i survived the tornado...
that was last week! wowie! I can't believe it's already Wednesday... sorry I haven't updated in forever. Last week was pretty insane.. I don't really know how it happened, but between MacWorld, and the pile of work and (exorbitant amount of) emails I was under, it was quite a whirlwind!So, as to not blab on about the work stuff (besides to tell you that some really fantastic opportunities that have been coming my way), I will spill the fun stuff:
I have been busy going to shows (finally coming out of my hermit cave) and last week was CHOCK FULL!
First, Wednesday night Jem and I hit the Tsunami Benefit Show at 12 Galaxies w/ 12 bands: Call & Response, Jolie Holland, Loquat (who I love), The Herms, Mark Eitzel, Bart Davenport, the Bellyachers and more.. it was soo fun! Somehow I ended up closing down Doc's Clock's next door with a new friend. A wild, fun Wednesday night.
Then Thursday night, Jem & I hit Arcade Fire at GAMH - who I saw at BoTH in December, and they were JUST as amazing this time - if not more. They're sooo good live!!
Friday night was a great lineup at Cafe Du Nord: Ex-Boyfriends, Oranger & The Thermals. ROCKIN - and what was really fun is I knew like almost 20 people there! Oh, and before hand I had drinks at the LAC with Omar*, Lyne, Jim and one of their friends. And then Taylor** & Heather showed up and we went for a yummy dinner at We Be Sushi!
* Check out Omar's awesome illustrations: OmarLee.org - He's published in Ready-Made this month, if you have a copy!
** Check out Taylor's awesome Calder-esque mobiles and his 3D short film: taylor.mahony.org And for all of you who I went to HS with - Taylor is cousins with Molly Fletcher! wild, huh? :) Also his brother is in Hijack the Disco, who I saw play a couple months back and they're excellent. Check em out!
Saturday I met up with THE Sarah Hatter and her friend Shannon and we had a tasty brunch at Grind in the lower-haight. Then we went shopping!! I never go shopping, and it was much needed. Total retail therapy! awww yaaa! :)
Then, I stayed home Saturday night to save myself up for Sunday night's show: The Lovemakers and Gold Chains at The Hemlock! Which was sooo incredible, I danced my booooooty off!!! :) It was eeexcellent.
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So by Monday night I had finally caught up with all my emails and work from the previous week (phew!) and now wouldn't ya know it, I feel like I'm coming down with a cold. I hate colds!!!! I have a big get together to hit Saturday night & I will be A#1BUMMED if I am not feelin good for it. COLDS ARE STUPID! I have been sooo healthy for so long, which I attribute a lot to not working in an office where there's germs everywhere. So I can just imagine that going to all those shows (and my friend Misty was even sick who I chatted with on Friday night) that that may have done it. Well, and the final kicker being getting only like 6 hours of sleep on Monday night after staying up late and working.
I slept in a bit this morning, and since a few FT jobs have been offered to me here lately, I had all these dreams about how I *so* could not do a FT job right now. I love way too much that I #1. Can set my own schedule and work from 12-8 (or 12-12 as it often is) and #2. I don't actually have to get up, shower and commute somewhere looking presentable :) haha.
Lucia was in my dreams a ton... she was at this job I got, but also was staying with me or something, so we both accidentally slept-in and then had to stress & get ready since it was already like 11:30am. Random things were in this dream, like Lucia and I had actually fallen asleep talking, and when I woke up I still had a wine glass in my hand and the light was on. haha! Another random thing was that the shower was like a room bigger than my kitchen. All tile and I was stoked they had Finesse. ha!!
Upon arriving at this new office, I was trying to pitch to the marketing team that we needed to print postcards to get the word out about the zoo (?)... and then there was this whole part about me wearing these fake boobs that felt and looked real, even though you could take them off and on. So it was like you could wear Carmen Electra's boobs for the day. haha! But then they sorta didn't look so good up close, so any time I showed anyone, I stood back far so all the edges would blend & they would look real. I know, weird. There was a bunch of stuff about parking, not getting tickets, and even one of the managers showing us the door to where the closest McDonalds was and asking us to pick him up something (when in fact we thought he was going to scold us for being late).
I saw my old friend Justyn (still in my dream), who lives in Nashville now & I miss dearly, and he had shoulder length bleach blond hair. Rick was around, and I wanted to go talk to him - but he was avoiding me as to not feel the pain. (sort of related to how he's not been going to these shows I've been hitting lately, since he knows I'll be there :( it's just hard right now, I suppose).
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Alright, enough about my dreams - this week is awesome so far (minus the stupid possible cold onsetting), and I hope to update my show calendar ASAP! It's horribly out of date - last week while going to those shows none of them where even on there yet! It's bad - I gotta work on that.
One random thing I did was export a list of Artists/Albums on my HD. Check it out.
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Tonite is my BAMboozled meeting, and then Jem & I have tix to RTX at BoTH, but I'm so not into going, as it's my #1 mission to kick this cold before it grabs hold... so I may just go and get her in - listen to a few songs & then leave to come home and SLEEP. Also on my agenda is drinking MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF WATER. I will. not. be. sick. dammit! Happy Hump Day everyone...
