Life is hell in the library at 11 PM on a Saturday night, but a necessary, comfortable, and familiar hell. And suddenly it's a refreshing and delicious hell since Yui showed up with a good bottle of beer for each of us. Now I type a sentence or two, enter an answer on the online crossword puzzle, and sip not-at-all discretely from the bottle that's ( Read more... )

1) Internship on the farm in Virginia this summer. 700 bucks/month for 60 hrs of hard labor a week, outdoors in the humidity and sun and rain and glory and Blue Ridge mountains. Spending an entire summer with the same 7 people, doing the same monotonous work. Ability to put "internship" on a resume. No avenues for escape. Rural Virginia is ( Read more... )

Today sucked so hard. I'd be glad it's over but I only have to wake up and face it again tomorrow.

But at the end of it all he let me come over and lie on his chest and cry into him and get snot all over his clothes and he knew enough not to say much. Then he gave me a ride home. Smart kid.

Let me reiterate: today sucked so hard.

Tonight I watched an episode of Sex and the City at twice the normal speed. It was amazing. It was the most enjoyable fifteen minutes of my day ( Read more... )

Oh Jesus.

This is the third arrangement of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" that I've heard in 45 minutes. I want. To get. Out of here.

Boss lady at the store has started doing this cool thing where she'll schedule herself to work after me and then not show up. So not only am I solitary and bored stiff and sick half to death of dealing with old ladies -- I don't even know when it will end ( Read more... )

Grumpy. It's baseless, I know, but that doesn't change it. Last night I talked to him for an hour and a half which usually makes it all better, but I just felt worse when I hung up and laid on my back on the floor in the dark, trying to pin down WHY I'm so grumpy. Maybe I miss him more than I realize. And I'm suddenly so insecure about it ( Read more... )

I LOVE SEX AND THE CITY OH MY GOD HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?

And is that thunder?

My Dad just discovered iTunes. His first move was the download John Mellencamp's Greatest Hits and burn it onto a CD. I was wrested from my sleep this morning by a LOUD rousing chorus of "I NEED A LOVER WHO WON'T DRIVE ME CRAZY... SOMEBODY TO THRILL ME AND THEN GO AWAY..." And in my groggy brain, I was just able to make out my Dad singing along at ( Read more... )

Aw, man. I hate finishing a long book. I feel stranded.