So, PBS is currently re-playing Ken Burns' The Tenth Inning which is basically a sequel to his amazing 1994 Baseball documentary. So, true story about me: Baseball documentaries always warm my heart and make me have a good cry. I sob like a baby EVERY single time I hear Lou Gehrig's speech, which, growing up a born-and-bred Yankees fans, means I've ( Read more... )

So today was my first day working on the floor as a cashier. Let me tell you, training as a cashier at a grocery store the day before school starts for all of Char-Meck and Meck Co. public schools, kind of hell-ish. But, I survived, bumbling through with big smiles, humor, and apologies. Seriously, you never ever realize how much goes into checking ( Read more... )

I tore through every single box of books trying to find the two Tolkien books I misplaced today. Trust me, you don't want to know how many boxes of books that was. Turns out, the two books were sitting on a shelf in my room where a friend put them in the midst of our unpacking last night.

I finished the first season of White Collar and def. love ( Read more... )

I finished clearing out the storage unit in under an hour yesterday. However, as it was around 91 F, I have no a/c and was carrying boxes up and down stairs of varying lengths and steepness for most of that hour, I made myself terribly sick. As in, hands shaking, can't breathe, oh dear, the world is spinning, sick. Not a good time ( Read more... )

First, Happy Fourth to all the Americans out there, myself included. It might be my last year in Mass, but you cannot pay me enough to go see the Boston Pops in person. I'll be enjoying it all from the not-so-comfort of my suana-esque teeny tiny studio. Still, I don't have to put on actual clothes to watch fireworks, so it works out ( Read more... )