i want a dog!

so i had cassis for 10 full days while larry hagman was skiing and eating cheese in france.

cassis is such a well trained, well behaved dog. i could take her anywhere and not worry. we had a really good time running around the dog park and hiking in san jose this past weekend.



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this is her enjoying a "bully stick" on the rug in front of my bed.

i got used to the multiple walks every day, and the need to be home or take her with. i even got used to the smell of dog crap, which i find very disturbing. i vacuumed up tons of her hair, but it didn't really bother me. im usually annoyed at the cats for shedding on my stuff.

now that she's back home, i feel a void. ive been trying to fill it with cleaning and reorganizing my room. thats starting to cost me, as i hit a stupid concrete pillar at ikea the other day and now have to pay my $500 insurnace deductible to get it fixed. fuck.

but having cassis has made me seriously consider a puppy. i really want one, but refuse to get one cos i hope this is a passing fancy. and i would want to give the dog back as soon as i figured out it wasn't as well trained or obedient as cassis. and could any dog really be as pretty or cute as her? i highly doubt it.

i think i should buy a dog, get larry hagman to train it for me, and then take over afterwards. sounds good to me. how to convince him of this plan is another story....

so wrong

au is sick, so i drove to orinda to have dinner with her. i dont think the sushi will cure her, but is what she wanted so that has to mean something right?

we ate in orinda. orinda. the local old-family-money capital of the east bay.

i couldn't help myself, i had to take a picture with my phone of this kid with the longest mullet i have seen in california. yes, i have been reduced to one of those mean, malacious people who mocks others with cell phone pictures.




the picture doesn't do it justice since its was so dark. au had to sit with her back to the kid so she wouldn't be tempted to cut it off. i spent most of the meal trying not to stare. i was only successful because i was hungry enough to eat people that night. yes, it was my turn to consider cannibalism.

but seriously. when is america going to realize that mullets are in the past, and that we need to evolve past them? ugly, and they just creep me out.

cant' take me anywhere

b and i went shopping today, for hours in the rain. i didn't need anything in specific, but she was looking for a birthday present for au. she ended up getting her this cool hot chocolate frother thingy with 2 matching mugs, but it wasnt before hurricane ma tore through 4th street in berkeley.

at a costume jewelry shop, i managed to drop a ring with a very large plastic diamond on it. the diamond fell off. not 15 min later, at the crate and barrel outlet, i opened a box containing some ceramic coasters and one fell out, shattering as it hit the ground.

both stores were really cool about it. i offered to pay for the carnage i caused, but both salespeople who i 'fessed up to told me it wasn't a big deal. pretty nice.

however, after one breaks 2 unpurchased items, crate and barrel is the wrong place to to be shopping. all those towers of wineglasses. think they would be as forgiving if i knocked one of those displays over? b sent me to the as-is furniture section in the back so i couldn't do any more damage. she's smart. she knows that you can't take me anywhere. for everyone's safety, keep me around big heavy things i can't drop.

cool show

i went to see glen phillips, the former lead singer of toad the wet sprocket yesterday. it was a great show, even if we did get there late and had to stand the whole time.

i never got to see toad in concert. so it was good to hear "all i want" live for the first time. and his solo sound is more to my taste, slower, singer-songwriter and acoustic. and freight and salvage, a small venue for indie bands, is less than 2 miles from my house. who knew.

the best part of the night, by far, was the discovery of glen phillips opening act, a singer songwriter named jonathan kingham. he had a breathy voice like jeff buckley that i miss. he didnt take himself too seriously and was quite funny. i was moved to buy a cd and get him to sign it.

when i told him that my name was sharon, with only one "r" (people in california seem to think my name should have 2 Rs, weird) he decided he needed to make up for the missing r by making himself look like a pirate. i thought it was pretty cute and witty.

this is his "jazz" album, so it sounds a little like easy listening music. but its not. his other album is good folky singer songwriter indie rock. i swear. its good stuff. and his breathy voice reminded me of how much i miss jeff buckley. sad.

the foo

hey you and i went to go see the foo last night. it was a great show, which kinda surprised me.

the last time i saw the foo was in 2000, when they opened for the red hot chili peppers at assembly hall at the u of i. the foo was younger then, and dave grohl's idea of front man showmanship was using the work "fuck." not that cool. but the chili peppers were amazing (could anthony keidis be anything less that amazing?). leonard bernstein still owes me $20 for the foo fighters t shirt i bought him (which i think he only recently threw away). also in attendence was my standard crew from that year -- mr amd mrs spidey, and dunning. ah memories!

older, more charismatic guys took the stage this weekend. the set list was all songs i liked, and they paused in the middle to do a quieter acoustic set. very cool. and despite the fact that they are older and more mature, you could tell the guys were really having a lot of fun. it was obvious.

the only downer was the fact that they didnt play walking after you which is my favorite song by them. if they played the song, i would have forked over the cash for a tshirt. but you cant get everything you want in life.

good job guys. keep it up