the holidays are getting closer and closer (yay!), but i still don't have any firm details on my and nico's trip to argentina. we are patiently waiting for the details of a big contract at his parents' company to get sorted out. then, with dates of the contract in mind, we can actually choose dates and head way south. however, we are supposed to be ( Read more... )

just returned from an awesome/insane weekend visiting my grandmother and aunt in charlestown, new hampshire, 2 hours north of the only real city in New Hampshire (Manchester) and right on the border of Vermont (like literally ON the border, it's two houses down, across the train tracks, and the train shakes the whole house like crazy ( Read more... )

there is a beeping sound emitting from some electronic device in the general vicinity of the network server and all that biz just catecorner from my office. and it makes me want to shoot myself. won't be fixed until monday i hear, thank god i'm out tomorrow, or else i wouldn't make it through the weekend.

having known people for officially half of your lifetime who you still fit with like you did when you were 12 is amazing. that's why i'm all sentimental sad that jason, one of just a few of these treasured counterparts, is leaving philadelphia. he just got an awesome job doing landscape architecture and related project management work for michael ( Read more... )

today i went into Pearl to buy spray paint (among other things) for the xmas gifts extravaganza that will be commencing oh-so-soon. and to my dismay, i found that i am not OLD enough to buy spray paint since you have to be 25 fuckin years old. ok, ummm, i am dealing okay with that whole i gotta pay extra to rent a car for another 6 months thing. ( Read more... )

i lived for the last four days in times square, nyc. the most penetrating result of such a stay is utter disdain for all of humanity and it's convincing buying power (it's sick) which compels any and all useless industries to invade 20 sq. blocks and vomit all over them.

with that said, my weekend was pretty awesome because i, of course, have a ( Read more... )

the last couple weeks have generally sucked beyond belief.

i went to a memorial service for a friend of mine from college. the service was in the chapel at school, and i expected it to be so utterly awkward for so many reasons, i.e. running into old roommates (recent and from long ago) with whom friendships have dissipated, visiting my school ( Read more... )

so my girlfriend who has gotten really icky, sad, unhappy medical news is one of the most amazing women i know ( Read more... )

and thank god cuz last week sucked. i had a serious bout (my first really) of hating my job for a variety of reasons ( Read more... )

In all of the anti-excitement about the election outcome, i've been one of many in a forwarding extravaganza, anti-Bush crap, pro-everywhere else crap, etc etc. Today, in an effort to forward an amusing promotion of migration to Canada among blue states-ers, I accidentally forwarded a map of the US that divided blue states with Canada (named the ( Read more... )