This is not about whiskey ( Read more... )

Oooh, there are supplies ( Read more... )

    As in, going and seeing a documentary on Dorothy Day last night and being all up in that shit, being hardcore, being dusty fingered and putting together Catholic Worker newspapers and selling them for pennies, and being some sort of revolutionary. I snuck my whiskeycoke into class and sat and watched her old photographs come up on the wall we ( Read more... )

    This morning I got all dressed like I usually do with maybe a little more effort than casual (vis a vis vest and vis a vis heels), but being Wednesday, instead of a bar or coffee or a bookstore I went to SMART. Start Making A Reader Today. A friend sold me on it, and it's practically no effort and a joy on top of that. I generally show up, go ( Read more... )

Oh blessed continuity, oh sweet order out of the chaos of a blank schedule. I'm so very glad you've returned. The days were stretching vaguely on without you, with their moments of idyll lost in the wave of empty minutes ( Read more... )

Back in what is now referred to as The Day, when I worked at Borders (now referred to as that corporate drama hellhole that I can't stop referring to), there were some days where I'd walk in the front door and then just stand stock still, trying to comprehend the sheer amount of media in front of me. Standing there, by the entrance, or even up on a ( Read more... )

I worked this morning, of course, fulfilling some sub-section Murphy's Law that clearly states the terms of one's late-night drinking and the effects that will follow. Namely, the likelihood that I'd be called in to substitute increased exponentially the longer I stayed up the night before. 3:30 on the second night of a minor drinking binge? Oh ( Read more... )

It has come to my attention that I can appear generally morose. So, for the sake of those of you playing along on the home game, I submit these two documented examples of good cheer.

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ring around the rosie ( Read more... )

So I started my job today. The near-mythical one that I applied and got and was fingerprinted for and immediately went on hiatus. It's brilliant. I waver between thinking it's too much pay and not enough pay, so I guess it's fair ( Read more... )