So the long-awaited fourth studio album from Hanson, The Walk, was released in Japan on Wednesday and, like BWO and the rest of the Hanson fan world, I can’t stop listening and will be until I can pretty much recite the tracks from memory lol (specifically “Georgia,” “One More,” “Your Illusion,” and “Been There Before”) See official lyrics here — happy new music week to me!

It’s out, depending on which branch of WordPress you use (2.0 or 2.1), and has been termed a low-to-medium priority update. So yeah, go get it.

I feel like I’ve discovered Hanson again … I heard the synth-pop band BWO (Bodies Without Organs) at work yesterday thanks to “Sixteen Tons of Hardware” on the awesome Swedish iTunes radio station, Soundic Radio, and I can’t stop downloading their videos and music. I don’t know what’s wrong with me, and I’ve been drooling over the lead singer, Martin, ever since the Open Door video Haha. Maybe it’s just ’cause he reminds me of Taylor.

Is it just me, or is this an amusing title for a book: Dying for a Hamburger: Modern Meat Processing and the Epidemic of Alzheimer’s Disease (I have a paper due on Tuesday about Alzheimer’s). But wait, there’s more — there are sections called “Mad Cows and Dead Englishmen,” “How Now Ground Cow,” and “Everything but the Moo.” And this is a serious book! Surprisingly, though, parts of it are relevant to my paper, so more power to Mr. Waldman and Ms. Lamb — they’re my new favorite people.

Half of the reason for this post is the new smilies I installed last night, and because 2 of them are Valentine’s Day-related, I figured I should use them now since I probably won’t anytime in the near future. And now I’m done with smiley overload

The rest of the reason for this post is the ice/snow storm we, like the rest of the Northeast, had last night. By midnight school was already closed, and there’s no telling what will happen tomorrow since the ice is still very present and frozen — I haven’t had 2 consecutive days of canceled school/work since maybe elementary school! Well, yesterday wasn’t technically closed, but I didn’t have to go to any of the required events, so yeah. I also learned my Scion doesn’t really work in the ice … despite the temperature being above freezing and lots of melting going on, it took me 30 minutes to hack my way through the ice on and around the car so I could run some errands, and then 30 more minutes to hack through different ice so I could get into the driveway … my wheels wouldn’t stop spinning trying to get back into my old space. So that sucked, and now my car is precariously parked on a sheet of ice — which I couldn’t have gotten through, no matter how hard I tried, with the crappy shovel I have — in the not very flat driveway, but I turned my wheels so that if it slips at all, it just goes into the yard Stupid ice.

I just saw my old Foxcroft history teacher (now academic dean), Mr. Suitor, on the random TLC show What Were You Thinking?! It completely caught me off guard … I’m sitting there, eating dinner, flipping channels, and there’s this show on about weird things people do all over the world. A segment about a wife-carrying contest comes on (they didn’t say where), and seconds later my mouth drops open when they show the American team … I know that guy! It’s definitely him too — he talked to the camera and everything. Wow. Too bad they lost the race about 2 seconds after it started lol.

For anyone who reads my blog through a feed reader or who didn’t notice the blue box in the sidebar, I caved and am now a member of Twitter! Yeah it’s basically an away message for the web and isn’t much different than that of AIM, Yahoo, etc., but it sounded fun ’cause you can update via your phone and stuff. See my page here — and if you’re a member too, feel free to add me