happy obama day!!

surprisingly, our ceo gave us two hours off in the middle of the day to watch the inauguration. they had it playing in the atrium, auditorium and the lobby which was really nice. especially after the crappy 8:30am phone call i had where i got yelled at over things i have no control over whatsoever.

anyway, opinions on elizabeth ( Read more... )

so this whole economy thing is making me depressed. all of my investments are losing money big time and everyone everywhere seems to be in such a shitty mood all of the time. this morning i had cnn on and i was just so full of rage. i'm starting to think that anyone who voted for bush should get voted off the island ( Read more... )

some news channel or another (or the daily show) has been on in my house since like 7am. omg political overload. but my parents are usually more informed than 99% of the rest of the voting population. even on some dudes running for village board. my dad actually can rattle off every bill most senators have ever proposed/voted for/voted against. and ( Read more... )

after being on a waiting list for 2 fucking years, i finally, finally have a parking permit for the train station closest to my house. this means:

• no more paying a dollar a day to park
  
• no more driving to the station on the other side of town
  
• or getting up at the ass-crack of dawn to park in the hickory st. lot just so i can walk a mile to the ( Read more... )

i'm prone to getting sick in the heat. it's not exactly hyperthermia because i don't get all of the major symptoms, but closer to heat syncope. usually, i get a low-grade fever coupled with dehydration and exhaustion. so i had this yesterday, but i'm still feeling its effects today. other than going trail-riding this morning, i have done absolutely ( Read more... )

( in which i bitch about work )

Even though I was checking my e-mail while I was out from work, I still managed to come in to find hundreds of messages in my "For Follow-Up" folder. Wading through all of them was pretty difficult, even after the boss and I had a catch-up meeting. Of course, about eight million things went wrong and no one bothered to do anything about them while ( Read more... )

For my dad's birthday, we went to some new shopping center out in Bolingbrook called the Promenade. You may have heard of the Stacy Peterson case on the news and that's the town they're talking about. Every store had a poster with her information on it and it was really sad. I hope they find her soon ( Read more... )