Not to start things off with a bad note, but the “Fact of the Day:” Today, in 1945, the US dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing 140,000 people.
1. So I am closer and closer to finding an apartment and then essentially moving, which is exciting. We looked again last weekend around Muncie, this time with my detailed info sheets and labeled map of the city, We toured a few, got the brush off once again by a complex that even if they gave me an apartment for free, I wouldn’t live there, and then toured one complex that was not only pet friendly, but already had its fair share of crazy cat ladies.
We walked in the building that housed the office, and across the hall was an apartment with a giant picture of an illustrated Jesus taped to the door, but also a crazy old lady standing in the doorway. Bathrobe and all. So after we piddled in the office for a few minutes, we came back out, and there she was, looking for a bunny in the yard outside. We decided this wasn’t the place for us.
2. I’m really digging the Delta Spirit. Sort of indie. Sort of alt-rock. They were recommended to me by the Borders.com newsletter that I receive in my e-mail filled with coupons every once and a while.
3. Even after all of these years, I still spell receive, “recieve,” every time. I am and always will be a terrible speller. I didn’t even have confidence in my ability to spell “Wednesday” until I was a sophomore in high school. In 2nd grade, I won a purple (maybe Lisa Frank) bookbag for having the top spelling test score, and that was the end of my reign as Eden’s top speller. I handed the title over to others who live out the legacy.
I think it’s because I remember how words “look” rather than how they “sound.” I think it probably comes from reading. There are a lot of words that I’ve seen and understand their meaning, but I can’t say them correctly aloud. This is why I have always been leary about reading text, and why I always hated those “everyone take a section and then call on some else and make them read as a cruel suprise before recess” fun-tivities in school. And because I have a sort of stutter, “mix-up words” thing when I speak anytime ( it runs in my family), so reading aloud just makes it worse…
Anyways, not to dump a bunch of childhood insecurties here or anything…
3. My office chair leans back too far. And this keyboard is super loud.
4. I speaking this Sunday at Dialogue Church about recycling and being environmentally conscience. I started actually writing up the material yesterday and I found the BEST intro video ever, so that should be really good.
5. I found the coolest bag yesterday at Target for $4. I was getting tired of the other tote type bag I was carrying, and this one is awesome, so I think it’ll work out great.
6. I finished reading “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor yesterday–FANTASTIC. Her style of writing is great, and she totally encapsulates the 30s South. And throughout her stories, she presents the struggle and shame of modern religion, deconstructing assumptions about “religious” people, while at the same time, presenting people who come soely to redeem in the most extraordinary ways. I recommend it to anyone; it’s fantastic.
7. The next book, I believe, will be “Of the Farm” by John Updike. I bought this a while ago for my mom, and she really liked it, so I think it’s my turn.
8. Weezer just came out with a new record-The Red Album-and after listening to it a second and third time, I think it’s growing on me. At first, I was a little put off by the sound and the very laid back and lose lyrics, but I think they work. It’s a reworking, a new take on themselves. The Blue Album is filled with semi-gangsta rap lyrics, praises for 80s metal gods, and love. And so does this record…just with more aucostic guitar and less surf references. My favorite tracks-”Heart Songs” (a tribute to every song that is never feels wrong, including their own), “Miss Sweeny” (an embarassing boss-to-secretary confession that is as sweet as it could ever be) and the bonus track “It’s Easy” (great, great, aucostic stuff I can’t get enough of).
And the last thing I’m going to say about Weezer is that in 2002, they were playing at the Murat Egyptian Room in Indy, with Dashboard Confessional and was supposed to the Strokes, and I didn’t go. I was $20 short, but I didn’t sell my prized posessions to go, and for that I’m am truely regretful.
I should get to work.