| Boredomitis |
[Jun. 25th, 2008|09:22 pm] |
Today I thought a lot about boredom. It's no secret that I am one of the most antsy people I've ever met. It's not that I don't know how to be lazy. It's not that I'm not good at laying around and being unproductive. No, that's no the case at all. I am highly skilled at wasting entire lengths of time doing all sorts of things that don't really amount to anything.
But you see, that's the exact problem. The part about wasting time "doing all sorts of things" is really an honest description of how I spend my free time. I knit while I watch movies. I blog with the TV on in the background. I browse through my Google Reader between phone calls and e-mails at the office. I sing along with my iTunes while I straighten my hair and clean my room. I even spent a short period of time smoking in the car because the simple act of driving was a bore and none of the music I had at my disposal really held my attention. What I'm saying is:
I AM AFRAID OF BEING BORED. Even if I didn't have a so-called fear of it, I would have no idea how to just. be. bored. Without wanting to tear my hair out.
All of this made me start thinking about exactly why this is the case. Was there ever a time in my life when I could just sit and focus on a single task? And when there was a lull in the action, how did I fill the empty space? Suddenly my thought process went all haywire and I started thinking about when in history people actually started being bored... Not just being bored, I guess, but being so aware of it that they had to invent video games and soccer practice and lord knows what else. I mean, there's no way in hell the children of early American settlers complained about being bored WHILE they were picking corn or making soap.
So when did boredom become the disease that we regard it as? At what point did boredom become something dangerous that needed to be cured immediately or result in whining, anxiety, discomfort and so on? It's no wonder I'm so tired all the time. I don't know how to relax.
An even bigger question is how do I learn how to embrace boredom and stop multi-tasking my life away? |
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| Time Off Plz |
[Jun. 24th, 2008|01:50 pm] |
I think that my recently consistent lack of sleep & disruption to my regular eating patterns have caused my stomach to declare war on the rest of my body. I wake up starving (which I usually never do & rarely eat in the first hour or two that I'm awake) then when I finally eat I feel sick... not overly stuffed, but like I ate something that was too heavy or just doesn't agree with me. Then as soon as that uncomfortable feeling subsides, I skip right over being satisfied & feel painfully hungry again. I fear that my already erratic "eat whatever you can find quickly" diet is soon going to be reduced to "white rice only" and I'm pretty sure that's not a good idea for all sorts of reasons.
This girl needs multiple, consecutive days off. Seriously. And not the sort of days off where I end up running out to my mom's house to help with her work or going to meetings for other jobs, but actual days off where I don't have shit to do besides laundry, reading, blogging & laying around. |
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| JEWPON: Zipcar Membership |
[Jun. 24th, 2008|11:39 am] |
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Since a lot of you who read my LJ live in major cities such as Chicago, Seattle and Atlanta, this could be a great deal. Zipcar is offering a free 1-year membership plus a $150 driving credit to anyone who signs up and agrees not to drive their own car (which is easy if you don't have one anyway) from 7/21-8/15.
Zipcar - Low Car Diet Deal |
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| 3/6 Detroit River Days 2008 |
[Jun. 23rd, 2008|03:06 pm] |
I don't even know where to begin. So many things have happened in the past week or so. I hardly recovered from the art fair last weekend, spending my only day off sick with a particularly bad migraine & then dragging my sick ass out to Howell to record announcements for the festival in Detroit.
My regular job gave us Friday off so instead of working & then heading to Detroit, I got to spend the whole damn day out at the riverfront. I don't know how it happened - I had really meant to take that morning off so I could get my life in order for a second. Anyway, Friday went pretty smoothly except for the fact that it was suffocatingly hot all day & our stupid beverage managers didn't think to order coolers for any of the stages so we had hot bottled water, melting ice & nothing to put it in until about 8pm.
