...conveniently located minutes south of downtown

Got an ipod today! Finally. Although with the new color screen and photo stuff, maybe this is the one time it actually paid off to be the last one on the block with the newest toy... I guess it was actually the same thing with my digicam. Hemmed and hawed just long enough to get the newest Elph the day after it came out, me not even knowing such a thing existed until I got to the store. So I'm VERY excited about the ipod. I'm planning on staying in tonight and dorking out with it 'til the wee hours. It's an early birthday gift from my mom (now feeling slightly guilty about posting her drunk picture...), given just in time for my big trip to the Big Apple next week. Had my last class this morning (yeah, on a fucking Saturday...) and now have one whole month to do absolutely nothing but travel, download tons of music, read books that I actually WANT to read, internet the day away and sleep in as late as possible. Sometimes dreams really do come true...

OK, so it's been a while since I've written anything... But I finally got my camera back, so I'll try to update this shit more often. Last weekend I had to go to San Diego for some stupid school stuff and my mom decided to come along, which was OK because it meant I got to stay at the Hilton instead of at the horrible hostel I stayed at last time I was there. We walked over to Joe's Crab Shack for drinks Saturday night, where my mom proceeded to get WASTED on four Rolling Rocks. On the way back to the hotel she saw this wooden statue of a peg-legged sailor and grabbed his crotch while trying to give him a kiss. Seriously, without any prompting from me. Then she started laughing hysterically, but pulled it together long enough to recreate her pose for this picture.

Down the street from the hotel there was this inflatable ride carnival thing. One of the main features was this Sinking Titanic slide. I've been seeing this thing on and off for several years now. It makes me wonder when somebody will start marketing a Twin Towers bungee jumping attraction.

So, also, I was in San Diego for Street Scene a few weeks ago and took some pictures of the bands we saw with Taylor's loaned camera. I was planning to post some of them, but, by now, am totally over it.

Confidential to whoever keeps getting here by searching for Britt Daniel on Technorati:
you can go see about 20 Spoon pictures (and some others) here.

Yesterday I was trapped in my own home, unable to get out. I couldn't go to school or to the acupuncture appointment I had made to help me quit smoking. My front door has been swelling due to the humidity and yesterday it finally reached the point of being unopenable. I had to sit around until 4:30 when Taylor came over to bust it open from the outside.