And for tonight, because it is late and I am too afraid to think of the many school-related things I have to do, lest my head explode, here’s a random list of things:<\/p>\n
1. [poking her head out of the hole of life where there’s no time for music] The kids are right: Voxtrot<\/a>, they are indeed good. And I could have even seen them play last night or the night before! Oh, I am SO good at getting a clue one day late.<\/p>\n 2. Man, I need to get me to an indiepop blog or start listening to WFMU online<\/a> again or something. I miss music! And listening to (and singing along with) “Panic in Detroit” and “Cracked Actor” on my 20-year-old Aladdin Sane tape in the car on the way to get Gus from school is not cutting it.<\/p>\n 3. Jonathan just said “You could bake a loaf of bread every single fucking day! You can scoff all you want, Maura, but you can’t have any of the bread!” I leave it to you to discover which story in today’s paper inspired those statements. (Oh, okay, I’ll give you the link<\/a>.)<\/p>\n 4. Really, why do I even try to think of things to write in this blog at all? I should just give the running record of what Jonathan says. This minute: “What happened to all of that pie at the Harvest Festival (Gus’ school fundraiser) last weekend?! The cleanup committee CLEANED UP, that’s what!”<\/p>\n 5. My hair is really bugging me recently, making me once again wonder about buzzing it<\/a>. I think I’m still too chicken, but I did decide that when I am old, I will have dreadlocks. Or shave my head. Or both! Dreads seemed like a good plan because I am forever twisting my hair and with dreads you actually NEED to do that. But then I looked on a how-to-make-dreads website and it seems like it’s actually a lot of work, which is kind of the opposite of what I want.<\/p>\n