between 40 hours a week of desk-jobbing, and 20 hour weekends of waitressing, and very little time to do such big important things as, say, sleep, eat, talk to friends - i think it's safe to say that burning the work candle at both ends has gotten me a little bit sick ( Read more... )

Dear US Department of Education:


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my family is celebrating christmas early this year - almost two full weeks before the actual holiday itself ( Read more... )

i'm on my second weekend of waiting tables again, and while it's a welcome change from the drudge of the office, i'm glad to not have to do it anymore unless i want to. today was another double shift, which means i logged eleven and a half hours of running my ass off and missed the UIllinois/Northwestern game, my cousin's birthday, and my friend ( Read more... )

this week has been a nightmare ( Read more... )

is it ever okay to date your best friend ( Read more... )

i was driving back to work from lunch and i saw a lady walking her dogs. she was kind of an older woman, with a very tired expression, and a giant poofy red coat and an equally poofy red hat. in her right hand was a set of leashes, which were clipped to the NEON pink harnesses worn by two, older, heavyset pugs ( Read more... )

i've decided that i need more than one all-purpose dress. as of this second, i own ONE, and it is black, and while i love it to pieces, i think i need another one - just to mix it up a bit.

so, let me know what you think of these!


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for the record: i'm very easily pleased. i'm an amazingly low-maintenance girlfriend, and a fairly low-maintenance person in general. i'm just as happy to sit on the couch and be useless as i am to get all prettied up and go out drinking. but if you're a boy in a suit, a pony, something small and cute and fuzzy, a baked good, beer, a motor vehicle ( Read more... )

i missed waiting tables. i missed being constantly busy, and having tons and tons of coworkers around at any given time. i missed the cashflow and the dirty jokes and the way the bosses act like big kids. i missed my mexican kitchen boyfriends who were quick to tell me that they had missed me a ton ( Read more... )