Iwant a baby, and other events of the weekend:

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1.] I am the sort of person who goes barefoot when at all possible – at work, at home, in the car, in the grass, on pavement and and gravel that is not too hot. I would pretty much go barefoot anywhere except in the alleys of Morgantown or in the Ohio river. Because of this, I ALWAYS think that if someone has shoes on, it means they are getting ready to go somewhere. By this rule, Andy is always getting ready to go somewhere. I don’t even realize this… he’ll be stretched out on the couch watching tv and part of my brain is thinking “where is he going?”. I can’t make it stop.

2.] Yesterday I realized what is possibly the most exciting part of the beginning of Mikey’s phd quest: I get to help him buy school supplies. He has very good taste in pens, but there’s an entire office supply world out there, and I know nothing of his preferences. Small or large notecards? What colors of highlighters? Does he even use highlighters? Does he red-pen things? Spiral notebooks or legal pads? Does he want a backpack, which would be better for his thirty year old spine, or is he just going to carry everything in his usual messenger bag? Does he want an adorable mini-recorder to record lectures? He knows that I have this obsession. One day he sent me a link to a virtual stapler. I can’t wait to send him off to his first day of class with all of his fresh paper and a thermos of coffee. Should I make him pose with his GI Joe lunchbox? Yes, yes I should.

3.] I was looking at drawer pulls online just before, because there is some chest-of-drawer-refinishing in the near future. My favorite ones (sculpted olive branches) cost FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT DOLLARS. For a five drawer dresser, two pulls each, the pulls would be worth about as much as my car.

4.] Tomorrow is my last day of office-wenching. I’m going to have a lot of free time on my hands for the next four weeks unless the temp agency has a really, really short term assignment available.

5.] Most importantly >>>> TOMORROW: Cobra (my baby, et. al.), Librarians (my boys), and Scale Model (Neill is the only one I know, and I sure love him) at 123 Pleasant Street. Come dance and sweat for five dollars at ten pm in our dirty, beloved bar. Everyone who’s usually there will be there, except for the ones going to see Ryan Adams instead (excusable), and the ones who moved to New York (I guess this was a good decision). Even Mandi and Ethan are coming to town for this.

Listening: Pink Floyd : Dark Side of the Moon
Reading: The Most Dangerous Alliance in the World

I need to make some mixes that will make me feel good about driving six or seven hours north without stopping. Suggestions are welcome. So far:

• Billy Bragg – Help Save the Youth of America
• Green Day – Holiday
• Whiskeytown – Houses on the Hill
• Morrissey – America Is Not the World
• Rilo Kiley – It’s A Hit
• Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth
• Neil Young – Let’s Impeach the President
• Bob Dylan – Blowin’ in the Wind
• John Prine – Sam Stone
• Springsteen – Born in the USA
• Bright Eyes – When the President Talks to God

New @ Stickinthemud.

Coasters & earrings! Next round of projects starts tomorrow. I am a machine.

There is going to be a fiddler playing in city park tomorrow at seven. You should come share my blanket. Unless there is a thunderstorm, in which case we could just put the blanket on the living room floor and watch Seinfeld reruns and eat vanilla frosted miniwheats straight from the box.

I fixed website things that needed fixing with NO help. I feel like a genius. 

We’re months from leaving, and I already know what songs I will want to listen to every time we drive home. Maybe if I listen to these over and over and over this summer, they won’t make me panic when we actually get to Toronto.

• Simon & Garfunkel – Homeward Bound
• John Denver / a bar full of drunks / anyone – Country Roads
• Neil Young – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
• Neutral Milk Hotel - The King of Carrot Flowers
• Cat Power - He War
• Rilo Kiley – Pictures of Success
• Gillian Welch – One More Dollar
• Jackson Browne – The Pretender
• Against me! – Joy

It’s a weird list. There are hundreds more.

I keep torturing myself with this article.

Dear The Container Store,

Please expand into Canada. I need to organize myself with your wares.

Love,
emily