Cathartic Bus Ride and Brain Death

For some reason the bus ride from Philly to NY today was the most cathartic trip I've ever taken. I put on my ipod with every intention of falling asleep for two hours, and instead I ended up listening to lots of music that speaks to me in lots of different ways, and emoting like crazy all by myself in the back of the bus. Picture me curled up in a double seat, alternately crying and dancing around in my seat and waving my head around in crazy ways, and pointing at imaginary people, and all the time mouthing the words and trying really hard not to burst into inappropriate song. I know you can all imagine that. It was very liberating.

Now my brain is dead
time to go to bed, oh yeah!
But not before tea.

This Looked Like Fun.

Step 1: Get your playlist together, put it on random, and play.
Step 2: Pick your favorite lines from the first 25 songs that play.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song the lines come from.
Step 4: Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly! No cheating and pasting the lyrics into a search engine!

For fairness, email me your guesses rather than posting them: garg0yle99@hotmail.com would be preferable.

1. Stood on the edge, tied to a noose, you came along and you cut me loose.
2. I am covered in skin, no one gets to come in.
3. I wrap my fear around me like a blanket, I sailed my ship of safety 'til I sank it...
4. Sun, sun, sun, here it comes!
5. Fly, fly, do not fear, don't waste a breath, don't shed a tear.
6. Must have been kind to kittens and birds in a previous life, must have thought happy thoughts...
7. No one gets to miss the storm of what will be, just holding on for the ride.
8. I can see a time coming when I'm gonna throw my suitcase out.
9. If we wait for the time 'till all souls get it right, then at least I know there'll be no nuclear annihilation in my lifetime, I'm still not right.
10. There were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging...
11. I may be mad, I may be blind, I may be viciously unkind, but I can still read what you're thinking.
12. Everybody's got to lose somebody sometime, so take care that you don't lose your heart.
13. Ate a slice of Wonderbread and went right back to bed.
14. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
15. Has left me wretched, retching on all fours...
16. There but for the grace of you go I.
17. With the poor and mean and lowly, lived on Earth our Savior holy.
18. Your secrets, I believe, kept in the longer sleeve.
19. What will I do?
20. He runs washing his face in his hands.
21. I tried to remember, but I said, "what's a flower?" You said, "I still love you."
22. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
23. I'm stronger than the monsters beneath your bed, stronger than the tricks played on your heart.
24. Naked, the Judas in me fell by the tracks, but he lifted me high, kissing my head like a brother and never asking why.
25. She cried, "see, Joseph, I have cherries at command!"

If You Like Cute Children Dancing...

...watch these videos of my cousin's kids. Damn they're cute. The Weasley sweater was a hand-made gift from me, I might add...which is why the sleeves are too short....

All By Myseeeeeelf (Think Celine Dion)

So, no matter how much I think it's not going to be weird, it really is always weird to sit around the apartment all alone when Becky's gone. I feel kind of free, like I could suddenly do anything (even though I could do anything anyway), but at the same time I feel like I can't take up enough space to occupy this whole place, and that there must be invisible things milling around living here too. It's very odd. So here I am, not doing my homework but instead compulsively checking my email and writing in my blog, so that I feel like I have some connection to the outside world. Except, there's nothing in my inbox, and my blog does not provide instant gratification on the human connection front. Ah, well. Time to go back to comforting myself with homework.

Why You Shouldn't Try to Curl Your Own Hair With Bobby Pins

Cutest Fucking Thing Ever and My Lovely Date

Here's the cutest fucking thing ever:

And for those of you who are interested, I had a lovely time on my date. We had lots of tea/warm drinks, and played many card games that were all really cool! Aquarius was my favorite, I want to try to find it somewhere and get it. Fluxx was also very cool. They were all cool, in fact. It was a good time. I'm pleased with life and the dating world and Sarah. :)

Guess Who Has A Date?

I do! Oh yeah, booyah!

The Most Ridiculously Wrong Website Ever

I can't even describe it. Just go there and read some of the crap this guy is putting on the net.

www.healthystrokes.com

Fun With Similies

In a discussion about penises, and sex with them:

Me: I think it's like smoking. I just shouldn't start.

Amy: Yeah, it's exactly like smoking.

*hilarity ensues*

I Wish...

I wish, for the thousandth time, that nothing had changed. Or that things had changed even more. I'm tired of crying. I'm ready to stop, but it just keeps going.

Don't Try This At Home

Why is life so unlike TV? Even when it does remind you of a bad sitcom, it's just not as funny when it's your life. Just wanted to put that out there. I guess it's a matter of schadenfreude. Did I spell that correctly? Also, I wish I had a remote, so I could fast-forward and get things over with that I'm not looking forward to. That would be great for my peace of mind.

OK, Cupid!

So, after many years of ignoring the account I made, I re-signed up for OKCupid. I'd thought about it after Katie's successful in-person meeting of her Cupid boy, and then when Amy at work told me that she'd met a cool guy via Cupid as well, I decided it was time to jump right back on the horse. So, if any of you are reading this because you followed the link from my Cupid profile, welcome. I long to have a larger audience for my observations!

In other news, Amy came over today to wander around Somerville with me, which was positively delightful. It's really great to make a new friend and have that feeling that you're going to be even better friends, instead of just staying at that "I know you and we work together" level. We walked to the labyrinth over at Harvard (really, just down the block from us. Somehow it seems so much quicker to go there than to go the usual way to the Square...) and talked as we walked the whole thing. Then we attempted to get lost, found an interesting graffiti man with a broken heart and a katakana speech bubble, trailed his other appearances, creeped out some parents in a playground by hanging around watching the children, found an awesome bookstore and an awesome other store with lots of pretty clothes and lovely things in it, and then meandered home again. Hooray for wandering. Then we perused OKCupid for a while, and I lent her my Gargoyles comics (yay for cartoon lovers), and all in all it was a lovely day. Bonding is excellent.

National Hangover Day

Happy New Year, all. It's kind of funny that almost everyone who reads this spent the holiday with me, and yet I feel the need to post about it anyway. I had a good time. The swing dancing was fun, though I consistently ended up with drunken or two-left-footed partners (Becky and Charlotte excepted). Not that I'm fantastic myself, but I can usually follow well enough if I have a partner who knows what he/she's doing. It's really damn hard to lead a drunk guy from the follower's position.
Of course, we stayed so long at the swing dancing that we got stuck waiting in line outside the Pour House, where everyone else was having a merry time, until past midnight. I spent the first moments of 2007 on the phone with my parents, freezing my ass off outside and having my personal space invaded by the really ridiculous and pushy group of assholes behind us. Not the best ever, really.
The good thing was that we had drinks waiting for us when we got inside! I had many, and they were yummy, and I was satisfactorily drunk. I also got a little ego stroking from the girl who liked my blinking rainbow feather boa--definitely the best $8 I spent in the whole adventure--and was pretty satisfied with the world when we left. The evening had its bad moments, but I can't really complain. Anyway, now we're all laying around watching Pirates 2, having moved on from Buffy and Little Britain, and celebrating National Hangover Day in truly fine fashion.