( The ABCs one. )

Every year mid-September, my employers organize a huge volunteering event to process all of our Halloween clothing/costumes and accessories. We save and store these items all year immediately from November 1st, so it requires anywhere from 500 to 600 volunteers spread over three shifts in twelve hours. We set up tasks for 9 to Noon, 1 to 4p, and 6 ( Read more... )

( Typing keeps my fingers warm. )

On Monday morning, my step-father's father died. I feel like a terrible person for not being upset, at all. But, being the ultimately rational person that I am, it does make sense. He couldn't hear, couldn't see due to cateracts, confined to a wheelchair, was on dialysis for at least the last 10 years... all that underscored by a hateful wife who ( Read more... )

I'm going to do another survey. Yep, but I really want to just pass the time. I'm supposed to hang out with Whitt later, but I'd pefer not going on FB or somewhere because no, I don't really want to hear about September 11th. Maybe that's crass, but really, why would I care? I mean, it's not really important what Joe Schmo down the street was doing ( Read more... )

Well, in the interest of nostalgia, since I am bored I shall re-visit the LJ addage of a Good Ol' Survey!

( And it's the longest survey I could find! )

I'm reading The Diary of Anne Frank for, probably, the sixth time. I try reading it every fall that I can since I was about eleven, but unfortunately this [ovbiously] doesn't happen so often. See, I have his incurable knack for losing the damn thing. No, not just misplaced it to be found after picking up my room or searching the house, but outright ( Read more... )

What is it about apartment maintenance guys that makes them treat you like a total loon?

I have a leak in my sink. No, rephrase; I have a sizable hole in the L pipe of my sink. It appeared after the last maintenance guy was here, a couple of days ago to clear a simple [but large] clog. This is not my fault. This is not my doing in any way. Stop ( Read more... )

This weekend was quite possibly the greatest weekend I've had in a year. Possibly in the entirety of my relationship. Maybe it just keeps getting better and better.

We've had quite the busy year, with the move and family issues, and July was a particularly rushed month. We didn't even really get to do anything special for Sean's birthday. Like, not ( Read more... )

Two years, ten months, and six days. Indeed it has been a while.

And a very interesting while it has been. I can honestly say, without pride, the changes that have gone by have by far been some of the most significant in my life to date. Both very, very wonderful, and depressingly bad.

After living with Hannah for about a year, my friend Geoff moved ( Read more... )