In the spirit of calendar-flipping, Happy New Year, everyone!

In the spirit of doing something I try not to do often if ever except just this once (namely switching journals), I'm, er, switching journals!

I hope you'll stick with me. This seems to be the direction to go if you'd like to do so:

drawstrawsI haven't gotten things under control over there ( Read more... )

Early tomorrow morning I'm braving the airport and flying off to New Hampshire for one of those pesky holiday family gathering-type events. This is rather exciting, considering I haven't gone anywhere en avion since I was five. Though it was, as far as I've been told, an utter fiasco thanks to an unexpected and unappreciated blizzard, I have no ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if this is a sentiment shared by other retail employees, but I've come to believe that exact change is one of the most beautiful things humanity still has to offer. When some sweet, smiling customer says "wait, I've got fourteen cents!" and undoes the clasp of their coin pouch or unzips the separate pocket of their purse, my heart goes ( Read more... )

I got towels, I love them, I do, and I hope you're enjoying your holiday of choice.

There are two boys who skateboard outside the bookstore on occasion, making an awful racket and bowling over our customers, until someone's about ready to throw Tolstoy's complete works at them. Then they come inside and ask to use our phone. Being timid bookish people, we let them, despite the fact that they are both annoying and consistently ( Read more... )

Carisa got me a purple sea anemone-looking thing that lights up when you squeeze it, because she knows where to shop for me-- toy section of K-Mart, YES. I would've been content to sit in first period and stare at the pretty flashing colors, but Mr. Drew wisely decided that anything that cool needed to be shared with the class. He turned out the ( Read more... )

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Waiting For An Answer From The College To Which I Applied

( An existential drama, which I hesitate to call a tragicomedy
because it could go either way but surely not both )

Anyone in the greater Eldersburg area--

I picked up a copy of Brokeback Mountain (the book, that is) solely for lending purposes, because in addition to just plain dying, I am also dying to get people enthused about this film. If you're at all interested, let me know, because then you can read and then we can talk and then I won't have to be stuck ( Read more... )

I don't know if he'll see this ever, but:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISTER GILL-EEE-AAAHN!

:D