Everything prior to this entry has been friends-locked. Most everything after this entry will also be friends-locked, unless I get drunk and forget to friends-lock something. Which is totally going to happen.

Grandma's having a surgical consultation today to see what can be done about the sudden and excruciating nerve pain in her left arm. She has some really serious chronic pain issues stemming from sciatica, spinal stenosis, an old trapezius muscle tear that happened when I was a little kid and we were too poor to repair our washing machine so we ( Read more... )

fall quarter ended on wednesday evening when i handed in my final paper for criminology, which i spent all day writing. i've developed this really bad habit of not doing assignments until pretty much the day they're due, and aside from having locked down the required two peer-reviewed information sources for my bibliography a few days earlier i ( Read more... )

things haven't been all bad, though. they're not all bad now. actually... things are sort of okay. i don't love my job but it's manageable and they reimburse me for some of my tuition so that's kind of nice and i'm on a special project that'll look good on my resume when i leave. so there's that. and i may not have just spent two weeks in ( Read more... )

i'm doing the thing where i'm finishing undesirable chores instead of replying to a message from a cute boy who seems like he might want to take me out. it's just that... well. what it is is that he's a sweet young thing with a rather prestigious career as an audio guy, working with a well known travel guy for his main job and moonlighting at a ( Read more... )

it's been so long since i've logged into my lj account that i actually got an automated "omfg someone logged into your account we hope it was you d00d" email about it. oh, technology. you're adorable.

for the past forty eight hours i've either been playing forza motorsport 3, sleeping, or hanging out in downward dog to combat the effects of sitting for hours playing forza motorsport 3.

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i'm completely obsessed with this song right now. completely.

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remember when charlie sheen was hot? god, that was a long time ago.

i finally used my gold-plated health insurance today and went to see scott's hippie doctor in the north end. something really interesting happened when we reached the weight portion of my chart: she didn't shame me for being fat. i'm so used to medical professionals giving me the side-eye for being a fatty, even though my numbers (bp/cholesterol ( Read more... )