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tonight at walmart they played the miami vice theme song. i giggled all by myself in the canned soup aisle.

i left work tonight because i was tired of paint.. being covered in it, smelling it, cleaning it. when i got home, they had just painted my hallway. so what does my apt. smell like? paint.

sheesh.

bday countdown: 23 days...

keep your eyes peeled kids.. i feel a new template comin on....

updated my webpage with noises off stuff

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incidentally, there are only 26 shopping days left until my birthday... just in case you needed to write that down somewhere..... i'm not sayin.. i'm just sayin.

ISTP - "Artisan". Impulsive action. Life should be of impulse
rather than of purpose. Action is an end to itself.
Fearless, craves excitement, master of tools.
5% of the total population.

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last time i took this test i think i was an infp. here's the
percentages from these results:

Introverted (I) 80.65% Extroverted (E) 19.35%
Sensing (S) 55.56% Intuitive (N) 44.44%
Thinking (T) 52.63% Feeling (F) 47.37%
Perceiving (P) 67.74% Judging (J) 32.26%

the answer page has code that you can paste your
results into your blog with, but it screwed my
font all up and i couldn't handle it.

go take it.

i just finished the last episode of buffy's seaon four. i'm ready for season five now, and it doesn't come out until december. i gotta say, i'm way more hooked on the show than i thought i could get. i borrowed seasons 1 - 4 from my sister because i'd caught a couple of episodes on tv late at night and was curious. i'm glad she had them all together so i could just watch them in a straight line and keep the story fresh in my head. the characters are so great! and the writing is too clever. i'm a big new buffy fan. woo!

yeah. i'm going to a wedding in two weeks.. it's my friends karen and mike who are getting married. they met while we were all at isu together, she as a grad, he as an undergrad. i'm excited to go on the one hand, on the other i feel old and single.

really excited about my mom coming to visit; we're spending the weekend in the city so i'm hoping for good weather karma. we're gonna ride the el like dr. green on er (even though he's dead now.. we don't plan to do the dead part, just the el part) and walk across the river on one of the bridges :). those are the things my mom wants to do.. also the magnificent mile, where oprah shops.

i'm also going to see cher with dan on the 13th. i expect lots of drag queen action. i hope i am not disappointed. dan's just moved into a new apt. in oak park and i am excited to see it.

my friend from college, christa, is planning to move to chicago in may. she is very excited. for the past few years she's been living in boulder, co. she's been working at a cable company, makin the $$, but is ready to get back in the show biz, as a stage manager or possibly a company manager. she got her master's in stage management at u of i. she got her bachelor's in drinking at frostburg state, with me. good times, good times.

so, right now my isp is msn. suddenly, it started sucking really bad. it's lasted for about two weeks now and i'm really really tired of rebooting. this morning i signed up for juno's free service... it's kicking the ass of msn! my msn contract is up on 11/20. i'm switching to juno platinum. it's half as much $$ and it's rokken!

just thought i'd share the love there.

there is a new hottie teller working at my bank. she inspires me to be more finacially responsible, checking my balance at the bank instead of by phone. she has an engagement ring, presumably given to her by some boy.... what a waste. oh, the humanity. *sigh*

she'll never know what she's missin.

boy george is a fucking weird ass dude.

jack black rox the muthafukken hizzouse. he is the shiznit, not his biznitch.

buffy has a lot of kissing in it. where's my kissing?

car insurance sux. it should be free.

i actually had a conversation today about growing a giraffe head out of my back.

there is such a thing as too much kool aid.

17 days to cher.

I am Nelson!
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you know what's funny? gourmet dog food. that's funny.

my pirate name is bloody anne bonney. arrrrrrgh... what's yours?

What's My Pirate Name?

yesterday was an exciting day.

for lunch i had indian food for the first time. it was interesting.. i had chicken curry and basmatti rice... i liked the chicken okay and the rice was just a little wierd. a tiny bit. the tandoori chicken i tried was also pretty good.

last night there was a fake fire in my building. i was watching the simpsons, the episode where bart's treehouse is burning down.. and as the flames start to engulf the treehouse, the alarm in my building went off. it kept going off and since i'm nosy i decided to check it out. i checked from the basement up and when i opened the door to the fifth floor, the hallway was full of smoke. so i ran back down a floor to my place, put the cat in the carrier and grabbed my wallet, ran down to the car, threw them both in there and went back in to investigate. the super wasn't home so i called his cell and by this time there was another guy who lived on the 5th floor who assured me i wasn't smoking crack, it was all smoke up there.. so after the super said he was on his way i called 911 and then waited outside for them to come. seven fire trucks (including the hook and ladder), an ambulance and a cop car all arrived.. the firemen went in with all their stuff and determined there was no fire. someone had discharged all the fire extinguishers on that floor into the hallway for no reason and it had set off the alarm. so on the one hand, i was all responsible and did the right thing, on the other hand i felt like a jackass for calling 911 for no fire. but chuck, from the 5th floor said if i hadn't called he would've and the firemen all said i did the right thing.

