happy birthday, salisbury paradise!

one year ago, tomorrow, i met a little, black, wiggly, chicken sausage

time flies!

I guess I've been having fun! I cannot believe that it's April. 2009. There are flowers in my front "yard"! The winter went by so fast I didn't even get to ski once! I'll take it. This weekend it got cold, after two 65 degree weekdays. Figures.

Friday my friend Leah and I went to our friends Mat and Jen's house for some dinner and serious chilling out. Mat made prosciutto-wrapped scallops which were divine! And pasta for dinner. Saturday I went home to Maine, not exactly for Easter but sort of because everyone else I knew was going home for Easter or Passover, and it made me feel like going too. Guess what my parents were having Saturday night for dinner? Scallops and pasta!! Can't have enough, I guess.

So it's Monday once again. What did we miss in the past month? A couple weekends ago moe. played the new House of Blues on Landsdowne Street. That place is pretty sweet and a million of my friends from all over the country came, all in all it was a packed and exciting weekend! I am sad I probably won't be seeing them again till the end of July... but I should have some PHISH to comfort me in that time! And to think I thought I would never see them again...

I am starting to line up the summer weekends etc. so that is fun. I have some Phish and moe., as mentioned, and also a week at a lake in Maine with the fam, a friend coming home for a while from San Fran who wants some White Mountain action.. I am gazing at pictures of the cottage and the mountains, I am READY for some summertime, bring it on! Oh yeah, and one class. Boston Architecture or something. Hopefully it's interesting enough to be worth two nights a week in JUNE!!! I didn't deal well with summer class last year...

coffee!

Darn coffee guy, we are out again! I have been going through this for like a year with these people. First we get a new dude, who says, yeah I am the old guy's boss, he's out of the picture, I just didn't know how he had stuff in the system for you guys. Then the old guy is back, and tells me his boss is out of the picture. I think I had another new guy last time, I don't even know. All I know is they always say they'll be back in a month and two months later, I get people knocking on my door desperate for their buzz! Today is the second day in a row that I have called.

And there you have, one of the many exciting facets of my job.

PHISH

OK, what was the biggest event this weekend? Phish returned, duhh! I am continuously amazed at what a Big Freakin Deal this is to me and so many people I know, I mean, we weren't even in Hampton on Friday night but we were practically in tears just hearing the setlists over text. And then, there's everybody else, who is unware that there is even a reunion happening, or that they broke up in the first place (in a disastrous muddy traffic jam which left many, me included, out of the picture!). Just weird I guess, everyone's got their subcultures.

Other than that, work has been pretty busy. My poor boss was called out suddenly for a family emergency, and ended up being gone for a while and so I got to do things like take notes at a board meeting. Honestly, that was pretty interesting, and being busy at work really makes the days, and weeks, pass by! My job is nice and comfy, I like my boss and I think the work they do there is really interesting. But it can definitely get boring "administrating". The department studies cognitive and neural systems, and does some really heady work with neuroscience, network theory, psychology, math, computers... a lot of mind-brain problems and theory of learning, basically pretty interesting stuff. I am not an expert on the details of course, but I know what the powerpoints look like and I work with manuscripts and stuff, so I have some idea!

OK well if you want to get an idea, check this out, and watch the crowd. Gives me chills.

it's definitely crazy. but i think it says something about the bands that ppl here have been seeing for years, that they have always just played enough that they are accessible. grateful dead back in the day might not have been ticketmaster'd, but you had to get there, etc. so they and, oh ida know, (phish, moe.,) play runs of at least 2 nights in at least the same area.. oh blah blah, tnx moe. fu ticketmaster

rob'd

moe. hat ------------------->

that's how i am describing my weekend. no more posts from home. i thought i'd get back and the next post i would put up would be about moe. in briefest terms, moe. is the band that i go see as much as i can these days. about 20 times a year for the last few. they rule. i saw 2 nights in denver a couple weeks ago and was psyched for two nights in NYC this weekend. 10 mins before the show started, i got a call/text from my roommate. he got home to the door wide open and no flat screens or laptops. thank GOD my cat had stuck around. it made for quite a weird start to the weekend. i managed to have a blast for the most part and tried not to think about it but getting home to no computer, no internet, and my clothes sort of torn out of the closet and drawers was not so fun. i am bummed. the laptop was a brand new macbook, the one they just came out with in october. it was my first laptop, my first new computer in many years, i had been using an old desktop from 2001 up until then. it finally died so for xmas and my birthday i talked my parents into the new mac. it was beautiful. oh macbook, i hardly knew ye. my birthday present lasted just 3 days past my birthday. basically, boohoo. i didn't have insurance cuz i just never got around to it, this was the first valuable item i have owned, really!

rob derhak is the bassist for moe. and my fav member. he always looks like we crack him up as much as he does for us. this weekend = rob'd.

happy bday to me

we have class tonight. yeah.

more sal!

ha! Someone said I should put a video of my cat on here. Don't have to ask me twice! OK, so I actually don't have much great video of her, for one thing she is black and doesn't show up well! For another I just haven't tried much. But here's some of her as a little baby, falling off the table, and squealing! ok the second one you can't see much.. but listen!

my cat

Why not complete the immediate family with a little rant about my kitty. I am fighting becoming a total cat lady, but what can I say, I have wanted my own kitten for ages! This summer I was alone in my apartment, and realized I had been there two whole years, and had a job longer than one, and that meant that it might finally be time. Within a week, I was at a party at my sister's boyfriend's family's house, out in the burbs, and I hear the neighbor kid say, "Does anyone want a kitten?" Doth my ears deceive me, I thought! They did not! "My cat had kittens yesterday, want to see?" um, YES! They were awesome, four little black sausages. I said I would think about it and in a couple of days I said yes, put my name on one of them!

So in August my friend and I got a zipcar and a cardboard box and headed back out to Grafton. There was one of the four left, a little girl, and she was scared to death of me. But I finally caught her, stuffed her in the box, and brought her to Cambridge.

Eventually, after a day or two, she came out of hiding and has since become very friendly and curious!

Salisbury Paradise Johnson is now 7 months old. This pic is from when I took her home for Christmas and my parents' cat kept her mostly corralled in my room. It was like passive aggressive Animal Planet all week.

against the rules?

I am wondering if I have committed the cardinal sin of blogging.. Editing too much! Last night I read over some of the parts about my family and wanted to change the wording and change some stuff, so I did. I have done it a few times already. I got it in my head that I would compare this whole thing to a larger work, like a book, that gets edited over time. Other things I have, like my photo site, I go back to a lot and add captions, edit pictures, etc.

Today I started thinking that I am really supposed to leave things as they are for the most part, and keep.. historical accuracy? as far as what I wrote. I am going to try and take that approach from now on..