Man, do I miss y'all.
May. 8th, 2005 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
constanceThis has been an absolutely shitty weekend, for various reasons. I have been busy for almost every minute of it, running errands or finishing my mother's present or working or cleaning or doing laundry or packing or making sure I have all my things organized for next week for my wham, bam, thank-you-ma'am trip, five cities in five days, rental cars and flight arrangements and East Texas freeways.
If it just were the busy-ness, and the upcoming trip, it would have been stressful but okay. It wasn't, though. My eighty-six-year-old grandmother fell on Friday and broke her hip and for two days they have been scheduling surgery and putting it off again because she is simply too frail to be put under anaesthesia. She has a fever. Her potassium levels are too low, her sodium levels are too low, her blood pressure is too low. So for the past two days we've been waiting to hear word from her surgery, and then at the last minute we hear that it's been rescheduled--and sometimes we get conflicting information from various family members, which is completely frustrating--but at least she's in no pain; they've got her so doped up with pain medications and antibiotics that it's a little surprising she's still coherent, but apparently she is.
In the confusion of hearing and waiting to hear more about my grandmother's condition, I took it upon myself to do a little maintenance and reorganization of my ipod and somehow (well, I know exactly how but I shan't bore you with that sorry tale) managed to delete about a thousand songs from my ipod and also deleted them from my hard drive, and so now I am faced with either downloading them all again--they were mostly downloaded stuff, OF COURSE THEY WERE--or begging my friends to send me care packages. So here I am begging: don't you have pity for me and my bad weekend? Surely you cannot bear to see me without the entire catalogue of the Mountain Goats or Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire. Surely you have a Modest Mouse record you've been dying to copy for someone. Well, let that someone be me and I will be your forever friend; and in return if you would like me to furnish you with something I still do have, I shall do it, forthwith and anon.
Anyway. This weekend was shitty, and I am glad it's over, but at least my mother loved her present, and at least I had some lovely food--mmmm, chicken tikka masala--and at least I am ready enough to go tripping tomorrow that all I really have left to do in the morning is shower and get dressed.
I've got some e-mail to answer, and I haven't forgotten. And I see that I have been enjoined by Laurel to do a video meme, and I shall do that too. In time. In time.
If it just were the busy-ness, and the upcoming trip, it would have been stressful but okay. It wasn't, though. My eighty-six-year-old grandmother fell on Friday and broke her hip and for two days they have been scheduling surgery and putting it off again because she is simply too frail to be put under anaesthesia. She has a fever. Her potassium levels are too low, her sodium levels are too low, her blood pressure is too low. So for the past two days we've been waiting to hear word from her surgery, and then at the last minute we hear that it's been rescheduled--and sometimes we get conflicting information from various family members, which is completely frustrating--but at least she's in no pain; they've got her so doped up with pain medications and antibiotics that it's a little surprising she's still coherent, but apparently she is.
In the confusion of hearing and waiting to hear more about my grandmother's condition, I took it upon myself to do a little maintenance and reorganization of my ipod and somehow (well, I know exactly how but I shan't bore you with that sorry tale) managed to delete about a thousand songs from my ipod and also deleted them from my hard drive, and so now I am faced with either downloading them all again--they were mostly downloaded stuff, OF COURSE THEY WERE--or begging my friends to send me care packages. So here I am begging: don't you have pity for me and my bad weekend? Surely you cannot bear to see me without the entire catalogue of the Mountain Goats or Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire. Surely you have a Modest Mouse record you've been dying to copy for someone. Well, let that someone be me and I will be your forever friend; and in return if you would like me to furnish you with something I still do have, I shall do it, forthwith and anon.
Anyway. This weekend was shitty, and I am glad it's over, but at least my mother loved her present, and at least I had some lovely food--mmmm, chicken tikka masala--and at least I am ready enough to go tripping tomorrow that all I really have left to do in the morning is shower and get dressed.
I've got some e-mail to answer, and I haven't forgotten. And I see that I have been enjoined by Laurel to do a video meme, and I shall do that too. In time. In time.
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Date: 2005-05-09 03:32 am (UTC)Andrew Bird:
Oh! The Grandeur!
