wanderlust

A short list of places I would like to be right now, with illustrations courtesy of Google Earth and absolutely no commentary on why I picked each place, because really, you know you don't care.

Praha












ruins of Hrad Devin, outside of Bratislava












Montreal












San Diego












The ruins of the Sutro Baths in San Francisco












Chicago












Milwaukee












Minneapolis












Birkmose Park in Hudson












Home, Blurry Home.












Next time, illustrations will be courtesy of Google Image Search, the weirder the better!

i don't get it

i don't get it
Originally uploaded by marinatina.

I would talk about the candy-bar-flavored milk, but it makes me too sad. It's just... you try to figure out why it exists, but that just makes your head hurt, and you have to give up. It's like when I watched Wife Swap at the laundromat because the TV was on and loud and what else were we going to do? They had a "goth" family (totally they were into psychobilly and not at all goth) and it was so clearly scripted because everyone kept saying the same phrases over and over--"mainstream is bad" and the mom "has an obsession with death"--and part of me was so angry at how the "goth" family was represented because they reminded me of a lot of my friends, but then i realize that I was watching fucking Wife Swap which is inherently evil and really instead of thinking about it too much I should just try to pretend like it never happened, just like I should pretend that candy-bar-flavored milk doesn't exist.

i don't get it
Originally uploaded by marinatina.

(Okay, I will just say this--"It tastes just like a 3 musketeers bar!" is not a phrase that should in any way be associated with milk, and also, why would you want a liquid 3 musketeers bar? Why wouldn't you just buy a fucking 3 musketeers bar? All right, I'm done.)


In other news, there is no other news. My goal for October is to do something besides going to work and going to sleep.

employed

I am likethisclose to having a permanent job with health insurance and everything. Theoretically I will be signing the offer letter today or tomorrow and starting on Monday. Who knows, really, but it seems pretty certain. I hope. I'm sort of worried about getting time off for my excursions to Montreal and Wisconsin, but hopefully I won't have to change my tickets and also I'm just going to be happy about the steady paycheck and the health insurance and the unlimited library access. Seriously though, I can't wait to go home for Thanksgiving.

On Wisconsin

Umm... so this is what happens when you do a google image search for Wisconsin. I don't really get it either.

Context, sort of.

excellent

This is excellent news. I think the best part, and I'm honestly not being sarcastic, but the best part is that they're raising money for the free clinic with a "Harvest Moon Barn Dance." Also awesome are the recent $1,000 donations that came in unsolicited, because that's how we do things in the St. Croix and Pierce Counties.

Also--
mail that I remembered to bring with me to the work: savings account bank statement ($0.95 interest, bitches), mail from other bank which turned out to be notification that I'm preapproved for a Home Equity Loan, which (a) they already told me that when I opened up my savings account and (b) I still do not own a home, WaMu, so please stop offering to give me a loan based on the equity in the home I do not own, dammit.
mail that I did not remember to bring with me to the work: envelope containing my paycheck from Horrible Temp Agency. Guess I won't be depositing that money today!

Also, after adding "stupid" as a tag once, I've found it applies to everything I write! Awesome!

you can't be me i'm a rock star

So I had the awesomest post yesterday, but sadly it's awesomeness was so great that time itself stopped, by which I mean fucking Safari froze and refused to unfreeze itself, and after waiting forever (where forever=2 minutes, give or take a minute) I gave up and shut Safari, forever losing my awesome post. I think it was about the Packers winning and the crap Jay Z and/or N.E.R.D. song playing on someone's car stereo at 11:45pm last night. Because that's the best time to play "Rock Star" with added bonus Jay Z "rapping"--apparently he wasn't satisified with ruining that Punjabi MC song with his "rapping" and decided Pharrell was in for some Jay Z song-ruining. If in fact it was Jay Z and not some asshole who's decided to imitate Jay Z rather than some rapper with actual talent.

Or something. Rest assured, this was all way more awesome in the original post that has now disappeared.

The important thing to remember is that the Packers won and I drank a million beers and was drunk by 4:30pm yesterday, extending my classy streak by one more day.

Stella!!!

Addendum to my previous pronouncement--

I think we're all in agreement that this month can just go to hell and die.

Remind me again why alcoholism is a bad thing? Because right now it seems like it would be convenient in that I would be drunk and, like, drunk all the time? Did I mention I would be drunk all the time? Because that seems super awesome right about now? Also I bought beer today instead of wine!!!

Tomorrow=Packers bar and more drinking!

aspirations

I don't even know what it's about or when I'll get around to reading it, but I just discovered there is a book called Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, and I just really hope that when I write a book, it has a name as awesome as that.

Especially if this hypothetical book is about US Foreign Policy in mid-twentieth century Latin America, as I sincerely hope it will be.

As for me, I will die no doubt of inertia.

I think we're all in agreement that today sucks and should stop being so dumb.

"i'm killing that shit"

Wow, sometimes I think I have a dirty mouth, and then the damn kids who stand outside my window all night breaking bottles and yelling at each other, those damn kids break out the "faggots" and the rape threats and the "suck my fucking dick you fucking cocksucker" and those damn kids just put me to shame.

In other news, my cats are still crazy. Maybe crazier!