Month: February 2011

Random 10 2-11-11

Last week. This week:

  1. “Minus” by Beck, almost guessed by Kim
    Frogs! Frogs! Frogs!
  2. “Travelin’ Band” by Creedence Clearwater Revival, guessed by Clayton
    Someone got excited, had to call the state militia
  3. “It Was You” by the Pierces
    There’s always something more to learn even if you just want to quit
  4. “Go Places” by the New Pornographers
    Yes a heart will always go one step too far
  5. “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow” by Rosanne Cash (orig. Carter Family)
    And perhaps he will weep for me
  6. “I Don’t Like Mondays” by Tori Amos (orig. the Boomtown Rats), guessed by Kim
    She’s gonna make them stay at home
  7. “Revolution” by the Beatles, guessed by Eric B.
    We all wanna change the world
  8. “I Grieve” by Peter Gabriel
    The news that truly shocks is the empty empty page
  9. “City” by Sara Bareilles
    It’s clear this conversation ain’t doing a thing
  10. “Walking Far from Home” by Iron & Wine
    I saw blood and a bit of it was mine

As always, good luck!

The face of Thursday

What a day! For me, it wasn’t anything too special. I filed a claim with my insurance company for the cracked car windshield I’m planning to have replaced tomorrow morning. And…well, actually, not a whole lot more than that.

But meanwhile, my parents spent most of the day at the hospital. My mother hasn’t been feeling well since at least Tuesday night — this on top of her recovery from foot surgery — and today her doctor recommended she go to the emergency room for tests. I didn’t know any of this until late in the afternoon, when my father called me at work, and then we played some more phone tag after that. But luckily, she seems to be okay. Unluckily, she does seem to have a pretty nasty stomach bug that just won’t quit. We’re hoping it just needs time to work through her system, and that she’ll be feeling better in a day or two.

Her foot, meanwhile, is doing much better.

Put me in coach, I’m ready to play today

So it’s Wednesday already, huh? What’s that? Nearly Thursday? I’ll say this much for the week: it’s going back pretty fast.

At work today, we had one of our regular “brown bag lunches,” the last we’ll have before we move offices in April. This one was on coaching — “not just for the sports world anymore” — and I’m not really sure if it was intended to get us into coaching as clients or along the path to becoming coaches ourselves. It was reasonably engaging, I guess; everyone who asked or answered any questions got a ticket for a prize at the end. The prize was a deck of “question cards,” not that impressive, and I didn’t earn any tickets — which, given how freely our speaker was handing them out, actually is sort of impressive. (Once, after she’d given one person a ticket, she asked another person, “Was that what you were going to say too?” When that person nodded, she handed out another ticket.)

Beyond that, though, it wasn’t a terribly exciting day. Mostly just cold. Right now, I’m just kind of hoping I don’t get sick. My mother, who spent the weekend and early part of the week recuperating from minor foot surgery, has unfortunately come down with some kind of stomach virus. She talked with her doctor today, so I hope she’s on the mend. She hasn’t even really had a chance to properly look at this get-well soon gift my sister sent her yesterday.