nonesuch #304 but all i've ever learned from love was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you

Weekends were made for Guinness

Long weekend for me, didnt do much but it feels like it has dragged on forever. Not that that is really bad but its not that good at least for me. I am working this evening, only 3 more hours to go. Longer hours due to exam time. Had one student ask if we could stay open all night, if so, he would be here studying.
Yesterday went to a surprise 25th anniversary party for my supervisor and his wife. It had been planned for over 3 months and they had no clue so the looks on their faces were priceless when they showed up at the place. I have a picture of the cake and I may post it later this evening of I have time. The food was good, it was a potluck. There was bojanlges and KFC(I did a taste test), mac and cheese, pigs in a blanket. I brought my apple dumplings which I know he really likes and it was gone in no time. Barely had to wash the pan out, it even looked like it had been licked clean. I had some cherry poundcake made with cherry wine, oh may it was so good.
His oldest daughter put together a video to celebrate her parents, with pictures going back to their college days, their wedding, and her brothers and sisters growing up. It was well done. My supervisor came close to breaking down at least 3 times during their speech. It was really nice.
Played some lotro. Made 20th, and made over 200 silver which is pretty good for a few hours running around. I was able to purchase the good 20th level skills and a most of the skills I had not been able to buy at the lower levels.
Went by Sonic before coming into work. Got the sonic cheeseburger without lettuce or tomatoes with fries and vanilla dr pepper.

**update** cake pictures posted

Nonesuch #247 survey or meme and more

Got this from a myspace profile of a pretty good acoustic artist i am the lost sea
If if gets too long just skip down to the paragraph. can't miss it.

SEVEN CIRCLES

CIRCLE ONE: THE OUTSIDE

1. What's your name: Jonathan
2. How tall are you: 5'7"
3. What color are your eyes: brown
4. What color is your hair: brown
5. Are you Male or Female: male
6. What is your best feature (physically): beard/hair?
7. What's your shoe size: 8
8. Glasses, yes or no: yes
9. Did you ever have braces: yes
10. On a typical day you are wearing: jeans/polo shirt
11. When you go to bed you're wearing: boxers
12. work out/exercise about how often: walk/every day

CIRCLE TWO: MUSIC
1. Name five of your favorite bands:
yo la tengo
rem
the cure
sonic youth
tears for fears(been listening to songs from the big chair, great album)

2. Name five of your favorite singers:
bob dylan
mike doughty
sting
neil young
imogene heap

3. Name three songs you are currently playing nonstop:
dashboard - modest mouse
everybody wants to rule the world - tears for fears
penny on a train track - Ben Kweller

4. Name one song (give lyrics) that best describes your life right now:
"Everybody's breakin' and drinkin' that wine
I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shines
Come to daddy on the inside straight,
Well I got no chance of losin' this time."

5. Name one song (give lyrics) that best describes your life one year ago:
"Woke up this morning alone on the floor
Thinking about those clean sheets and the way it was before
When I looked in the mirror, I saw your face and thought of the past
But now I know how dirty you are, I took my fist and smashed the glass
Even though you'll never come clean
you know it's true
Those sheets are dirty
And so are you"

6. When you're driving, what are the preset stations on your radio: 90.7fm

7. What's the last CD you bought: the cure trilogy

8. Was the last CD you burned an actual CD or a mix: christmas mix 2003


9. Name one song/band/singer you're embarrassed to like but do: George Michael

10. If you could only attend one concert ever again, it would be:
well, have to say the smiths but they have to get back together which is not going to happen. In that case, U2.

11. Name one band/singer you absoulutely can't stand: one word - fergie

12. Name a group you used to like but feel you've grown out of: genesis. Was a huge fan back in high school and college. Just doesn't do it for me anymore.

