I DONT KNOW YOU

lately i've been getting a lot of comments like "do you have a sister?", "did you go to _____ school" "you look so familiar". i'm no stranger to comments like this actually i get that quite a bit. i guess there are a million people in the world that look exactly like me running around. today some chick asked me "do you have a cousin named amelia?" my response was "no, i'm not from here" and she looked at me like a grew another head. what don't you understand? i have one cousin that lives in california and she's in her 40s and not named amelia. then she said "she looks just like you". comments like that really piss me off. whenever you see the person that allegedly looks like you they never do. in my past experiences the person is not very attractive. so i guess everyone thinks i look like a chubby homely nondescript person that has been cloned about 2 dozen times.

last week i had a woman who is at least 35 ask me if i went to high school with her. im sure the look on my face read something like fuck off i wasn't even in high school when you graduated. again my response was i'm not from california. then she proceeded to tell me that she's originally from pittsburgh but they moved to california when like 17 and she graduated from whatever high school that i didn't go to. then the same woman asked me on friday where i went to college. she said "i know i already asked you about high school but where did you go to college?" so i said "i went to school in philadelphia, the university of the arts. i graduated in 2006" (emphasis on the 2006. and like the other lady she too missed the reference to the year i graduated which was probably the year she turned 38!

even if i thought i knew somebody i'd try to figure out how before i asked them about it and i'd maybe ask them their name to confirm it. so now not only am i nondescript but i'm old too. awesome.

song lyrics of the day:
all around me are familiar faces
worn out places, worn out faces
bright and early for the daily races

Boo Tuesdays
so the pineapple express did actually come. it's been raining all day. i didn't go to workout because when i got the the interstate the cars were backed up two exits and i said screw it. plus my back hurts.

today i wish i could just stay in jammies and curl up on the couch and sleep but i can't. i really think tuesdays are my least favorite days. i teach a class in danville and they changed the time so now it's earlier. well that wouldn't be a big deal if i had nothing else to do. however i have to teach a tap class literally the next exit off of the interstate 4 and a half hours later. the problem is i don't want to have to drive the 30 mins (but in the rain probably 45) home and then repeat the process later. so i think i'm going to go to a movie. i'm going to go see the new ellen page movie whip it. it looks really funny. it's about roller derby. incase you haven't heard it stars ellen page, marcia gay harden, drew berrymore (who also directed it). here's the trailer:





....i just hope i don't fall asleep in it. i've been known to do that.

song lyrics of the day:
when a good time turns around
you must whip it
you will never live it down
unless you whip it

Aloha

tomorrow the pineapple express is coming to town. no it's not a special viewing of the movie and no it's not some fancy train car parade. the pineapple express (also known as Pineapple Connection) is a non-technical, shorthand term popular in the news media for a meteorological phenomenon which is characterized by a strong and persistent flow of atmospheric moisture and associated heavy rainfall from the waters adjacent to the hawaiian islands and extending to any location along the pacific coast of north america. (thanks wikipedia) in other words it's gonna rain.

the san francisco bay area is another locale along the pacific coast which is occasionally affected by a pineapple express. when it visits, the heavy, persistent rainfall typically causes flooding of local streams as well as urban flooding. in the decades before about 1980, the local term for a pineapple express was "hawaiian storm". during the second week of january, 1952, a series of "hawaiian" storms swept into central california, causing widespread flooding around the bay area.

the same storms brought a blizzard of heavy, wet snow to the sierra nevada mountains, notoriously stranding the stream liner "city of san francisco" on january 13. the greatest flooding in northern california since the 1800s occurred in 1955 as a result of a series of hawaiian storms, with the greatest damage in the sacramento valley around yuba city.

so hearing about this down pour i had to go buy new windshield wipers. mine were the ones that came with my car but i did not know that they were falling apart! it rained about 3 weeks ago and that was the first time i had used my wipers. well since then i've had a piece of the blade flapping against the windshield on the passengers side. so i forked out $26 bucks and got some heavy duty ones. this pineapple's got nothing on me! luckily we don't really live that close to any water.


song lyrics of the day:
I only wanted to one time see u laughing
I only wanted to see u laughing in the purple rain