(Some Irish Tune On A CD She Burned)

Last session of pole practice for the year.

ARRRGGGH!

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Abra Moore - 'Taking Chances'

Album: No Fear

Hello, you.

Nellie McKay - 'A Christmas Dirge'

Bye, little baby.

Death Cab For Cutie - 'I Will Follow You Into The Dark'

Album: Plans

Feel so unsettled - and the feeling's quite out of the blue - wonder what sort of solace I can find tonight.

Perhaps Eliot (again) ...

Elliott Smith - 'Say Yes'

Album: Either/Or

A happy day and then you pay ...

After his call at 17:18:33 ("... Reily is dying ...") and his forwarded text at 17:25:04 ("No options left, severe bleeding in both sides of brain and lungs, blood pressure dropping, ventricles in head sverely [sic] enlarged ..."), I saw a rainbow.

I love rainbows, am always happy to see one. But not today.

At this point, I don't know what it means to be wishing and hoping for the best anymore.

What's the best that could happen - and should?

Ephemera - 'Last Thing'

Album: Last Thing [EP]

Nailed a new position today - go, me!



And: Singapore is freaking small!

Stars - 'Tonight'

Album: Nightsongs

After a lovely lunch break, I got a call that stunned me for a moment - my favorite girl had an emergency caesarean last night. Little Reily is a six-month premie.

All the energy I have goes into hoping - hoping everything turns out well.

I think it would be a busy period from tomorrow to next Friday.

Can't wait, really.

Pink Floyd - 'Wish You Were Here'

Album: Wish You Were Here

Still so tired; fatigued.

Maybe from the babysitting at work, maybe from trying to coordinate a number of events - I don't know - but whatever it is, I'm eating non-stop again.

Had the most ... WTF-was-that dream last night. Seriously. Totally. Haven't the slightest clue how or where or when it germinated ...

Elliott Smith - 'Say Yes'

Album: Either/Or

Situations get fucked up and turned around sooner or later
I could be another fool or an exception to the rule
You tell me the morning after

Crooked spin can't come to rest
I'm damaged bad at best
She'll decide what she wants
I'll probably be the last to know
No one says it 'til it shows
See how it is, they want you or they don't
Say yes

I'm so tired tonight.

Just so tired.

Johnny Logan - 'Hold Me Now'

Album: Kuschelrock

I thought about it this evening: On the surface, what I have now seems a lot; but, upon deeper examination, what I have is really ... nothing.



Except for Rach's wings which she'd given to me last night.



'Tis a bad dark moon night.

Kate Rusby - 'Underneath The Stars'

Album: Underneath The Stars

As always, it's beyond wonderful to hang out with Rach - dinner (Riverside Tandoor), coffee (Ricciotti), and drinks (Marrakesh).

Over dinner and coffee, we talked about everything and nothing in particular; and she warned me about Mephisto.

Over drinks, we read Neruda's 'Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche' aloud.

If only time could slow down even if a little ...

But everybody leaves, sooner or later.

Neil Finn - 'She Will Have Her Way'

Album: Try Whistling This

Until last night this morning, I'd yet to be defeated by my dinner-and-drinks nights.

But - and happily so - a combination of factors (being kept up till 01:26 the previous night, and two kick-ass potent cocktails at the Chihuly Lounge) had me stumbling home and dropping dead on to my bed.

And, yes, my non-Singaporean friends, this local girl has finally tried the Singapore Sling!

Can't wait to see Rach tonight!

Wir sind Helden - 'Denkmal'

Album: Die Reklamation

Strange that right after my dinner, I thought how I'd very much like something chocolate-y for dessert - like a slice of decadent chocolate cake ... And not an hour later, he brought me a slice of chocolate fudge cake, right up to my doorstep.

Huh. What a coincidence.

Thank Goddess for the cake!

(But ... he does remember we're just friends, right?)

Amy Jo Johnson - 'Puddle of Grace'

Album: Felicity OST

Most people, Ed postulated over coffee, do not know what they want (in life); therefore they do not enjoy what they do (for a living). Ed himself enjoys what he does for a living because he knows what he enjoys doing.

CC, on the other hand, who thought he was one of those who didn't know what they enjoyed doing, said, since he's not doing what he enjoys, he's decided to enjoy what he's doing.

Among other things, this has been an illuminating day.