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There was nothing to fear, nothing to doubt
Last night I watched Mongol, the first movie in a trilogy about the life of Genghis Khan (still known as Temujin in those days). There's a quote from the movie that I haven't been able to get out of my mind all day. I couldn't find the exact words online, so hopefully my attempt at retelling it will suffice ( Read more... ) -
and the summer goes on
A word of advice: If you need to buy toilet paper, don't ever do it right before you go out for dinner and drinks ( Read more... ) -
jobs, apartments, and RUSSIA
So yeah, it turns out that just as I had feared, my temp job ended up lasting three days instead of the three weeks that I had been promised. I might call my recruiter again and ask her to find me something else, but I'm not entirely sure that I will. Sure, I would be getting paid for whatever work I would do, no matter how few days I would be ( Read more... ) -
Job searching comic relief
I hate writing cover letters over and over again for each new job that I choose to apply for, but they're a necessary part of the process, so I deal with it. And not to say that I'm the Cover Letter Queen, but I can at least rest assured knowing that the application materials I send out into the world look nothing like this. Or even worse, thisMy ( Read more... ) -
friday / saturday.
Last night we all went downtown to see The Dark Knight, and it was so good. I'd been waiting to see this movie for over a year now, and it completely surpassed all of my expectations. Wow... just wow. What made it even better was being able to recognize a lot of the places where they had filmed the movie here in Chicago. For instance, they painted ( Read more... ) -
troll baby = troby?
Today I met up with Bob for lunch, and somewhere in the middle of our conversation, he started telling me about the new Hellboy movie. Apparently, there's this one scene where Hellboy starts beating up a troll underneath the Brooklyn Bridge, and then the baby that is growing out of the troll proudly declares, "I'm not a baby, I'm a tumorBob said ( Read more... ) -
summer '08, part 2
(The continuation of this.)
- A surprise visit from Steve!
- Square dancing with Catie on the 4th of July.
- Ready-made babies.
- Coming up with Rusty/Randy conspiracies on the Red Line. (The guy sitting across from us really thought we were crazy. Well ( Read more... ) -
moving on to better things
I forget whether or not I've mentioned this before, but my now-former supervisor at the museum has a Facebook account. We mostly just use it to play Scrabulous with each other (it was actually her idea, not mine!), but today she saw two things on my profile that really caught her eye ( Read more... ) -
wednesday.
Earlier this afternoon, I found out that I didn't get the job ( Read more... )