I think almost everyone knows the Old Navy sweater commercial, but I just got the full song that goes with it via the Minnesota Public Radio Current Song of the Day podcast.
While Ingrid Michaelson’s singing is a nice mix of sexy and sweet, the full lyrics are the real surprise here:
If you were falling, then I would catch you.
You need a light, I’d find a match.
Cuz I love the way you say good morning.
And you take me the way I am.
If you are chilly, here take my sweater.
Your head is aching, I’ll make it better.
Cuz I love the way you call me baby.
And you take me the way I am.
I’d buy you Rogaine when you start losing all your hair.
Sew on patches to all you tear.
Cuz I love you more than I could ever promise.
And you take me the way I am.
You take me the way I am.
You take me the way I am.
It apparently did pretty well on radio, but since my radio is an iPod nowadays, I was completely unaware of this song outside of Old Navy and, now, the MPR podcast. If you don’t want to download the podcast (or get there too late, and that song is no longer in MPR’s rotation), you can get the song here.
When I graduated from Virginia Tech, after five years and a summer session (due to almost always dropping my electives and just focusing on my comic strip with the Collegiate Times, starting a Greek system newspaper, doing my short-lived radio show for WUVT, managing VTTV, being a chairman or officer for Pi Kappa Alpha and, of course, my girlfriend), I looked at my grades and said “well, it’s not like I’m ever going to grad school.”
Whoops.
Fortunately, Tech is sending my transcript straight to my intended grad school without me having to look upon the carnage directly. (I had this mental illness where I kept taking Communications electives and not taking them seriously, and getting terrible grades in them as a result, seriously screwing up my Communications average. My second major, English, had a pretty good in-department GPA at the same time.) Now, if I get bad news in April about grad school, I plan on entirely blaming my grades.
Hopefully 15 years of work — and nine awards — will balance out 5 years and a summer session of sometimes inadequate focus.
Lucky no longer has a problem with Dora la Exploradora and can hang out with her without conflict. Hanna, not so much, but we’ll work on her. Lucky, as I write this, is sitting outside the nursery, sniffing under the door and listening for the house guest.
As of last night, Dora has both front paws trimmed (albeit not without complaint on her part) and she’s wearing a collar with a tag, in case she gets out in the next few days.
After 2 1/2 years, this blog will soon see a major revamp, upgrading from WordPress 1 to one of the WordPress 2 forks. It’ll get a new look, add some features and get some needed upgrades, like a captcha to cut down on the sometimes hundreds of spam posts I get each day.
Is there anything about the current blog that people love that I should keep? Everything is up for discussion.
Are there any new features the revised blog must have? Let me know. Work will likely begin on it this month.
Things the new site will have:
- An “About Me” page, including an explanation of the site name
- Nested blog categories (that are actually sorted in alphabetical order)
Last night, during the school board meeting, I was able to post the first draft of the school board story to the Star Web site using my iPod touch and the locally available wi-fi network (the photo was added later; initially, I just used the stock image of the HUSD logo). The touchpad keyboard was the biggest issue, as it’s a lot slower than even my Treo’s keyboard.
I’d love to do more mobile computing for my job, but the question is whether I’d be better off just getting a keyboard that worked with my iPod (and I’m not sure one is available yet) or getting a laptop that used Bluetooth and could connect to the Web via my cellphone.
It’s not a super-high priority, and with the clone here, I’ve got other things to spend money on in the near term. Still, it was pretty neat to be able to file a report from the meeting. Maybe the Daily Press would be up for buying a laptop or three for each location that could connect to the Internet via a Bluetooth phone.
I already do a lot of work via my Treo at meetings; before last night’s meeting was out, I had already e-mailed George Landon, Jovy Yankaskas, Jim Pace and Jean Campbell about the new HUSD contracts. George even gets his e-mail on his phone, so he’s always able to discuss them with me at the end of the meeting.
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