Well, it's August 15, which, in the illustrious, high-paying (ha!) world of student affairs, means STRESS. So forgive me if the posts get a little more erratic over the next few weeks--I'll be happy just to get a shower on a regular basis. There are a few items of note, however:
1. I look like a moron on my new Ohio driver's license. (I was hung over, okay?)
2. Honey Brown is on tap at every bar I've been to since I got here. Gotta love the north.
3. As a whole, my new staff is a very cool group of people. I also don't find any of the guys particularly attractive. This is most definitely a good thing.
4. I made the investment and bought, rather than downloaded, the new Modest Mouse CD. I highly recommend it.
5. George W. Bush is an idiot. (Not referring to anything in particular, just thought I'd throw that in. Couldn't hurt.)
That's about all. Work is kicking my ass, but I continue to include among my daily prayers of thanksgiving the fact that I'm not at TLU anymore. I'm making new friends, enjoying the hot undergrads while still pining for The Guy, and still not getting any, but to quote Abby from The Truth About Cats and Dogs, "One can survive. This is the mechanical age."
I promise to post an occasional update as we enter the saga of freshman move-in. Wish me luck.
-pg
Sunday, August 15, 2004
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
36 questions
Questions stolen from Murphy's blog, source of all things cool...
1. WHAT COLOR ARE YOUR BEDROOM WALLS? Off-white
2. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? A few...Evidence of Things Unseen, by Marianne Wiggins, Stupid White Men, by Michael Moore, and, for trash romance fun, Morning Glory, by LaVyrle Spencer
3. WHAT’S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? James Dean
4. FAVORITE BOARD GAME? Trivial Pursuit
5. FAVORITE MAGAZINE? Real Simple
6. FAVORITE SMELL? I'll have to get back to you on that
7. FAVORITE COLOR? Probably blue, but orange and purple and green are good too
8. LEAST FAVORITE COLOR? puke-green
9. HOW MANY RINGS BEFORE YOUR ANSWERING MACHINE PICKS UP? four, i think
10. MOST IMPORTANT MATERIAL THING IN MY LIFE? Either my car or my computer
11. FAVORITE FLAVOR OF ICE CREAM? Ben and Jerry's One Sweet Whirled (coffee with caramel, marshmallow swirl, and fudge chunks)
12. DO YOU BREAK THE SPEED LIMIT DAILY? Yeah, defensive driving did me no good
13. DO YOU HAVE A STUFFED ANIMAL IN YOUR ROOM SOMEWHERE? Yes, a beanie baby with a peace sign on it...they don't call me peacegrrl for nothing
14. STORMS - COOL OR SCARY? Scary, as anyone who knows me can tell you
15. FAVORITE DRINK? Non-alcoholic: diet pepsi. Alcoholic: Tequiza (don't laugh at me.)
16. WHEN IS YOUR BIRTHDAY? March 28, 1979
17. FAVORITE VEGETABLES? Broccolli, green peppers
18. IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB, WHAT WOULD IT BE? Lead singer in a band, or politician, can't decide
19. IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY COLOR HAIR, WHAT WOULD IT BE? Some variation of red
20. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN LOVE? As Mr. Big on Sex and the City would say, "abso-fucking-lutely."
21. TOP THREE FAVORITE MOVIES (IN ORDER)? This changes from week to week, but right now it's probably Amelie, Sense and Sensibility, and Bridget Jones' Diary
22. DO YOU TYPE WITH YOUR FINGERS ON THE RIGHT KEYS? Of course
23. WHAT’S UNDER YOUR BED? God only knows, and I'm in no hurry to find out
24. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE NUMBER? Eight
25. FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH ON TV & IN PERSON? TV: basketball; in person: baseball
26. WHAT IS YOUR SINGLE BIGGEST FEAR? Fucking up too big for it to be fixed
27. FAVORITE CD OF ALL TIME & RIGHT NOW? Mason Jennings, self-titled
28. FAVORITE TV SHOW OF ALL TIME & RIGHT NOW? either Sex and the City or Law and Order SVU
29. HAMBURGERS OR HOT DOGS? I don't eat red meat, but if I did, hot dogs, definitely
30. THE COOLEST PLACES YOU’VE EVER BEEN? Nowhere cool lately, but when I was little I lived in both Brooklyn and Cuba, so I guess that's cool
31. WHAT WALLPAPER AND/OR SCREENSAVER IS ON YOUR COMPUTER RIGHT NOW? Peace Corps screensaver, plain background
32. DOES MCDONALD’S SKIMP ON YOUR FRIES & DO YOU CARE? All the time, don't care because I never eat them all
33. FAVORITE CHAIN RESTAURANT(s)? Currently, Taco Cabana but only because there aren't any up here
34. IF YOU HAVE A BOY (OR HAVE ANOTHER BOY) WHAT WOULD YOU NAME HIM? No idea
35. IF YOU COULD LEARN TO PLAY ONE INSTRUMENT OVERNIGHT, WHAT WOULD IT BE? Guitar, I try, but I do it so badly
36. WHERE DID YOU GET THIS FROM? Already told you
Now, wasn't that fun?