That was really nothing compared to the rest of the weekend, though. A huge storm came out of nowhere on Saturday around 2pm and we were scrambling to cover up the sound equipment at my stage. The tarp that was over the multi-thousand dollar monitor board at the side of the stage was being blown away in the wind so I sort of layed on it while someone else was folding up chairs to weight the tarp with. A big gust of wind came and lifted the little pop up tent that was over the equipment so I let go of the tarp and lunged for the tent pole. At the exact moment that I stepped away from the board to grab the tent, 8 speakers on each side of the stage (each one is about 4 ft high and somewhere in the neighborhood of 175 lbs) came crashing down on the monitor board that I had just been sprawled across, busted the tent that we were standing underneath, bent some heavy-duty metal equipment cases, snapped through cables & live electrical wires and landed as much as 10 ft from where they had been perched. The tent over the front of house sound board was in a knot that took 5 people two days to untangle and remove from the area. People were hurt, but not badly, thank god.
I keep thinking about how easily I could have been under one of those speakers if I hadn't jumped up to grab the tent above us. We all just stood there staring at the wreckage, trying to find a safe path out of it when Jon came across the radio warning us of 60 mph winds approaching. We ran for the Renaissance Center but then realized that the 25ft stage roof was acting like a giant sail and wouldn't withstand the wind, so we headed back out to trim the roof to prevent it from launching into the river. The roof is controlled by 4 cranks which have to be operated at the same time, so four of us (me, my sound engineer & 2 DJ's who performed on my stage earlier in the day) were out there holding onto this giant metal contraption, in the wind, trying to bring it down to a safer height as lightning was hitting the river next to us & sizzling out only 100 yards away. I was pretty much prepared to die.
At some point we realized that the quick disconnect to the city's power hadn't tripped & shut down when the equipment ripped apart. My sound engineer had to shut off the main power supply, which is basically four giant black switches in a big metal box. He started shaking and his eyes got really serious when we noticed that it was still on, wet and made of metal. I seriously had to find a dry sweatshirt and "stand by" in case it electrocuted him and he needed to be knocked away from the power source. I get nauseous just thinking about what could have happened. That will always be among the top 5 scariest situations of my entire life.
It took the next 4 hours after the storm passed by to get the equipment untangled and put back together. We ended the night by putting an 8 piece funk band on a stage with only enough equipment to play a small bar gig. It was all very heartwarming to emerge from the other side with our lives, much less a beautiful evening with a wonderful performance and a huge crowd. The rest of the weekend was pretty successful but I'm still so exhausted and shaken by the whole thing that I can't apprecaite it much.
I am back at work again today, trying like mad to be productive. It's hard, though. Alan's dog was hit by a car on Thursday night (he died right there in Alan's lap) and he was too upset to tell me so I only found out this morning. It's sad in here without both of them in the office. There's more, but I don't even have the energy to recount the other things that were insane about the weekend. Maybe another time, folks. |
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| Glenn Beck = Saucy Lover? |
[Jun. 19th, 2008|09:32 pm] |
Imagine this:
CNN Headline News with Glenn Beck.
Videos of Bush & Cheney talking about oil & what they think is wrong with the oil industry as it relates to inflating gas prices.
The headline on the bottom of the screen says "RUNNIN' ON EMPTY PROMISES."
The video turns into a montage of presidents of years past (Bushies, Regan, Carter) talking about how diligently they're working on reducing dependence on foreign fuel, making promises about gas prices being capped, etc.
After Carter finishes his thought with his signature squinty smile a graphic of a big oil barrel with the year (1970-something) stamped on it over the phrase "NATIONAL AVERAGE: $13/barrel" and a laugh track plays abnormally loud.
