May 11, 2006 13:13

Yes, I've been a slacker. Between work and play and reading I haven't spent any time on my journal and that means you don't know what I've been up to in the past month. So here's the quick version (in no particular order):

Work. Poker (mostly down). Neko Case concert (awesome). One new UPS battery; two more to order. Busy work. Slow work. New work. Lots of Brewhouse = lots of soccer and lots of beer. Sharonned. Lots of home cooking. Lots of home-made lunches. Lots of eating out. Laura's birthday party. Crazy dreams. Not enough time at the gym. Not enough time in the tanning booth. Charmed. Reading. Tax payments, four, one which took 3 weeks for the State of Georgia to present. $300+ cellphone bills. Unplanned late nights at the Local. Food and margaritas at Zocalo. Whisk(e)y tasting. Kentucky Derby (where I won $71 on a $10 bet). Not enough sleep. New people. Old people. Non-tsunami concerns. New music. Letters from Inland Revenue. Tickets for many shows next month. Road trip to Athens.

So, yes, there's been quite a bit going on. This weekend is the FA Cup final between Liverpool and West Ham. And after that is the East Atlanta Village Beer Festival, also known as Notober. Taxis will be involved. Upcoming shows: Twilight Singers, Sonic Youth, Arctic Monkeys with We Are Scientists, Ministry with Revolting Cocks. I'm going to miss Echo and the Bunnymen due to a previous commitment. So there's lots of stuff coming up. I'll have a trip to Augusta in June, too.

My psoriasis does seem to be doing well at the moment. Not so scaly, just the discoloration from new skin. Well, except for my scalp, which is being a right pain in the neck. So to speak.

So happy Once de Mayo. I'm not having a party this weekend for it though. I have too much stuff going on and I don't really want to deal with cleaning up the aftermath in my still relatively shiny apartment. Besides, being on the third floor, there's less room for people to spill into that doesn't involve a 20 foot drop. You could say that I'm think of the children. Or something.

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