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Dec. 13th, 2005 @ 10:16 pm
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Hey bought a Nintendo DS, Paul and I have been playing Mario Kart on the WiFi network. If you wanna try and race us, my friend code is
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So I have been tracking my video iPOD as it makes its journey to my hands, and what a totally sweet journey its been so far! Beow is the fedex tracking report as of today. You can see it shipped from China and is currently in Alaska. Isn't that nuts? I mean I suppose most of our electronics come from China, but they ussually go from the wharehouse to your door, not the frickin' Chinese Production Plant to your door.
Oct 23, 2005 2:38 AM Departed FedEx location ANCHORAGE, AK
Oct 22, 2005 5:57 PM Int'l shipment release ANCHORAGE, AK
1:05 PM Arrived at FedEx location ANCHORAGE, AK
Oct 21, 2005 11:53 PM At local FedEx facility SHANGHAI CN
3:36 PM Left origin SHANGHAI CN
1:58 PM Picked up SHANGHAI CNCurrent Mood:  chipper Current Music: Collide by Dishwalla |
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So here are some cool things that have happeed to me in the last month and a half.
The Fall TV season this year is AWESOME. There hasn't been this much good TV on in my entire life. Lost is still awesome, Alias is doing great. But the new shows this year are right up my ally! Here are the new shows Im watching
Surface, Invasion, Supernatural, and Threshold. This is the season of the Science Fiction/Horror show. AND I LOVE IT. Its my favorite brand of television and its on 5 days a week. All 4 of these shows have already been picked up for full seasons because apparently the rest of America agrees that this is so much fricking better than "CSI: Peoria" or any other lame procedural cop show.
The only Horror show I like that Im afraid may not be picked up is ABC's NightStalker. Its a cool little reimagining of the old 70's Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Its cool, its about a investigative reporter who searches out paranormal news stories. The origional was actually the show that influenced the X-Files.
But speaking of Procedurals. I like 2. And I like them both because they put a unique spin on it so it doesnt get boring or fade into the sea of others. "Bones" got picked up for another season of forensic anthropology, and I still loves the mathematics behind Numb3rs.
Comedy wise, The US version of the office, while no british version, still makes me laugh really fricking hard. Like Scrubs hard. Which I guess I can't see until Zach Braff finishes his new fricking movie. Garden State was gay compared to Scrubs. Smallville is also about as funny as Garden State.
New comedies I like are My Name is Earl, and the Doogie Howser infused How I Met Your Mother, and Everybody Hates Chris. All of which will see a full season.
So TV is awesome!
Next: The new video iPod! I bought one. It will be here next week. I also bought these new headphones called Skullcrushers. They have little sub woofers built into the earphones. I kinda like them, but wish the woofers hit the bottom end farther.
I got all this money cuz I worked a crapload of overtime last month. And here is the result of said work.
The Blackhawks Home Game Opener.Current Mood:  bouncy Current Music: "In_The_Air_Tonight" by Nonpoint |
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So its been awhile. Which doesn't particularly bother me because this is more of a venting log than anything. Not much seems to bother me these days, but at the same time everything does.
Since back in May, I have really been looking for a meaning of life. Not a religious answer. Im looking for a non existential reason to keep on going. Back in May I thought it was a job. I figured once I had a stable job and income, life would all line up in a straight stretch of highway and things would get going. I realize now, after 3 months of my new full time job, that it was just another red herring. A bird I have chased many times over the years. Familiar phrases come back to me now like "Once I get in High School....." and how that soon became "Once I graduate and get into college...." and then "I just need to finish school..."
I guess I always had that next step as a crutch. But now I'm 23 and the stairs are gone. I find my life inconsequential, meaningless. I work and then I watch TV. Thats it. This past week I worked 80 hours. Thats 40 hours of overtime, and I worked all weekend for it. Iv been working till 9 or 10. And does that bother me? Yes and no. Yes, I feel like I should have something Id rather be doing. But then I try to think of what, and Iv got nothing. My biggest complaint is not being able to catch as much TV. So I work.; but to what end? I make such a crappy wage that its only enough to survive paycheck to paycheck, and any extra money I have nothing to spend on, because Im too busy working. My friends I hardly hear from these days. Either graduated, married, or moved on.The people at work are nice, but I don't consider any of them friends. As for a lady friend? Anyone that knows me knows that I gave up that ghost a while ago.
So I guess this is it. I just keep doing what Im doing. I don't believe in suicide, so I don't think I can do much else than trudge. Existence sucks.Current Mood:  melancholy Current Music: Fall Out Boy - Love Will Tear Us Apart |
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Some of you already know by now that since the death toll of Americans killed in Iraq has past 1,800, I have stopped supporting this rich man's war!
That is why I come to you with something I learned recently that startled me and demands to come to all of your attention.
In 2003 there were over 2,400 americans murdered in the state of California! We cannot let our sons and daughters remain in such a dangerous and deadly place! Therefor I demand that the United States leave the state of California immedietly!
