I'm gonna make it through this year if it kills me.

[raybear]

I kept seeing ads for the Festival of Maps, on cabs and buses, and today I finally wrote it on my hand and then went to the site and it was not as exciting as I hoped. Though there seem to be events scattered through now and into next year, so maybe one of them will be appealing. Preferably a non-academic conference. I love maps.

Also less exciting is www.downloadchicagotours.com which only has two tours on it. One of them is a blues tour by Buddy Guy, which I'm downloading right this second, but I was hoping for dozens of them. The other one was Millenium Park. I had images of DYA and I putting on our ipods and biking around and geeking out. But maybe I'm being overly optimistic in thinking there will be tourist-geared audio tours for the murals in Pilsen, the gay sex spots in all the parks along the lake, and the locations of the Haymarket Riot.

I found the book The Black Swan at the library and was super excited because I've wanted to read this since coming across it in a bookstore this summer. And last week the concept of black swans even came up in something I was reading. So far, its not at all what I thought it would be about, or hoped it would be about, but still possibly appealing and I suppose there's still time for him to cover the ideas that I thought it would focus on, which is namely, why is it after Black Swans occur, we are then preoccupied with them happening again and with attempting to prevent them, rather than looking at what is more statistically true.

Today I got a massage after the chiropractor and it was nice, albeit way too short. Only 25 minutes! Because anything longer isn't 'medicine', I suppose. I also realized too late that I didn't really have any proper cash for a tip. The massage was covered by insurance, so I don't even know how much it cost there, and I would have probably just given $10 but I only had $5 on me, so I was like, well, do I stiff her entirely and then pay double next time? I decided to be on the cheap side of average and give her the five, just in case I never see her again.

I have to go back on Thursday and Saturday morning. And on Friday is the final cap-fitting from my root canal. Hey, remember my dental woes? I'm so done with thinking about my body and all of its foibles.

On the train home today, I was looking out the window and like, whoa, the sky is SO blue. Its intense and amazing and beautiful and I wish everyone was outside and could see it and...oh yeah, my sunglasses have a tint.

The song "Knife" by Grizzly Bear is kinda changing my life right now.

Comments

[mintwaster.livejournal.com]

I was told that if it was a message in a dr's office, you don't tip.

[totallysofast.livejournal.com]

I for one would love an audio tour of the Haymarket Riot.

And because of your subject line, I now have to listen to that song before I can continue working on my paper. I'll make it through my first semester of college, if it kills me!

[fuzzilla.livejournal.com]

>...oh yeah, my sunglasses have a tint.<

Hee hee!

"I'm gonna make it through this year if it kills me."

[unscrambled.livejournal.com]

I was listening to that record while I was giving myself a haircut on Sunday. Hadn't heard it in a year. Weeeird.

[madame-liscious.livejournal.com]

um...your icon pic is kinda really hot!

[tracijean.livejournal.com]

i luv your icon!

[raybear.livejournal.com]

I thought it was the opposite -- that masseuses at clinics, spas, etc. should be tipped because they make less money since they have to give a cut to the owners.

Also, there was a container of "gratuity envelopes" in the reception area.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should do that audio tour as an independent study and get credit!

[raybear.livejournal.com]

thanks!!

[raybear.livejournal.com]

thanks!!

Re: "I'm gonna make it through this year if it kills me."

[raybear.livejournal.com]

That song is really part 2 of "Jenny" or maybe part 1, I'm not really sure of the order of his discography. I like both of those songs, as well as Cotton and Going to Georgia. But for the most part -- and I know this is sacrilege to you and numerous other people in my life -- I'm not that into him. His voice is kinda grating to me.

Re: "I'm gonna make it through this year if it kills me."

[unscrambled.livejournal.com]

I never know song names--but that song is on "The Sunset Tree." I like the grating-ness of his voice--it's part of the reason why I find his music cathartic--it's the whole losing-it thing. There's some way in which this connects to ghoastface's tone to me. Same kinda thing.

Re: "I'm gonna make it through this year if it kills me."

[raybear.livejournal.com]

I know, and its curious to me why I can listen to Ghostface's voice all day and you can't, and vice versa with John Darnielle.

I wonder if this is possibly related to "all of their songs sound the same to me" phenomenon too, as far as the science of subjective taste.