When I was in grade school I knew a girl named Elizabeth who never, ever said a thing. This was not because she couldn't, no, but because she chose not to. When a teacher went through roll call in the morning other students would have to pipe up and say, "Elizabeth's here." When you asked her a question she would just smile at you like you were ( Read more... )

Last night was both awesome and annoying at the same time. The party got off to a pretty slow start and we spent a good amount of time just standing around, awkwardly trying to find conversation topics. I met a man named Grover who actually answers to it. I held a baby (and wanted to steal her away). I was introduced to a ton of new people, ( Read more... )

Last night Jen and I said goodbye (for now) to a friend who left this world before we were ready for him to go. Howard was a bright light to many people and he brought a tiny spark of joy into the days that I knew him. He was always happy, always excited by the prospect of what this life could bring our way. There are only a few people that I've ( Read more... )

Yesterday I read back through the past 6 years of this dandy little journal, partly because I had no idea what had been written in it, and was reminded of fabulous things. The mathematical car vandal! The wheel-less bicycle! The mouse! (For the faithful reader: we never did find out what happened to that mouse. There's no way that glue trap ( Read more... )

In a fit of early morning, ambitious organization I decided to clean out all the paperwork that's been cluttering my phone stand. There were receipts, paystubs, pieces of sheet music, bills from two years ago (obviously paid), and birthday cards. Many birthday cards. And they were all addressed to me, not Jen, even though her birthday was only ( Read more... )

I've been inspired to update this little thing by a few people at work, none of whom actually know of its existence. One is a person who confounds me on a regular basis, mostly because he purposefully tries to avoid consistent behavior. He sent me a link to his journal and it was... enlightening ( Read more... )

I've been wearing glasses from around the time I was in 5th or 6th grade, can't quite remember now, and I finally decided to try my hand at wearing contacts. This seemed like a very simple decision: I need to have my vision corrected, I do not wear my glasses, therefore I should get contacts ( Read more... )

Last week my supervisor pulled me into her office to talk a bit more about the job offer and it turns out that they're only gonna be paying me $10/hour. Huh. I was definitely expecting closer to $15. This changes things radically because I didn't even feel like working there in the first place and the only reason I'd stay was the money. Sigh. ( Read more... )

I'd say it's only been about six months that I've been lacking in updatage. And here's a big update too. Once they found out that I might leave for another job the company I work for, JES, wants to actually hire me now. After working there for three months with only tiny hints dropped now and again they've come at me with the full out wooing, ( Read more... )

I have two job interviews next week!!!! *screamanddancearoundlikeanidiot* One is with the department of agriculture as a front desk girl and the other is... um... something with some department at the hospital. Seriously, I've applied to so many jobs at the university that I don't know what is what anymore ( Read more... )