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• yah! Thanks to everyone who wished me happy birthday. Been a great day at cades cove! in Gatlinburg now. Pictures soon #

Pulled up Pandora to look for some Serge, but upon opening, the site, knowing me, played "'Till The Money Runs Out" by Tom Waits. I haven't heard that song in months.

Monday, May 12, 2008

The George and Dad Show

The vines had grown to the top of the fence. They’d grown over the fence and into the deck. They’d killed the grill, made the chairs impossible to sit in. They’d clogged the downspouts and were slowly but surely taking over the fabric of the house itself, prying wood from wood with their deceptive greenness.

Had a good weekend. Cason and Katie had our family over for lunch Saturday. After that, we laid low and watched a couple movies, something we never get the time to do anymore. Saw The Darjeeling Limited tonight, which I loved. Brought me back to India.

weirdness

everything is just — unsettling. I’ve got a nice buzz on — partly vodka, partly oxycodone.

But I should be nearly unconscious, which as you can see, I’m not.

It’s been a weird and [bleep]ty week, as you are aware.

Urban myths busted and homecoming roosters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXSf46Fmtek

Friday night/Saturday morning was a fun-filled time for Salemtown neighbors living around Schöne Ansicht who were awakened to graduation party-goers spilling out of a townhouse and into neighbors yards to take their pisses and to form drunken, juvenile-style fight clubs for two or three hours after midnight.

Friday night/Saturday morning was a fun-filled time for Salemtown neighbors living around Schöne Ansicht who were awakened to graduation party-goers spilling out of a townhouse and into neighbors yards to take their pisses and to form drunken, juvenile-style fight clubs for two or three hours after midnight.

Tennessee Technological University and Lee University are offering scholarships to community college students who plan to transfer. For more information, contact Pauletta Burns, pburns4@columbiastate.edu or (931) 540-2582.

Students who have received a degree or certificate from any college or who has attempted 150 percent of the published program length must request an extension of financial aid. Students must complete the extension for financial aid request by May 14. For more information or to receive the request form, contact the Office of Financial Aid (931) 540-8267.

First lady Laura Bush has accepted an invitation to the Tennessee Preservation Trust’s annual statewide conference, to be held in Columbia June 5-7, the nonprofit’s executive said.

So today, I cooked and cleaned all day long. The cleaning wasn't what I wanted to do -- but I did want a clean house. So that was worthwhile. The cooking was for me, though. Excellent day.

I made:

A proposition to increase City of Columbia property taxes by four cents will be voted on at their next meeting.

If you are a Nerdfighter who lives in the Nashville area, please demand on Eventful for Hank and John to come speak here!

After a while, the houses all start to run together.  The street names–Greenwood, Woodlawn, Greenland, Riverwood, Creekwood, Woodwood, Woodforest, Forestwood, Forestforest, Forestlawn, Lawndale, Dalewood, Woodgreen, Greenwood–all seem to come full circle after a while.  Did we drive down this street already?  Did we look at that house already?

I've been cleaning up a lot around here lately, trying to make room for the fiance, who's moving here when we get married in late June. So far, I've cleaned off one shelf of a bookshelf [still!], sold my CD player and speakers, and gotten rid of a lot of miscellaneous junk that I don't really want him to replace with junk of his own.

Ouch! What candidate do you think the folks at SNL have cast their lots with?

Nashville Restaurants and Food

I spent the weekend in eastern Tennessee, at a little place tucked in the mountains called Cades Cove. What used to be a early pioneer settlement was turned into a national park. There are original structures along the way: cabins, churches, an old mill. We ran into different wildlife, and endless breath taking views.