Sep 30, 2005 | Uncategorized
what i should have written was, of course, that you should check back if you’re not doing anything more fun on a friday night than sitting at your computer. i mean, i hope you’re doing something more fun than that. not that sitting at the computer ISN’T fun, but it’s...
Sep 30, 2005 | Uncategorized
i just talked to erica, who is listening to disco cd’s, getting ready. i’m not getting ready yet, and i don’t have any disco music, but i put on my ray brown trio, some of my best friends are guitarists CD and so at least i’m listening to SOME kind of music, which is...
Sep 29, 2005 | Uncategorized
…and i should be ASLEEP now. but last night i went to bed at 11, but was still wide awake at one. so i give up. surrendering hope, who said that to me the other day? i can always take a nap tomorrow afternoon, before a night of DISCO FEVER! i’m even more excited...
Sep 28, 2005 | Uncategorized
so…i was reading the box of ritz crackers…not to say that i’m short on reading material or anything. actually, just the opposite – i’m in the midddle of reading the play “tartuffe,” which is delightfully short and simple and easy to...
Sep 27, 2005 | Uncategorized
ok, so…well, first of all, last night christine and i had a discussion about my tone. this took place around midnight, and i’d been ready to go to sleep at about 11, maybe even earlier, so i feel that i wasn’t able to articulate my feelings on the matter as well...
Sep 26, 2005 | Uncategorized
i mentioned the disco dance i’m going to attend on friday night, and i thought i’d show you the very groovy shoes i’m going to wear. they belong to amy, of course, because she owns everything groovy. except she also has some wild and fantastic disco boots, but she...
Sep 26, 2005 | Uncategorized
not only did i get my tetnus/mumps/measles/rubella/bubonic plague/common cold/flu/free 10-pound weight loss booster shot, but i got a snoopy band-aid to go with it. so, life IS good, like the t-shirt says. i’m sitting here trying to make progress on my play, and i did...
Sep 25, 2005 | Uncategorized
i feel like it’s late fall now, approaching winter. even though it was very warm and humid today. i was wearing my socks with my sweats this evening, and then i decided that i was simply too hot for the socks. but i had chicken with rice soup for dinner. it was cold...
Sep 24, 2005 | Uncategorized
GO TO SLEEP ALREADY!!!! ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND???? if i could sleep really late, that would be one thing. but i won’t be able to, which means i’ll be tired all day tomorrow, and i have to do homework! plus more. i’m going to go to sleep in a minute, i promise. not a...
Sep 22, 2005 | Uncategorized
think of an amusing anecdote to tell you about, instead of something like “despair on thursday night,” which doesn’t exactly bring a smile to anybody’s face. CHEER UP, ALREADY, WILL YOU, GRACE? because if the world IS nearing its end, well, you might as...
Sep 22, 2005 | Uncategorized
somebody just told me they were watching a new story on CNN about city cops in New Orleans looting, randomly stealing things like generators out of hospitals. this seems unbelievable. christine’s parents got up at five this morning, trying to leave their small town...
Sep 21, 2005 | Uncategorized
i just got an e-mail from my lovely and talented friend paul lyons, who HAD JIM GAFFIGAN AS A STUDENT in one of his comedy classes in 1991! how about THAT! that means i could have TALKED to jim gaffigan after the show if i’d wanted to, and if i’d known, i could have...
Sep 21, 2005 | Uncategorized
isn’t it funny, no matter how the days might drag on, they do continue to move forward in an orderly procession. one after the other. last night after i got home about seven o’clock, i was complaining about how it was getting dark so early, and jim (who was at my...
Sep 20, 2005 | Uncategorized
i was going to write on here at 10:30, and then go to bed EARLY so i can get up and run tomorrow…but things always get in the way. so i have to type fast right now. first – tuesday night, 8:00, NBC, “my name is earl.” isn’t it funny how i said...
Sep 20, 2005 | Uncategorized
since it’s so fast here, i thought i’d put up a couple more photos. i wish i had some photos that are current, but i don’t, because i haven’t taken any, but here are these, more of the state fair last year. in this first one, there was a wild west stage where that...