CIRCLE THREE: MOVIES/TELEVISION

1. Name your favorite actor: hugh laurie
2. Name your favorite actress: scarlett johansson
3. Name your favorite television show right now: tv is crap these days, yes even house
4. Name five really cool movies you've recently seen: The last ones I saw in the theater were DaVinci Code and X-Men3. And I will add: Hudson Hawk, Legend and Empire Strikes Back. I dont get out much
5. Your favorite canceled television show: Seinfeld
7. Name one movie you wish you hadn't wasted time/money on recently: Battlefield Earth
8. You would never watch a movie with: britney spears
9. Favorite candy/food to watch movies with: chips
10. Three favorite tv channels: foodtv
11. Favorite reality show: ace of cakes
12. Favorite character on a reality show: mary alice from ace of cakes

CIRCLE FOUR: WORD ASSOCIATION
(Write the first word/thing/person that comes into your head when you read this word:)

1. coffee: ice moche latte
2. dog: kiley
3. slut: where?
4. candy: snickers
5. pole: dancer
6. ocean: 's 11
7. brave: heart
8. loving: could use some
9. cookie: yes, please
10. death: huh?
11. life: huh?
12. child: toys


CIRCLE FIVE: WHICH WOULD YOU PREFER:
(bold the one you prefer)

1. Ten guilty men go free OR One innocent man goes to jail for life
guilty men
2. Eaten by a lion OR Eaten by thousands of small insects
insects
3. A life of contentment without love OR A life with love and heartache
I have lived both, both suck to some extent.
4. Skydiving from a plane OR Bungee jumping off a bridge
neither
6. No television OR No music
no television
7. No more pizza, ever OR no more chocolate
no more pizza
8. A trip to Europe OR a trip to Hawaii
europe
9. An hour with your future soul mate OR An hour with a lost loved one.
soul mates do not exist, lost loved one it is.
10. No longer being able to cry OR No longer being able to feel the need to cry
no being able to cry
11. Sex without love OR love without sex
I have lived both and they both suck to some extent, hehe
12. Loving someone who doesn't love you OR being loved by someone you don't love
Again, been in both, and they both suck to some extent



CIRCLE SIX: THE LOVE LIFE

1. Are you currently in a relationship: no
2. Are you currently looking/interested in someone: yes
3. Are you a virgin: no
4. If yes, how long do you plan to be one: na
5. How many times have you been "in love": 2
6. Looking back, how do you feel about that person(s) now:1st one - I am happy for her, she married a great guy. 2nd one - I wish her the best, the cheating whore

7. Name three things (physically) you look for in someone:
- hair
- eyes
- body shape

8. Name three things (mentally/emotionally) you look for in someone:
- mentally stable, more or less
- trustworthy
- caring/compassionate

9. Biggest turn offs include: lies, cheating, cracker crumbs in bed
10. Your ideal date would be: dinner and conversation
11. You want to get married, where, when, how: not applicable
12. Does anyone have feelings for you right now that you don't return: if they do, they are keeping a good secret

CIRCLE SEVEN: THE FRIENDS
(of your friends, who would you say is:)

1. The one you immediately go to with a problem:
scott, sally, heidi
2. The most rational: me
3. The funniest: sally
4. The one you spend the most time on the phone with: sally
5. The craziest (but in a good way): scott
6. The most honest: all of them
7. The purest: we are all pure as the driven slush
8. The smartest: sorry but I think I am
9. The one most likely to get thrown in jail and why: I cannot say
10. The last one that said: no one since the cheating whore

Well, that was a bit a long and sort of redundant but there you go. A little more about me. The guy I got this from called it a survey, I guess it is but it is more of meme. You know, these things don't really do what they claim to do, bring out things about yourself so others(online and otherwise) know you better. For all anyone knows, this shit could be made up. But I assure you all that it is not. I don't lie, and some would say to a fault. Along those same lines, I heard from another of my friends concerning my dating problems. He said "I think the main thing I would say is being more confident in yourself and self worth. A and M stepped on your being repeatedly.
I am not sure about cw, but it seemed like you wanted her to be more closer but you did not push for it." He has a point and I agreed and added that I was the same with cw. They all cheated on me at one time or the other but cw was did it while we were talking marriage and her moving back in with me. A, well, we were seeing other people but seeing a lot of each other at the time. At the time I was very upset and she didn't help much by 1) still wanting to see me and 2) telling me all about the new guy. She ended up dating him, I'm sorry, fucking him for awhile. To be honest A and I dated 4 years too long. M, I have no idea how much she got around. I know of 2 possibly more only cause SHE told me after the fact and I was stupid enough to stick around. Bitch still owes me money. Not only that, but she has my Abbey Road cd, best Beatles album ever. I have learned cause when cw told me she was fucking a sailor, I ended it right there. Yes, we were having problems before but that is no excuse. (Harry: yes, well that excuse is fucking my wife. And now you're caught sing surry with the fringe on top in front of ira). To be honest, I thought I would get better answers from my friends about my dating mistakes. Maybe it shows just how much they were not paying attention. Or maybe I do the same things each time so even though I have seriously dated 3, I was really dating only one type of girl.

