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Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
2:52 am	"What men daily do not knowing what they do." I'm a little buzzed. I could be drunk-ish, but not really. Mostly tired and then drinking. I went out after the show tonight to Big Jim's. Had three drinks and a shot there. I'm drinking here a little. Just thinking. My mom was supposed to come to the show tonight but it snowed a lot where she lived and she couldn't come. I'm sad b/c every night of the show that ppl came that I knew none of them stayed after to talk to me. And tonight I thought six ppl were coming that I knew and would stay. It turned out only two of them came, and they didn't stay to talk to me either, b/c Suz had to leave to catch a bus. :( It just makes me sad for some reason. I feel like this is the biggest acting part I've ever had and I'm really excited about it and am doing a great job and no one is even coming to see it. Or even cares. I'm really mad my mom couldn't come b/c she doesn't know I dyed my hair black yet and I was gonna let the show surprise her. Got in a fight with Maria today. Like usual. I feel like what's going on isn't fair to her or me or anyone, but what to do? I suck at relationships. I don't understand them or how to make them work. I think they're just not for me. I need to make more money. I need another job that pays or a theatre job that pays instead of doing all these shows for free. The day after this one ends I'm starting a new one. I need to have time to write and sell some writing. Or some time to craft and sell my crafts. I feel like I'm being pressured to do all this stuff and I can't handle all of it. Jess' wedding is coming up, not really soon, but I need to start saving for it. Christmas is practically here. I'm okay enough with my life where it is now, but not happy or satisfied. I feel like I need a fresh start. I started thinking about him tonight. Old him. The other him I think of more often than that. Old him I only think of sparingly now-a-days. Or at least I only think of him with importance sparingly. It's easy to think of him in passing. I thought, god was that really me that happened to? Did that really occur? It seems more like a dream, or a nightmare, and I can't believe I actually did those things. I can't believe that was me there with him so long ago. Six and a half years ago now. I feel like I ate that time like breakfast cereal. Something sugary and bright colored that looks good on the surface or in the box but is really anything but healthy and slowly makes you malnourished and vitamin deficient. I just finished playing a game on neopets. It's 3AM. I'm so drowsy but not tired. You know? Conan is on TV. Byron is sleeping beside me. I don't know what to do. I feel like crying and I'm not sure it's for any good reason. I'm not sad. I was going to pick sad as my mood, but it's not really true. I saw disappointed and thought that was more like it. Disappointed in me, life, ppl around me, ghosts of my past. What to do? All I can do is what I can do. And what I can do is up to me to do. So it's only my fault if I don't do it, right? I'm just babbling now. I should go to bed. I thought today would be a good day. It was, at work, for a while. If this were six or seven years ago, Three's Company would be on Nick at Nite right now. Maybe it still is, who knows. I don't get cable. I own six of the eight seasons of it anyway. Been falling asleep to Season Five and Seven and Iron Man lately. I think I'll go put in Season 5 Disc 2 and let Jack Tripper soothe me to sleep. <3 him. Goodnight, Cruel World. Current Mood: disappointed Current Music: The Mamas and the Papas- Dedicated To The One I Love (nobody loves us)
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
5:27 pm	"Just wait for tomorrow, I guess that's what they all say just before they fall apart." Byron FINALLY got fixed today. We just picked him up from the vet. He seems fine. A little shaky maybe. Now we're supposed to keep him away from the other cats for a while. HA. Like that will ever work. Disappointing day at work. It was really quick, but I had to take the bus in, so I was LATE. And Mary told me she's most likely leaving the store soon. So I will either go with her or quit Starbucks. Damn. I wanted to leave for so long, but I really hate HAVING to leave. I got my hair cut today and I really like it. Let's see how long I can make it stay nice. I'm gonna dye it tomorrow maybe. In time for Althea's wedding on Saturday. Bennie is so bad. I'm really tired right now. I had read-thru for the one acts last night and didn't realize I'd have to bus to work today. No good sleep. I'm gonna have to bus in tomorrow too. Blah. Going to the Sphinx tonight to hear Jan Beatty read. It's the first of the year. If I made it that long. My eyes are closing! Tomorrow I work til one then have practice at six. Gah. Want nap. Gonna go take one. For twenty minutes. Yup. Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: Sweeney Todd Soundtrack- A Little Priest (nobody loves us)
Sunday, September 7th, 2008
10:10 pm	"The grabbing hands grab all they can, all for themselves after all." What a fucking crazy weekend. God, I feel like I don't write enough in here now that I have internet. Ergh. Before I get to that... update! -Work is crazy. It was really hellish while Mary was on vacation. Now it's kinda better. Melissa the uba-baish is getting transfered soon so she can perform her evil on some other poor Pittsburgh store. We're getting some new-ish people in. I'm kinda scared. Been thinking a lot about switching stores to somewhere A)closer to where I live and B)that's open more hours so I can work a morning AND a mid shift and be promoted to shift manager. Everyone says it's not that great and not even a huge pay raise, but I like doing the money stuff and the managing stuff and being in charge, so I think it's for me. Either that or I might try (after the holidays) getting some type of data entry/proofreading job and working at Starbucks only one or two days a week. Maybe at some college around here. And then I could take classes too. I really miss school. -Theatre was over for a while, but now I have The Rocky Horror Show, which is less than expected. I only started coming a few days before it opened, and I was less than impressed with it. But it's gotten much better in a few short days, and it's grown on me. It's not the normal Rocky we all know. A director's vision. Kinda weird, but enjoyable anyway. The problem is that shit keeps going wrong. And this company is less than professional. They're all pretty nice, but the director (who also runs the company) expects too much for the lack-of-budget they have and the short time they gave the tech ppl to perfect everything. We only had ONE full tech run. If that means nothing to you, we usually have FOUR. Not ready to open. Blah. And literally the next weekend after this show closes I have tech for the one acts at Carlow. I'm directing two of them. And then before that closes we'll have auditions for the alumni show, Much Ado About Nothing. So I'm booked until Christmas. BLEH. Oh yeah, and Summer Company picnic was last weekend. Good times. Had fun. -Crafts are kinda not going right now. I really need to step up and work on them. I have a sale less than two weeks away and one a week after that one. I'm trying to get some Halloween stuff together for it. I have stuff from last year that should help. I just think I'm working on the wrong things. I did sell a light switch plate on etsy last week. I was really excited about that. -Writing is okay. I did that poetry reading called Poetsburgh last weekend. It was good, but not very well attended. I wrote a couple new things lately, and submitted to a couple places. My submission to Future Ten was rejected, but I was sure that was gonna happen. It really wasn't that great. I wrote it so quickly. There wasn't anything clever about it. Oh well. Next time. So now that I've covered the four basic topics of my life, this weekend. As I mentioned, my show opened Friday. EPIC FAIL! So many things went wrong. And the fucking critic was there. So look for a review that sucks. The show really is pretty good when it all comes together. Then I went to Lava Lounge where it was packed with idiots. And Suzanne and Shannon show up at... 1AM. Guys, really? What's the point in coming at that point? I did have a good time there, though. And after, Jess and Mike went to Eat N Park with me. Good times. I got the Midnight Breakfast Bar. Yesterday was like a blur. I slept in then went to the store then watched DVDs then went to the show. Michelle, Maria and Max came to see it. It went better than Friday, but still not where we want it. P.S.