"I'm too clean for a scene." - Kiley Dean, Keep it Movin' [catch it at time wastin']
101 in 1001 quick update:
I've been able to slice a few more off the list.
All my bills for the month of September have been paid or will be paid by my online billpayer on time or early. This was huge for me. I'm so not the on-time bill guy (likely having lost thousands of dollars in late fees and nonsense because I've been too lame to keep track and manage my money better)...it's quite an amazing feeling actually.
Until season 5 is released later this month, I've completed Homicide: Life on the Street on DVD. Season 4 had several excellent episodes but it also had some missteps. I'm never as compelled with Lewis & Kellerman as I should be and there seemed to be far fewer big Pembleton and Bayliss cases (truth be told though I want P&B on every case while Russert and Gee deal with the interoffice politics of the baltimore PD. Yaphet Kotto is magnificent in every scene he's in and I find him woefully underused). Their are definite hints into what David Simon and Tom Fontana take with them to The Wire in this season, particularly Scene of the Crime which finds Lewis and Kellerman going head to head with a Muslim group seeking to police a housing project. Kellerman and Lewis are pelted from the apartments of the building while attempting to investigate much like Prez, Carver and Herc in the first season of the HBO Show (the Muslims vs. cops concept also got play on The Shield in a similar fashion to this Homicide episode).
Because my old Colorsync monitor blew out last night, I'm now the proud owner of a 17 inch Apple Studio Display. It's gorgeous. Everybody at Frye's was ogling it as I walked out with the sweet apple box. You're welcome to geek out now as well. Are people really paying $1700 bones for the 23 inch displays, though? Can't you get two eMacs, an iPod Mini and a happy meal for that price?
I asked my mom to have lunch with me so that I could ask her some questions (about my biological father...although those words were never said). She agreed but we still haven't done it. It's gotta go down this week, I think. It's her birthday week but it's weighing on me more with each passing day.
And now, my slacking...
I forgot to go to the town hall meeting on August 29th. It completely escaped my mind.
I haven't worked much at all on my Spanish, on losing 30 pounds, on my sit-ups or push-ups, on dance dance revolution, on my lists, on pictures, on fixing my apartment, or my volunteer projects.
I'm lame but at least I know it.
October looks like it's going to be my public transportation month. It'll be cool enough and I've been devouring books at a pretty strong clip of late (and with some methodology that I'm going to talk about in the post right after this one) and think October will be an excellent time to take the bus and the metro and read and relax and feel like I'm helping the environment and the congestion in this city in some small way.
How's your list going? What? You don't have a list? What are you waiting for?