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| Don't Work Too Hard! |
| 01.31.08 (11:00 am) [edit] |
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I hear that a lot at work. Probably about once a day from customers. I have usually said, "Ha ha, I won't!" And continued to work just as I had been.
Yet, at some point yesterday, of working 8 days in a row, 2 of them extended 9 hour days, and yesterday with a cold that makes life so much more fun, it occurred to me, I really do work too damn hard. I bust my ass, work in less than desirable conditions for lousy pay. And what does it get me? Not any hope of a promotion, not a chance for a raise. There is absolutely no motivation for me to work as hard as I do. I feel icky. At least I finally can rest. Stupid winter. Stupid husband. Have you ever noticed that everyone else has "a little cold" but you never do? No, stupid Weather Channel website, I want the information for Stateline, Nevada, Japan. Friday and Saturday Partly Cloudy, 42 degrees, 20% chance of precipitation. Time to spray some shit up my nose...and write my personal statement! |
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| Good News, for a change |
| 01.28.08 (10:32 pm) [edit] |
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I found out that the "withdraw" from my figure drawing class last semester came through as did the petition to extend the I grade in my Intermediate illustration class. (Which means I still have to finish that painting).
And I got an A in the class I decided not to drop. Now, who am I going to get to write me a third letter? |
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| Research |
| 01.27.08 (10:37 pm) [edit] |
| OK. How do I do I convince you that it is my life long dream to analyze how programming/content for children shapes what little girls become and that studying this for the next two years would be way better than 10 Super Bowls? |
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| Hysterical over nothing |
| 01.26.08 (9:39 pm) [edit] |
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I got an e-mail saying the deadline for grad school was February 1st not March 1st. This freaked me out until I saw the email sent two days later that said it was March 1st. Everything ever written says March.
After I stopped hyperventilating, I started looking over the application. My grades are average. My GRE scores are average. I have no special awards or acknowledgments. And I still don't know what other professor I'm going to ask for a letter of recommendation. Why did I get so hysterical? I'm not going to get accepted. I am just average. I really hate the emotion of hope. Hope is something that baits you along and sets you up for bigger disappointment. I think I can do one thing. I couldn't. So I'm trying to compensate for not being able to do that thing by trying something else. Hope is again baiting me along to set me up for bigger disappointment. I always have hope. I hate myself for it. Hope is for suckers. I wish I could abolish this emotion all together. |
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| 01.26.08 (7:57 pm) [edit] |
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Shit. Stuff really sucks.
Here is how things work on my planet: I work at a job I don't like. When I feel ill, i either can't justify calling in sick over something like my foot, which hurts ever day, or a cold, or school. Either that, or I am sick right before I'm about to go on vacation, or they've cut my hours. So I go, and I say, "BTW, I'm not feeling well, so if there is a chance I can go home maybe an hour or two early today, I would appreciate it." And of course it never happens. On a different day, one of two other people either call in or are immediately dismissed for being so sick. They ask me to stay an extra hour. And because usually its overtime and I often don't have anything better to do, I do it. The one time I did, they said, "Oh! But we'll be short! Pretty pretty please!" Fortunately, it didn't screw up my plans much. For the second day in a row, I've stayed an extra hour. I am very irritable. I have never once called in sick. I have probably been late 5 or 6 times in the last year and 5 month, I have covered for people many times. And how do I get rewarded? With shittier shifts than this one girl with less seniority and is one of the aforementioned people. And I come home and my husband, who is off all day, and can't find anything better to do with himself when he has free time than drink, asks me, "What are you going to make for dinner?" And there is no sauce for what I was going to make for dinner. And my husband went out wandering around without his cell phone. I will not be making dinner, apparently. |
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| Waterproof. Guarunteed. |
| 01.24.08 (10:27 am) [edit] |
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Those are the two best sentences ever! And now that I finally own (hopefully, for what I paid for it) good quality garments bearing those marvelous statements, I will have no doubt brought drought upon California. It just can't rain from the 8th to the 10th of Feb. It can be as torrential as it likes anytime before or after that. |
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| Trader Joe's Shampoo |
| 01.22.08 (11:32 pm) [edit] |
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So, not being not really caring which shampoo is "best" but which is cheap, I decided to try the cheap brand of Trader Joe's Shampoo. I've been Googling/Wikipeding the more complicated sounding ingredients. Most of them seem natural.
Just for fun, I'm looking at the 27-letter ingredients on Pert Plus. A lot of them are coming up on a website called, "" And I just found one called Methylisothiazolinone which seems to cause neurodamage in rats. |
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| I memorized 300 words for this? |
| 01.22.08 (6:06 pm) [edit] |
I am bored. Again. I should write thank you notes. But I don't think I have any. And I need stamps.
