fantastic links!

jenstark.com & cottonmonster.com

a preliminary?

whoa

The show. was. amazing. Not EVEN exaggerating a bit; we met up with Joe and Lloyd and got drinks (big, BIG drinks) and made it there right as the opener was finishing and before it got too packed in. They rocked SO hard, we were all loving it. Good times. Then afterwards, I was convinced (easily) to go out on Beale, which was lethal, but did it anyway. I paid for it last night and so far today! The time is passing very, very slowly, and I feel flattened. Dinner with Michael's family tonight! I hope to impress them with my bloodshot eyes and raspy voice. Although I won't be able to hear them anyway due to the ringing in my ears. ROCK & ROLL!

here's a kittie from Sarah's house.

QotSA

This must be what the inside of my mind looks like at 4pm when I'm desperately ready to leave work. I would've expected much duller colors. Kinda looks like a planet or a Tide ad.
Driving home last night, I got a desperate call from my sister telling me to go to the FedEx forum RIGHT NOW--they were giving away the last pair of tickets to Justin Timberlake. I made it home, skipped the gym, and after a long argument involving my sister dad AND mom made it down there. They did the drawing, picked no less than 4 entries (you had to be there at 7 to accept if you won). All H names; my sister was freaking out. We didn't win, but we stayed home and watched Grandma's Boy and drank lemonade cocktails. By no means a dissappointing night!

And TONIGHT is Queens of the Stone Age. Way psyched. I'm feeling pretty good at work today, so I really hope that this translates into an exploration day into new design tools and tricks.

THIS is infuriating. http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/07/terrorist.surveillance.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

let's just say...

...you are not the destroyer!

I can't believe how much I've slacked on this. Boo for me. Harry Potter was fantastic, I went through it in roughly 18 hours. Beautiful. And now I'm feeling very choked up every time something Harry Potter related comes on TV or interweb. I also found a great band, Harry and the Potters, that is two guys around my agge who are the official founders of Wizard Rock.

My BFF has moved in with me! It's been about a week now, very fun. She's the most considerate person I've ever met, I aspire to be that way towards others. Tomorrow night we will be attending Queens of the Stone Age at the New Daisy. I've been waiting several years to see them, and now I'll have my chance! And then Harlan T Bobo and Daniel Johnston on Thursday. A very sleepless and expensive week. Tonight, Mr. Justin Timberlake is performing at the FedEx Forum, and I'm really, really, VERY sad that I cannot attend. It 'll be spectacular, I'm sure. Very $$$ though. Rachel and I will watch Grandma's Boy and make jewelry instead for consolation.

Work is about the same, I'm terribly unmotivated and fairly dissappointed in myself. I need to branch out. I had a terrible freelance experience this past few weeks with a certain mayoral candidate that ended badly (not her fault, more so on her coordinator). I was hoping that it would be my breakout into Memphis freelance.

simpsonized!

...and only one more day until the long-awaited book!

RAWR!

So I had this dream that my sister and I were in a beach house, and she had kind of acquired a jaguar. He just kinda hung out, didn't do much of anything. Very odd. However, I do have a black cat... maybe she's manifesting her self-image through my dreams.
I went to Atlanta on my first business trip! I left with my co-designer on Thursday, and we cut it very close with our time. But everything went ok, and we got there on time. My director took us to lunch at a very nice Italian restaurant there, and that night we had a party for the opening of our new showroom at the Atlanta mart. WHICH is an enormously huge complex, by Friday evening my feet were suffering. Then my flight home got cancelled and through a difficult series of events, I got home Saturday morning. My wonderful boyfriend picked me up VERY early on a Saturday, which was really sweet. After a good long nap through the middle of the day, my sister and I got ready for 311 at Mud Island, went for giant beers with an old friend and fellow 311 devotee, and then finally met up with my best friend. It was fantastic.
Now it's back to work. I'm getting some opportunities at WEVL to fool around with some graphics, and I want to take advantage of that as much as possible!