The Swimming Hour
Weather Systems
And The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Modest Mouse:
Sad Sappy Sucker
Modest Mouse
This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
The Lonesome Crowded West
Building Nothing Out Of Something
The Moon And Antarctica
Everywhere And His Nasty Parlour Tricks
The Mood And Antarctica (Remastered)
Good News For People Who Love Bad News
What else do you need?
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Date: 2005-05-10 02:00 am (UTC):D
Is there anything you want in return? You probably have most anything, but my entire catalog is at your disposal. Velvet Underground demos? Obscure Soft Boys outtakes? Fleetwood Mac?
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Date: 2005-05-09 04:34 am (UTC)And wow- what perfect timing for a glitch in the ipod. I wish I had representative CDs of the bands you mentioned, because I have a CD burner and plenty of time to copy stuff. If you find you need other stuff and it matches what I've got on hand, I'm your girl.
Yay! Not that there was any question of your mom liking her gift, but it's nice to hear that she did. I thought about you this morning as I was opening my "Hapy Moethrs Dy" redolent-of-Mr-Sketch-markers cards, and wondering how the unveiling of the Hundred Letters was going.
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Date: 2005-05-10 02:03 am (UTC)So, a success all the way round!
:D:D:D:D
You know what would be fun? If I made you a CD and you made me one. Just random stuff, you know? Stuff you've been listening to. What do you think--are you up for another exchange?
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Date: 2005-05-12 12:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-09 11:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-10 02:04 am (UTC)Link me, baby! We probably overlap at least a little, don't you think?
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Date: 2005-05-10 08:23 am (UTC)Well I sure hope so! I have been looking to repay you for FIGHT CLUB for AGES now. ;;)
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Date: 2005-05-10 12:48 pm (UTC)We do actually overlap a lot, but I have been eyeing all that Ben Folds with lust in my heart, so I think it should be that. Technically, it's not among the stuff I lost, but I don't care if you don't!
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Date: 2005-05-10 03:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-11 01:55 am (UTC)Belle and Sebastian
Dashboard Confessional
Placebo
The Shins
:D:D:D:D:D
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Date: 2005-05-12 12:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-09 07:03 pm (UTC)Hug?
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Date: 2005-05-10 02:05 am (UTC)How are you handling the elections? How are you doing?
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Date: 2005-05-11 05:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-10 12:03 am (UTC)But if you get back to me tonight with what you'd like, I can get you almost anything at all.
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Date: 2005-05-10 02:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-10 02:23 am (UTC)You said Andrew Bird was hard to find -- I can get all of The Mysterious Production of Eggs. Also, I'm sneaky, so I looked at your music meme to see other possibly-appealing things. Out of the artists you mentioned on it, I can also get REM's In Time, Interpol's Antics and Turn On the Bright Lights, everything ever touched by Beck or the Decemberists or Modest Mouse, and six songs by the Jesus and Mary Chain, most from Psychocandy. (I think this list should make it clear that I go to NYU.) I don't know what you're missing, though, so :?
(And don't worry -- I don't know about your timezone, but it's about 10:30 here. The night is young!)
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Date: 2005-05-10 02:30 am (UTC)Really, is there anything you'd like in return? I could draw you a picture! Or write you a drabble! If, you know, you were willing to wait a bit for it.
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Date: 2005-05-10 05:47 am (UTC)Don't worry about doing something -- I have so much music just sitting around that I feel the need to press it on people sometimes. Obviously, you can do something if you want, but don't feel at all pressured. You have a lot going on right now.
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Date: 2005-05-10 12:49 pm (UTC)I'll think about what I want to do for you and get back to you, okay?
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Date: 2005-05-10 12:58 am (UTC)I don't know if I have any music you'd possibly want! :((
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Date: 2005-05-10 02:10 am (UTC)You do have stuff that I'd want, though! I have been thinking about Coldplay lately--you like them, do you not? I mean, not that you're obligated to send me anything, but, you know.
Are you back from your trip? Did you have fun?
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Date: 2005-05-10 04:21 pm (UTC)I'm sorry about the continued delay :-(
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Date: 2005-05-11 01:56 am (UTC)I've finally heard news tonight! She has had her surgery! She is doing fine! She is recovering in her hospital bed as I write this, so I am feeling much better now. Much, much better.
:D
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Date: 2005-05-11 09:53 pm (UTC)