Now imagine this:
THAT JUST HAPPENED. I saw it. I love CNN. Glenn Beck would make a saucy lover. |
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| It's Only Art |
[Jun. 18th, 2008|02:20 pm] |
I thought there was something fishy about how easily our art fair went this weekend in spite of the slew of problems we had. As it turns out, it's not wrapping up the show itself that reflects the issues from the weekend, it's the paperwork and bullcrap the next week that's really a grinder. One of our board members came in this morning to have a pre-committee meeting to discuss some of these things before we actually brought them to the board formally, and he's awesome to deal with but mannnnnn things have just been downhill since then. It's so incredibly hard to call up a completely good, honest guy and tell him that you're not going to pay his company because his security guards spent all weekend sleeping, rolling their eyes at everyone & not listening to simple directions. -That's just ONE of the things we're dealing with. Don't even get me started on the rest of it...
Really it's nothing world-shaking, but what a frickin headache. I can't wait for the end of July to come so I can finally rest for a few days, at least. |
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| 2/6 |
[Jun. 17th, 2008|01:32 pm] |
Worked a really long weekend in Ohio - Thursday thru Monday. Outside, in the rain, in 90 degree heat, in 90% humidity, 4 hours each way in the truck... managed to not get too burnt (although the parts that did char a bit were odd little splotches and I can't wait for them to fade into freckles). I had a few moments where I caught some things that my coworkers missed that really saved our asses from a lot of trouble. Overall I didn't find the show too difficult, although we did have more issues with having to write up members for breaking rules and tomorrow I have to tell the security company that I'm not paying them because their staff showed up late, told us that they didn't want to be stationed where we put them & then were caught sleeping by Big Brother Security Cameras 1-50. Sorry, but I don't need to pay $14/hr x 4 people so they can come late, give me trouble, then sleep. I was sleeping at those times, too, and would have loved to get paid for it but that's not how the world works. Seriously, don't ever assume in a multi-million dollar shopping/living facility that you're not being watched from every angle at all times.
Anyway, I guess the fact that we had quite a few issues but I felt that it went smoothly means that I'm either getting used to the pressure or that I've learned to expect the worst. I came home with the worst migraine of the year, slept all night & most of today but my body feels pretty relaxed. Normally I can't walk right for 2 days after a show.
This is my one and only day off since the first weekend of the month and won't have another until at least June 28th. That's right - one day off in 3 weeks. Of course I can't use it to unwind because I have to head out to my mom's house to record the sponsor announcements for the event I'm working at this weekend. I hate doing it but it's an easy $125. I just wish that I didn't have to drive there & do it (again) with a migraine and a scratchy throat and sniffles from being in the rain this weekend. Just have to keep being thankful that I'm employed & covering my bills.
2 festival weekends down, maybe 6 more to go this year. |
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| Random Facts |
[Jun. 7th, 2008|10:56 am] |
I haven't done this in a really long time, so I figure it was time to pull out the "things you may not know about me" meme.
- Given the choice, I buy/take/eat things in even numbers. Odd numbers tend to make me uncomfortable and I can't explain it.
- I really dislike calling people and will e-mail or text in most situations. It's partially because growing up my mom was ALWAYS on the phone and because I have a bad memory and prefer to have things in writing.
- About that memory thing, my short term memory is almost completely ineffective during my usual migraine cycles. It gets so bad that I'll listen to a voice mail, delete it, then immediately forget ever having listened to it or who left the message.
- If I could get better pay and benefits I would never leave my job ever.
- I have a very maternal instinct but absolutely no desire to ever be pregnant or give birth EVER. Now that I'm getting to be a real adult and permanency is a distinct possibility, I refuse to date any guy who isn't ok with my plans to buy some little black or Asian babies.
- Every time I flip through lifehacker.com or something new is posted on the official gmail blog, I have a tiny geekspasm. Things that make my life easier and more organized get me really excited. I bought some office supplies for my house the other day and made people come over to see.
- I keep a scrapbook (on google, of course) of insane amounts of home decor/design type stuff to refer to for inspiration when I finally get a place that I can decorate the way I want it. On that note, I'm going to need a lot of rooms and a ton of money someday.
- Even though it gets insanely humid here, I hate air conditioning. I would take an open window and fans over a/c almost any day. I would also choose hot weather over cold anytime.
