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Friday, March 7th, 2008
4:31 pm	words to describe. yesterday, a good friend of mine left for australia for three months. he is probably the best friend that i have made since living in seattle, needless to say i am quite bummed. we went to his going away party and i got a little teary eyed. i didn't really expect to be so bummed out. i am stoked that he is getting out of a kind of shitty situation and going on vacation but still i will miss him greatly. also yesterday one of my roommates was going to buy a van, it has expired tags and no insurance. the band he is in had to move all their band equipment but he nor anyone in the band has a drivers license, so they asked me to drive, in case they got pulled over. well we did get pulled over and i was issued two tickets, one for no insurance and one for no tags, the total is almost 800 dollars. now i have to contest it in court and explain that we were "test driving" the van and all this blah blah, my roommate said he would pay any fines, but it still sucks. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
8:58 pm	this is going to be fun i returned from my vacation on feb 14th. i had a little more money than i thought, so i didn't try to hard to get a job or medical test very quickly, now i realize that i don't really have enough money to pay rent and bills for next month, i am hoping to do a few survey things and make enough, but i also promised a friend that i would go to portland with him this weekend. i really want to go but i don't know if that is a good idea. if my last w-2 comes in the next couple of days maybe i can file that and get the money quickly, but i somehow doubt it. ahhhh. dumb bullshit. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
12:25 pm	funny fun stuff. on sunday i was biking to work and i got hit by a car. i was going down 7th in the international district and the stoplight i was approaching turned green so i kept going. there was a car next to me and no blinker nothing it just slowly turns right into a parking lot. i tried to hop onto the curb but it was no use i hit the front of the car and flipped over the handle bars. i got up immedietly but couldn't get my bike up since their front tire was resting on my front wheel. the older asian couple wouldn't get out of the car. i kept looking at them bewildered until the finally did, i tried to tell them that they had to back up. the man didn't speak any english and the woman very little. i wasn't angry i just wanted to get to work and not bother these folks any more. they seemed more freaked out than i was. i think my bike is alright, it pulled the tire off the rim which i fixed and the wheel might be a little out of true, but for the most part i think it is alright. my shoulder and wrist are a little sore but i am ok as well. it just kind of sucked, i mean i was on my way to work, of which i showed up late to. they understood. on another note, i got my hospital bill for when i went to the emergency room on christmas eve. $1729.15. quite a heafty load for less than 2 hours of their time. lets see if i can figure out how to get out of paying it. one last thing. yesterday evening we had a house meeting. before hand i went out with a buddy to get a few drinks, we went to the bar my roomate works at. i started around 2:30 or so and then continued "getting ready for the house meeting" anticipating it being really shitty. we met up with another roomate and had a few more drinks and then went to the grocery store to get food and more to drink. needless to say i was pretty sauced at the party... i mean house meeting. i feel bad i tried to make it seem like i wasn't drunk, and two of the roomates cleaned up the house and made dinner. my friend attended the meeting even though he doesn't live here. i know i know, it sounds terrible. it really wasn't though and i think we hashed a lot of stuff out and welcomed the new roomate. so all in all it was a great few days, and now it is snowing so what do you know. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
1:10 pm	things happen i had a panic attack at work yesterday, luckily i was working with good buddies so i had a chance to go outside and deal with it. it wasn't particularly severe, but i haven't had these sorts of things happen for a while. i THOUGHT i had my shit together better than this. everything just hit me again, all at once. i could feel it building up and knew something was about to break, i called friends and that helped out a lot. thank you. it is weird feeling like you are losing your mind. especially at work. there are people that i need to have dude-seriouslys with, of course i am not going to be saying things they want to hear. i have also been on this kick lately of telling my friends how important they are to me. this has helped me kind of figure some shit out. some of my relationships with people here have changed abruptly, this has been very stressful, also thinking about living in a new place, weather or not i want to stay here. i have also been on a little bit of a bender which i know doesn't help the situation. at any rate i am trying to move on to more positive aspects of my life and be around people that care about me. oh, and i need a vacation. (Comment on this)
Monday, January 7th, 2008
2:57 pm	ramblings of a new year to say the least life here in seattle has been kind of a bummer lately. and it has nothing to do with the weather. i went to the hospital in kansas, was told by a doctor i had mono, still might have scabies and have had my heart stepped on pretty hard. but i have learned a lot in the past few months. i want to wake up in the morning and feel good about myself, i want to know that i have friends that care about me. i want to know i am a good person. i want to feel safe. i want to feel secure and know that my friends are going to be there when i need them. i know all of these things are true but sometimes it doesn't feel like it. in 2008 i am going to try real hard to become content with myself, i am not going to let petty things bother me, and understand that there are things in the world i can't change. i am going to recognize that you can't win, but most of all i am not going to give up. (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
