the chicken dance makes me happy

yesterday was ellyn's lacrosse regionals. they lost the first game 6-16 to schwartz creek. it was the first game of the play-offs so their season is over. a bit dissappointing but no more practices and no more games! i have to go to a stupid lacrosse banquet tomorrow night though. i am an introvert. i don't like parties. and i certaintly do not like parties where i have to make small talk and i can't drink. everyone else's parents are in their fifties....

tomorrow we are having harry's 10th b-day party at his dad's house. we are doing a pirate theme. i have to go out and get all the supplies, prizes, food, and his present today. jay is on-call today and sunday so i am dragging the twins with me the whole way. i can think of no other word to describe this experience that describes what it is like more than hellish.

i am listening to MY ANTONIA by willa cather on cd and liking it so far even though it fits in my "classics i should have read" box and thus would usually mean i would be ready to drive off the road within the first five minutes. i am also reading GIRL IN LANDSCAPE by lethem. it is a coming-of-age story of a 15 year-old girl whose family moves to a different planet after her mother dies. i usually don't like science-fiction or fantasy but it is interesting and well-written.

recently whenever i feel like listening to music i have been putting on modest mouse's THE MOON AND ANTARCTICA. i love it more and more each listen. listen you must.

i wanted to see LORDS OF DOGTOWN because i loved the documentary but the reviews of the new movie on rotten tomatoes are bad. : ( i haven't seen a movie at a theatre since MOTORCYCLE DIARIES in february.