electric eyes

this is a patchwork of several recent posts that i saved as drafts recently but never returned to, in point form.

• an important project for me lately has been listening to an album consistently to understand it, rather than keeping it on the shelf to preserve the mystery. kate bush's aerial has been on constantly since tuesday.
  
• kate bush's never for ever is a patchy album at best. aerial stands with the dreaming, hounds of love, and the sensual world.
  
• i am sleeping better, now. for the first two weeks after we discovered the bedbugs i would wake up every several hours, feeling around for bugs, imagining them everywhere, biting, hiding, nesting in our home. i've been so exhausted this week that i've slept though the night; i think i'm over the bugs, at last. our apartment is still a disaster, however. our clean clothes are in rubbermaid containers piled in the living room. we just want to move. luckily, we are next up on the internal move list for a two-bedroom townhouse, which would be less than $100 more per month.
  
• if i don't have a better job lined up by march, i'll have to run again for my current position. it would be a fun election. oh, the slogans! higher, faster, stronger, HARDER! almost as good as Get MORE... Vote MOORE! and Go With The BEST... Jim BESTER for COUNCIL!, both of which i've seen in surrey this civic election.
  
• i'm still grappling with my civic ballot. i do not know who to vote for.
  
• my mother and i have both put our names in to the surrey civic coalition to help with e-day, but at e-7, there's been no response. they're letting a golden opportunity slip from their grasp through simple lack of organization.
  

three songs:
elvis costello, radio radio - it's been in my head since caelie's post the other day.
rush, subdivisions - i love the synths! horrid lyrics, but a wonderful propulsion.
phoebe snow, poetry man - i think amanda might like this. i love it.