i promise this wallow* won't last

i've decided to make a mix tape**

please feel free to suggest your favorite break-up songs.

so far i have:

johnny cash "i see a darkness"

damien rice "delicate"

martin sexton "caught in the rain"

magnetic fields "i think i need a new heart"

imogen heap "hide and seek"

daniel bedingfield "gotta get through this"

the weepies "not your year"

annie lennox "why"

bright eyes "a perfect sonnet"

cheap trick "want you to want me"

iron and wine "the trapeze swinger"

leona lewis "bleeding love"

beyonce "single ladies"

mr. big "to be with you"

moulin rouge "el tango de roxanne"
the fray "how to save a life"
stevie nicks (and covers) "landslide"

jewel "you were meant for me"

what else?

*songs and songs only in the comments, please, or i will turn them off.

**did we really used to spend hours that way? weird.

thank you and have a nice day

my lists will defend me*

today's to do (or this week's...whatevs):

+fight parking tickets, unless i procrastinated too long, then pay them

+prepare emergency lesson plan in case i contract the swine flu (this is an actual department request)

+grade art projects (turned in 3 weeks ago)

+prepare study guide for test 2

+write test 2

+prepare review lecture

+pick up dry cleaning

+exchange camis

+pick up abby's birthday present

+papa's 85th birthday present

+go running

+field trip form

+field trip worksheet

+blogs:

     +tales from the trail pt 2

     +ragnar relay

     +regina spektor

     +deette and brandon's wedding

+tithing

+prepare study skills and test taking strategies handout? lecture?

+wash car (several months overdue)

+change oil

+photograph art projects

+photograph my new paintings

+update website

+potatoes for ragnar team dinner on sunday

+budget

+clean bathroom

+clean/organize room

+tomato soup ingredients for sunday

+read "march" for book club

*"i love to make lists. maybe its my background in beehives and breadmaking, the whole business of being industrious and frugal that a list promotes. or maybe its the power that comes when you can cross something off a list. ... i can see in a very tangible form what i have accomplished in a day. or perhaps it's the democratic nature of lists that i find so attractive. each task is of equal importance on paper. ... it's the line slashed through the words that counts. never mind that the pleasurable items are crossed off by noon and the difficult ones, meant for procrastination anyway, get moved to the net day's agenda. the point is that my intentions are honorable. my lists will defend me. -from terry tempest williams' "refuge: an unnatural history of family and place"

indecision 2008

ok this has nothing to do with politics. sorry.*

i have done so much recently (seriously, i'm so blessed), and am so far behind on blogging i don't know where to start. so pick a post below and i'll start there.

memorial day duck
my heart will go on (the best holiday ever)
i'm an artist. no, really.
suckfest 2008
bleeding love. keep keep bleeding love.
run. drive. sleep? repeat.
dc spy hunt
dutch bike dutch
early birds in NYC
don't stop believing

ok readyyyyyyyyy....GO!


*but really i'm not

my lists will defend me

i really love to make lists. really a lot. i write one on my wrist almost every day. this is the list of stuff that must be completed before day's end. sometimes it actually happens.  one of my favorite authors, terry tempest williams, writes: 

I love to make lists. Maybe it's my background in beehives and breadmaking, the whole business of being industrious and frugal (of which I am neither) that a list promotes. Or maybe it's the power that comes when you can cross something off a list. Done. Finished. Move on to the next chore. I can see in a very tangible form what I have accomplished in a day. Or perhaps it's the democratic nature of lists that I find so attractive.  Each task is of equal importance on paper. so "pick up fresh flowers" carries the same weight as "do the laundry." It's the line slashed through the words that counts. Never mind that the pleasurable items are crossed off by noon and the difficult ones, meant for procrastination anyway, get moved to the next day's agenda. The point is that my intentions are honorable. My lists will defend me.*

my thoughts exactly, terry. my thoughts exactly.  now here's some art about that. 

*Williams, Terry Tempest. Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. New York: Vintage Books 1991, p. 87.

a little list

1. i made another batch of brownies last night. less than 12 hours later, they're gone.

2. i think i've exceeded my mother in my blog-stalking. i'm starting to get impatient when anyone's blog reaches 24 hours without being updated. sick.

3. i still can't figure out jamie's or brian's word games on the brilliant cousin's blog.

4. i really like not working.

5. i'm hungry.

6. i'm really really very tired of not having a car. it makes self-sufficience difficult and planning difficulter.

7. is sufficience a word? the blog editor doesn't think so.