After a week that started out sucking, I felt much better by the end of today. Two big pieces of good news: the last of the assholes at work put in his two-weeks notice yesterday, and of course the news I already mentioned about Carrie probably moving up here. The crappy news, however, is that my company is in a big state of flux right now, and ( Read more... )

babymaker30  just got a job offer in Fairfax, and it looks like she is going to take it!

Does anyone want to go clothes shopping tomorrow?  I'm shopping for work clothes and fun clothes too.  It's long overdue. I kind of need to stop being lazy and wearing the same clothes all the time.

Even though I've lived here since March now, I haven't figured out where to shop for clothes without having to cut off your arm and leg to pay for it ( Read more... )

After seeing the desperate pleadings of this woman all over the news and hearing about her life devoted to helping the Iraqi people, news of her execution makes me feel like vomiting.

holy shit

Dear Team Ramrod,

Tonight in gymnastics, when doing a release move on bars (you're supposed to actually recatch the bars after doing release moves), I fell, and my left knee went "pop."  It is very sore now, but I am hoping it will be okay for hockey. I really won't know until I wake up tomorrow and find out if I can still walk.  Unfortunately, ( Read more... )

I was looking at my timesheet at work and realized that since I started working at my company at the beginning of March, I've taken a grand total of one day of vacation time.  Then, thinking about it some more, I realized that I haven't been on a real vacation that lasted more than a weekend since spring break of my 4th year of college. That ( Read more... )

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If you had told high-school-age Catherine (who worked the polls before she could vote as treasurer of Young Republicans) that within 10 years, she would be voting democratic across the board, she would have laughed in your face.

And I'm not even a democrat.

I feel good about voting in general but still feel awful about my choices. One of my co- ( Read more... )

It feels so much like 24, but it just sounds so different.

I have the most awesome friends ever.  Thanks to everyone who came out Monday and to the people who bought me drinks. :)  RyanKaz  took me to lunch yesterday, and babymaker30  is driving in from Richmond tonight to take me to dinner, and after, we are going to Hump Night at the Galaxy Hut where thejam  has said ( Read more... )