Random Bits of the Past

In list form, here was the past 30 days:

• Photos from the Nightfall party - thanks to Kathleen for being the Mistress of Snap(shots). http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?Uc=otcne8v.by8goq0r&Uy=-v7id8w&Upost_signin=Slideshow.jsp%3Fmode%3Dfromshare&Ux=0&mode=fromshare&conn_speed=1
  
• I FAILED the Lateral Forces exam because: 1. I didn't have enough caffeine. 2. My calculator started crunching letters instead of numbers and 3. the test proctor was a heavy breather. NCARB will give me a new chance at the Force/s in 6 months. I may need a light saber.
  
• Witnessed a 50 year old woman get on stage and sing some songs with a DJ, a cadre of dancers, comfortingly curved LCD screens, and 40,000 fans. I think her name was Madonna and she did a superb version of Like a Prayer that had the Petco Park audience in musical solidarity. This was also the night Obama became President Elect so the lines between concert and rally blurred like a 70 year old and the driver's license vision test.
  
• I tricked my girlfriend/sidekick/chef/wife/obsession/mini-moose into moving in with me by telling her to get her new Driver's License with my address on it. Its working...
  
• Last but not least, I have to express my extreme disappoinment that my favorite Aussie singer, Missy Higgins had to reschedule her San Diego concert at the Belly UP from November to December, when I will be out of town. So disappointing!

La Muette

1. The title of a song I'm listening to right now by Yann Tiersen
2. Wikipedia: The meaning of the name "muette" is not certain. In modern French, it denotes a dumb woman; muete, a spelling which appears frequently up to the end of the 18th century and signifies a pack of deerhouunds.

It's a schizomatic little song by Yann Tiersen that puts me in a cinematic mood. Listen to this with headphones on and the world around you becomes a ballet.

i want my MTV...really, I just want my camera

While I was in France last spring, after taking a ba-ZEE-llion pictures, on my last day in Paris on some comfortingly cobbled street my memory card bleated "ERROR" "ERROR" "ERROR". I cried out every french swear word I knew (which was just one, over and over) and then a few minutes later the error went away. However, when I got back to the states, after downloading photos, the camera went on permanent ERROR.

The architecture exam licensing and all of it's glorious expenses has been my priority so my inner-picture-taking child cries every day over the death of her camera. If CANON is reading this, will you puh-leeeze send me a new camera to replace the lousy one you sold me five years ago! Chese and Rice! My ancient film camera, a Nikon S90 I bought back in college is still going strong even after dropping it in an Eau Claire, Wi parking lot running after Tipper Gore (on assignment for my college newspaper, you think I'd do this on my own?). It works even after I'd had it in storage and the AA batteries went all rabidly foamy and toxic. The Nikon worked, even after putting it in an atomic particle accelerator and turning it on HIGH and smashing it into neutrinos from Mars. Canon, you suck.