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[17 Aug 2008|01:24pm] |
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Week four of work: over. Tomorrow brings one final day of processing in the training classroom, and then I go back to my own desk in my unit and start really doing my Big Kid Job. I swore to myself over and over again that I wouldn't go back to Assurant after last summer, considering how much I absolutely dreaded it. But the last month hasn't been terrible, really. My only real concern is that I will end up staying there longer than I need to. I'm saving up to pay off my school loans and then I will (hopefully) move onto something else. I'm just so afraid that by that time I will be so out of touch with journalism or anything remotely related to what I want to do as a career. You can't make a career out of processing hazard insurance information all day, and I wouldn't want to. I want to be proud of what it is that I do everyday. Assurant is by no means a bad place to work. I already have health care and I can sign up for 401k immediately. The people are nice, the hours and paychecks are steady, and that's what I really wanted for right now. Someday I want to go someplace else for awhile and do something that I really, really love to do. I guess we'll see how that goes as the time draws nearer.
I'm really pissed that Warner Brothers is pushing back the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. REALLY pissed. Why do I have to wait another year? (I know, I know, writer's strike and summer blockbusters, yadda yadda).
Also, I'm tired of being that chubby girl, so I went ahead and bought this:
I think I will like it. And it's not that I even care about how much I weigh, weight is just a number, after all. I really just want to look and feel better. I wouldn't join a gym for several reasons:
1) I can't afford it.
2) I don't know how the hours of operation would fit into my schedule.
3) Gyms bore me. I hate the routine I always seem to fall into when I go to one.
So, hopefully this works out because it looks fun and I want my clothes to fit like they did when I lost thirty pounds last fall. I've always wanted a dancer's body (mostly because I've always wanted to be a dancer) so I'm really looking forward to the day this comes in the mail. If it works, trust me, I'll let you know.
Yesterday Ben and I went to a wedding of two of our friends (I think I mentioned this in my last post?) and it was a beautiful ceremony. Here are a few pictures.
Yes, he's winking at me. This was a running joke at the wedding.
'Tis all for now. Now for Sunday afternoon activities.
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| failure in the form of popular literature. |
[14 Aug 2008|09:09pm] |
stephenie meyer's twilight series is a huge sack of shit that is not worth the cost of the paper it's printed on.
i saw that the ebooks were downloaded in the pack of 13,000 fantasy and sci-fi ebooks i have, so i tried to read the first book in attempt to understand what all the hype concerning the new so-called queen of young adult literature was about. this is after a wave of proclamations comparing the twilight series to harry potter, mind you.
it was really hard to type "twilight series" and "harry potter" in the same sentence.
i can't even believe that 13 and 14 year old girls can be swindled into reading something this bad, and aren't even aware of the inferior writing. i know i was churning out some pretty awful mallgoth poetry when i was teen angsting, but even i didn't get suckered into reading an author who should pay royalties on the words "sparkling" and "dazzling" considering how much she uses them per page.
fyi, if i wanted to read descriptions about how "beautiful and pale" a vampire is every other paragraph, i'd seek out anne rice or fanfiction.net.
i saw a girl con her friend into buying the first book of the series at barnes & noble the other day, and nearly died laughing.
"you should get this! it's so good! i know it's for teenagers but it's awesome and i read them all in like a day! come on, it's a new york times bestseller. anything on the new york times can't be bad!"
never in my life has a straight face been so difficult to maintain.
but yeah, anyway. in summation, stephenie meyer is a hugely worthless, talentless cunt for producing this bilge and it makes me die a little inside when people compare her to j.k. rowling. good to know that you can become a famous author by pandering to teenage girls' low self-esteem and mormon beliefs.
don't forget, ladies! life is not worth living unless you've got a man in it. it's a-okay to have no dreams, ambitions, hobbies, interests, goals, ideas, family ties, or friendships as long as you have your man. better if it's a vampire man! and then talk about how you love each other all day long and get knocked up young so you can experience teenage motherhood to the max.
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| graduate :: college as tutor :: _____? |
[14 Aug 2008|01:29am] |
i took the SAT today.
that was bizarre.
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| left my job and left my wife, left it all for the rambo knife. |
[10 Aug 2008|03:10pm] |
daniel left for the wax museums' two-week west coast tour a couple of days ago. i suppose i should have posted this earlier but i was too busy filling his absence with elite beat agents and soul calibur IV (hilde is sweet as hell).
so if you're a fan of the wax museums, nobunny, or "dumbed-up punk swill that's catchy, lovable and, above all, brilliantly debasing" in general, go get your party on. and remind daniel to take a shower.
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| 中華人民共和國主席該死. |
[09 Aug 2008|01:21am] |
watching the olympics opening ceremony mostly has me setting my jaws to permanently teeth-gritting discomfort and digging my nails into the leather sofa. china is a worthless, bloated, compost heap of showmanship masking a lifetime of human rights abuses. selecting beijing for the 2008 summer games is a prime opportunity for the godforsaken country to propogate its self-worth. it makes me wonder if any of the fanatics waving their glo-sticks and roaring their approval are aware that they are cheering on a country bent on terrorism while outside protestors march with black coffins and tibetan flags in desperate bids for freedom.
sometimes it makes me wonder why inspiring leaders like benazir bhutto are assassinated when shitheads like hu jintao are still thriving and murdering.
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