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minervacat at 11:06am on 23/08/2005 under media:tivo, meta:fannish, meta:library, numbered and lettered lists, personal:moving, sports:baseball
minervacat at 11:06am on 23/08/2005 under media:tivo, meta:fannish, meta:library, numbered and lettered lists, personal:moving, sports:baseballomg, has it really been almost a week since i've posted? HAVE YOU PEOPLE MISSED ME ENOUGH YET?
anyway. a long list of random things that i have been thinking about while moving and since moving.
anyway. a long list of random things that i have been thinking about while moving and since moving.
- I AM EMPLOYED OMG. once i start the job - it's in tech services in one of the carolina libraries - i will talk more about it but holy shit omg i can pay rent in october now hooray.
- moving related shenanigans:
a. the icat, who is a spaz, fell in the toilet in our hotel room in lexington, kentucky and smelled terrible for a couple of days. i gave him a bath last night. it was the first time since the toilet-falling incident that i'd had the energy to wrangle a wet cat. it still sucked.
b. the uhaul's battery died while we were trying to move it in the parking lot of the hotel in lexington last wednesday. D-E-D DEAD. i thought up many scenarios of doom in relation to this move, and THIS WAS NOT ONE THEM. thankfully uhaul sent a nice mechanic out first thing on thursday morning and he replaced the gas filter, which was apparently the problem. still: dead uhaul full of your worldly possessions in lexington, kentucky? worth a freak out or two.
c. have you ever driven a 14' truck through the blue ridge mountains? if you haven't, don't. there's an experience i never hope to repeat. - you know what i want? i want a "cap it" button on my tivo. where i can pause the tivo, hit the "cap it" button, and the screen is saved into an image file. and later you can plug your computer into the tivo and pull the image files off the tivo. i cannot believe someone has not thought of this yet.
- speaking of the tivo, my mother called me last week to tell me, very sadly, that she did not think i would get bravo on my cable, as my sister does not. my mother, however, was mistaken, and i do get bravo. my obsession with west wing reruns can continue. even better, though, is that I GET WGN ON MY CABLE. OMG CUBS.
- dear sweet jesus, the most recent shoebox project SLAYED me. i am dead.
- and while i'm on the subject of fannish things i'm overcome by lately, the boy and i watched fellowship of the ring on friday night and i was just. i love that movie so much. the bit where
the weeelijah is dancing at bilbo's party. the colors. the cinematography. viggo in the pub in bree. anytime dom and billy are onscreen. oh. so much love. - and finally, one more obsession. why i am obsessed with google search history: a couple of months ago, i wondered what the point of google search history was. after having used it for three months, i can assure you 100% that it doesn't have a point. that does not matter. i love it. i love seeing what i search for tracked like that. having my searches for the name of the canadian prime minister up next to my searches for decemberists lyrics and pictures of josh lyman and sam seaborn together up next to the day i was reading about canadian serial killers and the day my google-fu completely failed me and i have fourteen unclicked, failed searches for a wedding website. search history tells me that i search for song lyrics more often than anything else. it tells me that i watch a lot of weird movies (screencap searches) and i am the official reference librarian for my friends (searches for the university of oregon, for the name of the canadian prime minister, for "first gulf war"). but really: it has no point. NO POINT. and yet it's absolutely fascinating. and now i want to see everyone ELSE'S and i CAN'T and it is beyond frustrating.
- minor league baseball: is the best thing ever. it's like real baseball, except that grown men fall down a lot, and the thing is - the baseball is just shitty enough that minor league teams have to provide something else for people to watch, and so minor league games are full of ridiculous between-inning shenanigans, like grown men pushing baby dolls in strollers, and children catching beanbag hands in frying pans. i love the durham bulls. i am so totally buying season tickets next year if i can swing the money.
- the high-speed internet provided by my apartment complex BLOCKS MY DOWNLOAD CLIENT. wtf. i am an adult. i can make my own decisions re: downloading illegal media. please piss off thank you very much. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET THE REST OF DOCTOR WHO NOW? *fist*
- so i'm going to rely on you guys to send me lots of new music. since i can't get it myself now. i am SO ANNOYED BY THIS. (that said: if anyone wanted to send me a billy corgan song called "friends as lovers", i would be most appreciative. you can send the file to minkittymusic at gmail dot com or just yousendit to my livejournal address. muchas gracias, minions!) i will begin the sharing by offering a counting crows cover of ryan adams' song "come pick me up". all right. now it's your turn.
- i don't have a desk chair. we threw out all our old chairs in the chicago apartment, because they were crappy and we bought them at a yard sale, but i still don't have a new chair in the north carolina apartment. i'm sitting on a big blue tupperware. i lose at life.
- in conclusion, ray kowalski.
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