Month: May 2006
Ha
I just realized the music I was listening to on that last post was “Out of my Mind.” That was total coincidence. Either that, or I really am going insane.
Phantom Pig
I almost hate to write this post because I feel like it will be used to blackmail me in the future or used against me if I ever run for office. On the other hand, it does allow me to kill someone and then claim insanity…
So I was driving home from work yesterday and I was right around the Strafford train station when I saw this guy walking his dog and his dog was just going crazy barking and pulling on the leash. Not too strange. So I causually look over to see what the dog is barking at, expecting to see someone walking, maybe with a dog. What I see instead is a huge pig munching on the lawn in some guy’s yard. This wasn’t a fenced in yard and this wasn’t a pig on a leash. It was a full out like wild boar! Also, I’ve known at least 1 person who had a pet pot-bellied pig and this thing was like 3 times the size of it.
So just when I start to doubt my sanity about what I saw, I suddenly remembered something that happened the day before. It was a nice day and I had all the windows open in the apartment. I was watcing T.V. and then all of a sudden I hear a dog going crazy outside and I hear a pig oinking and squeeling for it’s life. Nala and I both run to the window to see what’s going on. I don’t see any pigs hanging out outside, and the noise stops, so I finally decide that it must have been something that *sounded* like a pig, maybe a passing car or something, somehow.
But now when I combine the two stories, I’m thinking there is some kind of wild pig running around the city of Wayne! Everybody that I tell this story to thinks I’m insane and now I’m starting to wonder if maybe I am insane.
P.S. I’m really diggin’ on James Blunt. Check him out, especially if you’re like a David Gray fan.
Improv Everywhere
You have to check out this comedy group. Some of my favorite missions include Cell Phone Symphony, The Moebius, No Pants, Megastore, and Look Up More.
Sara got that job! Also, my sister graduated from college on Saturday. Congrats to both of them!
We went to NYC one last time over the weekend. We saw the Wedding Singer (staring Stephen Lynch!) and Sweeny Todd. They were both pretty good, Wedding Singer had a lot of good 80’s jokes and references and Sweeny Todd was very creepy and weird. We tried to get tickets for the Tribeca Film Festival, but we didn’t get there in time. We also ate a ton of good food, as usual. I’m going to miss having that place so close! I love New York, it would be really cool to live there.
Oh, for mother’s day I bought tickets to see Wicked in Chicago. I’ve been trying to get my mom to see it forEVER! She’s a huge Wizard of Oz fan (she even collects stuff from it) and I bought her Wicked the book last year for Christmas. She could never get a trip planned to get out here to see it, so I got tickets when she’s already going to be in Chicago to help me move in. I’m going to tell her next weekend on Mother’s Day.
The big news of the day is that I convinced Sara to let me buy tickets to a Packers game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve never been to an honest-to-god pro game…I always end up going to pre-season games because they’re cheaper. In particluar, I’ve never been to a game at Lambeau field. The Packers play a pre-season game in Madison and also I’ve seen them here in Philly. I’ve been to Lambeau before, but only before the season to watch a practice. The game is Lions at Packers on December 17th. I booked a hotel in Appleton for the night before, since the game starts at noon. I bought 2 tickets, one for me and one for my dad for Christmas/birthday/other holidays to be named later. It’s been my dream for a while to go with my dad to a game at Lambeau…even more so now that Favre decided to come back for another seaon. This will be my last chance to see him play! I even went all out and got 2 tickets to the official tailgating party at Brett Favre’s Steakhouse before the game. All you can eat and drink for 3 hours before kickoff!
So the real question is, how am I going to keep a lid on a secret this big for months! I could hardly keep from calling my dad minutes after I bought the tickets!
Airlines suck
Sara’s interview went really well. Aparently the guy opened with something like, “This is essentially just to see if you’ll take the job or not. I’ve already decided.”
Okay, but that’s not the story I came here to write. Sara’s flight was listed as “30% on time.” I mean why bother even having a flight schedule if you can only make it 30 freaking percent of the time??
So I was supposed to pick her up at 11:15 but it got delayed several times and now it’s all the way back to 12:30. Going to be a late night. Also Sara has to go to work early tomorrow! I would try to catch a nap, but by the time I fall asleep I’ll just have to get back up again, but then I’ll be all groggy.
Stupid American Airlines! >:-o
Shane Halbach 