Your Halo Slipping Down

Time:	12:42 am.
Mood:	meh.
Music:	Mission~Chris Cornell.

Ha, ok....
I realized something today.
I'm normally very wise with spending money, and do pretty well saving it.
But the moment I say "Ok, Ann, don't spend money!"
I start spending like I never have before.
Well I mean, I went to Borders to get that Scientific American, and I guess it was a Mind Special Edition or something and they were practically sold out, but this guy helped me find it. And then I realized...you can't go to Borders and just get a magazine. So I bought two books. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse and this book called No Turning Back by Estelle B. Freedman about the history of feminism that I've been constantly taking off the shelf every time I go there. I almost bought another Thich Naht Hanh book, too, but decided I should finish the one I bought on Saturday before I buy another one. Damn. Then I also got a book in the mail. And I'm expecting another book and a cd to come in the mail shortly. You think I'd be satisfied. What is my deal? I never splurge like I have been lately.

Well. Anyway. Chris and I went to the temple tonight. He is a way cool guy. Then we went to Denny's and talked for a bit. Yay. Then I went to see Kale. He makes me laugh. :)

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Time:	12:52 am.
Mood:	nee.
Music:	Pink Floyd.

Stole this from girlinthemoon. Please comment and recommend:

1. A movie.
2. A book.
3. A musical artist, song, or album.
4. An LJ user not on my friends list.
5. Something to do in the next two months; something daring or adventuresome.

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Spent more money today. Damn me. But Adam's Rib VHS is $1.99 at Borders. HOW could I resist that? I ♥ Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Also this Dream Encyclopedia was a "bargain book" and I could not resist that either. I think tomorrow I'm going back and getting this months issue of Scientific American, because it was really interesting. Damn me.

I have too many books and CDs. This, of course, is nothing to be unhappy about, but I have no space and they are turning into big happy piles all over my room. Yee.

So apparently, ASU doesn't accept piano credits...you have to take the proficiency test either way. And since piano is really my main instrument (even though I don't have it down for my major), I'm pretty sure I won't have any problems passing the proficiency test. So I'll talk to Dr. Eide and see if she thinks I even need to take the class. Chances are, I won't, and then maybe I can take a yoga class instead.
Oh, and by the way, I withdrew from my math class. The only one that would fit in with what I'm doing was 5 credits. That means I would have been taking a total of 25 credits. Plus I'd be working. I may be crazy, but I know my limits. So, with the realization that I will be at GCC for another two years after this one, like every damn music major, I will have the time to take it later. Actually, I'm planning on taking summer classes. So it's just cool because this semester will be strictly music classes. Whee!

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Subject:	I ♥ falafel wraps
Time:	4:18 pm.
Music:	Vexilla Regis (Gregorian Chant)~Cambridge Singers.

So there's this girl at my work. I could go on about how completely incompetent this girl is, but I'm sick of explaining it to people. Basically, she's stupid, slows us all down, stuck up, and extremely immature and annoying. She's getting fired as soon as John hires someone else. Thank goodness. None of us can stand her. We all suspected her of being a liar, too, and then the funniest thing happened yesterday that totally proved it. Well, I stopped by Seattle's Best so Sarah could take her break and we could go get falafels (MMMMMMMM FALAFEL!). But we decided to wait until Deanna got there so we wouldn't have to leave that other girl there alone. So I decided to go to the mall...something I haven't done in a LONG time. But I had this gift card. Anyway, as I'm wandering around I see this store (I think it's called "Past and Presents"). It must have only been open for like the holidays or something because they are having this 50% off everything sale. It looks like a bunch of retro and vintage stuff, so I stop by. It was so cute and I totally blew $20 on concert posters. Tori Amos, Janis Joplin, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and a Woodstock ad. Well, I brought these back to Seattle's to show Sarah and then Kenna (the dumb girl) looks at them and then points at the Woodstock ad and says "OMG, I go there EVERY SUMMER it's SO FUN!"

...no, seriously. She said that. To ME. Big mistake.

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Been doing yoga. It's great. I haven't done yoga in so long.

I was thinking today about the things I haven't done that I need to do.
1) Buy the actual CD's of all the burned CD's that I have.
2) Make my own guitar straps (I came up with this idea when I worked at AMI and everywhere I went there were the ugliest straps).
3) Eat at the Maharaja Palace.
4) traveltraveltraveltravel
5) Read all the books I've bought, but haven't read.

Those are all way random, and man I could keep going. But oh well.