- I think the Frank in this production is kinda crappy (not the actor, the character they made him), but I still am strangely attracted to the guy. I guess the overall aura of FRANK is greater than any amount of suck they can put into him. *Sigh* So, then we went out to Uno's and had a bite to eat. Good times again. But I still feel like I did nothing all weekend. Today started out good until I went shopping for something to wear to Althea's wedding. BLAH. I hate shopping for clothes. Period. And me and Maria got into a huge fight over basically nothing. I hate that nothing fits me or what does I still don't think looks good on me. I am gonna loose some damn weight before Jess' wedding if it kills me. So pretty much, I left the mall with nothing. I was pissed off, she was pissed off. And then we fought some more. So I went to ENP with Angela. It was really helpful to talk to someone about it. I feel better now, but it still sucks because it was really crappy for all day and just ruined the day for me. So weekend was basically useless. I decided while at ENP that I'm too damn lazy. I mean, it's nothing I had to decide. I've always known it. But really. I have so much shit to do around here, and so much time when I could be doing things, but I don't feel like it. I know why. I get home from a shitty day at work and don't feel like using my few free hours between that and theatre to clean and write. But I need to just suck it up and do it. Or else I will end up unhappy and angry at myself. I want to be happy, successful and have a sense of accomplishment as often as possible. I feel like I have so much potential to DO and MAKE and BE and I end up just sleeping through it or laying around watching movies. Damn it. Frankie (of Rocky fame) says, DON'T DREAM IT, BE IT. I need to listen to him!!! JUST DO IT! And with that, I'm going to go to bed early (10:37PM), and wake up RESTED for once, and come home from work and DO SOMETHING besides sit. DAMMIT. I'm falling asleep to Muppets' Treasure Island, and hopefully I'll dream of Tim Curry and have a wonderful day tomorrow. Send me your good wishes. I'm sick of being sick of everything!!! As Ben Stiller said in Meet the Parents, "I just wanna do what I wanna do!" Probably the best thing to ever come out of his mouth. Seriously. Good night, Cruel World, and fuck you too. I'm getting what I want from you starting tomorrow. Current Mood: pissed off Current Music: Depeche Mode- Everything Counts (nobody loves us)
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
3:34 am	"I am an immortal, sir, not a gazelle." OMg I'm getting drunk. Sorry. LOL. I meatn to write an entrey days ago bt never got around to it. I saw the Police with Elvis Costello recently... did I write about that? Awesome concert. so ggood. Then yesterady was Maris'a birthday and we went to see Maroon 5 and the Counting Crows. VERY GOOD. I've seen Maroon 5 before, and I wasn';ts sure I'd really be into the counting crows, biut it was very good. I lovesd all of M5 stuff. Got some on video. Tomorrow is Maria's party. At the Libary. Should be fun. I wanted to go to 80s night at Lava tonight, but Maria wasn';t feeling good so we went to see Bottle Shock instead. It was a good movie. Alan Rickman is in it. Very good, about wine! So I wanted to driunk wine, so I did when we got home. Megan McCabe brought us a bottle of red wine that we never drank so we opened it tonight and I drank pretty mich the whoile thing while we watched the Bird Cage LOL! Now wwe have on League of Extraordinarty Gentlemen, which I also love. And a,m drinking a Jim Beam and coke witht it. Yay! Wwe have seen so many movies lately! I want to see every movie that's out at a given time. So we can say we've seen them all. I am a member of a movie watchers club now that gets me rewards. Plus we go to the 99 cent theatre and AMC at the Waterfonrt is only $5 anytime during a weekday now. Ecept Friday Saturday and Sunday after 6PM is $10. Still not bad! Wew saw Tropic Thunderr I and I thought It wpould hat e it biut I really liked it a lot. O laughed all the ay thoruhg the movie. I ncase you missed my postedxc on facebook (god i' really druink, sorry for the mess of typnig), I saw Iron Man a couple times this summer and really got into the charactrer of Iron Man AND his alter gego tony Stark and I thinmjk Robert Downey Jr. who playts him is rEALLY REALLY hot in the movie. Luvs it. See if it you haven'te yet. Sot good! Ok, goign to read a bit and gp to bed before OI ca n miustype somethign else. WOW THIS IS BAD! THANKS!!! LUV THESE PICTURES FROM DEVART: Current Mood: drunk Current Music: Maroon 5- Sweetest Goodbye (2 guilty pleas | nobody loves us)
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
3:52 pm	"Some people get up at the break of day, gotta go to work before it gets too late." I have been busy busy busy! Sort of. This past weekend I FINALLY went and did that flea market in the park. Not bad. I "shared" a space with Bill (you can take up as much space as you want), so it was only $5 for my space instead of $10. And I made $65 in a little over five hours. Not bad! I had flea market stuff there, although not everything I have here to sell, and some crafts. I sold a scarf and two cell cozies from my crafts. I will put pictures of my flea market set up in my craft blog. Since then I've found homes for the two remaining kittens (sort of... more later), gotten invited to do a poetry reading in Braddock by someone who found me online, got some more things done online, went to finally see Jess and Mike's apartment, and dropped off some stuff in Steve's office today after work. Including the sailor hat that says STEVE in rainbow colors that we got him at Idlewild. He asked me if I picked a one act to direct yet when he never actually asked me to direct one. But he doesn't remember asking Michelle to direct. Stupid. BTW, the alumni show IS going to be "Much Ado About Nothing," for which I'm totally trying out for KEANU's part. Hehehe. I'm waiting to hear back from Future Ten about the plan I submitted to them. And still have to really jump into the full length play I've been outlining. It's kinda good I guess, b/c I think when I really get started on it, it's gonna be all I want to do for a while. Since I have two craft shows coming up and Althea's wedding and Rocky Horror all in September, it's good I didn't start yet. Of course, the One Acts and the alumni show will be right after that so, like always, there is no good time for anything! I need to get together with Cara soon for her graduation/birthday. I will be delivering kittens this week, though. And Maria's birthday party is next weekend... Oh yes, so there are more kittens. I have an appointment for Byron to get fixed