Lazy Saturday Survey
September 29th, 2007 / 2 comments »
21 Factoids You Don’t Care to Know
It was a lowkey Saturday. Woke up this morning fully clothed on the sofa, hate when that happens. YouTube’d for a bit and caught up on email — sent that old Creedence Clearwater Revival song “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” to a ton of people, just cuz it’s totally stuck in my head this week. My best friend/former roomate BJ was in the hood with his girlfriend but I missed their call, they were driving back up to Westchester by the time we connected so we didn’t get to meetup. But it was cool catching up, they sound like they’re doing really good. So amazing to me, what a different life they have now than they did just earlier this year. Suburban bliss already and not even 30 yet. Kinda cool.
Went up to TARGET this afternoon, did some shopping but not much cuz I’m still tight on money till my next paycheck. Stopped off at the 99cent store on the way home, got basic stuff like Febreeze, lightbulbs, and mousetraps. Came home and chilled out. I rented Seasons 2 of Grey’s Anatomy a week ago and still haven’t watched any of it. Ran into Carrie on the way uptown to the store though, she was on her way to the gym ($20 a month and it’s right next to TARGET, I gotta look into this!); it’s always fun seeing her and those big boobs.
Talked with Nick a lot on the phone today, well as best as I could through that shitty Iowa Wireless service he’s got. He’s getting antsy in the cornfields, can’t want to finally be living here with me. I miss him LOADS.
Paycheck
September 28th, 2007 / No commentsMy 2nd eve shift went well tonight, dealt with a few more challenges than I did yesterday. Angry guests, dirty rooms, etc. It’s frustrating not being totally sure of what I’m doing yet, I know it’ll come with time.
Most of the staff all went out after work tonight for a coworker’s Going Away get together @ The Park tonight. I was invited and totally brought clothes to change into, but I dunno… ended up meeting up with Roy @ Union Square and riding the train uptown with him instead. Just felt like being low-key. Also kinda had the blues; it still feels strange, this Front Desk job. I wonder if I should just dig my feet in and learn to enjoy what I’m doing or, well do it regardless and continue looking for other opportunities in what I REALLY want to do. Eh, maybe I’m just feeling a little panicky cuz today’s the end of my first week of training and I got my first paycheck and it means I’m really doing this now.
Got the weekend off. Yay!
Betty
September 27th, 2007 / No commentsWorked my first evening shift @ work tonight. A few ppl called out and so it was a little hectic, but they finally gave me a login code and I just went straight to work checking folks in and learning other stuff. I normally don’t like working evening shifts (who wants to wake up in the morning and know you only have a few hours to yourself till you gotta go spend 8hrs at work later on?)… but it flew by kinda fast. It was cool seeing a hotel lobby all trendied out at night, been a long time since I’ve been part of that whole scene.
I watched Ugly Betty in the employee lounge on my lunch break. My manager told me at the end of my shift that I was doing an awesome job, and that it’s just about showing me more little things along the way. I left work happy.
Relief
September 26th, 2007 / No commentsWork went well today, more training at the front desk. Finally got out of the shadows and was able to step up and DO stuff, interact with ppl and begin to connect the dots. You can only stand around the background nodding and smiling for so long before it starts to fuck with your ego. Working at a fucking front desk again, who woulda thought? It’s like 2002 all over again. I was actually offered Concierge at 3 very high end hotels, but I turned them all down to take a lesser position at a company that I think fits me better. Maybe this was crazy of me, but I have a good feeling about this. And it just feels good having a job/place to be every day. The company is really amazing, I just have this feeling like it’s going to EXPLODE soon and I’m definately glad to be in on it while it’s still taking off. It was a good day.
I also really love working in the Meatpacking District, today on my lunch break I sat in this community park on 8th ave where LOTS of pigeons were flying around. It was creepy. Talked to my mom, she sounds good. Told her about Nick moving in — a chat I’d been building up too much in my head — and it went surprisingly smoothly. They may not be happy about it, but I feel like she and dad are beginning to accept that this is the way things are now.
Came home, watched some TV, talked to Nick for a bit. I’m gonna stay up late tonight. Need to wash some dishes, do some cleaning, and (ugh) spray for roaches, I keep catching them around my bookshelf which is so damn weird and gross. All my books are gonna smell like cherry scented bug spray.
Do You Remember?
September 25th, 2007 / No comments
Wow, A Written Entry
September 23rd, 2007 / No commentsSo here’s the scenario, winners: I’m kinda bored with WRITING stuff down journal style. As you can see, most of my updates lately have been video entries. It’s all about the YouTube these days, b/c yes I have totally sold my ass out to the hype (even after that anti-YouTube entry I did back in the day). Oh and remember that whole podcast project of mine? Heh, yeah that didn’t stick too well either did it? Let’s pretend I didn’t do it. See, the videos give me a chance to play on my shiny iMac and upload stuff onto YouTube, so that’s what I’ve been up to for most of the summer. I will try to remember to post the videos here too, but take a second to go to my vlog channel and click the orange SUBSCRIBE button. Then you’ll get an email update whenever I post a new video.
But hey, I’ve been keeping this here blog up for 5 years now (yup, FIVE!) and it still feels good to write shit down every once in awhile — also, some of you might not wanna watch the videos I’ve been doing cuz you’re at work and can’t be using the sound, or maybe your connection is too slow to load the content, or maybe you’re just not feeling it. It’s all good. I’ll do little updates for your one-note asses too, they just might not be as exciting as my RIVETING ARCHIVES! Did you just throw up a little bit in your mouth? Good, that was my goal.
Life’s taking new shape. Approaching my 28th birthday this year, I had a feeling/hope that big changes were coming, and they did. They’re here now. New job (2nd week of training starts tomorrow) and Nick (he moves to NYC and in with me in 2 weeks). I feel like with these changes, a decision is called for; I’m moving ahead and not looking back. I (me with the broody tendencies) seem to find myself looking back on my past a lot, usually fondly, sometimes bitterly, just back too often. I don’t want to do that anymore. I’m taking the lessons and truths and insights I’ve picked up and moving forward with them. New directions, or something like that.
Why Nick Is Right For Me
September 19th, 2007 / 2 comments »I was sitting with him (ok atop him) on the futon, sorta kissing him and said, “You make my heart bounce.” He looks at me, smiles, and says back, “So why don’t you bounce your way into the kitchen and fix me some fucking lunch.”
Our love is so pure.