i bought a new pair of shoes.

i had to. nevermind that i don't let myself spend more than $5 on lunch; nevermind that i own about 47 pairs of shoes; nevermind that i spent four hours at my parents' house this weekend, figuring out that i will owe $25,000 in student loans. nevermind! it's spring, and that means new shoes for my gigantic feet. praise be!

(creepy foot fetishists need not comment)

i'm gonna interview bob mould for DCist! (i think)
i love blogging!
any questions that you are just dying to ask him?
btw, he is doing a live set at blowoff this saturday at the 9:30 club.

continuing my bizarre obsession with bizarre animal hybrids...sea life park presents the wholphin!

The calf was born on Dec. 23 to Kekaimalu, a mix of a false killer whale and an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin. Park officials said they waited to announce the birth until now because of recent changes in ownership and operations at the park.

The young as-yet unnamed wholphin is one-fourth false killer whale and three-fourths Atlantic bottlenose dolphin. Her slick skin is an even blend of a dolphin's light gray and the black coloring of a false killer whale.

The calf still depends fully on her mother's milk, but sometimes snatches frozen capelin from the hands of trainers, then toys with the sardine-like fish.

She is jumbo-sized compared to purebred dolphins, and is already the size of a one-year-old bottlenose.

i have become increasingly sick over the past three days. i've been on a steady diet of nyquil, dayquil, pom juice and emergen-c. any other tried and true tricks for getting healthy? i'm leaving for italy on friday and I MUST NOT BE SICK FOR MY PERFECT TUSCAN VACATION!

by the way, i love the way italians type. i've been emailing various restaurants in cortona to make sure they're open on april 25, a national holiday, and apparently when emailing/typing/etc, italians understand my need to constantly type in capital letters. from one restaurant:

Buongiono Catherine sono Romano della Bucaccia di Cortona SiAMO SEMPRE APERTI SIA PRANZO CHE A CENA E BENE PERO' SEMPRE PRENOTARE

CIAO GRAZIE A PRESTO

ROMANO E AGOSTINA

translated: "hello catherine, i'm Romano from Bucaccia in Cortona WE ARE ALWAYS OPEN WHETHER FOR LUNCH OR DINNER BUT YOU MUST ALWAYS MAKE RESERVATIONS

BYE THANKS SEE YOU SOON"

SEE? it's FUN!