5:50 pm	forgetting to forget i have made it back to seattle after a whirlwind trip to kansas. for some dumb, unknown reason we decided to rent a car and drive to kansas in leiu of flying. it only took us 36 hours to get there. unfortunatly i was extremely sick, i even went to the emergency room on christmas eve. here i was given an iv and told i was extremely dehydrated and had a temp of 102.7. then i was told i had mono. what? mono? at 25? the only person i have been smooching doesn't have mono, how did i get it? doctors. after getting out of the hospital i felt much better aside from being a little tired. i did the whole family thing and got to hang out with a few friends but mostly just took it easy until driving back to seattle friday morning. i didn't go to work on saturday, lets hope i get fired. now i am back here and sort of bummed out. i guess when you leave for vacation you sort of forget about all the problems you have been dealing with at home and then when you get back there they are again. i guess the vacation wasn't long enough. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
6:38 pm	this time of year the wind starts to change, the clouds come in and you have to get ready for the onslaught of rain until march. there have been several unseasonably sunny days as of late, but the cold has come in and the real rain will soon follow. what is someone to do? appreciate the sunny days and get pen pals! a friend in kansas city just sent me some of his homebrew, i haven't drank any yet cause i wanna save it for as special occasion. i am still excited though. i like beer a lot especially home made beer! i ain't gonna let this bad weather get me down! if you send me letters i will do my best to send one back in quick time, so here goes, christopher 208 25th ave east seattle, washington 98112 (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
11:02 pm	scar tissue I had been having a real hard time finding a job here in Seattle, so i started covering the occasional door shift at a bar my friends work at. pretty easy stuff, i even get to read. Last Monday i took in the autobiography of Maxim Gorky. A really drunk lady came in for her twenty first birthday. She asked me what i was reading i explained that Maxim Gorky was a early twentieth century Russian writer who had been exiled. She then proceeded to tell me she was reading a similar book called Scar Tissue. I didn't know what that was so she explained that it was the autobiography of Anthony Keidis, the singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I had trouble not laughing. That same night a dude was trying to leave the bar and walked straight into the glass front of the building next to the exit. He hit so hard that i had to catch him when he fell back. Funny stuff. On another note. I have a job now. I work in the kitchen of a pizza restaurant. It seem to get pretty hectic but i think i can handle it. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 15th, 2007
2:00 pm	things that i do about one week ago i arrived in seattle. it took me about eight days, three trains, getting rained on twice, one hotel room, one trip to the laundry to dry all my wet clothes, one bit of hitchiking, and one bus to get here. when i got here the first thing i did was go and see george jones! on the way i thought i was going to freeze to death after getting rained on and having all of my stuff completly soaked. my sleeping bag was soaked and completly worthless. the temperature dropped to about 35 degrees that night and everthing i was wearing was wet all the way through clear to my underwear. luckily the next day it got up to around 80 degrees, no shit 80! and all my stuff dried. of course the next night it started raining again just as we were getting into green river wyoming. i am pretty positive the trains i was on was going all the way to seattle, but i was wet AGAIN and not in the mood to actually freeze. that night we got a hotel room and did laundry the next day. daniel and our friend erick were heading to oakland, (greenriver is where the split is) it was also looking like rain again. i overheard people at the laundry mat talking about heading to rock springs (where the greyhound station is) and i asked for a ride. i kind of felt bad about ditching my friends but i didn't really want to go to oakland and add another 4 or so days to my trip. sooooo here i am in MY room in seattle. i don't have a job yet, and the money is getting short but i am haning out with some old friends and some new ones and generally having a pretty allright time. it is nice to be somewhere where everyone isn't an asshole and people are actually kind of nice to each other. there are a few things i have to get used to though. hills, people insistence on not jaywalking, (come on you are actually stopping at a light!) clean air, trees, rain, people being really punk, and my roomates always giving you shit about EVERYTHING. all in all though i think i like it here and might stay a while. might not though. i guess i will have to see. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
2:50 pm	friends it becomes really easy to not appreciate your friends. hanging out with them becomes monotonous instead of spontaneous and fun. in the age of cellphones we seem to have ceased making plans with each other, or if we do make plans it becomes ok to call and say you are going to be late, cellphones give people excuses to be flaky. i used to be hesitant to make plans, i am not really sure why, but i was. now living here in new york i really appreciate the little plans i make to hang out with my friends. i also want to leave town again. there are so many places i want to go, so many people i want to see. i don't want to stop. new friends, old friends, friends i haven't met yet. by the 11th of the month i have to have my stuff paced up here and be in the process of getting my stuff out of my room. after that who knows. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 26th, 2007
