Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

Well, right now, my friends know more about my parents’ trip to Peru and the Galapagos Islands than I do, and so I’ve decided to start at the very beginning. I hear that’s a very good place to start. When you read you begin with A, B, C. When you read Dad’s blog about the trip, you begin right here. Veronica has been reading about the trip with her kids (very educational – she’s such a good mom), and I’ve suggested the same to Linda with her knowledge-sponge of a son, Joey.

And so my latest quest to be a good daughter begins NOW! Baby steps, and I’ll get there. I welcome you to join me. First, Peru!

• Peru I
• Peru II
• Peru III
• Peru IV
• Peru V
• Peru VI
• Peru VII
• Peru VIII

After that, it’s a lesson in Darwin, then on to the Galapagos!

Steve found this bench. Turns out it’s art. He and Carol went back and took lots of pictures. I want to do the same thing. Time for a walk up the hill. Who’s with me?

Jeep has excellent musical taste.

Tonight, Henry Rollins welcomes Eddie Izzard (as well as Death Cab for Cutie) at 10pm on The Independent Film Channel.

Excellent!

I’m intrigued by the interaction between Eddie and Henry. These are two men who are very clear about who they are and have strong opinions, and thus excel at self-expression. And yet, they are two wildly different people. I wrote HR a letter once, and he wrote back. It made my day during a really sad time in my life.

Hey, you know what would be so cool? A double bill of Eddie & Henry with some shared bits peppered throughout. I’d pay a lot to see that.

Oh, and look what I found. This is going to be GOOD!

Pried the Arctic Monkeys out of the CD long enough to put in the Raconteurs, which came in the mail yesterday. It’s KICKASS! Gloriously derivative in all the right ways – Beatles-y, Zeppelin-y, and just excellent in its own right.

Also, bought another container of that toffee and ate the entire fucking thing… in a day. I am a disgusting pig, but a happy one. Y’all forgive my pooch in the pictures from the next few days!

And it’s FRIDAY! And it’s karaoke-time! WAHOO!

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Oh, and did anyone catch the reference in the title of the last post? If you did, then you were probably friends with me in the 8th grade. 

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One more update while I’m doing updates. For those who’ve known me for a while, you will understand that it is HUGELY wonderful news that Hamilton got a real professorship at the University of Leeds for next year. He doesn’t read this blog, so he won’t see your congratulations if you post them here, but you know… if you know him, feel happy for him. This has been a long time coming. If you want his info to send congratulations, let me know, and I’ll hook you up.