all about the o.c.

i'm not going to write anything substantial here, but instead wanted to create a post where the comments can be dedicated to the o.c.

i know that more than just me and ethan watch this show. and if not, then what's wrong with you people? it's the best show since 90210!

"but i've got all this hash!"

sunday night it was ug-ly outside. started out as snow, but quickly turned to fat chunks of slush falling from the sky. oh, and tiny beads of hail. to the point where i was walking past a building and literally couldn't see because if i opened my eyes, the hail would pelt my eyeballs. even looking straight down, they would somehow hit my coat, defy the laws of physics, and end up scratching my pupils. so, i had to walk half a block with eyes closed, using the wall next to me as a guide.

naturally, once i get home, i decide that tonight is a good night for sushi. luckily, the hail subsides a bit, and i only have to walk around the corner to pick up my sushi. i place my order (which i really don't have to say anymore, since i order the same thing every time, and i'm pretty sure they know my voice, if not at least my phone number), and walk to pick it up.

i turn the corner, and a man approaches me:

man: "do you have any rolling papers?"

me: "oh, no. sorry."

man: "maybe a bowl or something?"

me: " a bowl? no, i don't."

man: " damnit. i've got this brick of hash that i want to smoke. i mean, i'd obviously have you join me if you've got a bowl."

me: "oh, no. i stopped smoking like 2 years ago."

man: "okay, well, do you at least have a cigarette?"

me: "shit, no. i just grabbed what i needed to pick up my sushi."

man: "ugh. i'm dying here! i'm doing my laundry and i have NOTHING to smoke! oh well, thanks anyway. have a good night."

me: "you too. good luck and i hope you find that bowl."

he was actually quite charming. i felt really bad that i didn't even have my cigarettes on me.

i find virgin megastores to megasuck

so, i don't like going to virgin to begin with. i just get this bad vibe from them. and they're prices are fucking ridiculous. however, they have this dealie whereby you get a card. each time you buy a cd, they give you a punch on said card. when you get 10 punches, you get a free cd ($18.99 or less). you only have 3 months to accomplish all this.

now, i wouldn't normally buy anywhere near 10 cds in 3 months time. however, there's a catch. if you buy a cd on wednesday, you get double punches. so, i only buy cds on wednesdays.

i realized over the weekend that my card expires 12.10.03. a wednesday! i already have 6 punches (from 3 cds), so i need to buy 2 and then i get one free. i plan on buying "headseed" by moe. and a grateful dead cd. for my free one, i'm thinking a bob dylan cd.

i get to virgin, and they don't have "headseed". i just saw it there last week. i ask the girl, who is bothered by my question, since i interrupted her from rockin out to some lame ass song. "no, if it's not out there, we don't have it." fine. i decide to get "warts and all vol.2" or "WnAv2". i mean really, you can't go wrong with moe. and it has "waiting for the punchline" or "wftp" on it, and that's one of my new favorite songs. next, i head over to the grateful dead section. a million copies of "american beauty", a million copies of "skeletons", and a bunch of other "best of"s, but nothing too exciting. i settle on "fillmore east 2.11.69", which looks really good. now to get my bob dylan cd. basically, all they have is an entire row of "best of"s, and another row of tribute cds and crap. change of plan - get autechre cd. they have 3 different ones, and i have them all. finally, i settle on moby "i like to score".

so, it's not that i'm complaining about the cds i had to "settle" with. it's the fact that i had to "settle" when i was shopping at a "megastore". i feel like they should have everything a girl could ever want, and more. what's so "mega" about your whole inventory being "best of" cds. i knew this store was for posers.

and as i started writing this, i was listening to my new dead cd. second disc. it starts skipping. i take it out, and the thing looks like someone fucking put a saw to the back of it. i'm sure this isn't virgin's fault, but someone just made my beef with them even worse.

tower, please come back.


ps. i've never said that i had "beef" with anyone before. that was fun.

SNOW!!!!

it snowed for almost 48 hours straight here in boston. it was beautiful. i'm so glad it happened over a weekend, so i at least got 2 nice days out of the deal.

yesterday, i was walking down the middle of the street (since even though the sidewalks are nice and shoveled, you can't actually get to them because there's no walkway from the road to the sidewalks), and looked to my right, because something looked weird. then i realized that i was looking at an antenna coming out of a snow mound. then i realized the snow mound was actually a car, completely buried in snow. there was not any difference in height between said buried car and the snow mounds encasing it. it was awesome!

ah, but then there was this morning. i left my place 20 minutes earlier than normal to allow for the giant amounts of idiocy that i knew would slow me down on my commute. it amazes me how each year, 90% of the people living in boston seem to forget what snow is, and then go ape shit when they see it again. so, i cross the street to go into store 24 to get money. as i'm trying to get from the sidewalk to the road, i have to wade thru about a foot of slush. i'm almost free, when i pick up my right foot, and wouldn't you know it, the slush decides to keep my shoe. now extremely off balance, i have no choice but to put my sock-only covered foot right into the slush. then, i immediately have to pick up my mushy foot and put it back in my shoe. lovely.

i get my money, get my coffee, and go wait for the bus. there are 4 other people waiting. after 25 minutes, there are ~20 people waiting, and still no bus. this means that when the bus comes, it's going to drive right by us, because there's too many people, and the bus will already be full. so i say fuck it, and walk 10 minutes to the t. and yes, i walked down the middle of the street. i mean, there were hardly any cars, so they didn't need 2 lanes.

i get to the t, and wait there for about 15 minutes for the t. i was the penultimate person to squish on, and the ride was miserable. but at least the t went express from when i got on until kenmore, so we didn't have to deal with stopping.

my morning commute took almost 2 hours. it's normally a 45-60 minute dealie. not fucking fun. and, my throat's killing me and i think i'm getting sick. unfortunately, i was kind of sick last week, and stayed home last tuesday. now i'd feel like a jerk if i stayed home again. i hate work. i want to stay home and watch the snow. and watch sex and the city. and eat mrs. grass's soup.

west coast ski trip / snoe.down?

new idea. feb. 12 (thursday night), moe. is playing in vail. friday the 13th! and saturday the 14th of february, moe. is co-headlining with galactic in denver. it appears that this is the closest thing to a snoe.down that we can get this winter. personally, i've been dying to go skiing/snowboarding already. and i've never been to colorado to do this.

so, would anyone want to go on a little ski/snowboarding long weekend, where we can ski/snowboard for 2 days, see moe. for 3 nights? sounds like a little slice of heaven, no?

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across the universe won the last poll, with 2 votes. second runners up:
let it be
i've got a feeling
the long and winding road
for you blue
get back

new poll. help me decide.