Month: November 2003

Hee, hee, hee!!! I was finally able to do it! I beat the stupid invitation! As you can see, I’m still brain fried from work. There are 2 sets of newbies on the call floor this week. One just out of OJT and one just starting OJT. I am one busy girl. My newbies have told me repeatedly these past two weeks that the final week of training is completely useless and that I, and my fellow IHD reps, taught them more in the first two days we had them. It’s sad that that makes me feel so good. Oh, well… Happiness to all!

Left in daylight,courted in dreams

the elusive touch remains

just below the surface of waking

tangibly unreal

A ghost of Christmas Never

but true all the same

You can feel it on your tongue

and taste it in your spine

It smells like laughter

The realest thing that never was

No one can take

that paradox from you

And though we laugh about Lot’s wife

there are other kinds of salt

There are oceans and there are tears

The salt-sweet acrid taste of her bloodied,broken heart

as she becomes the sacrifice

Drink deeply of her goddess cup

And you will wane

But you will live again,my friend

Though after the first death there is no other

Eyes fringed with secrets

Soft lips holding back whispers

There are things known

not yet in any book

She has magick enough

To turn worlds

There is

more danger in her childlike brow

than in the kindled flames

of a thousand suns

And she will burn brightly yet

Strange,vivid dreams again. I awoke with words in my head and strange music…

From Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”:

“Van Helsing knows more about obscure diseases than anyone else on the planet.”

Now there’s a book about it.

In case you were wondering what I wanted for Christmas…

1) Drew Got Shot -Scud Mountain Boys
2) Black Eyed Man -Cowboy Junkies
3) 7 Months,39 Days – Hank Williams III
4) Designs On You -The Old 97s
5) Walkin’ The Streets In The Rain -Pagan Holiday
6) Simple Song – Lyle Lovett
7) Waitin’ Round To Die -Townes Van Zandt
8) Snake Mountain Blues -Townes Van Zandt
9) Friend Of The Devil – Lyle Lovett
10) Some Rainy Day You’re Down -Pagan Holiday
11) Alone So Far -The Old 97s
12) Cocaine Blues – Hank Williams III
13) Murder Tonight In The Trailer Park-Cowboy Junkies
14) Cigarette Sandwich -Scud Mountain Boys
15) Pop Country Really Sucks – Hank Williams III
16) Am I Too Late? -The Old 97s
17) If I Had A Boat – Lyle Lovett

Celebrities no one seems to like but me:

Emma Thompson, Is a bit of a goddess I’ve always thought.

Kyra Sedgwick gets double points in the “Six Degrees” game.

And Aidan Quinn … well, I’ve just always had a thing for Aidan Quinn.

Church Sign Generator

It was raining and I took the girls out to get milkshakes today. I used to work at a Baskin Robbins and milkshake sales always skyrocketed on rainy days for some reason. The owner used to say people were trying to buy “a little bit of sunshine.” Rather sweet and wise, I guess, although anything else she ever had to say to me was along the lines of “Why can’t you make the waffle cones right?” Or “You can’t put so much whipped cream on the Sundaes…we’re not made of money here.” This was back when I was in college,of course. God I need to get back to school.

“I suppose I should collect my books and get on back to school

or find my daddy’s cue and make a living out of playing pool…you try to keep me amused,but I feel I’m being used…”

I’ve gone out and bought a book called “Creating web sites for Dummies” therefore confirming my idiocy to the world. But it comes with a basic HTML primer, which is really what I wanted, along with 8 other primers and a shiteload of free trial software of various web design programs, etc. Don’t know whether it’s worth learning all this tripe, but I’ve been picking up little bits of html knowledge as I mess with my blog templates (rather like the french one learns from candy packages) and have become curious as to what it all means. Rather like taking the training wheels off a bicycle, I suppose. Except I never learned to ride a bicycle, so perhaps that’s a bad example…

Old interview with the now defunct band “Scud Mountain Boys,” which later spawned the Pernice Brothers.