when you haven't eaten in a while, pictures of greasy food start to look particularly appetizing. mmmm.

actually, i've had some fruit salad and i've been drinking coffee (with chocolate soy) all week. so, i'm not fasting. atheists don't fast, they at most toy with bulimia. i'll hit my target on friday morning, but i actually want to avoid having a giant plate of spaghetti when i do.

i stopped this morning to clean, and in turn stopped cleaning to do a grocery list, and then stopped the grocery list to research shows this weekend, because i didn't want to buy food and then go away for the weekend. if the very hot weather here is being pushed away by the return of that low winter jet stream, the issue should resolve itself, but my fridge here is a little bit low on power and doesn't keep fruit as well as i'd like it to in the humidity. everything's in tupperware, but it's only a half answer. and, no, i'm not turning the fucking a/c on. if i'm going to be away all weekend, it will make sense to wait to get groceries....

i'm iffy on a show on saturday night, but would kind of like to get to small's for a show on sunday evening. i don't expect that i'll actually go all the way to small's just for a few hours, though. and, i can't find a saturday overnight...

i'm leaning towards a no, but we'll see how it goes.

in the mean time, i'm struggling with a stench in this apartment that i can't trace. first of all, i don't know what the smell is. i'm down to three possibilities. the first is that the guy upstairs is storing garbage in his house, and i think that's unlikely - but if he is, then i'm smelling it rotting. the second is that.....he has a black lab. black labs are going to poop, and it's not their fault. so, he has a giant pail of dogshit around somewhere or other, and that's what i'm smelling. and, the third is that i'm smelling him, through some combination of garlic-y food and poor hygiene.

if i could figure out where it's actually coming from, i could begin to react, but it's the same as it was when i was smelling him smoking - i can't figure out how it's actually getting in.

i crashed around 17:00 or so while ruling out a show at the tangent gallery on friday. you can imagine that electronic music with live guitars is fundamentally intriguing to me, but you can't fix bad dubstep with tasty guitar licks. i could maybe see myself getting into some of this "bass music" as idm if it's orchestrated properly, but you just can't dance to it, and it's not fun when it's stripped down. i had this discussion last week about dubstep: in theory, dubstep for 100-piece orchestra would be phenomenal, but the talent just doesn't exist in the genre. these brostep dudes just don't know shit. if they did....but they just don't. i might change my mind if the weather is nicer than forecast. but, for now, i'm going to finish my run through seeking sunday options to see if i can construct a saturday aft---->sunday eve fun day, and then adjust my grocery list as required.

i should be back to finalizing the sept rebuild, one way or the other, by the afternoon.