 If you have a Photobucket account, you can make one too. This is a fair representation of me. Except they wouldn't let me have the hair I want, or use a video camera, or be by the Palace of Fine Arts in SF without signing up for something. Here's my cake anyway: 
Gotta go!Edit: Apparently Cake Decorating Class is a hoity toity event for losers who brought and made their own icing, have a big tacklebox full of shit, and do not seem to consistently scheduled till 9 at night while some little blondie with less seniority than you gets to leave earlier... grrr... |
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| GRE tomorrow |
| 01.21.08 (1:24 pm) [edit] |
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My big scary test that could make or break grad school for me is tomorrow at 8 am. I am really worried about it. I did shitty on my SAT. So far I'm not doing so good in math and stuff. A little better but not much in English. I cannot be a human dictionary/thesaurus. I wish I could be, but I can't know every word out there!
I was doing a practice argument essay, deconstructing a prompt that said "Opening a gym in my town will guarantee profit." It failed to specifically state how this profit will come to me. It made me think of this: I don't watch South Park at all anymore mostly because they are always trying to say something but they are usually saying it just because they think they are cooler by saying the opposite of what everyone else is saying. But I absolutely love this episode. It was funnier when they weren't saying anything and just making naughty jokes. |
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| His Days are numbered! |
| 01.20.08 (9:39 pm) [edit] |
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In one year from today, we can look forward to a Bush-free White House. I plan on having, or going to a party that day...maybe. Kinda depends on who gets elected.
However, in the probably-not-true-but-it' s-applicable-anyway spirit of King John of England being so terrible there hasn't been a King John since, let there never be a President Bush lead this country again. However, King John gave us the Magna Carta, and taxed his noblemen. Bush gave us The Patriot Act and cut taxes for his cronies. He's got one more year to wreak havoc. How much more can he do? |
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| DVD Rip off. |
| 01.17.08 (10:38 pm) [edit] |
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My very loving mother gave me for Christmas a very funny movie. She thought it was just the kind of thing I would like. She was right. That is why I bought the movie a couple of years ago. I know she got it online. And I didn't want to say anything to her about it. So, I had to try to get rid of a brand new never opened DVD. Unfortunately, it's not a terribly popular movie or a new one which makes it even harder to get rid of.
So I took it to a place that claims to have the highest payout or whatever for used DVDs. And what did they think my brand new NRFB movie that runs for $10 on Amazon and I paid $6 for was worth? $1. A whole dollar! But I got an extra quarter if I wanted store credit. On the plus side, I had a gift card for the store from 2 Christmases ago, and I bought 2 used movies that I like ("Precious Bodily Fluids" is one of my favorite phrases from movie). My DVD rack is full. A buck! What rhymes with buck? |
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| He's got my vote |
| 01.11.08 (4:31 pm) [edit] |
I saw this banner ad in my e-mail inbox: Although, I'm not entirely sure why he's lumped in with the democrats; he really is much more of a republican. |
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| Math is hard. |
| 01.10.08 (6:55 pm) [edit] |
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Honestly, what does the area of a triangle or factoring have anything to do with advanced mass communications studies?!
Hell, as long as I can multiply/divide stuff into 30 or 24 I think that's all that really matters. effing standardized tests. Also, these words I'm learning. I swear, there are 150 words and about 5 definitions: harsh denunciation, praise, standing out, perceptive, and harmful. |
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| when I grow up |
| 01.06.08 (11:56 pm) [edit] |
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(This week, failing stop motion animator, music video director...)
I want to be a color correctionist! I had no idea such a position existed! I was just perusing the bonus features of O Brother, Where Art Thou? and I heard about this job! This existence of people like this partly explains how Sweeney Todd (it's awesome, go see it) could be mostly monochromatic with the exception of the bright red blood (which does not look like blood at all. And I am not 100% convinced that when the jugular is cut it sprays blood like a Crazy 88's severed limb) and the shots of this peacock which contrast nicely with the rest of London:  So, as long as you don't need a BFA, failing all that other stuff, and the job is not going to India, that is what I want to be. |
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| Stormy Weather |
| 01.05.08 (8:04 pm) [edit] |
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"What am I still doing here? I have a degree. I should get the hell out?" Because of the big storm on Thursday night/Friday morning, I did not get much sleep. I worked my most favoritist shift that day: a 12/3/9. The girl with less seniority than me worked a 9/1/6. I will raise hell about this the day she gets more hours than me. (It's coming...) After I started working it took about 15 minutes for my nylon "water resistant" pants and shoes to get soaked from ass to ankle. I was sent home, while on the clock to change pants. And we got to watch a good-sized redwood tree get cut down by PG&E as it was threatening to fall anyway. It drew quite a sizable crowd. My stormy day went considerably better after I got fresh dry pants, shoes and socks. We ran out of flashlights, D-batteries, and Hot Wood. Today was not nearly as torrential as Friday. It was still pretty bad. I question on days like today why the lowly baggers make less than everyone else. We are treated like the most expendable people in the store. Yet, God forbid, a checker should have to take care of a big order all by themselves. They become very whiny. Seriously though, I need a new job. Neither work nor home has had a power outage yet. |
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| Bored |
| 01.02.08 (3:07 pm) [edit] |
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It's finally happened. I am bored. I really can't remember the last time I felt like there was nothing to do. If I was really creative I would think of something.
Wow. |
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