i need to use up vacation time. i need to stop hoarding it. its not good for the mental health. also people at work are starting to notice i've been here pretty much every day since i came back from the middle east last year and asking me what's up with that. they are starting to think i'm a vampire. (not true...and i did take two days in august ( Read more... )

i am living in a den of sloth and trying to be away from it as much as possible until its over. i can't really handle not knowing where stuff is, most people hate this but for me its like some primal nuttiness because of how i was raised. im going to sonali's today even though its cold and i'd rather not venture outside. everything should be ( Read more... )

mm hates construction. there was a pipe that burst this week and there are bulldozers outside...i think he might think they are actually small and want to attack them. this has been going on once a month for the past six months or so because these are all like, historical houses and no one has bothered to replace the pipes since like, the 40's. ( Read more... )

goals for post move 2009 ( Read more... )

http://www.mountpleasantproject.org/

I got an apartment.  I live in Mt. Pleasant.  (I'll stop talking about apt. hunting now, I promise.)   It's a good deal but still scary expensive, but, like, I'm worth it, or whatever shit TV taught me.  Come visit, we'll go stare at that frakking panda.

note:  h mart is the greatest place ever, if you have an h mart in your area, or even outside vaguely outside what you'd consider your area, make the trek.  i think i love it more than wegmans.  OMG.   sonali and i went to the one in wheaton yesterday and my mind is blown.

http://www.hmart.com/

since that website is entirely in korean i'll jus tell ( Read more... )

im packing up my stuff.  i'll probably do it all day , stay up till 3 am, and by the time i go to bed it will be entirely done in typical anina style .  i just got to that point in the move when you find that box with letters and pictures from the past ten years and you waste two hours looking at every one.  its been three years in this apartment ( ( Read more... )

a kid said he needed to talk to me today.  and so then he started crying and telling me his parents were getting a divorce.  by "kid"  i guess i mean 15 year old boy.  i didn't know what to say.  because my parents are not divorced.  and i hate to talk down to kids and say things like "what doesn't kill you will make you stronger".  that's shitty ( Read more... )

happy birthday to me ( Read more... )