"She's different when it's just me and her"
I'm sitting here listening to some Ben Folds on my headphones while John does homework and talking with smarshy and stiffy. I have the Blink book in front of me, which I just finished today, and am considering wither to put some quotes in from it or to just talk about how my day has gone, or how my dad is in Saudi Arabia right now and you know what, I kinda like this babbling thing right now. I am really in a serene state right now, just typing away and listening to music while eating some gummy worms, things just seem kinda right this way.
I kinda paused there for a second to talk to Stiffy about work matters, the usual Round Valley talk. I have to take a test in CPR and First Aid this year...which is kinda strange. I wonder if I even remember some of that stuff.
Oops, now smarshy has IM'd me back a response. Damn, I can't keep up with this doing IM and blog at the same time stuff.
Changed the music from Folds to Guster, didn't want to burn myself out on Folds right before his new album comes out...it would be a pity. Ah yeah, "Love for me"...great song. Awesome percussion beat in this one, pretty good harmonies as well. It moved on to "Happier" now, love that song as well. "Lose your friends, don't need them around"...such inspiring and uplifting lyrics. Man, I gotta see these guys live again...the first time I didn't even know any songs at all. Of course I didn't know any Rufus Wainwright either, but I haven't gotten into him as much as Folds or Guster.
Yeah, my dad is in Saudi right now so my mom is freaking flipping out about his safety. To be honest, he is just outside Saudi in a suburb that's name escapes me right now. He is commuting into Saudi during the day and coming back in the night to safety. Before he left he told my mom that if he is kidnapped, not to negotiate because they would kill him anyways...which made my mom absolutely insane...not to mention everyone in my family. It is not a good time to be there right now, and when he left two more terror warnings were raised in the area he is going to. It is going to be a crazy few days before he ends up back home on Thursday. He is there to try to convince the Saudi head of security to get all the workers out of the country and to just end operations there. I hope the guy listens because a couple of colgate guys have already died over there from terrorist activity and my dad just wants to get people the hell out as soon as possible. I just want him home safe as soon as possible and to take my mind off of it I have been doing non-stop work for the past two days and if I am not working, I am reading or listening to music or running...anything to keep my mind off of it. He better get his ass back in one piece.
Right now, I have nothing else to say but I would like to put in some Blink quotes, so here goes:
-If someone asks us why we made the decision we did, we can point to a number. But the truth is that for the most important decisions, there can be no certainty.
-This music takes faith. And faith isn't what the music business is about anymore. It's absolutely frustrating and it's overwhelming as well.
-Our unconcious attitudes may be utterly incompatible with our stated councious values.
-What I mean is that it is really only experts who are able to reliably account for their reactions.
-Arousal leaves us mind-blind.
-You can learn as much from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
-[it is] always possible when we take charge of the first two seconds: people can see you for who you truly are.
Song of The Day: I Spy- Guster