- I judge people rather harshly based on their spelling and grammar. Even worse, I have a really hard time forgiving spoken abuses of the English language.
- Because of an incident involving a car, I am absolutely not interested in ever riding a bike ever again. I figured that this would become less of an issue as I got older, but somehow my lack of bike riding confidence is looking like more of a detriment as years pass.
- I've also noticed that as an adult, I moon people a lot more than I did when I was a loud, wild teenager. Weird.
- I had an interview the other day with a huge company and it suddenly dawned on me that my days of wearing jeans every day to work are coming to an end. This fact doesn't just bum me out, but it absolutely terrifies me.
- My shift button just started malfunctioning on my laptop and it drives me totally insane. It has done a lot of crap that I've learned to live with but this is completely unforgivable.
There's more but I'm going to head over to the farmer's market before it closes. Talk amongst yourselves. |
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| JEWPON: Hydrate Thee! |
[Jun. 5th, 2008|04:17 pm] |
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Outdoorsy types rejoice! REI is having a massive uh... hydration sale? As much as 68% off camelback & other brands of "hydration packs" making some as cheap as $9. Check it out. |
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| Summer Rain |
[May. 30th, 2008|10:18 pm] |
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It's raining. It's that warm summer rain that starts right as the sun starts sneaking behind the trees. The thunder that just rolled through here set off car alarms in the parking lot next door. My windows are open and the humidity is hanging thinly in the house. I think I'm going to go finish watching season 1 of Lost and pretend that I'm in a jungle. |
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| Mid May Update |
[May. 16th, 2008|01:22 pm] |
Life is so crazy right now I don't even know where to begin. I seriously hate doing bulleted entries, but there's just so much going on that I'm not sure how else to get it all out.
- Next week I'm being offered a job by someone I work with a little on the Ann Arbor Art Fair. It's a part time job starting in the fall, but I might be able to stay where I'm at part time AND do that for a while. I'm thinking of it as more of a transitional thing while I look for a "real job" (full time, benefits, etc) elsewhere.
- My friend Biz started working with me, which is fun. As Rob predicted, we've been pretty much attached at the hip. We carpool to work & back (thank goodness), have lunch together, usually hang out after work & yesterday we even got our hair cut together. Mine turned out crappy so I'm going back to have the layers actually LAYERED (brilliant, huh?)
- I found out in the middle of a cheerful extended-family dinner that my dad didn't claim me on his taxes after months of fighting about how he HAD TO. The only problem is that he didn't bother to tell me, so I didn't claim myself either. Now I have to re-file and hopefully get my $400 back from the government. And maybe even get a stimulus check in the process. What a pain in the ass.
- Laura and I had a big stupid falling out over nothing. I have a feeling it was a straw that broke the camels back sort of issue where a lot of little things kept building up until we couldn't even look at each other for about 2 weeks. We settled it (or at least started speaking again) last night by celebrating the end of her probation & bonding over Nature's Miracle. There's more to hash out, but it's a good start.
Now it's 3:00 and my boss is trying to make me go home. I can't complain about that, so I guess I'm going to finish up my work for the week and head out into the world. |
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| Business Cards |
[May. 1st, 2008|01:48 pm] |
Dear friends who are currently or were once in a position where you networked & hired people to work with you or your company:
I am about to print business cards. I always find myself in a position where it's exchanging contact info time & I'm empty handed. The question is, I don't know how long I'll be living in my current home, or even my current zip code. Is there any good argument as to why I should put "Plymouth, MI" on my cards? For the sake of reference should I put something more vague like "Based in SE Michigan" just to jog their memory? Would it be weird to JUST put my name, phone number, e-mail and a phrase/title that sums up what I do? I don't want to look mysterious or shady, but those are the only ways to really reach me.
It doesn't sound like an issue but it looks so blank on the preview...
