trogdor!!

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either northern exposure or wonderfalls. i'm super sad that wonderfalls got canceled before we got to find out just where it was going, just when all the relationships started getting really interesting and the characters started to grow. i would totally call a do-over on that decision if i were the network. and northern exposure...well, if i could live somewhere like that, with people like those, how happy i would be...every time i am in the dj booth lately, i think of chris in the morning.

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i wish the days of record shops weren't ending. when i worked at independent records in colorado springs, i resolved that i would someday have a place like that. i really want to own a music shop. in fact, i'd love a combination music shop and performance space with cafe. the coffee part wouldn't be that hard to do - i know a decent amount about that already, having worked in coffee for a while. i've said many times that i didn't want to work in service or retail again unless i could be the boss. i don't know what the new paradigm will be...

oh! hi. yeah, i haven't updated in a while. i've been in noho for the past couple of days, and today aliyaskie and i are driving down to new york for another couple of days. then we'll both fly back to ohio and hang out until next weekend, when she flies home. it's super exciting and i'm having a ton of fun. we caught an erin mckeown concert at the iron horse on friday night, which was gorgeous and magical and crushworthy and also featured MISS sara lee on the bass!, and dude erin is super freaking hot. i never had a crush on her when we used to go see her at fire & water, and now it's like getting out of control. :) then we hit grampy's and had a post-concert clove because dude, we needed that.

also friday involved rain, beautiful colors (noho is just now turning, but the interstates are in full fall regalia), non-functioning noses at the yankee candle village, and a restaurant at yankee candle called chandler's (ms. chanandler bong's, we've decided) that serves dinner entirely by candlelight. saturday was hiking around campus taking way too many photos of stuff i've already got photos of. still, it was good, and smelling the moldy gamut again was nice. (the gamut is the rehearsal space for mendenhall, the theater building at smith.) in the late afternoon we drove out to lenox, in the berkshires, and walked around tanglewood, the summer space for the boston symphony orchestra. it's a special place for chicky, and i'll let her tell that story, but the short of it is that this place is GORGEOUS. the sun was just starting to set over the mountains, and the valley below us was bathed in shadows, and the trees burned gold in the light. we took a side trip afterward up to pittsfield to hit guido's fresh market, which is very whole foods-y but in a local way as opposed to a chain way. the bakery had creme brulee *and* profiteroles. i dug it muchly. then we drove to the holyoke mall at ingleside for a little clothes shopping and a little ben & jerry's; to cracker barrel for chicken 'n' dumplings for me and apple cheese chicken for the chickadee; and finally to bed in our super comfy beds.

and now we're getting ready to leave this place that was the origin of our friendship. bye, noho. next stop: new york!