so it was exciting. partly it reminded me of the friends episode when the boys go on the police ride-along and ross thinks he has a near death experience when the car backfires. partly it made me think of the scene in the jerk when steve martin is living in the hotel and goes door to door telling everyone there's a fire because of his conversation with his new dog "stupid" (or "asshole", depending).

tonight is not nearly as exciting, which is fine. tonight i downloaded netscape radio plus and am listening to an entirely alternative 80's channel that is currently playing "gimme the car" by the violent femmes... this is so sweet.

tomorrow is talk like a pirate day.. do your part.. arrrrrrrghhhh

my mom's comin to visit! woo!!

also, the reviewer at the rockford register star had this to say about my set for noises off:

"The set is perfect for the show: lots of doors for people to go in and out and let the audience wonder who will get caught where, so kudos to deafgirl."

go me, go me!

you know what's funny lookin? when a guy flips his ponytail. that's funny lookin.

Talk Like A Pirate Day - Sept. 19

You are The Cap'n!

Some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some slit the throats of any man that stands between them and the mantle of power. You never met a man you couldn't eviscerate. Not that mindless violence is the only avenue open to you - but why take an avenue when you have complete freeway access? You are the definitive Man of Action. You are James Bond in a blousy shirt and drawstring-fly pants. Your swash was buckled long ago and you have never been so sure of anything in your life as in your ability to bend everyone to your will. You will call anyone out and cut off their head if they show any sign of taking you on or backing down. You cannot be saddled with tedious underlings, but if one of your lieutenants shows an overly developed sense of ambition he may find more suitable accommodations in Davy Jones' locker. That is, of course, IF you notice him. You tend to be self absorbed - a weakness that may keep you from seeing enemies where they are and imagining them where they are not.

What's Yer Inner Pirate?
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last night we watched gone with the wind. i hadn't seen it until now and that was unacceptable to jessie, she put a moratorium on any new movie watching until i sat down with this movie. my not seeing it started out because it's almost 4 hours long. then my college roommate went on this crusade to make me watch it, so i vowed never to watch it out of spite i guess. since jessie wouldn't watch any more movies until i watched this one, i decided to make the sacrifice, for her good mostly, since there are so many good movies that she's never seen. so i took one for the team ;).

it was a good movie. there were some moments that made me laugh, even though i shouldn't have, because they'd been spoofed in movies and tv shows (see shag and the carol burnett show). there were also some really nice moments and pictures that made me marvel at what these moviemakers were able to do with such primitive (at this point) technology. she wants to wear all those hoop skirts and gowns and hats and stuff and i want to be clark gable. surprise surprise.

today we're watching a streetcar named desire because she's never seen the movie, and possibly sunset boulevard, 'cause she hasn't seen that one either. we'd also planned some kind of southern food lunch menu, which will involve cornbread and whatever else people eat in the south (except grits, they are gross), and be washed down with either dr. pepper or iced tea as both are acceptable as "house wines of the south".

in other news, i finally got my bridesmaid's dress for my friend karen's wedding in october. i tried it on wed, and it turns out that i've lost weight since sending in my measurements! yay me!

core one for the non-confrontationals! i have been wondering for some time now how to broach the subject of my loud ass neighbors with my super. we share these neighbors, they're my next doors and his upstairs so i know he knows they're obnoxious. tonight i happened to catch him knocking on their door to give them some paperwork and we chatted (they weren't home). i told him they were really loud, pretty often, and he agreed, and he told me that my other neigbors (who are loud on occasion, but not as often) are moving out at the end of the month.

so, not only did i manage to informally lodge a complaint about my nasty neighbors, there is renewed hope for cool new neighbors!!

work is fine, half day tomorrow, and all day friday off... though on friday i am gonna be watching gone with the wind because jessie's making me. i'm skeptical but have been told i have to like it. we'll see how it goes.

soda makes my teeth hurt.

tonight i lifted a new monitor from work, this one doesn't get all drunk after 5 minutes. i also rearranged my bedroom and set myself up a tv and stuff so i can watch jay leno headlines from my very own bed.

noises off is up and running in previews; it looks good and the crowds are eating it up. still tired from tech, need to grocery shop.

new music interests include morphine (always liked em, never bought a cd) and magnapop.

went to walmart tonight, didn't see anything worth reporting.
the other night though i saw a station wagon with the baby shades on the back windows and the naked lady license plate holder.. an interesting combo, no?