why i love the dictionary:

jerk:
(4) an annoyingly stupid or foolish person

well, i lost my the key to my steering column lock on my 150, so i'm fucked! i can either drop the fork and replace the lock (which i do NOT want to do), or i can get a locksmith to pick the lock and make me a new key. *sigh* either way expensive and annoying. but i did manage to get my scooter titled finally - only took me 2.5 years!

i know, i know, it's dorky to write about american idol in your livejournal, but i just couldnt contain myself - i am SO HAPPY that mikalah was voted off. simon was right, her so-called cuteness wore off and became annoyance. yay ( Read more... )

welp, today i met up with my friend from high school, kevin, who i hadnt seen in some time, and it was good to hang out with him again. props to audrey and whitney for leading me to him, and proof positive that all roads lead to pasadena, texas. we're both really into vespas, kevin in the literal "i'm going to take this bitch apart and rebuild it ( Read more... )

aquariums are neat. we have a 39 gallon aquarium (thank you very much, craigslist), with 15 fish (6 tetras, 5 danios, two platties, two otocinclus (algae eaters)). we cycled our aquarium with 3 platties, but the two females died in the process. we even had some baby fry, but their cannabilistic parents ate them (theory: mother's cause of death ( Read more... )

yay! johnny's "cruising" vespa has been repaired!

last night i heard my upstairs neighbors having sex - the rhythmic thumping, the groaning. *giggles*

so my friend is throwing a birthday party - an old school birthday party. no drinking, no trendy hipsters, nothing like that. instead, we are going to SHOOT GUNS. yes, finally! someone who will take me a to a gun range and allow me to take out my innate aggressions. and after shooting real guns, we will shoot fake guns by playing laser tag.

today i took a leak while reading esquire, and then i accidentally dropped it into the toilet!! i could claim its yellow-stained pages are just a nice patina, but no, i threw it out. i couldnt even bring myself to recycle it. so sad.

i did college radio for about 5 years (4 years while in school, one year when working) when i was at rice in houston. during that time i did the ska/punk show, the jazz show, and the children's music show in addition to my normal shift. after a long, long time, in august 2002 just before i moved to austin to go to grad school, this was my final ( Read more... )