Saturday, February 01, 2003


You're in the Gangster box.


What box do you get put in?
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for as long as i can remember, there has been a space shuttle columbia. it went down today. the crew of seven is lost. they were brothers, sisters, daughters, sons, husbands, wives and parents. so take a moment.

Friday, January 31, 2003

baby duck posse.

have you ever heard a better band name?????????????
i took this quiz 'cause it was on monty's blog.. i had no idea this was one of the possible results... but it made me chuckle when i got it :) :

Bert & Ernie's Gay Love Affair Look, everyone knows you two are lovebirds. Why not do the brave thing and admit it to the world? The times are kinder nowadays. There may be the odd ultraconservative bigwig or overprotective mom, but so what? Piss on 'em. Come on out of the closet. It's ok.

Bert & Ernie
Bert & Ernie's Gay Love Affair
1. As a child, who was your favorite superhero/heroine? Why?
i think we all know the answer to this one, spiderman...... because he can climb up buildings, shoot webs from his wrists, and kick ass!!

2. What was one thing you always wanted as a child but never got?
a bmx dirt bike.

3. What's the furthest from home you've been?
paris.

4. What's one thing you've always wanted to learn but haven't yet?
drums and/or violin

5. What are your plans for the weekend?
try to convince jess to come up and laze about with me before we both go into our respective techs next week.

go do the friday five! now!

Thursday, January 30, 2003

yeah, two things:

if you don't already own an air popcorn popper, run(or drive really fast) to super walmart and get one.

the psychedelic furs were a fucking great band.
well, i hope you all watched er tonight, it featured a song by one of my most favorite bands ever in the world ever... coldplay. they're sooooo coool.....

on the down side, one of my upside down catfish has some weird shit goin on.. i thought he had ick (a for real fish disease) so i ran a treatment for it and i thought he was better.. now it appears that it's back, and something seems to be growing out of one of his gills.. i'm mystified and plan to take him to petland tomorrow for their expertise.

in other news, there isn't any. went to work, made some more art, had a meeting.. came home 'cause i felt crappy, and watched tv. rockford just isn't the hotbed of activity one might think...


Wednesday, January 29, 2003

my day started out pretty crappy as i was up most of the night being sick, but it eventually came around to a fairly good end:

i added some plants and two new fish to my box of water. the plants look really cool, they're as tall as the box, and add a nice sense of verticality. the fish are awesome. they're silver tipped sharks but look just like catfish - they have long whiskers like catfish and are the same long shape. i've named them 'pseudo' and 'quasi', because they are sharks that look like catfish. this brings my fish total to 10. tom and dick (harry died), bonnie and clyde, dex, versace and gautier, pseudo and quasi, and my congo tetra is currently nameless.

i went to pub quiz tonight, and our team tied for third, but lost on the tie breaker question. the newspaper photographer was there, and got pics of my table; he took our names down so maybe i'll get all recognized in the paper and stuff :).

i was inspired by jessie's blog this morning, and created some art while i was at work today.. i'm fortunate that the job i have combines both art and history so i get to indulge both passions at the same time.

any suggestions for the congo tetra fish name????

Tuesday, January 28, 2003

i realize it's tuesday, and these are last friday's five, but i just found them so shut up. go do them yourself so i can read all about you and make fun of your answers. ---> www.fridayfive.org

1. What is one thing you don't like about your body? - i got that one broken ear; that can be inconvienient but i'm used to it. so i'd have to say the belly i've inherited from my daddy.

2. What are two things you love about your body? - my hair is a pretty cool color(s)... and i don't know...people have said i have good legs. so maybe that.

3. What are three things you want to change about your home? - i wish it was self-cleaning. i'd like a bigger bed and more wall space, or at least the power to paint the walls i do have.

4. What are four books you want to read this year? - lord of the rings, a beautiful mind, harry potter, and when the hell am i gonna have time to read four books that aren't plays??

5. What are five promises you have kept to yourself? - i am a scene designer. i got my masters. it never occurs to me to make promises to myself... more like "it would be so cool if i..." those are the two biggest things that "it would be so cool if i..." that i've had so far.


so those are the answers to last friday's five. i resolve to keep up with the friday five, i think it's fun. you should too. whoever you are :).

so the rain has changed to snow, it's so much prettier....... yay snow.....
today i doped up.

my scenery, that is. more specifically, the buttresses for three musketeers. it's coming along nicely.. i'll have a busy two weeks, but it'll look cool. and that's the whole point anyway.
i also paid parking tickets and bills today. ew.
i'm wearing my sleeper/footy pajamas right now, and composing an ode to said pajamas. there's really nothing better than sleepers. except maybe my fleece pants. or my george foreman grill. but other than that, nothing. i'm currently listening to belle and sebastian.. i think i like them, but i'm still kind of on the fence.