Sep 20, 2005 | Uncategorized
at PANERA, easily looking up ANYTHING I WANT AT ALL ON THE INTERNET. i love frank. you don’t realize how much you need someting till it’s gone. ok, maybe i don’t actually NEED to have wifi here at panera, but i LIKE it. it makes me happy. i just wanted to say...
Sep 19, 2005 | Uncategorized
class was pretty good tonight. the professor said some things about the importance of comedy that i wrote on the top of the page, so i’d remember it and could write it here, but of course the notebook is now downstairs and there’s NO WAY i’m getting out of bed now to...
Sep 18, 2005 | Uncategorized
i just looked up jim gaffigan, and of course his website is jimgaffigan.com. EXCEPT that for that entire post i just wrote, i kept writing JEFF gaffigan, not jim. except when i wrote about my brother in law jim, and that must have triggered something in my brain that...
Sep 18, 2005 | Uncategorized
I called Christine this afternoon, because what I really wanted to do was…well, just because. She answered, and I knew she was there, I could recognize her voice, but mostly I just heard her say stuff like I WILZ XIRI JWIW EPD IWW OWPWW…GAME…WYOH KVERD…it was like she...
Sep 16, 2005 | Uncategorized
1. the return of calvin & hobbes to the comic page. they replaced mutts, which used to be my favorite comic, but mutts just hasn’t been so funny anymore, for some strange reason. it’s comforting to read calvin & hobbes, and they always make me laugh. well,...
Sep 15, 2005 | Uncategorized
ok, first let me say this – i did two one-woman shows last year. all by myself, up on a stage, and i wasn’t really very nervous at all. talked and talked, for at least an hour and a half. no problem. and last february i was in a play where i had to do a bunch of...
Sep 15, 2005 | Uncategorized
…the basement of some campus building, that is, where the computer guys are allegedly fixing my computer. all i want is to be able to go online at panera, which i used to do with no problem. but since many things on my computer have been changed, something has...
Sep 15, 2005 | Uncategorized
WIDE AWAKE. COMPLETELY WIDE AWAKE. i’ve been like this for TWO WHOLE HOURS NOW. completely unacceptable. i started out thinking about my Main Issue, and then i proceeded to worry/obsess about other things. branching out, going new directions in the middle of the night...
Sep 12, 2005 | Uncategorized
i can lie in bed and type, can’t i? i’m pretending to feel better. if you saw me in “you can’t take it with you,” where i pretended to be a very bad ballet dancer, you’ll know that i can do an excellent job of pretending. very excellent. not that i’m in...
Sep 9, 2005 | Uncategorized
here’s one remarkable thing i found out today: i checked out some books at the library at UIS, and they’re not due till JANUARY. isn’t that crazy? AND i get to renew them if i want, so i could have them for a year. amazing. that is the only good thing today. i’m not...
Sep 6, 2005 | Uncategorized
i didn’t mention that we played frisbee while camping, and this morning, for some reason, i suddenly thought of it. when we played frisbee, it was an ideal night for it – twilight, no breeze, not too hot outside, and we played on a huge, empty grassy field, with...
Sep 3, 2005 | Uncategorized
yeah, this tells you just how fascinating, exciting and action-packed my life is. sitting here all alone writing on a saturday night. at least i like writing. i’m at amy and jim’s right now, where the dogs are being very quiet, which probably means that they’re...
Sep 2, 2005 | Uncategorized
i just watched 20 minutes of news on MSNBC. WHY AREN’T THE PEOPLE BEING HELPED? THIS IS AMERICA. WE HELP PEOPLE. a man was on a roof with his two dogs, sobbing, saying he’d been apologizing the dogs for not leavin the city. he’d been swimming with them for eight...
Sep 1, 2005 | Uncategorized
was that last posting just yesterday? how can that be? it feels like many years have passed since yesterday afternoon, sitting outside at panera, so young and carefree and filled with song… just kidding. except for the large amount of time passing. tonight in...
