official turkey day weekend clock-out hours: 30 ( Read more... )

I'm thankful for ( Read more... )

This is a cycle of events that are hilarious, embarassing, traumatic, exciting, and stressful. I'm planning naps I'll be allowed to take a week in advance. I'm a bag of skin, bones, thoughts and craziness ( Read more... )

Tips for the night: $27.00
weekly tank of gas: $20.00
rented movies I approved of but didn't pay for: $8.00
24-pack of cheapo toilet paper: $4.88
64 oz. cherry slush: $1.69
combination spoon/pen from Mike, the Flying J attendant: $0 (he didn't let us have it)

... becoming a sugar-addicted juvenile delinquent: priceless

Unassailably cool happening ( Read more... )

Inferiority Complex: when all the sophomores in my Chem class totally school me. It's not just in brains. I try a battle of wits and I seem to lose, and then they make me feel like a geezer because when they talk about their latest English project, I give them pointers that I picked up 'back in the day', when dazzling the Honeck was but a daily ( Read more... )

There is always a guaranteed beat box breakdown in Government ( Read more... )

I've decided to take up reading trashy romance novels.

One of the servers came walking up to us tonight, as we talked in a cluster of bored restaurant staff, and held up a little wooden box. "The man at my last table said I'm supposed to bring this to the woman he's with and say it's a box of chocolates." She tips it open to reveal a diamond that sparkles straight into my eyes. This is something I have ( Read more... )

When it rains like it did this evening, time is pretty much obsolete. It looks 7-ish, it's really only 4:30. It creates excess time, time that's been needed by me for cleaning, writing, and laying on my bed with my feet up against the window screen, thinking how great the rain mixes in with the the soundtrack to my fall (currently actually being ( Read more... )