You look pretty good in that jonquil dress but your smile is a wooden nickel's pride. I know that it ain't worth much but it feels good to touch and I think I could dance if I tried with your radio on.

2005-07-22 at 6:32 p.m.

Today has been a pretty good day. I woke up, checked my email and found the Frames newsletter sitting at the top of my mailbox. And I thought good, maybe another tour.

Oh yes another tour. And a tour with, are you ready, JOSH RITTER (and his band)! This is even better than Frames and Mark Geary on the same bill. Ten times better. From what I've heard, it's going to be double-headlining with no opener. There's a tbc date for Toronto in the newsletter but the Josh Ritter site has a date confirmed for the Phoenix. I've never been to the Phoenix but I've heard it's a crap venue. It's small though, so that's a plus.

After telling my friend Martina about the Josh Ritter show (she was supposed to come too but couldn't), she had this to say: Wow! Just wow! I don't even know what else to say! And he met your parents? Wow you kids are getting so serious, so fast!

She's funny.

I went out today to drop off the lease for my new apartment and get pictures developed and do groceries. The thick grey smog has finally lifted. You can see the sky again! And the clouds!

Modern architecture teacher, how I abhor you. You can't just show us a building, say that it "speaks for itself" and then move on. That doesn't teach us anything. And during the midterm why don't you choose slides that will actually test our knowledge of modern architecture. So not Gustav Klimt's reading chair.

And now I'm stuck writing a paper on Otto Wagner and his Postal Savings Bank when all I wanted to do was argue that Henry Hobson Richardson's Marshall Field Store in Chicago relies on models established centuries before, making it not so modern after all.

Hmmm...Mr. Richardson, you obviously have a thing for Renaissance palaces. Maybe like the Palazzo Strozzi?

Yes.

See, I'm clever. Please let me show you that I'm clever.

Otto Wagner was contemporary to Egon Schiele. That's the only thing I'm excited about.

speaking at length + speaking in lines