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  • Jul. 10th, 2009 at 12:35 PM

Ok, so I haven't written alot lately because I haven't had a lot of extra time lately.  Now I have lots of time, because Monday I lost my job.  And appearently I'm still kind of smarting after this.  Yes, I'm aware lots of people are losing their jobs.  But I kind of had that stupid nieve sense that it wasn't going to happen to me.  Which sounded reasonable because my company primarily serviced collection agencies.  Therefore, in a crappy economy we should be having more business, not less.  Then again, I'm the only person who got axed and I've gotten conflicting stories as to why that might have been.  Yes, I worked for a very professional little company.  Ok, so this is veering back toward the bitter and emo side of the spectrum.  What did we expect.  Happy thoughts.  It's probably not the end of the world, just the end of what's left of my credit.  Maybe it will be the end of my boyfriends two or so year vacation from the work force.  Ok, so not bitter is not really an option for me today.   Blarg.  Everything is going to be ok.  If anyone reading this does happen to know of a job in South Florida that could be filled by someone with some data entry, customer service, and clerical experiece, and not much else, please drop me a line.  Otherwise, wish me luck people.  And may your day be better than mine. :)

I started drinking champagne at noon!

  • Dec. 21st, 2008 at 9:13 PM

So much has happened in the past week that I don't even know where to begin!

The semester is over!  I have until January 5th or so to say that I'm going to read ahead for my classes next semester and then not do it.  God.. that 5th.  That's not that far away.  I'll panic later.  I got my grades!  Whoo hoo!  Two As and two Bs.  Not as good as I wanted or could have done but prbably awesome for the amount of work I honestly put into it.  So I'll be happy.

Joe is in Oklahoma, but I'll get back to that.  We did a little miniature christmas with his family down here before he left.  That was special.  I'm short a cutting board for it but we did this!:
Eventually those cranes swarming voodoo man's corpse turned into earings.  The stained glass thing.. was a stained glass thing.  And came out quite well for a first attempt.  And I have loot! in the form of fluffy white towles and a carrying case and clipboard for my giant sketch pads.  Yay for loot!

Joe left for Oklahoma on Friday.  His flight was delayed.  He had a layover in Michigan until 7:40.  That turned into 11:40.  Then it turned into "your flight is canceled but there's another one on Sunday."  I had a lovely first night by myself Friday.. oh yes I didn't....  Eventually he ended up taking a flight on Saturday to Springfield, MO where his mother picked him up from the airport and drove him to OK.  He still appearently doesn't have luggage.  Yay Northwestern Airlines...

I have done nothing productive this weekend.  But today I went to a wedding!  Yay! Wedding!  I'm exhausted.. or at least, I've been drinking champagne since noon and I'm sleepy.  Here is a shot of myself and the very lovely bride, and my bellini:
Really I'm just not going into exactly how crazy this is or how strange I feel about the whole thing.  I mean, everyone is getting married, sure.  But I've known Hillary for longer than I remember.  Litterally.  One of her first words was banana and she said it "bananananananana" and I know this because my parents knew her mother at the time.  I also hadn't seen her in about two years and the last time I did, I was engaged to Brandon and she was dating a totally different person than her now husband, Chad.  I'm ecstatic for her but I also think I may still be in shock.  I've also been told more times than I can count what I beautiful woman I've become and how umteen people remember me from when I was just so tall and Hillary and I were running around Tropicon causing havoc. 

Oh, and she's moving to Maryland.  But I have her phone number now so I can call her up and not actually get together with her because she'll be living in Maryland.  Its funny how you live relatively close to someone for so long and never think to go see them until its too late.

Anyway, I do wish her the best.  Yay for Hillary and Chad!

I'm supposed to be cleaning my house right now.  I haven't done the best job of it so far.

Gah..
Sleepy...

On the bright side

  • Nov. 24th, 2008 at 1:15 PM

This was a productive weekend, I have decided.  Not as productive as I wanted it to be, but probably more productive than I actually expected it to be. 