Listening to: Dashboard - Modest Mouse
Johnny Marr, everything he gets involved with is golden. the smiths, the the and now modest mouse. Which begs the question: Were the smiths emo before emo was called emo? And by the way, I hate the term emo.
Listening to: Track a Tiger live on daytrotter
Found by way of Popcandy, "this site posts exclusive in studio performances from indie bands."

And just read on popcandy, the Police may be reuniting for a tour this year. I am not holding my every breath I take but I was just thinking about how cool it would be this morning.

Nonesuch #243 my new year's eve

I had an uneventful new year's eve but I did spend it with my good friend sally and her mother. Here are the details:

I left home yesterday around noon. Had to go by the library to print something out. I had been to the store(side note, the marching band playing at half time of the rose bowl is playing stairway to heaven)and picked me up some guinness the night before. I had a couple with me and some pepsi. Yeah, the hard stuff. It rained the whole trip to Durham, poured a few times but mostly the pissy rain that covers the windshield just enough you have to turn on the wipers. I made good time and arrived early, sally was still at work so I text her to let her know I was there and drove around. She was to bring me a cheeseburger but it ended up that we were to meet her mother and boyfriend at bakery/cafe on the other side of town before he went on home. So, I meet sally at her house, she changes clothes and we head out. We ended up going to the restaurant that sally work which happens to be just above where my ex the cheating whore's brother lives. Anyway, we get there, we change cars(still not sure why), go to the bakery, get some baked good and coffee and end up in a bead store all before heading back to pick up sally's car and then back to sally's house where I finally had my cheeseburger. It was very good: white cheddar cheese and ketchup with homemade potato chips with ranch dressing. By the way the burger came from where sally works. I watched some football, Panthers won but didnt get into the playoffs cause tiki barber had an amazing game saturday night running mad crazy over the redskins. The saints did rest most of their starters but a win is a win. Then watched the 49ers beat denver to knock denver out of the playoffs. I think the philly/giants game will be a good one next week. Flipped some channels after and found When Harry Met Sally which has become a regular new year's eve movie. Its also one of our favorites. It went off at 9. Sally's mother began to get ready for bed as I flipped channels again and settled on a marathon of Ace of Cakes on food tv. I was sucked in, I had never seen it. Great "reality" show about a cake decorator shop in Baltimore where they do cakes Duff's way. Duff is the owner and they do some great stuff. We watched Ace of Cakes the rest of the evening. I say we but sally napped in the chair with her lap dog german shepard / black lab mix, all 70 pounds sleeping on her. I switched back and forth from Ace of Cakes to ABC which was showing the Dick Clark New Year's show with Ryan Seacrest. It was awful with fergie doing something close to lipsyncing and christine aguilara singing right before the ball dropped. Of course I was in to the Ace of Cakes and I dont know if they completed the dinosaur cake they were working on. I guess I can check the site out and see what I can find. So, I woke sally up and we watched the ball drop in times square and then we went to sleep. Well, she did but I went and played Scrabble on my laptop and checked out blogs for updates. Of course no one was one but really I was early in looking since Anne posted right after I shut the computer down and Joie a little while after that. I did have a guinness but we did not open the champagne. I never settled down, did not get much sleep. The covers kept shifting, i was warm even with a fan on me, not to mention the fireworks causing the dogs to bark for a few hours. I did sleep some but even with my messed up sleep patterns it was not enough. Anyway, that was my new year's eve. Today, they cleaned house while I watched tv and hung out with her dog. I left around 1, got in around 3, had a sandwich and then took a nap. Still worn out, do not feel rested after 12 days off from work. I feel I need more time, a vacation. Well, I am planning a vacation. A close friend and his wife are in school at Warwick University in England and when they get settled they want me to come see them, spend a few weeks this summer. Right now, they are in Jordan where he is doing field work for his PhD but they should be back in the spring. All I need to do is get my passport and then get the tickets. They said they would pay for my tickets but I said no, lets go halfsies. We are all on budgets. So, I guess I have something to look forward to. I have only been to Canada and only flown on an airplane twice, so 10+ hour flight(or so) will certainly be interesting for me.