I'm getting so excited for Seattle. Sarah and I were looking into it and found out if we timed it right, we could go to the Folklife Festival and the International Film Festival. We're totally going to EMP and to Vashon Island (lol...that's where Seattle's Best was created...we're such dorks...but we've been hearing about it forever, so we figure we'd check it out. Plus, we get to take a ferry there!). I totally would love to go up to Canada for a while because it's only like 2 hours north of Seattle. But I think that will depend on if we have time one day or something. And we're thinking we want to spend a day in Portland, too. Holy crap, this is going to be SO MUCH FUN. I can't believe we're actually going. It will rock.

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Subject:	out
Time:	11:48 pm.
Mood:	discontent.
Music:	Out of Range~Ani Difranco.

just the thought
of our bed
makes me crumble like the plaster
where you punched the wall beside my head
and I try
to draw the line
but it ends up running down the middle of me
most of the time

boys get locked up in some prison
girls get locked up in some house
and it don't matter if it's a warden
or a lover
or a spouse
you just can't talk to 'em
you just can't reason
you just can't leave
and you just can't please 'em

I was locked
into being my mother's daughter
I was just eating bread and water
thinking
nothing ever changes
and I was shocked
to see the mistakes of each generation
will just fade like a radio station
if you drive
you just gotta drive
out of range

If you're not angry
you're just stupid
or you don't care
how else can you react
when you know
something's so unfair
the men of the hour
can kill half the world in war
make them slaves to a super power
and let them die poor

I was locked
into being my mother's daughter
I was just eating bread and water
thinking
nothing ever changes
and I was shocked
to see the mistakes of each generation
will just fade like a radio station
if you drive
out of range

just the thought
of our bed
makes me crumble like the plaster
where you punched the wall beside my head
and I try
to draw the line
but it ends up running down the middle of me
most of the time

baby I love you
that's why I'm leaving
there's just no talking to you
and there's no pleasing you
and I care enough
that I'm mad
that half the world don't even know
what they could have had

I was locked
into being my mother's daughter
I was just eating bread and water
thinking
nothing ever changes
and I was shocked
to see the mistakes of each generation
will just fade like a radio station
if you drive
out of range

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Time:	10:28 am.
Music:	Interstate Love Song~Stone Temple Pilots.

Ok.
I need to stop buying books and cds.
Especially if I'm serious about going on this road trip to Seattle.
Which is going to freaking ROCK by the way.
But I need to save some more money.
I'm so excited, though.
So's Sarah.
It's so weird to think I'll actually be getting out of the southwest, even if it's just for a week and a half or so.
I've been here, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and even just south of the border to Mexico.
But I have never NOT seen desert.
So the more I think about it, the weirder it seems.
I can't wait. Sarah and I are meeting at Borders on Thursday to look at maps and tour books and stuff and figure a few things out.
:)

Whee!

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Time:	11:12 am.
Music:	Saturday Saviour~Failure.

So First Fridays rocked the monkey's ass.

First we went to Paisley Violin, of course.
I decided to break away from my usual and got the Hummus Plate.
Next time I'm totally getting the Olive Bowl...I freaking love olives.
The galleries were alright this time....
Eye Lounge got my vote...they had all of this like, audio art kind of stuff.
Like this guy who was painting on glass that they had mic hooked up to.
Pretty cool.
Ran into Alan and Ashley and later on Katey.
Alan told me I should go back to Paisley because they have these guys breathing fire and stuff.
So we went back and got like front row to this freak show (I'm a poet).
The guy that swallowed razor blades and scorpions and walked on glass and shit told me I was beautiful.
It pissed me off. But then I started wondering...a guy that eats scorpions is obviously not sane, so did he even mean that as a compliment?
Started questioning my entire existence.
Just kidding.
But yeah, then this guy was like eating/breathing fire and lighting his body on fire and shit.
That guy is my freaking hero.
Any guy that runs out in the middle of the street in downtown Phoenix at 10:00 on a Friday night and stops traffic by blowing like 6 ft long flames out of his mouth earns my respect.
So much fun.
Then I hung out with Tim and Colin a little later.
Tim gave me a Stratovarius mix CD and I left it in his car. Grrr.

Quotes of the day:

Tim's thoughts on vegans: "More meat for me!"
This stupid commercial for Fear Factor: "We have TWO words for you: 'twins'!"

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Time:	11:53 pm.
Music:	No Excuses~Alice in Chains.

"There are two ways to slide through life: to believe everything, or to doubt everything. Both ways save you from thinking."
-Alfred Korzybski, polish linguist

(Thanks, Cathi.)

