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This totally freaked my shit out tonight and by monday I will probably friends only this. I met this girl at a party who was going to Calhoun and I told her "girl you have to take my class" and went on and on how I was assembling a totally hot class in the spring and gave her all the info to get it. Oh the things I said...talkign so freely and open. Before that we had hit it off becuase we were reading the Vampire Diaries (I know I know, not great literature but they are really fun its like a guilty pleasure) So she says would you remember me and I said Oh sure ofcourse. After she left the other girls told me she had taken my class and failed it. You pretty much have to quit coming to recive an F from me. You have to not take the final--the first F I gave to someone who took all the tests and completed the class just happened this past semester so she must not have taken the final. I had no idea I had taught her. ITs really totally freakish. I stand by my methods and know that I ALWAYS act with humility and decorum in the classroom so I have nothing to be ebarrassed over but damn it was weird to be talking to a former student and not know it. |
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I survived the week. Adam and I drove to and from PA for Aunt Dee's visitation in 48 hours. Basically, we were on the road 26 out of those 48 hours. It was grueling. I'm so thankful Adam decided to come along because I think I would have been even more delirious had I been by myself. That is just too much driving. I could never be a truck driver. We came home and realized that the housekeepers had accidentally locked Jarvis Cocker in the closet on Tuesday. Yes. This means that poor Jarvis was locked in the closet for at least 48 hours, if not a little longer. Needless to say, we had to rent a RugDoctor and clean the carpet in the closet, wash clothes, and throw away stuff that was just too disgusting to salvage after making that trip. Oh well. At least Jarvis is alive and well. I'm ready for a fun and chill weekend. :o) |
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I had such an exciting day. We debuted a beautiful manuscript by a local turn of the century artist (Howard Weedon), and had a reception to recoginize the donor who is this big time Nashville lawyer. I worked like a dog on this recieption and I think it turned out real nice and the table was as pretty and fine as any spread in Huntsville. Now my mamma taught me good how to set a fine table. I was invited along with my boss to dinner at 801 Franklin, thats the real nice place to eat in town. I enjoyed myself
immensely and felt like my whit, intelligence, and beauty was appriciated. I dont really feel liek that often but there was just just the perfect amount of sexual humor to make the evening interesting and invigorating. At the end the leader of our little party picked up the check (as it turned out he owned stock in the resteraunt). Lord there is no telling how much it was since they bought two bottle of fine wine and it was understood that he was getting the check but I leaned over quietly and said, "how much do I owe you?" I dont know why, I guess it was becuase dad would always pick up the check when a group was together and he appriciated people offering. I think it surprised Cutter and gave him the chance of saying how much he enjoyed my presence at dinner. He is such a fine man. I am glad that he is on our library board. Lets see there was something else I wanted to record. Oh yes, using Lindseys phrasing "creepy" I said to our little group, Would you liek to hear about the creepy thing I did at the Leonard Cohen concert and they loved it. |
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This sounds not so good becuas eI havent been practising lately. But today was a holiday so mamma got her squeeze box out and danced herself to the end of love. I have also been listening to my L. Cohen music non stop since the concert. Its made me crazy this week, crazy in a good freaking mood. I even threw a pack of ciggs to a homeless dude who crawled up from under governors drive bridge. I mean I bullzied it and it bounced of the middle of his chest. The next day I was still feeling totally humane so I decided to give this other homeless dude who I know well through Mike a ride to AA becuase it was raining. He is a Navy vet so I did a good deed and recognized the vets in my classes. Thank god my classes were all sweet this week. I would have hate to of had to be a ball buster while I was feeling so good. went to a managers meeting as a sit in for my boss. Methinks managers meetings are a soul sucking waste of time, but at the same time I found myself almost dominating it.Our department has so much cool stuff going on. It was pretty weird. This morning I dug out Dad's flag that he always put out on patrotic holidays. It really felt nice doing that on the holiday instead of being at work. I even swam this morning and there were no creeps in the pool.   This one I accidently uploaded so thought I would go ahead and post it  |
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EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP. Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!! Thanks ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mhwest and dnewhall for helping out! --- On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice. Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials. We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait! As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work. |
