two.points.collapsing

a little afternoonish and i’m (a) hungry and (b) ready to rock. sadly though we don’t seem to be getting lunch yet, and i still have to work for about five hours (i should amend that to “be at work”, not work), so i can’t get too ready to rock when i have to sit at this desk. i’m getting very restless today. and the other intern said today is her last day. she goes to my school, she doesn’t have class next week either. why isn’t she coming in at all? why am coming in? i should have told them today was my last day too! then i could be done!

of course i’d have to come back sometime next week anyway to get my paycheck. maybe instead i should just hold up a convenient store. but they’re too heavy and i don’t think that would solve any of my problems (drumdrumcymbal).

can’t guess just what i do… just know this song is more from me to you… — 6.5 hours or so to go.

as soon as i got to work today i had to download this pinehurst kids’ song “the onceler”. i got it last night at home and listened to it a dozen times at least (and watched the video online). it’s really good, so now i have to download it at work so i can listen to it here too. but those pinehurst kids aren’t fooling me — not everyone may know that the title of the song is taken from a dr. seuss book that’s metaphorically about deforestation. but i do. that’s right, i’m onto you, you wily indie rockers. don’t think you can slide anything by me.

in other news, my friend josh (the pal of pals that just HAD to go study in australia for this semester), decided to start a weblog of his own, inspired by yours truly. i keep doing this to people, unintentionally. i start doing some nerdy dumb thing, and through me they start doing it too because i seem to like it so much. earlier this summer i subliminally convinced josh to read the sandman series of “graphic novels” (comic books). they’re my favorite books out of anything, but it’s pretty geeky all the same. my girlfriend started playing this insanely nerdy majestic game once she caught me playing it. now weblogs (which are really cool, for sure, but still you have to admit they’re pretty geeky too) are spreading. but it could be worse. at least i haven’t given anyone my syphilis yet.

wait, i don’t have syphilis. but josh does have a weblog which you can read right here. or on the link of all links on the side bar. i will at least spell the words right even if he can’t.

thursday means weekend after today! 7 hours until weekend! 8 until vagrant tour part I, featuring ultimate fakebook and reggie! rock up, rock down, rock all around.

downloaded some dianogah and pinehurst kids tonight from the always satisfying audiogalaxy. man, i love the feeling of finding new music that i really love, that i’ve never even heard of before. that’s why digital music exchange is great. it’s bad if you don’t still support artists financially in any way. but i’m a responsible downloader.

and i just sent for the north by northwest e.p. also, which proves i practice what i preach. support independent music; buy good cds. that is all.

now i’ve got some milk and cookies to attend to, so if you’ll excuse me…

in the course of doing some work today, i was required to visit mtv.com (no link for you). and i noticed that on that page, you can download the song “bleed american“. i don’t know how to feel about that, so i’m going to decide to feel good about it. maybe they’ll finally get a larger fan base in the vital 10-16 age group. but all cynicism aside, i’m proud of them for getting some exposure.

you know what i’d like to see though? the lucky denver mint video. that was a good video, with them playing hardcore frisbee. i checked to see if it was on their website but it wasn’t, sadly (although there was a good acoustic version of no sensitivity on video). does anyone else know where i could see it? those silly rockstars, they’re just so much fun to watch.

at exactly 4 o’ clock this morning my phone rang and i was afraid to answer it. it’s majestic’s fault. but since my phone and answering machine is right next to my bed, i could hear the message being recorded too. and that scared me also because at 4 in the morning in the dark, things are scary when you just woke up. and the call was from majestic, that’s mostly why i was scared. what a crazy game that calls me at four in the morning (which is 6am in chicago, where the guy was calling from, which makes it more understandable, i guess. but why am i rationalizing it? it’s all made up and computerized! whoa). so i’ll admit it, i was afraid to go back to sleep, and kept looking toward the door making sure no one was coming to get me.

what a fun game.

