best use of soundbytes ever

Yes, this will effect my vote, but which way?

nice discovery

I'm always excited when I stumble upon some quality music. And I really enjoy a good cover. Here's a free download from Amie Street of Wakey!Wakey! doing Gnarles Barkley's Crazy. Quality. Shoot download the whole album. All it takes is a quick free sign up.

let me count the ways...

beautiful, determined, creative, intuitive, passionate, funny, athletic, talented, strong, sexy, intelligent, confident, patient, loyal, forgiving, diligent, precise, competitive, assertive, defender, fighter, sincere, hopeful, reconciler, treasure

flier / flyer ideas

Each time I spell the word flier, I wonder, is it flyer, or flier. Well today I shall wonder no more thanks to Apple's built in Dictionary application. Apparently either spelling is accepted. What's with that. In this age of moral relativism (thanks again Apple) is it impossible to keep our venerated lexicon secure. Why the superfluity? our words becoming effete.

And now to the thesis of this post...

I'm looking for help. I'm making a flyier (I just did that) for an upcoming conference and the idea is to have a background filled with text and then using some savvy designer Photoshop® skillz, I'll use the letters in the text as pixels to create the word "STORY" in bold or colors or something. Here's where you come in. I'm asking you to send me the first lines of some of your favories stories (books, movies, whatever) that would either be recognizable or relatable if you were of the college-age persuasion.

Gimme examples:

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
Somewhere in la Mancha
In the beginning

Also, I'm looking for creative lines (entirely made up) that will resonate with less mainstream (debatable) stories.

Examples:

I grew up without a father
My grandparents raised me

Super. I appreciate all your responses.

divisional staff meeting

I wouldn't say that I thrive in meetings. Actually, I can't say there is anyone, who knows me well, that would say that I thrive in meetings.

But here's a great blessing. I find myself sitting in a buffet with too many delicious meals and too few plates. Please see pass the less desirable implications of this metaphor. I'm attempting to dress up the face that there are a bunch of amazing people in this room with me and my only complaint for these meetings is that I don't have enough space to spend the time I want with each person. I think that's a good problem to have, perhaps a blessing.

And yes, the fact that I am blogging during this meeting (sorry Bob and Carrie) says something too.