haven't been on here for a bit, but it's the tenth anniversary of my lj, and that seemed like a decent occasion for writing something. so here is some writing ( Read more... )

( the low-down )

last weekend was nice. got to see ali. we hadn't seen each other in 2.5 weeks and were both pretty worn out, so it was a quiet weekend. just chilling. she made these really good sandwiches with lots of veggies while i spilled wine on her wall trying to open the bottle, so things balanced out pretty well. and then she's coming up here for a few days ( Read more... )

the commute is the worst part. the last couple days of work weren't too bad work-wise. maybe i'm getting used to the schedule. that's actually part of the issue. i have to wake up at 0530 to get to work "on time" (they're a little flexible, but people show up generally around 0700 and work until 1600 ( Read more... )

moved and mostly settled in. already started working. so much has gone on. i have so little time to do anything and i'm just kind of frustrated and tired all the time. no good. looking forward to the weekend so i can catch up on sleep ( Read more... )

got everything packed into one of the PODS and that has been shipped off. so it was nice to get that out of the way. now there's just the final weekend before leaving. whoosh. there have been going away parties and now there's another one coming up on saturday. ali is moving from her summer place into her apartment for the school year. so yeah, ( Read more... )

so we had matt's going away thing yesterday. it was broken into two parts, because some people were available in the morning and others in the evening; i ended up at both. it was a little sad, a taste of what's to come in a couple weeks. toward the end, we got all nostalgic, which doesn't really happen much. just talked about the movies we've made ( Read more... )

heard what my last name means today. i'd looked it up before and tried to figure it out, but couldn't ever find anything, so i kind of resigned myself to never really knowing. amanda figured it out just the other day, though. it means, 'harper'. the 'harp' part is apparently the same in german as in english and the 'oldt' part (that was the ( Read more... )

i have filled out about 20 billion pages of paperwork for this job. background checks, general information, benefits enrollment, all kinds of stuff. feh. doing this is almost a full-time job. but another round is done ( Read more... )

all kinds of haps, people. got an apartment and spent today canceling current electricity, etc. and setting up future electricity, etc. and i got boxes this morning so i can start packing this evening. and i'm doing the PODS thing to move, so i'll pack everything in there on august 9 and 10 and they'll haul it away on august 11. it won't arrive at ( Read more... )