Thoughts On Stuff

Anton came yesterday and we all spent the whole day loading up the truck. In the rain. Jenn stopped by to pick up some sweet Ikea stuff I couldn’t take with, and stayed to help move. She gets +8.

I’m so tired, and my arms are so sore I can’t type comfortably, so this is a truncated post. I can’t even muster the strength to link Jenn’s name, or the map. THAT’S how tired I am.

Jason and I are going to start our drive today, and just go till we’re tired. It’s about 17 hours to New Bedford, and we’re going to be there by the end of the day tomorrow. I’m not sure when I’ll have interslice, but I’m sure the drive will go well (if not rainy) and I’ll post from my new home.

Drivety drivety!

Posted from Kim’s

Rabbit rabbit rabbit!

That’s E, El, Keem, and myself in front of the boxes that hold my worldly belongings.

It’s 2007! This is the year of big things, for me. I’ve finished my library degree, so this will be a year in the professional world. Perhaps, for the first time ever, I’ll only have one W2 to file. I don’t think I’ve had any less than three, and seven at the most.

Also big time stuff is moving to Massachusetts, to start my career as a librarian. Jason and I have been packing since the 29th, and we’re getting down to the end (which means stuff that doesn’t fit in a box, or is too random to pack with similar items). On the upside, we’re a librarian and a programmer, so organization of objects is what we’re good at.

This year I’m getting married. I think we have a plan, finally. We’re thinking that we’ll get married in MA, then have two receptions – one in IA and one in NY. The wedding will be just immediate family, and the receptions will be everyone else. And then a honeymoon at the underwater hotel.

My intention for this new year is to blog every day. My posts have been erratic since I came to school, and I’m looking forward to having a set schedule that is less than 60 hours per week. I was also thinking that perhaps it’s stupid for me to blog, since the interest level is not very high, and for not that many people. Then I checked, and saw that I get an average of 24 hits a day. I have no idea if they are all legit, or if RSS readers count, but either way, I enjoy summoning my thoughts and writing, and what’s the Internet for, if not to be able to have a blog? It’s going to implode anyway.

Yes, it is. The Internet is going to implode.

I was sitting in an H&M dressing room pondering why I like Avril Lavigne. It hits me – she has Billy Corgan teeth. You know – pointy, feral, vampiric grilles. The same goes for the singer from My Chemical Romance and Fairuza Balk. They’re all bitey faced.

My new zine: Biteyface
(I’d like to put a zine together – and bind it using my sweet conservation skillz. I haven’t figured out what the content should be, other than filled with spam poetry – but that’s not really my work. I don’t want to just C&P blog posts either. I’d take suggestions.)

I totally effed my c when I saw this:

Anton and Dena have been playing with this style of art, and it never occured to me to spread the love of well-known artists this way. Diane Arbus is one of my heros. She used to bring two cameras to her shoots with carnie folk, and would bring out this rigged camera that would fall apart as she used it. Then she’d cry, and gain sympathy. Then she’d pull out her usual camera, and get these amazing shots.

“Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They’ve already passed their test in life. They’re aristocrats.”

Read more about Arbus, and see the original photo. You’ll notice that the graffiti is reversed.

It’s a good thing I installed speakers in my bathroom (thanks, Anton) because I spent TWO HOURS bleaching and dying my hair last Friday night. Modest Mouse got me through.

TADA!

So now I have pink hair. And a pink hand. And a pink bathtub. And a pink shower curtain.

*If you’re Jake, Joe, Margaret, or Jason, you’ll know how to say this properly.

I’m going to go ahead and pretend that I was personally tagged by Inky. Plus I like to feel special.

Four Jobs You Have Had In Your Life
1. Wildland firefighter
2. Village Inn
3. Chemistry Library graduate assistant
4. Teske’s Garden center

Four Movies You Could Watch Over and Over
1. Beetlejuice
2. Tank Girl
3. Amelie
4. Empire Records

Four TV Shows You Love to Watch
1. The Office
2. The Office
3. Arrested Development
4. Family Guy

Four Places You Have Lived
1. Calamus, IA
2. Washington, DC
3. Höhenkirchen, Germany
4. Champaign, IL

Four Places You Have Been On Vacation
1. Galway, Ireland
2. Quasqueton, IA
3. Holden Beach, NC
4. Florida Keyyyyyyyyyys

Four Websites You Visit Daily
1. Crazy Aunt Purl
2. Salon
3. BoingBoing
4. Jake
(really, this last question is a bit silly, for all you need to do is look at my Bloglines.)

I tag … E-tech!