1. “Mosquito” — Vanessa Par­adis — M&J
2. “Out of Time” — Melanie C — This Time
3. “The Pocket Knife” — PJ Har­vey — Uh Huh Her
4. “Last Thing on My Mind” — Bananarama — Please Your­self
5. “Alfie” — ONJ — Indigo Women of Song
6. “Shower Scene” — Saint Eti­enne — Fin­is­terre
7. “Fascination” — Everything But the Girl — Eden
8. “Nobody Does It Better” — Carly Simon — Reflec­tions
9. “Hope for the Hopeless” — A Fine Frenzy — One Cell in the Sea
10. “Stacked Crooked” — The New Pornog­ra­phers — Twin Cin­ema

So, it’s Fri­day again, and it rained all night last night, and when I got to my car this morn­ing, the floor on the pas­sen­ger side was sop­ping wet again. Some­where in that damned sun­roof, there is a leak and it’s pour­ing water onto the floor. It’s dis­gust­ing, and it stinks, and I’m fed up. I did a quick cal­cu­la­tion, and if I got rid of my car I would save over $200 a month in expenses. Add that to the rest of the money that I am going to save this year, and it will be close to $2000 a month in cash … in my pocket. I don’t really know what I would do with all that spare change, but it sure sounds nice.

I have had a headache all week. It’s get­ting kind of old by now. Don’t really know how to get rid of it. Excedrin and Advil don’t work any­more. Nei­ther does sleep.

V has a marathon on Sun­day. He’s run­ning a half-marathon, but still, that’s pretty major. He’s run the course a cou­ple of times already, and he’s been able to get it done in the same amount of time both times … less than two hours, one-fifty-something. That is pretty awe­some. I’m impressed by any­one who runs a marathon, half or full. It’s a huge amount of work and train­ing and men­tal psych­ing. I am far too seden­tary these days to even con­sider run­ning around the block let alone a race. This is the first one, he’s run­ning a sec­ond one next month, another half-marathon in Oak­land. I don’t know how he does it, hon­estly. Makes me look like a lazy slob, really.

I made snick­er­doo­dles last night. They came out look­ing like sil­ver dol­lar pan­cakes. They spread out quite a bit while cook­ing, and they’re much thin­ner than I expected them to be. I was hop­ing for a lit­tle more puffy, but they taste OK, so what­ever. Not sure I’ll do that again.

I am so over this.

So, it’s Fri­day again. It feels like a mil­lion years since last week­end. I haven’t been a bit busy at work, and I think that’s what causes time to dilate for me. Or maybe that’s a com­mon con­cep­tion that I’ve never really dis­cussed with any­one yet.

We are this close to hand­ing over the keys to Henry Street. Last night was a major push to clean the whole apart­ment. It was pretty clean to begin with, and since V’s craigslist win, all that’s left is a few boxes and a lot of stuff to donate. The Good­will has seri­ously made out on all the stuff we’ve been drop­ping off. But for some rea­son, I think it would be harder to sell clothes than fur­ni­ture. What­ever. I mean, every sin­gle room has been swept / mopped / vac­u­umed, the kitchen com­pletely san­i­tized, we even sprayed the oven before we left last night. I took every piece of the fridge apart and washed it (that was com­pletely nec­es­sary and nasty — let’s not have that hap­pen again).

So I guess tonight we’ll make a final run to the Good­will and take a few more boxes home. Sat­ur­day, after my class, we’ll do the last work. Sun­day, we’ll drop the keys off, and call it a day. Adieu. Farewell. GTFO.

I know memes are so 2002, but I can’t help it. I love this one prob­a­bly because it is all about ran­dom music on the pod. I love to shuf­fle. I have accu­mu­lated so much music, and I for­get that I have most of it, so it’s always a sur­prise to hear Dream Acad­emy pop up. Hahawhat?

1. Too Far (North Pole Mix) — Kylie Minogue
2. One Dream — Dream Academy
3. Hook — PJ Har­vey
4. Aller sim­ple — Isabelle Boulay
5. Till Death Do Us Part — Madonna
6. Slow Ride — Bon­nie Raitt
7. That’s Life — Frank Sinatra
8. We Live Together — Pet Shop Boys
9. Detec­tive — No Doubt
10. You Won’t Find This — Car­rie Underwood

And one more, because how can you refuse Rufus?

11. Imag­i­nary Love — Rufus Wainwright

Happy Fri­day.

1. Food :: Pan­cakes and patty melts
2. Death :: Sweet release
3. Cafe­te­ria :: Meatballs
4. Need :: Want
5. Born :: Shoes
6. Stitch :: and Lilo (I’m sorry)
7. Badly :: Written
8. Blocks :: Chutes and Lad­ders (really, no idea)
9. Chuck :: Taylor
10. Spi­ral :: Perm