• grown men. in suits. carrying man-bags. on scooters.
  
• free stuff! whether it's gum, or energy drinks, or flowers (2 weeks ago, it was yellow tulips from lasalle bank), or BREAKFAST (THANK YOU HONEY BUNCHES OF OATS GIRL! - you RULE!) - people give all kinds of promotional stuff away in this city, and i happen to usually be in the middle of it.
  
• when ( Read more... )

i'm just trying something new....where i kind of update this nonsense continually throughout the day. this means it'll be updated...as often as i think of some kind of nonsense to put in it. i'll change the time stamp so it corresponds with each new addition so it's current and awesome and so on. let me know what you think, because hell, if i'm ( Read more... )

when i was in grade school i, along with several other children in my grade, was in these pull-out classes for "gifted children." once a week we'd hop on a bus and go to the district offices and do weird shit like logic puzzles. once we did something about genealogy. another time we had to invent something (someone remind me to write about this, i ( Read more... )

this is gonna be another one of those posts with bullet points, because none of them will really go together to form a cohesive entry that has...i dunno....flow, cadence, shit that ties together to form something that will make some semblance of sense.
here we go:

• waking up at 5am to catch a train at 6:30 or 6:45am BLOWS. there's no other way to say ( Read more... )

today was my last day at my old job ( Read more... )

1. mom came home on saturday. she's doing as alright as she can do, given the circumstances. she's got three nasty-looking incisions that are glued shut, and a weird drain that's coming out of her side, that attaches to a collection....bulb (it looks like a grenade)...that's measured and emptied as often as necessary. due to the drain and the ( Read more... )

being at work is weird, now that i've mentally (and verbally, as of last friday) checked out of being here. word is starting to trickle down to the rest of my coworkers and they're all coming to ask me "how could [you] leave [us] like this!?" it's a little bit sad and a lotta bit sweet, and aww, i'm gonna miss these guys that act like girls ( Read more... )

the past few days have been absolutely insane. i haven't really been updating this month because i didn't want to jinx anything or speak too soon and ruin something.

but things have fallen into place, mostly. so i feel like i can talk about it.
GET PSYCHED, PEOPLE!

• i browse craigslist pretty regularly, and got into the habit of looking at the job ( Read more... )

as i have previously mentioned, most of my weekends are consumed by home shows for work. these should be pretty self-explanitory, it's a show - a promotional event - about home improvements. people attend because they're looking for estimates, ideas, and free shit. there is a big emphasis on free shit, especially pens and candy ( Read more... )

as previously mentioned, i work for a home improvement company that has two divisions: residential, and commercial. i deal primarily with the residential stuff, so when someone calls the office and asks about commercial, and the appropriate people (Commercial Guy, Commercial Girl, and Bossman) aren't around to be asked, we all freak out a little ( Read more... )