for the record her name is not ACTUALLY mildred
- Lindsey: mildred is engaged
- me: WHAT!
- me: damn
- Lindsey: yupppp i know
- me: i guess it takes all kinds
- Lindsey: hahaha i never thought i'd see this day
- me: is the dude moving out here too / does he live out here?
- Lindsey: i have no idea, i just got a one line gchat that said "engaged!" so i texted her but haven't heard back
- me: Haahahahaha she WOULD send a 1 line gchat
- Lindsey: but i emailed seds and she said hines had told her the same thing hahaha
- Lindsey: i know, that would be her engagement announcement
Also, any ideas on costumes for this year? I am totally at a loss! Michael Jackson isn’t recent enough, I’m already dressing like J-Woww for the daytime, …? Ke$ha has been my best idea to date, but I already gave my blonde stripper wig to Jamie Wren post Medieval Times.
P.S. I interviewed at McDonald’s headquarters yesterday…Suffice to say, I doubt I am getting the job
— excerpt from an actual email I received this morning
grievances
a (hopefully yet admittedly unlikely cathartic) list of annoying things about my residence that I have been meaning to get out of my system:
- the water pressure in both the kitchen sink and my shower both suck
- it takes upwards of 5 minutes for my shower water to get warm
- my closet doors are the kind that swing open into the room (and thus create a bunch of dead / unused space) as opposed to accordion / sliding doors
- my blow dryer cord gets caught on the bathroom drawer handles too easily
- no garbage can in the mail area
- bedroom doors do not stay ajar (you have to shut them all the way or else they will swing all the way open)
- pool closes at 8pm (makes me miss the Belmont despite never having actually lived there)
This post to the contrary, in general I really do love our unit and the building
It should also be noted, however, that I really do love a good rant
Buster: There is so much in life that I have not experienced. And now that I’m away from Mom, I feel like this is my chance to live. I want to dance! I want to make love to a woman! I want to get a checking account! I want to know what it feels like to get my face socked in!
(850): i upgraded from drunk texts to drunk e-mails…real world here i come
thanks, I think?
so I concede that I joke about how I am “getting old” because I don’t do exciting stuff like go out on Tuesday nights anymore (this has been replaced by Jeopardy! and a 10pm bedtime), but this is a bit much if you ask me
the perks of being a med student
- Leslie: the ads on my gmail are ALL about proteins, RNA, lipids, enzymes, etc
- Leslie: FUCK MY LIFE
- Leslie: stupid biochem
- Leslie: that's just embarrasing
- Leslie: legit ALL Of them are about that
L: rob dyrdek from “rob and big” dressed as his dad, gene dyrdek
R: my coworker as rob dyrdek as gene dyrdek
this is real life
perks
I think if I were to make a list of the most underrated aspects of employment, having business cards to drop into those fishbowls at places like panera and cosi for the free catering giveaways would definitely be up there
Winning said giveaways is probably up there too, although I can’t yet speak from personal experience
Also, I just had a fire drill. Welcome to adulthood
halloween decorations at my office
this is real life
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so i’ve officially been a working girl for 7 weeks now. a number of people (mostly people still in school) have asked me what I found to be the biggest adjustment so far.
one would reasonably assume it would be something like having to work for many hours straight (as opposed to in college where you have all those random breaks throughout the day) or not getting things like fall break or summer vacation
however, so far nothing can compare to using a PC all day long and then switching to a mac at night. my god, rarely before have I been so disoriented. my related grievances / sources of OS-stress include (but are not limited to):
- the absence of hot corners on PCs
- being able to go backwards on the alt-tab* menu by pushing alt ~ on macs but not on PCs
- ctrl-c, ctrl-v, etc. versus cmd-c, cmd-v
- um, google chrome
- spaces
this must be how people feel when they live part-time in the United Kingdom or Kenya and part-time in the USA and they have to drive on different sides of the road depending on their current location
gahh my life is so hard
*that said, a special shout-out to alt-tab is necessary for its cross-OS consistency. thank you for keeping me marginally sane
jmdj:
I should definitely win for Most Ridiculous Photo. Thank you, BusinessWeek!!Doin’ the Bill Gates?
damn, the founder of tumblr is only 1 year older than i? looks like i have a lot of work to do between now and january 29 in order to catch up
hit-or-miss: kari-shma:Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
in honor of yesterday’s commute from hell (10.6 miles, 71 minutes)
— thompson, personifying maturity
my dad, “hard at work” (that is a direct quote right there)
feet up on the desk = always one to set a good example