-pg
1. WHAT COLOR ARE YOUR BEDROOM WALLS? Off-white
2. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? A few...Evidence of Things Unseen, by Marianne Wiggins, Stupid White Men, by Michael Moore, and, for trash romance fun, Morning Glory, by LaVyrle Spencer
3. WHAT’S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? James Dean
4. FAVORITE BOARD GAME? Trivial Pursuit
5. FAVORITE MAGAZINE? Real Simple
6. FAVORITE SMELL? I'll have to get back to you on that
7. FAVORITE COLOR? Probably blue, but orange and purple and green are good too
8. LEAST FAVORITE COLOR? puke-green
9. HOW MANY RINGS BEFORE YOUR ANSWERING MACHINE PICKS UP? four, i think
10. MOST IMPORTANT MATERIAL THING IN MY LIFE? Either my car or my computer
11. FAVORITE FLAVOR OF ICE CREAM? Ben and Jerry's One Sweet Whirled (coffee with caramel, marshmallow swirl, and fudge chunks)
12. DO YOU BREAK THE SPEED LIMIT DAILY? Yeah, defensive driving did me no good
13. DO YOU HAVE A STUFFED ANIMAL IN YOUR ROOM SOMEWHERE? Yes, a beanie baby with a peace sign on it...they don't call me peacegrrl for nothing
14. STORMS - COOL OR SCARY? Scary, as anyone who knows me can tell you
15. FAVORITE DRINK? Non-alcoholic: diet pepsi. Alcoholic: Tequiza (don't laugh at me.)
16. WHEN IS YOUR BIRTHDAY? March 28, 1979
17. FAVORITE VEGETABLES? Broccolli, green peppers
18. IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB, WHAT WOULD IT BE? Lead singer in a band, or politician, can't decide
19. IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY COLOR HAIR, WHAT WOULD IT BE? Some variation of red
20. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN LOVE? As Mr. Big on Sex and the City would say, "abso-fucking-lutely."
21. TOP THREE FAVORITE MOVIES (IN ORDER)? This changes from week to week, but right now it's probably Amelie, Sense and Sensibility, and Bridget Jones' Diary
22. DO YOU TYPE WITH YOUR FINGERS ON THE RIGHT KEYS? Of course
23. WHAT’S UNDER YOUR BED? God only knows, and I'm in no hurry to find out
24. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE NUMBER? Eight
25. FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH ON TV & IN PERSON? TV: basketball; in person: baseball
26. WHAT IS YOUR SINGLE BIGGEST FEAR? Fucking up too big for it to be fixed
27. FAVORITE CD OF ALL TIME & RIGHT NOW? Mason Jennings, self-titled
28. FAVORITE TV SHOW OF ALL TIME & RIGHT NOW? either Sex and the City or Law and Order SVU
29. HAMBURGERS OR HOT DOGS? I don't eat red meat, but if I did, hot dogs, definitely
30. THE COOLEST PLACES YOU’VE EVER BEEN? Nowhere cool lately, but when I was little I lived in both Brooklyn and Cuba, so I guess that's cool
31. WHAT WALLPAPER AND/OR SCREENSAVER IS ON YOUR COMPUTER RIGHT NOW? Peace Corps screensaver, plain background
32. DOES MCDONALD’S SKIMP ON YOUR FRIES & DO YOU CARE? All the time, don't care because I never eat them all
33. FAVORITE CHAIN RESTAURANT(s)? Currently, Taco Cabana but only because there aren't any up here
34. IF YOU HAVE A BOY (OR HAVE ANOTHER BOY) WHAT WOULD YOU NAME HIM? No idea
35. IF YOU COULD LEARN TO PLAY ONE INSTRUMENT OVERNIGHT, WHAT WOULD IT BE? Guitar, I try, but I do it so badly
36. WHERE DID YOU GET THIS FROM? Already told you
Now, wasn't that fun?
-pg
Monday, August 09, 2004
One more thing
"A vote for change is a vote for a stronger, safer, healthier America. A vote for Bush is a vote for a divided, unstable, paranoid America. It is our duty to this beautiful land to let our voices be heard." -Dave Matthews
that's the right on, man, you said it all.
-pg
that's the right on, man, you said it all.
