caminamos

the other night Mary Beth and i began walking...well, at least together...during our walk we also started teaching each other (/ourselves) spanish and french...as well as each of us learning a new language, i hope to relearn the spanish i lost, as i've been meaning to for years...it's lame 'cuz while i wasn't fluent or anything, i knew the damned language...at times i would think in spanish...also i'd reached that point where when i read things in spanish i was no longer mentally translating back and forth between english...i was just reading spanish...though i guess the fragments i retain are still like that, they make sense on their own accord, there's just way way too many gaps...hopefully it'll come back alright...i also discovered language text wikibooks...those look pretty sweet...last night Mary Beth and i celebrated cinco de mayo at La Guadalupana...mmm...so good...then we went to a show at Odessa...the band was called MV & EE, just heard about it online the day before or something...it was pretty good...Tim Prudhomme opened with three or so songs and it was as i'd've expected...the main band was pretty good, "psych-folk"...the show worked pretty well with the size of the venue...afterwards i bought some merch and did something stupid...well, i had ten bucks and, among regular cds, they had live cdrs for five dollars so i wanted to get two of those...so the girl in the band says something about oh we're not playing any more shows this tour so you can just have 'em then something about the ones with the stickers on 'em and handed me the two cdrs in question with the price sticker...Mary Beth told me after we left that she thought i misheard her 'cuz the way she inflected "you can just have 'em" at least that portion sounded like just take 'em for free but she thought she meant just take the display ones with the sticker on 'em...well, i wanted to be nice and i was like i wanna give you the ten dollars anyway and get a regular cd...she didn't say anything to stop me so picked out the cd paid her and left...after Mary Beth told me what she thought i felt back so i went back in and asked her if i'd misheard and she just said "it's okay, enjoy it" kind of ambiguous but i think i did mishear her...oops...i felt pretty guilty, but she was nice and i guess it's no problem...but still i have that impulse to think i was being an assuming asshole...anyway, the partially stolen goods i ended up with were two live cdrs entitled Space and Pride of Yards: Thick w/ Definition and a proper cd: MV & EE with the Golden Road: Gettin' Gone...so i just finished working nine days in a row! it's now my weekend! it wasn't as bad as i thought it might be, i really didn't notice...i guess i was mentally prepared for it and didn't even think about it so it just went by...and coming off the four day weekend seeing Throbbing Gristle helped my spirits too...