Podworld News

At about 7 a.m. I was in my car listening to the radio. They were broadcasting live from a bar in NYC. Then they said, "There's still plenty of time to get down here..." I don't know. There's something about trying to get to a bar by 7 a.m. that just strikes me as odd.

In other news, we're serving Chinese food today.

I had this dream that enabled me to wake up on time. Mostly because it was vaguely unpleasant and weird. It was kind of like Groundhog Day combined with a bad cheesy horror/drama. In it, I had 4 siblings (!) and my older brother got hit in the head with an asteroid and turned malevolent. He wasn't actually a zombie, but he'd decided he needed to kill us all. It was kind of gruesome. Plus, I'd seen the movie, I knew how it ended (hello, no survivors), and I was trying *desperately* to change the outcome, and it so wasn't working. I think this was partially brought on by reading an article about and then pondering the story of Dawn of the Dead before bed. The zombies have eaten my brain.

1. I was wrong.

2. The podmobile is apparently not broken. Woo!

3. Not only did I get a raise, but I got paid for the unused sick time from last year. Baby's going to buy a new cd!!!

4. I got my shirt from the International Male catalog. I look like a pirate in it. And it came with a coupon for my next order! I'm contemplating a gauze shirt to wear at the beach. I'm going to wear the pirate shirt to work tomorrow. I'm going out for a drink after work with someone who regularly shops from the catalog, and he wants to see how it looks in real life (even if it's not on a man, which he'd prefer).

5. I'm going to be introduced to a colleague tomorrow while wearing a pirate shirt!!!

6. I broke yet another set of headphones. I moped for a bit. Now I have a new set, courtesy of a friend with too many. Life is good once again. I should perhaps start working at a company that makes headphones.

7. My name is Andrea, and I'm fast becoming a DDR addict.

8. I think I see the fascination with that game Rez, the one with the vibrator (though I played it without the attachment). littlefrogling, you do really need it. Really. As well as the game Bombastic, which is the new Devil Dice.

9. Theatrical events are going well. Midway into the run of the one I'm stage crewing, and have another half day or so of work on the set of another show.

10. Blair lives on a houseboat now. Take note of this, people who are friends of Blair.

11. I got this relatively random email from a friend... well, he's midway between acquaintance and friend I guess. Anyway, it said hi and basically that he'd been away and would write a longer letter later. What's weird about this is that this type of message probably accounts for three quarters of the times I hear from him. This kind of amuses me, in a weird sort of way.

12. I'm feeling antsy, needing to be traveling, but the funding to travel afar is missing. My weekly (lately) trips to Philly have helped, and I'll be going to visit the parents soon, and I'll be in Chicago in May. So perhaps I should chill, but I still want to go adventuring...

13. I went for an appointment with my new doctor, who is so much amazingly way better than the last one. And she's got dermatographia, leaving me with less need to actually explain about it. Went for a blood test yesterday, will know soon if I need to be on drugs.

14. I'm reading this book that keeps cracking me up, called A Pilgrim's Digress. It's actually made me think, as well as be amused.

I did say I'd talk about the weekend...

First there was 'The Station Agent' with nanne. I hate the Angelika. I hate normal old theaters. I like stadium seating. I'm short. The movie was good though. Pretty much everything I've seen there I've liked. So, Angelika=bad, films shown there=good. Seriously, the movie was very good. I didn't feel a sense of resolution at the end, but that's not such a bad thing. It was about a train loving midget in NJ! What's not to love?

Anyway, moving on... shirleym's fabulous chocolate party was fabulous indeed!!! I had a great time. Lovely. Excellent food! Excellent people! Excellent music! And what's funny is that I'm not really a huge chocolate lover. I know it's wrong! But when shirleym makes chocolate stuff, it's something else entirely. It rocked!!! And I'm always happy to see everyone who goes to the parties. Weird to think I've been to either 4 or 5 of the chocolate parties now...

crowyhead came up overnight for the party. I found her wandering around at Princeton Junction. Actually, the fact that I found Princeton Junction in itself was impressive, given that the only other time I'd been there, I'd accidentally taken the train. Anyway, back to crowyhead, I do so love her. Everytime we hang out it's fabulous. And she played DDR with me. I'm an addict now, though I've been too busy to play every day. She's halfway there. After we left the chocolate party we went home and played for two hours (finishing at 1:30 a.m., when we were too tired to have any kind of coordination). Yay! for sugar highs!

Then on Sunday, after I dropped off crowyhead in Philly, I headed over to the theatre, where I had my first ever paid painting gig. That's right, I'm now a PAID artist!!! As in, someone actually paid me. No, really. It's quite shocking. And they even liked what I did and how it came out. Go me! Woo! In the confusion of being paid, I agreed to do stage crew for the show. I probably would've agreed to anything they asked, honestly. But so this week has been all about rehearsals, and this weekend and the next 2 weekends are busy for a couple hours on Friday and Saturday eves, then for part of Sunday afternoons. So anyone who wants to hang with me needs to work around that. What? No one? :p

This weekend... other than the play (which people should go see, because it's funny) I would like to go see 'Starsky & Hutch'. Anyone? Anyone? ;)

In a way, I'm glad that John Edwards didn't win the primaries. Everytime I heard anything about him, I automatically thought first of the psychic.

Every day for me seems to be a mix of up and downs.

( Is it hot in here? )

( Work & Maiming )

( Taxation )

( Pic )

( Weighty Issues )

( Mom, Sino Furniture, & FOOD!!! )

Oh, and as I commented in someone else's journal (which I think is friends-only, so I'm not going to pimp) I believe that this phrase is possibly one of the most awkward in any 80s pop song. "Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti"

So this morning I'm pulling into the parking lot at the train station, at least 5 minutes before the train is supposed to leave (woo! perhaps it's a new trend! I could make the train *every* day!) and this guy in a Lexus SUV cuts both me and the guy in the sports car who up until a second before that had been directly in front of me (we were both turning in different directions, and the SUV guy was totally being stupid, I mean, NO ONE drives that fast across the tracks in that area (I drive fast generally, and wouldn't even consider it, for instance)). A 3 car accident was barely averted, in other words.

Was I angry? No. Kind of amused actually (probably adrenalized relief?), and the first thing I thought was what I would say to him if I parked next to him... "So should I call you Mr. Dumbass or Mr. Dumas?"

ps. I was also wishing that I somehow could get a car that was normal length but narrow, so I could fit into some of the parking spots there. I don't know who painted the lines at the lot, but they should be smacked upside the head.

Today, I hate life. A lot. It's a good thing I started exercising again, because if I hadn't, the stress I'm feeling would be a constant.

Next week, I will be enjoying life. Elsewhere. Thankfully. I can't wait.

How wrong is it that the first thing I thought when in my newly fixed car was, "Cool! I can do donuts in the snow!!!"

And the correct falsehood was the mp3 player one. C'mon now, do you really think I would hurt the source of my music??? It is my favorite thing. Really. If anything, I'd destroy the headphones for their continuing failure to please me, but never the player.

And for all the people who answered NJ Transit, a woman said to me, "Did you just jump on the train while it was moving?" and we chatted for a few minutes about it. Heh.

My new week's resolutions (and I'm thinking I should do this every week) is to... make the train on time in the mornings (which I might want to go to sleep before 1:30 am for, just a thought); not hit anything or anyone with a motor vehicle (even if said vehicle is annoyingly automatic and drives kind of like a go-kart); get my car, my baby, my podmobile fixed; work more; work out more; find more firewood.