no personal insight today, just a note to say i’ve got my gallery from spring break up, as well as another addition to the project page… which reminds me that i need to put in the rest of those documents.for easter break i’ll be going to visit anna in portland, me and i’m really excited. this’ll be my first time to maine, so i’ve been busy trying to figure out where else i’d like to visit while i’m there.
…okay, so that was early this morning, or late last night but now is now (about 11:05p) and just felt like writing. i’ve not spent much of any money (for me) on CDs this semester, it was a conscious effort on my part toward an end of course… recognizing that (as mom’s favorite adage goes, when you choose to spend your money on one thing it means it isn’t available for something else… so i decided to go for that something else and i’m failing miserably! for quite some time i’ve had the desire/mild intention to get a 12 string guitar, not just any, but a seagull, handmade in quebec, from fallen, aged wood harvested by permission of her majesty from the canadian forests. now that’s all well and good, but i’m also a frugal man (or at least fancy myself that on occasion) and so again the seagull won out with a company intention of keeping the instruments high quality while not investing gobs in advertising, in turn beefing up the price. well good, it’s somewhat ecologically sound, economically sensible, however, i’ve never really set aside the money with any intention until now. well i’m ready, i’ve got the money all saved, the store picked out, however i seem to be unable to make this happen. you’d think it easy, i call the store and say i want to give you money and then they accept with big grins and flying colors, but no. john at calliope music in burlington is perhaps the slacker i’ve ever met. really, i’m surprised the business is not failing. but then i realized that this is not the first music store that has not taken me seriously/been a bunch of slack asses. when i was in prescott last spring, i started this process, and the shop down there seemed incapable of making a phone call. neither to me nor their distributor. i think i went in three separate times before i gave up knowing i’d leave for the semester before they got the actual guitar in stock (it’s a special order). with john, i’ve called at least four or five times now. he knows me by name, what i want, when i want it, he also knows i’m waiting to give him the credit card number. i mean seriously! how does that work? essentially i say i’m ready to give you money now and he in essence says no. it might as well be illegal for me to have this guitar with how difficult it’s proving to be. it was early march when i told him i was ready to order, he just needed to check with his rep on the timeline, lordy.
exciting things coming up for me (:
7th-12th of April – going to visit anna clay brandt in portland, me
17th of April – Sectionals in Amherst, MA
18th of April – Tortoise is playing at the higher ground
20th of April – Damien Rice and the Frames @ the higher ground
19th?-23rd? of April – Samuel is visiting also earth week, also the time when the bikes will be unleashed… ssshhh
23rd of April – poetry slam put on by us in writer’s club
24th of April – our tournament, also the night Blackalicious is playing here on campus
5th of May – the newest addition to the hughes-muse family is due
15th of May – Commencement-the end(?) of 16 years of formal schooling… oh man that’s a topic for later i’m afraid.