Small, festive Christmas tree: up and decorated. Christmas cards to my old teachers and the four or so friends that I have addresses for: sent. Flight to Tampa for New Years: booked. Room color and stencils: in progress. Lolita: bathed, nicer smelling and mostly done being resentful toward me. Dexter sasons 1-4.2: watched and enjoyed ( Read more... )

I'm bored. Here's what I plan to do about it ( Read more... )

I'm not PMSing. I'm certainly not pregnant. And I'm entirely out of any other ideas as to why I've been craving sweets all week. This is so unlike me, my sweet tooth left me years ago and the oddity alone is driving me nuts more than the need for sugar when I'm lying in bed at night trying to focus on sleep ( Read more... )

It's been one solid month now since my stupid company laid us all off and it's just now hitting me. Somewhat fortunately, I've been distracted a lot recently; a trip home, a crippling cold, then the flu and now bronchitis. Though I'm feeling a lot better now, I have time to reflect on it all and I realize that I feel the most accomplished when ( Read more... )

Let me reiterate: I am not goth. Contrary to some, I have never been goth. And in this emo-dominated present day, I don't plan on becoming goth. But I do, from time to time visit gothish type bars, most prominently circa 2005 and once in 2009 ( Read more... )

Dear 22 year old Lesley ( Read more... )

I remember taking this seminar at school where we were taught the "FISH! philosophy." It's a management tactic derived from workers in Seattle, specifically the ones who transport fish from the trucks to the loading areas of markets by throwing them like an assembly line. Essentially, the philosophy is to hold a good attitude in the workplace. By ( Read more... )

I think I should clear some things up. I'm sorry if this sounds harsh, but in a way, I'm not. I've always held these thoughts, but it hasn't been until this month where they were so tested ( Read more... )

Shit's gone crazy, yo. From the moment I first heard the rumor that the King of Pop is no more, to the ever present CNN "Breaking News" full page coverage; talk of Michael is everywhere. Rightfully so--he IS the godfather or pop music and music videos (and also quintessential child-star-gone-wacko, but that's another story ( Read more... )

Perhaps everything I've been doing these past years has been wrong ( Read more... )