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*RAWR*

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So much anger! Is it the lack of nicotine? I don’t know, but in day five of The Great Smokeout, I’m beyond frustrated with just about everything and everyone. I need some sort of personal analysis engine that also keeps a database. If I could quanitfy a baseline beligerence level for each of the recurring situations in my life (cut off on 220 by a Cavalier, slighted by a coworker, dropped my sunglasses on the sidewalk), I’d then be able to judge my new reactions to see if I am really more ENRAGED than usual. Because, in the haze that is detox, I really cannot tell if this is ‘normal’ or not. I JUST WANT TO CUT A BITCH, you know?

Aside from that, I’m doing rather well. Thanks for asking.

Last night, two new friends came over. I know. It was strange enough for friends to be coming INTO my life, let alone that they be new. These guys, named Kyle and Dave, were over to discuss the impending oil crisis and other such neo-green madness. We watched a great documentary, The End of Suburbia, which served to jumpstart our brains and really made for a good jumping-off point. After their departure, I basically did a big fat nothing and then crashed. Tonight: taking photos for a client in Belleville and then packing up in BelleFONTE for a trip home tomorrow. Maybe receiving my AirPort Express? Please?

Friendship by numbers…

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Since so many of my friends seem to have trouble making sense of what it is that they need to do in order to not piss me off, I’ve decided to make a short list. That way, if you seem to see me not being ‘chill’ enough for you, you can consult these points and come to a quick conclusion as to what it is that I’m on about.

  1. I need to actually see you when we are physically in the same area. Not daily, but once every week or two would be ideal.
  2. If I call you, text you, email you, IM you or write you a telegram, please get back to me.
  3. If, for whatever reason, you can’t contact me at length or meet an engagement we’ve made, please let me know.
  4. When moving to a new city, call me. This can be a short call, finished by saying goodbye.
  5. Every once in awhile, I enjoy having someone go out of their way to see how I’m doing.
  6. Don’t lie to me or play games. I’ve had more than enough of this in my life. And you should know that if you are my friend.

And that’s really all there is to making me glad that we are friends. Personally, I feel like these items are common sense, but experience is proving otherwise these days.

P.S. Something like the Bellefonte Cruise would be called ‘traffic’ anywhere other than rural America.

A story I know…

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Did we create a modern myth?
Did we imagine half of it
would happen in a thought from now?

Save yourself
Save yourself

The secret is out
The secret is out

To buy the truth
And sell a lie
The last mistake before you die
So don’t forget to breathe tonight
Tonight’s the last so say good-bye

The secret is out [x4]

Good-bye [x17]

“A Modern Myth” by 30 Seconds to Mars

Listen to a sample.

It’s circletime…

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This started out life as the new poster for our hallway at ETS, but quickly turned into an OCD task as I hand placed circles well into last night. Of course, you benefit because it makes a pretty background, just in time for summer.

Click right on this textular area for a 1680 x 1050 version. [edit: redirected to Portfolio]

Current music obsession…

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And if you’re hurting
I will replace the noise with silence instead
Flushing out your head

If you like it violent
We can play rough and tumble
Fall into bed
And I won’t breathe so you can recover

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8 Days Later…

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…and I’m back. I just spent the last five days of my 8 day break from Centre County at the New Media Consortium conference in Cleveland. Until I arrived, I really considered Cleveland to be a complete void. I mean, it’s the Midwest. There can’t possibly be anything there. However, the Crocker Park shopping center in West Lake (first stop) quickly changed my mind. I spent a ton of money on clothes and got to hit up Trader Joe’s…all on foot. Fantastic. The NMC closed down the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for us to have a party, I attended a gallery opening at MOCA, hung out at B-Sides in Euclid Heights with Brandon and got to tour The Cleveland Institute of Art…where I’m applying for a job tomorrow. I mean, like any city, there are ghettos and littered streets…but it’s a city. And that equals wonderful in my book.

So…the conference itself was actually a lot of fun. I attended some interesting workshops and hands-on sessions. I learned that Aperture is one of the best programs Apple has released in a long time. Hannah and I won a gong for presenting about the Studio at “Five Minutes of Fame” and then schmoozed like fiends at the reception after. Met all kinds of interesting people from literally everywhere imaginable. Yep…good stuff. A+ Will Attend AGAIN.

Now I am home. I took about 145 trips up and down the stairs tonight, glared at my landlord, cleaned my car and my home and now I’m fighting off the sleep. It’s going to be a losing battle, that I can assure you.

This is officially the cutest animal…

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…ever. It’s the mouse lemur and it’s native to one forest in Madagascar:

I watched a show about it today while I waited for my new stereo, the Cambridge SoundWorks 730 Radio (I got it in black.) So far, I’m quite happy with it. The sound is deep and full, much larger than you’d expect for its size…and better than a Bose, though not dramatically so. However, the $150 price difference seals it.

After the new toy arrived, I packed up Lola and myself and hit the road. I’m home from now until my conference on Tuesday. This weekend, I plan to:

  • hang out with Angelar…oh wait, DONE
  • perhaps get coffee with Adam
  • movie night with Dusty
  • maybe a party under the stars if it stops raining
  • travel to Cleveland for Blondie
  • if I’m lucky, Hoover will come out of hiding
  • swimming in the newly restored pool