Yesterday, I got a call from Ben saying our landlord had been there and was pissed. We had trash in front and behind our house, and Sonny's van is also parked back there. I was at work already so there wasn't much I could do. After work, I had intended to print some posters, but I ended up not. We made hasty plans to clean up the yard late at night. I headed to Baltimore, where I had a show I had booked to attend (and work). The first band was late, but it all worked out before closing. All the bands were good. Cowboys Became Folk Heroes played, and were good and it was fun because they had played the farm 2+ years ago. It was good seeing Evan and Dima. I loaned a guy from Welcome The Plague Year crutches because I happened to have some in my car.

The guy with the keys to the CCAS went to see a movie so I ended up getting stuck there for an hour or so, but then I made it home where Scott and Sonny and I worked on cleaning up the yard so we wouldn't be evicted. We bagged all trash that would fit in a contractor bag, even if it meant breaking up said items so they would fit.

I came up with the idea of driving around and leaving one bag at each house that already had bags out, and also leaving like larger items at places with like items: for example, leaving a pile of wood scraps at a house that had a wood pile out by the street. Of course, this is illegal, so we didn't do that... Of course.

Hopefully we won't get evicted.

+ + = AWESOME

I am looking for someone who wants to go to Southeast Asia with me this fall. One of my best friends is living in Singapore, and I’ve decided to go over there for 3 weeks to visit her and travel around to Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and wherever else we think we might want to go. My Singapore friend wants to travel around with me as much as possible, but she won’t be able to take the entire 3 weeks off of work, so I’m in need of another travel companion for some mid-week adventures.

Here’s the plan so far: go to Southeast Asia for 3 weeks in October or November. Use Singapore as a kind of home base, since we’ll be able to stay at my friend’s huge apartment for free. Take a bunch of little trips around to nearby countries, destinations subject to change and open to suggestion. The main expense will be the plane tickets, because once we’re there, food and lodging will be super cheap. I’m planning on spending about $2,000* on the whole trip, cuz this is my big vacation of 2004.

(*Maybe more if I do my xmas shopping while I’m there.)

My ideal travel companion is anyone who is really enthusiastic about going to Southeast Asia. Or, really enthusiastic about going anywhere cool that they’ve never been before. Please be willing/able to do the following, as circumstances require: entertain and be entertained on the long-ass flight, drink, stay up late, play well with others, don’t be a retard about other cultures, shop, take pictures, eat weird things like exotic durian fruit that smells like rotten eggs, protect me from possible hijackers on buses (kidding....kind of), hike/climb stairs at temples and ruins, swim, lie on glorious beaches, haggle with shopkeepers and open air market vendors, use chopsticks, and travel light.

This is gonna be the trip of a lifetime. If you’ve ever considered going, or wanted to see Angkor Wat or the place where Angelina Jolie adopted her adorable Cambodian baby, carpe fucking diem, my friend!

is going ahead. My ex-landlord has been served. Bastard.

Now I just wait for 6 weeks to two months.

Just when you thought Diablo had been slain. Just when you thought the Death Star had been destroyed. Just when you thought the shark was blown up by the oxygen tank. Just when you thought Creed was dead.

He comes back with friends. They build another one. It returns in 3-D. The guitarist forms Altarbridge.

Why? Why? Why!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????

yay. Amy got a job teaching world history, economics/govt, and art at a small charter school. Only 150 students, full time is considered 4 hour and a half teaching periods a day (one of which is a prep period), and 189 contract working days a year. Not to mention the fact that the salary is a whole 51% more than I've ever made in my life and 198 more dollars than my husbands first management job.

I get a big classroom with lots of windows, I get to have a goldfish, and all the plants (bonsais) I can fit in the room. Its an old building with only 6 classrooms, hardwood floors, and pictures of the first graduating classes of the original school on the wall.

Yay. Happy. And the cherry? A trip to San Fran in November to attend the Coalition of Essential Schools conference. Yay.

And I will need lots of help from you overachievers.

funny story:

So I agreed to print a bunch of negatives for a friend of mine at work so he can see what they look like. Figured it would take me a minute. Our negative holders suck and so i started getting my greasy fingerfrints all over them.

I decided to solve this problem by going to Ritz camera around the corner from where I work.

There was this young looking kid--maybe 15 or 16 behind the counter
"hey, do you guys have any of those finger condoms?" I asked.
and the kid just looked at me cluelessly
"You know, what I'm talking about, right? Those little rubber things you put on your fingers for film---finger condoms.."
The kid started getting this sort of weird look on his face, like between utter embarrassment and disgust.
"We use white gloves," he said.
"Oh. Okay Do you know where I could get any of those finger condoms, tho?" I asked
and the kid just kept staring at me with this grossed out look like i was crazy.
"I don't think so," he said.
"Okay, cool, " I said and turned around to leave.
There was this well dressed little woman behind me, and she had the EXACT same face he did, this weird like, "you're a fucking freak" face on and she moved away from me as I walked past.

What the hell?