KyleKyle’s Blog

I feel like something isn’t quite right. Everything should be just peachy keen, but something feels missing. Even now as I try to write about it, I can’t quite say what it is. Perhaps I should just go to work and pretend like everything is great, business as usual!

Remind me how awesome its going to be when I have my own. I’ve been playing with a 3 year old named Theo lately who belongs to my friend Becca’s friends. What a super hilarious kid. I’m in no way thinking of knocking anybody up anytime soon, but someday with the right girl, we will spawn the most badass little people this world has ever seen. It’s all about the parenting.

See, I was in Dolores park the other day, and I constantly overheard parents telling their kids to be careful, and not to do things, and to be safe, and all that, no matter how benign the things they were doing. Don’t you think this constant voice of safety first could damage kids mentally? This is why we have so many cowards and hypochondriacs.  Parents should be telling kids to have courage, to take calculated risks, to be adventurous! These things are important! This is why I hate how all playgrounds have been made ’safer’. Dangerous play equipment teaches kids their own limits! It gives them mettle at an early age! But this is the great thing about parenting. Everyone gets their own chance to teach their own kids how to live, and I’m going to get a chance to do it my way, and that way will be totally awesome. TOTALLY AWESOME in caps even.

The stay at home father theory: I’d be totally happy raising kids at home and letting the woman work. I don’t understand why women hate all this cooking cleaning taking care of kids stuff. It sounds kind of awesome. Especially if someone I love pays for me to do it. Obviously I’m going to get my doctorate and all that, but how cool would it be to be Dr. Kyle, stay at home scientist! Now I’m just ranting

I’ll do the soccer bit first. Leg 1 game 1 of the Champions League happened Tuesday and Wednesday. Chelsea tied Olympiakos in Greece 0-0 and Arsenal tied Ac Milan in London 0-0. This is very promising for me and sad for Cassidy because it means Chelsea gets to beat up the Greeks in London and Arsenal has to salvage their game in Milan. Mwhahaha.

Acrobaticals! I’m totally in love with my Chinese Acrobatics class. I’m already planning on increasing my intake of body punishment next semester by adding a Stretching Intensive course and Aerial Conditioning.  My acrobatics teacher says this will basically turn my body into a monster and I’ll be able to do lots of cool things. Already I’m getting better at standing on my hands and what not. Seriously, Circus Center, I totally reccomends it!

Battlestar Galactica is an awesome show! WATCH IT. And play close attention to the Cylon Sleeper agents. They are among us! Right now! Seriously. My life has strange parallels to Helo’s.

And St. Valentine’s day happened! Many of you probably rocked the pillow fight, I decided to abstain this year for a variety of reasons, including timing, and a lack of a pillow. I did have a date though, we ent out for dinner and had lots of good conversation and I suspect a lot of fun. It has only become complicated since then however, which is a shame. Who knows… I never seem to. My dating strategy needs to be somet— Hahah Jewel just came up randomly on my iTunes, but the shitty Jewel from that Album she purposefully made bad… Damn you Jewel — something along the lines of being awesome and just letting it happen. My attempts to make anything work on not work never seem to have any effect at all I’m totally running out of time to discuss these things… but there’s more to come in the future, I assure you.

So this past week I’ve gone to two shows for bands I’ve been hoping to see for something like 5 years. 2 in the same weeeeeeeek! It was amazing!

De/Vision - I love De/Vision with all my heart. I like to call it romantic man music. They played a great set, an updated version of “Your hands on my skin” which is totally hot and awesome, and it was on St. Valentines day which made it pretty nice. They were very dancey, very friendly, and I’d see them again in a heartbeat!

And One - And One was just two nights ago on Tuesday. Hot Damn! I brought Cassidy and met up with Kimber and Bruno there. They rocked the fucking house and we didn’t stop bouncing till they finally left after a huge set (except for Kim who couldn’t handle the awesome’ness of Getting Closer and had to flee to the outside world).  I love the androgynously sexual stage show, the sly winks and giggles, and the huge energy these fellows have. BADASS! They certainly cemented their position in my top 5 bands for years to come with that show (not that they’d ever really been shaken anyways).

