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Thursday, August 30, 2001
So?
Yeah, I've been busy. Actually not. Much of today was spent sitting around waiting for the cable guy. Our phone and other utilities were installed with no pain. We had to wait for five hours for the cable guy. And do you think I understand how our cable works? I'd better learn by September 24th, because that's when Buffy goes into syndication on TNT. I'm psyched.
Anyway...saw Love Triangle at the Bailiwick tonight...written by Kyle, directed by Ryan, stage managed by Heather B., and starring the lovely Terri and Kate. So good. So proud. If you see Kyle in NYC, give her a hug. Everyone else too. Hugs all around. Or drinks. Whichever.
We are still not unpacked. I'm too lazy to work on the back room. I'm surrounded by boxes and trashbags as we speak. I'm just so tired of moving in. I want my DSL to get here, and then maybe I will care about being back here. But dial up is such a pain. Grr. But the training for my catering job doesn't start till Sept. 10, so I have plenty of time to sit around. Hopefully I'll find the energy to get it done. Ish. Most likely I'll spend my time working on the new website for a theatre here...that's a months rent. Hopefully It'll be done by Oct. 1st. When rent is due. That'd be nice.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2001
I know, I know...
So, yeah, I haven't written in over a week. Leave me alone. It's been stressful. And I'm on a dial up. Those of you with cable or DSL know the angst that I feel. Which is why I'm not writing much and you just have to deal until my DSL is installed on September 6th. So there.
Oh yeah...I'm in Chicago. housewarming presents are always accepted.
8/28/2001 12:56:00 AM link
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Friday, August 17, 2001
And...
Although it totally doesn't need to be said, love to the Amy Stetzler as well.
8/17/2001 06:54:00 PM link
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Later
Just got back from a hellish week in Chicago. I'm moving in less than 24 hours. I haven't started packing yet. I don't have time to think, let alone write anything. I'll tell you the whole story. But not now. You'll just have to be patient.
P.S. Jenny Fouts rocks.
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Sunday, August 12, 2001
In Passing...
It's my new favorite website. It was created by a girl named "Eve" (for eavesdropper) (how do you spell that?) who goes to UC Berkeley (Geez...how do you spell that too?). Anyway. She's collected a bunch of random quotes from people that she's heard or seen all over the world. And reading all 67 pages of quotes has made me remember a bunch that I've been carrying around for years. Allison actually has a book of them. So here are mine...be warned, they're not all G-rated. Put the kids to bed...
"Self-confidence is a really hard thing to have...especially if you're missing a hand." - Becky the theatre intern about a girl at her school.
"People are such fucking people." - Written on the blackboard in the Drake theatre design lab by a frustrated sound designer. Yes, I know who wrote it. No I'm not going to say. Maybe her parents will read this site and they don't want to know that she uses such foul language. OK, maybe not.
"I'm going to touch you now." - Made famous by Sally Garfield, the now retired dance professor at Drake. She had tons of quotes, but this is the epitome of her wisdom. Sex and dance. It's all the same.
"Look! It's a car that's a boat that's a car!" - An excited passenger after being in a van for too long. To his credit, the car was pretty cool.
"Who's FICA? Why's he getting all my money?" - This one's cheating...I stole it from Friends. But it's true. I hate that FICA guy.
As for a Chicago update...refer to quote number 2. That's all I have to say right now.
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Friday, August 10, 2001
Chicago Downlow
I'm back! It was a long trip that was not entirely fun, but a gentleman in Chicago now has $1300 that used to belong to me, so hopefully everything will work out apartment-wise. Here's a recap for those of you who weren't there...
It's hot. And not in a good way... We walked a lot the first day. And rode the crowded eL. And didn't have anyone call us back when we left messages. Except for Joe at the ApartmentZone. But he took too long to call back, and by that time, we were on our way to the Apartment People. Who proceeded to show us nothing that could be considered good. To explain: we went into a garden apartment, because it was in a nice building and it was cheap. Joe's hair touched the ceiling, so no one taller than him could ever visit. The bedroom doors did not open all the way out because they were caught between the caving in roof and the warped up floor. Each bedroom had a single recessed light bulb, making each room like one's own personal prison cell! Yay!
We walked home. I got on the internet. I called about 15 people. Half of the people didn't answer, half of the people were advertising for September 1st or October 1st. But did they say that in the ad? No. I made four appointments for the next day from people who were ok including one guy who talked a lot. In a good way.
We saw the first one at 9:00. It was owned by an old Indian man. He lived upstairs. That was pretty much the only drawback. It just didn't give us a good vibe. And I'm sure he had some Indian tricks up his sleeves...you have to be careful with things like that. ;)
We saw the next one at 12:30. The landlord rode up on his bike, no shirt, dirt on his face, and proceeded to show us the apartment. He couldn't have been older than 30 and talked just as much as he had on the phone. The nice apartment. The new counters. The gigantic bathroom. The laundry 10 feet away. And 5 feet from that...THE GYM! FOR FREE!
Not totally a gym, but enough of a gym that I don't have to pay to join one. It's more of a "fitness area" if you will. And I believe you will. And if you won't, then screw you.
