January 2009
60 posts
It seems that
living in Chicago is just one big game of how much alcohol can I carry on my bicycle.
December 2008
52 posts
Today is already eight kinds of stupid and it isn’t even noon.
“i think my stomach is unhappy with whiskey taco”
– eep, on tonight
Office Depot sells cookies.
I knew I would learn a lot at this job.
“Whatever happens. Whatever
what is is is what
I want. Only that. But that.”
– Prayer, Galway Kinnell
and by “is” so good to be back, i mean “was” until every single one of the things i’m stressed out about came up in a single afternoon.
Oh, it is good to be back.
The theme of my last few years has been chaos, and although it has resurfaced these past few weeks, the true theme of right now is just confusion.
I talk in circles around everything, make startlingly clear decisions at night and wake up more muddled than ever in the morning. I think I know what I want and question it ten minutes later. I go back and forth, talk everything to death with half the...
Why is it that when you start talking to one ex-boyfriend all the other ex-boyfriends decide it is an awesome day to also talk to you?
Attention All Pickpockets - The Mountain Goats
...
“Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
The world becomes stranger, the...”
– T.S. Eliot, “East Coker,” The Four Quartets
holiday babble
christmas started at 3:30 yesterday, or two days ago probably, waking up slowly and walking to belmont at 4:00 in the morning with pat. i made it just in time, sat on the plane for far too long and arrived in philly exactly one minute too late. three of us banged on the door all at once. “i thought i heard knocking” the woman said as she handed us tickets to the next plane to...
I am in the airport on Christmas Eve and it is nothing like Love Actually.
please stop snowing.
i want to make it home for christmas.
things that I need to do before 4:00 a.m.
Work until 5 p.m.
Get my hair cut
Pay my gas bill
Find my checkbook
Switch my student loan payment info
Put my bike in the basement
Put the porch chairs in the basement
Pack
Wrap presents
Give Erin her present
Eat
Clean the bathroom
Take out the trash
Get to bed early
When I moved here it took me nearly a month looking in the city (as well as two months looking beforehand) to get a job. I took it really personally in an “I’m smart and capable and these jobs are probably below me anyway” sort of way.
Right before I left work Friday afternoon, I posted a part-time legal assistant job on both Craigslist and NPO. This morning, when I came in,...
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can someone please explain to me what is wrong with the universe?
by "ridiculous" I mean "stupid"
I just typed about eight different things in this box and backspaced all of them because there no short or witty phrasing that can package how ridiculous my love life is right now.
booksarebetterthanboys:
Sometimes I feel like such a fool just for expecting people to do what they said they would.
yes.
“I just wanted to say your bookshelf is enormous and I wish that my bookshelf one...”
– the note that i found on my pillow (and made bed!) when i came home from work today
I just had to hand two people their official layoff letters.
dear mail merge,
suck it.
love,
lindsey
anniehinton:
I am such a weirdo. I get really uncomfortable when I have to call places to schedule appointments. Whether it be for a haircut or to see the doctor or for the dentist. My heart literally speeds up and I want to hang up once it starts to ring. What is that?
Yesterday I made my roommate call the doctor to schedule an appointment for me.
I don’t know what it is but I have it...
end of the year - aaron robinson
so this is sort...
occupations
mark: what a fucking night
mark: omg
me: haha
me: i've had quite a night too
me: you go first
mark: four car accidents
me: oh right you're a firefighter
canvas shoes are not good for long walks in the...
today I had one of those days that couldn’t possibly get more absurd until it did.
haircut
i am in desperate need of a haircut.
maybe i should not admit on the internet that i haven’t gotten my hair cut in a hair salon since i was sixteen and my mother told me i couldn’t look ratty for my national honor society induction ceremony, but it is true.
the haircuts i’ve gotten in the last seven years have been in friends’ bathrooms or in my bathroom or in my kitchen...
“I probably shouldn’t ask to borrow money from the youngest and lowest-paid...”
– my boss to me just now
Colleges Learn to Navigate The Credit Crunch -... →
Not the way I’d hoped to see Beloit make the national news.
Monday
I’ve never particuarly subscribed to the whole “Mondays are terrible” sort of philosophy, but lately Mondays are out to prove me wrong.
For example, there is this morning, where I woke at four to Pat’s phone buzzing, tried to make sense of the bizzare and awful dreams I’d been having (but you know, the ones where you feel awake and get confused), recalled I’d...
100 Notable Books of 2008 →
….I have successfully read exactly zero of these books.
“when did this happen?” i just asked erin. “when did we start working in tall office buildings and meeting at trendy cafes for lunch?”
hair pool, definace ohio
things that are good
dancing to ‘womanizer’ in your underpants
cute boys who make delicious soup on a whim and then invite you over
out of town guests
ukuleles
songs that go exactly with your mood
lazy sundays that fit that description, exactly
big day
it has been a big day.
it started at four thirty, when seven alarms went off my room because pat had to be at work by six.
i actually woke up at eleven, and at the exact time i decided it would be prudent to get out of bed erin decided it was the best time to clean the bathroom.
we went to the renegade craft fair, which was too crowded for me to actually look at things and too overwhelming as...
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one of things i like about tumblr is that it is slow at night and explodes during the day, that it is still on weekends and busy on weekdays, that i am not the only one sitting in my office and not focusing on my job.
i have a terrible stomach ache that i think may be the result of eating bacon this morning.
i also have a headache but that is much more the result of my job.
unemployment question #1
frontierindex:
trader joe’s brand beer: is any of it any good at all? specifically any of the dark ones?
I’ve had their standard basic one, which is not terrible but also not amazing. However, they currently have large bottles of some sort of Christmas/Belgian beer that is actually pretty good.
why today is okay
the office depot order just came, and when I opened the box and batted the bubble wrap packing bag things at Dawn she yelled “shut the door!” so I shut our office door and we stomped on each one of the bubble until they were flat.
zoolights! →
on the theme of holiday nerdiness, there’s this, which I am possibly attending this weekend.
I am all about Christmas this year.