It's far too nice a day to be inside but I'm sitting on the sofa right now anyway because I have to listen to these tunes and let it influence the way I write this. My passive aggressive, just beyond reality, I reach for you. Maria Columbia, whore of liberty; blind as always-- blonde in the field in the grass in shadows cast by the pines against ( Read more... )

Precarious seems to be a pretty cool puppy. I may or may not have volunteered to dog-sit the next two days, which I have off. Maybe the weather will be ok, and I can take her to the park. Or maybe not. The weather's pretty good right now, and I'm on the computer, entering words about the new dog. In actuality, these words don't even pertain to the ( Read more... )

I heard the Midwest inside of me screaming. Now she coos when I lean into an evergreen and let its branches hold me.
I have been bottling it all, locking it in my heart.

Martini fell headfirst down a flight of stairs at the bar the other night. It was my last night working, and the crew went out for drinks. He had already been cut off by the time we ( Read more... )

Talked to Kathleen about it last night and it made sense. I'm cooling my jets because my boss gave me basically everything I wanted, and because I'd rather just move once than move into Mike and Zach's or Kathleen's and then into 519 Corona one week later. Also, since I got the raise, I might as well see a paycheck from it ( Read more... )

So I'm going to be leaving Grand Lake somewhat abruptly, it looks like. Mike and Kathleen came up last night with word that we've been approved to rent 519 Corona in Denver, and as this comes right when things between me and my bosses are at their worst, I'm going to seize upon the moment--as my internet horoscope has advised me to do--and I'm ( Read more... )

I'm thinking I'm quitting my job this week. My guess is that it'll be on Wednesday. I'm not even giving a two-weeks, I'm just going to get the rest of my crew to the weekend and then I'm getting out of here and heading down to Denver. This is how I remember it; this is what happened:

I noticed my last paycheck was without any overtime pay, when in ( Read more... )

Worked the line with Terry tonight. Were slammed from 6:00PM to 7:00ishPM, and I swore a lot, and loudly. Patrick told me that I could "say whatever I wanted, but just please keep it down." I apologized because I was in the wrong for cursing our guests as fucking retards when really I should have been calling our morning front desk girl a fucking ( Read more... )

*I want to write a lot right now, but I also want to watch this movie, Koyaanisqatsi, that my head chef's letting me borrow.

Pallet Meltdown

"You wear underwear, don't you?"
That's Jasmine, 16, gorgeous, smart, funny, 16, asking me if I wear underwear. We're in the part of the kitchen that amounts to an office, dry storage, cooler, and locker room. I' ( Read more... )

I have been feeling a little beaten down by America lately.
I was talking to Molly tonight about why I moved out to Colorado. I was talking to her about what I loved most about the mountains, and I was talking to her about what I thought was going to be the most challenging aspect of my life in Denver. I told her that it was between Denver and ( Read more... )

We had an incredibly intimidating hail storm today at about 3:00PM/MT. I'd never seen so sustained a force of nature like that. A blizzard of pellet sized ice falling from the sky high about the Rocky Mountains.

It's now past the All-Star break, so it's time to take a look at the season mid-way through. This summer has been a good one, for sure, ( Read more... )