sesquipedalian

I'm listening to Requiem for Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Two Mixed Choirs and Orchestra by Gyorgy Ligeti. You know, the weird music from 2001: A Space Oddessy, when Dave Borman is going throgh the star-gate. Well, that's what I'm listening to.

Who do you want to be today? Who do you want to be?
Do you wanna be someone just like on TV?

Do ya'? Just like some somebody on TV?

[horn section]

I have not updated for a month. Real life has been a priority--as opposed to internet-life.

Things are good. My girlfriend's house is finally coming together. The outside is was clean enough this weekend to invite people over for a BBQ. Cleaning up for this BBQ was good. Now the place is pretty much ready for our BBQ on the Fourth. My parents, my brother...
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Gwen has gone to the Strawberry Music Festival and I'm pet sitting--7 dogs, (3 are hers, 4 are pet sits), 1 cockateal, 5 ducks, 7 chickens, 1 rat, 2 koi. I have been enslaved by ducks, I tell you! Enslaved by ducks.

Nearly three weeks? True, it has been. The most noteworhty event sense the 26th would probably be going to Canoga Park, CA to visit my brother on the 29th. Quick visit, and good.

Well, I changed my mind. It was such a beautiful day here yesterday that I decided that I didn't want to spend it inside an aquarium. So we had lunch, at a restaurant, with garden-seating, of course. And then we drove up the coast to go to a beach north of down. Then Gwen and I had sex on top of a high rock in...
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Gwen is going to take me to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. That'll be fun.

Damn! Has it been two weeks sice I wrote anything? Well, life is good. Nothing too noteworthy, but good. Went to visit my parents, my brother and his fiance last weekend. I get along with my family. Which is great. Makes for boring journal entries though. Gwen got a puppy. Very cute.

"I've spent enough of you to buy a battleship."

"And you've spent enough in me to float one."

Ok, boys and girls...well, mostly girls.
Its time for my, every so often, update on what I've been reading acompanied by a brief synopsis and recomendation. You're interested. Right?!

Lost in Space: The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age by Greg Klerkx....
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Heh. Flux called me a genius.