Ummm, I can't recommend the new Matt and Kim album, Grand, enough. And they are playing in SF next week!

Mario Galaxy come to life or what? I'm totally charmed.

But more importantly- I haven't used this in forever, but here I am. Things are good. Or maybe things are even great. There's this boy I pretty much adore, and I think it's safe to say he likes me too. And I'm going to Hawaii for science a few times this year, and in my spare time I've been shooting zombies and that's rad.

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the oc is ending. the apocalypse is coming.

man, i've been all busy and then i got, well, not less busy, but less motivated for sure and now there's this "top ten" feature- i'm so stoked. makes me want to read high fidelity.
happy holidays to everyone! and check out my sweet christmas tree:



well, maybe it's not that sweet. but it does make me feel like a grown up.

(how can you feel like a grown up when you have a weezer poster in plain view?)

ok, i barely disappeared at all. i was in portland for a few days, it's true, and then i've been busy with school and ... school.
and yes, astronomers are mean spirited, in case you were about to accuse me of that like my neighbors have been doing. oh well.

ok, i'm going to go watch some star trek & kill any delusions of non-physicsyness. one season down, 874 to go.

see ya later, berkeley.

hellooooo, portland!

1) Margot & The Nuclear So & Sos are awesome. Totally see them and buy stuff from them whenever you get the chance. Although, and this is exceedingly lame, I bought their cd and it totally doesn't work. Like, I stick it in my craptop, and it spits it right back out again. Mac users: any ideas? MNSaS fans: got some cd to send me?
2) I am in a fucking sappy mood today, wherein I only want to listen to sappy music and think about sappy shit. On the upside, sappy-shit wise, I get to see the bf in 4 days, 23 hours. Score. Make that sappy/giddy.

attention drivers!

at an intersection where everybody has a stop sign, the person who arrives first at the intersection gets to go first. ok?
so it's stupid when you get there first, and then wait for me to get there, at which point i stop because the law on such matters is the same when you are riding a bicycle, and then you're all "no, you go". thanks. that's awesome. because now you stopped for a really long time, and confused everyone, and i had to stop for no reason at all.
so don't do that.

thanks!

today i saw the Prettiest Girl in The Whole World. she was totally acting as though she was a normal human being too. just sitting outside american apparel, smoking a cigarette, and being ridiculously beautiful.

(there's not really any further signifigance to this. it's just that i use superlatives all the time- best ice cream EVER! my favorite song IN THE WORLD- these things come out of my mouth a few times a day. but this time, i think it's true)

also, i saw A Scanner Darkly. pretty damn good. i recommend it.

and while i'm recommending things, the new Jamba Juice "Citrus Bliss" is fucking delicious.

seriously, i'm just trying to watch some sex and the city. one wouldn't think that would be a particularily difficult task.
yesterday, i went to my friendly local movie place, and rented season four with minimal embarassment (despite the fact that i was renting ultraviolet at the same time).
now, first let me explain that season four was the logical choice. i knew that i hadn't seen all of six, i had seen five, i had seen the first few seasons, but that there was a gap. a gap! a gap that had to be filled. i glanced at the back of season three, disc one, and determined that i HAD seen those episodes. therefore, season four.
needless to say, i was both shocked and saddened to find that i had, in fact seen the episodes on this disc. where had i gone wrong? well, google quickly informed me that it was season three, disc two that i was really missing. fine. i watched ultraviolet. it wasn't as bad as i thought it might be. disaster (somewhat) averted.
this morning, i went back to the movie place, returned my two movies, and found that season three, disc two was mysteriously not available. fuck! however, the careful reader may recall that i had seen only part of of season six. so i went for season six, disc two, which was available in quadruplicate.
i batted my eyelashes at the movie guy, recited my sad, sad story of mistaken identity, and managed to get a rental credit on my account. all in all, a happy ending. or, as it turns out, a happy ending to act 1.
i went to le office, i did le work, and at about 7 i packed up le bag to go home. at which point i realized that i didn't have fucking season six, disc two with me. where had it gone?
as it turns out, i have the attention span of a goldfish, and so while i had paid for the rental, i hadn't actually taken it with me. so i went back to the movie store and again, explained my utter incompetance. the nice people at the movie place had given me another rental credit for forgetting the movie, i'm sure with much eyerolling and straining of their impressive yet finite movie snob patience.
so i got the dvd again, this time with somewhat more embarassment, and came home to write about it.