One of my favorite moments from “The Colbert Report”:

1) Favorite hobby?
Writing, the Internets, cooking, movies, reading, trying new restaurants, catching up on my Google Reader.

2) How do you feel about your ex?
I respect him.

3) Do you own guns?
No. That’s why I have K as a friend.

4) What flavor do you add to your drink at Sonic?
We don’t have Sonic around these parts. But, I just went to Coldstone Creamery yesterday with J., and had the most delicious ice cream — cakebatter ice cream, yellow cake, sprinkles and chocolate fudge.

5) Do you get nervous before doctor appointments?
Yeah.

6) What do you think of hot dogs?
I like hot dogs, but I don’t if I think about them for too long before eating them.

7) Favorite Christmas song?
“What Child Is This?” “Silver Bells,” “O Holy Night,” “Last Christmas,” all of Sufjan Stevens’ Christmas music, “Christmas in Hollis,” “Merry X-Mas” and a bunch of those.

8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning?
Diet Mountain Dew

9) Can you do push ups?
Yeah

10) Can you do a chin up?
No way

11) What is your favorite piece of jewelry?
Necklaces

12) Do you like blue cheese?
Yes — but not for eating by itself.

14) Do you have ADD?
Nope

15) What’s one thing that you hate about yourself?
My self-deprecation and my need to say I’m sorry all the time.

16) Middle name?
Marie

17) Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment?
a) I need to finish washing the floor in my bathroom.
b) I hope J’s grandma is OK.
c) I should start on my chicken curry.

18) Name 3 things you bought yesterday?
a) some two-liter bottles of soda

19) Name 3 drinks you regularly drink?
Diet Mountain Dew, sugar-free Kool-Aid, Diet Root Beer

20) Current worry?
Trying to get everything here in order. Being an adult is a bitch.

21) Current hate right now?
PMS

24) How did you spend your birthday this year?
My birthday isn’t until October, so I haven’t celebrated this year yet.

25) Where would you like to be right now?
Back in bed, cuddling with J.

26) Name three people who will complete this?
No one

27) Do you own slippers?
Yes. I wear them more in the winter.

28) What shirt are you wearing?
A Unix t-shirt

29) Do you like sleeping on satin sheets?
Sometimes.

30) Can you whistle?
Yes

31) Would you be a pirate?
Heck yes

32) What songs do you sing in the shower?
Whatever is in my head…

33) Favorite girl’s name?
If I ever have a girl, her name will be Amelia Belle

34) Favorite boy’s name?
Elliott James

35) What’s in your pocket?
No pockets. I’m wearing pajama bottoms

36) Last thing that made you cry?
Yesterday when we saw “WALL-E”

37) Best bed sheets as a child?
Clouds

38) Worst injury you’ve ever had?
The pinched nerve in my lower back that hates the world

39) Do you love where you live?
I guess…

40) How many TVs do you have in your house?
2

41) Who is your loudest friend?
G.

42) How many dogs do you have?
None

43) Does someone have a crush on you?
I dunno. Do you?

44) What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Chunky Monkey or the flavor I had yesterday. Spumoni.

45) What is your favorite book?
A whole bunch

46) What is your favorite candy?
Licorice, Candy Raisins, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, Peanut Butter M&Ms, fancy chocolate

47) Favorite sports team?
Packers and the Brewers!

48) What song do you want played at your funeral?
“In My Life” - The Beatles

49) What were you doing at 12 AM last night?
Probably something naughty.

50) What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up?
I’m still tired.

I’m back. I moved last Friday, and then I didn’t have the Interweb at home. On Friday night, I corrected that when I got RoadRunner installed, so I’m all up in your Internets. I live alone now. It’s weird. I’m not sure how much I like it — it’s probably just that I’m not used to it. I find that adapting to change for me can be a challenge. It brings out the depressed h. But, at the same time, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. What were my other options? Exactly. Bad deal.
P. and K. were my Superstar Move Friends. I owe them both immensely. I want to have them over for dinner soon. I only have a few more boxes to empty.
J. has been great as well. Things have been going really well between us. We’ve known each other about a month now. It’s been a great month. We’re officially boyfriend-girlfriend now, too. We carpool to work twice a week, which is nice. I’m wearing his Unix t-shirt right now, actually.
What’s new with you?

1. I have an assload of laundry to do before I move on Friday.
2. I’m getting excited, but mostly, I have a cold and wish I could just lay in bed until it’s all over.
3. I still need a vacuum and a microwave.
4. My bedroom is coming apart nicely.
5. Want to help me move on Friday night at 6 p.m.?

I am tired of packing.
I need so much crap for my new crib.
Want to give me a back rub?

