Not location specific, No rules: Welcome to ILX heaven

I love the Russian classics: Dostoevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Turgenev, vodka...

I also think it has something to do with LA's topography. There are lots of wide avenues, multiple lanes, that weird left turn situation where you find yourslef in the middle of a large intersection with two or three cars not actually making the turn until after the light has turned red. There are a couple of screwed up intersections in SF, including one not far from my house where every uninitiated driver trying to get on the freeway ends up having to cut you off, and there's so many don't block the box intersections that they get DPT people and cops to direct traffic on game days, but it's nothing like LA.

so sleepy now. also very close to fixing CSS madness.

Want a latte but must slow down on the $3 coffee. Think I'll go for a $1.25 Diet Dr. Pepper instead. Hardly ever drink those anymore. So syrupy.

Luna has abandoned us and left us wondering. So mysterious that girl.

dr pepper is ass. i had it once, when i was 12 and in houston. ewie. not my thing at all.

My dad LOVES Dr. Pepper. I'm more of a root beer fan. Never tasted any ass that reminded me of Dr. Pepper, though.

dr pepper is aWEsOMEs

fixed, you had dropped some letters

Me neither, Monsieur White, hence the never ending search. ;-)

I used to love Dr. Pepper, and then suddenly one day it just seemed gank.

wah, ILX wouldn't let me log in earlier in the week! grr.

1 day in Lubbock feels like 3 days onimoed anywhere else. I spent part of the night loitering around the Buddy Holly statue because it was there.

Good luck to everyone else on deadlines! I just had to push one back to an even less convenient time.

Surmounter, I split for NYC tomorrow. I will see you on Sunday, or at the very least leave a suspicious package at the box office.

I drink Diet DP. Regular sodas are just too much. Even diets are becoming too much.

Nath, the problem is that you were in Houston.

P, you are crazy travel girl. I am jealous.

I r not abandoned you - just busy at work this morning. FOB = fresh off the boat, but I meant it more as 'general immigrant' than as anything insulting, or directed toward one ethnic group or another. Man that still sounds bad, doesn't it? I don't mean it to. I suppose I'm still frustrated by the fact that all the accidents I have been involved in LA have been with people who didn't have driver's licenses or insurance because, as one of them said to me, "why bother? I just moved here from Iran, the cops are too busy catching criminals, and I know how to drive..." My dears, she was very sadly mistaken.

With the exception of NYC, Ms. Miz, I travel to places that many people grow up wanting to escape. In the beginning of October I'm in a town of 2,200 in the Panhandle for a week, and this counts as a major metropolis for me. They will still probably do the little two-fingers-off-the-steering-wheel wave when I drive past them.

luna, you should start doing that! Waving and tipping your hat to fellow drivers. Maybe it would baffle them until you're out of range?

I should! I'll have to start wearing hats (assuming I can find one that doesn't make me look like Debbie Gibson).

and don't diss 'War and Peace'

It's Anna Karenina that's sitting there unopened but I take your point.

We had a crazy afternoon with a load of kids going mental around my house but they really enjoyed themselves. Mark was genuinely delighted with every gift and had a great day.

Megan's tomorrow then David's next Wednesday then the madness subsides until Christmas!

Actually, I'm kind of with you on AK, onimo. You know how it ends, why spend that amount of time getting there?

19th Cent. Russian literature was almost all I read one year - I think when I was 20.

Go on. Give them the wii. (xpost)

I am listening to James Holden "The Idiots are winning". Pure genius.

We all do crazy shit in our early twenties! That's why they're there.

19th Cent. Russian literature was almost all I read one year - I think when I was 20.

All those names, though. How do you do it? I barely made it through Crime and Punishment, and that was really only because Husband No. 1 kept telling me it would get really good. I remained unmoved all the way through.

Perhaps I am dead inside.

I have to say, though, that I cried laughing at Frankie Boyle on the telly tonight referring to Elvis's death as a "shitting accident".

I remained unmoved all the way through.

And I didn't like the book either.

Do you see what I have done there?

Three posts in a row from me!

Mister M got a phone call at about 9pm last night informing him that the stag party for the friend who is getting married next week is on this Saturday.

Most. Organized. Wedding. Ever.

Connect 4!

