This Explains the Bubble Popping Image
I finally told my boss at the restaurant that I lost my other job and am available for more shifts (for now). It's very weird to explain to your boss that another boss fired you and you can't even say why, especially when she (the restaurant general manager) considers...
Stalk-free
I was just over at Mr. Underhill's blog, When you're burning in hell, I'll ask Jesus if I can send ya some koolaid, and he tells a story that includes some bizarre blogstalking. I've heard of bloggers getting stalked (receiving emails, having the weirdo monitor your...
Thank God I Don’t Believe in Him
These rough two weeks after being fired have made me grateful for one thing: that I don't believe in a god. Growing up I believed in a Catholic god, but had no clear idea of what that god was like. At the age of 19, as I put it in one of my songs, I gave Catholicism...
Bobbing to the Surface
After two weeks of feeling bad about getting fired, eating cake, putting on weight, soliciting the opinions of friends and blog readers and trying to listen to the comments that made sense, I think I'm recovering my confidence. Some have told me they believe this...
Fired from Music
Today I woke up after four hours of sleep and suddenly remembered that I have friends who earn money in some way from the vocations they have chosen (art and music) and I did too, but then I got fired. I've been fired from my musician job. I'm sure it's just as well...
Commuted?!
Okay, maybe I was being unrealistic by thinking that Libby would actually serve as an example of how the Bush administration has got to stop f$%*-ing with the law, the Constitution, etc, but damn. I guess the only way anyone's going to be held responsible for anything...
Healed!
Michael Moore's movie runs a little over two hours, but I made it through the whole film without once having to leave the theater because of nausea! I was twenty years old the first time I noticed that seeing a movie in the theater caused me to feel queasy. It's...
Sick over Sicko
Okay, I've decided to deal with the motion sickness and go see Michael Moore's new movie tonight in Evanston. Going to the movies is so unpleasant for me, the last one I saw was "An Inconvenient Truth." Probably the only movies I'll see for the rest of my life will be...
SICKO the movie
Pulling my head up out of the pastry box, I see that Michael Moore's new movie opens tomorrow. Take a look. Let's all go! Except for me since I get motion sickness in movie theaters. But since that's so bizarrely appropriate, maybe I'll go anyway and just throw up. I...
Bubble Popped
Well, just when I had achieved the closest thing to happiness I guess I'm capable of, I had to come back down to earth. I've been having a great time as a baby music teacher, but I've also been a bit stressed out about it. Each week I've been drilling the songs on my...
Yay, June is halfway over!
In the summer I often hear people say things like, "I can't believe it's the end of June already" or "Where did July go?" or "How did it get to be August?" They complain that summers go by too quickly.For me summers don't go by quickly enough. I'm ready for October...
The Key to Losing Weight (for me)
This would be my advice to anyone who is overweight and wants to lose pounds: fix everything in your life that makes you unhappy. I've dragged extra pounds around, worked hard to lose them, failed, tried a new approach, failed, tried a new approach, failed, etc. I...