Well.  I'm not sure if I'm fired from Le Colonial.  Our new lounge manager is a paradoxical combo of in-your-face-feisty and passive aggressive.  So whether she would straight up tell me I'm fired Trump-style remains to be seen.  As it is, I will go to work on Sunday, and see if she looks surprised.  (who's the passive-aggressive?)

Here's how it ( Read more... )

wish i thought of this: http://www.vimeo.com/daveydanceblog

Does Obama have anti-Semitic affiliations?

In addition to working in an art studio with adults who have developmental disabilities, I am starting an after school program where one of the participants is a seven year-old autistic child ( Read more... )

I'm not convinced about Chicago as a home for me.  And it has almost nothing to do with below-freezing temperatures ( Read more... )

I ordered brassieres from an online dealer of European models, and (fuck!) sent it to my "saved" address without thinking to update it....and now....thanks to my error, and FedEx, my underwear has been delivered to the doorstep of my old apartment.  John isn't returning my calls, my front-door post-it note, or my MySpace message.  Should I go ( Read more... )

I don't understand how I can pay rent, my studio, my therapist, my phone/cable/internet, try to have presentable clothing, eat, take care of medical issues, AND save for retirement.  I'm going to be dead from exhaustion by forty:  Working sixteen hour days, neglecting exercise and check-ups in favor of naps on days off, stressing over random, ( Read more... )

My therapist was the first to note my excessive usage of the phrase: "I don't know ( Read more... )

I've been thinking a lot now about New Years Eve.  I'm fairly superstitious about the beginning of a new year.  I always want to represent a change toward a direction I want to go in ( Read more... )

Maybe everyone already knows how Patrick Swayze is in town for some made-for-TV movie.  But still, there's nothing like hearing the latest Le Colonial regular will be making a cameo in your closing shift ( Read more... )