I'd REALLY like to put some short (like 6 words or less) quote about art at the bottom, but I can't decide if that would look unprofessional. I don't want it to be TOO stuffy & I think that would be representative of my personality & commitment to what I do.
You're all so good at this stuff. I'm so indecisive.
Thanks,
The Management |
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| Future Plans |
[May. 1st, 2008|01:03 pm] |
I think it goes without saying that I - and probably most other people out there - can blog for days when there is really nothing of any immediate importance or interest going on, then when things get juicy and exciting there just isn't time to write about it. This is one of those seasons. I'm going to try and be concise, maybe cryptic, but mostly interesting.
As I'm sure you all know, I am unofficially (still waiting for paperwork to go through and my release papers... er... diploma to come in the mail) a college graduate. Commencement, which I have already mentioned that I skipped, was Sunday. Monday I landed a pretty interesting side job as the curator of a public sculpture exhibition. I'm in charge of removing & replacing 27 sculptures ranging in size from that of maybe a soccer ball to a few that are about 2 stories high. It's going to be a lot of work, but it's a really impressive line item on any resume of a recent college graduate. I'm sure I mentioned it before, but now it's official.
Next week I'm going to call the guy who basically inspired my current career path. I had been doing events in the show-up-and-work-that-weekend sense for a couple of years and helping answer phones and shuffle papers on the office. He pretty much liked my work ethic and plucked me out of the office to work with him down on the street, 1-on-1 with the vendors and artists. This is THE REASON I'm doing what I'm doing now and he always said that when I graduate that he'll find a place for me in his business. He's a really cool guy but I feel a little anxious now that the time has actually come. He is one of the best at what he does. I just hope I can keep up.
I was telling my mom last night that in high school I made sure to prepare myself for my college years by getting a reliable car, a new laptop, a good phone, etc. so I wouldn't have to cover any major expenses while I focused on school. Now several years have passed and my car is ailing, my phone is banged up, my computer is slower than molasses, I'm desperate for a new living arrangement and I find myself on the brink of so many new things. I guess I never really thought this time would come or imagined what it would be like when it finally came.
My 1 year plan looks like this: stay at my current job through the end of the summer, freelance and do some hopefully travel-based work with Bob during the fall & winter, help my mom get some of the events she's working on off the ground, break whatever lease I'm living in, and then send my resume to Red Light (management for the Dave Matthews Band) and claim the job Dave & his manager said they would hold for me on their summer tour. Scary. |
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| Wild Weekend |
[Apr. 27th, 2008|07:59 pm] |
This has been one of the longest non-festival weekends of my life. Friday I didn't have anything constructive to do, so Ashley and I sat around the house a bunch. Katie popped in and we got to talking about how ridiculous makeup looks on my face since I never really wear it. Of course, that led to Katie putting some really dark eye makeup on me... then Ashley... then Sara. At that point it was obvious that we needed a place to go, so the four of us went to the gay bar.
The gay bar was tons of fun. Lots of dancing like I haven't done in years, ran into a girl I knew from high school (Ryan P, if you happen to read this: your sister still acts like she didn't spend the 2 weeks on the German trip talking shit about me in front of my face. It's hilarious.) Ashley and I managed to dance with straight guys and NO GAYS (boo) and I ran into my old friend Matt who carried me around and told everyone how awesome I am. Yay! It was loads of fun and I ended up in bed sometime around 4:00am.
Saturday I woke up early and met my mom in Ann Arbor for some focus group. It was dumb, I had no reason to be there, and I was really grumpy. Sorry, mom. I went home and napped for hours. I woke up and apparently a party had been planned without my knowledge. I hung out for a while then went with Rob to our friends going away party. It was lots of fun until the cops showed up and the DJ had to shut the music off, so we left. Came back to my house to find everyone still here and trashed out of their minds. I hung around entertaining (and being entertained by) drunks until 4:30am.
