a week ago, i had to call my former youth advisor to get a job recommendation, and i've been thinking about it ever since ( Read more... )

i can feel my uvula. it's swollen and stuck to the back of my throat ( Read more... )

i am currently being paid $9 an hour to sit in an air-conditioned, shady lobby, play on the internet and ask people if they are registered to vote. is this what it's like to have a job that you don't hate??

i feel like giving everyone i talk to a cupcake.

ok. so here's a recap of the past few days' financial events, put in convenient bullet point cause-and-effect ( Read more... )

in no particular order ( Read more... )

1) a salon
2) sheer laziness
3) killer bees. like, for real.

also, the vehicle below is an alien disguised as a truck that was sent to save us from the decepticons:


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visited david, pat and stu today. it was the first day that the new first years have come to campus while i haven't been a student. a hurricane rained out the beginning of my orientation too, and i thought about that while i walked around with renee and tried not to make "when i was a little one" comments more than five times per second ( Read more... )

i just made plans for an approximately two hour conference call with my mother tomorrow, re: agenda items ( Read more... )

amazing grace is one of those songs that never manages to be any less emotional for me, no matter how old i get. attending the funeral was simultaneously awful and wonderful; so many memories, all bittersweet. i was confronted, over and over again, by the similarity of it all; the eulogy, the whispered conference about what They would have wanted ( Read more... )

(oh, spam bots. you are full of hilarity ( Read more... )