postgraduationhaze

Not only is this weather completely dampening my excitement about going home for Mother's Day (hahaaa...yeah. Bad pun intended), but it's really compounding my already emo thoughts about...life, relationships, relationships past, my future, and the sort of depressed and stagnant routine that I have as of late. Certainly the show last night was great - Minus the Bear, seeing them live made me love them even more. They played Pachuca Sunrise last and I find that song so amazing that I just wanted to listen to them and watch them play over and over and over again. They were better than I thought they'd be live. Thursday was, of course, amazing and engaging. Although I feel that I have outgrown that scene, that music I don't think I ever will...its not really music for all times, but in certain situations, I still turn to it. Outside of a small, slightly upsetting spontaneous occurrence which came from out of f-ing nowhere (the floor? The ceiling? An omen?) - which as we all know must happen to me whenever I revisit the live music scene - (to have a show that is naught with any emotional...occasion is still to be seen), the show was great and the night perfect. Eduardo and I had a good time.

Tonight I fly home for mother's day. I was just at Neiman's buying her a gift and was a little turned off by their sales associates. Snobby jerks...who work in retail. I have never understood that. Oh well, 3 hours left today and then home, hopefully, without (much) airport delay.

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And You Will Stay Forever.

from the Chicago Tribune re: the escaped rape suspect who was re-captured a few hours later:

The man was taken into custody the second time at about 10a.m. after a woman, following her intuition, realized the man was in a crawl space under her back porch in the 2100 block of West Farwell Avenue.

Lucy Radycki, 65, said she had a feeling that someone was in the crawl space. "I shouted `Get out of there. I'm locking the door and you will stay forever.'"

then later in the story...

As word of the manhunt circulated through the neighborhood, Radycki and her husband, Bob, checked their crawl space several times. The third time, something felt different. Lucy Radycki noticed something was amiss--the door was open wider than she had left it and a yellow blanket she keeps there for a stray cat was gone.

and finally:

In the middle and upper-middle class neighborhood that includes large, stately houses--and counts Cook County State's Atty. Richard Devine as a resident--neighbors were finally able to relax. As early as 6:30 a.m. they had heard buzzing helicopters and racing police cars.

"I was thinking there was a war or terrorists when I heard the helicopters," said Loretha Scott.

Lastly:
"I'm concerned. I'm over here almost every day," said Helen, 54, a neighbor who refused to give her last name out of fear. "We don't need this stuff to be happening, especially right before Mother's Day."

And You Will Stay Forever. Yellow blanket for stray cat. Thinking there was a war or terrorists. Especially before Mothers Day...should I continue to find this amusing or tragic?

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MAY 26!

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My outrage over what I read in the newspapers really fuels much of what I write about here, and today is no exception.

1. Some lame ass 'science' article in the Chicago Tribune about a study done at a Cali university which attest to women's abilities to discern who out of the male poulation is more "daddy worthy." Quietly vomits. Be/c thats all us women want - to breed.

2. The continued coverage of Iran's nucleur program, and how our "intelligence" says that Iran is a threat...blah blah blah. a) Who trusts US Intelligence after the whole Downing Street memo, War in Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction fiasco? Not this American. b) Why the hell would Iran stop their program? What sort of incentives can the rest of the world give when they're asking a country to remain nuke free when so many other countries (including the axis of evil member North Korea) have them?

Bleh. Thats how I feel about today's weather, news, and my lunch. I can't believe that by just reading the paper my high over tomorrow's highly anticipated (by me) show has diminished. Boo.

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Pachuca Sunrise

midnight on a beach in the Mediterranean
and I miss you
even here, taking it all in
the sand, silvered, carries the moon on it's shoulders
is it possible to put this night to tune and move it to you?

don't cry I’ll bring this home to you
if I can make this night light enough to move
don't cry I’ll bring this home to you

cargo ships move by, tracing on the horizon line
there's a luster from the city lights on the waves that kiss our feet
and we're thinking of going in
the time's getting thin

don't cry I’ll bring this home to you
if I can make this night light enough to move
don't cry I’ll bring this home to you

this is a city for not sleeping, the clocks are set by feel
at this moment from where I sit, none of it seems real

don't cry I’ll bring this home to you
if I can make this night light enough to move
don't cry I’ll bring this home to you

Tomorrow!!!!! I can hardly wait.
Thursday + Minus the Bear

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Watch this in its entirety. It handed me one of the biggest laughs I've had in awhile...and it also renewed my faith in humanity. Amazing.

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