A Nurse to Watch Over Me

May of 2005 marks my first year at Charles Schwab. To celebrate the event, Linda (my boss), introduced me to the woman who would represent what attracts me to the opposite sex. In previous conversations, Linda may have picked up on what seems to be a pattern in the women that catch my fancy. The list would probably include the following characters: Kate Moss, Fiona Apple, PJ Harvey, Mathilda (Natalie Portman's character in Leon), and Wednesday (Christina Ricci's character in The Addams Family).

And so she presents me with my muse....

Nurse Hypochondrianna


Medulla Oblongata

Midnight Run

And so it came to pass. I joined the many who stood in line for one of the midnight shows for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. The movie is indeed better than the previous two prequels, but I have to admit that it is not the best of all the episodes as some have come to believe.

Bleed Me Dry

She is still in hiding, but....

What you did to me made me
See myself something different
Though I try to talk sense to myself
But I just won't listen
Won't you go away
Turned yourself in
You're no good at confession
Before the image that you burned me in
Tries to teach you a lesson
What you did to me made me see myself somethin' awful
A voice once stentorian is now again weak and muffled
It took me such a long time to get back up the first time you did it
I spent all I had to get it back, and now it seems I've been outbidded
My peace and quiet was stolen from me
When I was looking with calm affection
You were searching out my imperfections
What wasted unconditional love
On somebody
Who doesn't believe in the stuff
You came up on me like a hipnik jerk
When I was just about settled
And when it counts you recoil
With the cryptic word and leave a love belittled
Oh what a cold and a common old way to go
I was feeding on the need for you to know me
Devastated off the rage you found below me
What wasted unconditional love
On somebody
Who doesn't believe in this life
Oh well

"Oh Well"
by Fiona Apple
(from her unreleased album, "Extraordinary Machine")