Mom was elected Docent President at the Phoenix Art Museum.
Go Mom.
She's not sure if she wants to take it, though, because she wants to teach again next fall.
Plus she'd be at meetings 24/7, and what she really loves doing is touring.

Went to Thrifty Joe's today.
That place rocks.
I bought a Kafka book.
And an E.E. Cummings book.
E.E. Cummings is the man.

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Subject:	Guess the quote
Time:	1:00 pm.

I always liked these, so I made one up myself. See if you can guess where each of these are from.

1) Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

2) I'll tell you what he said. He asked me to forcibly insert the Life Line exercise card into my anus!

3) Without you, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's.

4) A girl can’t read that sort of thing without her lipstick.

5) Countless questions looking for an answer, an answer which will raise the next question and the following answer will raise a following question and so on and so forth. But in the end, isn't it always the same question and always the same answer?

6) I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.

7) Remember Sammy Jankis.

8) What happens when a man goes through his own portal?

9) Wrapped up in yourself like a spool.

10) We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How's that for a bit of homespun philosophy?

11) If pictures have anything to say, it's this: I was here, I existed. I was young and happy and someone cared enough about me to take my picture.

12) Clever got me this far, then tricky got me in.

13) It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

14) I am Joe’s Raging Bile Duct.

15) You'll stop me, won't you, if you've heard this one before....

16) This is my letter to the world, that never wrote me....

17) It doesn’t make for sanity, does it, living with the devil?

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Subject:	pre-rush hour, post-rainshower
Time:	3:36 pm.

Yesterday I walked into work to get my tips.
They were rushed, so I threw on the apron kept in the back, clocked in, and helped them for 2 hours. Yay, money. And I'll probably get like 3 bucks in tips out of that. Hee.
And I made some pretty good tips from the night before.
Tim and Colin are starting a prog rock band and want me to be the keyboardist.

Tim's parents gave me chex mix!

I ate half of it, then the rest fell out onto the street.
And that's the story of my life.

(Colin said it was "art". We were going to take a picture, but he couldn't find a camera.)
But then Tim went back and brought me some more because I was so upset. Yay for Tim.
We went to Zia records.
Did you know Zia is open until midnight? Definitely good to know.

Can't wait for winter break.

You, my dear, are all too predictable.

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Time:	2:12 am.
Music:	Spin Spin Sugar~Sneaker Pimps.

So today was alright.
We watched the tape of our big band concert.
And I must say, watching Mark and Aaron get into a soda bottle fights was extremely amusing.
Blah...soda...we had pizza and stuff. It was good, but I rarely drink soda anymore, especially if it's not diluted with ice cubes, so it kinda made me feel a little blurg.
Oh yeah and Aaron was writing down all the "negative" critiques about our performance.
"How about at the very end, we drop a dummy from the ceiling, and the moment it hits the stage marks the end of the song?"
That was SO funny. But you had to be there...:\
Then I registered for my guitar class and paid all my tuition for next semester.
21 credits. Well, 22 if I still do combo. Which I probably will.
Then I went to visit Kale for a bit.
Then he had to go play in a concert.
I went to Borders to go Christmas shopping.
Didn't end up buying anything.
But stayed there for a long time.
Then went to work to pick up my tips.
Then back to Borders.
(I love how they're directly across the street from each other.)
Then to Kale's again.
Sweet, I only have 1 class tomorrow.
Aural Perception.
But I will have to show up early to get my homework done in the MIDI lab.
Yee.

Ok, I need to get off this damn computer and do something.

Oh.
( Here. )

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Time:	12:55 pm.
Mood:	blah.
Music:	typing, cell phones going off, etc..

I'm just at school waiting for my English class to start. Been a little crazy. Last night was the big band concert. Definitely not as good as it could have been. The after-party at Dave's was really cool. But I was way tired. I got home pretty late and had plans to mount my photos for photography, but uh...fell asleep. And woke up at 7:30. Photography starts at 8:00. So I hauled ass and mounted my stuff and got ready. Got to the class about 45 minutes late, but there were people that came in even later than that. It was pretty informal today, plus I found out a lot of other people had just finished their mounting this morning...in fact, some people were doing it there. So no big deal. Plus we got food. I had the tastiest bagel I have ever eaten in my entire life. Dang, I don't want to be in English. I'd rather be at Pedro's with Kale. Oh well, we'll go another day. YAY classes are almost over!

Oh, talked to Frog about corps. Found out the hard part is when they hand you the music during the audition camp. Because while the warm ups are the same as they've always been, the show's are freaking HARD. And that's your REAL audition. Makes sense.
Called Rich. Set up lessons.
Class is starting.

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