except for a brief excursion to chicago and des moines, i haven't slept a decent nights sleep since early october. why, you ask ( Read more... )

i'm watching an x-men video set to 'don't stop believin', thanks to Lee's video and the sheer oddity of the internet. i've been playing professor layton and the curious village on my ds. it's a fun game but i have a propensity to cheat on some of the puzzles because generally i try to solve them on the subway when my mind isn't in good puzzle- ( Read more... )

( sometimes in life there's just so much going on and i can hardly keep up. )

the other day it was malevolently stormy in manhattan. black clouds, spirited winds, rain bursting forth at unpredictable intervals. i was on break at work walking back from... somewhere... and crossing the street i hear 'Hello! Hello! Hello'! turn and see an old lady with a cart waving at me. "this weather is horrible, i need help. can I ( Read more... )

after a month the insanity of work has evened out a bit. plenty of growing pains. yesterday my store manager asked to talk to me so we're in her office and discussing a few things and she asks the 'so what do you want to do at the store, where do you see yourself going?' temperature check question and i utterly bombed it. instead of the sensible ( Read more... )

so, opening weekend at the store = highest sales of any barnes & noble in the company. translation: over the weekend i worked at the busiest bookstore in the world ( Read more... )

Yesterday my computer stopped working, giving me a 'windows unable to start because of missing or corrupt HAL.DLL file'. Would have been an easy fix if my computer manufacturer had shipped a Windows XP cd for me and not the crappy little restore disc they include instead. so after scouring the interweb and trying to figure out some options i'm ( Read more... )

i forget to log out when using my beautiful girlfriend's laptop. so here is an ode to her:

i love my girlfriend, she is incredible
i will miss her when she goes to Paris

not really an ode, but you get the point.

( i had a nightmare! )

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/us/04iowa.html?hp