This music...

This music makes me wish I knew how to play the piano

We come again to that part of the year with which I am strangely obsessed.

Oscar nominations were announced, for those who might care. I'm actually happy with this year's nominations, although I haven't seen as many movies as I'd have liked to. I think the only way I could really be upset would be if Frida didn't win anything good. Or if Eminem actually won the Oscar he's up for this year.And for those who really really loved the latest installment in the LotR series will probably be disappointed to hear that it likely won't win best picture. Traditionally, you don't win Best Picture if you don't have a directing nomination, and the movie with the most overall nominations usually wins Best Picture. The Two Towers has five nominations, compared to Chicago's thirteen.

We come again to that part of the year with which I am strangely obsessed.

Oscar nominations were announced, for those who might care. I'm actually happy with this year's nominations, although I haven't seen as many movies as I'd have liked to. I think the only way I could really be upset would be if Frida didn't win anything good. Or if Eminem actually won the Oscar he's up for this year.And for those who really really loved the latest installment in the LotR series will probably be disappointed to hear that it likely won't win best picture. Traditionally, you don't win Best Picture if you don't have a directing nomination, and the movie with the most overall nominations usually wins Best Picture. The Two Towers has five nominations, compared to Chicago's thirteen.

Eugh

So sick. Didn't even have the energy to get on the computer until just now.

This is the last time I'm not bothering to tell you this!

The Union sent me a certified letter informing me that if I don't pay the back dues from August forward (more than $150), they will be forced to have me fired.I already told them when they called, and passively told them when I threw out their previous notices that I don't work at PCC any more, but they made me go to downtown Kirkland to pick up the notice that I'll be fired from a job I don't have for not paying them money I don't owe them.Well, that's the last straw! If I think about it tomorrow, I'm gonna consider finding their phone number and straightening this all out. Then again, I like to imagine the conversation between the Union and PCC... "Fire who? Yes, this is PCC. Yes, in Kirkland. Who? No. No. Who? Yes, PCC Kirkland. No, I don't. Who?"

What do you get when you cross 200 gay men with a state park?

Just got back today from the chorus retreat. That was good fun. Awaiting next year's retreat. Until then, I have three days worth of entries to catch up on.

Admit you have a problem with reading my journal.

My sister once said our family has a laughing problem. With the help of The Brunching Shuttlecocks, I put together this list of warning signs that you might have a laughter addiction:Do you have a problem with laughter? Only you can answer that question for yourself. However, taking the following quiz may help to put your relationship to laughter in perspective for you. If you end up answering "yes" to three or more questions, you may want to take a good look how your life is affected by laughter.1. Have you missed classes or work because of laughter? 2. Do you have trouble refusing laughter? 3. Do you need laughter in order to have fun at a party? 4. Do you use laughter to build up your self-confidence? 5. Do you use laughter to help you relax? 6. Have you tried to give up laughter and failed? 7. Do you crave laughter as soon as you wake up? 8. Do you get into trouble because of laughter? 9. Do you crave laughter at a definite time daily? 10. Do you lie to others about how often you partake in laughter? 11. Have you gotten into financial difficulties because of laughter? 12. Do you often wish people would just mind their own business about you and laughter? Remember, there are people who can help you control laughter, instead of laughter controlling you.

The sunlight through my window is piercingly brilliant.

The replacement of "She looks straight ahead not at me." with "...not at he." in The Girl From Ipanema (Stan Getz) kinda bugs me on several levels.On a completely non-sequiturious note, I love it when I can look at the lens of my glasses and see the reflection of my eye.

I just know I've forgotten something.

Despite my best efforts to pack light, I have two bags of stuff. Yet I feel like I've overlooked something, and it's going to dawn on me when I get to the retreat and remember I'm diabetic or something and need my insulin to live. But it'll be too late, and I'll go into diabetic shock, or something equally terrifying and preventable.Then again, I always feel like I've forgotten something, even if I'm not going anywhere or doing anything.

I, too, am having a good day.

Got up this morning at 8. 'Twas a decent 8am, if I ever did see one. I had coffee and scrambled eggs for breakfast. Actual breakfast, yes. Took the next hour forty-five lazily and then ran to the bus to wait a minute for it. The bus was fun as busses can be; there was a woman with a 16 month-old baby seated in front of me. I smiled and silently wished the woman happiness with her child until that day that she becomes a horrible little creature that all children become.There was so much free food in the breakroom. I spent the 20 minutes before my shift tasting various free cookies. The quality of my day at this point made my short break, the crazy angry woman in the line, and the peeling up of papers - which had been mysteriously gooed to the floor under a desk - seem moot and insignificant. I sauntered out of work at 3:30 and called home to see if I could get my car back today. I couldn't.So I walked. It's one hell of a walk, but it's one hell of a walk. Took me 'bout an hour and a half, but I kept my pace the whole way (except crosswalks, damn things). I had run out of water pretty quickly, but it didn't bother me much; it was pretty outside. It was hot, but I was able to amuse myself with my timing when I walked alongside a sprinkler and it kept pace with me, sprinkling my right side. By the way, it was the kind that goes ffffffft ffffffft ffffffft ffffffft.