Too Happy to Tell That I’m Unhappy?
Trying to figure out if I should marry my boyfriend, I'm reading a book on compatibility in relationships and it's making me think that my boyfriend and I are compatible in most important ways, except one: how much we engage in serious conversations about politics,...
Updating My Photo
The photo on my profile is over three years old and since my birthday is next week, I figure this is a good time to update it. This photo was taken on moving day, April 29th. It's hardly representative of my usual mood, but it's recent. (Can you look at the two...
Grow old(er) with me
Ah, middle-aged love. That's me and my boyfriend, who can't even pretend to be in the first flush of life. My birthday is coming up in one week and I'll be 41. We moved in together this past spring and co-workers have asked me if we'll be getting married. Is that...
Yay, July is halfway over.
It seems like I was just celebrating June being half gone and now July is. Let's see, what's happened since then? I was fired. I gained weight. I started thinking about yet another job search. Okay, I hope the next four weeks are better.
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...