I got the job at Nordstrom! Go me. Now I just have to go to six hours of training (them saying "Nordstrom is so cool, we are the coolest, cool" etc). Once I get my hours I'll post them and all of you can come buy coffee from me.

Strosnider's called and I got to say that I already had a job. Boo yah.

Mmm bagels.

This was a good weekend. Friday Erica and I went around looking for jobs, and then I went to wish Peckarsky a happy graduation. It was less chaotic than the high school version - no yearbooks or hula hoops or monkeys - and it was great to see people. I've recently discovered that I enjoy all horseradish-based spices, which is a revolution for me ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was driving to Lisa May's and listening to MIX107.3 . When I heard the new slogan, I thought, "Great, just when your slogan actually makes sense for once, you change it." Then I realized that it's 2005, and the "best mix of the 80's, 90's and today" has made sense for five years ( Read more... )

I'm just going to get this out there so that it hopefully won't be a problem this summer ( Read more... )

While eating steak, rice, green beans, and biscuits

Mom: I bet the pilgrims would have wished they could have had this.
Dad: No. They all had crummy teeth and cooked everything to mush.
Me: I bet the Native Americans were sitting there eating, thinking "I bet the pilgrims wish they had this!"
Mom: Yeah. Those damn honkies!

Dad: Hey look! *picks up capless water bottle in one hand and capless film canister in the other, then proceeds to shove film canister over opening of bottle ( Read more... )

Me: Hey Mom, you know Zach, the friend Lauren and I have been talking about ( Read more... )

I am finished with exams (how would you calculate the thickness of a piece of glass based on the change it makes in the appearance of a two-slit pattern when it is used to cover one of the slits ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had just woken up and was walking to Mocon for dinner when I crossed paths with my French professor, for whom I had a lot of outstanding work. She had sent me an email earlier that day to turn it in all that afternoon at 4, but I got the message at 3:45. When I met her, she told me to go get the work now and give it to her, or I would ( Read more... )

Dear Death Cab for Cutie,

The mental distance between "broke the vase" and "broke the face" is quite large. I love you, but please enunciate more in the future.

Sincerely,

Emily