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Today, Noah's godmother died. From the first time that I went to Pennsylvania, Dee always went above and beyond to make me feel welcome and loved. She took her role as godmother seriously and devoted herself to Noah's happiness. She had some heart trouble about three weeks ago, and they released her to come home on Friday. Thankfully, Noah spoke with her on Friday. She died today in her bathroom with one of her sisters and her best friend there by her side and while they waited on the ambulance. Though it wasn't a total shock, I had really thought she was on the up and up. |
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so all weekend me and mike have been moving around rotten out and burned railroad ties. Its was fun but damn I am sore all over. When I do things like that I like to wear my steel toed tennies and my leather hat. I had the song The Gypsy wife stuck in my head and Mike started calling me his gypsy wife. I kind of like that. Even though he wrote it about his break up with his wife I love the song and I like feeling like someones gypsy. I even wore a swishy skirt when we went to fresh market. While we were standing in line Mike started dancing around me unloading the basket. An old woman came up to us and said something about Waking up in the morning and decided to be joyous, that happy and joyous were two different things. As were walking tot he car I said something about it being odd that she would say something, I mean he was practically doing pirouettes around me. Mike said that people will tell you what they need to hear and e decided she just needed to reasure herself. Here is a pic of me and my hat. Isnt it cute. I havent worn it in a long time. Also this is a pic of my concert t. I thinkI am going to wear it to school tomorrow. hhaaa but I wont show G becuase he would never let me live it down.   Brandy located this |
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today was kind of a trying day. It swooped in on me while I was still in a transcendental state of being from the Cohen concert. Everything was difficult today. The easiest and best part of the day was bringing rotten railroad ties from a neighbors yard to ours to line our nature trails. That was right up my ally today. It got eaten by trying to help mother pick out an oil painting. The whole experience of trying to keep hubby and mumsey happy stressed me out. So now I steal some time for myself because I dont really feel like talking. For some reason I feel dont feel like talking or sharing and sometimes thats when you need to share the most. Actually, just becuas eI dont feel like talking doesnt mean that I cant murder the english language and hack out a bunch of fucked up disconted sentence that are in essence random thoughts. Did I mention the concert was just Cohen and his band and it was 3 hours long and he had 30 min of encores, pretty much emtied out my savings to see him but it was worth it. --Thought 1--Brandy has written up an awesome short recap of Leonard's concert and has searched through heaps of concert footage to post about 4 or 5 of our favorite songs from the 2009 tour that were our favorites. It has been made a public post I think and can be found here http://karmabuena.livejournal.com/446956.htmlI may repost the ones she found at different intervals this week as I listen t them. Its just hard to belive that we were in the same room with that voice and the heart that brought those songs. A thousand kisses deep is tagged in on the back of this clip. I dont know there are so many awesome things to choose from, but the ones like this one the B found are really highlights. The band he assembeld was fucking unbelivable. and those bitches can sing and that guy on the sax and wind instruments, all I can say is that his mouth can do awesome oral things as he is king of reeds & winds. Cohen was awesome and sounds just like he does on recordings. His peom A Thousand Kisses deep really awsome!!! I loved singing our fav Cohen songs all the way. It made me think about that one perfect moment in summer when we were driving down river road listenogn to Bird on a wire, Marianne, Suzanne and Chelsea Hotel, Waiting for the miracle, and I'm your man. --Thought 2--Impressions of the concert...I was struck at how Leonard would kneel on his knees to sing and his graciousness at taking his hat off when he gave the spotlight up for solos of the back band. He was a little man and skin and bones. --thought 3--I wish I could have given a copy of my little book to Leonard so I asked around till I met the guy in charge of merchandise (after purchasing to 'Songs of Love and Hate' t-shirts ) and asked him of he could see Leonard got it. Figured whyt he hell not. It is probably beyond goofy and almost to goofy to admit to but I needed to send a copy out in the world to land where it may. --THought 4--tomorrow I hope to spend a whole unfettered day with Mike --Thought 5--I drank tonight, dont want to all those calories in my body but I just needed a good nights sleep and I wanted my eyes to get tired and dizzy. well I just fell asleep at tmy computer, prob should go to bed, |
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Ahh, me.
