wow, sounds like a crazy evening gin! And there was something else I was going to say and have now forgot...

I just wanted to make sure everyone knew that "blog" was marriem webster's most searched word online this year and that "mother" was voted the most beautiful english word by non-english speakers. Next was passion and smile, and Oi was in the top ten...

that's all I've got. Sorry fo boring you to death!

Oh yeah, and everyone remember this:
Korea=cheap food, cheap lodging, cheap (relatively) flight, cheap booze

oh man. at the shiva tonight daves sister totally cornered me in the kitchen to ask me what i thought of dave and candy as a couple. i thought we had all accepted this by now, but i guess the family still has big feelings about their mis-matchedness. candys parents were in town all last weekend and candy didn't let dave meet them, though that is no surprise because her father doesn't know dave exists, let alone that he has been boinking his daughter for over two years now.

so i had to leave the shiva early to take candy home. kind of a bummer to leave after only an hour, i feel a little guilty. candy always does this thing where she'll tell me she feels really uncomfortable at daves parents house when there are other guests over, and i sort of agree with her. but i am also of the opinion that if you are not having a good time, its at least half your fault, and rather than just alienate herself she could just come talk to me for once. i tried to start many conversations with her tonight, all of which she walked away from until it was time to discuss me taking her back to the city. oh lordy girlfriend.

so my thanksgiving in highland park = awesome. jennys mom cooked, but then these two women showed up to serve us. my dinner was waitressed. it was kind of crazy. i didn't catch on right away, before diner when everyone was kind of milling around and eating appetizers they kept asking me if i wanted more of anything or if they could take my plate, and i just thought they were really nice. i didn't think they were being paid to ask me such questions. weird.

so work has been terrible, i am now in full-time job search mode. and i need to find a local STA to look into plane tickets. ideally i still want to go to australia. i can't believe how much cheaper it is to fly to korea though! liz - i'll let ya know.

i'm going to a shiva tonight for daves grandfather who died last weekend. apparently its kind of like a wake, only fun and and happy. way cool. his family is so nice to me.

talk to y'alls later.

I don't like mondays

Monday is finally over. (well, the working part is) I find this amusing as none of the rest have you have even STARTED monday yet. You are still sleeping soundly in your beds...

Anyway, I had my first major lesson disaster. I've got to totally revamp the first grade lesson plan for tomorrow. It was a 45 minutes lesson, but I swear it was longer.

This weekend, in contrast, was super fun. Friday night was club night and a guy named Nick's birthday, so a bunch of us WI teachers headed to Seoul late Friday for some eating and drinking. We went to a bar and randomly ran into a bunch of other people from the program and also a Korean pro-baseball player (my kids have been really impressed with this). So we had a few shots (tequlia, about one dollar each) and some beer (MGD, and if you can believe it, it tasted good. That tells you how badly I need a spotted cow, or the great dane)

Next we went to a dance club where we all... danced. One of the guys from our group tried to seduce me (after telling me about how he was going to seduce someone else). He led me away from everyone and after 5 minutes of dancing (and making me put my drink down- LAME, Anyone who knows me knows the way to me heart is not by taking away beer) he asked if I would come home with him that night. I didn't laugh in his face, I was very proud. I also told him if he wanted to go hit on someone else who he might have a chance with I understood. So he did.

After dancing until after 5:00am we went in search of drunk food (the Koreans we met LOVED that phrase). There was no Ians or Qdoba so we had Korean drunk food, and I got home at about 8:30am Saturday when I promptly fell asleep and slept until all of about noon.

Saturday was pretty much a wasted day, but Sunday I went to Seoul again for a Thanksgiving dinner. Which was awesome. One should never take turkey forgranted. Or stuffing. Or pie. Or gravy.

Next weekend we are having a texas hold'em tournament. Plus, Nick says he knows where to get Hookah in Seoul so he's going to take me to do that. How kick-ass is that. I haven't had a hookah is so long!

So that was my weekend. I am now resigned to another 5 days of teaching (1 down, 4 to go). Next Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday are final exams, so it will be a light week.

Gin- let me know when you are coming to visit!

the weather outside is frightful...

no, really, it is. Is it snow? Is it rain? No one can tell because it's too damn windy.

I am going to have a heck of a day today- I woke up really early (5:30, molly, it's a record for me) so that I could chat with the fam, and more fam, and more fam this morning. Plus I got to see my brother's and cousin's eyes, ears and nose up close-- too close.

