bought my tickets yesterday; i’m going to be flying american trans air, who i’ve never heard of, but who have a mad cheap fare to seattle as long as i can deal with sitting in chicago for a while. i have a gba. i will be fine. tycho and gabe and i are already starting to plan out what we’ll be up to during my more or less four days in seattle; i’ll also be chilling with safety monkey for a bit as we’re all going to see weezer on the night i arrive. i don’t really listen to weezer - in fact you could say that i have never listened to weezer - but i have been assured i will like it. the day after that is apparently also the opening of the harry potter movie which we’re going to go see. i am, again, completely unfamiliar with harry potter - i’ve avoided it because i find the surrounding advertising frenzy distasteful - but everyone i’ve asked says i should at least check out the first couple, so straylight (of #caoine fame) is picking them up for me in paperback. hooray for friends who work at barnes & noble. rstevens (also known as my sexy inter-net husband) is sending me off with a bunch of shirts - presumably for the boys. and i get one too. woohoo!

also, a quick note: i’ve already started getting the mad sacks of mail from seattleans who wish to Hook Up while i’m in their fair city - i appreciate it, i really do, but it’s already looking like i’m not going to have a lot of spare time, as i’m only going to be there for a couple of days. we’ll see what happens, though. i’m wading through said mail even as we speak and i’m going to try to reply to all of it, but if i don’t get to yours today: it does not mean i hate you. promise!

i need to go coat shopping today. i was a moron and left my coat in a cab last winter and i haven’t needed it since, but it’s getting colder here and tycho assures me i’ll want one when i get to seattle. i’m thinking something along the lines of army surplus. we’ll see.

i was cleaning out my cd tower last night and uncovered my old moxy früvous albums. it’s been god damned years since i’ve listened to this stuff. i used to dig it quite a bit back in maybe 97, but i guess it’s not quite my thing anymore. still entertaining, though. you can’t go wrong with a bunch of canadian nutbags.

hey, guess what: i have bagel bites, and i’m betting you don’t. i just wanted to rub that in a little.

update 11:51 am: i spoke too soon!

<emma> oh no!
<cwtycho> ?
<emma> i was inattentive to the bagel bite preparation instructions and have committed a horrible, cheesey genocide in my microwave
<cwtycho> sweet jesus no
<emma> it’s awful :<