What have I been up to? I joined a rock band and have just finished my exhaustive world tour. Or something like that. Actually, I have been on my exhaustive computer search and after studying ads and websites and store products with two local specialists, I have achieved a short list of finalists. The final selection process is neck and neck, but hopefully soon to be over. I now know more about fucking processors and monitor response time than I ever care to remember, and I am thankful that I am not making a serious major purchase like a car or, god-forbid, a house. That would take centuries.

In other news, spring is here! I went rock hunting this morning. Technically it wasn't morning because of the whole Spring Forward! crap (a slogan which tricks you into thinking that Time getting closer to you is fun. Boo). But I found a few nice rocks (I snuck up on them ever so cleverly, the poor things didn't know what was coming) to use in transplanting my ivy plant to a roomier pot. Nothing says springtime like making your plants happy and traipsing in the sunshine hunting rocks.

I have been reading some bizarrely captivating books as well. First, Vine Deloria Jr's native american manifesto, Custer Died For Your Sins (utterly georgeous); second, The Art and Architecture of German Settlements in Missouri (How To Build A Log Cabin); third, Gods of the City: Religion and the American Urban Landscape (God is sitting on your portico). I'm still working on this last one, but my favorite part so far is a critique of the grid system used in urban planning. The three books are nicely related. They are basically chronological, dealing with American history and similar themes of landscape/land use and how this relates to the formation of culture. Again, somewhat bizarre, but damn mind blowing if you ask me.

That is the sum of my excitement, other than that I still love my job and have purchased an ugly second-hand chair which might be haunted.