I’m thinking maybe I should have gone home to New York this weekend. At least, then, I’d have something to do for three days. I have done nothing more exciting all day than buy a new shower curtain. My parents, on the other hand, just brought home a new puppy — who, in a weird coincidence, shares a birthday with me.

I am, at the moment, extremely bored.

I just received some mail that says, “If you can point and click with a mouse, you can make $100,000 a year or more as a desktop graphic designer.”

You hear that, graphic designers? I can do what you do, and I “don’t even have to be able to draw a straight line — the computer does everything for you.” I can do this part-time, from the comfort of my own home, while simultaneously raising three children, and I don’t even have to take one piddling little design class. I don’t need a degree, experience, connections, or even talent. I just need to take one little $430 course and —

Oh crap. You don’t suppose this is a scam, do you?

Well, I tried my best to convince the show’s producer that Touch My Monkey was a funny sketch, but he’s decided to pass. He thought the Jesus-phone was a potentially funny concept, but he was worried the audience would be too confused by what was going on. He’s quite fond of Remarkable Innovations, however. Go figure. My thanks to everyone who gave me feedback.

In response to my mix CD request below, Jon Kilgannon suggests: “I wonder if people would be more amenable to putting a set of 8 – 10 MP3s online rather than creating a CD.”

This is an interesting idea — although I think it’s something I’d like to explore in addition to swapping CDs. After all, part of what I’m hoping to gain from this is, as Kilgannon puts it, “the fun of receiving a package in the mail rife with possibilities”. But his idea has sparked my interest, and I’m curious to know if any (all, what? four?) of you would be interested in the following:

Once a week (or once a month) everyone would upload 5-10 mp3s to share with the group. Themes (e.g. favorite songs, songs that make you cry, etc.) could be suggested. We could either upload them to our individual websites and share the links or create a central location (sending the mp3s to me and having me upload them here is also a possibility, but that might play havoc with my e-mail account). I wouldn’t want this to become just an mp3 swap or dump — I have pretty mixed feeling about online music as a whole — but does this sound like an interesting idea to anyone but me?