oh god. no time left til the end of the semester. im about to work 4 days in a row, have out of town guests that i'm going to want to party with, then work some more. oh god. somewhere in there i have to write a paper in social darwinism in "jude the obscure", another one that looks at psycholinguistic literature that criticizes conventional ( Read more... )

Back home and hiding from the snow. On my first night back I got picked up by Thad and Emily and met up at Starbucks on South U with Alex, Cody and Chris. Cody demanded a life update from everyone and after about 10 minutes it came down to: "So... you guys wanna.. get drunk?" We split a bottle of vodka in Thad's basement and Alex managed to ( Read more... )

The first thing that happened when I got to work last night was that, while putting my bag and coat away in the manager's office as per custom, I got abused by Arnold, the short white-haired obnoxious shift captain, almost enough to make me cry. He came storming into the office, yanked out a ladder and started ripping boxes full of wine off the top ( Read more... )

does anyone else realize that buster and gob from arrested development have been in random episodes of sex & the city that have rerun on the WB in recent days? gob/will arnett picked up miranda at a bookstore and turns out to have a thing for doing it in public. buster/tony hale is named tiger and stares at samantha naked (in the episode where ( Read more... )

According to one of the scrolling headlines on CNN Live this morning, a woman hung herself from a tree yesterday, and her death went unreported for several hours because passers-by thought she was just a halloween decoration.

actually, i dont think i like hats. i'm not really a snappy enough dresser to pull them off. never mind.

i really should buy some hats.

At work today I was talking about why I dislike doing any work in the "Adult" section of Virgin. Since it's near the book department, and management likes to pretend it doesn't exist, us one or two book department people are also de facto porn department people. And I wouldn't really care, because it's just porn, except for all the dirty old men ( Read more... )

Do you ever do that thing when you're riding the train where you look at your reflection in the window across from you? When I did that last night, at 1 AM on the L train heading back towards Manhattan, I really wished I had had a camera. I was sitting with Monika passed out on my shoulder, in her heels and Karen O haircut, looking straight ahead, ( Read more... )

i just got done with work at virgin. i've got class at 10 AM tomorrow. i need to stop spending so many long hours in the virgin megastore: it's bad for my soul.