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I’ve got the world on a string, sittin’ on a rainbow!

20 Aug

To review:

  • I was not laid off yesterday, nor was Coworker S. or Boss. The only downsides to that are 1) all of my work stuff – programming books, Kim Possible snowglobe, etc – is in my car trunk and 2) I did not plan outfits past yesterday.
  • On Monday, WM got a full-time job (w/bennies!) teaching high school history at a place about 15 minutes away, instead of the adjunct position 45 minutes away at Snooty McSnoot Military Academy
  • And…

    no jury duty today!

    Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy jury duty. But today, I just want to go to work and concentrate on the fact that I still have a job, rather than sit in the courthouse remembering the looks on the faces of my coworkers as they were called into their managers’ offices. I hope I never experience another day like yesterday.

    The way life is going, I bet Barack Obama will tell the world today that I’ve won his veepstakes and will be his running mate.

    In any case, I have to put the days of depression eating and the day of celebration eating behind me and stop eating like a college student. (Cake for lunch? Oh, what the hell…) I have about 20 “Lil’ Green Patch” plants to accept in Facebook tonight and the Democratic National convention to get ready for next week. Barry, call me! ;)

    RIP, LeRoi…thank you for the years and years of music and memories

    Would you like to play?

    21 Jul

    < yum Last night, as you know, since I’ve been babbling about it for MONTHS, was my Dave Matthews Band concert. (Note to self: better writing, fewer commas) I swung past the house around 6 to grab John. It’s fitting that I take him this time around — after all, it was his Dave Matthews Band CDs that I stole in the early days of my addiction.

    It didn’t take much time to get to Camden at all, and we got a parking space ($15!!) close to the Tweeter Center. Although I was (and still am, yay!) on my healthy eating program, I had a panzarotti, which is a deep fried pizza turnover thing. John had a (not-so) jumbo hot dog. Naturally, I had to buy a tee shirt.

    Now, I had purchased actual seat seats, but John’s girlfriend (!!) K, and her friend C, (no need to drag the innocent into my blog by naming them) also had tickets. But they had lawn seats. So, we took a blanket with, and grabbed a spot on the lawn to wait for them. (Thor says, “So we PAID for seat seats, but you sat on the lawn instead?” Yes, Thor, we did. Sorry. It’s not like we had front row seats, though.)

    Opening act was N-E-R-D, which features a dude from the Neptunes. They were pretty good. But I was waiting for the main act.

    DMB hit the stage at 8:05ish and opened with Granny, one of my preferred DMB songs. (I have a lot of favorites!) the 26,000 people there sprang to their feet. The lawn turned into a sea of bobbing heads, and a mysterious cloud of smoke hovered overhead. ;) I danced untnil my calves hollered in pain. Then I danced some more!

    This time around, I knew all of the songs they played except for the new ones, which will be on an upcoming album. I wanted to hear 2 songs specifically, “Song that Jane Likes” (Dave’s sister is named Jane), and “Two Step.” STJL was the 6th song played, so I was thrilled. So thrilled that I audioblogged some of it! :)

    I didn’t get my “Two Step” wish, but they did play “Crash” (another preferred song of mine) as the first song of the 2-song encore. That made me swoon. One moment, Dave’s voice soars, and the next it drops to a throaty growl that shakes me to my inner core.

    Wow.

    Oh! Sorry! You’re still here! Where was I?

    End of show. Gotcha. The show ended around 11 (last song was “Everyday”), and after an UBER-long wait in the parking lot, I got home a skosh after midnight. Happy, swoony, full of second hand smoke and thrilled that nobody peed nearby.

    (Note for future Tweeter concerts…if we’re doing lawn seats, sit in the middle of the lawn, not against the wall. Wall attracts the urinators.)

    A wonderful evening! And I liked John’s girlfriend, too.

    Honey, honey, won’t you dance with me?

    Wt: 151.2. Shit.
    Work Docket: Today I had my big weekly meeting. Still working on Project A, which launches on Monday. Starting Project Fun, which will launch in period 8, which is corporate-girl speak for August.
    Lunch Plans: I BROUGHT a frozen diet lunch, but ended up going for pizza. As a result, I’m having a VERY light dinner.
    Evening: I caught up on the 2 shows I DVR’d…”Arrested Development” and “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.” Now I’m dangerously close to buying another domain name. ;)

    Miniclip from the DMB show

    20 Jul

    Miniclip from the DMB show

    this is an audio post - click to play

    (song: Song that Jane likes)

    Edited on 9/20/08 to add: I’m adding titles to my ancient posts. The MP3 is no longer available. Sorry.

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