Tomorrow I get my hair cut. Very exciting. It’s gotten entirely too thick and a little unruly. I can’t wait to get a good cut.

Man, tonight Oddica launches. I am really excited- I want that Kenneth Lavallee shirt really bad… and I bet Chris will want some shirts too. Oddica is a really cool concept. I hope they are very successful.

My leg itches.

Very Ripe

I’m pleased with it… I think the photos are the main thing you notice, and I was getting really tired of the grey and pink color scheme of before.

The weekend before Christmas, we bought a 20″ iMac for ourselves as a joint Christmas present. We’d been sharing my Powerbook, which was becoming tiresome. This computer is awesome. It’s so nice to have a desktop machine again. This computer is really fast and damn, the 20″ screen makes me feel small, haha.

Chris got a beer brewing kit with his birthday and Christmas money, and started brewing his first batch last night. How exciting!  It has to ferment for a week and then we can bottle it and drink it, I think. Cool!  He said he’s going to start a beer-brewing blog.

Today was my two year anniversary at work… It’s hard to believe I’ve been there two years already. Today I got to order myself a new computer at work… I ordered a 20″ iMac like the one I have here at home, with an extra gig of ram.  Ohhh yeah. I can’t wait to work on that instead of my older G4 with an old CRT monitor.

It’s almost time for school to start back, I guess sometime over the next week or so I should order my textbooks so that I can actually get them online this year and avoid spending SO much in the bookstores here in town.

I’m really sleepy now. I could NOT fall asleep last night - I kept tossing and turning, and it was driving me crazy. Too much stuff running through my mind, coupled with a mid-day nap that I shouldn’t have taken, and a late afternoon coffee. So of course now I’m all groggy. Maybe some peppermint tea will revitalize me.

My dad broke his nose last night! Poor poptart. He called me last night to tell me about it and to let me know he was ok. Apparently, somehow he fell while carrying groceries into his apartment and landed with the brunt of his weight on his nose. OWWW. I feel bad for him. I’ve broken my nose a couple times and it’s awful.

I’m amazed at how much softer and silkier my hair feels when I wear it straight instead of curly. I asked Chris’s mom for a really good ceramic straightening iron for Christmas - she works in a salon so she can get really good stuff for discounted prices. I hope that’s what I get… my straightening iron now leaves something to be desired.

Yesterday at work, I found out that I am receiving a Christmas bonus. It was unexpected and totally awesome! I’ve been working really hard and it’s nice to feel recognized for my efforts. I really like this job much more than any other job I’ve ever had… my coworkers and boss are really cool and pleasant to be around, and I always feel appreciated. Tonight my coworker, Scott, and his wife are having a Christmas party at their house. Hopefully I will have time to make some pumpkin bread either now or after work so I can take that with us to their party.

Yay! No more school for a few weeks! Man I am just so jazzed to have a little break.

I need to get on some Christmas gift-making/buying.

So after that, we watched the uncensored version of the Comedy Central roast of Pamela Anderson. Very funny. Very very wrong. And funny.

My feet are cold. I really don’t like winter at all. I need to live someplace where the temperature stays between 50 and 75 degrees at all times. I don’t like wearing coats, or gloves, or hats (especially hats). I don’t mind wearing a good sweater. But coats? Not so much. My dislike of winter is compounded by the fact that I can’t ever find boots that A) I like or B) that fit. Even if I luck out and find a pair that meets my very picky approval process, they invariably don’t fit around my calves at all. So irritating. It just turned into winter and already I’m jonesing for spring.

I got my New Media certificate tonight. Finally! Yay! The director of the New Media Institute wrote a really nice note to me on the back of my certificate, too. Made me feel good. I really worked hard in those classes, and definitely enjoyed them. I will miss the NMI. Those classes were the only thing I really liked about UGA, and have definitely been most beneficial, too.

We waited… and waited. I remarked to Chris that I wish they’d hurry up and finish the set. A guy standing next to me overheard me and said “Oh, that was the end of the show. That’s how they’ve been ending their sets.” I was so pissed that we’d paid around 60 bucks to hear them play for like 30 minutes. I stood in line for the bathroom and thought about this, seething… until I thought about the final line of the song they ended on. For some reason it had particular significance to me and I kept repeating it in my head, focusing on the om.

I finally decided that they had ended their show so early and with those words as a sign to me to be more patient and accepting of the world and of things I can’t control or change. Om, indeed.

All that wrapped up in a weird little dream about a Sonic Youth concert.

Speaking of weather changes, it’s finally fall here in Athens now. After a really long summer, it’s a nice change to have cooler weather. I wasn’t enjoying it at all at first- our house gets a little drafty and man, was it cold. I would be in 3 or so layers of clothing and be freezing… and the wood floors were painfully cold. We finally turned our heat on, though, and now it’s very pleasant in our house.

I was just in the car a little while ago and caught the tail end of “33″ by the Smashing Pumpkins on the radio. It made me think about how I strongly correlate certain songs with certain seasons/times of the year. “33″, for instance, is definitely fall- a cold, grey day in mid-late fall… leaves on the ground but mostly gone from the trees.

I think my next podcast, which I’ll probably make tonight, is going to be fall/early winter-themed. I’m excited at the prospect of going through all my music and picking stuff that makes me think of cold weather.

On Demand is seriously the most awesome thing ever. It’s so much better to be able to choose what you want to watch, and to be able to pause it and rewind and fast forward. I think all TV offerings should be available On Demand. I guess the hesitation there is advertising-based, but it seems like that could be gotten around fairly easily by simply having ads at the beginning that you’re unable to fast-forward through. I watched the unrated version of Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle with Chris, and now I’m watching Darkness- some thriller about a creepy house.

I guess I’ll just work on my studying and proposal tomorrow. Hopefully I’ll feel better then.