Sometimes I just feel when things are going to happen, you know? I feel really good lately, though, so I think my psychic powers are cool.
Going to see Domino tonight, because I'm PMSy and bitchy and the double dose of a chocolate cupcake and Keira Knightley is just what the doctor ordered.
I'm interviewing Nashville Pussy next week so I'm ODing on their music....
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Going to see Domino tonight, because I'm PMSy and bitchy and the double dose of a chocolate cupcake and Keira Knightley is just what the doctor ordered.
I'm interviewing Nashville Pussy next week so I'm ODing on their music....
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My stomach and I are not getting along well. Sick day today. I didn't want to take one--I need the cash, yo. Not to mention, being sick actively sucks. Least I sat down and watched the Lydia Lunch DVD. Not so impressed. Can't wait for the Lucero movie, though.
On a serious quest for a specific pair of jeans. I am a way obsessive shopper....
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On a serious quest for a specific pair of jeans. I am a way obsessive shopper....
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foofee:
Heya, you stole my name! Can't blame ya really....oh isn't it one of the worst feelings in the world when you're sick and can't eat but your starving....choc cupcakes....how cruel, that sucks.... 
I was sick myself over the weekend, hope you feel better....
I was sick myself over the weekend, hope you feel better....
thelibra:
Not sure when I'll be down there, but I'll definitely keep you posted!
What does a girl REALLY need other than Johnny Cash and GNR CD's to blast, with a little Fiona Apple for seasoning, and the NHL package? I mean, who needs to go to bars to look for pretty boys when there are pretty boys slamming into each other on the television all night?
Add to that a stack of comics, a new Lydia Lunch DVD...
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Add to that a stack of comics, a new Lydia Lunch DVD...
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scooter11:
Right. And it would be one thimng if May were a great player or soemthing, but he's a marginal 4th-liner. It makes no sense...
punt:
I used to be in a local ska band.
don't hate.
don't hate.
Forget all of what I just said. Except for this: I don't need advice. If you have concrete leads (Hey, I write for xyz and they need someone to do zyx) or something of that nature, or a good suggestion of a place to start, or if you happen to be a resume expert, I'd love the help.
But in general, I'm way too stubborn...
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But in general, I'm way too stubborn...
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boundcreature:
help you find a font, or make you an exclamation point to match?
the_alchemist:
Sorry, it wasn't meant to sound mean, or to poo-poo the experience you already have, I just like using "fuck" -a lot. It's definitely my 2nd favorite word (favorite rhymes with "punt"). I'm always the one my friends come to when they're stuck in/on something and they want a good swift kick in the pants, 'cause they know I'll give it too them. But, after reading what I wrote I can see how it came off somewhat abrasive, even though it was well-intentioned. I tried to soften it with the 
! I certainly didn't mean to piss-off my coolest-new-friend-in-the-world! 
Forgive me?!
! I certainly didn't mean to piss-off my coolest-new-friend-in-the-world!
Forgive me?!
Fuck.
Just reading a page or two of Craigslist job ads has made me seriously depressed about the prospects for ever finding something to do that will pay me.
The shitheads who write for the major glossies out there don't do anything I can't do better.
My parents tout returning to school like it's going to cure all my ills, like graduating with honors got...
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Just reading a page or two of Craigslist job ads has made me seriously depressed about the prospects for ever finding something to do that will pay me.
The shitheads who write for the major glossies out there don't do anything I can't do better.
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thepants:
How I got a job:
Step 1: Try with a Bachelors to get jobs I really really wanted
Step 2: Quit trying and get a Master's
Step 3: Get tired of school, even if it is a good deal.
Step 4: Apply non stop to every job I'm even remotely qualified for whether I really want it or not. (That's 4-10 resumes per day (Sunday through Wednesday and occasionally Thursday) -- spend time on the ones for jobs I want, send slightly modified form applications to ones I don't)
Step 5: Accept every interview regardless of how crappy the job seems
Step 6: Repeat for 3-4 months, until a decent offer comes around.
--At the end of this process, I had about two dozen interviews (on phone and in person), and three offers (well, two, but the one job I could've had if I wanted it enough to tell the interviewers what they wanted to hear instead of what I really thought about their corporate culture), and a slow moving prospect that offered me a job two months after I had accepted the one I'm at now (almost 5 months after I had first applied, and 2 months since I had last tried to contact them).
So that's something like a 5%-10% callback rate (Granted I applied for many jobs I was barely qualified for), but still... finding a job fucking sucks.
Of course, my industry is a soul sucking one, and I was prepared to sell it for the right price. Though the job I did eventually find is one in a small company where my voice really gets heard and my opinion regularly asked, which is INCREDIBLY rare. So, yeah, I lucked out.
