01.27.02
Posted in miscellaneous stuff at 8:11 am by admin
well, it has finally happened. I am beginning my first trip back to Texas since I moved. i feel bad for purposely avoiding Kelsie. but I want to surprise her. she probably thinks I hate her now. but alas, all will be revealed.
I AM SO EXCITED! I have been needing this for sometime now. I wish Mark was coming. but this really needs to be a trip I make alone first.
I have so much more to write, but writing this by hand on a PDA is hard for me. I’ve become such a fast typist that I can barely write by hand anymore.
abridged ramblings:
I hate reclining seats when they are in front of me. I need space. I also hate the airline industry. I thought I was filing to DC for the first leg of this trip. and now I am en route to Chicago. Oh well. Traveling is an adventure. More later.
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01.17.02
Posted in miscellaneous stuff at 12:52 am by admin
just a quick entry… only in new york can you glance at a cab that is advertising a classy piece of theatrical work called “Urinetown: The Musical”.
funny, eh? 
it got my day off to a smile.
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01.15.02
Posted in miscellaneous stuff at 2:55 pm by admin
well, i did it today. i quit my job.
i haven’t been feeling well, so i haven’t been able to really update my journal, but basically, i was offered the job that i applied to, and i gave my notice today.
i was really really nervous because i’m still not sure of the start date for my new job, but i so desperately needed to get out of this one that it really just wasn’t worth waiting for more news.
so anyway, as of january 25th, i’m free! it’s a good feeling… i just haven’t had the time to let it set in. so anyway, i’m really in for a change. so i’m more than a little scared. mark sent me lots of emails explaining to me why i really should go ahead and do what’s best for me and just quit and get it over with. in the end, he was right, as usual.
more later!
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01.11.02
Posted in miscellaneous stuff at 4:18 pm by admin
the stuffy-achy-head blah blah blah blah blah so you can rest and get your ass up in the morning medicine.
i’m doped up on it right now so i can’t really be sure that everything is going to make sense, but here goes.
anyway, i got the job. that’s nice news, but i’m feeling too sick to really appreciate it just yet. also, i’m not 100% certain when I start — i should know by monday. in the meantime, i’ve started caring about my current job.
wait. i’m a god-damned liar. that woman (my boss) still has the same ungodly grip on me that she has always had, and i really don’t know how to release myself from it.
“hi steven…I just realized that on our website my e-mail address is the old one, not the current one. Can you please fix this tomorrow???”
let’s talk about what’s wrong with this….
1. no “hi, are you feeling any better?”
2. assuming i’m going to be in tomorrow even though i’m on death’s door (exaggerating of course) today.
this pisses me off. so even if i *do* feel better tomorrow, i’m not going in. but i’m scared. why the hell am i scared? why should this spawn of the devil have such a terrible effect on me? i have to break free… i think when i give my notice, i might feel better. in the meantime, i’m going to have to try to deal one way or another.
so, let’s talk about ronda, who i mentioned in a previous post. she’s even more mistreated by my boss than i am… and she takes everything personally. it has serious physiological effects on her. migraines, etc. so we’re thinking about quitting TOGETHER. fun idea, eh? considering there are only 4 employees in our office, that would be a BIG loss… 50% of the staff!
laura, who works her ass off, was told yesterday by my boss that “sometimes 8 hour days need to become 10 or 12 hour days”. laura was pretty offended considering that EVERY day is a 12 hour day for her. but happy diane had no problem telling her today that she could care less about laura being offended by this pointed remark.
so, the office drama will end soon. that’s good.
i really want to go to texas. i miss jason, kelsie, and jessica terribly… this job may allow me to, since i may be able to tell them that i need to give my job 3 weeks notice, and only give them 2 instead, so i can use the extra week for a little vacation. i can’t make any promises though.
mark has been great to me… he’s taking care of me since i’m sick, and he got me a dr. seuss book (”oh, the places you’ll go!”) to celebrate my new job.. and he wrote his own little seussian poem in it for me. it was very sweet. i really am not sure where i would be without him at this point in my life (or any point, mind you).
anyway, the nyquil is starting to kick in and my typing is about to become as slurred as my speech, so i need to go to bed now.
that is all.
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01.10.02
Posted in miscellaneous stuff at 11:56 pm by admin
hello, man on the bus. no one cares where you were on September 11. unless you were rescuing people from the rubble, shut the hell up.
that is all.