On Thursday, Susanna and I went to see Leonard Cohen. We sat 8th row, center and watched Leonard give us his all. He was surrounded by musicians' musicians, and everything about the concert was in the best of taste. We stayed at a hotel right across the street, which was nice. On Friday, we went to the Pancake Pantry and then worked off our french toast in the hotel's gym. We had a leisurely drive back and sang our favorite Leonard Cohen songs while driving through the rolling hills of Tennessee. On the whole, we had a much needed and totally worthwhile girlcation.
Famous Blue Raincoat...
I'm Your Man... The quintessential Leonard Cohen song
If It Be Your Will... Leonard and the Webb Sisters
The Gypsy Wife... One of our fave songs from the concert
Also, I'm crushing hardcore on Dino Soldo. He had us swooning. :o)
Today I judged Trumbauer and then went to watch Gavin's last soccer game of the season. It's been a good weekend, I must say.
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The past couple days have been busy but good. Tomorrow we go see Leonard!!! yeah! and we decided to go balls to the wall and stay in Nashville for the night at the downtown Sheraton! yep, total uptown girls, its going to be an awesome "girlcation" as Brandy says. Today in my class I turned my notes over and a sheet was missing. I said out loud, a page of my notes are missing. But I just used the handout and made sure I covered everything and went on. It was fine, but disconcerting. I like my neat tidy outlines. Last night someone at furniture class was sneazing and coughing. I probably should have stayed home with my sweety. My Mike story for the day is a good one. I wish I could have recorded this becuase it was funny. But I found something on some turkey hot dogs and Mike came in and turned on the skull lights that play the Halloween theme song and I ran over and was chacinghim around witht he gross hotdogs and he was screaming approprately to the music. IT was pretty funny. we have also been watching the urban free run championships in London. Its when they run up walls and flip and and jump pillars. It was really cool. The new joke is we do everything in urban freestyle and pretend to be doing flips and shit. so now we dont just vacuum urban free style! its pretty fun. I have really been enjoying the Vampire Diaries the books. It took me like 7 chapters to get into it. But now its really good. you know, I really like Damon, the villian brother, in the is book. he is so terrible but deliciously so...I was telling Mike about it because we have been watching the show that on the show I didnt really like his character at first but now I think Elana should explore those other posibilities. Sookie would =) but Sookie is older than Elana. I was discussing all this with Mike and I said, I cant belive I said elana should throw over Stefan for Damon, and Mike said, "Its no surprise to me, you like the bad boys" I said What! |
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went to a great talk tonight at UAH. It was about women in the civil war. I was waiting to talk to the woman afterwards and in the mean time I found the only other person in the room to talk to who wasnt paired up talking with someone and introduced myself and struck up a nice conversaton with her. She asked me if I was going to get my PhD and I told her about being a reject and so on...Turns out she went to the play and I sold her a book. The guy who was dominating the speaker was someone I knew (and he is autistically sweet and unaware when someone wants out of a conversation) and for some reason I just start gathering my stuff and I said something like Lets go and save her. She said, after looking over, "I came with him" I said something nice about him and said that I just wanted to talk tot he woman so I was going to have to interrupt them. I dont think she was upset or mad or anything it was just awkward. I cant belive the randomness of that. I cant belive I even let that slip out of my mouth. Its like...internal dialogue please. Other than that, my hair looked so cute tonight. I rode up there with my hair still in hot rollers so the set was fab. really curly. I got to sit with one of my fav people and hear his thoughts on it. |
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Halloween was a good one this year. We had more kiddos last year, but this year we had 46, so not bad not bad. Last night we watched Haunting in Connecticut and it was so scary. Even Mike yelled out loud once and he never gets scared. It was fun. We palled around with our neighbor. Now I have to stop eating cany. |
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