on an unfortunate note, payday today (which i’ve been looking forward to for a week) just turned into payday monday. but i need money to buy tee shirts at the vagrant shows tomorrow and friday! oh yeah, and food too. guess i’ll have to borrow a little bit out of that huge savings account i’ve built up over the course of the summer . . . (uneasy grin).

it’s okay. money or no money, you can’t stop the rock. reggie and the full effect tomorrow! and hey mercedes (and special, unnamed guest) friday! rock rock rock! (insert right hand forming metal sign here with a special nod to josh in australia who doesn’t get to come sadly).

but now i rock rock rock while i work work work.

just catching up on a little reading tonight. the book is very good. i like the way the the writer talks in such a detached way, to show how little most of these things people get upset about really mean in the world. the infidelity issue is tossed around like it’s not a big deal at all that it’s happening, just that the people aren’t dealing with it well. but then at the same time, kundera keeps coming back to describing the beauty in simple aspects of life, like a bunch of happy coincidences.

and i want this to be a tuesday night post, not a wednesday morning post, so i’ll cut myself off there. read unbearable lightness of being, it’s good. that’s my closing statement. reading is good.

want to go home want to go home want to go home…

i have so many better things to do than be here. at least i’d rather be doing those. i don’t think i’m going to keep working here once school starts either. i need to not sit at this desk ever again as soon as i can arrange it. nothing at all against the people that employ me though, in case they ever see this. they’re great. it’s just me. i get this way the last month of the summer every year. i want nothing more in the world then for my summer job to be over forever. there’s something very satisfying about putting things behind you for good like that. i’d say it’s the feeling of moving forward that accompanies such changes in routine. i don’t know about you, but i need that to give me a sense of progress toward the (hopefully better than the present) future.

but really right now i’d settle for about an hour’s worth of progress toward the surely better than 3:40 five o’ clock.

i don’t really like talking on the phone. but here’s what i have to do right now: i have one list of people that one of my bosses needs to talk to. i also have a list of phone numbers of various administrative people, under whom all the people on list A are working. what i get to do is call a bunch of people on list B, trying to find the phone number of whoever represents the people on list A, so that the aforementioned boss can call them to get in touch with the list A people. this sounds exactly like the sort of situation that will involve a lot of people saying “oh, i can’t help you but try calling…” and me calling someone else who also doesn’t have what i need. it’s going to be a huge pain and i’m really not very fond of calling people i don’t know. but i guess this is the sort of glamorous work the intern gets stuck doing.

hey, is the summer over yet? school doesn’t sound bad about now.

right quick before monday night turns into tuesday morning, i thought i’d post a little tidbit about my night. i had the best dessert tonight. my girlfriend made these ice cream sandwiches out of homemade devil’s food cookies and mint chocolate chip ice cream. oh my god, they were good. but that’s not the only reason worth mentioning them. apparently she got the recipe out of an issue of her mother’s redbook magazine. so i guess those awful magazines that litter checkout lanes actually may be able to contribute something to my life.

now if only i could trim my tummy with 6 easy exercises. not that it needs it necessarily. what, are you saying i look fat?

see you tomorrow.

jen reminded me of another great thing about the fantastic jimmy eat world show. well she didn’t personally remind me, but you get the idea.

i think i need to stop going to anything that could be even loosely qualified as “punk” concerts and only going to concerts for “indie rock” bands. the crowd at the jimmy eat world show was not only pretty chill instead of rowdy and annoying (but still very fun), but it was also largely female. and there’s nowhere better to be than in a crowd of a whole lot of cute indie rock girls. they’re so pretty and they have the best style sense. i should ask some of them to dress me; i have serious fashion envy at concerts like this sometimes.

and jen is totally right about the leaving the concert time too — it’s passed entirely by sizing up and/or checking out the fellow rockers. but you have to see who your competition is, right?. and that relates to my only complaint about the glass house. it’s a great place for a show until the show’s over, and the entire crowd of sweaty young people have to exit the building all at once through the single pair of double doors that form the only entry/exit. it takes at least 15 whole minutes to get out every time, i swear.

and that’s a long time after a blistering rock session.