i'm walkin' on sunshine

when that claritin commercial first started to air, i thought: one thing worse than being a one-hit band is to have your one hit show up on a tv commercial being covered by studio hacks! a little while after that, the same song was in another commercial, for playskool i think; their problem may have simply been bad licensing choices.

most, if not all, of new orleans' residents had probably forgotten about katrina and the waves as of last week (those who had heard of them in the first place), but by this morning i would expect it's already a bad joke. so i won't make it.

the weather in michigan continues to suggest that summer is drawing to a close; the dew point of the moment is 65 °F, humid in great lakes style but not oppressive. there is a weak threat of foul weather later today.

school has started, and i'm making lunches and serving breakfasts again - happiness! i hope this can be a good year for the little cicadashells (neither of whom are actually that little, anymore), full of maturing and personal growth and better muscianship and all that. we shall see...