avoidance/procrastination/

what's rattling around my brain pan today--because heaven knows, i don't actually have any work to do today:

finding a radio edit of rachel stevens' 'some girls'; ferreting out when exactly tom waits is going to be breezing through town in support of his upcoming album; where to go to get my passport photos done; how very much i like chicken tikka masala; whether i can get to the tourneau at 34th street and get my watch repaired without getting rained on; whether it's currently raining; whether i should splash out for green contact lenses; whether the rumors that there are cookies here today are true; the fact that it's been a year since the Big Blackout Of 2003; the grand relief that the Great Domain Name Debacle Of 2004 is finally over; the sudden death of julia child AND rick james in the same week; why my calf is stiff; how the hell i'm going to fill the rest of this day; tonight's jim white show at southpaw; hoping it really, really PISSES it down tomorrow so i can, for once, enjoy a wonderful storm from the delightful coziness that is my apartment instead of from out in it and woefully underprepared; this strange craving for rice pudding (not A rice pudding, just rice pudding. preferably in chocolate); wondering how long it would take me to brush up my french if i really put my back into it; wondering why in the hell i'm feeling SO DAMN CHIRPY today.

CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP!

what's rattling around your mental machinery?