making up for lost time

[juldea]

I haven't posted in a while... I will sit here and randomly type the things I know I have said, "I should post this when I get home" in the order that I remember them.

I lost my green hoodie tonight. The one goldbug gave to me, from New Zealand. I was wearing it at work, and then I was in my car and realized I wasn't wearing it, and it wasn't in my car nor in the store. Who knows what happened to it. It makes me sad.

I made a lot of money tonight. $53 in 6 hours.

I get the feeling that everyone who I've asked about throwing me a 'surprise' birthday party thinks I'm really horrible and bitchy for asking it of them. I bring it up and they just don't seem to be interested, and give me these looks like I'm being really rude. I just don't know. I don't want a huge shindig that requires actual money being put into it, I'd just like to have some friends organize something that might surprise me and be, well, different. I have this consistent same-thing-every-week no-changes schedule this semester, which I have willingly chosen for myself, and I'd just like to see something unexpected pop up. I'm sorry if that's horrible of me.

And to continue being horrible, I'm going to post a few relevant phone numbers and email addresses in a friends post after this, so that if anyone DOES decide to do anything about this, they will know some people to contact that they might not have known about. I have friends outside the normal Norman social group, after all.

I made mushroom quiche for Chase. I don't know when to bring it over. I have a 3 pack of video tapes too. I will trade him the quiche for copies of the Laundrospore show.

My photo printer works wonderfully. I have a nice picture of Jason - one where his glasses aren't most of the way down his nose. I don't know why the presence of a camera makes them fall down so much, but that seems to be the way it works. But I have this new picture now where he's got a sexy smirk. And a nice coat.

Things to do tomorrow between works (2pm-6pm):
eat at Pad Thai
return Karen's CDs
go to dentist (if quick-notice appointment can be made)
go to post office and mail package/inquire about rachel's package
take laptop to computer store in Edmond
nap
go to bank

I finally bought a copy of Labrynths by Borges. It will arrive soon. I bought it online for $5.

I listened to Portishead and Radiohead tonight in my car while delivering pizza. I wanted to fall asleep all night. It's good music, but neither one is wonderful. To me. Portishead might be a lot better without the lead singer, there's only so much of that kind of voice I can take before it irritates me. Radiohead was just... it didn't grab me. Too slow, not enough movement or energy. I don't know. I like music that makes me want to move, and what I listened tonight made me want to lie around and do nothing. It was Kid A for anyone who cares.

Brendan, Kate, and I are leaving for our spring break trip on the night of Wednesday the 13th. The way I'm starting to imagine it going is that we head to LA first and spend a day or so with those kids (do you want us, Margaret?), and then head up to spend time with my friends in Sacramento. Since Troy doesn't think he can provide sleeping quarters for more than 2 people, and Kate has to leave to get to Seattle by the 18th, this might work out. I don't know her plans though. Then we can stay in Sacramento for the Low Flying Owls show on the 23rd, leave for home either that night or the next morning, stop in Santa Fe to see Robert/Karen/Goldbug/whoever else will be there, and return home in time for work/school on Monday. We'll see.

I think it's bedtime. I want to get up for early aerobics.

Comments

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

um... people might be looking at you weird because it seems kind of odd to ask for a surprise party. it's the kind of thing that should be a real surprise, in my book.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

It's not so much that I'm asking for a party that's a surprise, though. I know that's something you can't really ask for. ;) I'm asking for a party that includes elements that are a surprise to me.

[goldbug.livejournal.com]

i like portishead a lot. and radiohead seems cool too, but in a different way, although i haven't heard much yet. but they are not bands i would listen to in the car (unless i was being a passenger wearing headphones, trying to relax.) they are too mellow for driving. radiohead more so than portishead, as far as i can tell.

[goldbug.livejournal.com]

and i forgot to tell you that deanna and your mom were trying to get a hold of you while you were at work...they claimed that your cell (the new number) was giving them messages about not being in service.

[snuffelupaguss.livejournal.com]

Yay for quiche! Monday (today) after 5pm I'll be home. Thanks a bunch!

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Cool, I will come by before work :)

[baronbrian.livejournal.com]

I understand that Kid A gets better as you listen to it more. I had a driver that worked for me who listened to it all the time. He said he didn't really like it at first but that he kept coming back to it and now it's one of his favorite albums.

[flyingindie.livejournal.com]

You'd probably like Radiohead's older stuff. They used to be a rock band. Alas. Now they are more like a techno band. OK Computer and The Bends are good albums.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I hate to say it almost, because it makes me sound so horribly mainstream (grin), but I actually like guitars. Maybe it's the strummy-ness movement factor. Hard to always use your guitar for whole notes, ye'know? ;)

Wow, "ye'know" was a typo, but I think I like it a lot.

[(Anonymous)]

the point of radiohead is that they prefer not to be classified into any preset genre. they prefer to be innovative. every album is something new... most bands can't come close to achieveing the musical diversity that radiohead presents. that's why they're one of my favorite bands.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Musical diversity is good, if you like diverse types of music. ;)

Which I do, but it would be nice to know when you pick up a band's album what kind of stuff you're in for.

[withlyn.livejournal.com]

I think that's a hilarious comment to be leaving anonymously for a member of G?a Spore. I don't mean that sarcastically... It really brings me great joy.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

:) Good point!

I wonder who left it...

[(Anonymous)]

kate did... she just forget to sign it :)

.krink.

[(Anonymous)]

ah but not left by a member.. if that's what you mean.
just a weird girl that lives overeas. who likes radiohead a lot.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

No, but left to me, who is a member. :)

[(Anonymous)]

well really for whoever originally made the comment that radiohead 'used to be a rock band'
that made me really mad. :) you just happened to be next in the conversation! i'll have to catch one of your shows when i get back, i bet i would really enjoy it.

p.s. you should go see ambassador bill. they're lots of fun.

k8

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

I should go do and see a lot of things. *sigh*

Busybusy workin' julia!

[withlyn.livejournal.com]

Kate needs to be in Seattle on the 17th, not the 18th, at least as far as I can remember. I don't know how long it woud take her to get up there from Sacramento. Theoretically, just one good solid day, but that's hardly guaranteed, so she might not want to stop by LA on the way there... We might have to do that on the way back. Even if hitchhiking went swimmingly, if we arrive in LA on the evening of the 14th, and plan on spending any time there, it would probably be the evening of the 16th by the time we got to Sacramento, and that would be too late for her.

Have you really worked things out with your co-workers for you to be gone for the whole week? I'm down, of course, but I'd been expecting us to have to be back sometime early in the week.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Yep, it's all worked out that I can leave the whole week. And I thought Kate was going to take the bus from Sacramento to Seattle...? We have time to figure it out.