s birthday! this was so long ago and she’s so much older now! kim recently gave me some pictures she had taken and then kristen berated me publicly (comment #2) for like three weeks demanding to know when i was going to scan the pictures and put them up for her enjoyment.

nuala is such a cutie. and that trip was hella fun with all the eating and sunbathing, mmm, let’s go back!

musical filming which is not yet complete, but the vast majority of which has been chronicled in these whole whopping three pictures i took. (didn’t anyone else take any pictures?) one of them i got in trouble for because the clicking of the camera got picked up by the boom mike.

le sigh. musical peeps, watch out! jason is planning a film party where people other than us will see this horrific excuse for a singing extravaganza! plus, he’s going to get peed on. (jason: i’m so excited about that! i’m sorry i had to hang up on you yesterday.)

cirque du soleil’s last night in town was spent by me and everybody else in hard hats running around tearing shit apart, packing, and injuring ourselves. cort was bleeding profusely from a finger and i pulled a ligament in my knee and spent all of christmas in oregon laid up pretty much. but it was great! i was there from 11am-11:30pm and i didn’t want to leave. it was kind of sad to have to give up the whole circus experience. and now i once again don’t have a job but i have like 3 pictures and that’s just going to have to do me. it’s pathetic, because like 3 or 4 pictures of me in a hard hat were taken, but none of them came out. and at least one of them had a flash, so i’m confused about what happened. whatever.

lastly, we have the “christmas cards which come in the mail with pictures of children you’ve never seen before in your life on them” segment of this post. we returned home from oregon last night and going thru all the mail we discovered these two (two) xmas cards which violent goobers on them. (note: goobers means kids. i called the kids in oregon ‘goobers’ all week-long.) i personally am fascinated by these cards in all their similarities. it’s like the civil war movie ads: ‘the war which pitted brother (sister) against brother (sister)! north against south! poop against pee! large, red, bulbous noses against the classic grecian profile! the humanity! the idiocy! the hirsute-ness of it all! lordy, lordy save us!’