In a few weeks Iris is coming to DNA, which will be great too. I will totally fuckin be there!

What a nice weekend! On Friday I went out and had a very nice time. I’m not gonna get all jinxy and discuss it, but sufficed to say I went home with a big smile. Patxi’s for excellent pizza, yummy ice cream, and Meet The Robinsons, an awesome little disney flick. We’ll discuss this more after this coming weekend perhaps.

Cassidy finally went and saw Cloverfield without me thank god. I didn’t like Blairwitch, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t like Cloverfield. The silly review in the onion did it for me. Assholes, all of them!

In the soccer world, Arsenal pulled farther ahead of Chelsea and ManU again. Bleh. Good for Cassidy, bad for me! Werder Bremen managed to not win as well, so it was a shafty weekend for my sports teams. And screw the superbowl, could have watched it, totally didn’t care.

Hummmmmm…. Thats it for nows!

What an adorable movie. I recorded it a while ago and finally got around to watching it after acrobatics today. Heels look like a difficult prospect, but I did like the line in the movie about how wearing heels activates/accentuates certain calf and thigh muscles that also indicate readiness for mating. I never knew that!

Basically, the summary of my day. I cleaned like crazy today, bid adieu to our little cat friend Lily, and welcomed a few new additions to the home. The mixer is a kitchen aid professional and it weighs some three billion kilograms. The coffee table is a gift from my aunt, heavy, sturdy, and wonderful. We just need to stain it red at some point. I made a carrot cake with the mixer immediately to test its strength. I made a complete mess of the kitchen, but the carrot cake was fantastic. Em, Julian, and Doug came over to enjoy it, play cards, and have exercise contests with Cassidy. Emily beat Cassidy at a push-up contest on the colossus, mostly because Cassidy has the words “Huge Vagina” tatooed beneath his belly button. All in all, I’ve had to much cream cheese frosting…. but it is just so damn good… help…

Cassidy and I watched lots of things today. We watched Chelsea continue on in the FA Cup. We watched Patrick Stewart rock the house in Extras. We yelled and screamed while watching season 2 of Battlestar Galactica. We watched Lady in the Water and I actually liked it, but Cassidy fell asleep with the cat. All in all a good day.

My matress arrived this morning. I’m going to sleep on my own bed in my own house for the first time since May of last year. Its just too bad I’m all alone on such a rainy night

Cassidy and I watched the Chelsea game last night, and all I have to say is HELL YES. Chelsea was in slamming form, and Anelka looked great. I love Everton, so I felt bad for them, but they fought admirably and were it not for our uber keeper, they might have won. Anyways, yay for Chelsea, Carling Cup final in February!

First and foremost. The Thailand pictures are completely done. All you have to do is click Gallery in the top right hand corner of this page and find the albums in 2007. It’s listed by date, so basically every day last summer = Thailand. Hurray! If you notice any problems please let me knows

I’ve also been taking the acrobatics class I signed up for, and wowie. Not only the most fun I’ve had in a while, it’s completely beating me up. I’m really trying to get back in shape for myself and this class, and hopefully it’s going to work.

Cassidy and I went to Death Guild last night for the first time in a while. It was a good bit of fun. Good music at the end of the night, including a new Bauhaus song I’m going to have to track down. Yum.

I’ve taken greater control of my work schedule now, and hopefully it will make me a little more sane, and give me a little more time for fun. Saturdays are officially my untouchable day off! Hurrah!

As of this Saturday my matress shows up! I’ve been waiting 3 weeks for this monster to be delivered…. I’m washing all my new sheets and comforter cover items right now, I cannot wait to wrap up in this lovely new down comforter and fall onto the new matress….. bedroom heaven!

Just for fun, I’m going to insert a few pictures from the gallery!