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i'll make a list of things to be grateful for, even if i could be in portland, freezing and drinking with friends.
-the fact that i even have friends in other areas that want me to visit
-friends here that i tend to neglect in favor of my far-away (and therefore superior) friends
-canadians in my office
-a nice boyfriend that seems to put up with me
-that crazy family of mine (built in friends=sistery sweet)
-i get to hang out in graduate school and get paid very little to think, read, and ask questions that no-one cares about, but for some reason, i'm now finding both fun and enjoyable
-my music taste--which is rad
-my ability to spend inordinate amounts of time creating things for other people (which may or may not be appreciated, but still)
-the fact that the insurance company is going to help me out (and replace stereo...how uncool is it that it was stolen?)
-its 70 degrees
-i'm going to mammoth for my birthday...and only taking people i like
-my best friend from pre-school and i are going for martinis and manicures today (hopefully, or at least we talked about it)
-despite appearances otherwise, i can actually form sentences in academic papers
-part of my job involves going to other countries on other peoples' dimes (thanks, fellowships, both legitimate and not)
-team bacon meetings tomorrow
-video games
-books
-drawing
-board games
-soon i'll be in portland, anyway. and then, the fun. before that, the intellectual challenge. and now, back to work (after calling aforementioned friend re: manis and martis)
i'm trying, goddamnit! this isn't some kind of metaphor, people. goddamn...
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[15 Dec 2008|10:08pm] |
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Del Close and John Brent recorded the successful comedy album How to Speak Hip (Mercury 1961). On How to Speak Hip, Brent plays Geets Romo, a hipster who consents to guide the square interviwer, Close, through the basic lexicon of hip. How to Speak Hip came with a "Hip Manual" to use for further self study.
Track notes for the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album
6. Let's Go Away For Awhile
(Brian Wilson)
Recorded Jan. 18, 1966 at Western Recorders, Hollywood, CA.
String and flute overdubs recorded Jan. 19, 1966 at Western Recorders, Hollywood, CA.
Released Oct. 10, 1966 as the B-side of Capitol single 5676 (Good Vibrations).
Originally recorded with the designation Untitled Ballad, this song apparently had several tentative titles before Brian settled on Let's Go Away For Awhile. A Feb. 23, 1966 Capitol memo lists the song by the title The Old Man And The Baby. And Tony Asher recalled Brian having an acetate disc of the track bearing another title.
"There was an album out called How to Speak Hip ... a lampooning of the language instruction albums," Asher explained. "I played it for Brian, and it destroyed him, killed him. Brian picked up a couple of references on the album. One of them was this hip character that said if everyone were 'laid back and cool, then we'd have world peace.' So Brian started going around saying, 'Hey, would somebody get me a candy bar, and then we'll have world peace.'" Asher said Brian "even made an acetate disc with a label on it with the title. He talked about calling Let's Go Away For Awhile 'And Then We'll Have World Peace.'"
(to) arc out (verb): To overcome a bothersome obstacle, to clear a barrier with ease. "The math exam was a bear, but I arc'ed out."
beard (noun): Cover or disguise, in the form of an object or person. Dean and Ehrlichman were Tricky Dick's beards at Watergate.
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(the) Big Deuce (proper noun): World War II.
bogue (adj.): Bogus, uncool. Strictly fakes-ville.
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cheese (adj.): Top of the line in its class. The 1958 Eldorado is unquestionably "the cheese Caddy." (From Nagle-Mathews)
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(to) dig (verb): to understand implicitly. Also: to appreciate or like.
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Doll City (adj): Physically attractive in a standard-issue way. "Those Hemingway chicks with the Brezhnev brows are Doll City. I'll freeze."
(to) douse the Edisons (verb): To turn out the lights.
drug (adj.): (From the past tense of drag). Worn out, tired. "I'm too drug to climb those twenty flights just now," said Eddie.
in Fat City (descriptive phrase): Rich, well-off financially, satisfied. "Since the inheritance came in, she's in Fat City."
full tour (noun): Same as three-hour tour.
geepie (noun): (Pronounced with hard "g"). An underage hipster, a funkbopper of either sex. (From Bootsy Collins)
gettin' the mohawk (verb form): Building up irritation to a major level, causing one's hackles to rise. "There was nothing on at seven except for Family Feud. I was gettin' the mohawk." (Nagle-Mathews)
gig (noun): Job, vocation, temporary assignment.
grove (verb): Past tense of groove (itself a corruption of grok--to orb enthusiastically). "The rebirth sequence in 2001 was too much. I grove the colors."
