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Oh now I get it. Labor day. That's where everyone went, right?

edit Did you see that? They just put up two new sets... in the middle of the night!

OOH! I got a call from Northrup Grumman today. For some reason they think I'm capable of being a Senior Programmer, but I'm sure as heck not going to scoff at a job offer! They asked me to send in my resumé which I did. Hopefully I can get somewhere with this offer. It's just in the nick of time, too, since I'm probably moving later this month.

Yeah I'm pretty sure I want to move in with A. I'm going to give her a call later tonight and see if I can come over tomorrow to take another look and get some better measurements on the bedrooms.

When I asked if I could visit in an email yesterday, she wrote back today to explain that she had volunteered with the SPCA to be a foster home for kitties... and now she's fostering a mother kitty and five babies. Right now they're living in one of the rooms I'd be occupying But she explained apologetically that they would go to the basement if I were to move in, and wouldn't mix with her cats or mine.

I just want to move! I gotta get out of this place.

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I am so fucking pissed! I need to replace the passenger-side headlight assembly in my car (not just the light, the whole assembly) and there is only one bolt in the way of finishing the job. AND IT'S IN THERE SO TIGHT THAT I STRIPPED IT TRYING TO GET IT OUT

That fucking pisses me off so bad. If I can't figure out what to do I'm going to have to take it into a shop and PAY someone to do something I could do myself

The bolt goes into some part of the car and I can't even see the other end of it. Otherwise maybe I could buy some WD40 and spray the bolt to try to loosen it.

I even went to fucking Radio Shack to buy a ratchet set and of COURSE it's too small.

I'm going to have to go out tomorrow and either buy a ratchet set or a wrench set or both. FUUUUUUUUUCK

Annie article is up on my site, click for pretty pictures and a lot of text in German.

A fan from the official forum was kind enough to send me those scans. I have two other articles from him to put up as well. Thankfully they're shorter and in English. I also have two internet articles from a friend. And two other internet articles on top of that, which I found myself, that I had forgotten about.

If any of YOU, yes YOU, can translate that Spex article for me I'll throw together a care package for you or something. It's just that it's SO long that I don't think anyone would be willing to do it.

I think one of those pictures is rather unflattering. You'll know which one I mean. And overall I don't think the hair/make-up is especially good on that photoshoot. But whatever, Annie pictures are Annie pictures.

Also there is another Annie article up from Plastic Rhino. My fingers hurt after typing it up even though it was shorter. Nicer pictures with this one I think.

I just realized that since it's September, I can now say I'm seeing Annie in concert THIS MONTH

If that ticket for the Philadelphia show hadn't shown up today I would have ordered a second one on will call. Ever since going with the cheap option of having it sent regular mail, I was figuratively biting my nails that it would get lost or someone would swipe it and sell it on eBay Bastard!



I couldn't be more nervous about the PA show, because given the cost of the ticket and the fact that Annie is the main act, it's clear it's a small club. I saw Annie at a small club back in July and she came up to the bar and I could have said hello if I wouldn't have felt guilty or conflicted leaving my friend standing there (or dragging her along).

So my simultaneous fear and thrill is the fact that I might be able to catch Annie and say hello. Eeeeeeek! I promise that if I meet her I'll update this journal with my phone after the show to say so. I'll probably also change my name to CruxMetAnnie, and if I'm lucky and get a picture with her I'll change my profile pic to that.

I can't let myself think about it too much or I start to get REALLY nervous. If only it were realistic to expect myself to be calm and charming like I imagine it. In reality I'll probably be blubbering into her shoulder or I'll faint and make a scene. I DON'T WANT THAT TO HAPPEN!!!

I looked a little in my SG journal archives for the build-up of my interest in Annie.
June 20 is the entry where I think everything started. But from the previous entry it looks like I mentioned her some time before. But I went as far back as April and didn't see anything.

I know that my friend insisted I watch her video for Chewing Gum many months before I really started to get interested around the end of June. I'm curious to know when that was. I said it before but I had her album sitting on my computer for months before I really started to listen to it. Maybe I can find that entry.

It was strange to go back and see the time during which I was mildly obsessed with Sophie Ellis-Bextor. That sure didn't last long. Poor Sophie.

Oh right so you remember that tattoo idea I had, from Tetris Attack, the colorful blocks? Well I'm not interested in that idea anymore. Not in the least. In fact I lost interest a month or so ago.

I don't think I could ever find any image that I'd want permanently engraved on my body. I may fixate a lot on Annie but I wouldn't even want an Annie tattoo. Who knows, maybe you'll see me eat my words. But the thought of getting a tattoo is rather unsettling to me at the moment. And I can't think of any compelling Annie images except for her name logo and I wouldn't want anybody's name on my body, not even hers.

Aw man. That new headlight assembly I got looks so nice and shiny and new. If that fucking bolt wasn't giving me problems it would be in there now looking beautiful! I'm going to see if I can't WD40 her up tomorrow and yank that thing outta there with some pliers and big gloves on my hands. Redbeard3 advised that I have to grunt. He says that's the most important part.

I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumblin' down
I feel my heart start to tremblin'
whenever YOU'RE around