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[Apr. 28th, 2006|01:54 pm] |
so, in the midst of all the stress and crap dealing with the move (i leave tomorrow morning) I had one really great thing happen. My friend, heather, who I grew up with, asked me to be the godfather of her son. I was really happy.
So, this is my new godson, Timmy.
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| an actual update with major news |
[Apr. 10th, 2006|12:16 pm] |
Yesterday I signed the lease on my new apartment, today i called in sick to work, and tomorrow I'm quitting my job.
My new place is in Worcester, Massachusetts. It's about 40 minutes outside Boston. I'm moving there the last weekend of this month, so in less than 3 weeks.
I'll be living with two girls on the third floor of a triple-decker, and it's a pretty damn good place. The rooms are decent sized, the kitchen is HUGE, and the living room is awesome. The whole house is centered around the kitchen, which is cool. every single room has an entrance to the kitchen.
My landlord is the cousin of one of the girls, and he looks like Andy Dick and he's giving us the place super cheap. it's cheaper than my place here, even.
I do not have a job up there yet, so cheap rent is pretty crucial at the moment.
One roommate's name is Kristina, 22, and the other is Chrissie (Krissy, Chrissy, i dunno), 27. They're both teachers at the same elementary school.
There have been lots of Three's Company jokes so far. no more are necessary.
I'm planning on just doing whatever until i can find a decent, real job. I'll wait tables or whatever and will be fine paying the rent. and that might even be fun for a while, and will help me meet some people up there.
It was between the Boston area and Provo, Utah. Boston(ish) won for the job opportunities, and for the schools, since i'm considering going back for my masters. Brigham Young did not appeal to me.
I wanted to be closer or in the city, but the rents are ridiculous, and this worked out perfectly. I answered kristina's craigslist ad 2 weeks ago, and it turned out she was flying into baltimore a couple days later. So we met up, things went well, and she said alright let's do this. So i drove up this past weekend (it's only 6 hours) and met the other roommate, signed the lease and checked out the place.
I am fully expecting to not survive the first winter.
so, if you want to hang out before i go, or ever have any plans to visit the boston area, let me know.
Here are some pics
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[Mar. 7th, 2006|07:13 pm] |
Sunday
Breakfast -- coffee, 3 cups
Lunch -- nothing
Dinner -- beers, 4 bottles, french fries
Monday
Breakfast -- coffee, 2 cups, yogurt
Lunch -- Lucky Charms
Dinner -- sandwich
Tuesday
Breakfast -- coffee, 2 cups, yogurt
Lunch -- yogurt
Dinner -- wine, 2 large glasses, ongoing.
I'd like to think that would be the cause of me not feeling that well. but it's not. the wine, though, that helps.
PS. If it's not obvious by now, there will no longer be any substantial updates, until the end of April, anyway. and these inconsequential ones will be few and far between. |
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| please help me not be homeless |
[Feb. 7th, 2006|05:20 pm] |
jenn is moving out and i need a roommate from March 1 to April 30, when the lease ends.
rent - 365
utilities/internet/etc - roughly 150 or significantly less, as it gets warmer (or you prefer to keep the heat turned off and use space heaters, like we do now)
so if you know anyone that needs a temporary place, or you yourself are in need, i really need a roommate. |
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[Feb. 4th, 2006|02:50 pm] |
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i think the fact that i have to use industrial strength solvent and sandpaper to clean my stove could be considered A Bad Thing. |
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| apparently, i'm from south africa |
[Jan. 13th, 2006|06:45 pm] |
this article, while not wrong at all about the very small area it talks about, is very narrow and gives a completely skewed picture of my hometown.
EDIT:: I've been thinking about this article a lot tonight. and the more i think about it, the less the fact that it gives a skewed picture of the whole area matters. seems stupid of me to care about that, honestly, when things like this actually exist. and while i knew problems existed, i never honestly knew things were this bad. so yeah, that's my conscience for the night.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/07/AR2006010700876.html |
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| I blame Keith Urban |
[Jan. 8th, 2006|12:38 pm] |
My weekend morning ritual (when i'm not waking up on adam's couch) has become making coffee and watching CMT.
that's right, Country Music Television. I've surrendered to my inner redneck. |
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[Jan. 3rd, 2006|12:22 am] |
"telling us that "the days are getting longer" is like telling a seventh-grade boy who is shorter than every girl in his class, "You'll grow!"
This helps nothing until the growth spurt actually occurs. Which is where we stand now -- stuck in seventh grade at the gym, in the seasonal equivalent of an endless middle-school dance, our collective nose cradled in the armpit of the girl who said yes when we finally got up the courage to ask.
