updating..
I don't update anymore.
The last real update I had was back in February...and it wasn't really a real entry, because it was just bitching about assholes.
Anyway...what have I been doing?
I've been hanging out with a new person.
Hanging out in quotation marks.
He doesn't seem to like people to know about it, or so he says (i have a feeling people do know...at least i know they know on my side, and now i know a few do on his side)...but that's fine, I understand...I wouldn't want people to know about me if I were him....maybe I'm imagining it though...other people have really fucked up my feelings of self worth over the past year and a half....I'm trying to get over it, and it's working a little bit....Hanging out with this new person has helped a lot, and I think I'm helping him get over similar feelings, or at least other fears, which is good too I suppose. whatever happens i think i made a pretty decent friendship...or at least one that will last til the end of my college career...scary thought....ah.
I could update some funny stories in here, but I'm pretty sure that they would be TMI for you livejournal stalkerfriends.
Also..I have been working for The Irregular in easton....and it's fucking awesome. It's this small newspaper, but it gets read by 45,000 people a month, and in the first issue I worked on, I had a front page article about this artist named Charles Klabunde - he's worked with all these famous people, including samuel beckett...I was so scared that he was going to read it, and tell me I misquoted or misrepresented him. I made him look really good, smart, etc....but artist/philosophers can be crazy, and are often full of themselves, and I was afraid he would be like "well I said 'i like cake'....and you wrote that i enjoy cake..." but apparently he wrote me a long thank you card, and mike has it in his office for me when I go back to easton (I'm on break now) - he said charles thinks i'm the greatest person ever...which is fucking awesome and made me really happy.
for the upcoming issue i had to interview a bunch of people, including the director of the williams center art gallery, an author of a children's book, and the owner of drinkys (a downtown bar that used to be a shithole, and is now all NYCesque)...which i actually had a dream about last night; dreamt that i was in drinkys with 5 people, and we paid for bottle service, because when speaking with the owner i asked if people actually got bottle service, and he explained that for as "low" as $150, you get a full bottle of something, with 3 bottles of mixers....so if you had 5 people, it would be $30 a person...so in my dream i had lauren, jen, andrew, some girl jen was friends with, and then 2 random people i knew, me and someone else, and it ended up being not too bad per person, and in my head i was doing all the math, about how there are 17 shots, 8 people, 3 mixers, and how it would probably just be better to each get regular drinks. but somehow i convinced them all to do it, i said "well guys, if we get 5 people to do it, it'll be $30 a person...if we just bought the bottle outside of the bar, it would be like 30, and then each mixer is 5, so thats almost 50..." but whatever - the dream was weird, but it just shows that my job is taking over my life (not really even a job, since i'm not being paid...i'm getting credit for it though), but i don't care, because i really enjoy it...i contacted some LI newspapers about working for them and one got back to me and asked that i send a resume and some copies of my work, so I'm going to finish writing these articles, and send last months irregular along with the printed articles that will be in the next issue, and my updated resume, and i'll see what happens.
also..
mike is running for mayor of easton. the primary is in may, i will be voting for him..and i've been helping him with his campaign a bit in addition to the irregular. if he wins the primary, the election is basically his, because the republican ticket had no one until recently, and it's not the incumbent. it's some dude that no one cares about, and being that easton is annoyed at the present republican mayor, and that it is 60% democratic, he will most definitely win, if he wins the primary. if so, he said he can probably find me a decent job in the government there, so i will have to think about whether or not that is something i'd want to do. i could work for the irregular on the side, i wouldnt even care about the pay....i just really enjoy writing the articles and interviewing people. however, i'd much rather be paid to do something i enjoy, so if something better comes along, then...we'll see. i was uncomfortable in the bar interviewing random people, and i hate hate hate having to call people to set up interviews, but once i do, and once i start talking, it is very easy for me to get everything written down and into words.
