weaselmom | Did you ever get one of those foot itches?

You know, the ones where you have a sudden itch on the bottom of one foot--no, not on it but in it--and you just can't get to the itch and make it stop? So you end up banging your foot on the floor or other hard object just to get some sensation to the poor tortured nerve endings. I'm having one of those right now. If I could find a garden trowel in the next five seconds, I'd go at my foot with it. It's especially bad when you get one while you're driving and have to take your foot off the gas pedal and bang it around.

Tomorrow is supposed to be the Death In June/Boyd Rice show at the Catwalk. It was meant to be low key with no advance marketing or advertising. However, the freaking hippies (my term for anybody who is more bleeding-heart than I am) found out about it somehow and conned the club into dropping Boyd from the bill. I'm not a huge Boyd fan, although I do find him kind of amusing, but I object to being told what I can and can't listen to. I'll be at the show with A and M, and there will be other people there whom I know. I'm just hoping the treehugging dirtmonkey druids don't show up and try to shut the show down. I am a huge Death In June fan (witnesseth my only tattoo, the runecircle) and will not suffer fools gladly.

AAAaaah! The foot! The foot!

The temp job hasn't been too bad this week. I'm involved with several projects, and I am so stubborn that I insist on moving projects forward. Some days it feels like I'm dragging a huge block of stone behind me by a piece of rope. I'm happy if I can move the stone a dozen feet in a day and miserable if the stone gets hung up on something. This stubborness gives me a reputation for getting things done, but I'm sure sore most of the time.

For my alternate book club I'm reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. I haven't read much Gaiman except for Good Omens and Coraline but was reasonably optimistic. As it turns out, I love this book. It's one of those rare books that you want to sit and read all the way through as fast as possible and at the same time make it last as long as you can. I found most of Jonathan Carroll's books to be the same way (except for some of the more recent ones, and his latest has gotten some unfavorable reviews).

Speaking of books, at Borders tonight we found that four new LOTR movie books have just been released! We're what--five and a half weeks away from the big day? EEEEeeeeee!

Time to go to bed, as tomorrow I have a big stone to drag a little farther and a bunch of sign-waving do-gooders to sneer at.