a brief update!

1. after my little work-related, pulling-up-self manifesto i posted a few weeks ago, i went on an interview, got offered a job, and started work within a week and a half. sweet, huh? i'm in the editorial department at vault, a publishing company focused on careery-type information. everyone in the office is amazing, i'm getting to ( Read more... )

this is the closest you will ever get to seeing me dance.

if there are two things about the holidays that irritate or slightly frighten me, they are (in that order ( Read more... )

at 9:45 yesterday morning, i turned in my office key, received my final paycheck (and final reproachful words from my boss), descended those 26 floors for the last time, shook hands with both doormen, and walked down east 70th street feeling better than i have in months ( Read more... )

so, i quit my job. the long version involves 3 months of pent-up frustration, anger, and everything i mentioned in the previous entry. the short version? last wednesday, my boss yelled "what the hell is wrong with you?" to me on the phone, and upon strolling into the office at 2 p.m., accused me of deliberately trying to sabotage her company. after ( Read more... )

in case you didn't know, this is what i do at work ( Read more... )

here's the deal: i'm mostly happy, with bouts of slight anxiety, frustration, and confusion occasionally stopping by to chill. over the past few weeks, i: spent a few non-touristy days with my mom here, met some fellow poetry folk, scored myself an internship at a small poetry press in brooklyn, and spent a day sewing book bindings and reading over ( Read more... )

while relieving myself the other night, a giant millipede scurried across the bathroom floor and into the shower tile. this morning, my roommate watched a giant cockroach scurry across the kitchen floor. now, i am under the impression that a) anything with more than four legs, and/or b) pretty much anything in the arthropod phylum, should not be ( Read more... )

write me a story/send money to:

anne holmes
24-22 27th st., apt. 2B
astoria, ny 11102

thanks.

in other news, there's nothing more romantic than sitting on a rooftop, watching the sunset, and brown bagging 40's. just sayin'.

last tuesday, i started working as an assistant for a new high-end jewelry designer in manhattan. this is ridiculously far removed from my ultimate career goal, but money is necessary for food and shelter and merriment, as we all know. unfortunately, my boss is completely psychotic and disorganized. she wears black feathered headbands, dark circles ( Read more... )