2011 Midyear Review of the New Year Resolutions

The memorable Top Five sequence of events have been:

1. found a loyal, reliable friend here in Chicago -- with the same birthday!
2. kicked a loafer "friend" off my couch and fixed everything he broke!
3. upset a friend who wanted more ... feelings of single-syndrome crept back in
4. managed to tango ( Read more... )

Stacey rented out my old place in less than a weekend after posting it to CL!

http://eastnc.craigslist.org/apa/1151345283.html

I did almost nothing on my ToDo list for this weekend; instead, I put a lot of TLC into home.  My place really needed some attention since I had basically plopped down the last bits from Boone and forgot about the daily cleaning routine.  (I do despise doing anything routine.)  The ToDo list became this: I repacked the closets to fit more crap, ( Read more... )

LMAO.  Serious; should bring tears to the eyes of a neo-Deutsch-Hillary fan.  Matt finds the most awesome parodies.

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In other media news: Jefferson Friedman finally sent his supersecret music.  ahhh. 

I'm finally calling Washington Park home!  It's even smaller than Boone! just replace the hippies with doctors, and all the mountains with rivers.  heh.

It took three trips to haul all my crap and I want to holla! at all my peeps who helped: Kim, Steve, Renee, Denise, Austin, and Mom & Dad!  ... yeah need more IRL peeps; the digital ones can't ( Read more... )

"The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish."  Terence McKenna

Now ... in my defense I'm skeptical of someone who uses hallucinogens, but this McKenna has caught my attention a few times.  I think most math-minded, right-brained people ( Read more... )

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After some recent fun-poking by friends about my musical snobbery -- *uhum* -- I remembered another genre of music (besides minimalism) that I adore: psychedelic rock from the 60's, and MoTown from the 60's.

Don't you want somebody to love,
don't you need somebody to love.
Wouldn't you love somebody to love,
you better find somebody to love.

Yea.  That ( Read more... )

so i'm going to try my hands at a "real" diary by spewing out gobs of emotions and streams of consciousness -- even all lowercase words ( Read more... )

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