in TWO WEEKS. I put in my application to get him fixed TWO MONTHS ago. And they have taken forever to do anything about it. Although they're giving me a great price: $60 for all his shots and getting him fixed. And of course, with two weeks to go, Lenore has more kittens. We didn't know she was pregnant b/c she has just never been normal size since the first litter, even though the first two were a while apart. She likes being plump I think. I kept feeling her belly for the lumps they get when they're pregnant, but I never felt anything. Dammit. So now there are FIVE more kittens. I'm not worried about it though. We're moving Lenore into the bedroom with the babies so Byron won't go near her until he's fixed. And I'm listing on craigslist as soon as they're almost ready to go instead of waiting so long and getting so attached to them. I found two people on craigslist this time right away. And a friend thinks her friends might want a couple of the new kittens. So it shouldn't be too bad. But if you're reading this and you want one, or know someone who does, let me know, please!!! Ok, and before I forget, THIS MOVIE is rocking my world WAAAAY before it even is a thing! I think Gaz should be Marley and Carey be Cratchit, which will probably be the case since they're not listed with character names. So many good movies coming out! Tim Burton's making an Alice in Wonderland movie! And he's working with Crispin Glover on a project. Crispin Glover is also doing a movie about the Donner Party, rock! So good. And by the way, I've never been a comic book or superhero kinda girl except for Batman, but I must tell you, along with Sin City and 300 being awesome, Wanted was really good, the new Incredible Hulk movie wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, and Iron Man was FREAKING AMAZING! Loved it! And (SPOILER ALERT KINDA), they're making a sequel of it AND an Avengers movie along with some other Marvel heroes movies (Captain America, Thor) for 2010 and 2011. And you know what else is happening in 2010 and 2011? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts One (November 2010) and Two (May 2011). Great years for movies ahead. P.S.- Robert Downey Jr. is TOTALLY the new Johnny Depp. Watch Iron Man for similarities in appearance, speaking style and movements. So good. Never really knew one thing or the other about RDJ, but he was good in Zodiac, and he rocked my world in Iron Man. I will, unfortunately, go see Tropic Thunder to see if it's really as bad as I think, and hopefully it won't change my opinion of him. Ok, one last thing before I go for now: I'm getting really excited about helping to plan Jess and Mike's wedding and the vacation we're all going on afterwards to Disney World. And although I will have to save a LOT of money to 1)be the maid of honor with dress and bachelorette party and all, 2)get a cool bridal shower and wedding present for them, and 3)go on the vacation afterwards and have a really awesome time there, which I swear will happen, I REALLY want to plan a fall trip to NYC in a month or two. I have two reasons for going besides the usual fact that it's awesome and I can visit friends there. 1)Equus will be playing on Broadway featuring Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths, and 2)there will be a show called Absinthe showing there that is described as Cirque du Soleil meets Rocky Horror Picture Show. I'm so in. Jess and Mike were talking about going up there for Thanksgiving. I wonder if they're still interested. Will ask later and write about it! For now, I'm doing the writing and the crafting. And the selling, hopefully! But RIGHT now, I'm going to rest a bit before dinner. Too much Starbucks after being gone for so long. Starbucks, there's another journal entry of its own... Current Mood: lazy Current Music: Spamalot- Finland (nobody loves us)
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
8:28 pm	"Everything is going wrong but we're just so happy." I have internets at home now! Yay! I'm so happy! In the time we've had it, I uploaded about a zillion pictures on facebook and listed a few things on etsy. My etsy shop was so sad. I had to revive it. So I was supposed to go to Cara's graduation party yesterday, but of course that didn't happen. Yesterday sucked a lot actually. If I had gone I would have had to take a bus and a two zone T both ways, and that sucks anyway, but I really didn't want to do that alone (esp. since I've never even been on the T before) and alone at night on the way back. I hate not having a car. I also was supposed to go sell garage sale stuff today in the park, but I slept right through my alarm. Then, when I finally woke up I thought, oh well, it was supposed to storm all day today anyhow and I might not have been able to do it as it was. Nope. Nice and sunny all day. Dammit. I'm really broke right now and need some moneys! I just sold a few things on ebay. Need to list more. Hopefully some etsy stuff will sell. And I'm gonna do the park sale every Saturday I can until it ends. Part of the reason I'm so broke is because I went to Idlewild last week with the theatre kids, which was really fun, and I went to the Police/Elvis Costello concert with Angela, which was amazing. Really great time. But they both weren't cheap, and due to those and theatre things, I've had to take off work a lot lately. So no hours plus spending money equals totally broke. Well, at least Earnest is over. That was HELL. So glad it's done. The next show I'm working on is the ROCKY HORROR SHOW and that doesn't start for me until August 23rd. So I have some time away from that. I will hopefully get my craft stuff organized in that time and everything clean here. Ok that's all that's going on now. I just wanted a short update. Off to upload more pictures, then start on youtube. Byes. Current Mood: busy Current Music: Enya- May It Be (nobody loves us)
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
3:18 pm	"No babies, no rabies!" I just remembered that I declared that the motto of 2007 at New Year's 2006. Well, I can't think of anyone I know who had either that year. Hmm. I'm in my store using the internets before the show tonight. Stupid fuckers upstairs in the gym are using the stair machine or walking machine or whatever so fast that the chandeliers are shaking and I can feel the floor and my table shaking. Sometimes when they're lifting weights (actually this happens a lot), they drop them on the floor right above where we stand behind our registers and the ceiling makes this awful noise like it's gonna cave in. We have had pieces of ceiling fall off before due to this. And once it hit a customer in the head. I can't say it wasn't funny. Someone should go up there and tell them they're DOIN IT WRONG! We've complained before, but no one ever really cares. I went to see Dark Knight yesterday. It was awesome like I knew it would be. Gaz = thud. Forever. I loves him. I was kinda disappointed at the way it ended for a certain character, but I won't post that here b/c it is a HUGE spoiler. Not like anyone reads this anyway. Everyone was super in it; some better than others. And I really liked how it wasn't completely Christian Bale-centric this time. A lot of smaller characters got some quality screen time. Not that I don't love Christian Bale. I will almost definitely go see it again. This show is draining me of my life. Everyone who has seen it has said it's really great. I knew it would be. But working on it has just sucked a lot. Only four more runs and a speed through, thank GOD! I really can't get over how badly April has failed when it has come to crunch time. I mean, the show has run every night without any real hitches, but when there have been problems, she is