(to) have eyes for (verb): To want badly. "Eddie Cochran had eyes for that '49 Ford in 'Somethin' Else."'
hip (adj): Aware, having acute perception.
hit me and cut the rap (directive): Hand over whatever you came here to give me, with no backtalk. (From the P-funk)
hung (adj.): Needy. "He's really hung for bread."
I'll freeze, Bill (phrase): A polite turndown. "Thanks for inviting me to that Pia Zadora flick, but I'll freeze, Bill." (From The Price Is Right TV game show, per Tom Vickers)
jacked up (adj.): Upset, anxious, held in suspension while the sundial ticks. "I got jacked up over my rent. I'm hung for the dough and can't make it."
(to) kiss (verb): To skip, pass, shine on. "She told me she'd rather just go to the mountains and kiss the city altogether this weekend."
(to) Kojak (verb): To find a usually unavailable parking space. "I can't believe it: a spot right in front of the hotel. I Kojaked!"
(to) Kreskin (verb): To intuit or foresee. "I Kreskined that you'd call before noon."
lamb-time (noun): Spring.
lean green (noun): Loot, dough, scratch. Money.
Leo-time (noun): August.
luggage (noun): Bags under the eyes.
(to) make the legal move (verb): Get married. Einstein, says Lord Buckley, found his woman, "made the legal move, rang the bells and out of this union were born two swingin' Marsheads."
Mister Ed (noun): 1. An unimpeachable inside source. "Woodward and Bernstein had a Mister Ed."
2. A reliable sidekick or confidant, as in McMahon.
Motel Hell (adj.): Characteristic of a bad place to stay, as in a souring love affair or dead-end job. "Man, I'm quitting; the gig is Motel Hell."
(to) Orb (verb): to eyeball or look at. "They orbed the window, then walked into the store and copped."
to pile up the z's (verb): To sleep.
puppethead (noun): Square person, esp. one who lets others pull his or her taste strings. (A typical puppethead remark: "Wow, I just paid forty bucks for tickets to see Devo. I've never heard them, but they're supposed to be really neat.") Synonyms (Tim White, 1978): cementhead, chowder-head.
queeb (noun): A small hassle or unavoidable screw-up, often mechanical. "Sorry I'm late. I had a minor queeb with the starter on my car."
rooster time (noun): Early morning.
rumor (noun): Something kaput, over with, ancient history. "Man, after Waterloo, Napoleon was a rumor. Finished."
scramble (noun): According to Nagle-Mathews, the peculiar effect achieved when a balding male combs what hair he's got left on the sides up onto his top. Hence, any attempt to stretch a thinning resource. Full scrambles: deficit budgets, the careers of Muhammed Ali and the Rolling Stones.
(to) senior out (verb): To tire, become too weak to function. To do it like an oldster. "I couldn't make the late movie. I seniored out, went to bed at ten."
Shovel City (adj.): Deeply dug, much appreciated. "You enjoying the music?" "It's too much: Shovel City."
(to) sit down (verb): To make an impression, to suggest lasting impact. According to Klaflan (1982), a good idea or great music "will definitely sit down, kids."
Sue City (descriptive phrase): Involved in a court action or otherwise engage in legal matters.
(to) swing (verb): To achieve the highest state of well-being. To soar free and clear. Bobby Rydell attended a "Swingin' School." Bruce and Sinatra graduated.
(to) swing like sixty (verb): To perform at peak, to freak freely or wail radi cally. "That girl's the cleanest when it comes to threads. The dress she wore last night swung like sixty."
Swiss (adj.): Neutral. Having no opinion or preference. From Vickers (1980-82): "1 don't care where we go tonight. Dinner? Flicks? I'm totally Swiss."
(to) take the bus (verb): To do something in a low-cost, no-frills fashion. "When it comes to shoes, I take the bus--I shop at K-Mart."
(to) take the scenic route (verb): To perform a task with an eye toward enjoyment rather than efficiency. "Fun will take the longer way around," sayeth P-Funk. "Clinton takes the scenic route often."
three-hour tour (noun): A drag, especially any experience that takes longer than expected. From the Gilligan. "Waiting in line at the bank was a three-hour tour."
T-zone (adj.): Blissed out, unaware, spaced. "I'll never go out with him again. He's strictly T-zone."
under house (adj.): (From under house arrest) State of being uncontrollable, out of hand. Wildly frustrated. "Once Batman got hip to his scene, Penguin flipped. He was under house."
vines (noun): Clothes, threads.