I have already bought plane tickets for a trip to Crawford, Texas. There I will stage a vigil and demand to speak to President Bush so he can tell me why our boys are in California. I will not leave untill I have my answer.Current Mood:  angry |
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Welp, I survived 2 months homeless. Many thanks to Becky, Annick, Eliza, Deb, Jordan, Josh, Liz, Anna, Mike, Bill, and Peter for letting me crash with them.
I have a new apartment. Its a small 1 bedroom garden deal. Pretty cheap too from what I understand, but you get what you pay for...Iv already blown 2 fuses.
Its a pretty anxiety filled thing, living on your own. Nobody to help pay utilities or clean or anything. And then you come home and the place is empty. I think I'm going to miss having roommates.
Anyway, tomorrow is my birthday. I'll be here at Daily Planet all day till probly 9-10pm but after that I don't know what Im doing. I work the next morning, so I probly shouldn't be out late or anything. If you DO want to wish me a happy birthday and see me and all that jazz, Kayla and Lindsey are having a loo-ow (I spelled that ponetically) on saturday. Its also going to serve as my proxy birthday party. Hopefully the turnout will be better than last year and more than 4 of you will show up.
Till Later.
Aug. 3rd, 2005 @ 10:10 am
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I got the job at Daily Planet! They called almost right after I wrote my last post. So Im excited about that. Now all I have to do is find a place to live.
May. 26th, 2005 @ 06:31 pm
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I got my powerbook. It is fun. I can do lots with it. My parents are comming this weekend to move all my stuff to storage so I can be homeless. Due to some generous people I have somewhere to live till the 12th. Couches and house-sitting. I am glad. But I am still homeless. And I can't fix that problem till I get an answer from Daily Planet. Hopefully that will come tomorrow.
May. 26th, 2005 @ 03:02 pm
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So Ill start off by letting everyone who doesnt already know....well know. In 8 days Im gonna be homeless.
literally. No apartment. So Im not going to be totally available for a while. I'll try to steal some wireless whenever I can find it, but whatever. If you need to reach me you can still call my cellphone. And if you want to send me anything you can send it to Julia Lesley instead. 1218 George Apt 2 60657. Im gonna pretend thats my address. Because Im unemployed in 8 days too. And everyone knows you can't get a job unless you have an address.
All of this is pretty depressing. I went to look at the open apartment in Julia's building. Its ok I guess. Its $1050 a month and a 2 bedroom. The bedrooms arent the greatest, and its really not enough space to share unless you like the person you are living with. And since nobody wants to live with me, Id have to find some random person who I am 90% sure I wouldn't like because every random person I have ever lived with has been disasterous.
So even though its right below Julia, and in the area I want to live in... I just don't know. So Im gonna keep looking and I'm going to focus on studios I guess. So that means Ill be living in 350 square feet of suck.
See what I mean about depressing? Its not like I even especially want to stay in Chicago. I don't have any really good friends here anymore; I mean. I don't feel especially loved by anybody I know here. If I left nobody would really care. Its sick when I consider the best friend I have here right now to be Julia Lesley, Who Iv seen maybe only a handful of times in the year she has lived here. My other friends? I know the second I no longer work at the school (8 days) they won't call me and I'll never see them again.
Anyways, so no real good friends, no loved ones, nothing is really tying me down here. I just don't have anywhere else to go. Because really, where would I go? Where else am I going to get work in my field? I can't go home, no work there. Wisconsin would be fun because I could be with Paul and Emily. But I couldn't get work there either, Paul is having a hard enough time with it himself.
It just all makes my life seem so pointless. Pointless and worthless. Even if I do get a job here...how is that going to make everything better? Small post houses where Im the youngest by 5 years sure yield alot of friends (sarcasm). Im stuck in an abyss of despair. I just don't get it. It being life. Cuz it sucks. really hard.
May. 22nd, 2005 @ 09:26 pm
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So the weekend is over. And I find myself sitting in the dark listening to an iTunes radio station called EDR Dance hits. Its pretty much non stop dance and techno tracks. Remixes of popular songs and stuff. It makes me laugh. Its also prett surreal, especially as I reflect on the past week.
I had that interview at daily planet. And I think it went well. So well in fact that when it was over, the guy asked me to call back on the 20th to schedule a 2nd interview where I could meet the rest of the editors. Thats good news, but Im a little discouraged by what Daily Planet is paying for the job. Not as much as I suspected. Not that Id turn down any job at this point.
Id like to point out what a good friend Julia Lesley is. Through this whole ordeal with my roommate/apartment problem she has been really supportive and a great help. Some of you know Julia, and some of you don't. We went to high school together. Anyways, she gave me the number of her land-lord and she says she thinks there may be an open room in the basement of the house she rents out of. Its kind of a "Real World" setup. Bunch of different people who share a big house but have their own rooms. I called on Saturday, but I guess he isnt around on the weekends.
Id also like to mention that I have the worst luck with women possible. All women Im attracted to are either out of my league/Im not their type, or they already have boyfriends. Now, Iv never been the person to really bitch about that kind of stuff, but Im getting worried cuz Im gonna be 23 in a couple months and 2 of my best friends are getting married next month and I feel like the people around me are finishing the marathon before I even cross the starting line. Whatever.
May. 16th, 2005 @ 01:43 am
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