i'm redecorating my fishtank, it's an on-going thing really.. more for my own sake than that of the fishies i would think. i put this stump/viney thing in there today, and i think the fish really dig it. the upside down catfish are pissed i took their favorite rock away, but it doesn't go with my planned renovation scheme. everyone else seems to be diggin it though. tomorrow i plan to add more real plants. and perhaps another fish or two... i may get crazy go nuts. what do you figure it's like, living in a box of water?

speaking of nuts, my cat is totally wiggin out on this little catnip mouse.. it's so funny!

another addition to the rita chronicles... i found out today that she's one of 10 kids, and that she had a brother that was beaten to death. how disturbing is that?????

otherwise, a very ordinary day. tomorrow should prove to be more exciting, as we're sposed to have freezing rain. i plan not to drive as much as i can.

Sunday, January 26, 2003

bucs take the superbowl.
they had the cooler logos.
it's all about style in the end... all about style.

on the style note, new font = yay or nay?

Thursday, January 23, 2003

nothing much of note happened today. i called all around town and struck out on balusters, went to a production meeting, drew some pictures, and made my car payment.

i haven't watched the guiding light in like three weeks, and this makes me sad - which i suppose is sad in itself. finally watched last night's west wing, which was a rerun that i hadn't seen before. i love that show. there are so many good things about it, i wouldn't know where to begin really.

i did have an interesting conversation with eric, our lighting designer, and rita, our custodian. we were talking about the weather (the cold cold cold weather) and then about homeless people and then about millionaires and how can there be homeless people in america when j lo can afford to fly some dude cross country to pluck her eyebrows? the next part was the interesting part. rita, our custodian (who rocks) smokes. she was so moved by some commercial she saw on tv about starving kids in the appallachian mts. that she decided to cut back on cigarettes and send the extra $$ to whatever org. this commercial was for. she does this every month. why is it that the custdoians of the world, the everyday working people, are the ones who feel compelled, even obligated, to send their hard earned cash that's not extra and the j lo's of the world, who own 4 houses and gads and gads of money could really seem to care less? and fly thier dudes across the country to pluck their eyebrows? and then release singles that talk about how they "stay real" and "don't forget where they came from"? how about sendin some of that $$ back where you came from??

"but wait janine. i know i seen you chillin to the j lo, singin along with jenny from the block - aren't you payin for that eyebrow dude too?" ... no way man. i downloaded that shit for free. take that eyebrow dude.

don't be fooled by the rocks that.... oh wait. i ain' got no rocks... damn.

Wednesday, January 22, 2003

not a great day for the home team kids...

> can't have the balusters i was hoping for to build my musketeers railing.... means i have to wring more creative juice from the teeny, tiny, stony, art free pebble my brain has lately become.

> lots on my mind = sucked at pub quiz tonight - blew easy questions in the music round...intolerable. never fuck with my music round.

> the forecasted high for tomorrow is 4. that's degrees. really. i didn't forget to type the 1. it's just 4.

thanks to the three people that commented on reading my blog:
jackie, of course you count, you big nerd.
monty, thank you for loving my filth... it's almost as filthy as yours, and that's something i aspire to daily ;)
kupsco, thanks for being brave enough to step up to the mat. courage, thy name is kupsco.

on the up side, our table at pub quiz tonight was # 420.

Monday, January 20, 2003

so, does anybody read this blog?

Sunday, January 19, 2003

I'm a White Russian, discover your ALcoHoLiC personality!

oh yeah,
the opera is done man.
my sister has started a blog. you should read it every day, it's good for you. like special k, but better.

it's a new perspective, a little grrrlpunk, a new maternal methodology, a burst of badass. get some!

don't let the man hold you down any longer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

there's a link right over there ----------------------------->

this just in.... a link to the dailyish progress of my nieces, the cutest babies ever!

Saturday, January 18, 2003

today's bulk email included one from "ranuchy rachel" : crazy wild bitches.

don't you wish you had my karma????

Friday, January 17, 2003

who's that hottie with the back to the future dvd trilogy????

oh wait.
it's me.
so, i just got this bulk email advertising "live anal cams". the subject heading was " for your convenience". this raised four immediate questions (the first - "why the hell would i get this email?" is implied):

how comfortable can one of those be??
is it pointing out or in?
why is it "convenient" for me to see someone else with a camera shoved up their ass?

everything else seems to be moving in a more positive direction. i have a surprise night off from the "opera" so i will stay in and catch up on my last two nights of thursday tv, which i have been taping. i hope also to catch today's guiding light since i am now fully two weeks behind and, as we all know, that's like 15 years in soap opera land.

if anyone has any insight into the anal cam issue, please feel free to comment :)