If you could read something, specifically 20 pages of something, on pop culture -- anything past, present, or future pop culture related and we are talking loosely "pop" not really Andy Warhol, more like "kinda popular, sometimes niche but known...ehem...subpop counts as well -- what would be some topics that might be interesting and not done ad ( Read more... )

Look. When some Russian guy lands a triple jump combination I EXPECT TO HAVE SOMEONE ON THE EAST COAST AWAKE AND ONLINE (idle doesn't count) SO I CAN SHARE IT WITH THEM ( Read more... )

I am NEVER MOVING MYSELF AGAIN.

For my thirtieth birthday (April), I promise myself a moving company (or at least some burly guys who will lift my shit and load and unload my truck)for all subsequent moves.

I have an apartment. I move in on Monday. A 1 bedroom in Koreatown. Nothing spectacular, but it is a one bedroom not a studio, which is nice. And it has pretty new carpet and is all newly painted and has a brand spanking new gas stove (score!). I need to get a bed, but I am thinking air mattress with a memory foam on the top. That will only set me ( Read more... )

Me: Hi Mom, my first class is tonight ( Read more... )

( Must play meme game too )

I am going to start lobbying my parents to get a Roomba.

They have disposable income, they should clearly be purchasing, and thus fostering, these types of technologies that will make it so I don't actually have to clean my house in a few years. So, I'll have my Rosie.

I thought that the practical side of me would completely freak out at the fact that yesterday I turned in my resignation for this job...and I don't have another lined up yet. As of Dec. 21 (well, maybe the 27th or something after vacation is paid out) I will be unemployed ( Read more... )

So, one of the perks for working for a while in a pretty shitty economy while saving 10 to 15 percent of your salary for retirement (I am a good girl) is that you buy low. And we all know the buy low phrase. So, the economy is improving (in the stock world at least) from when I bought and so I find myself wielding decent-sized retirement accounts ( Read more... )

Now I wait and see. (Patience is not my virtue ( Read more... )