Then I taught, I took a nap (for reasons which will be evident) and now I'm sitting restlessly around for another hour while having nothing to do. We had a special schedule at work today because a bunch of teachers had to leave early for a computer test, so school is done, but I don't know that we are allowed to leave, and there's no one here for me to ask, so I'm just chillin and writing you guys!

After I break out I'm headed into the cold for beer (or coffee?) with a teacher I'm helping learn english. Then I'm ditching her for a late night bus ride to Seoul to meet up with some friends, one of whom has a birthday (is that the right use of whom? I hate that shit, and I'm supposed to be teaching English- god help Korea). We are heading to the club area and going to stay out until 5am when the subways start again. ETA back home- 8am tomorrow morning.

All the teachers were worried when I took a two hour nap, but really I was just trying to be responsible and get ready for tonight. Responsibility rocks.

The hunting thing... A guy from the Twin Cities went hunting in Northern WI and shot a bunch of hunters whose land he had tresspassed on, 6 died. Just goes to show, never trust a Minnesotan with a gun.

Gin- Are you being auctioned off by Chicago? just wondering, I heard they were putting a bunch of stuff on E-bay.

By the by, the line length in this blog is too long for a person to easily read. Just thought you should know. I'm a professional at line length. The font, however, is quite legible. The end.

Happy Thanksgiving Still!

Sorry, it's a little late for some of you, but it's still thanksgiving here. In Canada. Oh. So I guess it never really was thanksgiving today. It was very disappointing to eat a tuna sandwich today. It did not taste like a 4500 calorie turkey dinner. And on top of that, I had to go to school! I think my eyes will be crossed by the end of this semester from staring at a computer so long. I heard of these special glasses that people who are computer nerds have so that their eyes don't get damaged and I think I could make them more fashionable and sell them to everyone in my program. Good idea? Yeah, I thought so too. Virginia! I got your letter yesterday and the funny thing is that on my way home I was hoping that there was something in my mailbox and I remembered what a good letter writer you are. Coincidence? No, that was just my mind melding powers I learned at art school. As for my Christmas plans, I will be coming home on Dec. 17th, but then I'm going straight to Eau Claire for extended family free-for-all. I'm coming back to Madison on that sunday and then on wednesday I'm flying to Mexico to start a new life making burritos. But I'll be back on the 29th. I don't know if I'll get down to Chicago though. I'm heading back to Vancouver on the 3rd and then classes start the next day, and I really need to make my vacation as restful as possible. I think I want to just stay in Madison for new years. Besides that, Ron and Lindsey are getting married that night and although they somehow forgot to INVITE me, Lyzz is going and then she's going to duck out later and me her and Alexis are going to maybe go to the Cardinal or something. Do you think you can come up to Madison??? Please please please??? I'll bring you a kinder egg if ya do. Speaking of which, I'm starving...Gotta go make dinner and watch the news. By the way, what's all this stuff you guys were talking about with the hunters in Wisco? Did they all shoot each other? Do tell.
Love,Meghan

wow, i hope this works, blogger has been a-eatin my posts lately.

so i was at work until 2 am last night. it SUCKED. and i get to go back at 4 am tomorrow.

but today is sunny and beautiful, on top of the 3 inches of snow we got yesterday! the driving conditions were terrible during the snowstorm, but now chicago is very pretty.

i'm home alone right now, but i need to call my parents and then bake an apple pie to take to my orphan holiday. all of us in the area who have parents that are too far away and very litle time off of work are heading to highland park to go to my friend jennys house for dinner. long sentence. anyway jennys mom is hosting an orphan dinner for all of us kids. should be a blast, i wonder if jewel is open right now? i forgot that i should probably bring some champagne to this hoedown.

i'm going to lattice the top of the pie i make!

so anyway i miss all of you very much and i hope everyone has a good and satisfying day.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope you all have a great Turkey day- mine will be spent watching part of Charlie Brown's Thankgiving over and over (awesome) as well as eating traditional thanksgiving foods like- some sort of chinese chicken, kimchi and steamed vegetables with crab and red pepper paste.

On the pathetic side of that, I made it to walmart last night for the first time and got a little carried away.

I now have a fully lighted and decorated christmas tree up in my kitchen. It's super tacky and rocks my world. I alos got some vodka and cranberry juice. that rocks my world as well.

Oh, and I found cheddar cheese too, so that will be my thanksgiving treat to myself. mmm, cheese.

Grey skies are going to creal up...

Today went a lot better. I'm really relieaved because I thought I was going to DIE. Anyway, I'm just about to head off to a planning dinner with the co-teachers, but first I thought I do a quick update.

