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After 6 long years I finally finished and defended my thesis yesterday.  Now I am just sitting alone in Tucson in my underware on someone else's couch.  I feel free.

Last night I had a dream that was really fun for me.  It went like this:

I had joined a floor hockey team.  It was being run by the place in Tucson where I used to take my car to have it fixed, “the Tire Corral.”  Somehow this was also my high school.  At first nobody on the team respected me.  My floor hockey skills were poor at best.  Then they ( Read more... )

Today a squirrel ran up my leg.

Brave New World
The Fountainhead ( I think as an aspiring architect, I am at least supposed to have tried to read this)
Foucault?s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo (Listened to parts on move from Michigan to Arizona)

Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible: a Novel
1984 ( Read more... )

I am not sure about y'all, but this Alvin and the Chipmunks movie has really gotten to me.  At first I was all like holy sh*t that looks bad, now I'm all like "bow chicka wow wow chicka wow wow"

I realize that I am not a frequent poster, but I figured a trans-state relocation was as good a reason as any.  Two weeks ago I moved from sunny Tucson, Arizona to the San Francisco Bay Area to begin working for an Architecture firm that specializes in Historic Preservation.  I currently live in warehouse in Emeryville that used to be a submarine ( Read more... )

For songwriters: The new songwriters club topic is: HARD CANDY

For all: Eva and I will be moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in the fall.  We have had a good time in the desert, but we figure it will be the best place to be to help defend the country when Laos inevitably invades.

Goodbye Matt and Bethany! Tucson will miss you.  Moments before Matt and Bethany left town, a single bird pooped on both Eva and I.  Eva insists that this means good luck for ALL involved. 

Ladies and Gentlemen, the long awaited, much anticipated new songwriters club topic is:

Old Wives Tales