This past week has been pretty gd stressful. My third day was deadline, so I had to pump out four stories on Tuesday night. Now I'm working on a story about animal remains behind Pembroke high school.

Yesterday around noon, I bought myself a chocolate egg and drove over to MPG News. I met up with Antoinette, the reporter I am replacing, and she laid out some developing stories I should watch out for. Then we hopped in her car (I didn't know if she would appreciate Blade's charm) and took a ride over to Pembroke. First we stopped at Town Hall, ( Read more... )

This must be a symptom of being extremely stressed out: repeatedly curling up in bed with a glass of wine and crying to Jim Croce's "New York's Not My Home".

Last night I got most of my family to watch tv watercooler, assuming we would hear them read my email, but they didn't. I was disappointed. As an American, I feel it's my birthright to get my fifteen minutes on tv. I plan on writing to them today to exhaust my feelings of entitlement and persistence.

Dear John and Debra ( Read more... )

I was going like gangbusters with the job searching, until I found the job I want, interviewed for it, and am now in no-motivation-and only-got-$10 world waiting to find out if I will have a second interview ( Read more... )

oh my god--i just realized that i get to walk around naked in my apartment! of course i probably won't be able to pay for heat, so the nakedness might be limited to unseasonably warm days--like 70 degree winter days, which will be never.

well, i was excited.

This guy I work with just said, "it's like watching 20 monkeys make love to a basketball".

That guy is awesome.

This week I was sick with the flu for five days. I was delirious, sweaty, achey, coughing, and crying. One day I needed to get medication and some juice, so I sat up and immediately felt nauseated. I laid back down, shivered, and cried. It took me about twenty minutes to get out of bed. Then I sat on my chair and cried for some amount of time more ( Read more... )

I certainly will miss UMass for all its gratuitous snow cancellations.