*kicks adelphia* stupid internet went down sometime in the early afternoon yesterday, and then i went to work so i just shut the comp off – which is why i wasn’t around, if you were at all worried about me.

yesterday. work was INSANE. when i got there it was dead, and i hung out up front talking to nate before pre-shift. it continued to be dead enough that they sent 1 server home (leaving 2). then at 7:30 ish we got SLAMMED. insanely slammed, and the 1 server was new, so he wasn’t handling it too well. so i spent an hour bussing tables, and then immediately seating people, running around like a chicken with no head. then i had to spend a half an hour cleaning up the flood in the bathroom because people don’t know how to use modern plumbing. THEN, it was dead again, no new customers, but no one was leaving either. so at 11 i locked the doors and i had called nate to meet me at the bar, and then manager wouldn’t let me leave. he said i had to stay there and say goodbye to people as they left. ok all summer it was super busy and i never once had to stay longer than 10 min or so after i locked the door. I stayed 40 extra minutes last night, doing NOTHING, cuz no one was leaving so i had no one to say goodbye to. i’m like fuck, nate is gonna think i stood him up and leave, and arg. so i finally asked if i could go and he still almost didn’t let me go. fucker. practically ran to the bar so that i wouldn’t just miss him leaving or something, but i saw his car so it was good. kristen and mike were there (i figured they would be) so nate wasn’t by himself waiting for me lol. had a few drinks and then the 4 of us went to dennys for food. i didn’t really want to go home but nate had to sleep so he’d be good for his substitute teaching interview thing today.

so i slept good last night, 2 nights in a row, it’s been nice. then rushed around to get ready to go to the sabres practice at the arena with adr. it was from 11:30 til 2, but they were still practicing after 2 and no one was leaving so we stayed til quarter to 3 ish. the little flyer they gave out had a thing about the preseason game on saturday….which we are now going to, because they’re using the arena in Jim Carrey’s movie!! so everyone has to be there and in their seats by 5:30 so the movie people can film, and stuff. there was also this 4 ticket deal including food and stuff for 60$ so me adr nate and ? are gonna go. need to find a 4th person i guess. we have no other friends lol. so that’ll be good. fun times fun times. the practice today was cool…someone still needs to sign their contract.

now i have nothing to do tonight. i forgot i need to go get batteries for my camera, and i want to dye my hair so i might go see if anyone’s got it on sale. i’m really friggen tired. oh yeah i’m supposed to get the chucky p book today, but darleen hasn’t brought it over yet. i dunno when she gets out of work and if she’s gonna bring it by, but i’d hope so…cuz i could have gone yesterday to get it myself and been done with it by now. lol.

oh yeah, my dad comes up and says my dentist bill came from a few weeks ago…75$…they’re going to pay 65$ of it for me. so of course i’m like wtf doesn’t my insurance cover it, i’m paying fucking 210$ a month. nooo i don’t have dental insurance. so i’m just not gonna go to the dentist anymore, and i told him, and he’s all like “that’s not a good idea.” well i don’t fucking want to spend 75$ to go to the dentist…he’s like, well skip the sabres game. there’s a difference between spending 20$ for something i WANT to do and 75$ for something i DONT want to do…besides the fact that i can afford the 75$ i just don’t want to have to. arg. unless they’re gonna pay for the dentist for me in the future i’m not fucking going. screw that, i can brush my own teeth thanks.

 

the rock and roll hall of fame museum in cleveland is doing a U2 exhibit when the john lennon one closes in december!!! must go!!! the article said they won’t be displaying the giant lemon cuz it’s too big hehe.

i can’t be home without my parents annoying me for no particular reason. i ask my dad a simple question about my loans – why are they due by october 28 when that’s not 6 months after graduation. and he’s like i dunno, u’ll get it paid off 1 month sooner now 😛 gee thanks. the rules are 6 months, not 5, and i don’t want to pay in october if that’s not the way it’s supposed to go. then i ask my mom if she talked to darleen, and maybe knew if she was going to bring the book over. and she’s all snotty, saying that i’m supposed to go pick it up. well gee it was nice if i knew this. and if i knew whether or not i’m supposed to pick it up from darleen or the bookstore. mom is like, she made it sound like you knew what to do. no she told me she was getting me the book, and that was it. great. can we go back to the last few weeks when i was getting along with my parents? thanks. maybe i should have nate come over and remind them how much they like him, so that they’ll keep being nice to me.

 

do you know what amuses me? the use of motors as sexual metaphors in 80s hair band songs….lol. they’re all over the place…
AC/DC “you shook me” – “she was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean”
Skid Row “18 and life” – “he kept his motor running but didn’t keep it clean”
Motley Crue “looks that kill” – “Now she’s bullet proof, Keeps her motor clean”
and those are only the ones i’ve noticed recently. eric, any to add?

off to read lullaby!!!!

 

my favourite lines from “lullaby” so far
page 143.
looking out the car window, oyster says, “you ever wonder if adam and eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn’t house train?”
he rolls down the window and the smell blows inside, the stinking warm wind of dead fish, and shouting against the wind, he says, “maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.”

chucky p has a thing for describing colors. and for ivy taking over cities.

done. took me 4 hours. liked it better than choke, by far. it was damn good.