Who we are

late saturday night (or come could call it early sunday morning) i started to type something up that i no longer am in the mood to finish. i am going to save it and finish it sometime that is hopefully soon (or actually not b/c i think blogger didn't save the draft).

i kind of have a bunch to say b/c i guess a bunch of stuff has happened...or actually not too much has happened, but i feel like i have a bunch to put into words. i have to pee & am tired so i am going to lay down. tomorrow i have to go to the library & then i am going to put something meaty up here...not that anyone really knows this exists yet.

one point i need to touch upon is that when my sister blew a fuse yesterday, she fucked up my VCR which is what i used to hook up my dvd player to my tv. so right now i am without having law&order: svu episodes on call.

Special Victims Unit

what have i been doing for most of my week? no not working or doing much needed cleaning. i have been watching law & order: svu.



i am on the last episode of disc 3 of season 4 right now. i am probably going to buy season 5 this week. season 6 came out a couple months ago & season 7 comes out on july 29th. it isn't like i haven't seen every single episode or anything. nor does it matter that they do air about 2-4 episodes a day on USA/NBC.

but i don't think that is going to stop me...it's just so good

Flaming Tantrum of Blogging

[Now Playing] The Jealous Girlfriends - Secret Identity (Daytrotter Session)

dinner yesterday was good
- cause jack daniels chicken never disappoints
hana's birthday party was splendid
- except that my feet are covered in bug bites


today i really didn't do much. i find that i am trying to not fill the days that i have off with too much. in a month and a half i am going to be so overbooked that i am going to praise every religous being when there is a day that i can sleep in or go to bed early.

but i did go into the city to see ms. laurie notaro. i was planning on going in really early and walking around. but it was warm & i am lazy. so i took a late train with all the people going to see billy joel at shea (which resulted in a free ride. thanks mta!) i went much later than i thought i was going to go, but i got to the b&n nice & early. i walked around the store a bit. i felt so lost in there - it is i believe 5 floors. even the music dept confused me. i did some little maintence every now and again until my mind reminded me that i don't work at that b&n.

at a little after 7:30 the reading started. she is insanely funny. i hope she writes another book soon so she can come back and i can listen to her talk some more.




tomorrow i get to sleep late b/c i am working 4 to close. maybe i'll catch up on all the laurie notaro books that i haven't read so i can read the new one.

Home Life

for the next three weeks, friends of mine are going on a little tour of the west coast. i want to go. and was hoping that with my non-camp employment i could go, but there is no way i can afford a trip like that. i can barely afford living at home.

but i do have some fun things coming up which include a whole lot of hours at the store (i'm even working five days one of the weeks...yay?) tonight dinner & maybe a birthday party. tomorrow a book signing. and saturday, it is jessi's cd release show at rockwood. i'm so excited for her, i know this has been a long time coming.



i'm going to make sure i have an empty memory card by then so i can record the whole thing. i can't wait to hear the new stuff live & with a full band. ::excited&happy dance::

Flavor of the Weak

i have become a rather independent person.

ever since i moved back home from stony brook, i have had to do things on my own. i live someplace where i really don't have any friends (except when tina doesn't live in california and when laura doesn't live in england). blame it on no one coming home after college. blame it on going to commuter school. blame it on her. regardless, it is a fact. and honestly, it isn't too bad. i feel that is has made me mature more than if i would have been surrounded by people i have known since i was 12. i now do so much on my own that i would never have done before (except going to the movies alone, i did it once & didn't like it). the friends i do have don't live too close to me. which makes seeing them more like a special treat.

in the past year or so, my friend numbers have grown much larger. from going to shows, from having a close group of classmates, from my new job. and i like it. b/c i feel like i am a new person and the me that i was before isn't there. i turn 25 in almost a month. it is weird. but it has resulted in me coming closer to the person that i am supposed to be. i am not there yet, i know. there are things holding me back and i need to over come them. but once i am done with school and begin teaching, i feel like i will be a whole lot closer to figuring out at least how i can get to the right place.



i also realize sometimes how weak i am.
today my friends was one of those days

To pass time in idleness

I've spent the greater part of the day today either watching Law & Order: SVU (either my dvds or on regular tv) or futzing around with my cds. I had the day off and that is basically what i do with my time. It isn't really an exciting life that I lead when I only work three or four days a week. At least I am babysitting Friday and Saturday night. It will give me something to do with my time, and I'll be getting paid as well.

Something that I am excited about is that I'm going to go see Laurie Notaro next Wednesday, July 16th. She is having a reading/signing at some Barnes and Noble in the city. I have only been to one other book signing and that was for Margaret Cho a couple years ago. I requested the whole day off, so I am going to go into the city in the middle of the day and just walk and roam around. I need a day like that due to the twists and turns life has been giving me. So I am excited. I just hope it isn't going to be too warm of a day. I don't want to melt.

I have to be up for work in a bunch of hours, so I am going to lay down, turn on my iPod and try to get some needed rest.

The point is - you're a rasist

Today, I still feel kind of good about myself.

Woke up (too) early this morning, went to b&n to pick up my mom's book, went to target and almost bought a handful of cds, went to staples, got a yummy donut and then went home.

I was going to go to the library to upload my videos from Brian's show at Mercury Lounge last week, but they were closed. Damn them for having summer hours.

The rest of the day will be spent cleaning and watching "Strangers with Candy" (which i just picked up this morning)


I have the complete series set on dvd. It is off-beat, but it's one of my favorite shows.

and then at 9pm, I Love Money premieres on VH1. It is so bad, but i can't help myself.

Keep on Truckin'

today was a nice day
i felt rather good about myself.

i have a feeling that tomorrow i am going to make me feel sad about myself. it all depends on what time i wake up.

I've never been a big fan of fireworks.

[Now Playing] Right Away, Great Captain - In All The Unholy Bathrooms


I mean they are pretty when they are done professionally, I'll give you that one. But when I am sitting in my room and i hear them popping in various parts of my neighborhood, they annoy me. Every year, the loverly people who live at the corner of my block basically take control of the intersection (if you live at the dead end like I do - you either come home before the son goes down or you're driving over a lot of crap). I never went down to watch. I always wanted to, but I never did. The one year I did. It was nice at first but then I got bored fast. It was really loud. Loud things you light on fire? Wow, so exciting.

I spent my fourth of July:
- eating an Enormous Omelet Sandwich
(i was so full, i didn't eat until 3pm)
- doing laundry
(so i have clothes for tomorrow)
- watching DVDs
(Serial Mom & Hard Candy)
- hanging out at barnes&noble
(not the one i work at)
- purchasing a Pro flickr account.
(now you can see all my 900 photos)

and, my friends, that was more fun than lighting things on fire. well more fun than hanging out at the corner, that's for sure.

Until we disappear...

well i have actually reappeared.

i kind of wanted to start this up again, so why not? i tried to do something cool, but i'm not very cool so it faded oh so quickly. and while i don't know how long this might last, i'm going to give it another shot. i don't have much to do this summer, so i should be able to maintain something constant here. however when student teaching starts again, i can't make any promises.

i'm kind of playing with all the old posts that i have here and seeing what i can do with them since my brief attempt at having a music blog crashed and burned since i never kept up with it. i'll just take out some links and play around with some titles. i still want to write about music (and i will since that is what i care about most anyway) but there will be more random things from my days and thoughts floating around.

so here we go.
lets hope the captain stays fast with the ship
(no more brand new references, i promise)

-katharine