Month: May 2009

  • well, let's talk about being home.

    it's funny because the suburbian disdain that rumbled in my tummy for so much of high school and most of college is now gone and met instead with nostalgia and you know what this place is okay feelings. i was reading through old notebooks cracking up at the notes i took when i was about to move here without a real place to stay and was feeling very new yorky:

    chris student housing brooklyn

    upper west side 3 train

    $3250 deposit friday!!!!

    i'm glad that didn't work out. as creepy as ray was, it was good for me to be in the 'boke and live with kristin. either way, it's funny to see something you obsessed about so much turn into a "oh."ish afterthought.

    what else. it was fun to bring zach home and sit on the trampoline and wonder what kinds of bugs those were and tolerate family parties and drive down to athens for an hour and head home and and and and. it was a quick weekend and i was (still am) exhausted but it's all for the best. i go back next weekend for the dublin dance show and that should be fun but equally tiring.

    as for things here, i am playing the waiting game and hoping things turn out for the best. things are getting crazier and not in a good way.

  • more about columbus when i'm not scrambling to get posts up before babysitting.

    speaking of cruising on overdrive, look. i was posting pictures on facebook and was more than slightly concerned about this one:

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    THAT SHIRT IS AN EXTRA-EXTRA SMALL. I EAT. WHY DOES IT NOT STICK ON MY BONES?!

  • hey girl

    some things have been cute lately.

     

    other things have been not so cute

    things are silly at work, but they always will be. sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on. thanks bob.

  • it's infuriating working for someone who says he wants one thing and then changes his mind after you do it his way

  • well.

    I had a lunch interview Wednesday. It was delightful and now I have to wait and wait and wait and wait and pick my nose and . . . stuff. I think I'm going to meet with the owner of the site soon, but not knowing how soon is a little bit aggravating. Whatev...there's a bonus every year, I'd get a new computer and keep my good insurance, so I can wait. I'm so ready to be out of here, though.

    Wednesday was also the day that I got a somewhat veiled proposition (depends on who you ask) to go out with a married guy who I know and respect(ed). I don't understand at all - I was telling Zach this - but it's, like, why me? And not in a "oh my life is so horrible, sob sob, [orphanage groans]" way, but more like, what makes you think this would be a good idea to pursue with yours truly? What, for whatever reason, set me apart somehow? I don't know if I want to know. Either way, color me squicked.

    Friday was fun because Zeej and I went out to Cooper after work and had a sit-down-and-drink-a-bunch-and-have-fun fest. We wrote notes for a Datingish post called "Fuck You, I'll Have An Appletini" - we need to write that. We got back to Astoria and Zach did pushups and made me waffles for dinner.

    It should be noted that I had a mini panicked moment there because the girls were going through my bag yesterday (trying to figure out exactly what a tampon does was on the agenda yesterday pre-brunch but thankfully stopped before tomatoes were distributed) and I'd remembered Mira looking at scrap piece of paper and examining it. One had her playdate's address and phone number; the other said "fuck" on it a couple times from the appletini brainstorm. I couldn't find the latter and was sure she had found it on her bed, shown it to her mom and see-ya-later-tals.

    Saturday, I intended to meet up with a Xangan and go to a Xanga meet-up, but the directions were confusing at best - "it says Gum Fong in Chinese", no address and "it's nearish this" - so we ended up walking around a bunch and I dragged Zeej along. She talked A LOT and by the time we got to Housing Works, it came to my attention that I would be extremely ill in a short period of time. We headed home, I was subsequently sick and he hung out with me and offered to buy orange Gatorade (really, is there any other acceptable kind? I think not) and sit with me all night. Best.boyf.ever. I told him to hang out with his roommate, who is leaving for California soon, and ate gorp and watched SNL while running to the bathroom every ten minutes (it was an improvement from before).

    Sunday was Mira's violin recital, which, it turned out, was two hours. I think I now understand what the Dublin Dance parents must go through - there was no storyline between songs like at DDC, but we busted out pencils and made faces at each other for a good part of the second hour. Mira did a lovely job ("she's a performer," Lee says) and Nora pretended to be interested, which is really all you can ask for at her age.

    It was also much more tolerable than I'd anticipated, mostly because I was busy all day. I headed into town at 11:30, bought flowers for Lee (I mean, come on, you have to) and was there until almost 7, so there wasn't a lot of time to sit around and mope. A guy on the train asked me if the flowers I was carrying were for Mom, and I said no, they were for surrogates. He nodded.

    Tonight I will go to Gill's and Lucien will rush through homework so we can watch Star Trek, but first I have to get through legal threats, password requests and - ugh - six posts. Wish me luck.

  • ugh

    "so how did you meet?"
    "well, i asked for help on my uploaded audio..."

    barf. wittiest response wins a quarter.

    (click to enlarge either/both)

    i feel like this chick all the time. STOP IT! I DON'T LIKE YOU.

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