since i won't have this current job for that much longer, its important that i make some particular comments and observations on the social interworkings of the place. in particular, the vending machines ( Read more... )

an email i sent out this morning...

hey everyone,

its time for an email update on my life! yay!

so after some serious consideration and a lot of wrestling with certain ideas, i have decided to accept a position with the coalition of labor union women (www.cluw.org) which means i will be moving to washington d.c. i will be their national organizer ( Read more... )

i'm 88% richmond...

http://www.gotoquiz.com/how_richmond_are_you

the drama must stop. its too damn much. there is too damn much. there is too much emotional stuff that keeps following me around the past few weeks. i don't even know where to start. last weekend, i got a nervous call from my mother saying our family dog of 10 years, Cody, was hit by a car and being taken to the vet ER. about 30 minutes later she ( Read more... )

what to say...what to say. i've made all these promises with myself to make a point of writing more frequently and deliberately. i seem to fail a lot but i want to change that. things happen in my life...even little tiny moments between myself and the day...and i think in my head "this is how i will phrase this in my journal" and "this is how i ( Read more... )

smooth sailing is what i would like. its something i could really appreciate right now. i'd take just a few weeks in a row where nothing dramatic and ridiculous happens that will consume my mind and disrupt my life.

if you polled 100 people and asked them if it was ok to sleep with your best friend's ex, wouldn't there only be a handful of assholes ( Read more... )

this job definitely counts as the worst job i've ever had to be sick at. i started to feel that little tingle of a sore throat on friday and by the end of the night, i was spent. i knew i officially had a cold. i stocked up on zicam, zinc tablets, advil cold and sinus, riccola cherry honey cough drops and guzzled down some emergen c. i was in a mad ( Read more... )

its been awhile since i've posted so at this point...talking about my birthday and christmas just might seem like really old...and slightly boring...news ( Read more... )

so i quit. i was so uncomfortable and dissapointed with the situation that i couldn't bring myself to go another day. sometimes i have this feeling in the pit of my stomach that it was the wrong thing to do and that is was irrational. but when it comes right down to it, i've always been the kind of person to step away from something that doesn't ( Read more... )

while i wish this update was full of the wonderful things working with special needs kids bring to your life, its not. to sum up my first 2 days on the job: dissapointment ( Read more... )