The barber can give you a haircut, the carpenter can take you out to lunch.

[jackshoegazer]

I am back in Watertown for the first time in a week.  I missed my kitties and they missed me.  I missed Ethan as well, and I'll be picking him up from school in a couple hours.  In the meantime, I thought I'd get caught up on LiveJournal and play some guitar.

Well, I haven't really read my friend's page all week because I rarely have a lot of free time when I'm in Madison.  I went back about two days and then Firefox started acting all kerflunky, so I've given up for now.  And I'm getting a weird error when I try to reply to comments from the notification e-mail.  Weird.  Anyhoo, in case I don't dive back into the re-attempt to read all your journals, feel free to comment with links to entries you think I might be particularly interested in, or you want comments on, or you know, any other reason.

The guitar playing is going good.  Except when I'm typing.

Today I couldn't find my belt and Jacquelyn said that guys can't find things because they're hunters, as opposed to women, who are gatherers.  I said she was right and if it was running across the bedroom, I'd sure be able to spear the damned thing.  It was funny.  But not quite as funny as when I was playing, chasing the wee kitty, Eris Apropos, and I dove off the bed to get her and as I slid off the bed, my boxers stayed on the bed.  Uh yeah, I guess you had to be there.

I think I'm going to splurge some money I really shouldn't and buy Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on DVD.

I updated the titles of my journal and my profile information.

A letter from the University of Wisconsin arrived informing me that they have received my application and all relevant materials, i.e., transcripts and such, and that I should expect a letter in four to six weeks notifying me if I will be returning to an official academic life or forever doomed to, um whatever the other option is.

If I don't get into school, I think I might drop my hours at work as much as I can and dedicate myself to writing a novel, probably one of my Jack Shoegazer books.  I also put in my request for a schedule change effective May 1st.  If everything works out, I will be going back to a day schedule.  No more sleepless days and purple valises under my eyes.  I might even get some color this summer.

Waiter:  What can I get you, sir?

Me: A tan, hold the cancer.

Waiter:  Right away, sir.

Ah, that's the life.

Comments

finding things

[lucidpseudogod.livejournal.com]

The hunter gatherer thing, that makes plenty sense,
also why I prefer a mess when I feel pumped up
with adrenaline to find something rather than
have to look up some 'organizational system'
in my shaky memory.

Re: finding things

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that guys go for the "organized mess" system more often than the girlies. You know, where there's no organizational system at all, but everything is right where you remember it, so as long as no one moves anything, you can find everything.

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

You scruffy-looking nerf-herder! I called dibs on that story!

I can't wait for May. Today seems so sunny and full of that positive change that happens in the spring, and rooting, and growth, and unfurling to the sun.

That bank that has the secured credit card cashed my processing fee check, so I'm down to a whopping $9.95 for the rest of the month. I do get $16 someday in the next few weeks for the exam proctoring I did. Alas for my perpetual poverty! I shouldn't have paid my segregated fees, but it had to be done.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

You can tell it toooooo. We've got enough non-mutual LJ friends that we can both tell it. Besides, you posted and didn't use it, so I thought you decided not to tell it :P

Let's hope yout WI return comes soon :)

[happymama04.livejournal.com]

"The guitar playing is going good. Except when I'm typing".

This made me laugh.....but this????

"I dove off the bed to get her and as I slid off the bed, my boxers stayed on the bed. Uh yeah, I guess you had to be there".

....was even better!!!!!
Have a great weekend!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was a ROTHFLMFAO moment. Especially when Jacquelyn came out of the bathroom to find me half-on-the-bed, half-on-the-floor, with my ass hanging out.

Great weekend reciprocated!

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

for some reason i get reallyreally excited when you say you're playing your guitar. i'm jealous and very happyfor you.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I enjoy it. I've been writing lots of songs lately too. Weird, considering I'll like NEVER have a band.

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

i dunno man.... my friend jeri can play lead guitar amazingly and writes beautiful poetry (can be seen on her myspace), brian can play the bass, i can sing and mess with keyboards...

we should go for it.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

All we need is a drummer :)

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

oh we'll just get a monkey and a set of pots and pans and some wooden spoons. we'll give the monkey cocaine and call it good.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

like that but less ugly. i'm thinking a south american monkey with a prehensile tail instead of a chimp. like the monkey that ross on friends had.

why do i know ross on friends had a monkey? i never watched that show except for the year in the dorms when my roommate would tape it and watch the same one over and over while stoned and eating entire bags of chips and tubs of salsa and cans of frosting and wondering why she was thin but with a giant ghetto booty.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Admit it, you download and watch FRIENDS!

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

we downloaded a bunch when we went to france so the lady who watched our cats would have something to do at our house. i'd be lying if i said i didn't wwatch a couple.