willie

back from holiday back home. i tried to enjoy myself as much as possible despite two of my siblings spending the last 3 days not talking to each other.... that made our annual sibling picture un-fun and consequently we didn't get a good one taken. among other things i played Halo2 for the first time, helped mom clean out the basement shop area, ate waaay...
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i spent the evening listening to football and responding to an email assignment i gave to my students.
they were supposed to type 5 W questions for me to answer and reply to.
one asked who my best friend was.
i don't have one.
shoot.

yep.
I'm looking forward to seeing Tool this Wed for the first time ever. I hope that shit is loud,...
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This is how big a loser I am : I have three 1-quart cartons of milk in my refridgerator. The date on the first one is November 28th 2006, the second is January 30 2007, and the third is a October 12 2007. Yes, I am that big of a wanker.

Take a double check on those dates.... my god.

Yes, the one (unopened) quart...
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Rabbit In the Moon on Halloween, how can you beat that?
I've been feeling the effects for the past two days, but it was worth the experience of standing right up in front the the speaker stacks the whole night...

SunnO))) and Jesu on Saturday......

...THE MOST FXXXED UP SURVIOR challenge ever!!! What the hell were those two inbeciles thinking???????????????????????????????????????????
What kind of logic dictated that you'd throw the thing at this point in the game? They couldv'e won the gawdamn challenge!

what the hell?

boris show last evening- awesome.
weedeater / ussa show coming up next friday- will be awesome.
high on fire, mono on 10/26- will be super awesome
sunn0))), jesu, eluvium show coming up november 3rd- will be incredibly awesome.
rabbit in the moon, playing a Halloween show in a new venue- will be neat-o awesome.

tickets for Tool's 12/5 show- super-duper incredibly neat-o awesome.


...aside from...
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sister Amanda ran the Portland Marathon today!!! damn proud of her.

we sat for about 45 minutes up around the 20mile mark / RedBull-sponsored aid station, clapping and cheering for all the folks runnin' by. my cousin is a super-positive-cheerful type, and would call out the runners by their names on their tags ("Way to go, Kristy!!! Doin' Great Marvin!!! Yay, runners!!). sister stopped to...
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i didn't stay in last saturday, I went to see the mighty Thrones and some others at Holocene.

long week at the office; 3 kinda stressful meetings, one in particular that was a big party with 8 people and me facilitatin'.... it went better than expected, however i feel like i put myself 3 days behind just mentally preparing for that one day.

my sister...
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Yay!!! i went to the Stumptown comic fest today and bought The Art of Matt Wagner's Grendel and got it signed by him. i also listened to his 'panel' discussion/chat thing. he's a funny, down-to-earth guy. i also picked up a few zines and a cool little clay figure of Atrox, would've bought a print from Camilla Derrico if i would've brought more money,...
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as much as i like watching football, i hate the fact that nike has used my favorite track from Last of the Mohicans soundtrack in an ad. i have super-fond memories of looooooong make-out / bed-cuddle times with my second-ever girlfriend whilst those strings played in the background. kinda a very heroic and romantic soundtrack to swap spit by, me thinks.

now instead of picturing...
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