a plug

since sxsw is all the rage for blogging these days, i may stick my proverbial oar in and plug

WORLD LEADER PRETEND

one more time. they'll be playing on the 17th at maggie mae's and once upon a time i saw something about them doing a radio show on the 18th, but can't find that information at this time (if you can, please let me know, and i'll sre as heck see if i can't stream that little gem)

(fyi, rockstar matt is second from the left in that picture)

update: the radio segment will be on kcrw on the morning of the 18th.

papers....gah!

i CANNOT put this paper off anymore! so why do i blog? because i want to put this paper off. i still need to clean and find my dpns. so insted of writing the paper, i've also been cleaning.

why do i go to wifi cafes when i have papers to write? i should go to cafes without wifi, or paid wifi service. i only have 4 of 15 pages done...

in other news, it snew here last night, and luckily the streets are all melted and clear. i got to capuvino (where they also have wine - another obstacle) and there was a scottish terrier sitting outside, next to the requisite community dog dish... he had teeny tiny snowballs hanging all over his fur! that's the cleareest memory i have of denver before i moved back here last may (other than the whole pope incident in 1993): my aunt's cocker spaniel, dudley (may he r.i.p.) playing with me in the back yard and havig snowballs dangling from his fur. then we used the blowdryer to melt them. i was 6 i think.

okay, terrorism assessment, ho!

that will be $9 gazillion, please.

i intend to propose to the chancellor and the president at the university of denver that it be illegal to work when it is lovely outside. complete with hefty fine.

(this is since it is evidently legal to have a paper due smack dab in the middle of spring break)

like today when it's 65, sunny, the sky is alarmingly blue and even though you hate parades you'd rather be watching denver's st. patty's day parade because you'd be outside and not in the library surgically attached to a computer at the fingertips...

everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads

you may not have recognized me driving around denver and its suburbs today. you may have thought you saw my car, but didn't recognize the driver, so you decided not to wave. however, if you thought you saw my car, but the driver looked more like someone who had a pizza in lieu of a face, that was indeed me driving... man, pms just gets funner and funner with age...

on a happier note, the poncho alluded to before (see: yay!) is completely finished. it's blocked (at my aunt's house on her kitchen island), it's washed (so as to avoid a massive allergic reaction in its recipient), and it's sewn. it's actually better looking once it's actually on than i thought it might be.

but, so help me god, that's the last time i do a straight stockinette rectangle.

sweetmonkeys! (a boring narrative of random things)

toes go in first, you knoe!

i've been busting to janet jackson's "rhythm nation" the past few days. i get interesting looks in the car because the weather's nice and the windows are down. and "rn" and "miss you much" are on a random cd that's followed by "tiny dancer" (hold me close, young tony danza) and preceded by "motown philly" (which always reminds me of the adorable 7th graders in our lip sync show in 9th grade who were cuter than cute. that event is what caused them to start implementing a ticket limit to shows because we sold that bad boy out and broke a few fire codes that night.)

and i am filled with glee to tell you that this quarter's classes are finito. completedamundo. have ceased to be. shuffled off this mortal coil, if you will. are pushing up daisies. (whoa... just started channeling monty python...)

i still have a little matter of my terrorism paper, but for all intents and purposes, that class is DONE!!! (and in course evaluations i know of QUITE a few people who created new orifices for the professor)

but last night, i went out to spanky's with my suicide bombing group after class which was alternately sickfun and aggravating. as in some of them were better to hang out with than others, and luckily the better than others ones are in a ton of my classes next quarter. then, i went to a bowling alley up by my house and met up with crazy mara and her friend keeley from work, and keeley's friends. mara was slightly cranky and ready to go, but then we started dancing to the theme song from st. elmo's fire "man in motion" and things got much more better. and we were doing our strange little dancing and singing things we do (this is usually when we forget we're in public, and it all comes back to us very suddenly. and yes, i was stone cold sober.) and we may have drawn a crowd, but it was stupidfun. then i went home and went to bed, got up, and went to work, where i'll work a 1/2 day then i'll go home and work on my terrorism final paper and go to lakewood and do some laundry and go home and have dinner with the pups, then go to crazy mara's and go out with her and yaymee. yay!

yay!

i finished my sister's poncho last night! (okay, i finished knitting it, but it stil needs blocking. more on that later) i wish i loved it. i don't like the colors (lion brand wool-ease thick and quick in green heather and white) because they remind me of junior high, and they're not the fun kind of contrast like red and orange in the pattern, and i wish i HAD done it in garter stitch instead of stockinette - it would be a bit stretchier...

at least i still have her scarf that i LOVE that is in the works... but i only have a week off of school, so it will be some time before that cabled piece of soft, rowan loveliness is finished... and although it's tiny tiny in the picture it's about 2.5 times that long at the moment - so although it's slow going, it IS going. (and will need blocking, obviously)

but as far as blocking a big rectangle, though it sounds easy enough to do, i just don't have the counter, table, or floor space to do that where my dog won't get fur all over the damp piece of tangled yarn that it is... so i may have to just break down and pay someone to block it for me... {sigh}

but there are some projects that i yearn to start, but won't so that I finish the pink scarf... there is actually a keller family project i want to start. however, it requires my addi 10.5 dpns, and currently they are MIA in my apartment.

once i finish my terrorism paper this weekend, i'll have to do an in-depth quarterly house cleaning because MY MOM IS COMING TO VISIT ON TUESDAY! yay for mommy!

hopefully i'll find them then.

monkeys are so funny

here's a snippet from the new york times in an article on robert blake's murder trial (registration required, but it's freeeeeeeeeeeeee!):

Earlier in the trial, a professor from the University of California, Los Angeles, testified as an expert witness about the psychotropic effects of cocaine. He said that he had smoked crack cocaine himself and sat in a cage with monkeys to teach them how to smoke cocaine as well.

well, duh, how else do you research monkeys on coke?

(random grammar nazi note: denver pop station kiss 95.7 undertook a new campaign in 2005 where they have reduced the number of commercials by 20%. in all of the commercials, they state that they have "20% less commercials." at least the dj's have been instructed during live segments to say "20% fewer commercials.")

everything zen

so, i finally broke down and bought a firewire card for my laptop.

and now the ipod works again.

but it doesn't charge the 'pod while it's updating.

yet in good news, i can finally blast concrete blonde's "joey" with the windows rolled down on my way to work.

one more class, one more paper, and the quarter's done.

and mama will be here in 1 week.

(speaking of mamas, hi travis! tell yer mama to check her snail mailbox in the next few days)

update: in my unending frustration with having problems with ipod syncing with itunes via usb, numerous resets and restores of the podster, finally getting the music back loaded on the pod-a-licious, i forgot the whole reason my problems started was that it was skipping. as in it would play only certain songs for about 25 seconds, and then it would skip to the next song, skipping over about 5 in line, and then play for the next 25 seconds. that problem is NOT resolved, so due to the joy of a 12 month warranty, i'm sending it in to apple when i get their shipping stuff and they're sending me a newbie. so, i have a firewire port now, and yay! a new pod in the chute.