ringo's sweater should be visible

one of my coworkers returned from a hometown stint to north dakota. "my accent was so thick when i was there" she said, somewhat ashamedly. she brought back local delicacies: chocolate-covered potato chips (FUCKING AWESOME), chocolate-covered jalapenos (which people promptly spat in the trash), chocolate-covered pickles (also), and chocolate-covered pimento-stuffed green olives. i tried an olive. it was... peculiar. "how does it taste?" i was asked. "like a green olive covered in chocolate" i said inanely. the olive itself was disarmingly juicy. i would probably not go out of my way to eat one again, but it really wasn't as horrid as it sounds. "this is total pregnancy food" someone commented.
last night j and i went to georgetown to see the ellen forney exhibit. it was housed in a record store which, as later research appears to prove, has a beatles butcher LP of 'yesterday and today' for $18. i put it on hold. the serial numbers match up. "the guy who owns this place knows his shit" said the bored guy working there. "i don't think he'd price this so low if it was an original." i will be rushing back today to buy it, because i think it may be a fucking find- the nirvana of beatles lore, if you will. there was a butcher cover on sale at an anchorage pawn shop years ago for $700; i've seen another one for $750.
there is a bar near the record store that offers free old-school gaming. i am completely retarded with all things joysticky and nintendoish, which i am rather proud of; hence my ass was whipped in several rousing rounds of super mario world. trains ground by relentlessly on the other side of the parking lot. i placed a dime on the tracks and was unable to locate it later. a barback stepped outside to very blatantly smoke a joint. i gave a drunk lesbian a cigarette. "i want to move here" j said. "i do too" i agreed reverently.
everything dramatic in my life seems to happen in march and september. last september was a bit bland, if i recall (that is, i recall nothing)- but otherwise... i blame the weather. change brings a heightened sense of optimism. and there is a lunar eclipse tonight, clime permitting, around 730pm PST...