Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Allo everyone. Here's what's been going on in my thrilling life over the past few days:
1.) My phone doesn't work. Ever. I hate it. Mobile phones are pointless if YOU CAN'T GET ANY RECEPTION INSIDE OF THE BUILDING IN WHICH YOU LIVE. The Sprint customer service guy I talked to said they "can't guarantee service" INSIDE OF A BUILDING. I'm getting a phone with a cord and a wire. At least it'll work consistently. We're screwed when all of the real wired phones disappear. Screwed.
2.) My antique bed fell apart while I was leaning back against the headboard to enjoy "The Deep End." It's still broken, and now I'm sleeping with the mattress on the floor like a common college student. "The Deep End" is a great movie, by the way, starring two people with great names: Tilda Swinton and Goran Visnic.
3.) I realized how freaking long my hair is when (brace yourself) it got caught in the sunroof of my car and I didn't notice it for about 15 minutes. It had a dent in it for two days.
4.) I got two estimates on my car, which has a "shimmy" in the steering. One mechanic said I needed a new front end (1000 bucks) and one said I did not need anything of the sort (250 bucks). Long story short, I'm 250 bucks short, and I still have the shimmy. I hate cars.
5.) I love that Lenny Kravitz song on the Target commercial. I lurrrv it.
1.) My phone doesn't work. Ever. I hate it. Mobile phones are pointless if YOU CAN'T GET ANY RECEPTION INSIDE OF THE BUILDING IN WHICH YOU LIVE. The Sprint customer service guy I talked to said they "can't guarantee service" INSIDE OF A BUILDING. I'm getting a phone with a cord and a wire. At least it'll work consistently. We're screwed when all of the real wired phones disappear. Screwed.
2.) My antique bed fell apart while I was leaning back against the headboard to enjoy "The Deep End." It's still broken, and now I'm sleeping with the mattress on the floor like a common college student. "The Deep End" is a great movie, by the way, starring two people with great names: Tilda Swinton and Goran Visnic.
3.) I realized how freaking long my hair is when (brace yourself) it got caught in the sunroof of my car and I didn't notice it for about 15 minutes. It had a dent in it for two days.
4.) I got two estimates on my car, which has a "shimmy" in the steering. One mechanic said I needed a new front end (1000 bucks) and one said I did not need anything of the sort (250 bucks). Long story short, I'm 250 bucks short, and I still have the shimmy. I hate cars.
5.) I love that Lenny Kravitz song on the Target commercial. I lurrrv it.
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
I went to my first funeral on Monday. It was for a girl I used to babysit for back when I was in middle school. We lived next door to her family for 10 years.
She just graduated from high school a couple of weeks ago. The pictures of someone's life are not supposed to end at high school graduation. She would've been 18 on Saturday.
I can still remember her when she was 9, sitting on the couch in their living room watching Disney videos and fighting with her little brother, and I can't really believe I sat a few feet away from her coffin.
Please, please, please be as careful as you can be when you're driving, and don't waste your time worrying about silly little things.
She just graduated from high school a couple of weeks ago. The pictures of someone's life are not supposed to end at high school graduation. She would've been 18 on Saturday.
I can still remember her when she was 9, sitting on the couch in their living room watching Disney videos and fighting with her little brother, and I can't really believe I sat a few feet away from her coffin.
Please, please, please be as careful as you can be when you're driving, and don't waste your time worrying about silly little things.
Monday, June 14, 2004
So
I spilled yogurt on my jeans at lunch today in the "lounge" (which is nothing like a lounge in any sense of the word, and it smells like popcorn and tomato soup 365 days of the year) and then proceeded to walk around with "curious" white stains on my jeans. Nice.
I also discovered that I should've gone to Chipotle the other night with the kids in town, b/c now I have a MASSIVE craving and Chipotle is a good 3.50$ car ride away. I swear I'm buying a hybrid as soon as I have a job and money.