I did not draw anything, study Spanish, fully clean my house, do very much laundry, work out, inexplicably come into a large amount of money, or find Joe a job.  But I did study for my math test, figure out how to afford food and rent, buy food, and fill out a FAFSA and submitt it to the government, get a new house key and get the management of my apartment complex to give me a new mailbox key.  So go me!

I also got to go to a wine tasting with my mommy and daddy!  It was the most awesome thing I've ever been stuck doing because I was stranded somewhere.  (My parents were going and needed to leave by 5:30pm but my mom was driving me to grocery stores and there was no way she could get me home and then get back to her home by then so they could go in the opposite direction.  Yay for being late.)  On the down side, working Saturday morning followed by grocery shopping followed by drinking expensive booze ate up all my day.  We didn't get me home until like ten o'clock!  On the upside I got to drink expensive booze.  It was nice.  And I learned what legs are! (in reference to wine, that is.)  I also discovered that my taste in wine is neigh incompatible with my parents' taste, but that's cool.  We had a good time and they're wine consultant is cool, although it still seems wierd to me that my parents' have a wine consultant.

Sunday was much more subdued.  I studied.  I hung out.  I did a little cleaning.  Probably too little, but at least it's something.  I need to vaccum. 

Today I get to go take a test.  Then I get to go to my life drawing class and feel inadequate compared to the other people in the class.  This will be the only class I have to go to this week.  Then when I come back next week it'll all be reviewing for Final exams.  I can't believe the semester went by so quickly.  I still need to register for the rest of my classes next semester... I should do that.. soon.  Yes, I have an internet connection.  I should do that now.

I probably won't.  But I really should.

Yay! but then.. Grr.

  • Nov. 5th, 2008 at 12:36 PM

 I hate my state.  That's pretty much all I want to say on the subject.  Everything else I'd say has already been said by most of the people who would bother to read this anyway.  Oh, I'll say this.  White people don't have a monopoly on homophobia, and as embarasing as it would be to me if they did, right now I wish they did.

In other news, I currently have an A in my English class!  Yay!  I'm still a slacker, though.  Yes, yes I am.  But I will fix that.  All of you as my witnesses I will do the following, goddamnit!  I will:
Prove that it is possible to get 100% on an essay in an english course. (It's English I for crying out loud.)
Get ahead of the work in my Spanish class by this Friday.
Draw something (or someone) outside of my life drawing class this week.
Find the guitar cords for Tom 'O Bedlam and post them for The Dans.
Convince The Dans to record Tom 'O Bedlam.
Make up the math tests that I'm missing.
Somehow pull an A out in Life Drawing.
Fill out FAFSA forms and send them in, finally.
Go to the gym, at least once, this week.

And right this second I will: Go to lunch.

Right now I ought to be writing an essay.  I ought to be writing this essay to maintain the hard won A I miraculously have in my online English course.  Obviously I'm not.  I'm writing a blog, instead.  I can't get graded for my blog.  I suppose I wouldn't want to, I'd probably fail.  But i'm blogging instead because it's so much easier to sit here and complain about how i'm not getting anything done than it is to write a thousand words about why I believe that the Daily Show has a positive effect on its viewers.  And yes, I chose that topic.  Proving that the people I associate with have far more of an effect on my opions and interests than I would ever care to admit. 

I'm not completely worthless, though.  I totally put laundry in the washing machine and dishes in the dish washer.  Ah, to have a dish washer and a washing machine... what a lucky luck girl I am...

And I've long term plans that I will probably change between now and when they will actually come into effect.  Like, I think i'm going to get my temporarily teaching certificate after I finish my Bachelor's degree so I can teach art while i'm working on my master's.  I'm particularly found of that likely-to-change decision. 

I've also desided that I'm going to Burning Man next year.  [info]princessdiablo 's pictures combined with the next theme, which is evolution, have made the idea irresistable to me.  It just looks and sounds too awesome to pass up.  So, yes, there will be me, and there will be me art.  Probably in the medium of stained glass because I've also desided that i'm going to take that up again.  Where i'm going to be doing all this stain glassing, i'm not sure, but i get the feeling it will be my back patio. 