clueless. And she has no consideration for ASMs and actors at all. God. She should stick to dancing. The main problem is that she's too organized and if something happens that's not in her big plan she freaks. Even if that something is something that is SUPPOSED to happen but she just didn't know about it. Tomorrow is Maria's graduation party. Good times. Good thing I already got her a present b/c I'm gonna be super broke soon. Next weekend is Idlewild and then the Police/Elvis Costello concert back to back. Man, I almost forgot to pay my student loans. Woo. That sucks. I hate paying back my debts. They should just go away with time. And it sucks cuz right now I'm on some plan where I'm just paying back interest or something so the big number never gets any smaller and it feels like I'm just paying money for no reason. Squee! Go watch "Find Your Grail" on facebook's ilike! Yay! It has Tim Curry in it and everything! This is my favorite song from Spamalot. I'm totally sad that Clay Aiken was in it for a while. That had to have been bad. Eww. Oh, man, people on facebook are retarded. Seriously, like as in mentally handicapped. I kinda miss it when you had to have a college account to join. Oh well. Thems were the days. Okay, I'm going to do some real kinda things on here and stop wasting time. Hahaha. See you all laters! P.S.- I did this thing that makes a collage of my interests, with my LJ b/c it doesn't work on DJ, but I have pretty much the same things. This is what it came up with: Create your own! By ga_woo using Web Services by Yahoo! Current Mood: bored Current Music: Marilyn Manson- Rock Is Dead (nobody loves us)
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
4:23 pm	"Swap your dull grey thoughts for demands you can stand up to." I am sitting in my store waiting for Ang to get off work so we can get food before practice. I have opened about a gillion tabs on three different windows full of surveys and fanfics to do when I'm at home and don't have the internet. I wish for it soon. I saw this girl waiting for the bus today with a shirt on that said- I Trust Severus Snape (Albus did.) It was awesome. I should look for that on ebay. I've been wanting to read more HP fanfic lately (and watch the movies) since I've made these Harry Potter Sims. LOL. I just do that to see them interact with each other. It's funny b/c I don't even play with it that much. It's too damn hard to take care of them. I just want it to run itself. Today I totally laughed in a customer's face b/c she was so retarded. We really have been getting a bunch of freakin' idiots in the store for some reason lately. Now, this happens all the time where someone orders, let's say, a large iced tea and when they go to pick it up a small (hot) latte is sitting there and they pick it up and take it instead. Happens all the freaking time with every kind of drink, but it's funnier when something like that (hot/cold, small/large) happens. It's funnier when instead of taking the drink away they ask one of us, "Is this my drink?" First of all, I don't fucking know what your drink is; do you think they transmit every drink ordered into my brain? Second, oh, you ordered a LARGE COLD drink? Does that look LARGE or COLD to you? Today, this woman ordered a small cup of cold apple juice. Now, what she was trying to take WAS small, I'll give her that. But it was a coffee. Doh! Only coffees and teas come up right at the register, but I forgive people that b/c the ones that take the wrong thing there are usually first-timers. This lady picked up the 200 degree cup of coffee, held it in her hand (thus feeling the temperature of the drink), and asked me if it was her cold apple juice. Are you fucking kidding me? I was like, "No, that's a HOT COFFEE. Your COLD APPLE JUICE will be up at the bar" and pointed. She looked at me then the bar and as she started to walk away I just burst out laughing hysterically. She looked at me, and I had to walk away quickly so she didn't get too offended. I can usually hold in my laughter until the idiots are gone then talk about them to my fellow baristas, but it was a crazy fucking morning. Man. And yes, we do talk about you when you leave. And yes, we will give you decaf if you piss us off or are pregnant and order some super caffeinated drink. Don't destroy the next generation's brain cells any more than you're going to already. All right, I guess that's all I have to say right now. I should be writing this one-act play thing I'm quasi-working on now while I have ideas in my head, but internets! And then on to play practice where all my intelligence will be effectively exterminated. BTW- if you want free tickets to see my show, The Importance of Being Earnest, let me know. They're trying to fill up the audience on opening night, and I have a several hundred free tickets to give out! Until next time, Cruel World... Current Mood: amused Current Music: Tones On Tail- Go! (nobody loves us)
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
12:36 pm	"So what's the use in complaining when you've got everything you need?" So I felt like blogging. I'm sitting at the Amazon Cafe once again. We're getting internet at home soon. About fucking time. I'm sick of sitting here and in Steve's office or at Starbucks to do my stuff. Effective immediately upon receiving internet, I will be online 24/7 and will mostly likely have to physically force myself away from the computer. It sucks, but I'm looking forward to it. Halloween in June was this weekend. It was a great time, but it seemed somehow lamer than other ones. Everyone was out of the apartment by 3AM. My costume was pretty sweet though. I didn't think it would be. A whole group of Duquesne kids came as Candyland, thus foiling our plans to be that for this coming actual Halloween. But they were awesome, so it's ok. It was the same people (in part) that came as the flag on the moon last year. I said next year they should come as the OJ Simpson trial. Althea wants to be the glove. The clock on this UltraSharp Dell Desktop flatscreen that the lovely people at Amazon have says it's 12:41. It's actually 1:41, but I wish the latter were true. I've wasted too much time today. Oh well. I was only gonna sleep it off anyway. Maria is on vacation last, this, and next weeks. I've been bus-in' it up. I mostly hate it. We cleaned and cleaned for the party though, so I really don't have anything to do at home. There is a bit more cleaning to do, but I don't feel like it. I did a craft sale not too long ago, and it was okay. I have ideas for stuff to make, but I'm gonna take my time with it. Yesterday I wrote three poems, which is more than I've written in months. Too damn busy. I did have a poem accepted to Weave Magazine. I think I wrote that here already... But now I need to get crackin' on my play before the inspiration leaves me completely. And my movies too. And my one acts. One has a deadline this month. Gotta work! So other than that and this horrible play I'm working on (not that the play is horrible, it's just boring to be at practice with nothing to do), I'm free of freaking out trying to get stuff done in a hurry. I just watched some girl try to push her way out of the pull doors here. She tried both without looking at the word pull on them then gave up and went out a different set of doors across the cafe. Stupid people make the world turn slower. And they all love to visit this hotel. Today some woman wanted sugar free amaretto syrup in her coffee. Not only do we not have a sugar free version of that, we don't even have amaretto syrup. Then she didn't tell me she wanted it in a for-here mug, but told Kat at the register she wanted it in a mug. When Kat brought it to her she said, no, she wanted to BUY a mug