Eating: Bing cherries. Yum! (1 cup = about 85 calories. Not bad!)

Making: Trying to finish the second sock of a pair started…a million months ago. Before I move on to finishing up Kysa’s Friendship Star quilt, since I finished Ame’s yesterday! Woot!

Reading: Just finished “Life Class” by Pat Barker (very good) and have moved on to “Lush Life” by Richard Price. It’s good. But then again, what book of his isn’t.

Watching: Just watched season 1 of Burn Notice on Hulu (Dear Hulu, how ’bout you try to get Everwood, seasons 1-4? Thanks!). Eh. I don’t like the lead at all, I hate that everything he says in the voiceovers is in his smarmy, self-satisified tone of voice. But I’d love to be skinny, strong and sassy, like Gabrielle Anwar. So there’s that. Since the insanely stupid Sci Fi channel is not going to show the rest of BSG season 4 until fucking next fucking year, I have to find something to watch this summer, before I die of fucking boredom. So I figured if I’m going to be stuck watching season 2 of Burn Notice, I might as well have watched season 1 first.

Listening: Listening to lots of Joseph Arthur (man of many recent EPs) and still obsessing over Meg Hutchinson‘s latest, as well as some singles from Tristan Prettyman and this very theatrical, dramatic album “Songs from the Deep Forest” by Duke Special that I picked up one day after reading Largeheartedboy’s blog where he linked to an interview of someone who recommended this (Paul Weller? maybe?) but I can’t remember who or where. It has a similar tone/feel to the soundtrack to “Spring Awakening” or the Buffy musical episode “Once More with Feeling“.

Eating: Mixed Berry Chewy Spree. Which I’m sure are sour only to me, and holy crap they’re making my face burn up. Could be allergic to them. Better eat 20 more to make sure.

Making: Still the blindstitching to go on Amy’s quilt and so close to being done w/ an elongated Cloud bolero (ravelry link) although at this point I’m fairly convinced I’ll never wind up wearing the thing. Everyone thinks I should wear it with a tanktop but in what weather conditions do a tank top and a wool lacey vest deal go together?

Reading: “The Farther Shore” by Matthew Eck which is really, really good. Welcome to the new generation of war novelists. Tactile and gritty and completely engrossing.

Watching: Battlestar Galactica (old and new) over and over again. And the one and only season of Standoff on Hulu. DAMN, it still pisses me off they cancelled that show. I love episode 2 possibly the best*, but the end of episode 3 is totally (romantically) awesome (Hello, Band of Horses), and also the ends of episodes 12 and 18, just so you know.

Listening: Listening to lots of Joe Purdy (as I may have mentioned), as well as Sea Wolf after seeing their brilliant show last week, (hmmm, which I thought I had written up but apparently not) and Meg Hutchinson. Have bought tons of new stuff; maybe I’ll start listening to that over the weekend. I mean, if I can be unslackerish enough to roll off the couch and press play. I’ve got big relaxation plans going on over here.

*Am I the only one who loves things the “best” rather than the “most”? Where’d I pick that up? I know one of you is to blame. CCB, was it you?

Eating: Loads of crap-ass horrible-for-you but oh-so-good-tasting food.

Making: Not a motherfucking thing.

Reading: Finishing up “Slam” by Nick Hornby so I can move on to the May challenge book before Dad gets too far ahead of me!!! (Finished April in the nick of time but haven’t written it up yet.)

Watching: This week’s episodes of: Bros & Sis (middling); Bones (eh, stupid babies); Gossip Girl (hmm OK); How I Met Your Mother (awesome); CSI NY (lame); CSI (awesome); Lost (motherfucking awesomely awesome!!!!!!!!!!!); The Office (pretty good); 30 Rock (eh); Grey’s (sucked ass). Did I watch anything else this week? I just can’t remember.

Listening: New albums from The Weepies (yes!); Madonna (some!); Fleet Foxes (LOVE!); and lots of other stuff (check several recent Tunes posts).

Eating: Ginger ale and saltines and that’s about it. I expect that to change over the weekend though. Look out Moody’s, here I come.

Making: Nada. Been shootin’ some film.

Reading: Dad’s and my March challenge book for the month “The Death of Virgil” by Hermann Brach, the first to really be a fucking challenge to read. Abstractly, it is beautiful and elegaic and almost like reading Virgil himself. But the act of reading it…is tough. Not always what I want on the El, my main reading time. Dad was struggling too…until he burst ahead, read the last 40 pages and called me to crow! Dang! Have taken a few breaks for some others, but now I’ve really got to buckle down. Month’s almost over!

Watching: Fresh TV. Ah. As welcome as Spring. Bones, I’ve missed you. Also obsessively watching both NEW and VERY OLD CSI. I know, right? Catching up on season and rewatching whatever season (2003?) is currently showing from about 4-7 on SPIKE TV. Watching it so much, DNA is all I can think about, everywhere I am, everything I touch, “whoops, just left a little DNA right there, hope no one gets murdered on this corner later…” Oh and season 1 Battlestar Galactica. Fuckin’ awesome. Helo is my fave. Season 2 better get here lickety split (if you think I didn’t leave the sickbed to go feverishly, deliriously hunting for it in the ‘hood the other night, you are way wrong).

Listening: Dang, I’ve been watching so much BSG and CSI, listenin’ has had a tough time staying in the game this week. I haven’t even listened to most of the CDs I bought in Japan, as someone just reminded me! That said, I’m loving the new album from Meg Hutchinson I bought at her show the other night. And by loving I mean ouch, my heart just broke into 100 pieces but play it again, would ya? Also loving two recent EPs by Joseph Arthur, one all distorty and dark and the other less dark but as melancholy as always (and love it so). Got a lot of new stuff waitin’ in the wings. More to say soon! Seriously!