-pg
Can't sleep
It's sunday night, and of course I'm back in the no sleep zone. I think homesickness is settling in. I miss alicia, I miss k-dog, I miss my tx state buddies. It's freakin' 50 degrees outside and I think I'm actually starting to miss the godawful Texas heat. I DON'T miss the office politics, but I'm sure there are new ones to be had up here once I've settled in a little more. I miss The Guy, and even The Boy (but only a little and don't tell anybody). I miss smoking in the middle of the night, sitting outside on my steps in the humidity and hanging out with the lightening bugs. Bleh.
Really it's not so bad, so don't anybody go feeling sorry for me. This is the shit that happens when I stay up too late and think too much. I'm actually having fun up here and glad I made the move. I'm just having a pessimistic moment.
Go here, it's funny shit.
That's all for tonight.
-pg
Really it's not so bad, so don't anybody go feeling sorry for me. This is the shit that happens when I stay up too late and think too much. I'm actually having fun up here and glad I made the move. I'm just having a pessimistic moment.
Go here, it's funny shit.
That's all for tonight.
-pg
Friday, August 06, 2004
The brownies in my office are tempting me
They are indeed. Just sitting there taunting me from inside of their tupperwear house. Hopefully some staffmates will come by and make them disappear, before I do!
Enough about that. Let's take a moment to sigh at the cute coworker who decided to wear a tight white t-shirt for Casual Friday. [insert wistful sigh here] At least it's something to look at during training sessions... Seriously, I'm going to do my damnedest to avoid an office crush--we all know that these are never a good idea, fun diversions though they may be. Of course it happens that the only two straight, nonmarried guys happen to be on my particular staff. One is not well-liked by everybody else, and okay, he is a little funny-looking, but everyone knows I tend to be attracted to wierdos... and the other, white t-shirt-wearing dude is actually a nice guy. Cute and not an asshole...that puts him out of my league! The last time I started to land one of those I moved away two weeks later! :-) I'm really starting to sound like a freak to my friends, what with this preoccupation towards men. I'm actually getting on my own nerves! Is this some kind of biological clock bullshit? Who knows. Maybe I just physiologically need more sex than most women. Hmmm....
I've been babbling to everyone about how much I love Modest Mouse so I figured I'd spread the obsession to my blog. "Float On" will definitely win you over, even if you're not a modern rock fan. Definitely beats some of the other meaningless pseudo-punk-rock-clones I've been hearing lately. Since we're on the subject, let me just say how much I HATE the fact that you have to look so damned hard to find decent music these days. You can't depend on the radio anymore (although there's a nice independant station out of Akron that I'm liking), and MTV is a string of shitty reality shows. If you want to fill your head with good sounds and good lyrics, you have to make a deliberate effort in this pop-fluff-dominated world. Anything that follows the "make a quick buck" formula gets thrust into heavy rotation until you can't go anywhere without hearing it. And when a good band DOES make it, they're called a sellout, so the real artists stay right below the surface and they're easy to overlook. Just want to give a public shoutout to National Public Radio and The Guy for exposing me to such fanatastic stuff as Wilco, Ben Kweller, and the above mentioned MM. Don't let the damn corporate slutbags who run the media tell you who you should be listening to!
End of rant.
Wow, I spent an entire paragraph bitching about something besides politics and men. Go me. I guess now I need to be productive. This will unfortuantely be a working weekend, but I'm going to go out and get my swerve on tonight. Let's hope I'm good and hung over tommorow morning! Happy friday to all...
-peacegrrl
Enough about that. Let's take a moment to sigh at the cute coworker who decided to wear a tight white t-shirt for Casual Friday. [insert wistful sigh here] At least it's something to look at during training sessions... Seriously, I'm going to do my damnedest to avoid an office crush--we all know that these are never a good idea, fun diversions though they may be. Of course it happens that the only two straight, nonmarried guys happen to be on my particular staff. One is not well-liked by everybody else, and okay, he is a little funny-looking, but everyone knows I tend to be attracted to wierdos... and the other, white t-shirt-wearing dude is actually a nice guy. Cute and not an asshole...that puts him out of my league! The last time I started to land one of those I moved away two weeks later! :-) I'm really starting to sound like a freak to my friends, what with this preoccupation towards men. I'm actually getting on my own nerves! Is this some kind of biological clock bullshit? Who knows. Maybe I just physiologically need more sex than most women. Hmmm....
