Where the hell is your SaversBlog? You come on here afters months of silence, write a lengthy post about an exciting, nay, visionary new project and then never follow through? WTF ( Read more... )

oh also--I redesigned my color scheme, so come look at my actual journal, it's exciting.

also, as you may have guessed, I have another receptionist job. God bless officeteam!

That's right! Amanda is turning over a new leaf and in the absence of anything real to say, I'm going to chronicle my quest to develop my "Savers' Eye."

"Savers' Eye?" you say "Is that some sort of eye fungus you contract from rubbing your eyes after you touch all the weirdly smelly Savers' clothes?"


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Today, I didn't get my dream job.

Hey, look at the back of Amanda's car.

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I am uncool. When I think of myself, I think of the dorky version of Lester Bangs played by Philip Seymour Hoffman in Almost Famous, except instead of obscure music facts I know meaningless trivia about the history of English literature, the SAT, and chiropractic (putting me even further away from cool.) I listen to folk music and blog about soup ( Read more... )

I slept over at my lady's house last night for the first time since some night in the winter--her room is essentially unheated save a well-meaning but utterly overpowered space heater my mother sent her as a Christmas present. In addition to being a little small for her BIG HUGE ROOM, it provides light, and I do mean bright light, in addition to ( Read more... )

So I've always been a food person, and I've long been a really seasonal person (by which I mean my memories and self equate very strongly with particular season, and especially the changing seasons) and now it turns out I'm a SEASONAL FOOD PERSON ( Read more... )

"None of this is new to Minnesotans, regardless of where they live. People in the Twin Cities certainly know snow and cold. It’s a matter of intensity, ugliness, the difference between erotica and pornography. I once wrote in a short story that “there is no lee side” to a blizzard out here. The trees are decorative and few; buildings are too far ( Read more... )

So this has proved to be really disappointing. *sigh* whatever ( Read more... )

So I've been back in Minneapolis since September--lackadaisical poster that I am ( Read more... )