{"id":75,"date":"2004-09-08T09:20:33","date_gmt":"2004-09-08T16:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2004-09-08T09:20:33","modified_gmt":"2004-09-08T16:20:33","slug":"aint-misbehavin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2004\/09\/08\/aint-misbehavin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ain\u2019t Misbehavin\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storycontent\">\n<p>Okay, maybe misbehavin&rsquo; just a tiny bit,<br \/> in my own, silly and sentimental ways.<br \/> It was a long weekend, my friends;<br \/> a new pinacle of absurd decadence.<\/p>\n<p>Friday night, Theo&rsquo;s brother Colin was up<br \/> from California, and as he was heading out<br \/> Saturday morning, he wanted to make the most<br \/> of his visit and &ldquo;party like a rock-star&rdquo;(tm).<br \/> We hung out in our garage space for awhile,<br \/> playing darts and beer-pong<br \/> (the strangest &amp; most pointless drinking game in all creation),<br \/> and then they all wanted to hit the bars.<br \/> I wasn&rsquo;t going to go, really;<br \/> but then Colin forced me to (literally, physically!).<br \/> Anyway, we went to the Brotherhood, played some pool,<br \/> and then down to Jake&rsquo;s to watch people dance.<br \/> (Jake&rsquo;s is the gay club in town, where the Go Club used to be).<\/p>\n<p>Theo stayed on with Rob &rsquo;til the wee hours;<br \/> I stumbled home alone at around 1:30 and slept<br \/> like an inebriated baby.<\/p>\n<p>&ndash;<\/p>\n<p>Saturday was our Cowboy Bebop marathon,<br \/> and a thing of beauty it was.<br \/> We started at about 1:00 in the pm,<br \/> and finished around 1:00 in the am.<br \/> We got through the whole thing,<br \/> including the movie which we watched in<br \/> sequence with the series (in between discs 5 and 6).<br \/> Not incredibly tired at the time,<br \/> I stayed up watching Smalleville all night,<br \/> through the next day, until Sunday at around 11 pm.<br \/> I watched the entire second season in a day,<br \/> which was absolutely ridiculous.  I highly recommend it.<br \/> As my brain started to shut down, I started to confuse<br \/> Smalleville with Cowboy Bebop, to the point that the action<br \/> at times looked animated; and I thought people were flying<br \/> around in their space ships shooting at each other.<br \/> It was a little bizarre.  Then I slept like a<br \/> giant-overloaded-brain baby.<\/p>\n<p>Monday I woke up late and recuperated;<br \/> and thank God for a three-day weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&ndash;<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday was my first full day of work (9-5),<br \/> doing data entry at the Advancement Office.<br \/> The work is fine (read: mind-numbing but easy),<br \/> but would be a lot better if I understood the point.<br \/> Basically, we are taking the info from the old records,<br \/> which were in MS Access, and checking it against the new<br \/> records, which are in PowerCampus.  Since most of the<br \/> info in the PowerCampus records is more current than the<br \/> MS Access info, in the case of a discrepency we usually<br \/> go with the PowerCampus info anyway, but flag the discrepency<br \/> for someone else to look at.  Granted, we do change and fix<br \/> some data; but they&rsquo;re paying out a whole lot of money<br \/> to get this done, which I don&rsquo;t entirely understand.<br \/> Under no circumstances am I complaining;<br \/> it&rsquo;s an easy paycheck.<\/p>\n<p>&ndash;<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday night I went swing-dancing at the Olympia Eagle&rsquo;s Ballroom.<br \/> I saw fewer people I knew than I had hoped I might (2),<br \/> but I knew the DJ, and as soon as I walked in she came over<br \/> to say &ldquo;hi&rdquo; and then introduced me to all the best dancers<br \/> in the place.  There was some amazing dancing there,<br \/> and rusty as I am, I felt self-conscious and inadequate.<br \/> However, I still had a ball (small pun).<br \/> There&rsquo;s no better way to meet people than to dance with them,<br \/> and I danced my little feet off (quite a feat! haha).<br \/> I had forgotten how much I missed dancing,<br \/> and I&rsquo;m tickled that there&rsquo;s still a scene here in town.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight is the Open Mike \/ Poetry Reading at Last Word Books.<br \/> I&rsquo;m planning on reading <em>The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet<\/em>,<br \/> by Guy Wetmore Carryl.  Sometimes I think I&rsquo;m the only one who&rsquo;s ever<br \/> heard of the poem; but it&rsquo;s a great poem to read aloud.<br \/> I&rsquo;ve no idea what I might read of mine.  Perhaps I&rsquo;ll write<br \/> something new for the occassion.  Maybe something dance-related;<br \/> last night was an inspiring muse.<\/p>\n<p><em>Swing like a hu-man,<br \/> can-can, rat-ta-tam-tam,<br \/> douse my cakes in the frim-fram.<br \/> Feet flail like spaghetti,<br \/> fast like Andretti,<br \/> sweat like the serengeti<br \/> as I rock the beat steady.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, maybe misbehavin&rsquo; just a tiny bit, in my own, silly and sentimental ways. It was a long weekend, my friends; a new pinacle of absurd decadence. 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