it's the first day of classes and i'm already tired of being an english major.

explanation:
upon showing up to my 10 o'clock d.h. lawrence class, i was thrilled to discover that my professor a)is a legally blind old man and b)has a tendency to ramble a lot. after an uncomfortably off-the-cuff introduction, he made all the students in the room ( Read more... )

my car died once again.

my phone service order was pushed back again.

i guess it's my birthday.

yeah, so i saw hum last night.

set list (in no real order):
little dipper
the pod
stars
inklings
green to me
iron clad lou
comin' home
i hate it too

i feel like they played something else, too...

anyway, it was short. but i saw hum. for free, no less. hum. in a small bar-type venue, no less. HUM.

if you don't weaken...
i don't feel like going into a big thing about this (as i'm at work), so let me break down my friday into little factoids.

- my car died yesterday and i don't know quite what to do about it yet. i'm calling a mechanic - and a towing company - today and praying that this all won't cost me an arm and a leg (and that my ( Read more... )

...speaking of which, i moved all of my belongings to my new place last night... by myself. i also cleaned my old apartment thoroughly last night... by myself. i COULD have solicited the help of my new roommates (pete and dan), but i disconnected my phone before it dawned upon me to call them. besides, they would have cluttered up the car. ( Read more... )

( this isn't art. )

hey, my side project with allie, killfest, recorded a song this weekend. check it out and such. it's a subtle indictment of the new postmodernists. subtle. very subtle.

formula 409 is the best cleaner ever.

it's 7:56 on thursday night
- (disclaimer: following the aforementioned leisurely weekend, i spent the last three days moving my brother ryan's things from one apartment to another). after three days of hanging out with my brothers at a hotel and moving things to and fro - a task that included driving a horrible u-haul truck about iowa city's many ( Read more... )

just finished a nice, unselfconscious weekend of entertaining allie. she's a lot of fun. now, to tear apart my room and take it home.

p.s. susan, i have a mars volta poster for you.

aborted "so you'd like to..." entry from amazon.com
so you'd like to fight the canon.
...and, suddenly, you're stuck in a well-established (yet ultimately unremarkable) state school in the midwest and surrounded by people who all love david sedaris and dave eggers (because he feeds the classic upper middle class "i have to get out of chicago!" ( Read more... )