to go with it. Okay... So the lady made Kat go fetch her an array of mugs from our retail wall and bring them to the register for her to pick from. What a fucking moron. And I have to smile and be nice to these people! See why I get so stressed out! That's weird. I got a call yesterday from Boston University about my interest in their grad school. I didn't remember sending anything to them, but I thought maybe I did. Just now someone from the University of Maryland called and left a voicemail for "Anna" about their grad school. Hmm. Anna could be a bad interpretation of my name? I dunno. Weird. Probably some dumb bitch doesn't know her own phone number. She doesn't deserve to go to grad school. Ok, I better go get on the 61C. I need to stop at the post office and send out a package. I bought the new Neil Diamond album for my grandparents. They don't have a lot of money right now and would never buy it for themselves. But they do like him a lot, and I got a discount on it. Play practice tonight, work tomorrow, then 80s night. Come join me if you're not attending some lame barbeque! It will be much more fun with DJ Doug and me! Then hopefully I'll sleep all weekend long! Next weekend is Althea's bridal shower (which I've got to find some way to get to) and John's going away party. And tech weekend. Then it will be the opening of the show, Maria's graduation party and Carlow Theatre Idlewild trip. See? Even when I'm not busy I am! Current Mood: tired Current Music: The Ramones- Sheena Is A Punk Rocker (nobody loves us)
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
1:05 pm	Summary of life... quickly. -Sunburn: I am peeling like whoa. It's really gross. I look like I have leporacy. Or a flesh-eating virus. -Crafts: Sale went okay, can't complain because the table was free. -Writing: I had a poem accepted in Weave Magazine for their inaugural issue. Woot! -Theatre: Wrapped up one show, which was awesome, and am working on a new show, not so awesome. It's The Importance of Being Earnest, so of course the show is great. But cast is not so great and practices are numbing my brain. Blah. Come see it though to see me play a maid! Dress and all! -Cleaning: I feel like I've been cleaning forever and getting no where! Such is life when you have six cats living in your house... -Kittens: We still have one unclaimed kitten, but three are still at the house. My favorite one left yesterday. I was le sad. -Yard Sales: I've been gathering stuff to sell in my cleaning and I have bunches to get rid of now! I want to do this flea market in North Park where you just show up and it's ten bucks. Can't hurt to try. But I have to wait until after next week. Will sell crafts at it too! -Halloween in June!: It's this Saturday! Yay! I have a lot of stuff to do yet for it, including make my costume. But it should be really really fun! Ok now I'm going to do more internets and go shopping and go clean and maybe play Nintendo! Wheeeeeeeeeee! Current Mood: busy Current Music: Frank Sinatra- Moonlight Serenade (nobody loves us)
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
4:58 pm	"This man, he exist?" "I'm afraid so, General..." So as I'm writing in here I'm also writing in my livejournal. Yeah, I created one a couple of years ago and have never used it yet. But it's not like this one; it's for fandom things. Unfortunately, deadjournal doesn't get the hits I'd like for posting fanfics and fanart and whatnot. Yup. I don't really have anything to write in here. Same old thing going on as usual. Starbucks is blah, doing theatre, trying to write but failing. Usual. Nothing's bad right now, though. It's just normal. BTW- I hate kids. I'm in this Starbucks and there's a couple of them SCREAMING. Blah! I need to go get some allergy meds before play practice. My nose is driving me freakin' crazy. Crap, I was gonna list some stuff on ebay before I left here. Oh well. I needed to do some theatre things, which I'm taking to the theatre to do, and sign up for this craft sale, which I can't actually send for another ten minutes. Blah. So Ang is gonna be working in my store. YAY! It's about time someone competent was there. And now we'll be together all the time like Siamese twins, what with the plays and all too. BTW, everyone come see this show! It's the first two weekends of June and REALLY FUNNY. More about that later. I guess that's all I'll make myself write or I'll just start rambling. Blah. Just wanted to put something down. I have off four days in a row after tomorrow, and I'm cleaning my whole apartment from top to bottom. Yard sale here I come! Ok, that's May, Cruel World! Current Mood: complacent Current Music: Echo and the Bunnymen- Never Stop (Discotheque) (1 guilty plea | nobody loves us)
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
12:06 pm	"I'll make your heart smile." Hello DJ! It's been a while. As usual. I just finished my play last night. The one I've been ACTING in, which is awesome. Not to brag or anything, but everyone has been telling me how amazingly funny I am in the one play, especially Jay. That makes me so happy to think I don't completely suck at acting. I am really funny in that one... or was since it's over now. We had a sell out crowd this whole past week. I got to see some people in the audience (like Cher and Janiece and Joel!) and work with some people back stage (like Jess and Trudy and Dani) that I haven't seen in ages! It was a really awesome time. I'm kinda sad it's over, but I won't miss all the work and time it took. I've had two of my monologues selected this year for the Practice Monologamy contest, which will be performed in two weeks. I'm also directing two, which is cool. I hope they don't suck too much. That's the last weekend of April on Thurs, Fri and Sat, so come see them! After that I'm getting back into some craft stuff since I've been neglecting that for theatre. Gonna get my etsy and blog back up to date and make some new things. Hopefully there will be another IMI in May or June b/c I miss them. I also have a three day block planned out to completely clean the apartment. I'm talking Clean House style, like when I have my keep pile I'm gonna go back through it and get rid of half of it again. I have too much SHIT that I don't use or even remember I have and the apartment is a fucking wreck. We don't know where anything is half the time and that sucks. Plus we're staying in this apartment for at least another year (that's right, it's my first extended lease!), so we might as well make it livable. Then we're planning another yard sale. Althea is bringing some of her stuff to sell at that too so we can have a nice big one. That will be nice to do in May b/c Maria will be done with school, graduated and there will be no theatre. And the apt. will be all ready for the Fifth Annual Halloween in June party, which is gonna rock. I'm doing a show starting in June that opens in July for the Summer Company. It's The Importance of Being Earnest, which is pretty much my dream to work on... I'm not stage managing it, just ASMing, but that rocks for me. Not as much work, and I can do the show with minimal stress. April, the stage manager, tells me that ASMs in this show are also going to play maids, so looks like I'll kinda be acting again anyway. :) Oh, yes. Lenore had kittens this morning. LOL. I kinda knew she was pregnant again, but it's so hard to tell for sure. I really wanted to get Byron fixed after last time, but I've been very low on money and time. That was right around the holidays and forget that shit. Given the timing on this one, she got pregnant in early February, which would have given us November, December and January to get Byron fixed. Holidays, vacations, two shows, extra work hours, etc. Yeah. But this time I'm so serious. I don't want Byron spraying any more and this will be the LAST bunch of kittens. Although I'm actually pleased we're gonna have more kittens around. They are so sweet and I love them all! But I already have one possible taker for a kitten. There's four again, so if you are interested, let me know! So for now I'm working on some poems and drafting a full length play (I hopes, I hopes...) and a couple little one acts. And thinking about getting a degree in stage management. And thinking how I should be a manager at Starbucks or find somewhere that pays better. A lot of people are jumping ship right now b/c it kinda sucks for the employees at the moment. A lot of changes going on so that customers are getting better products and we're working our asses off with no incentive or reward. Yeah. Ok, that's all for now; just thought I'd update SOMETHING in here since I neglect it so much. And I don't wanna miss a month! TTYL, Cruel World! Current Mood: busy Current Music: K.D. Lang- Nowhere To Stand (1 guilty plea | nobody loves us)
