There's just not much to say when I'm unemployed. Here are a few perhaps slightly interesting highlights anyway:
-I may have sprained my thumb playing about ten hours of Xbox today.
-Portland is a fantastic town with awesome restaurants and a great fanaticism for the whole local/organic/sustainable ethos, but I can't find a grocery store or co-op that can even hold a candle to the...
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-I may have sprained my thumb playing about ten hours of Xbox today.
-Portland is a fantastic town with awesome restaurants and a great fanaticism for the whole local/organic/sustainable ethos, but I can't find a grocery store or co-op that can even hold a candle to the...
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alyssum:
Thanks for the suggestion! It's less about the fashion/style aspect of things, more about the "how much is reasonable" sort of questions. It's not as if there's any guide to this sort of thing. As a techie, there's an expectation that I won't dress like a sales-person, for instance, but I feel out of place going everywhere in jeans even if the rest of me is dressy. And trousers baffle me. I may just have to get over my discomfort with skirts and dresses, and find some that don't make me feel like I'm a little girl going out on Easter Sunday.
alyssum:
Oh, and thanks re: the Spoon Man comment 
A stripper honked me on the boob yesterday. I don't know if she meant it to be enticing or alluring, but it was kind of neither one. It was, well, it was a little weird.
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mistersatan:
Depends on when it is. I can probably take a nap or something beforehand, so I'm somewhat coherent. Either way, that sounds pretty good. Did you guys wind up going the other day?
babyblue:
I wish we could! I get off work at 5:30, which is too late for happy hour. Have a great time though!
I've decided to learn Japanese. Now, understand, this is not a new decision. It was probably a year and a half ago that I bought my copy of Rosetta Stone, and between then and now I've started lesson one three times. I've just never had the proper motivation to keep going with it.
Sure, I'm in deep girly love with the entire city of Tokyo,...
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Sure, I'm in deep girly love with the entire city of Tokyo,...
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supremepizzaman:
I read you're not supposed to put knives in the dishwasher!
alyssum:
I'm quite sure that's the first time my knowledge of bathrooms made me seem worldly!
It was good seeing you again too! You guys are always full of great stories.
It was good seeing you again too! You guys are always full of great stories.
I did a run of address changes today--banks, credit cards, magazine subscriptions--and I realized when I was done and started to go through the email confirmations that I had made a few mistakes. On more than a couple, I either lived on Hawthporne Boulevard, or in Pornland, Oregon. As much as you may be inclined to read something naughty into that, I...
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Yesterday, I knew for a fact that if we went out for steaks and boobs, and managed to charm a stripper or two with our talent for making little houses out of dollar bills, Mr. Smith would finally get the call offering him the dream job.
And so he did. So he did. I like it when the strippers and I can work together on...
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And so he did. So he did. I like it when the strippers and I can work together on...
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mistersatan:
Good deal, I'll have to email him congratulations.
supremepizzaman:
I'm glad I'm not the only one that likes to build houses out of dollar bills.
I had one almost 4 stories tall (mostly because she was hot* and dancing to Rammstein) at a club in vegas before she ruined it.
*even for a vegas stripper
I had one almost 4 stories tall (mostly because she was hot* and dancing to Rammstein) at a club in vegas before she ruined it.
*even for a vegas stripper
I have an apartment now, and I have internet, cookware and groceries therein. I'd love to have people over, but you can only come over if you don't like sitting on chairs, at tables, or watching television, playing video games, or listening to music. I have none of those things.
I do have some fat, juicy prawns that I'm going to sautee in a vodka...
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I do have some fat, juicy prawns that I'm going to sautee in a vodka...
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zaksmith:
funny like fun to say funny
mistersatan:
This weekend or next weekend?
There is no better man in the world than my dad. He's the reason I have such high standards. He's always been on the level with me, he's always spoken to me as an equal, and he never told me growing up that I was too young to understand. He's always been solid for the family, and no matter what happens to him, he comes...
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dogslife:
How awful. For everyone.
maike:
So sad, but I'm glad you could share this. A bitter irony is that the kid probably didn't really suffer from the settlement, aside from maybe a little difficulty in purchasing insurance in the future. The other unpleasentness is the demonstration that the gatekeepers will do everything in their power to subjugate our concept of rights under law. The professional concept and tactic of re-directing punishment onto the grieving is a sickness.
I love the smell of boiling apples in the morning. It smells like victory.
Or, you know, home made apple sauce. Same-same.
Or, you know, home made apple sauce. Same-same.
serpentworship:
Very true. On the biodegradable scale, napalm is a complete fail. Only Kilgore can breathe those fumes that much and still get a relatively clean bill of health.
There is a blizzard between me and my car, so I'm lounging in the room at an off-season golf resort, reconnecting with daytime television. It'll be nice when life can move forward again.
mistersatan:
Blizzard? Where are you guys?
Before I moved into teaching I was a restaurant manager in town. If you need some ideas, let me know.