I love the Fringe. There’s no way around it. It’s my favorite 11 days of he whole fucking year. This year’s Fringe has been different. Unexpected. Bittersweet. Plain ol’ sweet. Full of Summit and Bedlam and friends old and new. There are some faces missing and some new ones that I’m enjoying. I’ve got this vacation coming up that I’m looking forward to and so there’s been an element of “hurry up and be the 19th already” in my life. It’s an interesting feeling to be eagerly anticipating the future and simultaneously be hanging onto every moment of the present.
Top o’ the mornin’ July 9, 2008
Woke up early. Could tell that I wasn’t going to fall back to sleep. Watched Once. It was a good movie to watch alone while the sun was rising.
A few things on Tuesday morning July 8, 2008
1. It’s Always Sunny in Philidelphia is very funny
2. Last night’s Fringe-for-All was great. I can’t wait for August!
3. I need to clean my room so badly. Now there’s broken glass in the mix.
4. A few small world happenings this week: my roommate is dating someone I went to high school with and I’m reading a book that’s dedicated to the author of another book I’m reading.
5. I can’t love central air. I hate having the option. I also hate closing windows.
6. How do people move in with their parents after college?
87 and sunny July 5, 2008
It is hot in Minneapolis. Can’t bring myself to turn on the central air. All those years of my dad being curmudgeonly about the central air and the heat make sense now that I’m living in a house and paying all the bills. So it’s a fan and an open window for me.
Enjoyed fireworks from the deck at the Bedlam last night. It was great. We could see both Powderhorn and downtown fireworks from that vantage. Then I caught the end of the 10 second film festival over at the Soap Factory and then I went home to find my sister and her friends drinking Malibu in my living room. Having had several pints and a few pulls off a water bottle filled with tequila I decided to go to sleep.
Now I’m alternating between my bedroom and the porch, trying to stay cool. I’m very glad that there are popsicles in my freezer.
What a revelation July 3, 2008
In the city fireworks seem to exist for the sole purpose of showing off to/annoying one’s neighbors. Here in the country we just do it for our own enjoyment.
My Bed July 1, 2008
In the absence of another person in my first-ever queen-size bed, I have taken to sleeping with the following:
- My computer
- My computer’s external hard drive
(Both of these in case I wake up in the night and desperately need to watch Scrubs/chick flick/laughing babies)
- All of the pillows I own
- The clothes I wore yesterday/the clothes I put on and decided not to wear yesterday
- Several books, all of which I’m trying to read and none of which I can manage to pay attention to for more than half an hour
- A towel
- The instruction booklet to the aforementioned external hard drive
and
- A bottle of gin, lamentably warm
I am so not cut out for this shit.
I get it now! I love the world, too! June 30, 2008
I saw this a few days ago…
And this tonight.
I get it now!
Sunday in Minneapolis with Caitlin June 29, 2008
It’s been a lovely day.
Saw the Twins win. That’s 11 out of 12 now and maintains their decent win percentage. Let’s hope the Sox (White, not Red) lose tonight. Spent the rest of the afternoon on the porch with Primo and American Spirits. I bought a pack of cigarettes today, my first since December. I’m going to try to make it the only one of the summer. I’m tempted to belittle my will power at this point, but I’ll stay positive and hope that last sentence works out for me.
It’s a beautiful day, perfect for porch sitting. I have to own up to the fact that I’d have been inside had my external hard drive not crashed. Luckily for me it did so I couldn’t watch the movies I’d planned to watch today. Played twenty questions with my roommates instead. All good things.
I’ve been schedule-less for two weeks now and have been bitching about it the whole time. Now I’ve got a week of things to do and I’m regretting all the whining. Time off is a blessing that I so rarely recognize.
I’m trying to compile a list of all the shows I’ve seen this year. I’m thinking joining the ranks of Minneapolitans who write about theater. It would be a good method of keeping track of my activity in the community, at least.
In an effort to keep a recent resolution: I will go to trivia at the Tower on Tuesday.
Mid Year Resolution #1 June 25, 2008
Do things that I say I’ll do. Don’t say that I’ll do things I know I won’t do.
Life Lessons June 24, 2008
I have created an infinitely unexpected and interconnected universe in which to live.
