September 28, 2003 - 11:50 PM

10 and 26

Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of my maternal grandmother's passing. Today, I went to her gravesite with Tony and his mom to pay our respects. We tended the site, cleaned the markers, left fresh flowers. I have memories of her apartments in New York back in the early 80's, of her doting on me and Phil and Soph, giving us more money than we knew what to do with in 6 months (c'mon, twenty dollars went a long way for 5 year olds), of all the older cousins and aunties and uncles messing around with us. I remember the layout of the rooms, the furniture especially the pull out couch that you could crawl under, the Bigelow Assorted Teas jar. I remember eating the special Korean raw blue crab at her dinner table. I remember her talking to us in Korean and me not understanding (not that that's any different than when someone talks to me in Korean now...actually, I think maybe I had a better grasp of the language when I was younger). I have a good family. I love my family.

Just saw a new commercial for Old Navy Painter Pants and it seemed to my ears as if it was Juliana Hatfield sharing vocal duties with some guy. Hmmm...When I was working at Fort Apache in Boston (which is Juliana's management company and used to be a recording studio), I got to see Juliana's large dog go nuts on her leg. While she was trying to explain an idea she had for keyboards on one of her songs that we were recording. Amusing stuff.

Today was the end of the official baseball season. Whatever will I do with my time now? I guess it's a boon that tv season has kicked off in full force and I have something to watch/videotape almost everyday of the week, but that's just not the same. Oh, which reminds me, I need to figure out what tapes I can use for the next couple weeks of programming. It looks like I'll be working with RF again starting October 1st (my birthday! watta present, eh?) with a tentative end date of the 16th. And we very well might work those 16 days consecutively, no days off. Which, in turn, means that I'll probably be updating less frequently. Don't cry, little ones. I'll try to say something, even if it's just a brief little hello, at least once a week.

Now Listening To : Frou Frou-Details
Random Thought : I'm becoming a little obsessed with Friendster. Maybe that's what will fill the vacuum left by the ending of baseball

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