goings on...

       i've remembered how to listen to music. i haven't for a long time since i've been listening to audiobooks on my commutes, otherwise the only time i really get to 'rock out'. but i've got some mumford and sons going on iTunes as i type, and it's acting as a sort of salve, drawing out some of the poison.

       i've been stutter blogging a lot over the last couple weeks, but everything ends up deleted. still feeling pretty lost, but holding on, i suppose. still here.

       received a package in the mail yesterday from new york, which rocketed my spirits. christmas presents from my friend dan, here sometimes commenting as "mr. mysterious" or some similar monicker, which included a collection of short stories by amy hempel, some great little orange flavored shortbreads from harlem, and a rainbow-colored feather boa (my personal favorite). all more appreciated than i've been able to express.

       remember that match.com subscription i mentioned? still haven't done anything with it. ha. there's one that i keep wanting to message, but i don't. it's kind of a weird situation. i want to send him a message, but i also know i'm not in the right place. so i do nothing.

       saw tron: legacy last night. it's been getting mixed reviews, but i really enjoyed it. the score was inspired -- i always like twists of old and new like that. made me want to dabble in such things again. the story was somewhat similar to the first, so it had a tinge of remake, but i didn't mind that, and the deeper levels of meaning were underdeveloped but present and appreciated. kind of had a questioning of hope and dreams thing going on. it's probably a question being asked a lot right now, as the "american dream" has deflated somewhat.

       christmas in three days. kinda crazy how 2010 flew. two years from yesterday is the end of the world. haha. k, time for work. laters.

brain teasers...with answers...

 
       my mom sent me this. she called them brain teasers. you're supposed to look at the picture and figure out the more common thing that is being represented in a ridiculously complicated way. some are easier than others. post your guesses in the comments and i'll post the answers later. number 1-11, left to right, top to bottom. click to enlarge. enjoy!

 

it's later. i can't believe no one got 7. anyway, the answers follow:

1. eggplant
2. dr. pepper
3. pool table
4. tap dancers
5. card shark
6. king of pop
7. iPod
8. gatorade
9. nightmare
10. whole milk
11. light beer

=)

maybe this time...

       have i mentioned that i'm really excited about "glee" tomorrow night? well, tonight now. oooh! excitement! i made two batches of cookies this evening for the three people that will probably end up coming over. i invited about two dozen. =) people, not cookies.

       i'm starting to worry about how many guys i've been crossing off the "mr. right" list lately. i'm not sure what i'm looking for, but i'm starting to think he doesn't exist regardless. i didn't mean to make myself sound like a whore just then, either. i just mean that there have been a couple lately that seemed like they could have been really incredible fits. and nothing happens. the "plenty of fish" speech really doesn't apply here. i'm actually curious what the odds are. i've heard varying numbers on what percentage of the population we make up, from 5-10% to 25% (i think the 5-10% represents who's out), but within those confines the numbers go down based on how attractive they are to you (attractive in the general sense, not just looks) then they go down even more based on whom you attract... it gets kinda depressing. ok, it gets really depressing. why does the line "to bear a ring of power is to be alone." keep running through my head?

       a friend and i have decided to start a writing workshop here in town. there's only one that we could find, the missouri writers guild, but they only meet once a month, they only workshop every other meeting, and you have to pay for it. pfft. we're writers. we're poor. so we're starting our own. we're both fiction writers, but we might let the non-fiction people play, too. if they're nice. we might be snobbish towards the poets, though. dunno yet. poetry seems like it would be a much more difficult thing to workshop, and i mean more of the "my head is going to explode" difficult rather than logistics. we'll see. getting kinda excited about it, though. still in the planning stages, but i'm already working on short stories just so i have something to workshop, lol. so i guess it's working. i'm completely revamping an old short story that i wrote for one of my fiction classes and i kinda like where it's going. might even end up being something i'd consider submitting for publication. dan's still getting after me to submit something for the university's literary journal (he's an editor there). i'm optimistic.

       aww, hermes is curling up in my lap. must be time to go to bed. later taters. =)