bread and music

i've mastered the use of my bread machine. i just made a really outstanding loaf of honey-wheat bread. within five minutes of the loaf being cool enough to cut, i have eaten half of it. damn, that's good.

in other news, i wish i could write lyrics like John Hiatt:

i wouldn't trade your sweetness
for all the sugar in the world -- girl
and i know you'll always be
the sweetest part of me
these bitter tears we've cried

all of the smack in manhattan
could not keep me high -- why
do you do the things you do
to keep me loving you
darlin', i don't know why

but you are mine
my high, oh my

an altered state of being
is what everybody's looking for -- surely
they see whenever you're around
my feet don't touch the ground
baby come fly with me

you are mine
my high, oh my
darling you are mine
my high, oh my

let's make this dance last forever
please don't you ever say goodbye -- darling i
want to stay this way
tangled up in the sway
until the day i die

and you are mine
my high, oh my
darling you are mine
my high

damn.

name meme

1. What does your first name mean?
   
   protector from the sea, or the noisy animation of the sea
   
   
2. What does your middle name mean?
   
   a flowering shrub native to the Appalachians.
   
   
3. What does your last name mean?
   
   someone who works with leather.
   
   
4. So what does your name mean when put together?
   
   um... er... beats me.
   
   
5. What would you have been named if you were the opposite gender?
   
   no idea at all. other names my parents considered for me were Jessica and Guinevere.
   
   
6. Any other name oddities?
   
   my dad chose my first name because we have Welsh ancestry, and my middle name because he loves mountain laurel -- and because he wanted to break the tradition in his family of all children having the middle name "Lee" after Robert E. my dad is in fact a Robert Lee.
   
   my brother's name is "Evan Glenn"; Evan is the Welsh form of John, and John Glenn is a hero of my dad's.
   
   
7. Do you like your name?
   
   i like it a lot..
   
   
8. What do you like best about it?
   
   it sounds dignified and looks great on a resume.
   
   
9. What do you like least about it?
   
   there aren't really any nicknames for it that i like.
   
   
10. If you HAD to change your name (witness protection program, whatever), what would you want it to be?
    
    well... my porn name is Cassiopeia Buckingham...