Girlyman!

Tonight was a 3 part-harmony music night at Freight and Salvage in Berkeley! So much fun to see Girlyman (the link is to a SF Chronicle article) again this year, they played so much of their new music -- which is good, because I think Nate is getting kind of tired of the old stuff - so he's taking to speeding up the songs a bit when he's the lead vocalist. Overall they seem way more comfortable with the crowd, with lots of amazing banter - but I think the schedule is wearing on Nate's voice. Ty's voice is amazing, much stronger than last year, and she really can hold the group together with the strength and uniqueness of her voice. I can't wait for their new CD to come out, but it sounds like we'll have to wait about 6 more months.
Girlyman is one of the groups I found on Salon.com during my great effort to introduce new music into my life about 2 years ago. BI (Before ipod) - which was a dark time. I realized that I had listened to the same 3 CDs at work for 2 years. The CDs were good, but not THAT good. Salon used to have a daily download, which they still have, but it has changed a little. I haven't yet been able to set it up correctly on my Mac. It is clearly time to figure out how to download the free music for my ipod, because I don't want to turn into a 3 CD gal again.

I am very very very tired

Last night I was up until a little past four working on a paper that
I have been procrastinating about at work for over a month. And this
was the second draft. I finally had to give myself a threat - in the
form of an email - to get the damn thing done. I wrote to the person
waiting on me, "if you don't see a draft from me in your emailbox
tomorrow morning, you can send out my first draft. " Somehow, it
worked. I finished the paper before starting time on the east coast.
However, this threat did not prevent me from procrastinating all day
at work, into the evening, and up until 6 or 7 when I finally half-
heartedly started working on the paper.
It was a libraryland paper. All about library 2.0 concerns - though
as a private law library, we are still sitting way back in the
library 1.0 arena. I think I hate the topic of our backward portal,
our sorry attempts to wrest access to our library portal page from
IT, and actually have a voice in specifying content, putting our
thousands and thousands of dollars of resources front and center,
where they can actually do some good. But I digress. I really decided
to log in so that I could post a list. I decided that in my
exhausted state - the best idea was a list. It can be titled:
Interesting things about today in list form:
1. I called in sick
2. I was actually exhausted and thought I'd go back to bed, but
instead, I turned on my computer, logged in to work at 8 am, and
worked solidly until 1:00 pm.
3. I participated in a work conference call from home where I
attempted to explain why all librarians had received draft version 2
followed by draft version 1.
4. My colleague librarians could have cared less about which draft,
my justifications, et. cetera, they were simply relieved I wrote it
so that they did not have to.
5. I am broke, but I went clothes shopping this afternoon so that I
would not be tempted to take a nap and get myself off schedule.
6. I bought 3 FLAX tops and 1 pair of FLAX pants, and I should be
smacked by the great budget gods.
7. The FLAX items were on sale!
8. After an hour of shopping, I realized that I forgot to put money
in the meter, phew! no ticket. I put money in the meter and continued
shopping.
9. I got a ticket because my meter had expired.
10. I posted about 5 things on my delicious account today. I think 3
of them had to do with RSS.
11. I'm afraid this is a boring list, but the idea sounded really
great when I thought of it earlier.
12. I'm too tired to think of anything more, and I am now going to bed.
Goodnight!