oopsie's blog

chimp

i first saw the word "chimping" on kottke, a perfect description of the annoying habit some of my friends have of demanding to pass around the digital camera after every photo so they can see the picture that was just taken.  (they call it chimping because everyone goes "ooh ooh ooh"). 

lost

i started this wiaree with my boo as one extra way of staying in touch over our perpetual long distances.  while there's a plan for us to have NO distances between us in the near future (wooie!), right now he's real busy, and i'm gonna forget all the things I have to tell him if i don't talk to him soon.  it's kind of like he validates my existence, and if i can't jabber about my day to him, i feel a little lost.  anyway, instead of writing pages and pages here, i'm gonna make a list of the things i want to jabber to him about.  if you're not my boo (or if you are), have fun filling in the stories yourself!

cookout#2
cribbage
roman's truck dream
jerry sleeping on the floor
phone calls from lola
un-idle computer
paper outline
baby boxes

hail!

we are having hail here!  pretty big, too - like spherical dimes, maybe nickels.

i'm a dude

since i've been living in illinois, i've been kind of a post-college-single-male-by-association.  it's been pretty chill - plenty of sportsbars and card games.  but i hadn't had the full immersion experience until this weekend - my first weekend in town as a roomie.  it's entirely different now that there's no 'safe' place to call my own - when the whole crew can show up sunday afternoon and start drinking and yelling at the TV in my house without an invitation from me.  but it's all good!  i learned that i can play videogames for a while, then leave to run errands at a strategic moment that excuses me from dinner and the evening sportsbar session.  perrrfect!

conflict!

oh my goodness, i am having the first conflict with my new roommate.  the first week i was here, we were both very shy, very private, and always picked up after ourselves.  then, i left town for a week.  now, effectively the end of week 2, we know each other a bit better, know one another's schedules and preferences - we're getting along great, but living a little more comfortably (leaving dishes around, taking phone calls in the living room...).  but he's so comfortable with me now that he's been sleeping on the couch for 4 hours!  this is seriously impeding my eating schedule.  i must have SNACKS late at night!  dinner was very early, and i really want some sausages, but the microwave is noisy and mere feet from his head!  oh dear.  oh dear oh dear oh dear.

roomie

my new housemate calls me exclusively "roomie", never by my name.  i like living here, it's very nice.  it's a little funny, though - i just remembered today that he's exactly the same age as my little brother, the mid-20s dude-party-videogames age.  i'm fine with that (he's both nicer AND more responsible than my brother), but i'm having to TRY hard NOT to be the Big Sister.  I mean, he doesn't recycle.  and the thermostat is left on 'hold 68' even though the weather's nice, which means it switches back and forth between 'heat' and 'cool' in the course of a day.  wasteful!  and a girl stopped by to see him when he was already in bed.  and he mowed, but didn't pick up any of the trash in the yard.  i've been soooo good and have kept quiet about all these things. 

but i did go ahead and sweep the whole place today.  just a once-over, you know?

he talks to the TV a lot, and i'm not sure if i'm supposed to answer.

anyway, it's nice here. 

internets: love/hate

the internets are so useful so many times.  so quick.  but tonight i just saw a reference to the very sad and unfortunate death of a daughter of a performer with whom i am not familiar, and two seconds later i saw on wikipedia that it was only YESTERDAY(personal life) that the accident occured.  that makes it extra sad and immediate, and makes me feel like an intruder for even turning to google/wikipedia.  these aren't just tools, they're sometimes horrible tools.

yosuke

a fantastic story about a pet parrot in japan who got lost, but knew his name and address.  though he refused to tell the cops who he was.

distilled vonnegut

http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/15_things_kurt_vonnegut_said

hail

there was hail today!  there were a few hard storms during the day, but i didn't SEE any hail.  then, i went to run an errand and came out to sunny skies - but a couple of inches of ice were sitting on the windshield wipers.