we're on our second round of chemotherapy treatments (there are eight rounds ( Read more... )

my little sister played flute from third or fourth grade until she graduated high school, at which point, i'd be talking out my ass if i said she wasn't exceptionally good. the girl can play a flute. the girl can play a flute well ( Read more... )

a quality i value and admire in the opposite sex:
the ability to take responsibility for his own actions.

anyway. the interview went BEAUTIFULLY. BEAUTIFULLY. the senior VP and the CEO were two of the nicest corporate-types i've ever met in my life, and we (the three of us) spent 90% of this interview cracking jokes and talking about college and ( Read more... )

i went home for the weekend to escape the crush of school for a few days and to earn some cold hard cash at the good old RFC ( Read more... )

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my hometown is about 40 minutes northwest from downtown chicago. it's pretty. it's green. it's full of affluent families and is known as one of the wealthier northwestern suburbs. this, of course, is a fact i was largely unaware of until VERY recently, especially when one considers my very own subdivision: in the first link...the "official" ( Read more... )

how to: ruin your family's newfound financial stability/life in 10 seconds or lessmake a left turn ( Read more... )

so the other day (wednesday, the 20th) the TV-show ELIMIDATE was filmed around the chicago suburban area, with the final segment (or one of the final segments) being filmed at The Bamboo Room, which is a bar/club in schaumburg that is all of three minutes from my house ( Read more... )

one.this happens to me every summer and i'll be damned if i can explain it. the INSTANT it gets warm enough out to dress in a skimpy fashion, my body seems to think to itself, "OH SHIT! TIME TO PICK UP THE SLACK" and kicks its own ass into gear ( Read more... )

sometimes i intend to say exactly one thing and then the SECOND i open my mouth, all this other crap comes out. it's like going to the store with the intent to buy one thing that costs a DOLLAR and coming out with TWENTY things that altogether were a HUNDERED dollars. toothbrushes have little blue indicators that tell you when to throw them away. I ( Read more... )