things done or left to do this week:

— watch the poll numbers reverse course as mccain lies circles around himself, and all the things he’s stood for the last 25 years (massive deregulation, corporate interests) prove to be direct causes for the current economic disaster. congrats, fiscal conservatives, you had your big chance and you blew it big time!
— prepare for vacation, which pretty much involves daydreaming about barbeque for every meal.
— pick up some new cds (i’m thinking okkervil river for sure, probably the ra ra riot album) for the plane ride.
— finish one book so i can write a combo book/movie review of choke and bring a fresh one on the trip.
— revel in the huge USC football victory vs ohio state, be sad there is no game this weekend.
— try to fight the overwhelming urge to buy rock band 2, out now, until at least after vacation. (have you seen the set list? it’s gonna be so sweeeeeet).
— mourn the probable loss of my work computer to a crash taking out all the files i’ve accumulated in the past 6 years, save for the assortment of ones stored on servers or hopefully in coworker’s files. funny, i was just thinking of doing a back-up last week, and should have probably followed up on that intuition.