4:37 pm	frustration i found out yesterday morning that somebody withdrew 1040 dollars from my bank account through my paypal account, i changed the password, and filed a complaint and am going to the bank first thing tommarow morning to try and get it straightned out, but now i can't log back on to my paypal account and i have had no contact with them, i am entering the new password in and it won't let me log in and it wont send a link to my email when i click on the "forgot password" link. needless to say i am very very frustrated right now. oh, and 600 something dollars in the hole with my bank, fucking internets! (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 15th, 2007
10:03 pm	for some reason i am in kansas again. supposed to be visiting my family, mostly drunk instead. woohoo. p.s. seattle rules. (Comment on this)
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
11:05 am	doing things and such ok, so on a whim i decided to go and work bonaroo. you know the horrible hippie festival where everyone talks about the "people" and pays way too much money to get unbelievably fucked up for four days in tennessee. yeah, well i worked nights as a "safety guard" or some shit like that. i sucked i basically just had to stay awake all night for no reason. the day we left was the only day it rained and the bus back to new york was 3 hours late and it put us back to nyc at 6 in the morning i didn't get home till around 8 am. by 4 p.m. i had picked up my paycheck and was in new jersey waiting on a westbound train. now i am in chicago. we made it here after an accidental detour to worchester and having talked to the cops 4 times! no tickets yet though. hopefully our "luck" holds up. now i am west coast bound. why? i have no idea. i will hang out in portland/seattle/possibly bay area for a week or so maybe more and then i am heading back to the great land of kansas "GODS COUNTRY" as some have said. i don't disagree. anyway i want to hang out there for how ever long i feel. i think i might still have a job in new york. i am not sure, kind of seems that way. i don't know that i want to go back to it though. i do on the other hand want to return to new york. i might have found someone to sublet my room, maybe two! if i can pay cheap rent i will love that damn place. toodles. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 7th, 2007
12:09 pm	DO THE ROO! yes, yes, if all goes well, i get time off of work and they don't think i am a serial killer, i should be leaving next week for a week in sunny tennesse to work mutha fuckin' bonnaroo! whats up now. i will be in charge of the safety of 80,000 hippies. i must make sure they don't overdose, drunkenly or drug inducedly wander off, and make sure they turn left where they are not allowed to turn right. i also have the authority to arrest people in the state of tennessee. yes, yes, i am an unarmed security guard. hooorahh! so don't fuck with me! yes, this is pretty much what i learned at the four hour long "bonaroo security guard certification training" oh, and most likely i am going to have to carry bodies of dead hippies to the camp morgue or something like that. wish me luck. (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
11:51 pm	a little boy repeating things adults tell him to. a woman called to order food to be delivered out of our delivery area. she or her boyfriend do this about twice an month or so, they try to get us to go several blocks out of the area with promises of a big tip and things of that nature, when we say no, the ask us to meet them on the corner. i won't do that either, it is sketchy and annoying. anyway after i told this lady no umpteen million times, she said i "sounded like a little boy repeating things adults tell him to." this pissed me off, i told her that i didn't care what she said and that i wasn't going to deliver food to her EVER. insulting a delivery person is not the best way to get them to do things for you. last night i saw TOTAL FURY, an amazing japanese hardcore band. they are on tour with my friends THE JURY from albany. it was quite a time. i drank a forty in about ten mintutes because i was so excited. afterwards i went to an odd party. got a flat tire, had to take the train and hung out with lots of gay boys. i am pretty sure i was even getting hit on, which felt really good, but honestly i can't really tell unless you are hitting on me unless you tell me or just kiss me. this was all fun until a misunderstanding in the bathroom line where i pissed off one of the residents of the house. it goes like this. i am waiting in line for some time, right before my turn a lady and her friend ask to cut in line, i say "well, i have been here a while" her friend says, "yeah, but she pays rent here". i reply, "yeah, i pay rent somewhere too." "but not here" she says. i say "well it doesn't matter i don't think any of you will ever come to my house anyway" the bathroom door opens and they run in. i then say, "fuck this, i'll pee later." and then i go back to dancing. several minutes later the roomate who invited me to the party asks me why i was rude to her roomate. i explain the situation and apologize to the offended roomate. apparently she thought i said fuck you to her. i think it was all smoothed over, but the roomates friend still seemed pissed. the night ended with me passing out in daniel's room and people having a conversation around me while i am asleep in the room. apparently daniel made me get up and go to the bathroom and get in a sleeping bag. i don't remember that. on another note, a friend of mine pointed out that i am always in a bad mood or pissed off. the thing is she is right. i am always in a bad mood or complaining about something. the thing is it is just so easy to complain about stuff, and i am really good at it! but i have decided that from now on i am not going to complain about shit all the time and try to be in a more jovial mood when i am around my friends. so get ready fuckers! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
