The Week in Tweets on 2010-09-26

• Sunday scent report ._.-. Russian Caravan tea, cherry blossom hand cream, cat fur, neroli eau de parfum, petrichor. #
• My weekend began with a candlelit bath and foot rub from @FunkyPlaid and ended with a massage from Karly of @apothecasf. Yes! #
• Good morning, single-car N-Judah during rush hour. Again. Less than a mile into your route and completely packed. Again. #munifail #
• And the next N-Judah has more than a few seats out of commission (read: soaked with water) because of air-conditioning leaks. #munifail #
• Right when I need work to be calm and smooth, it is the exact opposite. Murphy and his frickafrackin' law. #
• Licensed to ill! I mean wed! RT @FunkyPlaid: Signing on the dotted line. Almost official! http://twitpic.com/2qo02y #
• Intestinal cramps: nature's way of forcing me to slow down and chill out. I would prefer an emailed memo, really, but okay, I get it. #
• I miss cooking and I want to treat @FunkyPlaid to a great meal this weekend. Tell me about a great meal that someone cooked for you. #
• Whenever I want Mail.app to behave, I threaten to install Thunderbird. By the time the file finishes downloading, all is well. #
• I actually dreamed of Jeannie last night: my friend from jr high (hi Jeannie)! She had wallpapered her new home in colophons from old books. #
• I have grown rather fond of these late-night wedding planning sessions with @FunkyPlaid. And eeeeeee, 3 weeks away! #
• I dreamed I was back at summer camp for nerdlets and my mailbox was full with everything I had ever lost. Also, Jack Black was my counselor. #

three weeks to go

Three weeks from right now, I will be an old married lady. Well, okay, I’ll be married.

Everything right now is a blur, a happy blur for the most part, as everything converges on the event. Because I have spent so much time exactly where I am right now — on my laptop in the living room, organizing and chugging through this mass of information — I feel like I should give a few technology shout-outs, especially since I have churned through many, many tools over the past year. Just ask FunkyPlaid: every time I sent him a to-do list update, it would be through a different service.

• ActiveInbox has kept my Gmail account focused and action-driven.
• Toodledo has managed the to-do lists swimmingly, via the web and via Pocket Informant on my iPhone.
• The honeymoon plans are coming together in TripIt. I especially love the iCal integration.
• Notes and bookmarks are tagged for easy access in Pinboard.
• FunkyPlaid and I share wedding-related files via Dropbox.

Some of the things that are worrying me the most — the dress not being finished yet, the perfect shoes proving elusive — will be resolved soon. I have been told over and over again to enjoy these last few weeks because it will all be over before I know it. Most of the enjoyment is preempted by meta-thinking each detail, but the worry has been replaced with excitement. And Pocket Frogs.

The Week in Tweets on 2010-09-19

• I am fairly sure that my biggest challenge in grad school is going to be learning when to stop tweaking the assignment before turning it in. #
• My avg. daily #fitstats for last week: 4,987 steps, 2 miles, 1,800 calories burned via my fitbit http://www.fitbit.com/user/22D4J8 #
• First grad school lesson learned: no amount of library experience can change the fact that I am a giant dork on camera. (Yes, yes, and off.) #
• Gmail's Exchange burps make me long for MobileMe to be awesome already. C'mon, Apple. I'm rooting for you! #
• I am trying to tell you how hard my "Horns of Love" '80s playlist rocks via iTunes Ping but I can't figure it out. Just take my word for it. #
• The HMO is hopping today! It's a dance party! Without the music. Or dancing. And with a bunch of sick people. OK, not a dance party at all. #
• Note to smug punk-ass self: when the nice lady with the big needle says, "This is going to hurt," and it doesn't, wait about an hour. #
• Sometimes, this city can still be magic: stepping off the train, I spot one of my best friends, and he hugs me, and I needed that. #
• The brain, a vaguely electrified slug, slides down the spinal staircase. Peering back up, it says, "Mi ne povas fari ?in." #
• The stomach is a zipper of wet feathers. Ribs itch with the breath and the beat. #
• Come On And Take A Free Ride: Muni Fare Evasion Gets Easier With Gate Exploit: News: SFAppeal http://t.co/XxsMuCQ via @sfappeal #
• Hark, the hatred-humping unicorn that is the single-car N-Judah! During Friday eve rush hour, no less. We are blessed. #munifail #
• Ah, now to unwind from the week with some competitive team trivia! …what? #

no words, just fish

My friend Mako posted this video of the second-largest aquarium tank in the world and it made me cry. That’s all I’ve got for you today.

thirty-eight

Thirty-eight days until the thing that I cannot stop thinking about or talking about happens! I am very excited for this thing to happen, because it is an amazing thing, but then also because it means that all the thing-planning is over and I am firmly in thing-afterglow, which I hear is a mighty fine afterglow indeed.

I am contractually obligated* to post today because of the 38-Geary bus line, which was the reason why I first adored Muni so much. This is a mystery, even to me. Quite frankly, the 38 is kind of a pain in the ass. It is slow and always smells off and even its accordion middles fail to charm its beleaguered passengers.

I don’t have a point here. Not that this place has ever been Point Central, but I really don’t have a point. This is okay because of the thing, which is a handy excuse, except that most excuses don’t have to-do lists a mile long, but we’ll overlook that for now.

Let’s make up a word for that feeling I get whenever I am waiting for someone to call or email me back regarding a Potential Problem with the thing. I feel it so often these days, I figure it should have a word. Make it a curse word.

Here are my to-do list headings with the noises I make when I think about them.

• Venue: whew
• Music: yay
• Flowers: yay
• Invitations: HELL YAY
• Dress: eeeeeeee
• Shoes: BUH
• Hair/makeup: hmm
• Vows: HAHAHA
• Favors: yay?
• Rehearsal and dinner: yesplease
• Other people involved: thankyouthankyou
• The rest: (silent ignoring)

*Not really. But if you wanted to pay me to write things, I would consider that contract.