The glove compartment is inadequetly named...

...and everybody knows it.

Hi everyone. Thanks for all the comments. As Ryan so adequetly put it, it makes the dull ache of missing you quiet down for a couple minutes, just hearing from you.

I'm terribly excited about having produce bearing my name. Jim the pumpkin. If I were a vegetable, I probably would be an odd shaped gourd of some kind. The kind that makes you worry about eating it.

The end of the week was fairly uneventful, with the exception of some busy days at work. The "man" and I are doing well, and I have been making friends at my new Starbucks. They were taking their time about deciding if I was ok or not, but seem to over their suspicions.

The library was a real jewel mine this week concerning music. I found Beck's Guero album, an older Belle & Sebastian album, and a cd by Whirlwind Heat... a small band that has the gimmick of the bass player beating the living daylights out of the lead singer at the end of every concert. Jumping on his back and punching him in the head and what-not. Good, clean fun. I also picked up an old japanese yakuza (gangster) movie called "Afraid to die." It was pretty decent... and had a cool "I've been shot and now I'm going to stagger over to an escalator, struggle against it for several long seconds and then die in a poetic, and somewhat unusual ending to the movie" ending. I also picked up "Osama" which is an independent film that came out last year about a little girl in a family of women that live in Taliban-ruled Afganistan. Her last male relative dies and she has to cut her hair and pretend to be a boy to get work. She uses the name Osama because it's powerful, and people don't question her. I got interupted watching it, and it apparently didn't have the appeal to bring me back. So I didn't. Oh well. Maybe someday when I feel like it.

We get broadband set up next week!!! We're so excited. This is going to be so much less of a luxury.

Hi to Kristen! Welcome! I miss you and your laugh. My wonder twin. Say hey to Kate Hunter for me, and Jen if you see her.

Massa, are you still in contact with Sarah Kowal? Just wondering.

Well, that's about it for today. Thanks for the comments about controlling spam, Ry. And Jim, I do read your blog. You have never lost your edge there... thank you for setting a good, if not jaded example. And Paula, I bought those travel-ease wrist bands for "my woman I'm taking to the dance" and she has been wearing them. No real difference yet, but anything helps. Thanks again for the tip!

See y'all later!
"How you like it?!"