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Captain Somebody

When I lose my sleep it's you I miss

About Me

Let's see if I can do this in five words:1) tall2) awkward3) funny4) flailing5) lazy

My Interests

Dr. Pepper, crosswords, singing, drawing, sufficiently long jeans, reading, being lazy, getting lost (not so much an interest as an inevitability), elipses...

I'd like to meet:

Garrison Keillor, Glen Keane, and the Faces Down's guitarist Kato (he always looks like he's having fun, I like that).

Music:

Sondre Lerche! Broadway! Choral! Random!

Movies:

Beauty and the Beast, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Jurassic Park, The Sound of Music, The Shawshank Redemption,Mary Poppins, Much Ado About Nothing...etc.

Television:

I have no TV. Sometimes I miss it.

Books:

Harry Potter, David Sedaris, The Dark is Rising sequence by Susan B. Cooper, occasionally grown up books (currently Special Topics in Calamity Physics)

Heroes:

Mom. Plain and simple. She's one cool lady.. .I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Blog

Woman, thy name is bridesmaid

I thought I already wrote this blog...apparently it just disappeared into the internet. Well.It was a matrimonial-ish weekend. Friday I went up to San Jose for Kara's bridal shower--super fun. We s...
Posted by Captain Somebody on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:03:00 PST

Gunfighters Anonymous

We met our new neighbors this weekend!  They seem real nice.  Brody and Zach, they live across the...hall?  (can you call it a hall in an apartment complex where the apartments open out...
Posted by Captain Somebody on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:32:00 PST

Every planet has a north

1.  Read Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl.  You won't be sorry.  And if you are, we can't be friends anymore.2.  Vaseline Intensive Care Healthy Hand & Nail ...
Posted by Captain Somebody on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:43:00 PST

"Let me breathe my last breath into your mouth," she said.

Someone asked me today about my wedding. Um....what? This is what happens when there are two Darcys (Darcies?) working on the same very small campus. Actually, I'm almost the exact opposite of gett...
Posted by Captain Somebody on Tue, 29 May 2007 03:38:00 PST

All Signs Point to "Yogurt"

Well I'm back in SB after a brief run-away to Sac.  Strangely, it's way sunnier up there.  Going home helped, it was nice to just lay on the couch and zone out and have mom try to force feed...
Posted by Captain Somebody on Sun, 27 May 2007 05:56:00 PST

........

Worst. Weekend. Ever.
Posted by Captain Somebody on Wed, 23 May 2007 10:22:00 PST

Yellow Fever is the New Black Death

When I'm braindead and sitting at work, I think of things that I'd rather be doing. Usually this involves some combination of classic Darcy passtimes and my current new obsessions. I have compiled t...
Posted by Captain Somebody on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:10:00 PST

At the bottom of this mine lies a big, BIG man...Big John

I have had a great day at work. I've done my part, calling people, e-mailing, cleaning my desk, sending contracts, etc. But there have been down times as well. And in those down times I have been h...
Posted by Captain Somebody on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:57:00 PST

Henchmen earn higher wages than goons, Wall Street Journal Says.

I grow oldI grow oldI shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.Maybe I'll recite those lines every year on my birthday? It will become a creepy sort of tradition, much the way I intend to make it...
Posted by Captain Somebody on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:48:00 PST

Giraffes can be rather huffy when they want to be.

I feel like I'm forgetting something very very important that is work related, but I can't for the life of me think of what it might be. NASM is done (hallelujah!), scholarship auditions (bane of my ...
Posted by Captain Somebody on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:38:00 PST