05.24.02
Posted in miscellaneous stuff at 7:14 am by admin
there’s nothing worse than peeing in a cup.
i had to get a drug test for my job, since i’m being hired as a real employee (and not a consultant). there’s just something that seems wrong about putting the stuff that you aren’t supposed to touch (unless that’s your thing) into a cup for someone who actually WANTS it. and carrying a warm cup of it and handing it to someone. it’s like “look what i did!!! aren’t you proud?”
on that note, while i was at LabCorp today, there was this older hispanic woman working as the receptionist. i felt SOOOO bad for her, because this woman with 2 babies was being really rude to this lady just because she had an accent, and didn’t quite get exactly what she was saying. AND when the hispanic lady walked away, the mean baby-lady turned to everyone in the waiting room and said “i hate it when they can’t even speak english”. the word THEY was just the real kicker. now don’t get me wrong — foreigners annoy me sometimes too… BUT this lady wasn’t doing anything wrong… she wasn’t dancing around like the one at the PSB concert and hitting anyone with her ass — she was just doing her job. my dislike of foreigners at times only comes from the different social habits they bring here from their countries of origin that rub me the wrong way. it doesn’t mean they deserve cruelty.
anyway, i’ll see all of you houstonians soon! 
steven
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05.23.02
Posted in miscellaneous stuff at 11:40 am by admin
this is by FAR by favorite article ever featured in the onion.
A Shattered Nation Longs to Care About Stupid Bullshit Again
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Posted in miscellaneous stuff at 11:21 am by admin
See the message below about the PSB concert — the mp3 files of the songs I mentioned are linked now! And the picture of beret man’s likeness should finally be working!
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Posted in miscellaneous stuff at 4:37 am by admin
i’m beginning to realize something.
i’m not on the minds of a lot of people very often. here’s why. you’re not really anything until people write about you in their journals. the ugly truth about livejournal is that you look at your friends’ postings to see if you were mentioned because it’s almost like someone making a hokey dedication on the radio, or buying you a balloon with your name emblazened on it. it’s a moment of trivial fame, where the name “steven” refers to me directly, instead of the millions of other more interesting ones. people mention the nameless, faceless people they encounter in their journals before they ever mention me… whether it be a cornflake girl, the disappearing nun, the random unnamed mall stranger, the person who looked at them funny on the way to the fruit market, the man on the bus, the man who sold them an apple that had a sticker on it, or the policeman that appeared to make contact but didn’t — phew — are all worth writing about before little old me.
oh well. i realize i sound pathetic. maybe i’m losing touch with reality and / or the people in my life that are meaningful to me. sorry if i seem needy — but i am. very very overly needy.
it’s just kinda lonely to sometimes feel like you exist purely within your own little realm… the measure of how much a person exists (i believe) is directly proportionate to the number of people in the world currently thinking about them and knowing that they exist.
anyway, i have to be going. i think my right arm was just erased from existence.
PS. i know i sound like a selfish bitch…
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Posted in miscellaneous stuff at 3:09 am by admin
i promised my pet shop boys experience… so here goes.
i arrived at the hammerstein ballroom in new york city at around 8pm. first of all, the number of flaming people (which i was obviously expecting) was very amusing… people in tight pink muscle shirts, pierced back and forth, etc.
we had floor tickets, which i thought would be a good thing, since we were only 40 feet from neil tennant, but the beginning of the show turned into a nightmare. now, i will introduce you to the cast of characters that surrounded us on the floor.
in the haze of cigarette and pot smoke, we had:
This huge gay man with a beret and long hair (prolly a wig coming out the hat)… looked JUST LIKE HER. And BOY could he and his boyfriend dance!
… and her boyfriend …
they pissed me off soooo much! First of all, no one was dancing like crazy, but this girl was just OUT OF HAND… it was like watching a really bad eurotrash music video (S Club 7, if you will)… and THEN they were doing this thing where she held onto his shoulders and they bopped back and forth in opposite directions… i wish i had pictures. and she was swinging her long hair around and hitting me in the face with it, and he was picking her up on his back and sticking her ass in my face… it was TERRIBLE. did i mention they were foreigners? swedish, or something like that…. VERY annoying… the girl kept yelling out ridiculously untimely english words in her stupid accent, like “FABULOUS!” and “BREEELIANT!”
enough about them though. ask me more later, but they were AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL.
anyway, the music was good. lots of acoustic stuff (very unexpected). it wasn’t much of a production either — no background vocalists, no dancers, no projections.
here are some of the songs that struck me as GREAT:
home and dry — from the new album… VERY cool this was the opening number
i get along — also from the new album, very oasis-sounding
a red letter day — great acoustic version of this song (my 2nd fav psb track)
go west — absolutely rocked! the bass was amazing, and everyone in the audience sang “TOGETHER” (the village people’s part)
being boring — my fav psb song… reminds me of jessica
well, that’s it for now!!!!! let me know if you have any questions
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05.22.02
Posted in miscellaneous stuff at 4:12 am by admin
how does lunch bread go stale after just sitting on my desk for less than 10 minutes?
