Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

A Boing Boing link brought me to this panorama of the Star Wars fans at the wrong theatre, and I’m guessing the telephone in the picture is the one I called. There are so many other fascinating panoramas that mean something to me.

• The 37th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assasination at the National Civil Rights Museum here in Memphis
• The Eyes Wide Open Memorial, commemorating those soldiers killed in Iraq
• This is the huge anti-war protest in London that happened last year. The war began when I was in London in 2003, and I went to the first march. It was huge and looked a lot like this one a year later.
• The Tribute in light to honor the victims of the 9/11 attacks. I saw this quite by accident. I was in NYC in April of 2002. Things in my marriage has just turned suddenly wrong, and I took off to see some close friends. I had been out and about by myself for the day, it was now night, and I was planning to meet some friends for drinks. I got off the subway, walked up to street level, and called my parents because I hadn’t spoken to them in a while. I noticed several people crowded around several pictures on a fence. Talking to my parents, I suddently realized that I was at the church next to ground zero. I looked up, and the tribute was still there. It was a cloudy night, but I could make out the lights. I found out later that it was one of the last nights the tribute was in place.

Well, not really famous, but famous in my own little mind! I posted a few really good pictures of my girls on Flickr, and then I got REALLY inspired and started a Flickr group called Tortie Kitties. Of course, I’ve made a little star of my beautiful Maggie. How could I not?! Check out the Jeep and Maggie set. Now I feel like I have to add more pictures of Jeep because I’ve been going crazy with the Maggie pictures. It’s harder to get the right lighting for Jeep though.
 

I’m not feeling well today, and I’ve been working so hard lately. Means I’m better with pictures than with words. I hope you understand.

‘Member how I was saying that there are certain food ingredients that, when included in a dish, mean I will be very likely to order it? As in "You had me at avocado." I was thinking that the same is true with music. If a song uses a Hammond organ, a slide guitar, or a great horn section, there’s a really good chance I will like it. There are certain types of voices and styles of guitar playing that fit the bill as well, although that’s harder to describe.

Note to self: Search out a list of great bands that use the Hammond organ. Why can I only think of the Doors, Medeski, Deep Purple,… My brain is tapped out right now. But the other day, I thought of loads. Maybe I should contact my uber-talented, much younger piano/organ prodigy cousin Patrick.

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Update: It’s been quiet here, but the people over at Ask MetaFilter have been chock full o’ suggestions.

Man, the defense is in 31 days, 16 hours. I have an countdown extension on my Firefox browser. There’s a lot to do, but I’m just so uninterested. I feel like I need to be more nervous than I am. It’s like if I admit that I’m so close, I’ll have to deal with it, and honestly, I’m so sick of this project that I don’t even care anymore. But I’m sure as time approaches, I’ll care more. Today, I’m working on the reference section and the dissertation announcement. It’s dull. I’d rather be doing just about anything.

On the new Word Press platform, Aaron has the admin level 10, and I have a 9, because there can’t be two 10s, and he’s doing the really technical programming stuff. I’m always asking him to police me and make me work, so he said if he catches me blogging too much, he’ll shut down my blog until May 13th, the day after my defense!! Now that’s policing!

Hope y’all find me over here real soon. It seems awfully quiet so far. Also, check out the moblog. I’ve been trying to use it more. My new camera phone is FUN!

Not everything is perfect here just yet, but it’s getting there. Aaron is single-focused, and he will not rest until everything works perfectly. Blogger has been such a pain in the butt lately, and Aaron was eager to learn some of the new programming needed to use WordPress. I’m not all that sure about the deets, but so far, it’s making me pretty darn happy!

Regarding comments…

Comments were the greatest challenge of migration away from Blogger. I have been using Haloscan comments for a while, and I like them, but I REALLY like the idea of having full control of comments, full ownership, and having them all on my server, not on someone else’s. The solution Aaron came up with was to keep the Haloscan comments accessible and also setting up the new commenting system. I’d like it if you could all view those old comments as read-only. They are really archival. The new comments (the ones you get to by clicking SAY SOMETHING) are the ones I’d like you to use now.

I hope you like the new digs. I’m pretty excited! 😀