help pay for my oral surgery and taxes

anyway, life is ok. i have a hole in my gums, and the vicodin helps with the pain and doesn't make me sleepy or anything. weird. work is long and boring, but i have the weekend off to recover, so it's a blessing in disguise.

did you miss me?

'twas saturday afternoon and Moira was here. she was supposed to be working on a photo project shooting cityscapes. there's plenty of that in my neighborhood, so we started out walking over to the Eastern State Penitentiary, and then back along Fairmount towards the Divine Lorraine Hotelshe stopped to take some pictures from the corner of Broad and ( Read more... )

rather than respond one by one (sorry if that's lazy and impersonal), i just want to say thanks to everyone who had nice things to say in these last 24 hours ( Read more... )

effective 6:30pm tonight, i now no longer have any living grandparents ( Read more... )

i just finished a quorn fake chicken patty, with real cheddar and mozzarella (imagine Giada De Laurentiis saying that [imagine me making two consecutive posts mentioning Food Network hostesses]) and spinach. on wheat bread. my body almost thanked me, but now i'm following it up with double stufs and nutella. i win, and i lose, but even when i lose ( Read more... )

me: also, take off work and come with me to this:
me: http://beeradvocate.com/fests/ebf/manda: hahaha "extreme beer fest ( Read more... )

i got the naked lady painting hung on the wall, as well as two frames of photographs i had blown up (including pictures of mollie, suhaila, and mmmayhem [the cat ( Read more... )

i got a call from DHL last night, saying they don't believe that my address is "real" (quote: "we believe we have a problem address listed for you"). i assured them it is, and told them to have their driver call me on my cell phone when s/he's outside (just like UPS does) because the building intercom is broken. and the lady was like "wellllll, i ( Read more... )

tomorrow i go back to modelling after a month of no work.
in hindsight, i'm not really sure what i did with my break.
aside from a problematic visit to Cincinnati, i didn't have any one defining moment or accomplishment or revelation that could make me say that those four weeks of idle time were, well, worth it ( Read more... )

because updating my journal implies that i have done things, that things have happened, accomplishments or tragedies ( Read more... )