I love reading my old blogs on myspace. I was way funnier back then.

Stuff

Spring really does make a person feel like cleaning. I have cleaned out the files in my office (mostly to avoid more work on the phone tree) and my bedroom at home. I kept finding pairs of shoes, so I decided to round them all up and I counted about 35 pairs including my flip flops. That number seemed a little excessive by itself, then I realized that I didn't even bring all my shoes from my parents house... hmmm. I love them all too much to give away. Like my earring preference (large and circular) I seem to also have a shoe preference. I have about five pairs of open toed wedges in varying heel size and color and approximately six pairs of differently styled black flats.

Also, I am online shopping as an attempt to satiate my boredom, and it's bad because I don't have any money. In the last week I have bought: two layering camis from wetseal.com; the new Dave Barnes cd, and the movie Juno. Total: $35.00

At least it wasn't more shoes.

I adored this movie.

On the Move

So, I really think I want this move to work out. I think it would be a fun adventure and I don't know when else I will be as free to do this as I am right now. I am a little apprehensive, but mostly just really excited at the prospect. I still need to find some other people willing to delay their lives for almost a year, but if I can convince anyone, I will be ready to commit... Patience has never been a strong virtue of mine, and now, as plans grow increasingly ambiguous I am struggling to stay patient and see what happens. Thoughts? Advice? Know someone who wants to go?

Oh My God, It Could Really Happen

Hi Lindsay,

It is no problem for you to defer your admission till 2009 if you feel like you have a great opportunity. The process if for you to contact Dr. ---- via email and let him know what you wish to do and ask for his concurrence. Make it clear to them that you don’t want to withdraw your application but just defer it to 2009. Good luck and let me know if you need further assistance.

Dan

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I just found out that my stand-in boyfriend also reads these blogs, now I feel added pressure to be witty or at least pithy. I haven't been achieving that lately - sorry Nate, I will try to do better in the future!

I still haven't heard back from my MBA Adviser. I am a really impatient person and am resisting the urge to shoot off another email... I guess it has only been four days. I really need to know if deferment is even an option. On that note, I have continued to attempt to recruit people who wish to live in island paradise for about 9 months. Interested parties, let me know :)

This is short, and not witty at all, but I have to finish writing my f-ing phone tree for work, so I must go. More later.

Have I Mentioned that I Love Maureen Dowd?

Oh MoDo, you make me laugh out loud at work.

Best Pull Text:

"In the final days in Pennsylvania, [Obama] dutifully logged time at diners and force-fed himself waffles, pancakes, sausage and a Philly cheese steak. He split the pancakes with Michelle, left some of the waffle and sausage behind, and gave away the French fries that came with the cheese steak.

But this is clearly a man who can’t wait to get back to his organic scrambled egg whites. That was made plain with his cri de coeur at the Glider Diner in Scranton when a reporter asked him about Jimmy Carter and Hamas.

“Why” he pleaded, sounding a bit, dare we say, bitter, “can’t I just eat my waffle?”

His subtext was obvious: Why can’t I just be president? Why do I have to keep eating these gooey waffles and answering these gotcha questions and debating this gonzo woman?"

And on the Clinton campaign bullying:

"The very fact that he can’t shake her off has become her best argument against him. “Why can’t he close the deal?” Hillary taunted at a polling place on Tuesday.

She’s been running ads about it, suggesting he doesn’t have “what it takes” to run the country. Her message is unapologetically emasculating: If he does not have the gumption to put me in my place, when superdelegates are deserting me, money is drying up, he’s outspending me 2-to-1 on TV ads, my husband’s going crackers and party leaders are sick of me, how can he be trusted to totally obliterate Iran and stop Osama?"

Okay that was a weak moment

I am going to try to write something other than self-pitying diatribes.

Last night I went to Rilo Kiley, which was seriously awesome, we stood one row from the stage and sang along to all my favorites like: It's a Hit, Portions for Foxes, and Silver Lining. I also discovered a new song I like:

Then I found out that Mason Jennings is coming to Seattle and I have been waiting to see him in concert for as long as I've loved his music (or about four years). People who blow harp in their music get bonus points in my book. If I could learn to play any instrument, it might be that one.

I am still waiting to hear back from my MBA adviser on the deferment process (if they even have one), and I feel productive about checking into it.

If you want a big smile today you will check this out. You will enjoy it all the more if you've ever done customer service (who hasn't).

I hate jobs and leases and admissions.

It would be very difficult to explain to anyone right now how fucking trapped my life feels. And I'm sorry I am always bitching about it and have nothing else interesting to say anymore.

I'm really trying here Rilke and it's just not working.

Profile Picture Selection

Know what the sad thing about job searching is, I can't post inappropriate profile pictures just in case some potential employer decides to stalk my social networking pages. For example, I would like to make this my profile picture:


But I look too drunk and a little too much like Satan. And then there's some crazy freak standing next to me as well. (She just came up and smiled, it was pretty weird).

I love Tegan and Sara

but isn't it for everyone?

It's pretty clear that perpetual dissatisfaction is my biggest problem. I make life a lot harder by being indecisive and impatient at the same time.

Advice of the day "Don't do something rash" - my mom on my recent landslide of life-changing plans. Ha!

Hawaiiiiii

Just got back from Oahu. Love love love. Love the warm weather, the palm trees, the atmosphere. Love the dollar theatre and the strong drinks and all the fruit. Maybe I just got lucky because I was staying with some amazing people, but there is something about HI that makes me want to live there. Even its state abbreviation is friendly.

Who wants to be crazy, defer all their plans for a year or six months and move to an island with me? Serious inquiries only.

New goals:
-quit my job in the next three weeks, possibly work at a coffee stand for the summer/year.
-look into grad school deferment (aah!).
-clean the shit hole that has become my room.
-pay off my credit card in the next two paychecks... meaning I will eat top ramen for the next month at least.