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Posted in miscellaneous stuff at 4:15 am by admin
tom petty says waiting is the hardest part.
it’s true.
i really really really hate my job, and my boss is being so selfish, rude, and unreasonable today. i’m waiting for the call today that will let me know whether or not i can give my notice at this miserable place.
everyone pray for me, and i will let you know how it goes later.
*sniffle*
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Posted in miscellaneous stuff at 12:36 am by admin
traffic is a many splendored thing..who wanted to get to work on time anyway? i assume there must be a duck crossing of some sort in the lincoln tunnel.
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Posted in miscellaneous stuff at 12:36 am by admin
Is it really practical to journal on a PDA?
That depends on a few things. How much time must I waste correcting letters? If I had a keyboard to use it would be different, but this is too tedious. God bless the creators of handwriting recognition, but they will have to wait if they want a good entry.
Harrumph!
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01.09.02
Posted in miscellaneous stuff at 3:13 pm by admin
hey!!! it’s not fair that jessica wants to go to toronto with jay… maybe *i* want to go too! i like toronto… i’ll secretly be lusting in my heart to be a part of her ultra super canadian adventure.
if she doesn’t let me come, maybe i can at least get her to get me something from the duty-free.
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Posted in miscellaneous stuff at 3:01 pm by admin
well, this is my first entry, forged by the constant prodding of my forever friend jessica.
to begin, let’s take a moment to understand why i haven’t bothered with a journal in the past.
1. i know how hard it is to tune into a soap opera and have no idea what’s going on. i am not going to take the time to tell you my entire life story, so if you haven’t tuned in to my life in person, you’re just going to have to guess at how everything fits together.
2. my all-or-nothing philosophy. if i’m not going to do this every day, then i shouldn’t do it at all.
3. i’m a lazy f*ck sometimes.
anyway, jessica has made me realize the errors of my ways, so i am going to do my best to try to update this little archive of my adventures. alas, the journey begins.
once upon a time…
so today i took a personal day from my terrible job in manhattan to go and interview for a much prettier, shinier job in new jersey. i can’t take any more of my boss’s (diane’s) degrading attitude and i’ve sucked everything i can out of this job, and it’s sucked everything it can out of me emotionally, so it’s time to move on… sort of like when you realize you simply can’t fit into those pants anymore.
the interview went very well… i interviewed with a nice normal guy named daren first, followed by a weird, introverted techy guy, and then, finally, daren’s boss. i found it funny that although she has a foreign name (zaed) that she commented on how pleased she was that she could understand me, since i was the only candidate with a decent grip on the english language. the job sounds promising, and i think they might really be interested in hiring me… i’ll know tomorrow. until then, if you hear a loud noise, it’s my stomach turning with nervousness (mixed with indigestion from taco bell’s “grilled ’stuft’ burrito”). isn’t it amazing how companies can mispell their products’ names and it’s “cool”? yeah, i mean nick-at-nite, bud lite, and kool cigarettes.
mark (that’s my boyfriend, for those of you who are NOT supposed to get a background biography) has been playing donkey kong country a lot lately… it’s been funny watching him turn from a 23 year old man to a 15 year old teen boy. it’s very cute.
my new $79.95 scale that tells body fat composition has this little light that comes on when you’re obese. apparently i need to start shopping at big and beautiful. oh well. time to become anorexic, or something along those lines.
in our next issue (if i feel like it):
* ronda (my migraine-getting cookie monster-loving reeses-eating second mommie-sister)
* laura (the texan across the office who makes me listen to hanson)
* the meaning of life
* 10099 ways to drive your man wild in bed
* 16 secrets to healthy cuticles
… oops.. i hate when i fall into my personality that writes for cosmopolitan.
ramblings:
pepto-bismol tastes like liquid candy hearts on valentine’s day. kraft fat-free mozzarella cheese should not be allowed to be called mozzarella or cheese. everyone in the world should have to have a unique name, like on AOL, so that no one ever gets confused. if i mention jessica49949 and jessica2020x, you will know exactly which one i am talking about each time. i figure that will be the case by the time they start putting the microchips in our tongues. old people should not be allowed to have their daughters-in-law sue the carnival cruise company just because they trip over the lip of the bathroom door and break their hips. being old means realizing that sh*t happens to you.
song quote of the day:
there’s a bridge i need to burn before i leave
i just wanna breathe again
like a summer day i need to feel the heat again
i only wanna keep the stone from rolling
i only wanna learn to feel the rain
then maybe i could stop the leaves from falling
i only wanna learn to freeze the flame
i know i’ll be alive again.
– Cher (whose face happens to be falling off, according to star magazine)
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