On happy apartment new, we've pretty much settled in and when we're paying attention it looks pretty darn nice if I do say so myself.  I still haven't gotten around to taking any pictures of the place, but I did locate my camera so that may be next on my list of things-to-do-instead-of-writing-an-essay.  I'm really bad at this getting things done business.  I suppose most people are.  It just seems weird, we go to work all day long and, for the most part, we all get done everything that needs to get done, then we come home and suddenly everything can be left until later. 

Anyway, I should be going, I have things that shouldn't be left until later.

Sep. 15th, 2008

  • 1:43 PM


For those of you following along at home, I have an apartment.  And I'm broke.  But a happy "I've paid for the things I need and some things I wanted and I'm OK" kind of broke.  I spent all of Friday moving the contense of our old apartment into our new apartment.  My father, mother, brother, and Joe all participated and somehow we didn't finish untill about 11pm.  That also won me a phone number for a Pizza place that actually delievers to my new place. 

Saturday was spent running around with [info]shadowphantom and Joe to the mall and Target and various other places in search of home things and a [info]dexeron present.  I have patio chairs!  I also spent a little money on new clothes for me and Joe.  Then we went up to West Palm Beach to karaoke with "The Dans."  Unfortunately the bar was age-nazified and Uri is 20.  So we went to Duffy's and ate and drank and were merry until they closed and were about to kick us out.  Hooray for Duffy's!

Sunday I spent most of the day out with my mother obtaining food.  She also bought us some plants for the aquarium, which is set up now and has two new snails in it.  I named the big black one Copernicus.  [info]shadowphantom appearently spent part of the day unloading boxes so when I got home I also had a kitchen! 

All in all the place looks awesome.  I got to cook my first home cooked meal in my new kitchen last night.  I'm very happy to have counter space!

I'm going to take a couple pictures when we're finished straightening up and post them.

Hooray for good friends!  Hooray for family!  Hooray for my new apartment! :)

Sep. 10th, 2008

  • 2:28 PM


Yesterday was awesome.  I discovered that , rather than having to move all of our shit to [info]shadowphantom 's small apartment for a week and then re-move it all to our new apartment, Joe and I can move directly into our new apartment.  And that is not just awesome it's down right sane and normal.  I also got a free lunch of tuna tataki from my boss.  And why did I get this free lunch, you ask?  Because he wanted to tell me that I'm getting a raise!  and I'm eligible for our 401K plan.  You know, something real jobs offer.  Yes, yesterday was awesome. 

Today, on the other hand, I deal with all the reprocussions of all of the awesomeness that was yesterday.  Like setting up electric in my new apartment, in my name.  Something i have never done.  Something that should be terribly simple, I give the company my money, they power my new home.  Appearently it involves alot of them verifying that my existance and then calling me back once they are sure that I exist.  I suppose I wouldn't want to call anyone I wasn't sure existed either.  I get to pay for a U Haul that I can't rent because I don't have a driver's license and Joe can't pay for because he doesn't have a credit card.  When I leave work I get to go to one of those seedy check cashing places and promise to give them 11% of my money so they'll give me said money a little bit sooner than I would otherwise have it.  And I get to buy exactly three days worth of groceries so Joe and I don't have to pack perishable food.

I'm also not a quarter of the way done packing.  Something that theoretically needs to be done by Thursday night.  Something that, in a perfect world, Joe would be doing right now while I'm at work.  Especially since Thursday night I have to attend a Intermediate Algebra class I could pass with my eyes closed but can't skip a day of without having my grade automatically lowered. 

So basically this week is stressful.  Next week I will be broke but happy, in my new apartment.  But this week I have more money than I want all marked to go to other people and way to much crap to do in too short a time.  And probably only myself to blame.  ...maybe myself and Joe.  But lets not focus on that.

Because...

Did I mention I got a raise?

I have an apartment!

