Current mood:	relaxed
Current music:	some shitty local car dealer commercial on cable

animals/jobs/music/stuff
I really don't post as often as I think I could, something which sometimes bothers me, if for no other reason than I think a little bit of informal writing is a good mental exercise. I have a good excuse though, we have a new puppy, as anyone who has read you know who's page already knows. You can see a couple pictures there too.

So two and a half weeks ago I was driving to the store and on this gravel road near my house that I use as a shortcut I see this little dog running straight toward my vehicle. I immediately stop and by the time I open the door he has already made it to my door, and is ready to be picked up. He was not wearing any collar and there was no one near him nor chasing him nor anywhere to be found nearby. So I called Holly and we agreed that I should bring him home. No one put up flyers anywhere around there looking for him and when Holly called the pound the next day no one had reported a dog lost matching his description. So we decided to keep him. That and the fact that we are suckers for cute puppies.

This little dog is brown and white and looks to be maybe a pit bull puppy or perhaps an oddball terrier mix. So he fits in good with Baxter, a pure-bred Boston Terrier, and Zoe, who is a Boston Terrier mix. And I've been spending much of my precious free time at home trying to housebreak him, and to babysit him. It's gotten to the point where I don't even care anymore if I have to clean up after him, so it's probably had a positive effect on my patience. We decided to name him "Zeke" in honor of a Miniature Schnauzer my sister and I used to have that was named "Ezekiel" but we always called "Zeke."

We're fucking broke and practically counting the days until I get my financial aid. Except that we don't know when that day will come. I did check the UGA Bursar's website and that day will probably come sometime between August 10th and 20th, I'd estimate.

More important news still is that You know who has a new job! (Again, anyone cool enough to be a regular reader of Geekcore already knows this.) This will be a huge relief to our budget, and will also provide us both with health insurance coverage right in time for my switch to part-time work at the hospital as I start school in August.

Bad news for me, Brendan was unable to visit last week as planned. (Bren-- I know you probably feel bad, don't worry, I only mention it because it naturally fits in to the narrative of this entry.) It's just as well as we were broke. I ended up not getting a wristband for the AthFest club crawl, although I SWEAR I will plan ahead next year and attend come hell or high water! It's not like you don't get a chance to see those bands the rest of the year; most of them are from Athens. It's just a very convenient and cheap way to see a bunch of them at once. And it's intoxicatingly fun to be able to waltz to and from every rock club in town without having to pay a cover at each one, for two nights in a row.

Anyway, I did see Pylon Friday night at the free outdoor stage, which was pretty cool. They had a bunch of Pylon logo balloons filled with helium spread throughout the crowd which made an impressive sight. The music was pretty cool, what you'd expect from a band that has opened for Gang of Four, U2, R.E.M., B-52's, et al. That is to say, angular, dancey new-wavey stuff. At times I thought both bass and guitar were a bit sloppy, and the drummer was definitely the stand-out musician of the bunch. However, their energy and songs made up for any screw-ups, and the vocals were just thrilling. Vanessa, their singer, still has it, and can scream better than most rock chicks half her age. It was interesting to see her perform because I have met her (if my memory serves me) through our respective day jobs. As much as I take great pains to keep this identity and journal separate from my day job and everything associated with that world, I think I am safe in indulging in the guilty pleasure of reporting my closest brush with Athens rock elder-savants: I believe I have interpreted for her before.

Anyone see a commercial or trailer for that movie "Rize" which I guess is a documentary about some bullshit dance craze? At one point in one of the commercials this one kid says, "This is not a trend! I repeat: This is not a trend." Son, it's the very definition of a trend; check your dictionary.

I am enjoying the shit out of a screwdriver I mixed up myself here at home with budget priced vodka. I think I'll go make another now.