they had an ice cream social this afternoon. i didn't go, but managed to win a $25 gift card to fye in a raffle anyway. sweet. last month i also won a free bottle of wine in one of those drop-your-buisiness-card-in-a-bowl drawings at the local coffee shop. (i had to write my info on a post it ( Read more... )

i came back to my desk from lunch and, lo and behold, there on my desk was a $100 American Express Gift Cheque.

guess i joined at the right time of year.

i'm excited. all is for the best. i am going to become a better me. (yes, again.)

art classes -- 35mm photography, glass blowing, or welding?
dance -- strip cardio (because some of us need to pay to learn to take our clothes off), hip-hop, or something else. it's all the same kinda shit for us uncoordinated ones
smartsy -- a book club (are these ( Read more... )

i live in ny now. again. except, this time, for the first time, i guess it's permanent. like, what with the job and health insurance and all. same apartment (thanks ma n pa), different prospects. three summers i've spent here working, and not one of them have i made any friends. which was always ok because i was going to be going back to my real ( Read more... )

toyota is putting their dumb little scion car into second life in a place called "scion city."
"We developed Scion City to connect with the trendsetters," Adrian Si, Scion's interactive marketing manager, said. "That's our target demographic -- people who do things first. Trendsetters are instrumental in promoting brands."

and cnn manages to sound ( Read more... )

every once in a rare while i become totally  convinced that i somehow am stoned without knowing it. that's what happened when i read How do clowns do their tricks? and couldn't stop laughing hysterically. then i found out that anna nicole is dead (WTF??!), which would've totally wrecked me if i actually was stoned. and then i went back to the ( Read more... )

robotripping for the 21st century? Let's call it PureTripping! c'mon, you know you like it.

back in august, chuk and i used coinstar. chuk got $13 and a loaf of bread out of it, and i was very excited. there was going to be an lj post about it, showing the coinstar receipt, but i can't find the post in my archive or his. so maybe it never happened?

anyways, here's a lesson on how to get around the coinstar fee. note: this is stealing so i ( Read more... )

i lost my cellphone on the bus. and found it.
on friday i left my coat on the bus. and got it back.
tonight i lost my wallet at a bar. with $200+ (all the money i have) in it. i hope i'll find it.

now you can know just where i fall on the curve of web 2.0 not-early-but-not-late-to-the-party-adopters. as long as i'm a year or two ahead of the times' sunday styles section, i feel ok with myself.

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