Wall Street didn't jump (descriptive phrase): Indicating an action which fails to draw the anticipated reaction; creating no ripples on the pond. "He told the finance company he'd be inheriting a million bucks in six months. Wall Street didn't jump."
in Wig City (descriptive phrase): Caught in the township of the flipped, just outside sanity and peopled by mad daddies and moms.
wrapping (noun): Threads, vines, esp. women's.
Z-bird (noun): A loser. Last in line, hence the squarest. Prominent Z-birds: the Schmenge Brothers.
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| procrastinating because i can't write no more |
[03 Dec 2008|01:31am] |
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it is sort of cold and i sort of miss santa cruz a lot...although it's just as likely that i miss my memories of santa cruz.
i'd really like to sit on a porch in the cold sunshine right now, sipping black coffee and listening to records. damn you, late night longings...and for other things.
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| Meme |
[02 Dec 2008|06:19pm] |
A) People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blogs and replace any question that they dislike with a new question formulated by themselves.
B) Tag 4 people to do this quiz and those who are tagged cannot refuse. Don't be silly, of course they can. These people must state who they were tagged by and cannot tag the person whom they were tagged by. Continue this game by sending it to other people.
1. What's your song of the moment? "Mouthful of Cavities," by Blind Melon
2. What are you wearing at the moment? Jeans, long-sleeved thermal, adidas sneakers, UCSC sweater
3. Which movie do you wish was your life? Either Better Off Dead or Bill and Ted. OR something where I get to wail on some vampires!
4. What books do you like? I like ones about history, and ones that have nothing whatsoever to do with history. Music autobiographies, children's literature, sci-fi, distopian, vampire, fantasy, jane austen/ f.scott fitzgerald, tom robbins...and any book about how to survive or fix things.
5. What's the next place you're going for vacation? PORTLAND, baby.
6. What do you drink the most? coffee, water, wine, and juice.
7. Is there a useless thing that you cannot brace yourself to throw out? My stuffed animals.
8. Who was your first big crush? Elvis. Thanks, drive-in movie.
9. What did you want to be when you grew up? A children's books author. It's true. I didn't just steal that from Kelsey. I have a great idea for a civil war children's book called "gray fish, blue fish, free fish, slave fish."
10. What is your favorite place in the world? santa cruz! portland! seattle! vienna! mosty! and anywhere with friends.
11. What would you change about the world if you could? less mean, dumb, dishonest, conniving people.
12. What color do you like the least? it used to be bird-shit green. that was may least favorite crayon. other than that...i dunno. colors pd picks for shoes?
13. What would you do for a Klondike bar? as little as humanly possible.
14. What kind of person do you think the person you stole this from is? a procrastahole.
15. What are you afraid of? failure and burnout.
16. What's your favorite outfit? my betsey johnson dress, of course! any one of my fantastic betsey johnson dresses. also, my bee suit. AND, tee shirts.
17. What are you into right now? music, cartoons, and work avoidance.
18. What did you do today? taught my last tuesday section, went to my last 495 meeting, talked dave through making a stir fry, wrote some of my paper, freaked out to leslie about tests, and sat near my professor's husband in lecture. weird.
19. What do you want? to be done with this year so that i can sleep, drink, and go to vienna.
20. What should you be doing right now? working, perpetually.
21. What's the meaning behind your LJ username/name/nicknames you go by? it's a song by liam lynch, from "fake songs." yeah, sifl and olly!
tagged by: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) paperfarts
tagging: k_ho,flowersender, pdurph,ihatebeingcold
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| a wish for exercise |
[25 Nov 2008|07:14pm] |
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maybe this will be the weekend that i go for a hike! woot!
other things to get back into:
-frisbee golf
-good beer
-hiking
-music making (meaning making, heh!)
-video games
-fencing
-swimming
-exercise to prepare for shredding up the mountains on a snowboard (technically down...a mountain...)
-reading for fun
-reading for exams
-sleeping
-beach adventures
-movies
-eating reasonably, and not crazily
-tennis (or...better yet, Wii tennis)
-making art (and meaning)
-comic books
-cartoons
-cleaning
-ruckus bringing
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| another new shirt |
[25 Oct 2008|09:50pm] |
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One of the most life-affirming things that I can possibly do is to go and dance my ass off at a great show. (I only have so many years left before I can no longer shake around like an idiot in public and not be locked up in an institution). So I did! It was great. It was better than great. It was one of the few things that I had really been looking forward to, and I was buzzing around for a week beforehand.
I saw the Presidents of the United States of America. (Again.)