BINGO! No wait...

Poor Mister M, does he know the person well? Is it at least in country?

Oh yes, it's a very good friend of his. Both of ours, actually. I would be going to the wedding as well if I wasn't already going to Hamsterjam next week. It's just the short notice of everything, followed by the pressure to join in. Like, if it's so important, why didn't you let me know about it sooner?

Also, he lets himself get sucked into the worry. If it was me, I'd go if I could and not feel bad if I couldn't. But he feels guilty about everything all the time.

He'll have a great time, I'm sure.

Christ, work is boring.

Aye.

I'm on a half day again (Megan's 1 year old today omfg!) and it's Friday so I think I can handle it. We've got a team meeting later, I should ask lots of questions so I don't have to look like I'm doing any real work plus they'll think I give a shit.

My latte this morning was about half full of foam. Robbing bastards.

I am drinking coffee, resisting eating cake, and contemplating a fish finger sandwich for lunch.

HB to the M3g4W4tt.

the pressure to join in.

OTM!

Also, he lets himself get sucked into the worry...But he feels guilty about everything all the time.

Mr Monkey is me. He is good people.

Christ, work is boring.

OTM

HAPPY BDAY MEGAN! Did you plan to have all the kids on the same week?

I am making sausages for the first time this weekend. That only leaves about 6 months to practice before ATP.

Ugh feel awful today...weak. And have to go to the afters of a wedding a few hours away down the country. Solution=booze. I feel faintly weird about how cos of being sick all the time, the only thing that can make me utterly not notice it is drinking. Seems a bad thing to have acknowledged. But I guess I still don't drink more than once every ten days or so.

So yeah...wedding should be fun.

Oh you're back drinking? Nice one. Afters are good though, you can always run away if they suck.

Urgh, not feeling to well either. I feel rather "not here." Also I can't feel my legs *properly*. Bloodflow is going a bit down (or rather not down). Ah well.

Nath, the problem is that you were in Houston.

hahahahah Yeah. Most probably. But then Atlanta was worse. The couple we stayed with were... a bit... racist. Not in a blatant kinda way. Well, not at first. Damn I wanted to slap that woman in the face after seeing how she treated the African-American cleaning lady. So very condescending.

I am making sausages for the first time this weekend. That only leaves about 6 months to practice before ATP.

I'm in your chalet next year, right? Guys? Guys?

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Wah!!! I'm telling Mrs. Aldo. No carrot cake for you, Kev-lolz.

t(o_o)t

(see if I care you taddle-tale)

I am sure there will be enough sossies for everyone. (Well not everyone everyone, but you know what I mean.)

I know what you mean... No sausages for kv_lol ;_;

Pitchfork for ATP 2008
You probably didn't hear it here first, but that's the facts, Jack.

Posted on DiS this morning. ;_;

I have no idea what that means.

That he is cooking really big sausages with pitchfork.

Wherefore sadface, so?

He still hasn't said if I can have any :(

Sadface because I'm not convinced Pitchfork curating ATP isn't a completely backwards step - I like it when bands or individuals curate because they invite some mates they want to give a break to, some biggish names and some stuff you've never heard of. Looking at the lineups for the last two years' Pitchfork festivals, almost all the bands on it have played ATPs before. I've enjoyed an awful lot of them too, but it's hard to see it as being any different to if Barry Hogan chose all the bands himself.

kv can have sossies if we ever meet.

Deadly!

Onimio, you and the misses seemed to be on a pretty regular conception schedule there.

I am alone in the office today. Saint of Productivity please protect me.

G's sister sent her wedding invite out by eVite recently. SO WRONG!

Thanks Ms M I didn't want to be the first person to point out new year's eve + drunk = september birthdays!

eVite? So very wrong!

We previously received one by MySpace but this was from a punk rocker friend of ours marrying his new, pregnant girlfriend. In a bar. That was amusing.

G's sister and her fiance who both work for a major processing chip firm doing similar = what is this world coming to?

Quick question: is it a bit too close to the wedding to bung some money into a fund for a painting? I bought them something off of the registry but now feel I was being v v cheap. WHAT TO DO PPL!

Wedding next sat but I think they're travelling from San Francisco as I type.

Ask the people who are organizing the fund.