First the good:
I have finished the last draft of my thesis.
Next, the bad:
I have succeeded in dying my underarms a deep shade of indigo that will not go away.
(Please note that the second news item is not actually related to the first.)
March, 2007
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News:
March 31, 2007 by admin
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Bliss.
March 28, 2007 by admin
I almost forgot to tell you about the happiest moment of my entire life.
Let me first contextualize this by saying that my favourite things in the entire world are: avocados, root beer, 1950s diners where I can pretend I’ve just come from a sock hop, Joan Crawford movies, books, charming gentlemen acting charming, and X-Files.
A few weeks ago, when I was soujourning in Celebrity-A-Go-Go Land (known to normal people as Los Angeles), I had this moment that I can quite say without a doubt was the most blissfully wonderful and glorious thing that has ever happened to me.
I was sitting in an authentic 1950s Diner that was called Mel’s Drive-In but bears utterly no resemblance to the travesty of fake-50s-ness that is the Mel’s in Waterloo. This place had actually been there since the 50s and didn’t need any fake Elvis albums on the walls. There were palm trees outside the window. I was drinking a rootbeer float. I was eating an avocado burger (ie: a burger with cheese and bacon and AVOCADO, also known as ambrosia of the gods, on it). The waiter called me babe. I was reading a book entitled “Deny Everything: Reading the X-Files,” which is exactly what it sounds like, a highly nerdy tome consisting of academic essays on the Best Television Show in the History of Everything, that I had just picked up at this really funny bookstore where the clerk asked me, “Still denying after all these years, huh?” It was perfect. Perfect, perfect, perfect.
And then I went next door to the Hollywood History Museum and the first thing I saw was Joan Crawford’s makeup kit.
(Other good things about L.A. include the following: Bus fare is 75 cents.)
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Lalala procrastination
March 26, 2007 by admin
It strikes me as somehow very amusing that so many people are suddenly showing a huge interest in Sparta. And yet, Ninja Turtles are only number 57. This is very tragic – I suggest we all go click on the Ninja Turtle link a lot to hopefully rectify this situation.
Also, sometimes when you procrastinate, you accidentally make some pretty funny purchases. I custom ordered that second one in purple. Thanks, Etsy, for stealing my money.
Oh, and this is so right on.
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Dear person in my presentation group,
March 22, 2007 by admin
No, no, no, no, no! Comic sans is not an acceptable font to be used on a handout for an academic presentation!
This is terrible. It’s like I’ve arrived at the seventh level of hell. In order to combat the horror, I have joined every anti-comic sans group on Facebook that I could find.
Love,
Alexandra
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All the leaves were brown
March 12, 2007 by admin
Some people have just officially accepted UCLA’s offer of admission.
Some people are a little scared. But it’s a good kind of scared.
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Concert!
March 8, 2007 by admin
1. Recital, Saturday night, 8:00, at the Button Factory, Pay what you can. Come. I’m singing Haydn, Mussorgsky and Elvis.
Here’s the fabulous poster I made, that you won’t actually see posted anywhere on any walls because someone decided colour printing was too expensive so only fifteen posters got printed. Not bitter, not bitter, not bitter.
The concept behind this concert is that each of us has picked a decade. My decade is the 60s, therefore I will be singing one song each from the 1960s, 1860s and 1760s. Also, there will be a singalong at the end. Followed by drinking.2. I am desperately seeking an Elvis bust for Saturday night. It’s important. Help.
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Dear Tanya,
March 6, 2007 by admin
I just wanted you to know that the Conservapedia entry on dinosaurs, is, in fact, about how dinosaurs and people co-existed. And continue to do so. Cause the dinosaurs survived in that ark thing.
Also of note is the fact that there is an entry on war elephants, but no entry on regular elephants.
Love,
Alexandra
PS: One thing the conservatives have going for them is that they believe in unicorns.
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Misc.
March 2, 2007 by admin
1. A full Los Angeles post is forthcoming as soon as I finish the final draft of my thesis, which is supposed to happen tonight (gee whiz!)
2. UCLA is offering me a lot of money, so I might actually go there.
3. My only concern is earthquakes, ie: the potential of meeting an untimely end in one.
4. The best part of visiting UCLA was when this prof I want to work with very proudly told me about how his course is number two on the Young America Foundation’s list of the Dirty Dozen “most bizarre and politically correct college courses.”
5. In unrelated news, I think I have finally discovered how to make The Facebook, that dangerous tool of the devil, into something fun and interesting: Fantasy Facebook! I am pleased to report that I am now friends with Obi-Wan Kenobi, Fox Mulder, two Dale Coopers, Jean-Luc Picard and two Han Solos. I am, however, chagrined to report that some motherfucker administrator has disabled the Doppelganger Corwin account. That was some of my finest work.
6. Dear my roomate: Please stop listening to Metal Machine Music.
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