  • Aug. 29th, 2008 at 4:22 PM

I would just like to say... I have an apartment!  I have an apartment!  *happy dance of happiness*  Its pretty, and newly renovated, and mine.  My first actually in my name apartment.  The first apartment Joe and I will be moving into together.  The first place i've ever lived that had its own fitness center.  I have an office!  I am way to excited to write proper paragraphs.  And to any one who has had to deal with me during the apartment hunting process, thank you, and i'm sorry.  But, look!  I has apartment!  I also have to note that I have the best dad ever, because i would never have been able to get it without his help.  And [info]shadowphantom</lj> because I would never have even seen it had she not sacrificed her weekend to drive Joe and i around looking at apartments.  So yay to the people who love me.  And yay!  I have an apartment!

In other news taking an online spanish class may have been a mistake.  More so than you could gather just from the words"online spanish class."  It requires accessing three separate websites, one of which does not work from my computer, and another of the class is not set up on yet.  On the happy side I had to get a microphone and Skype to take this class, so I have those now.  And I will be using them in my new office in my new apartment.  Did I mention I have a new apartment?

 

I want that man caught and shot.

  • Aug. 1st, 2008 at 2:54 PM

...Or that's what I'd say if I ruled the world.
I am perturbed.  For those of you who weren't aware, I work in an office building adjacent to a shopping center containing a K-Mart, Publix, Krispy Kreme, tragically inferoir begal shop, and multiple less notible establishments.  Separating my office building from said shopping center is alot of really tall foliage and a chainlink fence with a convenient, person sized, gap in it where part of the fence was folded down.  Untill yesterday, that is.  Yesterday a very evil man was whitnessed, by me, attempting to "fix" this harmless and fantastically convenient gap.  I was forced to walk around the plant barrier adding another few minuets to what was officially a trip to the vending machine in the next building over but was relieved to see, on my return trip, that the evil man had failed and the gap remained.  Evil Man 0 | People Who Don’t Drive 1.  Today I was unpleasantly surprised to find that he had returned,  this time with garbage bags or something, and tied the gap closed.  I have no idea who this man is working for but he or his superiors have an agenda and I am to find out what it is and stop it.  My theories are as follows:  #1. This man hates the environment.  He realizes that American office workers are too lazy to walk all the way around all that foliage and thus with our throughway blocked will be forced to get into our vehicles and drive to the store, increasing the air pollution and killing that damn environment he hates so much.  #2.  He works for an oil company.  Similar to theory # 1.  He still realizes we are lazy and would rather drive the obscenely short distance than walk around, and by blocking the fence gap he is forcing the denizens of this build to use, and thus have to buy, more gasoline.  #3.  He hates me personally and knows I don’t have a car.  #4. He wants to hurt K-Mart’s sales.  Lets face it.  K-Mart sucks.  No one would shop there with a better and equally convenient option.  The gap made K-Mart the convenient option, more convenient even than the vending machine in the other building, seeing as K-Mart takes credit, and vending machines do not.  I personally have spend far more money at K-Mart than I ever would have were it not for said gab.  So the man hates K-Mart.  Maybe he’s not so evil… I hate K-Mart too.  But damnit I need caffeine and I don’t carry cash!  I hate that man.

I still exist

  • Jul. 31st, 2008 at 1:58 PM

Hello world!  

Today I get to go to my very last Drawing I class, drop off my very last peice of late homework, and pick up the four to six pieces of art work that determine whether taking this class helped or harmed my GPA.  I then get to rush home, become pretty, and go to dinner with my boyfriend's family in celebration of his grandmother's I-don't-know-what-th birthday.  And then, maybe, I can sleep.  

Saturday is my co-worker's wedding.  Which means I get to spend the whole evening after work Friday looking for a dress, helping

[info]shadowphantom find a dress and her wedding gift, and generally running around the way you do when you wait untill the last minute to prepare for your co-worker's wedding.  On they happy side, then I get to go to a wedding.  And poor Bianca can stop freaking out about every little thing to do with her wedding and just enjoy her wonderful life of wedded bliss.  Its wierd.  The next time I see her she's going to be in a wedding dress.  Everyone I know is getting married.  Or has just gotten married.  I'm torn between sanity and that dumb little girl in my who's all like "I wanna wear a pretty dress!"  Its crazy, too, how much time and effort you put into this one day.  You plan for months and shell out a ridiculous amount of money on food, a dress, a reception hall, and god knows what else, all for a few hours in a pretty, but terribly uncomfortable, dress you will never wear again and then its over and you have to show for it pictures, debt, and the person you were already in love with and would have shared your life with just the same if these crazy extravagant things we call weddings didn't happen.  I still wanna wear a pretty dress...

