Here's a case in point for why I don't want to me a shop manager for Mill Mountain Coffee and Tea. When I went into work today I found out that the compressor in the sandwich bar had broken two days ago, and it hadn't been fixed yet. So everything was either in the bar on ice or in one of the two fridges in...
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Since people keep asking about the job and I've been so quiet about it, I guess it's time to let everyone know what's up. I'm not going to be a store manager. It's not a bad thing at all, although they're going to put me back on 7.00 an hour. I'm actually very relieved. The manager at Starkey approached me last week and asked me...
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I drove out to Barnes & Noble this evening to procure my book for the Lit group's April activity: read a book by an author whose last name begins with the same letter as your own. I bought "The Lonesome Gods," by Louis L'Amour. Westerns aren't what I usually read, but I'll be damned before I read anything else by D.H. Lawrence. I read all...
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dave82:
I was thinking more along the lines of an event somewhere like someone's apartment or a bowling alley. I may be willing to host an event in Blacksburg so long as it's not real rowdy. -Dave
fyrestarter:
i can't ever get out of Barnes and Noble without spending money!!
how's the new job location treating you? hopefully good!
take care!
how's the new job location treating you? hopefully good!
take care!
In many of my English classes at Roanoke we used to do assignments called small writings. The professor would ask us to write a page, only a page, on whatever we wanted, whatever was on our minds at the time, and then make enough copies for the rest of the class to read. Undoubtedly this would lead to, in a class of twenty or so...
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dave82:
My journal would never be updated if it weren't for whiny, sentimental, dramatic rants. I'm looking forward to hearing a few pieces. And by the way, I'm looking at doing an SG event for the New River/Roanoke Valley area in the next month ... do you have any ideas? -Dave
It's so perfect when you remember all the possibilities of nihilism. I don't mean just standing on the edge of the abyss, staring into its blank darkness until it stares right back into you. I mean jumping, taking a running leap and pirouetting a dive right into its uncharted depths. Sin City is nihilism in its rawest form. Sin City is nihilism reminding me how...
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dave82:
Wow, what a complelling review of Sin City. I'm gonna see it on Monday night but I don't think I can write so eliquantly about it. There is something about being an engineer that stiffles your writing abilities. -Dave
starryeyed:
No -fear not- it was not related to Sin city... I haven't seen it yet! I am still SO excited. I'm going to take your word for it. 
Look at you going off on intelligent rants pertaining to the movie. That makes me even more thrilled to go see it.
Look at you going off on intelligent rants pertaining to the movie. That makes me even more thrilled to go see it.
All right. I guess that having a late night wine drinking party with friends the night before you work at 7:30 in the morning is a bad idea. Right now I'm not plastered, but the room spins every time I close my fucking eyes and I can't sleep when I get like that. So we'll have to see how this turns out. Let me say...
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starryeyed:
I should definitely read Catch 22! Well done!
thx a lot
hope you were able to rouse yourself that morning ~
thx a lot
hope you were able to rouse yourself that morning ~
I have absolutely nothing to do today, so why not just get on the old journal and type whatever comes to mind. It's like Randy Newman in the Y2K episode of Family Guy, just singing what he sees. "Hey there, Rover. Come on over!" What do you think about Seth McFarlane's ability at satire? Is it equal to Matt Groening's, below Groening's, or superior? Or...
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Went to Tanglewood Carmike today and saw The Ring 2. It was good and bad. First of all, I think it's a bad sign when I can think of a snide, MST3K remark or a Simpsons quote to yell in accompaniment with just about every scene in a movie. There's a part near the beginning where Naomi Watts burns the videotape (that doesn't give...
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and here's where your mother sleeps
and here is the room where your brothers were born
indentions in the sheets
where their bodies once moved but don't move anymore
and it's so sad to see the world agree
that they'd rather see their faces filled with flies
all when I'd rather keep white roses in their eyes
Neutral Milk Hotel, "Holland, 1945," from In the...
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and here is the room where your brothers were born
indentions in the sheets
where their bodies once moved but don't move anymore
and it's so sad to see the world agree
that they'd rather see their faces filled with flies
all when I'd rather keep white roses in their eyes
Neutral Milk Hotel, "Holland, 1945," from In the...
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dave82:
I think it's appropriate to give props to the whole Elephant 6 team. They are the definition of indie rock. Just saying hi from the little burg of Blacksburg. -Dave
dave82:
Yeah, I've never gotten into Essex Green. I saw them once and wasn't really impressed. Big fan of groups like Apples in Stereo, Dressy Bessy, High Water Marks. & Olivia Tremor Control. I think I heard some of Arcade Fire on the Adelphia 'Alternative' music channel last week. -Dave
It's been quite an intertesting week at the shop. I found out that they will be transferring me to Starkey Road to work with the manager there. They apparently want to get me to the point where I can become a full store manager. I was assistant manager in Salem. This is really cool. I hope everything works out. I start Monday morning over at...
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the_wanderer:
Thanks for the birthday wishes.
Glad to hear that you're probably getting a promotion. I think that the Starkey store is probably a move up from Salem, since the Salemites seem to be quite shoved up their own asses.
Maybe things will suck less there...
Glad to hear that you're probably getting a promotion. I think that the Starkey store is probably a move up from Salem, since the Salemites seem to be quite shoved up their own asses.
Maybe things will suck less there...
I've been away for a while. All apologies to anyone I may not have contacted. It's hard to actually find time to just sit down and keep this thing updated.
Anyway, I had an interesting experience last week. I went around the corner to the Grandin and saw Hotel Rwanda, the movie about the genocide in 1994. It was probably the first time since...
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Anyway, I had an interesting experience last week. I went around the corner to the Grandin and saw Hotel Rwanda, the movie about the genocide in 1994. It was probably the first time since...
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fyrestarter:
i agree completely! i want to check out that film. i hope it stays at the Grandin long enough for me to find time to go see it.
thanks for the condolences about my shop.
thanks for the condolences about my shop.
hollownail:
Grandin is playing House of Flying Daggers now :-D gotta see it!
You work in the downtown mill mountain or the one over by tanglewood?
I know how you feel man, I used to wokr at books a million up in nova... talk about fucking idiots
yeah, i'm looking for a book, it had a red cover. where is it? why don't you know???? blah blah blah
You work in the downtown mill mountain or the one over by tanglewood?
I know how you feel man, I used to wokr at books a million up in nova... talk about fucking idiots
yeah, i'm looking for a book, it had a red cover. where is it? why don't you know???? blah blah blah
What else is there to do after you meet up with a bunch of friends at Mac and Bob's and find that there is an attractive young lady with them who recognizes you, but to whom you can only say, "I really can't say where we met before." What else is there to do?
Sleep it off, young man.
Sleep it off, young man.
is that true? it must be... blink 182 said it. HAHAHAHA
okay, sorry about the compressor, and about my awful music quote.