August 2008
3 posts
free!
So I found a new looking bluetooth earpiece on the ground on the way to work. No one was nearby and it didn’t seem likely that I would find the owner so I kept it. Is it sad that getting/finding this perked my day up considerably? I thought so.
Title me
So… I stopped posting. I forgot my password at first and then I frankly lost interest and realized my life was pretty boring and I didn’t actually care enough to chronicle it for the imagined few. And yet, I return, for no apparent reason.
I might as well offer a rundown on my current state of nonentity.
My job: dull, unending, but strangely secure and well paying considering...
March 2008
15 posts
Roaches
As per usual, my classy apartment is overrun YET AGAIN, so instead of sleeping my hungover ass gets to clean my apartment from top to bottom and set up these lovely traps all over ye olde flophouse. You get what you pay for, I guess.
The best moment all night
I waited something like 10 minutes outside of the private ladies room in an almost uniformly male gay bar in the Castro. Finally, the door opened and not one, but three guys all file out at once, with mildly sheepish glances toward me. I spoke to a couple of the guys outside the loo later that night, as the bathrooms were still taken and someone was visibily weeping in one of the stalls. As one...
48 hour day
I ended up crashing at my friend’s place this weekend (the BART stops running at 12:15 EVERY night, which basically kills my social life). My friend’s apartment is much nicer than mine, but directly over a nightclub that plays endless techno. The whole floor shakes in tune to the beat until roughly 4am. Luckily, I was too drunk to notice and successfully passed out around 3am. ...
Pity party
So I am heading to SF tonight to attend a friend’s going away party. She realized a month back that she could no longer afford to live in the city, and so she’s moving back east for a few months to wait it out with friends and relatives until fall (when she will head to grad school). I know this is the best thing for her, but that does little to improve my mood. She is one of the...
Kate Bush makes me happy.
“If everybody that I laid my eyes on turned blue, then everybody would be blue!”
– Jewfroed drunk boy on the train
Chit-chatty chat
When weather is nice:
Coworker: Hey, nice day, isn't it?
Me: Very. It's gorgeous. Too bad we're at work!
When weather is bad:
Coworker: Nice day, huh? (sarcastic)
Me: Oh yeah. Gorgeous! (sarcastic) Back to work!
What we really mean:
Coworker: Oh, hi. You work here too and you are in front of me. I should pretend to give a shit.
Me: I will be complicit in this lie.
Margaret Cho
I am going to see her tonight at the warfield in SF. I won tickets from the dance music station I listen to at work and on the bus. Frankly, I was hoping to craigslist them (SF is very Cho-friendly) but they turned out to be will call tickets, so might as well show up, even if I am losing $200 in the process. I just hope she doesn’t talk about her vagina, or about being bulimic on her...
“That will be $3.10.”
– Guy at Wallgreens
Heart cover band
Back when I had no benefits and made $10/hr I spent a lot of my free time at shitty bars. One night, my friends took me to this place by the railroad tracks in town (which seemed exciting, as I was living in semi-boondocky Maryland). The bar sucked and not in a fun divy way, but they had this compellingly awful middle-aged Heart cover band. As I sat, body slumped against the bar stool, my eyes...
Work, baby!
I am supporting a meeting all day. I fell asleep on the bus on the way to work. There isn’t enough coffee in the universe to keep me going on this day, the day of my daughter’s wedding. I sleepy.