Gin-dawg. You BETTER be serious about coming to visit! What's your time line look like? I think I'm going to China around the first, so let me know. You are always welcom to crash at my place- though you might have to share a bed with me (yummy). (PS- Korea is a probably warmer than WI, but we also don't leave windows open in WI)

Mol. I'm glad you planned your outfit in advance- the question is, which swimsuit? The pink one, or one of your old swimming ones- you have a bunch of them! Oh, and I find the videos through completely legal internet downloading sites.

My plans for thanksgiving- working and then going out to eat Korean food with a bunch of people who can't understand a word I say. Luckily there is a American style meal on Sunday in Seoul that I'm going to- turkey here I come!

On the football front: despite the "stick-you-head-in-th-sand-and-keep-it-there-forever" last two games of the season I am very excited for the Outback Bowl on Jan 1st, 10am CST (Jan 2 1:oo am KST). Mostly because we might play Georgia- and my cuz Robin goes there, so we could have a nice family rivalry going.

Also, last night I rented my first video in Korea! I got Lost in Translation. I thought that it was super hilarious- especially the parts that I could identify with- seriously, the r's and l's, they aren't making that up! Or the horribly short translations of a three minute speach by someone. If you haven't seen it, see it. You will understand partly what my life is like- plus you get to see what a norebang is. Although the one in the movie was nicer than the ones I usually go to.

I leave you with these words:
"New school, word, peace" -Double K, Korean Rap Artist

liz i am so sorry for all of that korean-crappiness. for some reason i never thought of korea as being particularly cold, but its way far north isn't it? so....i've been looking into this australia/korea 2005 extravaganza thing, and i have a few concerns. 1) i haven't heard from my proposed travel buddy in a while, 2) i'm not sure i can afford it, and 3) i don't think i can get the time off of work. all three of these things would be allieviated if i can the australia thing and do a super duper number one asian invasion 2005 instead! it looks like i can get round trip tickets to korea for less than $1000, i would have a place to stay for part of the trip (right liz? tee hee) and i could do it in two weeks instead of five!

so watch out liz, i'm serious about this. i will make it happen. anyone else want to go along? meghan, i'm looking in your direction.

work BLOWS this week. guess what guys? i almost lost my job. i am on final warning. because i forgot to lock one of the cart attendents doors last wedesnday. i am very upset by this. but on the upside, at least its not a performance related issue, and you can be goddamned sure i will never do it again. my friend tim on the other hand is apparently on some sort of warning system as of yesterday as well, but his is performance related, and therefore much much harder to fix. i think his position is actually much worse than mine. my problem = easy to fix, but with drastic current consequences. his problem = very hard to fix, but with not such bad consequences currently.

so anyway i figure if i'm going to be fired soon i had better make the most of my health insurance while i've got it, i'm gonna go find me a dentist today.

on a sadder note

One of the people here in Korea is from the town where all the people who were shot are from. The moral of that story is that my life doesn't suck nearly as much as I think it does.

That being said, I'm going home to cheer up, and, in preperation for thanksgiving, think about how lucky I am that no one (besides my cat) I know personally has died while I've been in Korea. Let's keep that streak going!

Korea is indeed eating me up

I'm fine, I've just been busy out of my socks lately. Last week I also went to a teaching conference, so I was gone from thursday morning to sunday afternoon. Then monday hell has started. I'm showing charlie brown's thanksgiving, and it's been a nightmare. You normally think- movie, easy, but getting the technology room set up to show it took way over an hour, and then today the sound stopped working, and for every break in class I have they turn the heat off so the room is always freezing. Not to mention the halls where they have the windows open on top of no heat. Even in the regular classrooms students bring blankets. So between goin gfrom hot to cold five times everyday I've gotten sick, again. The change in country muct have been really hard on my ammune system, because this is ridiculous. Anyway, the last two days have been a vitual nightmare, and show no sign in improving (ie. my pants got caught on a nail un the tech room, and I found out because of an error in the office with my Korean taxes I have to pay well over 500,000 won (1 USD=1,100 won) out of my pay check in December. That's at least 25%.

Anyway, I'm about to lose it, and so I haven't spent a lot of time online lately.

And I'm off again, got to go get ready for the tech room once again.

