nellichaos

the air is broken at my work. there is nothing....just heat and dust. we don't own the building, it's leased so we have to wait for property management to get off their asses and come and fix the air. they don't really care. they aren't the ones who have to work in the heat all day long.
this is not new. every year, about this...
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why isn't health care or heath insurance more affordable? i mean, all through primary elections, i heard a lot about affordable health care, but all the planning in the world isn't going to help me right now.

i don't know if i am just really stressed or if i'm having an allergic reaction to something, but my hands are wicked swollen---to the point where it...
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i did a good thing today.
my friend danielle didn't have a job and also didn't really have a place to stay as her present roommates are total fuckers and are trying to drive her out....
in any case, i got her a job at my work, which is very brave of her considering how much bitching i do about working there.
i think it...
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self destructive to think that you are what i need

naive to think that i am what you need

i have never had to actually leave town for a day in order to completely sober up

i have never had to stop and actively think before i use a gender-specific pronoun to refer to the person i share a bed with more than 50% of nights in a week

i've never really thought that i was close to being out of control, but i've...
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This has been a decidedly good weekend.

Friday and Saturday off---lots of time to spend with friends.

Yesterday, I went for my first ride on my newly constructed bike and then got lots of envy from the serious bike kids at the party later.

Dinner at a really good sushi place followed by a keg of PBR and a dance party with some of the...
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i just got an '08 bianchi pista track frame from craigslist. watch out mean streets of columbus, it's on now....or at least soon, when it's a whole bike and not just a frame and also after i get me some health insurance. apparently, you can get hit by cars when you're on bikes.

i didn't celebrate easter. my parents went to florida. me, ryan and...
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this weekend was about 50% amazing and 50% painfully bad.

saturday, i ran a checkpoint for an alley cat bike race here in columbus. my friend annemarie and i got the best checkpoint of all of them because ours was on the loading dock of the spaghetti warehouse. before the race started, we got shots at the bar and ordered take out food so we...
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oh ohio weather, how i love you.
right now, we are expecting "blizzard conditions" and i nearly died on my trip home from bob evans for breakfast (side note: if bob evans had been my last meal, i feel like my life would not have been well lived).

sadly, all i want is to go sledding. but, in order to find somewhere worthy of sledding,...
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