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If anyone has a sound file of Dave from NewsRadio saying, "If I hear 'Little Drummer Boy' one more time...", or the capability to create a sound file of said quote, please email me!

Addendum: Kevin Highsmith of the Newsradio newsgroup sent me a copy of it quite promptly. Bless him.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 4:30 PM | shower me with attention

Friday, November 15, 2002

Yesterday I was in the supermarket picking out a new toothbrush and I decided on the one with Sylvester and Tweety, for a change, and I thought, "I'm going Tweety", and that made me think, "I'm going tinsel" (which is something that one of the guys from Littleman said once during an improv show I saw them do last year and it made me laugh so hard I think I got the hiccoughs), and then I said out loud, "I'm going tinsel" and started giggling to myself, and then I picked up the toothbrush and turned around and this guy was just looking at me.

I'm going tinsel.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 5:00 PM | shower me with attention

Me laugh SO HARD, thanks to BoingBoing!

Why are you in Tavie's head? 4:21 PM | shower me with attention

Make me stop bidding!

Oh, well, I'm just driving up the prices higher for charity, right?

(It's that shirt that I always regretted not getting in Tour 2000. And I'm not gonna end up with it anyway. Sniff.)

Why are you in Tavie's head? 4:14 PM | shower me with attention

It got fixed. It will probably break again as soon as I publish these words. Fuck computers. I'm going to bed.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 2:13 AM | shower me with attention

Okay. Dude. It's not my imagination. Every time I go back and recheck my template code after publishing, blogger has changed the same little quotation mark into a > which is completely messing the whole thing up. I change it back, I publish, I check the template, and it's back again.

Why the fuck does that keep happening?

Why are you in Tavie's head? 2:04 AM | shower me with attention

I'm telling you: I've checked and rechecked my template code. It's perfect. Something happens to it when I try to publish that is screwing everything up.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 1:52 AM | shower me with attention

I wanna tell ya something, I really love it when people call me "kiddo". It's so endearing to me.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 1:39 AM | shower me with attention

Thursday, November 14, 2002

Sheesh!

Why are you in Tavie's head? 11:06 PM | shower me with attention

I hate you, blogger! I hate you!

Why are you in Tavie's head? 10:59 PM | shower me with attention

Read and rejoice along with me. From an email from my sister re: the cat:

Lily is actually better than we thought? Mom called the vet and she said the only thing wrong with Lily was that she was slightly anemic (She needs more iron in her food. She reccomended blending an egg yolk into it) and she had an elevated white cell count (that was likely due to her cold/infection) which has been clearing up marvelously since we started her on the amoxcyllin. But her kidneys and liver are fine which are remarkable for her age! =)

Why are you in Tavie's head? 9:40 PM | shower me with attention

Oh. I aced that sociolinguistics midterm. The penultimate grade of A, 98%. Which means I can safely slack off for the remainder of the semester, as usual.

How sweet it be.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 3:03 PM | shower me with attention

Ha ha. I was trying to remember the name of that singing duo from last night and the guy on WFUV, which I am listening to, just mentioned it: Sarah Lee Guthrie, daughter of Arlo, granddaughter of Woody. The guy is Johnny Irion, I presume.

Ha ha ha ha.

Back to work.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 11:23 AM | shower me with attention

You used the word "totally" how many thousands of times in the last post, Valley Girl?

Why are you in Tavie's head? 11:01 AM | shower me with attention

I find something very appealing about Ja Rule's face. It's puckish. He reminds me of kids I went to junior high school with.

Also. Gina will tease me so, for I always say I hate, hate, hate country music, I always make fun of it, but last night this duo that opened for The Divine Comedy started singing and they were totally country singers, I don't know what subcategory of country it was (bluegrass? alt country? just plain country?) but, um, I totally loved it. They had some wicked pretty harmonies. The girl had a gorgeous voice. Totally un-Shania. I was way into it.

So, I dunno what that means. But it may be significant that my favourite Squeeze song is "Melody Motel", which is also very country, and my favourite Hedwig and the Angry Inch song is "Sugar Daddy".

Why are you in Tavie's head? 11:00 AM | shower me with attention

Last night erin took me to the Mercury Lounge, which I hate, to see The Divine Comedy, which I loved.

Loved immediately. And you know how difficult it is to get me to listen to new music. You all know that. Hey-- you know when you're being forced to listen to something new and it's usually kind of boring because you don't know the melodies yet? That didn't happen once. Every single song was extremely engaging. I was actually thrilled from the first number they did, an instrumental. I was like, "Okay, this is okay, not too bad..." and then the drummer stood up and started playing the xylophone. And then I knew I loved these guys. Even though they were, as erin succinctly noted, "obnoxiously charming". Simultaneously annoying and adorable. And they sang a song about Cheryl.

So that was fun. I came home very late and watched Kevin and Craig and Skeletor on Conan.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 10:51 AM | shower me with attention

Wednesday, November 13, 2002

Gina and I have been looking for two certain movies for the past few weeks and the video stores in her neighbourhood don't have them and we've looked in every single one, and they're not on her cable-on-demand or anything, and tonight I couldn't sleep so I went in and was flipping channels and on Bravo the voice said, "coming up next..." and it was ONE OF THE MOVIES and I grabbed a tape and put it in and I wasn't sure that the VCR was working but I checked durin g the first commercial and it IS working, at least as well as our VCR works which is not at all well, sound is all hissy and the picture is kind of bad, but still it's TAPING, and it's a good thing because it's not listed in tv guide and so I think it's a last-minute filler, now if only the tape would not run out, I hope it wasn't near the end, and I find Ellen Burstyn annoying and I hate the music so far but Alan Alda is so, so, so cute... oh, wait, I find Marsha Mason annoying, not Ellen Burstyn, why do I always mix the two of them up?

I think my uncle rebroke my ethernet port without meaning to.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 2:33 AM | shower me with attention

Tuesday, November 12, 2002

Kirsten is making seafood stew tonight. She is an excellent cook, and considerate: no crabmeat in my stew. But plenty clams and mussells.

The crustaceans are my enemy, but the mollusks are my friends.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 8:06 PM | shower me with attention

Also: figured out my title. I'm a Sales Assistant.

Whoopeeeeeeeeeee.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 2:02 PM | shower me with attention

You will all be thrilled to learn that I have finally acquired a new desk chair, delaying my inevitable evolution into a hunchback!

Why are you in Tavie's head? 1:55 PM | shower me with attention

There is definitely such a thing as a free lunch. Yay for Sales Conference Week.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 12:06 PM | shower me with attention

Monday, November 11, 2002

I am such a sucker.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 11:15 PM | shower me with attention

I am so fond of the wee beastie.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 10:36 PM | shower me with attention

Sunday, November 10, 2002

Mr Himelfarb, you need to just hire me already. I'm loyal, hardworking (stop snickering, I can be if I want to, you have no idea), not completely stupid, and I could really use the money.

Plus Mark loves me (and somewhere deep down inside, Mr Aloof does, too. And I've heard Scott also says good things. And I know to not look directly at Kevin, and to kiss up to Bruce.)

You need to hire me.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go make an ass of myself in newsgroups I never read.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 10:22 PM | shower me with attention

erin has an unhealthy fixation with Horatio Sanz.

But she did teach Gina (who has gone schizophrenic, blogwise) and I how to use the Handy Stitch.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 12:52 AM | shower me with attention