Quick hits: A litany

So far this summer has been less than impressive. Man, am I glad I bought that grill, because apparently I'll never be able to use it. I wasn't aware the Boston had been transplanted with Seattle.
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Nothing is more exciting than being woken up at 8:30 on a Saturday morning by the police and fire department banging on your door. As it happens there was a 911 hang up from the apartment upstairs from me. The interesting part? The couple that lives upstairs was out of town for the weekend. Personally, I'm hoping it's ghosts. That would be interesting.
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I'm at that excellent part of having a cold now where it's all but gone. You feel better, you're not blowing your nose every 20 seconds. But that remaining phegm feels like a little waddle of chicken gristle sitting in the back of your throat.

Speaking of phlegm, isn't it awesome when you cough/spit some of that stuff out and think, "Wow, that putrid, yellow gunk was in my lungs"?
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Half the time, I'm subconsciously feeling that no one really wants to talk to me. That's a nice insecurity to have. (Note: my self-diagnosis for this is that it is an extension of the fact that I never feel I have anything interesting to say, as evidinced by the fact that I always draw a complete blank whenever someone asks me what I've been up to.)
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As a addendum to the above, maybe I need more hobbies. (And no, watching TV and surfing the internet doesn't count.) Or perhaps I should really just buckle down and get working on some stuff I should be working on.
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Inspiration is a fickle bitch.
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I really need to find some new musical obsessions. I'm looking at all my CDs and just saying, "Meh." Well, at least the new Butch Walker and Slayer albums come out soon. Hopefully they should be good.
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I may have to revise my aforementioned opinion on Tom Waits' "The Heart of Saturday Night" album. I'm re-listening to it now, and am about half way through, and it's pretty awesome. I could do without the jazzy, spoken-word, poetry stuff, but everything else so far has been aces.
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Superman Returns opens this week. My inner (and outer) nerd is excited.
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OK, back to work.