i forgot to buy covenant tickets again. watch them be sold out or something. i guess it wouldn’t be a huge deal; i like both and one and covenant, but not so much that i’ll cry myself to sleep if i don’t get to go to the show. i did find out it’s at limelight though, and not downtime, which is good. downtime is quite possibly the worst venue ever for a concert. good for a club, yes, but wretched for a show. i remember at the funker vogt show in july or whatever i was standing at the top of the stairs to the mezz, looking down over the lower level, where the stage is. everyone was packed so tightly that you literally couldn’t move. and of course i was wearing velvet. in july. it was gross. and anyway by the second or third song the downstairs bit was filled completely with fog from the fog machine and you couldn’t see the stage anyway, so i went upstairs and watched the rest of the show with cindy on the monitor over the bar. much more pleasant. the limelight, though - that’s a good concert venue. i saw vnv nation and apoptygma berzerk there. also haujobb and velvet acid christ. that was before i’d ever talked to bryan. bryan does an impression of ronan from vnv that makes me laugh so hard my stomach hurts.

i’ve been smoking more lately. not really that much, still, but more than i used to. i wonder if i’m finally addicted to nicotine, after two years of smoking. i don’t really need another addiction to feed - the caffeine thing is annoying enough, when i wake up with a headache that doesn’t go away till i’ve had my second cup of coffee. there’s a reason i keep a tin of penguin mints next to my bed. although there’s another penguin tin that does not, as hot soup can verify, contain mints.

i had cheerios this morning in my chococat cereal bowl, while watching pokemon. it was obnoxiously cute. db_ will probably make fun of me, but that’s okay. he is my little deebeemon.

i talked to bryan last night for the first time in a while. he’s been working a lot on the new vac album, with paul i guess. it won’t be released for quite a while though - sometime in 2002, probably.

my todo list for today: clean the bathroom, go grocery shopping, clean out the fridge, do laundry, and network the g4 with the imac. i finally found a power cable for my hub. woo. nerdfest at emma’s. i may or may not go to batcave tonight; i want to because i haven’t been in a couple of weeks, but i might not because i think a lot of people are skipping it in favor of the covenant show on monday, and there’s no point in spending money on batcave if there’s not going to be anyone interesting there. i guess i’ll see later today.