We put down a deposit, turned in our applications, and cancelled the rest of our appointments. Maybe not the smartest moves, but I have confidence that I can do anything to get this apartment. Hopefully I don't have to do much more than I have. I did give him money, after all.
Yay.
8/10/2001 07:09:00 PM link
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Tuesday, August 07, 2001
Apartments!
So I'll be gone for a few days looking for apartments in Chicago! Yay! I'll be back this weekend with all the details...
8/07/2001 08:30:00 AM link
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Sunday, August 05, 2001
Messed Up Dreams
So I don't know what I ate last night, but I had the longest dream I think I've ever had. So I was at the Grammy's (don't ask why) with my parents, and Kid Rock saw us, and let us into the very front section. We were also with a midget, which could explain why he was so nice to us. So we're watching the performances, and there don't seem to be any awards, just a lot of songs. And there's this percussion ensemble, and they invite people up to help them set up. (Why would they do that?) And me and some other guy (by now, my parents have disappeared) are hitting on the women in charge of the chimes and xylophones and stuff, and their boss comes and yells at us, and he fixes the stuff that we thought was broken, and we go sit back down. And for some reason, everyone performing is all about letting audience members come up and dance and stuff with them. So when he calls people up, he only asks specific people, and i'm one of the last ones he comes to, and he says this word that starts with a B and I say "excuse me?" and he says, "yeah that's what I thought" and moved on. The word was like "Brendor" or something that makes no sense. So everyone is up dancing with the bands. Except everyone magically know the choreography, so you don't get any losers who just come up and bounce around. So somehow later, I'm up there, and then the song ends, and instead of going back to the audience, I end up backstage, where, for some reason, my name is on a list and I'm actually allowed to be. Even though Madonna is back there. And tons of other people. But apparently, I've performed in this theatre, because I totally know my way around.
Then I wake up when my mom comes in. I tell her all about the dream. Then I go back to sleep.
But I never did wake up. I dreamed that part too. So then I go back into the dream within a dream, and I'm back at the Grammy's and we're dancing again, except my friend (?) Reese Witherspoon dances too far and falls into the orchestra pit. I jump down (quite athletically) and make sure she's OK. She gets up, just embarrassed. not hurt at all, even though she landed flat on her back. Wow. Who knew Reese had it in her? So I wander around under the stage, and in the dressing room, I run into this girl from high school, Jamie Barker, who no one liked because she graduated with our class a year too early, and she looked good, and I was talking to her, telling her all about the Drake Theatre website and (even though she didn't go there) how she should go and sign up. Then these other girls (one of them was Allison's Duluth roommate) come up and start making fun of her, and then I start getting mad, because it's totally rude, even though I don't really like Jamie Barker.
Then I really do wake up. What the hell was that?
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Friday, August 03, 2001
Boring.
Well my parents are coming home a day early. This kind of put a damper on my cleaning plans, since I was going to take a bunch of boxes to goodwill and a bunch of boxes to my storage space. The room was going to be all nice and empty. We'll have to settle for being clean. It's way better than it was, and I know they'll love it.
Surprisingly, I only had one pan to wash. I've been keeping up with the dishes. Perhaps I've grown up since living in Des Moines. Maybe I really will wash dishes when I move out on my own again. Or maybe it's because I learned that you burn 94 calories washing dishes by hand.
Seriously.
I knew all those health magazines would pay off eventually. I only had to read eight billion before I found a fact that I could really put to use. I still cut out tons of articles and workouts and recipes and stuff, but most of the magazines are now gone. I'm happy to have most of them out of my life. I reduced a stack of magazines fout feet tall to 3 inches of file folder. Who knew?
Wow. I'm going to have to start writing things that are more interesting...I just submitted my site to a blog reviewer. Hmm. Wonder what they'll say. If they make it past this heinously boring entry, I might get something higher than a .5 rating. Cross your fingers.
8/03/2001 09:33:00 PM link
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Intruders.
So all my patio furniture was out this morning, because I used it last night. I came home from work...and it was all put away.
Something fishy is going on here...
8/03/2001 06:33:00 PM link
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$2,404,858.00
That's apparently what I'm worth. I wish I actually had that much money. That'd be nice. I'd buy Gold Coast. All of it. Humans for Sale. Check it out.
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Thursday, August 02, 2001
Ouch.
Why is it that my eye feels the need to hurt every three days? What's going to happen if I'm doing a show, and I can't wear my glasses, and all of a sudden, I can't put in my contacts? What's going to happen then?
I don't know how many more pills I can take, or how many more eye drops I can put in. It's really getting old. And my eye hurts as much as it did when I worked at A to Z. Granted, it doesn't hurt every day like it did then, but it still hurts.
Stupid eye.
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Wednesday, August 01, 2001
Klingons. Geez.
So I'm watching the Daily Show. There are these people who have meetings, dress up as Klingons (from Star Trek, you half-wit...) and talk in the language of the Klingons. Sad.
What's even more sad, is that some dude actually sat down and wrote out an entire dictionary of Klingon.
Wait. What's sadder is that these people memorize it. Lots of people. Like, more than 20 in the same room.
So if you're one of these people, I'm sorry...but you're a loser.
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