it's really crazy, it's my last year of school, and i'm just now starting to really really appreciate easton for what it is. it's not a shady shithole, from the campaign last semester, to the irregular and the new campaign this semester, i have seen so many different parts of easton; the projects to the really expensive areas...and it's really like a cute little city. i know half of the store owners and their life stories, and when walking around the downtown, i really don't feel uneasy at all. i used to, then i went to bing, and knew what an unsafe town felt like...when i went back to easton, i started appreciating it, and working downtown has just made it even better. if i had to live anywhere that wasn't long island for a little while, i seriously would not mind easton in the least...the lehigh valley is not a bad area at all. if i did decide to live in easton and work there for a year, i would probably want to live on the hill, just maybe be a little more set back from the college...so that i wouldnt have to see students, but if i did want to chill with people it would be close enough to walk. we'll see. i'm not making any decisions yet....hopefully mike wins and then i can see about working in easton for a year.
the author i interviewed gave me a free copy of her book with her signature, and so i hope my article helps her sell more copies...if anyone is interested in checking it out, go to henryfickle.net
its a new website, and she's still fixing it, but that's basically it.
what ellseee? oh...i woke up today to my brother screaming "WHAT THE FUCK MOM SHUT THE FUCK UP" - i'm home on break for a week, but luckily he is going back to bing tomorrow, and will be out of everyone's hair...he's such a spoiled little rude asshole, and i can't stand when he talks that way to her, but she sits there and takes it, and they're both not here, so she probably took him shopping. it drives me NUTS. if my kids EVER talked to me that way, i would tell them to do their own shopping...and on top of it, she's taking him back to school, because he didn't feel like finding a ride both way. such a spoiled little asshole, i cannot believe she agreed to take him. its an 8 hour round trip ride, and it'll take longer because they have to unpack his shit, get food, etc...i'm debating going with them, but i feel like they'll want me to watch the dogs.
anyway, this is enough updating for today, or this month, year, etc. -- i know this entry is totally all over the place, because i wrote it at all different times but enough...my hand hurts (i slipped on ice in easton a few days ago and it's still gross looking)
peace.
The last real update I had was back in February...and it wasn't really a real entry, because it was just bitching about assholes.
Anyway...what have I been doing?
I've been hanging out with a new person.
Hanging out in quotation marks.
He doesn't seem to like people to know about it, or so he says (i have a feeling people do know...at least i know they know on my side, and now i know a few do on his side)...but that's fine, I understand...I wouldn't want people to know about me if I were him....maybe I'm imagining it though...other people have really fucked up my feelings of self worth over the past year and a half....I'm trying to get over it, and it's working a little bit....Hanging out with this new person has helped a lot, and I think I'm helping him get over similar feelings, or at least other fears, which is good too I suppose. whatever happens i think i made a pretty decent friendship...or at least one that will last til the end of my college career...scary thought....ah.
I could update some funny stories in here, but I'm pretty sure that they would be TMI for you livejournal stalkerfriends.
Also..I have been working for The Irregular in easton....and it's fucking awesome. It's this small newspaper, but it gets read by 45,000 people a month, and in the first issue I worked on, I had a front page article about this artist named Charles Klabunde - he's worked with all these famous people, including samuel beckett...I was so scared that he was going to read it, and tell me I misquoted or misrepresented him. I made him look really good, smart, etc....but artist/philosophers can be crazy, and are often full of themselves, and I was afraid he would be like "well I said 'i like cake'....and you wrote that i enjoy cake..." but apparently he wrote me a long thank you card, and mike has it in his office for me when I go back to easton (I'm on break now) - he said charles thinks i'm the greatest person ever...which is fucking awesome and made me really happy.