I found a wierd fruit at the farmer's market with my mommy last weekend!  My dad is supposed to send me the picture we took of it.  I'll post it when he does that and maybe someone will tell me what the heck it is.  Its really cool.  Its crazy bright pink.  I think its related to the Kiwi.  The outer skin is kind of tough and bright pink and the inside is a sort of translucent white and has a bunch of tiny black seeds that look alot like kiwi seeds.  And it tastes alot like a bland sweet kiwi.  It looks so cool.  It would be awesome for making decorative deserts.  It almost looks like marble on the inside.  I want to go back and get another one and experiment with it but the farmer's market is up by my parents and they are in the bahamas.  I'm very jealous.  

I may be moving to Miami!  Big maybe, it all hinges upon [info]joe_burns getting a job down there.  But its a definate possibility.  The idea is even sort of growing on me.  I'm making a half-assed attempt at looking for a job in the area.  I have no idea what I'm doing about school.  Should I register at PBCC? or Miami-Dade? both? or just sit around until the last minute like I tend to do anyway?  (probably not.)  What to do.. what to do...  I'm trying really hard to think that everything is not going to continue on as usual.  Like, that he is actually going to get a kick ass job and we are actually going to move and I will actually have to do stuff like switch schools are find a new job.

Anywho, I should do work.

 

 

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Because stealing memes is fun.

  • Jul. 10th, 2008 at 1:39 PM

I stole this from [info]dexeron.  My answers are probably far more disapointing than his.

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (partial)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I've read 22, I guess that's more than I expected.

May. 19th, 2008

  • 1:43 PM

School: week 2 is just begining and I am far less excited than I was going in. It is currently almost 2PM and I have, with the exception of a two hour nap at about 5 somthing this AM I have been awake since about 10AM Sunday. "Why?" you may ask. Because I am a giant procrastinator. Because despite having seven days to pry one thousand words out of myself about a place that is significant to me I waited untill some time in the wee hours of this morning to write an essay due at 9AM. Several hours, and two large glasses of wine later, I completed something worthy of an online freshman comp course. I hope. Go me. 

Next Monday I will have a new thousand word essay, due at 9AM. Maybe this time I'll get it written in time for my professor to actually read the first draft. This time [info]joe_burns acted as my editor and sanity-preserver, once again earning him the title "Most Patient Man on Earth." 

God help me if I ever half to do real work for school. I don't essay. I draw things. Sometimes I stuff in brackets look like a halfway decent website. 

This was seriously going to be longer and involve non-ranting glimpses into my life but I'm at work and I should probably go do that thing we do here.  What's it called?  Oh, yeah, work.

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Making my work take longer.

  • May. 7th, 2008 at 11:42 AM

Its still the first week of the month and everyone in my office is fighting over the pitiful amount of work available.  I, on the other hand, have opted to simply do everything extremely slowly.  And when that doesn't work I surf the internet!

Have you ever read the myspace/livejournal/whatever of someone you know and it made you want to kiss them?  And this is surprising or disturbing because of who this person happened to be.  I apparently have.  I then you go to your significant other's page and find that he is significantly less cyberspatially awesome.  But this is ok because you know that he is realitally awesome.  Still, the awesomeness of the page is haunting.

Enough of that.

I made the mistake of looking on myspace today!

Mike, who none of you know, is moving to Europe.  England to be more specific.  Crazy.  Why?  His band.  More crazy.  To top it all off he didn't even call me.  He sent me a message on myspace.  When he had a kid he called.  When he got a house he called.  Speaking of which, he has a house that he bought within the past half a year or something.  What of that?  And the girl and the kid.  Well, fuck the girl.  I don't like her and he acts like he doesn't half the time.  But Taylor is awesome and i don't even like children.  Oh well, Mike and i are both terribly flakey at being friends with eachother.

And I'm still writing this at 2:04pm.