12:35 pm	i hope you didn't miss out! yesterday as many folks know was "FREE CONE DAY!" at ben and jerry's ice cream. i myself had four cones. cookie dough, oatmeal cream, coffee buzz buzz, and cherry garcia. i didn't really eat all that much yesterday so i kind of fucked up my stomach. i had a great time though. i don't even like ice cream, but everytime i went into the store after waiting in line i got the biggest smile on my face and got so excited. i felt like a little kid. who cares if the weather was shitty i was eating fucking ice cream! there is something wonderful about donating an entire day to the pusuit of free ice cream. i feel sorry for those of you who did not take advantage. i can't wait until next year! on another note, i was riding my bike home this morning and a car was pulling away from the curb as another car was passing on my right and in front of me was a pothole. i swerved to avoid the pulling away car and the pothole almost getting hit by the passing car. it was no big deal i have had closer calls so i just kept going. the car that passed me slowed down and rolled down his window. now i am thinking great this guy is going to yell at me. but no! he actually apologized! i driver apologized for almost hitting me! fuck yeah! i told him it was cool and thanked him for his concern. what a good morning. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
10:40 am	spring. it is here. it is really nice outside, however due to the weather change i have snot clogged all up in my face. it sucks when you can't breathe and it always feels like you have to spit a lugee. i am also kind of light headed and groggy all the time.(maybe thats the booze) either way i still hung out in the park for most of the day yesterday and got drunk. probably not the best idea but it was seriously beautiful out. today it is back to the grindstone i guess. (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 17th, 2007
2:43 pm	plans in a ruin. sometimes you spend all this time and energy figuring out how to have time off when people are quiting at your job all over the place, but you figure out how to have time off by switching and smooth operating and it all ends up being for not. fucking airlines! that is what i say. my bestest friend in the whole world is to come visit, but of course they oversold her flight. then they put her in a fancy hotel and she is to be here the next day. i go to sleep happy and excited. then it decided to drop 50 degrees or so and snow 24,9083 inches and all of the flights into new york are cancelled. of course since it is spring break all the flights for the next 50 years are booked totally full. now ailecia isn't coming to visit at all. i am left bored and sad. i was making all these plans and now nothing. no museums, no fun, no alligator lounge, no ridiculousness, no fun at all. now what am i to do? this basically just really sucks. also another person quit, however my manager didn't do anything about the schedule so i am supposed to go in tomarrow and work from 2 to 10 answering the phone but i bet from 5 to midnight he is going to want me to deliver. bullshit. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, March 16th, 2007
9:46 am	a bit pissed off. ailecia was supposed to be here last night to visit. she is still in kansas city. her bags are in new york though. i figured there would be a little bit of problems since it is ailecia and everytime she flys something goes wrong, but this sucks. first her flight is delayed. next, they oversold her flight so she can't get on. then they decide to put her up in a hotel and give her vouchers. yesterday in new york it was 65 degrees last night it snowed. now her flight is cancelled and she doesn't know if she is coming at all. the thing is it didn't snow hardly at all! you can see the ground and it is just little bits of snow. the roads are all wet, there is no ice nothing to justify cancelling a shit ton of flights! i am pissed cause now ailecia might not come at all and just put her trip off for a while. fuck airlines and all thier bullshit. overselling flights and cancelling to avoid the possibility of people getting stuck in airports. ahhhhhhh!!!!! (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
11:14 pm	a bit of a rant. i am pretty pissed off about my job situation right now. first of all i am a delivery person, so that makes me the bottom of the barrel, last rung, we get no respect even though we work as hard as anyone (except maybe the cooks) anyway. this week has been hell. i worked three nights in a row and was asked to come in one of those mornings. i worked my ass off in the fucked up negative degree forty mile and hour wind bullshit. i did over thirty deliverys on tuesday night alone. about a month ago i asked off for two days, TWO DAYS, not a week, not ten days, TWO! i did this because my good friend ailecia is going to be in town and i wanna hang out with her. the way it worked when i started working here was you request time off before the weeks schedule was made and most of the time they give you time off. the last few weeks i haven't been working friday nights, just sat. 2 to 10. but now the manager has changed the way you ask off for time. to make it "easier" for us. he wants us to try ans switch days with someone. this is total bullshit. also he wants to have a regular shedule. i am all for this. the thing is he hasn't! so i am now scheduled to work not one, but BOTH of the days i asked off for! how am i supposed to swith for a friday AND saturday! you have got to be kidding me. fucking asshole! fuck him. i am not asking for much, just to not be treated like shit. to make matters worse, one of the delivery people didn't show up today and they wanted me to come in and work today, fuck that! now they fired him i think, and want me to work tommarrow! fuck that! fuck them, i don't give a fuck if fucking yuppie dickheads with a fucked up sense of entitlement don't get their fucking cheeseburger with bacon and soy cheese! fuck all of em!!!!! i might actually quit my job over all this. which sucks since i like everyone i work with, but that shit is not my life! it already takes up way too much of my time and stesses me out. fuck life cafe! ahhhhh!! (3 Comments |Comment on this)