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
5:57 pm	One more time! So, because the hostel we stayed at is super awesome, they let us use the lockers in their basement today after we checked out so we could go shopping and stuff without all our luggage! We just came back to get it and were gonna go sit at the station or a cafe for a while and wait, when we remembered that they had a lounge and game room we'd never even looked at. It has a ping pong table, pool table, tvs, movie room, internet lab and several arcade games! So we're sitting here relaxing a bit and using the web before we head up to use the subway the last time. Last night we went out and luckily it had stopped raining for a while. We met Johnny at 2 x 4 where he had met these people, one of whom was leaving for China the next day (today). They were super nice. And I had a Moz shirt on, which everyone at the gay bar loved. Some girl took a picture of it to put in her blog. So Johnny and I had absinthe! Unfortunately, as with most things in my life, it was sorta ghetto. This is because they were out of sugarcubes, so they had to use a box of domino's sugar and shake it up with it! LOL! It was still good, very good. It didn't make me all crazy (I just had a little glass), but it made me super mellow and I got drunk very quickly afterwards. I would totally do it again! We were there until around 3AM (the bars close at 4AM here, and if there's enough people they just close the doors and keep serving liquor until everyone leaves), then we caught the subway home and said by to Johnny. So much fun! Today we woke up, checked out, had breakfast and headed to Greenwich Village again to go to the White Horse Tavern. Well, it decided to fucking pour rain again, so everything we had that was dry finally soon became soaked again. Dammit. And we walked in the wrong direction for about seven blocks too. :( But in the end it was worth it. This bar was so cute! It was all wooden and was truly pub-tacular. It reminded me of a classier Big Jim's. There was... what I assume to be a retired soccer team there. They all had on soccer-seeming uniforms but were really old. They were in the bar... singing songs together! Very drunkly, too. Esp. for 3PM. It was so cute! I was happy just to visit this historic bar. This is the bar in which Dylan Thomas drank 18 shots of whiskey before he stumbled home and died. This is the bar across the street from where Jack Kerouac lived, and the bar which kicked him out time and time again. This is the bar where Hunter S. Thompson hung out in New York. I was thrilled! I would go there all the time if I lived here, and I would write a book sitting in the window of the bar. So then we came back here and are chilling in the basement lounge. There's a bunch of British boys with adorable accents playing pool in the next room. Some French girls were just smoking cigarettes in front of me. And two Chinese people are using the computers in the internet lab. Earlier today, we checked into our lockers with a group of German kids. I <3 NY! I will be truly sad to leave it, not just because I'm a-feared to get on the Greyhound bus again after last week's trip! Will update some time upon arrival home! I had a blast this week! Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: The Smiths- Bigmouth Strikes Again (nobody loves us)
Friday, March 7th, 2008
7:17 pm	"And I wonder, still I wonder, who'll stop the rain?" Jesus Christ! The rain is ridiculous! We left the hostel a little after noon and got back around 7PM and we are totally soaked. And I'd say we only spent about an hour of that in the rain. My shoes are totally soaked; they're sitting by the heat pipe thingy now so they dry a little before we go out tonight. So when we left today we went to Starbucks for breakfast. They have all the sandwiches and salads and things here. They were pretty good. BTW, we've found three Starbucks now that receive a rating of 5 out of 5. And I think we've been to nine. So that's one third that are as good as they're supposed to be. Not very good. But those three have been very nice. We then walked through the park, stopping to visit a the Central Park castle, Castle Belvedere. It was really pretty! Very small, but cute anyway. Then we got to the MET. We spent HOURS there and still didn't see everything. I took gillions of pictures. Esp. in the Egyptian rooms. They had so many sarcophagi and mummies! It was pretty cool. We decided not to go to the Guggenheim or Whitney since the MET took so long. We'll just visit them another time. Then we were gonna walk through the park, but since it was POURING, we walked on the street looking for somewhere to eat. Jesus. In case you don't know, the East Side, where we were, is home to Fifth Avenue, Madison Avenue and Park Avenue. Not too many cheap little cafes. But lots of horrid expensive stores and more horrid people. I totally saw a fight for a taxi and a fight on a subway today, both between two women! So we finally found a cafe, I think it was called Viant's Coffee, where we had sandwiches and warm drinks. We were then right by FAO Schwartz and the Plaza Hotel (I'm pretty sure I actually saw it, but it was getting dark and we were far away), which were very close, but it was raining so hard that we decided just to get on the subway and go home since it was right next to us. Blah! So then we stopped in a little corner grocery store by our hostel and I bought a 1 pint, 8 oz. bottle of Smirnoff Triple Black! Ha! I'm gonna drink it now in my room while I'm getting dry. Tonight we're going out again with Johnny, probably to the Alphabet Lounge and Coyote Ugly but definitely to 2 x 4 again. Then tomorrow we have to check out by 11AM! And hopefully there will be a place in the Times Square station to get a locker so we don't have to lug our bags around all day. I think we're gonna go to Ellis Island and the White Horse Tavern then just hang out until our bus leaves. Yay! Ok, that's all for now. Not sure if I'll get to update tomorrow, but I will be home soon! See you in a bit, Cruel World! P.S.- I miss my kitties! Current Mood: cold Current Music: Fastball- Fire Escape (nobody loves us)
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
