i'm in brooklyn now. i showed up with my slightly neurotic parents and comparatively less neurotic boyfriend and carried a lot of boxes up 5 flights of stairs. the drive over was okay. i got a speeding ticket and it rained a lot. but i also had a delicious chicken sandwich. so, you win some and you loose some, i guess. this is boring so far ( Read more... )

roof access, polish landlord and a view of manhattan. i'm dying a little. in a good way.

"At the other extreme are the gloomy predictions of the pessimists. New Orleans will be Detroit, they say, a sickly urban wasteland abandoned by the middle class. A moldering core will be surrounded by miles of vacant houses, with wide-open neighborhoods roamed by drug dealers and other criminals ( Read more... )

did you know that there is a disease called prosopagnosia (pronounced proso-pahgNOsia)? its also called face-blindness. it's a genetic disorder that keeps people from being able to recognize faces.

i definitely have this.

there are two guy that work at the mattress store across the street. there's a mailbox right in front of the store that they're normally standing by, so everyone who works here ends up having to interact with them a lot because we mail a lot of things. I think they stand by the mailbox with the idea of picking up the women that work here because ( Read more... )

i would do anything to be playing a zombie board game right now instead of pseudo-applying for jobs that i will hate in a panera bread in dearborn heights. fuck panera

today a little boy in a white mini-van gave me the finger. i didn't know what to do so i flipped him off in retaliation. too bad his mom saw me and FREAKED OUT. instead of just apologizing for being stupid, i tried to defend myself by explaining that her kid flipped me off first ( Read more... )

i hate detroit and their lack of wireless. i mean, really they have a pretty decent wireless system. you can get wireless in almost all of the parks downtown - but who wants to sit in the middle of downtown with their laptop? no one, and definitely not me. instead i'm sitting in panera about 30 thousand miles away from anything getting ( Read more... )

today i learned how to jump a car without a battery. it is complicated and it involves sparks and smoke and draining the battery of the other person (me). this is okay though because my bosses car battery got stolen and i needed to suck up. everyone wins. i'm upset about this situation because it is not fair that his battery gotten stolen. he ( Read more... )

today there was a salt and vinegar potato chip mixed in with my salt and pepper potato chips. it got me pretty good.