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Posted in miscellaneous stuff at 12:16 am by admin
yesterday i realized the kind of weather that i really like.
you have some people who really like it when it’s sunny and bright and beautiful and the bluebirds land on your shoulder. you also have those who like it when it’s rainy, stormy, gloomy, etc., like jessica and mark.
i, however, love it when you’re driving down the highway and the sun is shining brightly on the road, but the sky is extremely dark. it’s almost as though some sort of impossible contradiction of nature is occurring, causing one tiny hole in the clouds to make the ground impossibly green and bright, while the sky is grey and dark.
the contrast is absolutely amazing — like eating a chocolate covered pretzel. salty, yet sweet at the same time.
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05.21.02
Posted in miscellaneous stuff at 12:07 am by admin
sooo…
i saw star wars: episode ii this weekend… it was actually pretty decent… star wars movies are more like events than they are movies, and you HAVE to see them… there’s really no way around it. i’m looking forward more to episode iii though.
the countdown to my trip begins! this time next week, i’ll be in texas! yay! i bought a digital camera so i can document the trip this time, because i want pictures of all of the lovely people i’m going to see… especially the illustrious jessica, who currently only occupies my photographic world in the form of an ill-shaped refrigerator magnet.
i DESPERATELY need to organize my life. i will soon be publishing photos of my bedroom and my pile of laundry in the basement as a testament to how much of a pig i am. maybe the negative feedback to it will make me change.
who likes my new journal style? i know it’s canned… but i still think it looks cool (at the risk of sounding pretentious… i hope jessica doesn’t think i’m a sellout or something…) i wanted to think of something cool to say for “post comments” like jessica’s “hablas” or “pssssst” but i’m not that clever… jessica, please give me your throwaway clever ideas… the stuff you deem not good enough to use is probably brilliant to those of us without a creative bone in our bodies…
speaking of trendy things… i have fallen in LOVE with trader joe’s, this wonderfully trendy organic supermarket… reminds me of somewhere jessica would shop…. i want to be cool like her. she’s my hero.
“darling, has anyone ever told you that you have the most pretty red hair?”
:) i know she’ll get it, or else i’ll have to send her some “cheese”.
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05.18.02
Posted in miscellaneous stuff at 5:12 am by admin
i would do anything for love, but i won’t go to a hoedown.
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Posted in miscellaneous stuff at 4:44 am by admin
it is really sickening how some people will never grow up.
just moments ago i headed down to the cafeteria to grab lunch (late, might i add, because i’ve been so busy). standing in the sandwich line in front of me was a very overweight black man, who ordered a sandwich of some sort on a roll of some sort… what struck me was that he asked for the woman to make his sandwich with mayonnaise on BOTH sides.
this isn’t going to become a story about fat people, but trust me, he didn’t need it on both sides. i then started to wonder how different it tastes when it’s on both sides. if we sat him down in a room with a two-way mirror, would he know the difference? but i digress.
anyway, i get my turkey wrap with muenster (god i hope i spelled that right) and walked over to go pay for my lunch. as i’m paying, the same man from above waddles over to the cafeteria lady ringing me up, because he needs something.
it turns out — and this is RIDICULOUS — he was coming over to tell the lady that he had spilled his soda and needed someone to clean it up.
THEN, the lady he asks doesn’t know what to do, so she calls another one over, and it becomes a big spectacle.
FIRST OF ALL, if i spilled my soda, i would clean it up my own damned self, and move to another table. SECONDLY, these ladies are busy enough that they shouldn’t have to clean up after grown adults.
it turns out that building services is actually responsible for cleanup, so the cafeteria ladies couldn’t help.
i wonder if he managed to track THEM down to clean up his mess.
anyway, i just picture an overgrown child asking his mommy to put mayonnaise on both sides of his sandwich, and crying in order to get her to clean up his messes.
it’s amazing how children can live in adult bodies… sorta creepy, like Aliens or something.
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