Yes, still amazing. Best show in Los Angeles, hands down Why? The Energy. The Rockness. The Crowd...they're actually into it, dancing around and jumping and waving their hands and singing all the silly lyrics...
Yes my friends, it was glorious. Even if you only know the hits (like Pdurph) you'll still have a great time (and an Astro burger afterwards. Delicious!)
GTs, guys. GTs.
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check out my flickr: http://www.flickr.com/alexfeesh to see some sweet sweetass vacation/vienna pics. i will post more later, as i have a new month's worth of MB. woot.
vienna was sweet, and i learned that i like graduate school much more when i am not at school-school, and instead living in a dorm with a bunch of international students, drinking, eating, laughing, researching, sightseeing, and so on.
prague was also cool, in sort of town-cum-disneyland kind of way. it was a prelude to the greatest part of the vacation: folk festival in a tiny border village!! woot! beers, dancing, music, bacon, no english spoken, honey wine, dancing in mud, hilarious czech grandmas, new friends, and fannypacks galore.
budapest...i recommend not going to so many big cities in one trip.
back to vienna, medical oddities, catacombs, sweet hang out time with physicist andy, and so on.
now its jetlag, unpacking, letdowns, and the realization that i won't get paid until november. well, fuckaduck.
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| sad times |
[03 Jun 2008|06:24pm] |
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| quickie |
[24 May 2008|11:30am] |
i figured that i should update my journal, although i'm not quite sure what to write about...hmm.
i finally got to hang out with my next-door neighbor, angela, and her friend from 3rd grade, charlotte! i am always so amazed at these people who have lifelong friends from elementary school. i had one friend from pre-school, but we don't talk anymore, which makes me sad, but at the same time, it was kind of one-sided, as she never called me or made an effort. i prefer friends who like to call me from time to time! anyway...i think i made a lot of good friends in college, although they all live far away, so i don't get to see them as much as i would like. i've also found some nice people here, finally, in graduate school, that i feel safe around. and, as a bonus, we'll be travelling around eastern europe together! ha!! oh, and there's pdurph, who is obviously awesome.
in other news...let's see. i got super smash brothers! yes! i am going to play this weekend, i hope. i also have a lot of research and reading, which i'd better get a hoppin' on.
yup. sorry so lame.
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| costco |
[16 May 2008|08:58pm] |
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has nice new bras and the doodles and scribbles books, which i purchased with christmas money as a present to myself. time to bust out the crayons.
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| a quick one while he's away |
[02 May 2008|07:51am] |
some highlights:
-didn't get into the program i wanted to-they rejected me in german (i assume it's because my german is so good...) but that meant i was free to design my own program. i have booked a course in vienna to do a month of german, and will visit friends rachel and leslie in prague and budapest, respectively. pdurph will be coming out towards the end of my program, and so we will go to munich as well. i will also hopefully go to other places in germany, but we'll see. there's a huge military museum in vienna: sweet!
-gatsby (our cat) had seven teeth removed, and so we have to give him amoxicillin (you know, the pink stuff that tastes so good? well, it tasted good to me when i was little, at any rate. for medicine, that is.) i hate giving oral meds to a cat. so sad. i think he hates us both.
-that's about it, i guess. life has been filled with lots of fun and reading. sigh.
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| kitty kitty meow meow |
[30 Mar 2008|10:03pm] |
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today begins day one of kitty experiment. his name is fatty and he is very pretty and friendly (although also shy). he has a stripy tail and a pretty raccoon mask.
most of the day was given up to preparing the house for the kitty. we hope he likes it, and we hope we like him. if so, we rename him something dignified, like "charlemagne" or "charlie" for short. you know, first holy roman emperor...or the sexy ex-hobbit from lost.
i also kicked pdurph's ass hardcore at "you don't know jack," had an all right, if school-filled, spring break, and am looking forward to a trip to forever 21 and the wiltern this week. BLACK KEYS!
this is fatty.
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| i done did it |
[19 Mar 2008|12:36pm] |
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i put 3 giga of ram in my laptop...all by myself!
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| back to life |
[16 Mar 2008|03:22pm] |
i've resurrected the laloveletters blog at blogspot.com, in celebration of the music that i've decided to devote more time to. hopefully this means that i'll also be devoting more time to having fun ado doing cool shit. it's a step in the right direction (away from that sharktank, certainly!)
hearts
alex
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| robocop is playing at my house...my house |
[05 Mar 2008|08:20am] |
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i would've probably liked this quarter more had i realized that i've spent the last 7 weeks in class with the dude that played robocop. for serious. it's this guy. i am always last to the party. but he did give us free dvds of a movie that the guy who did "battle of algiers" did... with brando...which was pretty cool! i should watch it soon so that i can talk about it in class next week.