How weird is it that most of my high school friends are in one of two places: O-Town, and NYC. I either have a 2.8 minute drive or a 2.45 hour plane ride and I have to take my shoes off to go through metal detectors.
P.S. (for Stuffboy-aka-RJP) I think the move is "Unstrung Heroes," which, (if I'm not making it up) is a funnier title.
I spilled yogurt on my jeans at lunch today in the "lounge" (which is nothing like a lounge in any sense of the word, and it smells like popcorn and tomato soup 365 days of the year) and then proceeded to walk around with "curious" white stains on my jeans. Nice.
I also discovered that I should've gone to Chipotle the other night with the kids in town, b/c now I have a MASSIVE craving and Chipotle is a good 3.50$ car ride away. I swear I'm buying a hybrid as soon as I have a job and money.
How weird is it that most of my high school friends are in one of two places: O-Town, and NYC. I either have a 2.8 minute drive or a 2.45 hour plane ride and I have to take my shoes off to go through metal detectors.
P.S. (for Stuffboy-aka-RJP) I think the move is "Unstrung Heroes," which, (if I'm not making it up) is a funnier title.
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
God bless PLU for his recent picture of cream cheese. My version of heaven is also full of cream cheese varietals, although in my paradise the "white stuff" is refrigerated. I'm paranoid about dairy products due to an unfortunate run in with "chunky coffee---dear God.
Speaking of coffee, I think I was so cranky yesterday because I didn't have any. Sorry.
I was also cranky b/c there's a hole in the ceiling of my bathroom directly above the shower, and it's really quite yicky. The building I live in is 40+ years old, and mildew that's only slightly younger than my parents is not a pleasant sight to wake up to. I'll post a picture when I get the "internet" on my "computer," at my "apartment."
Does anyone else think John Ashcroft needs an enema?
Speaking of coffee, I think I was so cranky yesterday because I didn't have any. Sorry.
I was also cranky b/c there's a hole in the ceiling of my bathroom directly above the shower, and it's really quite yicky. The building I live in is 40+ years old, and mildew that's only slightly younger than my parents is not a pleasant sight to wake up to. I'll post a picture when I get the "internet" on my "computer," at my "apartment."
Does anyone else think John Ashcroft needs an enema?
Tuesday, June 08, 2004
I'm in summer school for the third summer in a row. I'm in here now because I was very bad, and I got expelled from school for giving my best friend a Tylenol Menstrual Relief caplet, and I have to make up the credits so I can graduate and go to ITT Tech and fulfill my wildest dreams of becoming an industrial techinician and being in an ITT Tech commercial.
I just ate a tuna fish sandwich in the break room with other teachers and teacher-wannabes. We were all drinking diet soda and reading textbooks with names like "How to be an Effective Teacher" and "Why Being a Teacher Means that You Aren't Allowed to Use Your Own Brain." (Because the District Thinks that Deep Down, You're all Idiots. Mostly Because You're Women.)
Not that I'm angry or bitter about it!
Read Dave Egger's article in Mother Jones this month about teachers who are mowing lawns to support themselves.
I'll be nice and happy later, I promise. I think after my Diet Dr. Pepper kicks in...
I just ate a tuna fish sandwich in the break room with other teachers and teacher-wannabes. We were all drinking diet soda and reading textbooks with names like "How to be an Effective Teacher" and "Why Being a Teacher Means that You Aren't Allowed to Use Your Own Brain." (Because the District Thinks that Deep Down, You're all Idiots. Mostly Because You're Women.)
Not that I'm angry or bitter about it!
Read Dave Egger's article in Mother Jones this month about teachers who are mowing lawns to support themselves.
I'll be nice and happy later, I promise. I think after my Diet Dr. Pepper kicks in...
Wednesday, June 02, 2004
I had a dream a few days ago about poisonous snakes attacking and biting me, tons of them, and then this morning I notice an article in the KC paper that says that yes, several non-native poisonous snakes were found in a nearby Kansas state park.
