right now i’m eating some sour patch kids, so here’s a picture of some. these aren’t the ones i’m eating though.
i changed the theme of this blog again. why? too many people complained that they couldn’t comment. i didn’t realize the interface wasn’t very user friendly, so i went to something a little better. i think it’s dull, but at least it works.
ouch. i just got the sour dust in my eye. it burns!!!
remember when i used to post all the time about football? the season may be over, but i can still post about some things.
today i’m working from home so that i could watch barcelona beat man utd for the champions league title. over the weekend my friend, with whom i’d watched many of the semifinal matches, asked if he could come over to my place to watch the game. (we have a nice tv.) i then invited myself over to see his dog. (it’s a great dog.)
the match itself was unexpected. people were talking about how it was supposed to be one of the best matches in the history of sport. really? that’s not what i watched. iniesta was brilliant. basically, the whole barcelona side was great and they played fantastic for the whole 90 minutes. what happened to manchester united? they were crap. they looked so out of it and boring, it was just not fun to watch. i was surprised ronaldo didn’t explode in some massive strop. he was frustrated that man utd were squandering so many chances. it was nice to see scholes get a yellow card a few minutes on the pitch. i dont know why, but i love seeing that ginger runt foul people.
so the champions league is over. man utd didn’t repeat, thankfully. i was happy for barca to win, especially since i was watching it with a barca supporter. now i’m just hunkering down for the fa cup final this weekend. come on everton!
i vaguely remembered making this two years ago.
erika really liked capybaras.
i was looking at world soccer shop for white football shirts to wear for my league games. i was thinking an everton away kit, but probably will continue to wear my old janky punk rock shirts. anyhow, i saw this wigan t-shirt which made me laugh. “wigan: greater manchester.” now wigan is part of the borough of greater manchester, but that implies it’s mancunian like bolton. after reading stuart maconie’s pies and prejudice, i really wouldn’t consider wigan to be greater manchester. western lancashier.
this of course begs the question, why do i have such a strange fondness for lancashire. i’m still trying to figure that one out.
dr j love bananas. you might say he goes bananas for them. i think banana: the fate of the fruit that changed the world was one of his favourite books of the past year. this picture was taken at a grocery store in delft. he was excited to see “cavendish” (the variety of banana found in grocery store (RIP big mike)) on the boxes. dr j also loves dan koeppel’s banana book blog.
that’s why i bought him the game bananagrams. it’s like scrabble, only with the tiles in banana and no board. we just played a game and it was fun.
ok, so i finally changed some stuff about this blog, like the appearance. it’s amazing, innit?
the other thing is that i started a new blog. cavyparty.com, which is just guinea pigs. check it out.
Back in 2000, there was the Lookout Freakout Tour, which was sort of the 2nd annual Lookout Freakout (the first being Labor Day 1999… it was amazing). In conjunction with the tour was an E-Music exlcusive download for “Lickitung” by Punkémon. There was also a design your own punkémon contest. I don’t think I entered, but I did download the mp3. I had to.
Sometime this week the song got stuck in my head. “Lickitung… licky Lickitung… Lickitung! Feeling allright.” You know, a half formed memory of a part of a silly song that just wouldn’t quit. I was actually caught singing it at work.
“What are you singing?”
“Uh… some weird song from 2000.”
Anyhow, I wanted to hear it again but it was sort of hard to find. E-Music didn’t have it anymore and I wasn’t really surprised. The more I looked for it, the more I wanted to hear it. Call it nostalgia or a 1/3 life crisis, I just had to go back to the halcyon days before I moved away to college.
I found the mp3 here, but then I also found it on some weird old hard drive. Yeah! Dr J is pretty sick of it by now, but I’m just happy this gem isn’t lost to the ages.
of course if i’m going to blog again, i have to mention the guinea pigs! they are fat and happy, and this is why.
i was a surprised to see photos from chelsea v. barcelona on sf gate last night and this morning. does this mean the champions league has gone mainstream in america now? i also thought it was a bit weird that #ucl was a trending topic on twitter yesterday. i couldn’t figure out if this was a good thing or the same sort of nonsense that gave us “epl” for the premiership.
anyhow… yesterday’s match was interesting. more so than arsenal and man utd. the other day. i do feel for my friends who are chelsea fans, but… not that much. i think barcelona v. man utd. will be more interesting that a rematch of last year. that game was terribly dull. it was also good because a friend came over to watch. dr j supports and indulges my desire to watch as many football matches as possible, but very rarely does he watch them with me. i can respect that, but it’s nice to talk to somebody about what’s going on and it really helps calm my nerves. (i tend to make myself physically ill otherwise.) it was also fun because this friend is a barca supporter, so it was somehow better to root against chelsea. i did sort of want chelsea to win so that they would be tired for the fa cup final, but… not that much.
oh and a flag about snoop drog was pretty funny.
hello, little neglected blog. i figured out why i’m neglecting you… it’s me, not you. i’m trying to not be such a shut in, which means i’m not tied to the laptop so much.
see, i’ve decided i need to not only get out more, but be less concerned with with what other think of me and just do stuff. it’s obvious advice, right? the sort of thing that when somebody tells you when you say, “oh, relax and just be yourself” or “everybody’s so worried about themselves, why should you be?” and of course when somebody says that you just roll your eyes and keep stressing about yourself? well… i’m trying to stop doing that. it’s been a slow process because change is hard and i don’t want to do too much and then retreat back into my cave.
so what’s happened?
graduating from school has been great. not having to worry about assignments or class participation has created a lot of free time. this wasn’t really noticeable until mid-march because of work stuff, but really, it’s nice having evenings and weekends free-ish. i’m not as stressed as i was last year.
i have my health. it’s always weird when people ask me “how’s your health?” it’s a loaded question. what they’re really asking is “you don’t have cancer or some other life threatening disease, do you?” well, the answer is i feel good! yeah i’m out of shape, but i’m not as tired all the time. the most obnoxious thing is still being weak from the mastectomy, but that’s just something that i have to deal with for the rest of my life. but i feel dandy.
so these two things have made it easier for me to just go out and do stuff. or try things. i’m knitting again. i’m actually reading books. and today i started playing soccer. see, it’s progress.
overall, i feel like i know what i’m doing. not in a huge sense with a grand plan, but i’m trying.