8:49 pm	"Will I see you tonight on a downtown train?" So today we had a nice calm day. Didn't do too much, and we're back at the hostel early. I don't even mind b/c as far as I see it, I'm on vacation and I'm relaxing. I wouldn't be able to do that at home! We're watching Sister Act 2 on TV right now, lol! So today we went down to Greenwich Village and did some more shopping. We went to this place called Forbidden Planet where they have lots of manga and comics and a place called the Strand which is a bookstore that has 18 miles of books. Wow! They had this little artist/vendor booth fair thing going on in Union Square so we looked at that too. I bought an Obama button (yes!), and I went for it and bought a hash pipe. It's not as pretty as the ones in that store the other day, but it was cheaper and I bought it from an artist who makes them himself in New Jersey. He was really cool, and I was happy to support his craft. Then we went to East Village to look for this one restaurant, which doesn't exist anymore. But I got some nice pictures. It seems like the only time we've ever had subway problems is when we were going to or coming from East Village. Rar! Eventually we got back to Greenwich Village where we ate at a cute little vegan place called Sacred Chow. Then we went to Murray's Cheese shop! Yay! We got some cheese, bread, chocolate, and sparkling juice to take back to the hostel. So now we're here just chilling. I'm glad b/c we need to rest today. Tomorrow we're visiting three museums and going out drinking. And then Saturday we're probably going to have to check out early and lug our bags around for hours before our bus leaves at 11PM, and who knows what that will be like. It seems like it's almost over, even though we have two days left. Oh well; I've had a great time and at least I haven't been at work! Current Mood: relaxed Current Music: Rod Stewart- Downtown Train (1 guilty plea | nobody loves us)
12:02 pm	"The bomb that will bring us together." Ok, so just so everyone knows, the bomb that went off in Times Square this morning was a minor one and we weren't anywhere near it. It was about 3:45AM and we were last in Times Square around 2AM I'd say. It was just big enough to blow the front windows out of the army recruitment office that it was targeted for. No big! So yesterday we went to Europan for breakfast again. It was yummy! Then we took the subway to 79th and walked to the New York Museum of Natural History. It was nice, but it was very similar to the one in Pittsburgh. Also, it was set up very weird, and we had a hard time finding our way around. Lots of dead ends. And we couldn't even see the dinosaurs without paying a separate price. Weird. So after that we headed down to Chinatown to meet Johnny. We had snacks and drinks at this place called XO. I had some coconut ice slush and it was super yummy! Then we walked around Chinatown for a bit and looked at the little shops. We were going to try to go to Little Italy next, which is near Chinatown. But it seems like maybe the Chinese took over the Italians, risk style, because no matter where we went, the place on the map that said Little Italy still had Chinese lettering all over the place. There were no Italian places anywhere! So we went into a nearby Whole Foods to look at the map and plan where to go next. It was amazing in there. I've never been in the one in Pittsburgh, but John said this was incredible even for New York. I took tons of pictures b/c I was so impressed! They had this thing that would grind peanuts into peanut butter right in front of you. OMG, it was amazing. So after that we went back to the West Side and went to this Chinese place called The Cottage that John knows. OMG. While you're there, they give you unlimited free box wine. It was awesome! And the food was good too, although there was too much for us to eat. But as we were walking back with our takeout boxes some guy asked if he could have them and we said yes. I was happy someone would eat them b/c I knew I wouldn't. We stopped at the hostel then went back downtown to East Village for some bar crawling. We went to a nice dive place called 2 x 4 that I had looked up. Well drinks were only $3 there and it was a nice cozy atmosphere. We're going back on Friday b/c they carry ABSINTHE there (and it's hard to find that, even in NYC), but they were out last night. Then we went to a tobacco bar called Karma. Full bar plus hookahs. Very nice. Pricey though. Beer was $6 for draft. We just stayed there for a drink and a smoke. It's rare to smoke in a bar here. They don't allow that except in a few special circumstances. After that we were a little buzzed but tired, so we headed home. Not sure what's gonna happen today. But I'm gonna go take a shower now, and we'll see from there! Current Mood: mellow Current Music: Amy Winehouse- Rehab (1 guilty plea | nobody loves us)
2:22 am	"So let's find a bar so dark we forget who we are." Okay, so I'm a little drunk, so forgive this post if it's a little wrong. I have two days of stuff to write, too! It's been a busy couple of days, and I've been too tired to write! Yesterday we got up and went out with the intention of going to some museums. It was raining a little off and on, but never anything horrible. So we went to a place where the map said would have a post office to send out some post cards. We ended up in Rockefeller Center and near to Radio City Music Hall. It was cool to see both of those things, but it took an hour for us to find the right post office b/c people kept directing us in weird places that were wrong! We finally found it and mailed them then proceeded to the museums. Turns out that MoMA is closed on Tuesdays and the former Museum of Television and Radio (which is now called something else), was more expensive than we thought, so we didn't actually do any museums yesterday! Instead we ended up at this place called Isadore's that was amazing. I had an egg salad sandwich on rosemary focaccia bread with lentil soup and Maria had a grilled veggie panini. Yay! Then we went down to Greenwich Village to do some seeing and shopping. It was fun to look at. There was a knitting store and an incense store (with billions of kinds of incense and oils). Then some guys stopped us on the street to ask where Duquesne is (it was on my hoodie). They, of course, tried to sell us some CDs then. Ha. They were really funny. One wanted to sell us CDs so badly and the other just wanted to hook up. My favorite was that he told us that we could stay with him and to go get the money we paid for our hostel back and we could buy pot with it. LOL. They were really nice, though, and didn't hassle us too much that it was annoying. We also visited a tobacco store where I almost bought a nice hash pipe. The guy gave me a great deal, but I decided to wait until the end of my vacation. We visited another couple Starbucks. They all sucked. Especially the one closest to our hostel. My god! They were horrible! Mostly rude and generally making our drinks totally wrong. Yuck! So then we went back to Times Square to put our names in the lottery for Rent tickets. And, surprise surprise, Maria won! Yay! I think that's awesome b/c I've only ever tried to see Rent on Broadway twice and both times I won the lottery and sat front row! I'm glad I got to see it again before it closes in June. And I really liked it again this time. It wasn't as good as the last time, and Maria didn't really like it all that much. But I liked it. I really love the show, though. The singing was great anyhow. And the guy who played Roger looked like Ewan McGregor in Velvet Goldmine. He's from London, and he was awesome. I waited for him after the show to sign my Playbill. I was surprised that not a lot of people waited for autographs. I got his and Benny's. They were both very nice, and it turns out that Johnny knows the Roger guy through a friend of his! :) So after the show we went back to the West Side and stopped at this pub called the Abbey Pub. It was really funny b/c the woman who owns the bar has a brother who lives in Munhall. Ha. Then we went to this really awesome place called Cheezy Pizza. Ha. It was only supposed to be open until 10PM, but it was 1AM and open! So we went and OMG it was so good! Bars are open until 4AM at least here! Some stay open all night! And a lot of places like McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts are open 24 hours. And guess what they have here- KenDonutHuts. It's like KenTacoHut, but with Dunkin' Donuts instead of Taco Bell! Woot! And that was the end of Tuesday. I think I'm gonna save writing about today for tomorrow morning b/c I'm super tired now. But at least I got this one in! Yay! Ok, until tomorrow then! Current Mood: drunk Current Music: RENT Soundtrack- Out Tonight (nobody loves us)
