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I have a costume conundrum. It is one month (minus a day) before Geek Prom. I want to be Princess Leia going to the prom. No, I do not want to go in a Princess Leia costume. I have a pair of awesome buns (that I put on my head) which were made for me a couple years ago when I was a Princess Leia PEZ dispenser for Halloween ( And again was a PL PEZ at the Minnesota PEZ Convention and won third place in a costume contest).

But the PEZ costume is very difficult to move in. So difficult, in fact, that at a Halloween party a couple years ago I asked  Geek Prom founder to move my car out of a tight spot. This was a favor gone bad, as he was equally impaired by alcohol as I was mobility impaired; end result was a scratched car. Never let your friends drink & drive. Or drive in PEZ costumes.

Anyway, I don't want to be an imperfect replica of the movie  Star Wars Princess Leia and nor do I want to be a mobility impaired PEZ dispenser. I want to be  Leia going to the prom. I'm pretty sure they didn't have  proms a "Long time ago in a galaxy far, far away".

Or maybe the 80s, when I didn't go to the prom in high school, suffices as a long time ago, but now is the  galaxy where a girl with cinnamon rolls on her head goes to the prom.
 
Dress suggestions are welcomed.

Here's track 4&5 on the "Swing your Rowley: Guilty Pleasures" mix tape.

The Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait

4). “Can’t Hardly Wait”- The Replacements- Pleased to Meet Me

For those of you who don’t already know, I’m a huge Replacements fan. I’ve put this song on countless mix tapes since the 90s; It’s probably my favorite Replacements song and makes me happy whenever and whatever.  The Replacements are my go-to band; their music brought me up through my teens, into my twenties, and I still look to them to say & play what I’m feeling currently (original wrote today ; didn't like the assonance). I often wonder who I would have been without their music.

5).” Impossible Germany” – Wilco- Sky Blue Sky

Wilco - Sky Blue Sky - 03 - Impossible Germany

This whole album rocked my fall; Wilco’s show in Bayfront was superb. I still endlessly repeat this song.

• I met Vice President Walter F. Mondale.
• Actually, I co-arranged a lunch/lecture event in his honor.
  
• The University's Chancellor introduced me to Mondale.
  
• We packed the venue (holds 370), the overflow room (90) and the upper and bottom lobby (live-cast monitors in place).
  
• Event was covered by all the local media.
  
• Mondale was pleased, my boss was pleased, the chancellor was pleased, I'm pleased and still standing.
  
• There were few mishaps.
• Lp's being moved-up to fifth-grade reading; he's in third grade.
• I'm an event adrenaline junkie; today I got a good fix and a big high.
• It was not so cold.
• I'm not so stressed.
• My son's reading teacher called him "a rock star"
• I am a rock star.
  

• It's cold. Very Cold. Currently -11/ Wind Chill -34
• I'm co-in-charge of lecture by a former vice president
• The event is tomorrow
  
• School has been closed for two days
• Had to work from home today
• I'm sick; sore throat, feverish, achey bones
• How do you dress for a former vice president?
• I have another big lecture next week
• The handle on my "work" purse broke
• My other purse choices are one made out candy wrappers or another made out of recycled fabric
• There's a stain on my suit jacket
• I don't want to wear the suit jacket and I want to use my candy wrapper purse
• It will be cold again tomorrow. many may skip the vice president's lecture
• Small attendance will make me sad. Large attendance will cause more stress.
• I hope I feel better tomorrow and don't faint near the vice president.
• Did I mention that it's friggen cold?
  

It's 11:30 a.m. I have only left the bed to make breakfast for the pirate and myself and  to grab the laptop. I love Saturdays and Saturday morning cartoons. We do not have cable, so the Saturday morning cartoon ritual still has meaning in this house. The pickins' get slimmer every year, which lead me to You Tube for some additional entertainment and the endless search for my favorite classic sesame street song/video. Does anyone remember the song "I get my melons from the melon patch, and when I itch, I scratch" ?  I'm pretty sure it's a Joe Raposo song, sung to one of those classic sesame street animal videos. This was a favorite song in my house growing up and I've been searching for it for years to share with the pirate. Does anyone else remember this song?

(Can't get my pictures from last weekend uploaded)

Little pirate and I went down to the cities last weekend. Dropped LP off at his dad's. I stayed at my good friends' loft surrounded by art. Ate a fabulous mock chicken curry peanut sauce concoction at at Taste of Thialnd. Hosts and I met-up later with my wonderful college friend Tod, who took us to  Uncommon Grounds for coffee.

In college, Tod was my musical muse. We don't necessarily have the same tastes, but Tod could always (and still can) introduce me to bands that are not an obvious fit. For instance, until recently I thought I hated Interpol. If I had been in touch with Tod on a regular basis, he would have set me straight. He's like the musical equivalent of the V-8 slap.

On Sunday, we went to Cheapo Records(drool...). where I bought a bunch of needed albums (used) including
this

Arular

M.I.A.

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I love M.I.A.! She's the techno-hip-hop-pop goddess daughter of a Sri Lankan militant activist.  Her second album, Kala,  has been on my wish list for a while, but I picked up her first album, Arular, used.

Here are tracks 2 and 3 from my Mix Tape, "Swing Your Rowley":

Don't Stop Believin' - Petra Haden

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2). “Don’t Stop Belivin’ – Petra Haden- Guilt by Association

“Guilt by Association” is a whole album of guilty pleasures re-sung by un or little-known indie darlings.  When I was mentally putting the play list together, I heard this song on Jodi's Vox and couldn’t stop listening to it.

3). “School Uniform”- The Pipettes- We are the Pipettes

I heard about The Pipettes on another Vox blog, We  ♥ Music. This song was a summer staple. 

The Pipettes - School Uniform

..is what I'm watching now. Well, I'm half-watching..it's on as I'm web surfing. I had Buffy hopes for this series, but it lost me when John, the teenager who will save the world, gets cabin fever after being house-bound for three days. COME ON-THREE DAYS!  I know teenagers are easily bored, but damn..if there were terminators on my ass I would not have a problem staying inside at least a month until the coast is clear.