I've signed up for a sketch comedy writing class at Upright Citizen's Brigade, something you can only do in New York or LA (or Chicago or Toronto with Second City). I was in no small part motivated by reading Tina Fey's book, which pointed out to me how startlingly similar our lives' trajectories were up until a certain point (so to speak). Born in ( Read more... )

I talked with ratphooey. I talked with Elizabeth, my old friend from Facets (who I haven't talked to since I left Chicago, in 1996). I talked with n0thingman. I ate some food. I watched some TV. I smoked a bunch of cigarettes, though I stuck with the herbal, tobacco-free ones ( Read more... )

I've always been a big fan of signs. I remember when I was with Daryk, and I wasn't sure if it was a good idea or a bad idea to be with him. I was sitting at work and pondering this question. I was sitting on a desk which faced toward the hallway where the bathrooms were, and I realized that I was looking at the women's bathroom door. Except the ( Read more... )

Things have been nuts. Instead I'll post pictures:

( Polish Hill sunset )

OK, now that I've gotten The Spirit of '73 out of the way, I thought I'd share some random thoughts about my weekend at Antioch:

• I loved the moment, during the dance, when the security guard walked into the dance space. Because you know what he did as soon as he walked in? He started dancing ( Read more... )

Just something I wanted to share:

As of today, my stint at The East End Food Co-op is my longest time spent at one job ever. I was at Facets Multimedia in Chicago for exactly two years (April 11, 1994 - April 11, 1996), and, as of today, I've been at The Co-op for two years and one day (I started on January 3, 2005). So yaay ( Read more... )

It's been a hard day. Today at work I had my six week check in for my Customer Service position. It's actually been a lot longer than six weeks, and it was completely my fault that the evaluation came so late -- I got the self-evaluation forms right around the time that Rob and I broke up and, after about a month had passed, I realized that I had ( Read more... )

This morning I went to see my new doctor for the first time. I didn't love him the way I loved my old doctor, but he was funny, and I like funny a whole lot. Afterward I went and finally fucking picked out a new pair of eyeglasses -- yaay! It sure did take me long enough to make a decision, but then again, I had to wait for insurance paperwork to ( Read more... )

Friday night and this week is finally over. I remember when August 1995 finally ended, I went out back to the alley behind Facets, took the "August 1995" sheet from my desk calendar, and lit the fucker on fire. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Of course we all know that that did little good; by the end of September 1995 I was starting on heroin, and ( Read more... )

Arrgh. So this is the third time I've tried to update my journal today. The first was erased when I accidentally unhooked the phone cord from my computer, and I just obliterated the second attempt when I tried to Google a link for it.

So anywayI've been online for the last hour or so job hunting, and having my usual minimal success. I really want ( Read more... )