i need me a nose warmer

mmmm i love the feeling of super shiny clean teeth.

last night was a cracktastic time in the phineasrachaeljudy household. don't know exactly what happened but there was lots of jumping and running around and raucous laughter. throwing things too. the bad lotr captions set me off, i think. but then there was this whole discussion about scandinavia over our mediocre chinese food dinner... rach really wants to go there - esp norway - but only in the summer. i think it would be fun to go in the winter. i think we will never agree on this. and then we had to look up linguistic facts about the various countries and we discovered from the lonely planet site that it would be better to visit norway than finland because norway has no health risks at all while in finland one must beware of slippery sidewalks and poisonous mushrooms.

i also never realized just how lutheran scandinavia is. that explains the midwest.

it only just occurred to me that i've been involved with two people of norwegian descent. maybe i have a thing. then again, i've been involved with two half-jews. if these were things, they would be random and odd ones. and rachael would be my perfect girlfriend, as she is, because she fits both criteria.

anyway, i suppose i should go to work now. i'm going to go to the music store while i'm downtown and hopefully find some stuff for church. i wish the stupid store hadn't moved, it used to be right across the common from where i'm working. no longer. ::weary sigh:: still, beats going to lexington.

oh, and my job interview on monday is at the same music school i interviewed at before but this time not in the preparatory division. this is good, i don't really have any desire to work with children anyway. this position is assistant to the academic dean. sounds good. and it's 3/4 which is pretty close to ideal since i already have 10 hours of other work a week. good. let's hope it goes well.

on the go

you know, i can apply lipstick in a wide variety of situations. after years of doing it, you can just feel your way. but the other day i saw a woman on the subway do a four layer jobbie on her lips with no mirror on a moving train - lip liner, two pencils and a glossy finish. now that's talent.

of to work!

never say half of what i want to

as i was about to leave the house in a rush to go find some music, i realized i had a week longer than i thought to find said music. this is good, because i don't feel like going anywhere. it's cold out there.

i have already experienced said cold. i was happily working away at my job this morning when the computer suddenly kicked me off the shared drive. no problem, said i, i will walk to the music store. i was so cold, so cold out that by the time i neared the music store, i planned to go inside and never leave again. but it was not to be. the store was closed for renovation. bastards. so i walked my frozen ass to the nearest subway station. got back to work 40 minutes later with only frigid digits to show for my efforts.

mmm. tired. how to fix that without time for sleep?

chocolate?

finally, a well spoken rant about something actually worth ranting about.

i can't get warm. the back of my throat is scratchy and uncomfortable. i'm extremely tired. it's kind of like getting sick. but i would like to think that's not what it is. because i have a rehearsal to conduct tonight. much of it will be easy but we've got lots of work to do on the mozart coronation mass and it takes absurd amounts of energy to get these people to do things they think are hard. i don't seem to have absurd amounts of energy right now. just a shivery, vaguely queasy feeling.

so. so. tired.