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AAM

7:03am CDT Saturday 6 October 2001

Jason from Wende's work just called for her. It's eearly on her day off. She's at Maggie's though, for the night, so I gave him Maggie's phone number. I didn't think to have him call her cell phone number. So he had to wake up more people before getting to Wende. I wonder what is the problem at work?

Ultimate

12:18pm CDT Saturday 6 October 2001

Fun at Ultimate today, although I got there barely in time. I was watching a clock that is slow by 30 minutes and got there after the game had started and we were down 1 to 2. Then we were down 1 to 3, and then we just came back and were up 6 to 4 at the halftime. Maybe 6 to 3 even. We won the game 11 to 6, giving away the last 2 points near the end of the game.

Our chant for their team after the game:

The Chicken Huckers have a ball,
October 13th, at The Pub, y'all.
The Chicken Huckers have a call,
Bwak bwak bwak bwak! That's all!

Next week or so our team is going to go visit a Haunted House, maybe on Friday the 19th.

Zoolander

6:07pm CDT Saturday 6 October 2001

We went to see Zoolander today, and I describe it as goofy and funny. So much of it was just so wrong in a funny way that I can hardly explain. The one scene I didn't like depicted an orgy focused around one woman, but at least they made it more funny than sexy. The funniest scene was "The Showdown" between the two stars, and featured David Bowie as the judge. Quite hilarious.

Tons and tons of cameos, all listed as actors and actresses playing "himself" and "herself" in the credits. I didn't notice/recognize most of the names; I was busy looking at "himself" and "herself," thinking, "wow, that's a lot of cameos. I wonder who they all were?" But by then they had scrolled away.

I'm slightly ashamed that I didn't recognize Milla Jovovich, who played the bad Russian woman.

ktru

10:55pm CDT Saturday 6 October 2001

How funny! Today Jessie from KTRU called me around 3pm and left a message asking if I could come early to the station. I didn't get the message because we were at Zoolander. But(!) I did arrive at the station early because I rode my bike there and wanted to leave plenty of time cause I didn't know how long it would take. Plus I intended to ride slowly so I wouldn't get all muddy or sweaty.

I hadn't called Jessie, so she was thinking I hadn't gotten the message (correct), and therefore probably wouldn't come in early, so when I arrived, she was all, "oh! you did come in early." or something like that and I had no idea why she cared, etc. Anyway, I enjoyed arriving home and listening to the message which tied the whole story together like a Tarantino film.

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KTRU was great fun today! My theme was any band name/album name/song title that had to do with fire/heat/light/electricity/red. Pretty broad list, but just broad enough that I completed the show having met that theme for each song, *except* the very first song called "Rob walks in" which I egotistically played because I had just walked in.

Thanks to Ken who gave me the idea of "fire" for a theme. :-)

Thanks to Eric/Maggie/Wende/Meredith/John for listening and calling in to the show! I played "Hello Maggie" or some song title with Maggie in it for her, and Negativeland for old times sake. Kim at the dorms like Negativeland a long time ago.

The coolest call though, was from a woman who asked about the song I was playing. Her area code was neither 713/281/832 (the Houston area codes), so I asked if she was calling from out of town. She wasn't; she was just on an out-of-town cell phone. Then I commented that she sounded like my DJ friend Alexis, who trained me way back when I first DJed at KTRU. She was not Alexis, "but I know the Alexis that you're talking about."

How cool!! So I'm going to email Alexis and tell her HI from Karla. Quite a lovely coincidence.

I was so pleased with the Alexis-connection, that I wanted to play a song by an artist whose named contained the word "linky" or "monkey," but I could find none. (Back in the day, Alexis expressed how much she loved words which included the "nk" sound; she was so cute saying "linky, linking, linky, linky, monkey, monkey, linky, monkey," at our DJ meetings!!) Instead I played a song from one of the earliest CDs I reviewed, since Alexis was still at the station back in those days. :-)

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I bicycled home relatively quickly, just to see how speedily I could negotiate the wacky sidewalks at high speed in the (relative) dark. Pretty speedy. I did one really cool manuever, but I don't remember it now.