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Two things.

1) Folk Fest was amazing!!! I had a fabulous time (though I probably should have been a bit more social and not read my book so much) and the line up was fantastic! We got to see Janis Ian (who tells stories wonderfully), Kimya Dawson (who is adorable and I wanted to hug her because she seems huggable...she also had people go up and sing with her, which was sweet), Judy Collins (who was great, obviously, but she sang a few Joni Mitchell songs without giving credit), Tom Paxton, Al Stewart, Great Big Sea (OMG SO MUCH LOVE!!!) and many more. There was this amazing guy who could play a ukulele hardcore! It's amazing how many different sounds he could make with a tiny four-stringed instrument. There were tons of other bands that I could gush over but I wasn't paying attention to WHO was playing so I can't give names until I check the schedule.

Anyway, it was a great time and I got to see a bunch of people from high school that I haven't seen in years. It was fun meeting the Jugglers with Allison (many were rather attractive) and watch Trout Fishing in America with Benny and his friends and acting like children. All in all, a great weekend. Next year I'm TOTALLY camping.

2) The commercial for the new chicken sandwiches at (enter name of appropriate fast food joint here) is just disturbing. That whole "Chicken so good you'll cheat on beef" thing would be fine if it weren't for the angry cow. It's like the cookie singing songs to that chick that I wrote about here except with a cow. And it's got that pseudo-bestiality vibe. Not quite there but there enough that I'm vaguely creeped out.

Laura K: "Men are terribly designed. God is a terrible designer!!"

Me: "Yeah, all those unnecessary lines. They need to keep it clean and simple!"

Had tons of fun tonight watcing Episode III with Bethany and Laura. There was tons of commentary about Obi Wan and Anakin's secret love affair and the stupid reasons why Anakin turns Darth Vader. How Palpatine came up with that name, we don't know. But we guess it was him thinking on his feet. Our imagined conversations about this went a little something like:
Palpatine: You shall now be called Darth...Elroy.
Anakin: Elroy?
Palpatine: Okay...Poindexter!
Anakin: Uh-uh.
Palpy: Englebert Humperdink?
Anakin: Nope.
Palpy: Francis...Dick...Jeff?
Anakin: No, no and definitely NOT.
Palpy: Darth Vader?
Anakin: Sounds cool.

Oh yeah, we're awesome. And then after watching that we had our Ewan McGregor musicfest (aka listening to the songs Adri has on her computer that are sung by Ewan). Now I'm sitting on the floor in Bethany's dorm and chillin'. Yuppers. We are so cool!

I've been so lazy this week. Then again, it is the week before a brief vacation so what else would you expect? Almsot the entire family is going to be coming over for Thanksgiving. This is maybe my fourth Thanksgiving ever. We used to go to Canada then, and they don't have theirs on the same day as ours.

My computer just did that thing it does when an external harddrive or disk thinger is disconnected...I didn't have anything connected, though. Weird phantom disconnect!

On definitely positive notes:

OMFG!!!!! ALLISON,YOU GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is going to rock!!!! *jumps up and down in excitement*

ALSO OMFG!!! SARAH YOU GOT INTO COLLEGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYx20985490850498509485092384590843095834908509438509432850943859769834753!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOO PITT!!!!

And tomorrow is a half day. This week is good.