I'll stop rambling now. I guess my answer is Persistence and Luck is how to get what you want... probably for just about everything in life.
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Step 1: Try with a Bachelors to get jobs I really really wanted
Step 2: Quit trying and get a Master's
Step 3: Get tired of school, even if it is a good deal.
Step 4: Apply non stop to every job I'm even remotely qualified for whether I really want it or not. (That's 4-10 resumes per day (Sunday through Wednesday and occasionally Thursday) -- spend time on the ones for jobs I want, send slightly modified form applications to ones I don't)
Step 5: Accept every interview regardless of how crappy the job seems
Step 6: Repeat for 3-4 months, until a decent offer comes around.
--At the end of this process, I had about two dozen interviews (on phone and in person), and three offers (well, two, but the one job I could've had if I wanted it enough to tell the interviewers what they wanted to hear instead of what I really thought about their corporate culture), and a slow moving prospect that offered me a job two months after I had accepted the one I'm at now (almost 5 months after I had first applied, and 2 months since I had last tried to contact them).
So that's something like a 5%-10% callback rate (Granted I applied for many jobs I was barely qualified for), but still... finding a job fucking sucks.
Of course, my industry is a soul sucking one, and I was prepared to sell it for the right price. Though the job I did eventually find is one in a small company where my voice really gets heard and my opinion regularly asked, which is INCREDIBLY rare. So, yeah, I lucked out.
I'll stop rambling now. I guess my answer is Persistence and Luck is how to get what you want... probably for just about everything in life.
[Edited on Oct 19, 2005 6:22PM]
thepants:
Being a pirate didn't help me get the job... but it is making it more interesting.
Fuck.
Just reading a page or two of Craigslist job ads has made me seriously depressed about the prospects for ever finding something to do that will pay me.
The shitheads who write for the major glossies out there don't do anything I can't do better.
My parents tout returning to school like it's going to cure all my ills, like graduating with honors got...
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Just reading a page or two of Craigslist job ads has made me seriously depressed about the prospects for ever finding something to do that will pay me.
The shitheads who write for the major glossies out there don't do anything I can't do better.
My parents tout returning to school like it's going to cure all my ills, like graduating with honors got...
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Fiona Apple is reading my mind again.
The early cars
Already are
Drawing deep breaths past my door
And last night's phrases
Sick with lack of basis
Are still writhing on my floor
And it doesn't seem fair
That your wicked words should work in
holding me down
No, it doesn't seem right
To take information
Given at close range
for the gag, and the...
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The early cars
Already are
Drawing deep breaths past my door
And last night's phrases
Sick with lack of basis
Are still writhing on my floor
And it doesn't seem fair
That your wicked words should work in
holding me down
No, it doesn't seem right
To take information
Given at close range
for the gag, and the...
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palo:
Maybe I'm one of the few, but I think just about everything is mind-blowing when it's with a certain person, even mundane things. Even the silence excites me.
evalution:
I just love Fiona Apple! How are you doing?
Oh, the good old USA. It doesn't have that je ne sais quoi of Montreal, but it does have:
Motley Crue records
dance clubs
sushi
thai food
the Bruins
my awesome great-aunt and her red Christian Dior glasses
boundcreature, sapphic_plastic, and all those kids who haven't friend-requested me yet.
ice cream
my old house
boys that remember me from high school
and I...
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Motley Crue records
dance clubs
sushi
thai food
the Bruins
my awesome great-aunt and her red Christian Dior glasses
boundcreature, sapphic_plastic, and all those kids who haven't friend-requested me yet.
ice cream
my old house
boys that remember me from high school
and I...
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sapphic_plastic:
clearly, the only option is to set up our own female ruled city state.
thrasher:
I'm just having fun watching Hull be a fourth line winger 
he should be golfing with Mess
he should be golfing with Mess
Fuckin' hockey night in Montreal.
The NHL is back.
I love this city. I must live here.
The NHL is back.
I love this city. I must live here.
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captmonte:
Okay, nothing makes you more sexy than what you just posted. I'm in love! No, really, it's love! Heh.
jonnyjonnyh:
An article on Moore: http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=2190095
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boundcreature:
call me today
alisa:
it reminds me of how i feel about my true love as well. so that's totally understandable. i'm sorry that yours is about an ex. but you never know what the future holds. keep makeing wishes and they'll come true. i know that's so corny but it happened to me after 7 years apart... absolutely no contact and we ran into each other at a grocery store. been together ever since.
so you never know.
so you never know.
I have no allegiance.
I'll take a pair of rollerblades over a Ford though!
Totally kidding.