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
10:57 pm	"I would go out tonight..." Whew, I'm tired! We took a nap this afternoon, but I think we need a full night's sleep in an actual bed before anything is really right again. My contacts are screaming at me; lucky I just had an eye appointment and got some new ones. So after we woke up, we went to this place a little further down in the West Side called Hummus Place. We had a huge plate of fava beans and hummus with a side of falafels and pita bread for only $7.50. And Maria had some sangria and I had homemade iced tea that were both soooo yummy. I had on a Smiths t-shirt, and this one waitress noticed and put on a Smiths CD while we were eating. It was really cool. She walked by and looked at me and we both laughed b/c it was obvious they put that CD on just for me. :) Then we walked down to Central Park and visited the Dakota and Strawberry Fields where we caught the end of a talk some guy was giving about the memorial. Turns out this guy takes care of it and knows all these famous people and places/arranges the flowers and other items on the mosaic every day. He was saying how he got pumpkins for Halloween and trees for Christmas too. It was pretty neat. Then we went down to Times Square and just hung out for a while. We walked all over the place and visited some shops. My feet started hurting pretty bad during this, of course. They've been bothering me lately. I went and bought an ACE bandage to wear tomorrow so it won't bother me so much. We went into two other Starbucks. One was super small and had no seating areas at all, so we didn't get anything there. The other was very nice and friendly, but they made my drink wrong. The search for the perfect New York Starbucks continues. There's one really close to the hostel, so maybe that will be good. So we decided to not go out with John tonight since we are so tired and my feet hurt. We're gonna hang out with him on Wednesday when he doesn't have class. So went caught the subway back to the West Side and went to this place called Europan (as in it's European and serves pan, aka bread), although it seems only Mexican and Asian people were working there. They were super nice. We got some New York pizza and some pastries and juice and took it back here to eat. It felt so good to take my shoes off and put on pajamas for the first time since Sunday morning. So now I'm watching Family Guy and relaxing and will probably go to bed soon. Not sure what we're doing tomorrow, but I'm sure I will write in here again soon! Good night, Cruel World! Current Mood: relaxed Current Music: The Smiths- Accept Yourself (nobody loves us)
10:40 am	"These little town blues..." Yay! We made it to New York! After a bit of a crazy bus ride, we got here. It wasn't the worst thing or anything, but it was probably the worst Greyhound experience I've had. Maria and I were the third in a HUGE line of people waiting for the bus. We got there early so we could sit together. So they were filling up another bus first and had room left over. They grabbed the first ten people or so in the line and stuck them on the almost full other bus; two of whom were us of course. So we didn't sit next to each other. I had some guy next to me who was taking up his seat and most of mine and he kept rolling around and snoring and waking up and calling people on his phone. And the woman across the aisle from me kept taking her shoes off and putting them on again. At one point she dropped something and was looking for it in the dark and kept grabbing my foot. So I didn't sleep for most of the ride. But after we got to Philly, most people got off the bus and we got to sit together. I got some sleep then. The funniest thing was that our bus driver looked exactly like Jeffrey Jones!!! It was super creepy. And he talked really funny too. Very giggle-worthy. The biggest problem after that was that we each had a carry-on and a checked bag, and carrying two bags around New York kinda sucks. So I ate in the station, we went outside onto 42nd Street, and immediately outside we saw... a Starbucks! Ha. So we went over there. In my elaborate investigations for free and/or cheap and/or interesting things to do on the trip, I printed a list of all the Starbucks in NYC. I believe there's 234 of them. The first one we went to, 42nd and 8th, SUCKED. The register partner had no idea what she was doing and was extremely NOT polite. Maria had to ask twice for her drink and twice for her pastry. Plus the store was set up really weird. You had to go through the line once then weave your way through the line again but skip the register to get to the bar and pick up your drink. So we decided we'd just take our stuff out to the West Side and try to check into the hostel early. We bought city maps and subway maps, and I used my city smarts to figure out which train to take. There is a subway station about three blocks from our hostel; not too shabby! We got here about five hours before we could check in (oops!), but the very nice lady told us that if we would take a room with bunk beds instead of a double bed we could check in then. So we took that. It's still a private room, which is freaking amazing for a hostel, considering we're only paying about $30 a night to stay in the city. It's really clean and has a TV and a view of... another building. It's super small, but that's a given. There's tons of apartment buildings on this street and we're a block away from the river! There's a 24 hour drug store close by and a Starbucks (big surprise!), Dunkin' Donuts, a little diner and a fresh fruits and flowers stand all between here and the subway. Of course, the subway runs all night here, and we have unlimited subway passes for the week that also work on the bus systems. And our hostel has free wifi! So now we're chilling in the room for a bit so we can rest from our hellish bus ride. It's only 11AM after all! I thought I'd enter my first trip log here. I plan on updating a lot, just because I can! So I'm gonna go rest my eyes. We're meeting my friend Johnny later tonight to drink. Leave me a message if you have any suggestions for fun things to do. I've been here bunches, but this is Maria's first time to NYC. And if you want me to bring you something, leave me a message too! Until later, Cruel World! Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: Frank Sinatra- New York, New York (nobody loves us)
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
5:25 pm	It's snowing and so pretty! So things are a bit better since the last post, although I will admit I'm still confused as hell. Not much else there. I'm at my store preparing for the "nationwide store meeting" that's happening tonight. If you don't know what I'm talking about, look up Starbucks in the news and you'll see. Going to New York in less than a week. We're bringing this computer, and our hostel has free wifi. So expect LOTS of entries next week. I'm gonna update a lot, hopefully. Not much else, just wanted to update b/c I have the time! Laters, Cruel World! Current Mood: anxious Current Music: Enya- Celtic Rain (1 guilty plea | nobody loves us)