Rob had to get up early to go graduate and I attempted to sleep while Laura's alarm clock rang and rang for fucking FORTY MINUTES. Sometimes I forget to shut mine off and it goes off while I'm in the bathroom, but forty minutes is insane. I was literally seconds from getting up and ripping it out of the wall. I just wanted so badly to get that last hour of sleep because of what I had going on later, which involved sitting in a Sunday meeting for SIX AND A HALF HOURS. Absolutely exhausting.
Tomorrow is one of my last Monday's off before I start working full time. I'm really trying to think of a way to make use of it, but I really can't think of a better way than to lay around and do nothing. |
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| Ew graduation crap |
[Apr. 25th, 2008|12:29 pm] |
Question - I want to send out graduation announcements, just to the grandparents, aunts & uncles, but all I'm finding are invitations to graduation parties. I decided to just have them custom printed but now I can't figure out what they should say. "Guess what? Chaely finished college but she isn't walking or having a party so there's nothing to invite you to. Maybe you would like to send money?" doesn't really have a great ring to it.
What in the hell goes on a graduation announcement that ISN'T an invitation to something?? |
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| Puppy Love |
[Apr. 23rd, 2008|10:42 pm] |
Many moons ago I promised a better picture of my mom's newest puppy, Jia Ling, but I totally forgot. She's really hard to get a good picture of because she's quick and all black except for her feet and her belly, but mannnnnnnn she's cute. Maybe the cutest ever. Pretty much full grown, 6 months old, 5.5 lbs.
Bonus picture:
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| Graduating |
[Apr. 23rd, 2008|12:35 pm] |
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I don't know if I mentioned this in all of my chaos and excitement - I met with my professor/adviser/friend on Monday morning and we got the rest of my paperwork taken care of for school. This means that when I went home and took my final Women's Studies quiz online, that was my last action ever as a college student. I'm not going to have my graduation paperwork ready in time for commencement this Sunday, but I don't owe any more money and I don't need to take any more classes. I'm not even sure if "April 2008" will be my official date of graduation, but the bottom line is that I'm done with school.
A small part of me wishes I could walk at graduation or have a grad party, but I know that my family is completely incapable of being in the same building together. I can't invite my mom but not my dad or my aunt but not my uncles, so I've deicded that it's best to just not celebrate at all. It feels sort of unfair that I have to let this milestone slip by without anyone really knowing. On the other hand, my family gives me such migraines over this sort of stuff and I'm glad to be exempt from enduring any of their drama. Loren decided that we should print out pretty announcements and just mail them out to family so they can't say that I didn't make them aware of it.
So yeah, e-mail me and I'll give you the address where you can send all of my lavish graduation presents & cards packed full of money. |
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| Listy |
[Apr. 19th, 2008|11:00 am] |
Lots of random little things going on right now. Feeling very scattered.
- Monday I have the day off of work and I'm going to visit my auditor and tie up the last of the paperwork I need to file for graduation.
- My last test of the semester (hopefully ever) opens Tuesday night online & I'm all caught up on my assignments.
- I asked Alan to humor me and interview my friend Biz for our summer position. He did, Max loved her, and they hired her on the spot.
- I also happened to find Alan a dog (Havanese) from the rescue we got Wembley. He's getting Magic on Friday and probably re-naming him Baxter. He's so excited he hasn't slept in days. It's really cute.
- Waiting to hear if I got this job as the curator of a public sculpture exhibit. It's sort of a one time deal, $3k. Not too bad.
- Helping my mom plan a bunch of events in these two small towns out near Lansing. She's making them a lot more difficult than they really need to be so now she needs me to come bail her out, so I don't even get to enjoy my last few long weekends before work gets busy.
- Tomorrow is Passover dinner at my mom's house. I don't mind, but I hate driving out there especially now that gas is almost $3.50/gal.