PS. I heard about the hunters in WI, that's pretty damn scary.

mara - NO KIDDING!

lizbot did korea eat you up and make you disappear? i sure hope not.

so meghan - whenabouts are you coming back to the US for the holiday season?

i woke up too late this morning. i get so lazy on days that i don't have to be to work at 7 am.

mara - NO KIDDING!

lizbot did korea eat you up and make you disappear? i sure hope not.

so meghan - whenabouts are you coming back to the US for the holiday season?

i woke up too late this morning. i get so lazy on days that i don't have to be to work at 7 am.

man, hell of a night at work tonight.

SO, we had a whole gaggle of district visitors this morning, and they gave us really good scores so everyone was in a good mood.

BUT my stupid fucking HR girl however managed to take most of the credit for our hard work.

AND she keeps hiring people that i recommend be turned down. have you any idea how irritating and futile it feels to be training someone (two people tonight actually) that i recommended not be hired in the first place?! no wonder lots of our customers feel we give terrible service! our employees are not up to my standard, and its not my fault!

BUT i made my first recovery tonight! some dude walked in literally two minutes before close, grabbed a cart, and booked for electronics. then he comes to the cash registers 8 minutes later (well after close at this point) with all this toilet paper. he pulls out one package and tells me they're all the same, so i can just scan the one item four times. i say, well, if you don't mind, why don't we take each one out to scan them. lo and behold, the idiot has four digital cameras underneath the TP he's hoping i'm not going to see! jackass. he says, oh i just wanted a price check on those. i had AP escort him to the door after he paid for just the toilet paper. and i bet he returns it all tomorrow.

first season of home movies DVD is rocking my world today. tomorrow i'm bringing home made lemon bars to my last ceramics class of the year.

and get what a big city girl i just became = i'm going home for a weekend in december, and rather than drive i'm FLYING. oh yeah, o'hare to MSP. ha, its actually going to take longer to fly when you count in the check in time at the airport. i'm awesome.

oh good blogger is working again. i know nothing about computers.

exciting chicago story of the day: i ran smack into joan cusack at the ceramics studio today!!!

i came around a corner as i was on my way out and i literally almost walked into her. she was with her kids and we both said excuse me, and she took her children into the kids classroom where they were having a little party. i then walked past the door like six more times to make sure it was actually her. and it was. then i called my mom from the parking lot as i tried to figure out which car was hers.

my second celebrity sighting so far!

i love joan cusack. shes my hero. if only i get could her to let me babysit for her kids and then work my way into family functions, someday getting to meet her brother at which point we would fall madly in love and someday he would stand outside my apartment building holding a boombox playing the shins....if only.

time to write a cover letter to accompany my resume pursuing an ad sales position at the onion, chicago office.

So you haven't seen him either?

He doesn't really exist I think. Anyway, I was just checking my email and I get these recipe flash things from Epicurious every week (which are awesome HELLO have you checked them out?) and I love reading the reviews of each recipe. One time people argued for 4 pages about a deviled egg recipe and that was HILARIOUS. But mostly I like it when people say things like, "Wow! What a great brunch alternative! I served this with fruit salad and everyone raved!" because then I picture everyone jumping up on the table with their huevos rancheros and the lights flashing and glowsticks emerging from Fendi bags and the dj rising up out of the buffet. May I just say that that would be so super awesome.

meghan has a boyfriend? how did i miss that? wha?

i got to go to october thanksgiving last year in denmark. it was all about the stuffing, there were three kinds! then we watched old school. the end.

I smell like a baby prostitute.

My friend Sarah and I put on our Thursday best and went to Sears today. I was going to buy a baby blue sewing machine that was supposed to be on sale but then it wasn't, so instead she pretended she was J-Lo and I did my best to be Britany Spears. Spears at Sears. Ha. Anyway, have you smelled Britany's Bi-Curious perfume? It's actually not that bad for the first 5 minutes. And NOW, well, you know my affliction. I'm kind of pissed about the whole sewing machine fiasco. We went to the Hudson Bay Company, which is like the big Marshall Fields store in Chicago and it's already Christmas there. Consume consume, I bought some fake birds for my Christmas tree. They are really cute. The October thanksgiving is throwing off my Christmas timing. I'm all screwed up now, and I'm ready to put up my tree tonight instead of writing a 3000 word essay on the body image of women during the Art Nouveau period. Sigh. Anybody seen my boyfriend? Me neither...

oh man, pepero day sounds awesome! i'm going to tell my staff at target that tomorrow is cadbury egg day, because they are shaped lik e the date 11-12......i mean because i like to eat them. ethicality? i already had to bribe my team one night with a free soda if they could find my clipboard. i lose that thing every damn night.

new morning drink of the day = my usual latte in a mug i made myself! drinking coffee out of a mug i threw is the new drinking coffee out of a mug ron threw. oh yeah.

going shopping on michigan avenue today apparently, though i don't think i can really afford to throw around much bling down there. i have to replace the timing belt on my car, and get a new stereo, and i would REALLY like a new tv, all before christmas....

hey you guys! i think i have one more long weekend off in december coming up so i'll be cruising through madison again on my way to rochester. k-dawg i'm really disappointed you aren't coming to chicago this weekend, and frankly i don't understand it. shakaba decides to be nice to you once so she gets to hang out with you, while i'm nice to you all the time and i don't? boo.