The only thing to do is wait it out. January's murk will, at some point, leach into leaden February, with its holidays of false hope: Groundhog Day -- whose hallowed rodent promises, even in the brightest of years, a respite that's at least (!) six weeks away -- and Valentine's Day (need we say more?). When March blasts into view, it's generally icy and always shrill, and we must still endure April, the cruelest month, because no matter how many flowers it germinates, we are still nowhere near to being sun-soaked, and the ground beneath our feet has turned sodden and goopy.
Hark. The herald angels sang. Then they stopped. And we were left to fend for ourselves." |
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[Dec. 14th, 2005|10:29 am] |
I had a dream last night that all the regular keys on my laptop were replaced with keys that used the fonts from beer cans. like the "b" was the budweiser "B", the "m" was the miller "M" etc. and each key was the main color of the beer can (like the B was red and the M was blue).
i'd imagine that would be a fairly easy thing to sell to college students. |
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[Dec. 11th, 2005|10:41 am] |
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I've never been able to decide which feels better, taking a hot shower or knowing you don't have to. |
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[Nov. 29th, 2005|09:05 pm] |
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I'm starting to enjoy wine a lot more than beer. |
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[Nov. 19th, 2005|09:39 pm] |
for those that may be interested, national geographic is having a warehouse sale at the dc armory this weekend. i went today. they have tons of really nice books, really cheap. and they have some documentaries and random national geographic paraphenalia. i went there thinking i could find some christmas presents for my family, but i didn't find anything that they'd really like. none of them really read that much.
but i found a ton of shit i liked. i got a little less than $250 worth of books for 45 bucks. the flier i got in the mail about it said to bring your own bag to conserve waste, so i found this fairly sturdy paper bag from some department store that was under my bed and took that. it was so stuffed with books that it actually exploded and my books went flying everywhere. so, after that, i got a shopping cart.
so, yeah, if you're interested, go to the DC Armory. search national geographic warehouse sale on google. |
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[Nov. 17th, 2005|05:21 pm] |
I was the guest speaker at my friend's 2nd grade class at Highlandtown Elementary today.
i talked to them about newspapers and how people go out and interview people, write stuff about it and put it in the newspaper with pictures. and i read them an article in the sun about chicken little being in 3D (bc nothing i write about would be remotely interesting to kids). they were really good and it was a lot of fun. they asked all kinds of questions, like how the photographers sent in the photos if they were in a different country, if i liked being a reporter, what time i had to wake up to go to work and the like. one kid asked me if i ever got lonely. i was really confused, until my friend asked him why he thought i would be lonely. he said it seemed like it would be lonely standing out on the corner selling newspapers with no one to talk to. so i had to explain, multiple times actually, that i didn't actually sell the paper, i write stuff in it.
it was a lot of fun, though. way more fun than my job. |
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| seems idiots flourish in Texas |
[Oct. 31st, 2005|09:45 pm] |
This article on CNN.com said that parents of this 13 year old girl in texas stopped her cancer treatment because they were worried about the potential side effects. one of the things it said the father was worried about was that it would heighten her risk for breast cancer.
she ALREADY HAS cancer, has just a 20 percent chance of survival, and he's worried that one of the side effects of the treatment that would give her an 80 percent chance of survival is going to be a heightened risk of cancer.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/10/31/medical.custody.battle.ap/index.html |
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[Oct. 22nd, 2005|10:29 pm] |
I went to this thing last weekend in West Virginia, called Bridge Day. It's the biggest BASE jumping event in the world. Hundreds of people parachute off this bridge almost 900 feet over the New River Gorge. it was a lot of fun, here's a small sample of photos.
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[Oct. 22nd, 2005|01:36 pm] |
Ok, i have a question.
if, say, a certain reporter met a really hot girl who seemed kinda interested in him while he was covering an event at Towson U the other night and did not ask for her phone number or anything (said reporter is kind of an idiot about these things), and then found her on facebook and sent her a message, would that seem really stalkerish or would it be ok? |
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[Oct. 10th, 2005|05:23 pm] |
Jenn made chocolate chip cookies the other day. i had some for breakfast this morning. and lunch yesterday. and i'll have them now. and there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it.
also, i thought this was funny. clips from the shining turned into a preview for a feel-good father-son movie.
http://waxy.org/random/video/shining_redux.mov
and the more i think about it, the less i'm inclined to ever right anything substantial in this again. or to be on AIM.
no one talks to me on either much anyway. and that's not said in some sort of self-pitying way. i don't talk to people much either.
i like using LJ as a way to keep track of people (and writing the occasional stupid post just to amuse myself), but i'm just not really getting anything out of really writing in it anymore. every time i do write about real issues in here, it seems like i'm bitching about something. and i'm annoying myself.
so i think i'll just knock that shit off.
now on to the cookies. |
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