Frenchmen, for us, oh! what an insult!
Today's Bastille Day!
Everyone go eat a hamburger to celebrate. I know you're wondering what those two things have in common but it's actually this: after graduation, my group of friends wanted to have some way that they could stay connected so (to make a very long story short) we decided to always eat a hamburger on Bastille Day. That way even though we couldn't physically be together, we would be doing something together and thinking of each other on this one day at least. Everyone out there is welcome to join in the tradition. Eat a hamburger and think of all of your friends (especially the one's you’ve lost touch with over the years). Viva La France!
I honestly can't believe that I am awake and functioning fairly well this morning. The They Might Be Giants show was really amazing. After three shows, I finally got to see them perform my favorite song, "Don't Let's Start". It really was a hell of a show. They played a lot of their more popular songs but since that's really what we were all hoping for that was a good thing. I finally was close enough to get hit by the confetti cannon and even though I was only on the outside edge of the blast I was still picking confetti out of my purse this morning.
The opening act Cornmo was really a hoot. He was kind of like Meatloaf and Mitch Hedberg's bastard child and his ramblings were far better than his songs but then again his songs were fun too. We picked up his disk and are looking forward to hearing more form him.
I also loved seeing __kat__ , icespark and finally meeting kinzokutaka at the show. I also saw a huge amount of other people I know. I was really amazed because most of the people I know don't really share my taste in musically.
Anyway, it seems that since I can't remember if I've posted this before and if I have I've gained some new friends since then, I'm going to post the story of my LJ name and default icon.
First of all, the icon is a jedi chicken. That's a lightsaber she's holding and not a sword. I can't remember who exactly drew it but when I found it I knew I had my icon.
Now as for the story behind the name. When we lived back in Arkansas, one of the little towns we lived in was Stuttgart (the Rice and Duck capital of the world). It was over 40 miles to anything decent or even resembling a real town so we would commute out of there to civilization every chance we got. Late one night as we were coming back from Little Rock, we were passing through the town of England (a strange little place that just crawls with Cthulhu feelings) when we saw a sign at their quick-e-mart. It read, "Dark Snack $1.95". beldar looked over at me and said in a deep resonant voice, "Beware the power of The Dark Snack". We both lost it and kept making up little Dark Snack quotes and it just never stopped.
When I joined the Indy Knights, I needed a sign in name for the message boards and since everyone had Star Wars themed ones my usual default didn’t sound Star Warsish enough I chose The Dark Snack. Everyone loved it.
When I started my Live Journal, my preferred default wasn't available so rather than make some strange variant on it, I decided that since I found my chicken icon, I would be the_dark_snack and the rest is history. As you can tell, I've become partial to Star Wars themed icons. Especially those based on iharthdarth 's comics. If you don’t have him as a friend and you like the cute little animated icons, you really should add him. Some day I will lurk and post quick enough to make pages 1-3 of his comments. One night I was lucky enough to make page 4 but that's as close to the front of the pack as I've made it.
I just heard back from Kelly Services and it looks like I'll be starting a new assignment for Anthem on Tuesday so no job lapse. I'll be covering a maternity leave but she was very impressed by my resume and she led me to believe that I might be able to get on there.
Well, I guess that's probably enough for now. I'll try to update again tomorrow.
TTFN!