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| cres and un-cres |
[06 Jan 2008|08:08pm] |
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portland (porkland, pornland) was crescent fresh, super cres at best. we hit the mt. hood, drnk lots of tasty beer, ate maple bacon doughnuts (yes, i took a bite, and yes, voodoo doughnuts serves vegan doughnuts too), saw a ninja rock band, had a pancake party with jody and eli, and laughed and laughed and laughed. i had a 6 hour conversation new year's eve, over martinis, covering all the major american wars and state's rights, which was awesome. (awesomely nerd-core). there were many things not yet done of the epic variety, but i can definitely see portland as a place to hang out and live for the indefinite future. i am reminded that i might not be able to find a job, but sigh, i don't know what i'd do with my life anyway, so whatevs. i'll keep on keepin on, and i did come up with some definite ideas of things i might like to do and will discuss with a career-esque counselor.
on other portland news: i got a sweet ass jacket, some socks with angler fish on them, and 2 darkness cds. i also went to powell's, drank some delicious coffee, and had a generally nice time, at one poiny shocking pd with my statement that "life is grand." i also experienced more garlic than any one person should ever eat in their life on the top of a veggie pizza.
going back to school is definitely un-cres. i feel this horrible knot of horridness at the mere thought of it all. i need to suck it up and stop whining. i have lots of things to be grateful for, and i need to keep my big whiny mouth shut tight. or, failing that, whine at someone that is professionally equipped to take it so that i don't have to feel bad about dragging all my buddies, boyfriend, and family into the muck of my lameness.
(ps) sifl and olly!
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| tummy trouble |
[28 Dec 2007|10:08pm] |
man, i feel like kirby when he accidentally swallows something that is bad for him. thanks, classy nordstrom's. thanks for the asian chicken salad food poisoning. i feel sick just typing about it. the last time i got food poisoning was from asian chicken salad as well. ugh. at least everything leading up to throwing up was teh awesome, including hanging out with margo and getting some new girly makeup! yes!
on another note, christmas was good, up until dinner. the people were nicht so fantastisch. speaking of german, that fucking sister cities program might not even let me take german while i am there. now i'm glad that i sent off the DAAD application after all.
i'm going to portland tomorrow, which i am excited about, but i'm also stressed out about my life and what i'm doing with it. i could blame genetics for this horrendous and ongoing freakout, or i could suck it up and meet with a career counselor on campus. or student psychological services. or a masseuse and a beer. i think a good combination of those all would be excellent.
lastly, since i will not be here on new year's, i will make some resolutions now.
they include:
-(from last year) bring the ruckus.
-don't lose sight of all those other things that i like to do, like art and reading comics and playing video games and music.
-schedule some time every week for some alex-time; whether it's hanging with the baby sis or sitting on a beach and drinking a mai-tai before bed, it needs to get done or i'll go insane.
-continue to rock out with my cock out, and hopefully see some more shows.
that's it for now.
seacrest, out.
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| now that i am on break |
[15 Dec 2007|12:44pm] |
life is grand!
back to writing that paper.
i passed my french test. YES! superrockstarrdom. and i'm going to portland.
and over the break, kelsey and i are going to millies annnd wacko's soap factory. yes!
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| HANUKKAAAAAAAHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!! |
[08 Dec 2007|10:25pm] |
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so, yes. tonight, i celebrated Hanukkah. there was tasty latke eating, chats about hilarious screenplays destined to get kelsey into usc film school with flying colors....and...and....
PDURPH GOT ME A WII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
man, i am such a spoiled princess, doing twirly hoppy dances of joy!
time to kick ass at tennis.
also, parental units of PD got me super mario galaxy!!!!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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[02 Dec 2007|08:56pm] |
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we booked it. oh yes. pd and i are going to portland from dec. 29th to jan. 5 to see:
jody
eli
gus
crissy
dan murphy
and to snowboard the great mt. hood! oh yes. they have a 50 inch base and 12 new inches of snow. i will be hittin the powder and forgetting about all of those books that i'll have to read when i return. heh heh heh. i am SO STOKED.
also, sister cities interviews went well, i think.
and neal and val's party was pretty fun. we played drinking games, and pd and i won a bottle of wine in the great burbank scavenger hunt. (it pays to live around here, you know.)
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