Currently Reading I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel By Tom Wolfe see related

An Update; Or, Some Dumb Things That Happened Yesterday Which I Felt Like Sharing For Some Reason

 Yes, I am alive.

Yesterday I temporarily forgot I was not in Moscow any more. My mom and I were at a store looking at these wall-hangings, and my mom wanted to know the price of one of them. So she asked this lady who worked there. The lady gave her the price and then my mom said, "Hmmm, do you know what that says?" pointing to the writing on the wall-hanging. The lady shrugged, "I don't know." I looked at it, and suddenly my mind went into classical languages mode. Latin. "Beneath the light, rejoicing, or something like that," I said, somewhat absent-mindedly. My mom just smiled, the lady stared at me. "What?" Quick, back-track. "Ummm, I've taken classical languages. That's Latin." "Ohhhhhhh." The knowing nod, the sympathetic "I'm sorry you're such a nerd" smile. I guess not too many people in Northern Alberta know Latin.

Then on the drive home -- in a valiant effort to avoid listening to some (obviously insecure) guy singing about how he was "a heterosexual man," I switched to some other radio station....only to hear the melodic croonings of one Elton John. Ironic, no?

Morin of Canada

Superman vs. House

Home again, home again...

Well, here I am, fighting with dial-up internet, getting ready to go to bed so that I can wake up at 5:30 tomorrow to get ready for work. Ahhh, life....makes me yearn for the books and papers of NSA. But hey, only a couple of months and then I'm back at it again.

On the really bright side, I ordered some demon-related books and they started coming in today! Yes, this is probably only something that would excite me...

I don't know how often I can get on this thing, but I'll try....I'll probably be keep up more with Facebook, but that too may suffer...

Morin of Canada

Currently Watching American Dreamz By Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Mandy Moore (II), Willem Dafoe, Chris Klein see related

Back to Canadia

I'm leaving tomorrow. Flying into Edmonton, spending time with my oldest friend, Irene (and by oldest, I don't mean age -- I mean the person I've been friends with the longest), going to a chocolate fondue party, then driving home on Saturday with my dad. We'll see ya on the other side...

Morin of Canada

Currently Watching Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Season 1, Vol. 1 (Censored) (U.S. Version) By Linda Taylor (II) see related

This sounded like fun...but I'm also bored, so that should explain everything

So...I saw this on someone else's blog and thought it might be fun to try. I put my iTunes on shuffle and listed below are the first lines of the first 25 songs (minus the non-lyrical ones). See if you can guess the song and artist (without cheating!).

1. I wish I knew how it would feel to be free.

2. Summer feels like it's over, winter is on the way.

3. Meet you downstairs in the bar and heard your rolled up sleeves and your skull T-shirt.

4. It's snowing the west side; let me take you for a ride.

5. (and I try and I try) Nobody moves me; I've been through this life with no place that I can call my own.

6. What's the problem with the human race?

7. We were shooting at a mountain of dirt; nothing was broken and nothing was hurt.

8. Wish enough, wise man'll tell you a lie.

9. The world has turned and left you here.

10. Let's get it started in here.

11. In the throws of young love, Leroy didn't think to think and in the blink of an eye tied the knot not knowing how to not know.

12. And if I knew the answers, I would tell you know just what would be the chances that I could show you how.

13. The moment I said it, the moment I opened my mouth, lead in your eye lids, bulldozed the life out of me.

14. Our step mom, we did everything to hate her.

15. I fell on the playing field, the work of an errant heel. 

16. There's no one in town I know; you gave us someplace to go.

17. It would appear that male pattern baldness has set in his hair, at an alarming pace, running away from his face.

18. Too many fingers, too many thumbs; something wicked this way comes.

19. Well it's so good, I didn't have to make it.

20. I hear you on the radio; you permeate my screen.

21. We are two mariners, our ship's sole survivors.

22. I know there's nothing to say; someone has taken my place.

23. If you're waiting for your wings but you just got legs, and you're feeding all your chickens but they won't lay eggs.

24. Don't you know, after picking the glass off the ground.

25. I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known.

Morin of Canada