January 2009
60 posts
tonight I ate some fried things
I really love Wisconsin.
Oh man, our new development director’s handwriting is making me seasick, which sounds weird and has never happened to me before…from either handwriting or an ocean.
Dear $4 pitchers at Gallery Cabaret on Thursdays,
I like you and the eclectic crowd you attract.
love,
lindsey
Logic
I have been sluggish at work lately because I have had trouble sleeping, but it is a good thing that I am going out to drink cheap beer right now because it will put me to sleep.
Right?
2008 Holiday Project Finalists →
My mom is one of the top ten Sears/About.com Holiday Project finalists with her Thanksgiving tablecloth!
And after looking at the pictures I just took
I have spent the past 20 minutes researching buying a new camera.
There is a crowd of people marching down Clark right now yelling “hey hey, ho ho, Mayor Daley’s got to go,” but it is sort of hard to figure out from the 18th floor exactly what they are protesting.
Update: apparently it is about the school closings.
I just managed to both fall on my ass and lose my shoe on the sidewalk in front of my building. This was directly after almost chopping my building maintenance man in half with the revolving door.
Today’s major morning accomplishments include arriving to work 20 minutes early, completing an insurance audit, merging the volunteer training manual materials into a pdf document, and moving all of my ex-boyfriends into the “less about” category on my facebook feed.
in which I complain about the blue line again
Sometimes I feel like all I talk about on tumblr is how no one on the blue line knows how to behave themselves, but seriously, no one on the blue line knows how to behave themselves.
This morning’s offenses include:
The girl who was clearly on drugs that was crying and looked at me like she was going to bite me
The man three times my size who smelled like he slept in a bed of dirt and...
I’ve had such a nice evening.
Today at work my major accomplishments have been successfully changing the jug in the water cooler and eating entirely too many Reeses’ peanut butter cups because I have very little self control.
you know, I would be completely okay with it if they removed all pretzels from all chex mix.
I am too drunk to read the internet and I need to stop hitting on gay boys.
My head is doing that thing where it feels like it is full of cotton, and it is making getting things done difficult.
Possible solutions include mostly caffeine.
really?
“After reading through the description of this opportunity and visiting the website, this is an opportunity that is of great interest to me.”
I am not going to hire you if you are not capable of writing an email.
Someone put “Temp agency” as their most recent employer (their position, of course, was temp).
Jesus Christ.
I am reading resumes for a “Leadership Intern” position and am shocked that anyone gets a job, ever, because no one knows how to make a resume.
ed: things are honestly more simple here than they are in the city
ed: like people are generally what they seem
ed: unless they are cute girls
ed: because then they will be cute for like, 2 drinks, and then tacky after that
Transcript - Inaugural Poem - Text - NYTimes.com →
I thought this might suck less on paper, but it really doesn’t.
inappropriate blue line rush hour behavior:
Consists of putting your child on the seat near the door, which, because it is in some sort of giant child-carrying contraption, takes up TWO seats and then sitting in the next seat over, a good three of four feet from your child.
Do you realize that I could very easily steal your baby?
Not that I would, because babies are sort of gross and I’m not particularly responsible at this point in...
Dear Chicago Postal Service,
We haven’t gotten any mail in three weeks. We are expecting bills and important tax doccuments. This is a problem.
Fix it.
Love,
Lindsey
New Glarus Brewing Company →
This is why it is okay that I am thinking about going to Wisconsin sometime in the next few weeks.
I’m really curious as to why lastfm is playing me so much Peter and the Wolf.
"Do we have Monday off?"
Earlier I mentioned in passing our three day weekend, and Cecilia said “What? We don’t have Monday off!” and I panicked about maybe messing this whole thing up, looked it up in the employee handbook, and we do, in fact, have Monday off. She asked if I have told everyone this, which I hadn’t, because it seemed like a common sense sort of thing to me, which was confirmed when...
anniehinton:
I’ve been trying to figure our for almost a year whether or not this is weird:
If I am out of the office for lunch or something, my boss will put my faxes/printed e-mails on my seat. He has to physically come into my cube, pull the chair out and put them on it. Isn’t it just as effective to put them face down on my desktop?
Everyone in my office does this too. I think it is so...
dear high school couple making out on the train this morning,
ew. seriously. i know i went into work late, and that i had to be punished for those extra twenty minutes of sleep somehow, but really.
also, high school girl, do not shoot me dirty looks like i’m jealous. that boy can’t even grow facial hair yet and still thinks it is appropriate to wear sports-team-themed winter coats.
...
old apartment
There is cold air getting in everywhere.
anniehinton:
I have so many clothes on and it is so itchy!!!
This is very true and making me miserable. I’ve been inside for over and hour now and I still am wearing my long underwear over my tights and my super professional-looking zip up hoodie over my sweater.
"What are you doing?"
I was just caught curled up on the floor with my back against the radiator eating a bowl of oatmeal.
I hate today.
fun fact
Tonight, while playing Trivial Pursuit, I learned that Bill Clinton was mauled by a sheep at age eight.
latches.
there is an indepth conversation about breast feeding going on directly next to me and it sounds awful.
here’s to zero babies for a long, long time.
dress code
I spent all of the train ride this morning getting irritated about things that other people were wearing because I’m pretty sure that what people think makes look attractive actually doesn’t.
I then realized that because my boss is in Florida for two weeks I went to work dressed like a homeless person in bright blue pants, two sweaters, men’s socks, and snowboots that I found in...
Because I have spent my years until now doing a lot of dicking around and not making very much money (not that I’m not dicking around and not making very much money now), I didn’t know how much this paying taxes thing sucked. That extra fifteen percent is going to kick my ass, and I have a bad feeling I am going to owe the government some dollars.
the lucksmiths - what you’ll miss
i want to go sledding.
redorangeorangeonred:
I DONT WANT TO BE SICK ANYMORE
DITTO.
at which point i realize i'm stupid
i have been whining to erin all night about how my life is boring and i am lonely, but i just realized i have plans every night next week.
maybe things aren’t so bad and the being trapped indoors and the great lakes abandoning the canadian border and taking up residence in my sinuses has just gone to my head and made me crazy.
hot friday night
I wondered how many books we have in our apartment, so we counted.
641.
Man gets paid to test swimming pool slides - Odd... →
no fair.
i totally have a red ipod
anniehinton:
Am I the only one who thinks that red electronics (cell phones, iPods, computers) are tacky?
significantly less tacky than pink electronics.