jokes and insanity--same as it ever was
someone, help me, for i am technologically incompetent (except for knowing all the tricks of microsoft word, which is akin to saying that i'm an excellent basketball player on a five foot basket (though i am that too)). what do i need to make the new a's commercials play? totally lost over here, especially since i was able to play the first three when they were put up a little while ago, but then they changed the format or some such and now i am without! this must not stand.
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in other, less-exciting news, one of the people that i live with has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. it was kind of a long time coming. she thought someone was following her, thought someone had broken into and was living in her car, though her car was in the garage the whole time. she tried to buy a gun, and let me just thank god and all his angels for even the laughable, watered-down gun control laws that we have, because she was on an eleven-day waiting period when she flagged down a cop last week and got taken to the hospital, so i wasn't fucking shot while coming through the dark house at two in the morning every freakin' night.
we're not terrifically close; i won't see her if i'm not living with her. she lost our cat, though, somewhere down on the peninsula. honestly? the cat was kind of annoying. i am entirely and unapologetically a dog person. because dogs don't fuckin' lie down on top of everything you're trying to read all, i am cute and fluffy, peeeeet me, but then when you do, scratch the fuck out of your arms.
so now we're getting two new roommates, which will knock down my rent quite a little bit. this in addition to the $2000 i'm getting back from the government (unbelievable--i'm screaming it from the rooftops) means that even if the coliseum isn't selling $6 triple-a discount tickets anymore, i can still spend my weekends where i belong.
oh and BY THE WAY THE BASEBALL SEASON IS STARTING. i can't get my head around it, though i'll be at sbc/at&t/let'sjustcallitthepologrounds park tomorrow for the last exhibition game, which is a's-giants, as all the best things are.
i've been interestingly more aware of the absence of baseball this off-season than ever before.
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today at work, the kids were pulling very strange april fools' jokes, along the lines of: "you've got blood on your face . . . april fools'!" "my pants fell off . . . april fools'!" like, you know? i used to order pizzas to my teachers. then i got suspended. good times.
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in other, less-exciting news, one of the people that i live with has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. it was kind of a long time coming. she thought someone was following her, thought someone had broken into and was living in her car, though her car was in the garage the whole time. she tried to buy a gun, and let me just thank god and all his angels for even the laughable, watered-down gun control laws that we have, because she was on an eleven-day waiting period when she flagged down a cop last week and got taken to the hospital, so i wasn't fucking shot while coming through the dark house at two in the morning every freakin' night.
we're not terrifically close; i won't see her if i'm not living with her. she lost our cat, though, somewhere down on the peninsula. honestly? the cat was kind of annoying. i am entirely and unapologetically a dog person. because dogs don't fuckin' lie down on top of everything you're trying to read all, i am cute and fluffy, peeeeet me, but then when you do, scratch the fuck out of your arms.
so now we're getting two new roommates, which will knock down my rent quite a little bit. this in addition to the $2000 i'm getting back from the government (unbelievable--i'm screaming it from the rooftops) means that even if the coliseum isn't selling $6 triple-a discount tickets anymore, i can still spend my weekends where i belong.
oh and BY THE WAY THE BASEBALL SEASON IS STARTING. i can't get my head around it, though i'll be at sbc/at&t/let'sjustcallitthepologrounds park tomorrow for the last exhibition game, which is a's-giants, as all the best things are.
i've been interestingly more aware of the absence of baseball this off-season than ever before.
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today at work, the kids were pulling very strange april fools' jokes, along the lines of: "you've got blood on your face . . . april fools'!" "my pants fell off . . . april fools'!" like, you know? i used to order pizzas to my teachers. then i got suspended. good times.