I move to my new place on June 13. Here is a list having to do with that.
List of things I need to buy for my new apartment
1. Two waste baskets
2. A dish rack
3. A dish brush
4. Shelf lining
5. Cleaning products
6. Dish soap
7. Tide and dryer sheets
8. Broom and dust pan
9. Vacuum
10. Microwave
11. Toilet paper
12. Towels

A random list of important and not-so-important things happening in and around my life on or near May 18, 2008
1. Thanks to my friend, Bryan S., I am rediscovering the majesty of Radiohead’s “The Bends.” Just how great is that fucking album? If you answered, “Hot damn! That’s hot shit!” You answered correctly. Or, “Not as good as ‘OK Computer’” would also be accepted.
2. This is going to be a crazy week at Ye Olde Place O’ Employment. A retiree celebration and a breakfast for celebrating volunteers and hydration are both on the docket.
3. Now with wings! I found an apartment! Cor blimey! More details are forthcoming.
4. She’s mumbling in Latin. She cut the stars out of the sky and baked them in a pie.
5. I got my hair did. It’s all brown and now I have bangs. I’m not used to it. It’s been an adjustment. Tomorrow morning, I have to wake up, shower and do my hair. That will be the true test of how much I like or dislike my hair.
6. I want to complain about someone, but I don’t want no drama, no, no, no, no drama… But there is a certain person in my life that is making it more of a challenge.
7. I don’t understand the concept of “slop” pool. I think if I hit the white ball and it hits another ball and it goes into the pocket, no matter if I intended on hitting that ball or a different ball, it should count. What gives, world?
8. Anathallo played the Cactus Club on Friday night, and I wasn’t there. Color me bummed out.
9. Next Saturday, a group of us are going to Medieval Times in Ill. I’m excited. Kind of.
10. I saw “Iron Man” on Thursday, and it rocked my socks. Before it, there was a preview for “The Dark Knight” and I believe I had an orgasm. I am so incredibly excited for that movie. I need to see it on the UltraScreen, sitting in one of those swanky chairs.
11. I am also excited for the new Indiana Jones, but mostly to see if Harrison Ford breaks a hip and asks for his mush during it. I bet not, but a girl can hope.
12. A certain member of my household bought a huge-ass flatscreen, widescreen HD TV for the living room upstairs. It is pimp ass. That person spent the weekend discovering just how great things look in high definition. And how not-so-great certain things look. Some people just don’t look that wonderful in HD. But MLB and NFL are swoon-worthingly great.
13. ThinkGeek has a peppermill that looks like R2-D2. And I want it! Check it out!
14. I also saw “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” on Saturday. My friend Josh has ruined Jason Siegel for me forever. He basically called him Judge Reinhold 2.0, and now every time I see him, I think of that. And, I’m sorry, I loves me some cock, but that movie had far too much Jason Siegel wang. I will forever love him in “Freaks & Geeks.” I love that show forever.
15. The Kenosha drive-in is now open. I’d like to go some weekend. Would you want to? Maybe when it gets a bit warmer?

On the plane yesterday on the way home from North Carolina, I finished “Love is a Mix Tape” by Rob Sheffield. It’s a sweet memoir written by Sheffield, a Rolling Stone writer, about his relationship with his now-deceased wife. Each chapter starts with the track listing of a mix tape, which I thought was just plain fantastic. Not many books have made me cry … I’m usually a pretty tough cookie, but this one did.

It made me want to make a mix. So, tonight, I did. I called it “The Core in Heathercore,” because the songs I chose if I wrote them, I’d consider them to be autobiographical, or just really important in my development as a person. I’m not explaining this very well.

Here is the track listing and some notes:
1. “The Kindness of Strangers” - American Analog Set
For those who received a mix tape from me after AmAnSet released “Know By Heart” in 2001, this track was most likely on it. It was all subconscious. But really, I added this track to *everything*. That is why it’s first.

2. “She’s Got A New Spell” - Billy Bragg
One of those songs that make me happy to be alive and a music fan. This song is usually my answer to the question: “Name a song that describes you.”

3. “Black Metallic” - Catherine Wheel
This song, off of Catherine Wheel’s “Ferment”, makes me want to fornicate.

4. “Title and Registration” - Death Cab for Cutie
One of my favorite Death Cab songs

5. “Needle in the Hay” - Elliott Smith
This song was on my brain because I watched Sad Kermit’s version. One of Elliott’s bests.

6. “The Way I Am” - Ingrid Michaelson
Yes, that song from that iPod commercial. It’s probably my most perfect karaoke song ever… it’s exactly my range. Pretty song. Wonderful sentiment.

7. “C’mere” - Interpol

8. “Bill Gates Must Die” - John Vanderslice

9. “Supernova” - Liz Phair
“Fuck & Run” is another one of my anthems, but I chose “Supernova” because it makes me want to shake my ass.

10. “Gold Soundz” - Pavement
In “Love is a Mix Tape,” he talks a lot about Pavement, and well, that put me in the Pavement mood.

11. “Perfect Lines” - The Promise Ring
I remember seeing The Promise Ring at Summerfest during the summer between 8th grade and 9th grade. “Nothing Feels Good” is my favorite record of theirs.

12. “Think I Wanna Die” - Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
Since I heard this song a few weeks ago, I have probably listened to it a bizillion times. Great pop song.

13. “Sally Cinnamon” - The Stone Roses
Throughout high school, I was Brit Pop-obsessed. This is hat’s off to that period of my life. Ian Brown really doesn’t have that great of voice, but I still love The Roses.

14. “New York City” - They Might Be Giants
Holy Cow! This song makes me so incredibly happy! I usually listen to it before I enter work to give me a little spring in my step.

15. “Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House” - Yo La Tengo
A nice little chill-out way to end a mix

This mix is missing some important bands … no Beatles, but it’ll do…

What would be on your Explain Yourself mix?