I've been babbling to everyone about how much I love Modest Mouse so I figured I'd spread the obsession to my blog. "Float On" will definitely win you over, even if you're not a modern rock fan. Definitely beats some of the other meaningless pseudo-punk-rock-clones I've been hearing lately. Since we're on the subject, let me just say how much I HATE the fact that you have to look so damned hard to find decent music these days. You can't depend on the radio anymore (although there's a nice independant station out of Akron that I'm liking), and MTV is a string of shitty reality shows. If you want to fill your head with good sounds and good lyrics, you have to make a deliberate effort in this pop-fluff-dominated world. Anything that follows the "make a quick buck" formula gets thrust into heavy rotation until you can't go anywhere without hearing it. And when a good band DOES make it, they're called a sellout, so the real artists stay right below the surface and they're easy to overlook. Just want to give a public shoutout to National Public Radio and The Guy for exposing me to such fanatastic stuff as Wilco, Ben Kweller, and the above mentioned MM. Don't let the damn corporate slutbags who run the media tell you who you should be listening to!
End of rant.
Wow, I spent an entire paragraph bitching about something besides politics and men. Go me. I guess now I need to be productive. This will unfortuantely be a working weekend, but I'm going to go out and get my swerve on tonight. Let's hope I'm good and hung over tommorow morning! Happy friday to all...
-peacegrrl
Thursday, August 05, 2004
Cow people are wierd...
...as my sister would say. I just have to take a moment to say something nice and judgmental about that awful "Redneck Girls" song that I inadvertantly heard one of the custodians blaring a minute ago...hmm, "hell yeah" to a legacy of stupidity, poverty, sexism, and racism. Country music...i can only sigh and scratch my head...
Big woo-hoo for Alicia and her acceptance into the PhD program....yeah man, that's "Dr. Alicia" to you...
okay, back to training now, and i left my milkshake in my apartment so I MUST retrieve it...i need the chocolatey goodness to help me survive another hour of "how to be an effective supervisor."
-pg
Big woo-hoo for Alicia and her acceptance into the PhD program....yeah man, that's "Dr. Alicia" to you...
okay, back to training now, and i left my milkshake in my apartment so I MUST retrieve it...i need the chocolatey goodness to help me survive another hour of "how to be an effective supervisor."
-pg
Tuesday, August 03, 2004
It's freezing in my office
It's too damn cold in here. Although I think I'm liking it up north; I drove all around town the other day without turning on the air conditioning in my car, which is virtually UNHEARD of where I come from. We'll see how happy I am when everything turns into ice and I go sliding down the hill on my ass, though.
So Alicia says that I don't talk about her enough on the blog! I was going to ramble on and on about her to make her feel better, but then it occured to me that I use this blog primarily as a place to bitch, so Alicia, do you really WANT me to talk about you in excess? Let's leave it here: You are the Supreme Shoe Goddess, my sister-in-crime, and if I could get you to move up here, I would! I hope you feel better now... :-)
So in typical peacegrrl fashion, I have been scoping out the Ohio guy selection, and it's not half bad. Lots of nice little undergrads running around shirtless. I'll have plenty to entertain me here when I've once and for all let go of The Guy. Wouldn't you know it, I've got nookie on the brain again, what else is new? Am I reaching my sexual peak or something? I suppose there's nothing to be done. I'll go pretty far for a bootie call, especially with a guy I actually like who really knows what he's doing, but Austin is probably outside the logistical parameters. Suckage. I guess I'll just need to avoid Dave Matthews and that Pavement cd The Guy gave me, limit my alcohol intake around certain people, and hope it passes. Grrr.
So it's after ten here, I haven't slept worth a damn in several days, and of course I've got eight hours of training to look forward to tommorow. Guess it's time to go. Anybody got any advice for me in my randy single-grrl state? Feel free to share. Oh, and check this out if you're feeling poor; it lends some nice perspective. Later, taters...
-peacegrrl
So Alicia says that I don't talk about her enough on the blog! I was going to ramble on and on about her to make her feel better, but then it occured to me that I use this blog primarily as a place to bitch, so Alicia, do you really WANT me to talk about you in excess? Let's leave it here: You are the Supreme Shoe Goddess, my sister-in-crime, and if I could get you to move up here, I would! I hope you feel better now... :-)
So in typical peacegrrl fashion, I have been scoping out the Ohio guy selection, and it's not half bad. Lots of nice little undergrads running around shirtless. I'll have plenty to entertain me here when I've once and for all let go of The Guy. Wouldn't you know it, I've got nookie on the brain again, what else is new? Am I reaching my sexual peak or something? I suppose there's nothing to be done. I'll go pretty far for a bootie call, especially with a guy I actually like who really knows what he's doing, but Austin is probably outside the logistical parameters. Suckage. I guess I'll just need to avoid Dave Matthews and that Pavement cd The Guy gave me, limit my alcohol intake around certain people, and hope it passes. Grrr.
So it's after ten here, I haven't slept worth a damn in several days, and of course I've got eight hours of training to look forward to tommorow. Guess it's time to go. Anybody got any advice for me in my randy single-grrl state? Feel free to share. Oh, and check this out if you're feeling poor; it lends some nice perspective. Later, taters...
-peacegrrl
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