your working boy's update #1

setting:

a typical office, neutral tones, soy candles, endless drawers overflowing with post-it notes and paper clips, telephones, and automatic stapelers, two fax machines, copiers and printers.  a lonely black desktop computer.

today's action:

two phonecalls. 1. my boss calling me back after i faced some technical ( Read more... )

and just like that, the endless, stinking dog days of summer are upon us...

this afternoon, i spent the better part of an hour beside a repulsively malodorous garbage recepticle as i worked to clean out 4 years worth of garbage from every inch of my ford exploder.  in doing so, i turned up countless articles of clothing that l had long since ( Read more... )

no more teachers' dirty looks...

done with college/rejected from MFA programs/moving to austin come aug. 1/seeking employment/lacking neccesary skills/uncertain, but thrilled/wanted to write more/lacked the drive to do so/otherwise fine/you?

landed a posh summer desk job at a behemoth of a storage center.  the pay's great, the work minimal.  no ( Read more... )

all bad ends all...

i woke up this morning with everything on my mind.  in less than two months, i'll be done with my four years of college.  in less than five, i'll be done with Baton Rouge.  though i keep telling myself that i'm ready to leave town and move on with my life (whatever that's supposed to mean), i know that my exit will be nothing ( Read more... )

suddenly, i have that whole 22-year-old thing going for me...

as expected, my 22nd birthday dinner/uptown/downtown tomfoolery was highly enjoyable.  though i enjoyed going out to some choice bars with all who attended, my favorite portion of the evening was (and i think most everyone who came out will share this sentiment) was our 3-hour dinner at ( Read more... )

the downhill slope...

school has officially become of no consequence to me.  only six weeks into this semester, and i've started burroughing myself deep into the mentality of "I don't give a flying fuck."  oh well, i feel like i've earned a few months off.  i even managed to break myself away from the toils of midday beer drinking and front yard ( Read more... )

appropriately, my final taste of mardi gras was nothing short of misery ( Read more... )

time keeps marching on ( Read more... )

as usual, i don't have much to say, but i'll update nonetheless ( Read more... )

and so i've come back for what will be my final semester as a college student ( Read more... )