Cement Girl

I feel like i should say something right about now.

umm....

hm.

Anyway- I am having a lazy Friday and it is so nice. I slept in till ten. I bummed around and went to lunch, checked mail, went to a leadership meeting. Saw my brother on video (awwww.) ... practiced bass*. went to the library and read some of the arts and entertainment section. came back here.

I got this awesome new photo album. I think i love the album more than the fact that it IS an album, if that makes sense. It's a deep red and has off-white embroidery on the front that says "photos" and flowers. sooo cute. So i took pictures that represented the last few years of my life and put those together. It's a nice mix, and i'm proud of my little photo album

(let's just take a moment to clarify that although Meghan is very much a photo frame person, she is not a photo album person, so this is a big step.)

Tonight there is a Mates of State concert, which excites me. Equally (okay so less equally) cool is it is at a new venue that i have heard a lot about, but haven't been to yet, so that is ALSO exciting.

Then after the concert tonight I will go home-home, sleep there, and wake up at the crack of dawn to go with my parents and grandma to Long Beach. I'm looking forward to that.

the end.






*I really like the fact that the simandl bass book i bought yesterday was copyrighted in 1969, and nothing has changed. I think the whole look of the book is the same except for the front cover color. I am such a sucker for someone else's nostalgia.

Carroll posted this in her livejournal, and i thought it was fun.

in case you can't figure it out (like i couldn't), the red ones are the ones i've visited (and granted, some were when i was very small).



create your own visited states map
or write about it on the open travel guide

I was killing some time by looking around on ebay today before class, when i found something interesting.

I bought a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird last fall at Powell's (which is a large, large independent new and used bookstore here) and it was 15 bucks. I didn't really pay attention to editions and printings, it just looked old, said "1960" in the front, and was hardcover, which was what i wanted.

So i'm looking around today, and see a book that is first edition, 21st impression, on ebay. And it was selling for 50 bucks (at least that's what the bid was up to). I assume that my edition is first because it says copyright 1960 and there is no other note on that page about it being a second or third or whatever edition.

I continue on down the line and there is a book that is exactly like mine (except frankly, mine's jacket looks better), fourteenth impression, blah blah blah. Lo and behold, the person is selling it for two hundred bucks!! Granted, nobody's buying for two hundred bucks, but GEEZ!! i had no idea.

why can't people just be nice? really? it actually makes life a whole lot more pleasant.

so today i realized why i started taking bass lessons. Yes, i like the appeal of the upright, and i think it will be fun... but i realized that i'm not really good at anything, and i'm dying to be good at something. I'm not super smart or really good at singing or playing the piano. I'm not greatly funny and not particularly outgoing. bah bah bah.

i've finally realized that what i do is just a big conspiracy (by myself to myself) to cover up what i'm not.

post. testy

hah. i royally screwed this up and i don't know how to fix it. i'll get back to it later.

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