for the upcoming issue i had to interview a bunch of people, including the director of the williams center art gallery, an author of a children's book, and the owner of drinkys (a downtown bar that used to be a shithole, and is now all NYCesque)...which i actually had a dream about last night; dreamt that i was in drinkys with 5 people, and we paid for bottle service, because when speaking with the owner i asked if people actually got bottle service, and he explained that for as "low" as $150, you get a full bottle of something, with 3 bottles of mixers....so if you had 5 people, it would be $30 a person...so in my dream i had lauren, jen, andrew, some girl jen was friends with, and then 2 random people i knew, me and someone else, and it ended up being not too bad per person, and in my head i was doing all the math, about how there are 17 shots, 8 people, 3 mixers, and how it would probably just be better to each get regular drinks. but somehow i convinced them all to do it, i said "well guys, if we get 5 people to do it, it'll be $30 a person...if we just bought the bottle outside of the bar, it would be like 30, and then each mixer is 5, so thats almost 50..." but whatever - the dream was weird, but it just shows that my job is taking over my life (not really even a job, since i'm not being paid...i'm getting credit for it though), but i don't care, because i really enjoy it...i contacted some LI newspapers about working for them and one got back to me and asked that i send a resume and some copies of my work, so I'm going to finish writing these articles, and send last months irregular along with the printed articles that will be in the next issue, and my updated resume, and i'll see what happens.
also..
mike is running for mayor of easton. the primary is in may, i will be voting for him..and i've been helping him with his campaign a bit in addition to the irregular. if he wins the primary, the election is basically his, because the republican ticket had no one until recently, and it's not the incumbent. it's some dude that no one cares about, and being that easton is annoyed at the present republican mayor, and that it is 60% democratic, he will most definitely win, if he wins the primary. if so, he said he can probably find me a decent job in the government there, so i will have to think about whether or not that is something i'd want to do. i could work for the irregular on the side, i wouldnt even care about the pay....i just really enjoy writing the articles and interviewing people. however, i'd much rather be paid to do something i enjoy, so if something better comes along, then...we'll see. i was uncomfortable in the bar interviewing random people, and i hate hate hate having to call people to set up interviews, but once i do, and once i start talking, it is very easy for me to get everything written down and into words.
it's really crazy, it's my last year of school, and i'm just now starting to really really appreciate easton for what it is. it's not a shady shithole, from the campaign last semester, to the irregular and the new campaign this semester, i have seen so many different parts of easton; the projects to the really expensive areas...and it's really like a cute little city. i know half of the store owners and their life stories, and when walking around the downtown, i really don't feel uneasy at all. i used to, then i went to bing, and knew what an unsafe town felt like...when i went back to easton, i started appreciating it, and working downtown has just made it even better. if i had to live anywhere that wasn't long island for a little while, i seriously would not mind easton in the least...the lehigh valley is not a bad area at all. if i did decide to live in easton and work there for a year, i would probably want to live on the hill, just maybe be a little more set back from the college...so that i wouldnt have to see students, but if i did want to chill with people it would be close enough to walk. we'll see. i'm not making any decisions yet....hopefully mike wins and then i can see about working in easton for a year.
the author i interviewed gave me a free copy of her book with her signature, and so i hope my article helps her sell more copies...if anyone is interested in checking it out, go to henryfickle.net
its a new website, and she's still fixing it, but that's basically it.
what ellseee? oh...i woke up today to my brother screaming "WHAT THE FUCK MOM SHUT THE FUCK UP" - i'm home on break for a week, but luckily he is going back to bing tomorrow, and will be out of everyone's hair...he's such a spoiled little rude asshole, and i can't stand when he talks that way to her, but she sits there and takes it, and they're both not here, so she probably took him shopping. it drives me NUTS. if my kids EVER talked to me that way, i would tell them to do their own shopping...and on top of it, she's taking him back to school, because he didn't feel like finding a ride both way. such a spoiled little asshole, i cannot believe she agreed to take him. its an 8 hour round trip ride, and it'll take longer because they have to unpack his shit, get food, etc...i'm debating going with them, but i feel like they'll want me to watch the dogs.
anyway, this is enough updating for today, or this month, year, etc. -- i know this entry is totally all over the place, because i wrote it at all different times but enough...my hand hurts (i slipped on ice in easton a few days ago and it's still gross looking)
peace.