Happy Pepero Day!

November 11th in Korea is Pepero day. Pepero are these thin cookie sticks dipped in chocolate. It is Pepero day on November 11th because the company pointed out in a nationally televised commercial series that a pepero looks like number "1" so 11-11 should be pepero day!

Some of the teachers complain it's comercial, but I got like a gazzillion boxes of Pepero today already from my students. They even have special Pepero day packaging on some.

Also, you are supposed to give bigger Pepero things to your love interest, and some of the students got the GIANORMOUS Pepero baskets that include stuffed animals and fake feathers and the works. I guess they cost over 50,000 won (approx 50 USD), so my question is what the HECK are middle schoolers doing with that much money, if they have that much money why are they spending it on thier midle school love interests and lastly, why haven't I gotten one?

I saw one girl who had TWO huge pepero baskets. I don't think she can carry both home they are so big, so why didn't she give one to me?

Oh well, I guess I'll have to be content with my winters supply of pepero instead of a year's supply.

Anyway, happy Pepero day everyone!

me and dave had the most hilarious fight over dishes last night. there was a piece of potato or something clogging up the drain and he was all like "you know virginia, when you're washing the dishes you really can't put food down the drain. it clogs up the sink." and i was all like "you know dave, since you haven't washed the dishes once in the past four weeks, maybe the least you could do is unclog the drain that resulted from my hours of slaving away over soapy water." the we high-fived and made up.

And it's pretty and blooooooooo.

Packing tape hem

Dude, I used to hem my pants with packing tape constantly. Sewing is too hard and timely. Packing tape is easy to use and easy to remove! Just make sure and constantly re-tape so as to avoid embaressing tape failures.

ratel - i'm laughing so hard right now!

yeah, so if the wilco thing wasn't good enough, my friend jenny works at lightology and is totally getting holla'ed at by david from the real world new orleans. he works there too now (his big acing/rapping career never quite took off i guess). he used to work in customer service at lightology where he 90% of his conversations involved him saying "holla at your boy" repeatedly. so they stuck him in the backroom where he can't annoy customers as much.

holla.

at your girl - i'm off to work!

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Gin, sounds like your job is super stressful, but good thing you have prairie home companion, ceramics and wilco stars to cheer you up!

Mol, are you saying it's a GOOD thing you didn't resign from your job? I'm really not so sure, have they given you benefits yet?

Meg, thanks for the link. I plan to apply for Canadian citizenship immediately, and to hedge my bet South Korean citizenship as well.

Everything is okay in Korea. After a week of depression, unpredictable rage and hating America I'm starting to feel a little better. It helped that the Badger KICKED MINNESOTA'S ASS super hard on Sunday morning (KST-Korean Standard Time). If they would have lost I might have moved to the mountains and become a buddhist monk. But! they didn't and the Badgers are now number 4 in both human polls and I'm waiting with bated breath for the BSC rankings to come out later tonight/tomorrow.

Okay, I'm off to class now. Ratel, dudes!

goddamn do i ever love prarie home companion! some of the awesome jokes that i can bring to mind that mad me laughing out loud on the way home from work last night:

reporter: colonel powell, how do we know iraq has weapons of mass destruction?
C.P.: well, we still hav e the receipts!

How many members of george w. bush's cabinet does it take to change a lightbulb?
None! There isn't anything wrong with the lightbulb! we must stay the course with this lightbulb that we have! those who say it is "burned out" are clearly siding with the forces of evil!

oh man i wish i could remember more. have a good day everyone, i'mago work now.

so my friend fran has been 'dating' a dude named patrick who is in the band wilco for a few weeks now. Fran had an election party at his house last tuesday, which is where i drank a lot of white wine and started ranting about birth control. turns out patrick was totally at frans house that night, and also at a birthday party i went to last night. yes indeed, two months in chicago and i'm already hanging out with wilco like, all the time. :)

Yea Canada!

