So I have a pile of things that I need to get done, or more accurately, start. And I have a whole day in which to do them. And if the past is any indicator of what's going to happen, having stuff to do and a day to do them is a perfect equation for lounging around for hours, depleting my stock of popsicles, and watching sitcoms that are "poisonous ( Read more... )

My attempts (maybe that should be in quotation marks...) to have a healthier life style have turned into a public-humiliation issue. Of course, most things in my life seem to revolve around public-humiliation issues (my inability to remember gym class, my aversion for karaoke/cabaret, my excessive mint consumption- blood/wintergreen level .41%), so ( Read more... )

Hi all. Been awhile. I've been an alternating mix of busy and lazy, and thus no postings, and no replies to postings, for a very long time. Sorry. I have been reading, though, so I haven't been utterly neglecting LJ, just mostly neglecting. And after my whole babysitting fiasco, I know that no jury will convict you for "mostly neglecting" something ( Read more... )

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Wow, I haven't posted in awhile. I don't think I've had much to say, though, other than re-announcing my endorsement for "John Stamos and the Non-Stop Dance Machine". Seriously, people, seriously. Aannnyway. Here are some quiz results:

You scored as Existentialism. Your life is guided by the concept of Existentialism: You choose the meaning and ( Read more... )

Well. I've got the day off. Wednesday. What the hell am I going to do with Wednesday off? I never have Wednesday off. Surely there's something I can devote my energies towards, something fantastic and creative. I have homework, but yeah, that's not going to get finished. Today might be a precursor to the summer and how I use my free time today may ( Read more... )

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Uh. And that’s not the Elvis variety of Uh, but the sickly, bedridden Uh. My big retreat for the magazine Saturday? The one that I was going to freeze to death and get cannibalized during? Yeah, I didn’t go. The six-hour shift I was supposed to swing today? Yeah, that didn’t happen either. I wasn’t well on Thursday, really wasn’t feeling well on ( Read more... )

Literacy is beginning to hurt my job. To add some context, my boss has not been in a terribly good mood lately. Having worked well over a hundred hours last week, he's been a wee bit irritable ( Read more... )

I’m fed up. Sick of it. And today was the day it was going to change ( Read more... )