so i get along really well with all of my neighbors. a few months ago a new couple moved into the flat upstairs. we always seem to crosspaths because they have to walk past my garden-oasis-patio to get to the parking lot.

he’s a muscle-guy complete w/ backwards cap and a soul-patch. she’s a waitress at hooters and is highly qualified for the position. highly.

each time he walks by he says hello w/greetings that have ranged from sport, bro, brother, buddy, champ, etc.

so tonight i was hanging out w/ buster and i think i was lauding buster’s puppiness when he walks by w/ his aforementioned backward cap and gym bag and he says, “hey homerun, how’s it going?”

homerun?

hearing it even made buster do that puppy-head-tilt-thing. dude, who says that?

after a few seconds of laughing to myself i realized that he can say whatever he wants because he’s rocking a hot hooter’s chick and i’m….well i have over 400 channels on cable…and a blog.

homerun, out!

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today was the schizophrenia conference at the med center so the parking lots were packed by 730am. this meant that despite my early arrival to campus yesterday’s car wash was going to get fucked b/c i had to park in the unpaved/dirt parking lot.

by the way, what kind of campus still has unpaved parking? jesus.

while i was grumbling about having to walk 2.2 miles from my car to school, i opened up my bottle of Sobe Green Tea and found this under the cap:

in case you cant make out the picture it says, “How you doin?’

this immediately turned my frown upside down.

in fact, it made me feel so good that i’m thinking about making Sobe Green Tea the OFFICIAL drink of this little blog.

ok time for the treadmill.

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i just found $10 in my shirt pocket.

this is honestly turning out to be my week.

rawk.

maybe we could start some sort of search for a willing accomplice?

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last night i had trouble falling asleep, not because i was anxious but because my head was swirlling around and i loved every minute of it.

i ended up watching constantine on hbo until like 2am. jesus-god that movie sucked…and not just b/c of keanu.

also i keep going through the starbucks drive-thru and forgetting to use my sbux gift card. i fear that the universe is getting back at me for driving past ‘stell’s coffee shop‘ to enjoy the convenience that is corporate-mega-coffee.

after further thought, i’ve just decided that the universe doesnt care about coffee….but it does care about bright eyes. have i mentioned them lately?

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dont act crazy. go here and listen/watch bright eyes on today’s ‘morning becomes eclectic’.

oh yeah, and you’re going to need real player which is kcrw’s only fuck up.

while i’m busy being a fanboy, let me remind you that the new album “cassadaga” came out today.

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tonight’s music is from dave. enjoy “stolen away on 55th & 3rd” from “stand up”

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“Hello again….
Seem like forever between now and then.
You look the same…
I mean you look different but you haven’t changed.”

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so besides watching my favorite show, i’m jazzed because new episodes of ER are airing on thursday.

if at this point you’re thinking that i’m a joker for watching ER in it’s 108th season i just have three words for you: JOHN FUCKING STAMOS…that’s right…Uncle Jesse from full house.

oh and tomorrow is tuesday the 10th which means that bright eyes is going to be on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic. join the hipster movement.

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Jeff : oh yeah, I saw this and it said “penis” in all caps so i thought of you

Erin: haha that’s funny….penises are gross

Jeff : fuck yeah they are…i can barely look at my own….and it’s awesome

Erin: hahahaha

Jeff: but maybe as a culture we should just move on
Jeff: BAM….that’s a blog post
Jeff : p.s. sometimes i try to bait you into saying interesting things so that i can blog about it

Erin: i fear you will be disappointed tonight, i am so pooped

Jeff: it’s ok…i’ve got a post that says penis, erin and gross and that’s plenty of google keywords for one night…oh and no one says ‘pooped’ anymore.

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i’m exhausted today for no discernable reason.

i keep thinking back on the weekend trying to figure out what the hell i did to find myself yawning all day long. oh and for the record, yawning non-stop is not only unattractive but it also doesnt instill a lot of confidence in your professors.

“so carter, you think that experiment xyz will work?”

“absolutely sir, because if we look at data from th—YAWN…..excuse me i was sayi—-YAWN.”

for some reason telling this story reminded me that i have to call the vet to schedule buster for his neutering.

i actually started the week off pretty well; i woke up early and went for a nice jog w/ my neighbor so maybe the sleepiness is my body’s way of telling me to fuck off and give up on this whole excercise fad that all the thin people rave about.

as i write this, buster is running in circles around the couch, so it would appear that the balance of energy in my apartment is well intact.

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in honor of easter i thought i would post this picture of a baby duck’s ass.

also, here’s a great essay from NPR’s “This I Believe Series”.

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tonight, i’m bored and am flipping through my blog archives because laughing at jeff from 2003 is a great time. What best I can tell, this “official blog” started up in April of 2003, even though I remember people asking me back in 1998 why I would write things on the “World Wide Web” about my personal life. Wasnt I afraid of stalkers and shit?

tonight i came across this entry from april of 2004. misty and i had gone on a double date w/ stonebraker and his girl to see Mitch Hedberg at the Improv. This was a big deal b/c all of us were in school and perpetually trapped by the confines of campus.

We had a great time that night; all was right w/ the world.

referencing back to that time and place, i wonder if i knew that deep down misty and i would break up a few weeks later? no, i didnt.

about a year later, mitch was found dead in his hotel room from a drug overdose.

i guess he got the worse end of the deal.

this is why i have a blog; what seems like rambling today, will be a snapshot of the past tomorrow.

thanks for being part of it.

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the onion‘s online store has the best schwag.

cheat to win.

have you ever wondered what it would be like to watch two cocksuckers have a shouting match on national tv? wonder no more.

i cant help but think that as soon as they went to a commercial that these two jerkoffs just started getting it on.

“are you as turned on as i am?!”

“more!”

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so today brandon is 30 years old. we had his party last night in orange county and took tons of pictures…none of which will hopefully ever see the light of day.

this morning leanne and brandon managed to find the motivation/energy to go to disneyland and as i write this i’m hoping that he’s enjoying his 30th by screaming like a little girl on space mountain.

happy birthday buddy!

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so if you use a mac and twitter than this post is all yours…

i’ve been using beta versions of twitterific 2.0 and somehow i missed that it had come out of beta and gone final.

download version 2.0 here from iconfactory.

oh and here’s my twitter profile page.

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so tonight i’m leaving buster in the care of the neighbors and driving out to orange county to celebrate brandon’s birthday. rumors have it that the guy is turning 30 tomorrow and we’ll make sure to highlight this fact on a regular basis throughout the course of the evening.

i’m hoping we stop for dinner at some point in the evening because i havent eaten today and i’m hungry like a big ol’ hibernating bear.

and to wrap up this blog post about nothing: buster’s nose seems to be changing colors. his once jet-black puppy nose is now kind brown in the center. is this normal or should i be putting some kind of ointment on it?

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….everything will be alright, for now goodbye.

my friend, goodbye.

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yesterday erin was talking about her love for kcrw and “morning becomes eclectic” and i thought i would take this opportunity to a) link to erin’s blog and b) to let everyone know that conner oberst (bright eyes) will be on next tuesday’s show.

oh fuck, yes.

if you cant listen live, the kcrw crew has a past show’s archive.

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