- I really need to return some jeans that I bought (I swear they shrunk at least 3 inches on the drive home) but I hate the idea of going all the way to the mall AGAIN just to return them. I feel like I need a better excuse. I also re-ordered replacement jeans from the same store, but online. I'm starting to worry that they're going to be too small because I suddenly can't remember if I've ever seen that size in-store. Clothing is so stressful.
- I'm trying really hard to make more time for friends. I've been spending way too much time doing the sitting around the house with Rob routine now that I'm more broke than usual and I'm missing out on uh... sitting around with other people...
- Speaking of Rob, I think he's bummed that I'm not going to commencement. I wasn't planning on going for my OWN graduation (which should be a week from this Sunday) so I didn't really even look at when it was until he asked if I was going to see HIM walk. Oops. I have a meeting that day about an hour and a half after it starts WAY far away. I'm relieved to not have to sit through it, but I'm bummed that I can't celebrate with him & his people afterwards.
- Maybe a thousand dads pushing strollers have walked by my window this morning. Where are all the moms in this town? |
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| Shopping Sucks |
[Apr. 13th, 2008|05:30 pm] |
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This is really inconsequential and random but I went to the mall yesterday and I have some things to say about it.
There's a common misconception among people who know me that I'm in year 12 of my "black phase" by choice. Even I was convinced of it for a while. As it turns out, I've realized that it just happens to be the case that NOTHING CUTE EVER FITS ME so I wear black because I don't want to draw attention to the fact that I'm usually settling for whatever fits instead of buying & wearing clothes that I really love. Now my eye isn't even drawn to colorful things after all of these years & I'm trying desperately to change.
On that note, STOP MAKING EVERYTHING IN FUCKING PINK. Holy crap. I couldn't believe how much legitimate "young adult" clothing is bubblegum pink. I understand that it's supposed to be "flirty and fun" but I can't figure out why a girl who is a size 0 and in her early 20's really needs to wear obnoxious pink everything to achieve that. I sort of thought that going out in public pretty much took care of that. How am I supposed to buy colors when I'm busy being blinded by all of the grown up baby clothes?
I also take issue with Forever 21 for a few reasons. 1) The clothes on the mannequins are almost never on the racks. Bait & Switch. 2) Everything even remotely delicate (straps, beads, etc.) is always broken. 3) They always manage to make these comfy jersey dresses that fit in such a way that I (at 5'7 and 103 lbs) look like I've got a beer gut. I don't. I can't imagine who those things are designed for if they make ME look 5 months pregnant. 4) While I was trying on an incredible dress with a completely open back (like to the point where I had to make sure my underwear weren't showing) there was some middle aged creepazoid leering at me as I stepped out to look in the big mirror and show Loren how it looked. Seriously, do something about your dressing rooms so I don't have to be eye-molested by some guy who appears to have no agenda in a Forever 21 besides oogling young girls.
I have such problems with shopping. I really shouldn't be allowed back into a mall without talking to a therapist first.
On the bright side, I did find 2 pairs of jeans for $20 each and I'm keeping at least one of them. |
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| April Fool's Revisited |
[Apr. 2nd, 2008|11:26 am] |
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Although my friend Jasmine tried to convince me that she was pregnant all day yesterday, no one really managed (or even tried) to pull a fast one on me yesterday for April Fool's Day. However, the internets did their best... Gmail announced that you could back-date up to 10 e-mails a year, Jezebel announced that they were being bought by Conde Nast and firing most of their regular staff writers, YouTube rickrolled every video on their home page, and local morning radio show host Jay Towers got a cryptic message from his boss about how Kwame had resigned from his position as the Mayor of Detroit. Even Curtis got duped into believing that someone stole the company credit card that he is responsible for and had to go explain himself to the finance girl after everyone swore up and down that it wasn't a joke. It was.
However my favorite gag so far is the Consumerist trying to convince us that "irregardless" is a real word. That one is the nastiest joke of them all, in my opinion, and I can't wait to re-start the great debate with clueless English murderers everywhere once again.
What was your favorite prank yesterday? |
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