Hey ladies,
Did I mention Canada? I did? Good. Mara do you live in Madison or DC? Which capital/capitol? I don't get it. I talked to my brother in China today, but his Italian g.f. answered the phone and was yelling into it because she thought I was a robot. Bad connection or international relations problem? You be the judge. Virginia, the 30-60-90 day plan is a cheerleading pyramid, and you're really good at that so i wouldn't worry. It can't be as hard as doing a "lift" or say learning a new dance routine in a week or HECK, even carrying a watermelon up an endless set of stairs. You know, the kind that are outside and all uneven and shit. I wish we could post pictures here. I have some really good ones to show you. I took Virginia's portrait this summer and damn does she look hot. I also took a portrait of my friend Sarah for this project for school called "split personality" and it's awesome. I wasn't going to print it because it looked blurry on the contact sheet and when I did it was super creepy. Sarah moved while the shutter was open and so her face is smeared over two inches (on an 8x10), but you can see the progression of her expression the whole way and very clearly. It's rad. So anyway, I'm going to go watch "Saved" because I think Christians are funny. Later. Oh, and here's a website where you can begin your applications to become Canadian citizens. Better hurry, i hear there's a long waiting list: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/index.html
Love,
Meghan

come to life blog! its a beautiful friday. morning beverage of the day = coconut milk lattes. cd that i haven't listened to in six months or more of the day = the microphones, "mt. eerie".

so lill street is going to have a student art sale in january and i am totally going to enter it and sell all my shit. if i can make enough stuff in the next month and next session in the spring i'm going to try to get the ice cream shop right by my house (and maybe the coffeeshop too) to sell my work as well. sweet retirement career = already in progress.

in the meantime work has been a bit stressful lately. my honeymoon grace period seems to be ending, and i am now expected to show results here pretty quickly. despite the fact that i rarely have any fucking clue what i'm doing. uhoh spaghettios. i'm pretty good at running the salesfloor, but as far as the administrative stuff goes i'm totally lost. writing reviews, 30-60-90 day plans, creating individual development plans for my team leaders, aahhhhrrrgh. its too much.

so mara bear, how sad is the capital since tuesday?

Mara's right...

It IS only our lives. And lets be honest, collectively we didn't have much of a life before this, so we're not missing anything.

Quickly, here's an article that gave me a little hope. Read it!
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/04/specter.scotus.ap/index.html

Oh, and read the onion, it will make you smile, if only for a while.

Perhaps I'll stay here... Forever

so, it's really hard not to hit something(someone) right now.

Before going to bed after the 2000 election when the election was originally called for Bush I threw my nail scizzors across the room and freaked out my roommate. I managed not to throw anything this year (yet) but I have to say I'm about ready to clock the next person who looks even remotely cheerful.

I fell asleep late last night with the TV on waiting for the consession speach. This morning I woke up depressed, and to top it all off the BBC had some awesomely horrible reporting about how "America" is moving more conservative and Bush has a mandate, and how the House, Senate and Presidency all are under republican control now. Most of the stuff they said was true, but they reported it like 100% of Americans voted for Bush and not 51%.

So, I came to work distracted, looking like shit (I didn't shower this morning because I slept late) and my co-teacher, the one who knows how important this was to me, said I should just relax, not teach her classes today, which is a god send. Then the VP came up to me and said "Bushy" (they add EE to things that end in "sh") and gave me the thumbs up sign.

Let's just say he's lucky I didn't have a sharp object handy and I'm lucky I managed not to lose it (and my job).

Anyway, I'm going to go wallow for a while now before wallowing some more. If the Badgers lose to MN this weekend there is going to be hell to pay.

yeah, so it seems we are "trending" towards a bullet train to hell. ohio, west coast, rest of the nation, i dare you to prove me wrong! in the mean time i am going to go to sleep and try not to think about all the abortions i'll never be able to have. and the birth control pills i'll never be able to afford under this bullshit "health care savings account plan." i have also been drinking. as if you couldn't tell.

holy cow!

you guys all had WAY crazier halloweens than I, peeing, dancing on tables, dead bodies... I can't believe it!

K, congrats on the job! Too bad your bosses father just died, can you send flowers, or is that wierd having only just met her? What are you going to be doing at the publishing company? what kind of things have they published?

Molly, who were you with?

Gin, congrats on the wine rack! An important IMPORTANT investment

I think there was something else I was going to say, but I'm pretty tired and a bit sick now, so I'm going to go sit quietly at my dsk and do nothing for a while.

miss you guys!