watching tv all day, i see a lot of commercials. the ones that i notice the most, and the ones that are on the most during the day, are the ones for all the various trade schools. actually, i don't know exactly what they're called, but i'm sure you know what i'm talking about. the one that's on right this moment, and most frequently overall, is ( Read more... )

last night (sunday) i went to sleep at 11 and woke up this morning at 6.30. apparently my schedule got so reversed it's back to the workaday world, sort of like when people say they're so radical they seem conservative ( Read more... )

i just watched "pump up the volume" for the first time since high school. it'd be a lie to say it made me feel the same way, because i don't remember it making me feel anything the first time. but it probably did. feel the same, i mean. the movie brings out some sort of feeling that i can only compare to billy mumphrey's unbridled enthusiasm. ( Read more... )

there was one thing about the day that just passed that was the same as all the other days like it. which was that i watched a lot of football. i like football enough that i watched the games today even though they weren't interesting on any level. but there was one thing i noticed today that confused me. that was the constant giving of thanks ( Read more... )

thanks to an old benefactor, concerns over the 25th's 1b have been allayed. it won't be anything as special as taco bell or popeye's, but it'll be better than the menu i had planned (a combination of hamburger meat and wild rice - not because they go well together, but because they were the only two things i had good enough to save for a special ( Read more... )

i posted my apartment on a couple sites tuesday. it seems like a buyer's market, which is really fucking worrisome. the couple people who've gotten back to me already want to fucking negotiate and shit. the apartment's expensive. i can't do shit about it. to pay bills, i figure maybe handjobs. in case that doesn't work out, i signed up on ( Read more... )

1. i usually look forward to thanksgiving, but not this year. there's something that's always so nice about it. nothing about giving thanks or being with family or even the food. it's been years since i spent it with anyone i'm in any way related to, or thanked anyone on it, or eaten turkey because of it. but it's always great. the prospects ( Read more... )

i just finished reading a book i picked randomly off the bookshelf the other day (for real, i shut my eyes and moved my hand around and everything). the book was the chomsky reader. i wasn't happy. for me, the guy was always the first person i thought about when people were throwing "public intellectual" around hither and thither last summer ( ( Read more... )

1. watching showtime at the apollo on mute now. some 3-guy r&b group just pulled roses out of their pants and threw them in the audience. the recipients were delighted.

2. continuing yesterday's search for more things to read on livejournal, i went through l-z of people with university of chicago as an interest. they were almost as bad as ( Read more... )

earlier today, i added university of chicago to my interests list. because it's friday night, which should mean something but doesn't, i was a little more bored than usual, so i started looking through the live journals of people with university of chicago on their lists. i was expecting to find at least a few readable ones, or some people i know ( Read more... )