well, that settles it. i'm definately moving back to Ihaca someday. yesterday i picked up Brandi from her Americorps orientation thingy and then we headed off to Ithaca. the closer we got, the more things we recognized. it was so nice. when we got out of the car, i did a little dance of joy. then we stood outside Viva waiting for everyone to show ( Read more... )

this damn cold is killing me. i keep taking nyquil so i can sleep through the night, but that kind of drug reduces the quality of sleep. so when i wake up, i'm still dead tired. this week is really dragging. i've been working since tuesday, straight through to sunday. now, i love the paycheck and i love the work. but i miss having that weekend ( Read more... )

When I see something that really moves me, I have to write about it. Wth my job at the animal shelter, I think I'll end up with a book. It's a hard job, physically. But it's the emotional drain that's really hard. In the lunch room they talk of "my first breakdown" and describe in stomach-churning detail the acrid smell of an honest to goodness ( Read more... )

YES! [does the I Can Pay the Rent Dance] Peggy is on vacation, which means I get to fill in for her. And that means I will be able to pay all my bills. Of course, it also means that I only get Monday off next week. I'll be dead tiread by the time this week ends. Ouch. Everything will hurt, I know it. I think I may even get overtime? That depends ( Read more... )

Brandi once asked me who I wanted to be. I couldn't answer her, so she asked who I didn't want to be. I had an answer for that. "I don't want to be J**** C******. I don't wanna be a sociopath like that bastard, J**** C******." Today I have reached that goal.

You Are 12% Sociopath
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you feel a special brand of cool when you hit the random article button on Wikipedia and then say "oh! i already know about 'Houston, Houston, Do You Read?' i learned about the history of science fiction depicting female-centric and female-only societies in Sci Fi class. one should really read 'A Few Things I Know About Whileaway' by Joanna Russ, ( Read more... )

they got new quizzes since i did all the fun ones during finals week.

You Are Midnight
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my friends, being the dorky types we are, have started a newsletter. it's about what the four of us are doing now that we're out of college. the readership will be us and our parents. for that reason, it is titled the Sendmoney Monthly. and because it is (roughly) monthly. once it has been published [read "emailed to ourselves" here], i will post ( Read more... )

i was just watching the channel 8 news and at the end they always show the city from a camera ontop of the building. today, it appears that giant spders have attacked the city, spinning a web over large portions of the downtown area.

please do not panic. i am fine.

so we're walking down the street, say it's the middle of the day, headed to the library. one of the many cars zooming past honks. or a guy yell "WOO!" out the window as his friends speeds around a corner. or two guys stand outside a barber shop. as we walk past, one says "excuse me." he then continues his witty reparte with "got any room in your ( Read more... )