quarter-life crisis update.

My life as of late in extended-list format. Enjoy it fuckers.


1) Joe and I picked up some excellent tickets for the Chiefs/Bisons game Friday night - first base side, second row, directly in back (on top of) the visitors' dugout - which means awesome views of triple-A Mets, including first baseman Nick Evans (!!!!) and 2nd baseman Argenis Reyes. I'm more than excited for this game - there's a beer tasting beforehand and fireworks afterwards - but I don't know if I'm going to root for the Chiefs or the Bisons. I typically wear my Mets shirts and shout for the Chiefs in regular games, but this time I feel I'm going to be shouting a hell of a lot more at Babyface than at CF Lastings Milledge (who I'd love to thank for giving the Mets Church and Schneider, but I'm no asshole...)

Perhaps I'll just wear something slutty... you know, even the playing field.

2) Yesterday I was threatened by a man with scabies. (Have I mentioned lately that I hate my job?) He came in my office wielding a cane and threatened to stab me because we're "all motherfuckers." Let it be known that this had NOTHING to do with me... I was just the closest one around. I usually don't get freaked out by things like this - hell, I used to walk home at 3am down in the ghettooooo near BBB by myself and was fine - but I was cornered in my office with nowhere to go but under my desk.

Also he sat in my chair. Subsequently, I can't sit in it. No scabies for me, thanks.

3) I bought a MacBook (!!!!!!) on Monday. One of the girls in S_S was selling hers for the right amount in the right place ($700, Geneseo) so I took a mini-roadtrip and picked it up. IT'S AWESOME. IT'S SO QUIET. IT ACTUALLY TURNS ON AND OFF. I made myself clean my room before I put it on my desk, so double-win: new computer and newly cleaned room.

4) I'm working on a super secret jewelry project. Ok, it really isn't super secret at all, but there's no easy way to explain what I'm doing. Let's just say it involved agate slices, copper patina and decals. I've procured a few key instruments too - two dremels, access to all bits I could need, and a color inkjet printer - thanks to my father and his toybox (garage). And although I've dropped $100 so far on supplies, this is by far the most fun and intensive project I've ever gotten my hands tied to.

I experimented with a bunch of patinas last night - it was definitely fun. I found an ancient roll of copper flashing at Lowes (no thanks to the four guys it took to help me find it) for $30 that should last me til I die and picked up a pair of tin snips too, then hightailed it to Rite Aid to pick up the most volatile ingredients they sell (bleach, acetone, ammonia, and vinager - I think the clerk thought I was making a bomb). On a whim I grabbed a bottle of cheapo hairdye, a bottle of coke and salt-and-vinager chips. I had to peel the silicone backing off the flashing (and cut myself in the process) and sat around rather unpatiently for two hours waiting for the effects. There were some duds (the chips just made the copper soft and super pliable) but the hairdye made the copper look like leather (!!!!) and a mix of vinager, salt and bleach made an awesome pattern. Oddly enough, cherry vodka worked pretty well in dulling the pieces too...

5) I'm getting $300 back in federal taxes... but I owe the state $150. Last year I broke even, so I take this as a sign of me moving up in the world.

6) Easter was much better than I thought it would be - at least on my mom's side anyway (such is typically not the case!). My cousin Ashly was up from Texas with her husband and I haven't seen her since I was 10 and, come to find out, her brother LIVES here now (and I haven't seen him for as long either). It was AWESOME. I now see why I am how I am. And John is coming to the Presidents show next week =D

I also ate tons of kielbasa which satiated me in ways I never thought possible...


There Don, are you happy yet?