I just walked home from work and then back to work.  Well, more specifically: i just walked to publix and bought medicine.  Then i walked home and gave it to Joe.  Then I sat down for five minuets.  Then I walked back to work.  At least i got to see pretty flowers.  Now i'm eating Chinese food courtesy of Tieshia and being offered subway squid by Sherita.  Subway sells squid.  Ok, really subway does not really sell squid.  They just decided that the clump of onions looked like squid.  And Bianca is playing family feud.  

2:29pm
Oh my fucking god Rachel Page just called me!!  For those you playing along at home, Rachel Page is my best friend from Port Richie who moved to Phoenix, AZ and who i have not seen in ummm... wow... a long time.  And she just called me.  And then a bird shat in her car.  Ummm...  Yes.  Yes, this is an interesting day you are all sharing with me.  I missed my Rachie.  I am so very, very pleased.

Today I have come to the following conclusions:
1. I am way too devoted to be such a crapy girlfriend.
2.Yellow flowers look absolutely beautiful against a blue cloudless sky and I need to start carrying a camera again.
3. Flip-flops make poor walking shoes.
4. Life is crazy and awesome.
 


 I'm amused.  Or just sad.  I'm not sure.

Its called IntelligentPeople.com and it proclaims itself to be a "new online dating and networking community exclusively for intelligent people."  What does "intelligent" mean?  In this case it means you passed the IQ test you're required to take before joining.  When you visit the site you are greeted with a slightly poor quality flash animation of an eye bouncing around and an apparently nude blonde woman who did not pass the IQ test (but does have nice pouty lips) holding an apple.

Now, i'm not sure i think much of dating sites to begin with, and i have a boyfriend, but i tried it out.  I wanted to see this IQ test, which is supposedly designed to minimize cultural and educational biases.  Yes! this is the dating site for multi-cultural but poorly educated smart people!  Anywho, the test consists of 18 logic questions where the object is to find the image missing in a series of images.  I failed.  And its timed.  I tried it while working.  I failed.  I'm not smart enough to date smart people.  That and my computer at work is too slow to load the image before half of the time runs out.  (Which is really sad because its one image.)  But smart people don't have slow computers!  (and for the record all exclamation pointed sentences have been said in the "Science!" voice.)

What makes me sad is not that I failed, which I almost expected to the second I saw a timer (and incidentally heard the phone at my desk ringing) but that they don't even tell you how badly you failed.  They
tell you "Sorry, you did not pass the IntelligentPeople.com IQ test."  Then they go on to tell you that they'll give you one more chance to meet up to their standards.  You can only take the test twice.  I suppose if you're really desperate to get into such an exclusive free dating site you just have to give them a different email address after that. :)

School, Facebook, Sudoku

  • May. 5th, 2008 at 4:35 PM

Ooo, my first entry.  Go me.

I'm very bored.  I have half an hour left of work.  ...And no work!  I'm still not totally sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.  I Tieshia, who I work with, is asking me questions about facebook.  I don't understand facebook.  I don't even know why I have a facebook!  I don't really know why I have an LJ, except that everyone has an LJ...

Enough of that.  News Flash:  I have school again!  Yay school!!  I'm so pleased.  All I have to do is pay them before Wednesday and I have school.  :)  Not a lot of school.  I have two summer A courses and one summer B course.  That's really all I could do without missing work or going crazy due to crappy schedules.  Yay school.

Other than that my life is exactly the same as it always is.  Working.  Not going to the beach.  Still no car.  Still not king.

Still twenty minuets left of work.

Tieshia just asked me if she could bite me.  Now, I know that she means this in the silly crap on facebook sense, but still.  And we're at work.  And our boss is... polietly ignoring us.  Or taping, I don't know, his office is behind me.  Isn't that scarey?  Appearently its scarier if you're facing his office.  He has a window to the main part of the office and he occasionally makes little fish faces when he's bored.  Did I mention my boss is awesome?  Not really for the fish faces though, I guess.  Maybe because I'm sitting in the office writing on my LJ instead of trying to find some kind of work to do and I still have a job.

Maybe I should find something more interesting to do for the rest of my work day.  Like Sudoku.