September 2009
2 posts
Oh bloody hell.
My dog just erased all the songs from my iPod. I’m not even lying.
Reblog with your first job and age you started...
monsterpants:
graceinsmallthings:
yumwatch:
robot-heart:
enjoli:bumblevision:mercurypdx:biteofpythias:
Cashier and deli girl at the local grocery store, 16
Independent video store clerk, 17.
Reporter for my local newspaper, 14.
(Is that even legal?!? Ah well, it is the South after all. And they paid me in bylines.)
Constantine’s Greenhouse and Nursery worker, 15. Fired after...
August 2009
8 posts
HOLY SHIT
My brother was car-jacked last night. At gunpoint. His car is gone, but luckily, Bill is okay.
I suppose I should watch the show before I pass judgment, but I really don’t get this True Blood thing. I guess i just don’t understand the fascination with vampires, period. And Anna Paquin should NOT be blonde.
Paul Dempsey’s awesome cover of Time to...
Question: Would it be appropriate, on a syllabus for a college writing class, to say, “Please refrain from using ‘text speak’ in your papers. It makes my eyes bleed”?
I wouldn’t ask if I hadn’t seen it before.
Thanks, University of Akron!
Now I know that it’s both inappropriate and illegal for me to give my students good grades in exchange for sexual favors. Your orientation meetings were very helpful and informative!
I’m back in the USA (and am currently in Cape Cod, which is beautiful)!
Being surrounded by all this fresh seafood makes me hope that someday scallops are declared a vegetable.
July 2009
8 posts
I always compose these awesome posts in my head, generally right before I’m about to fall asleep, but by the time I wake up, I can’t remember what I was going to say, or, more disturbingly, what I was going to discuss in the first place. So I’m left with stuff like this: Sometimes, I want to act my shoe size and not my age. Today is one of those days.
Adding to the theory that nothing normal ever happens to me, while Glen and I were at the Fauna Park, I was bitten on the eyelid by a cockatoo, who was sitting on my shoulder.
I hope I don’t get bird flu.
Two-day mini holiday in Echuca starting tomorrow. Can’t wait!
It’s the first time Glen and I will have been away alone together in six months.
I'm an American currently living in Australia
… so why have I suddenly started sounding like I’m Canadian?
Ramble
I’m not dead, but my car is, or nearly is.
My parents, being the generous folks they are, are buying me a new one. As in a NEW new one.
The catch is that I don’t get to test drive it. Crackbaby Pete’s untimely demise has only occurred recently, and they want me to have a car to drive when I get home, so they’re going to test drive cars and make an executive decision....
June 2009
4 posts
I’m obsessed with the trial. I love how one of the damning things against her is that she went out and bought underwear the day after her roommate was murdered.
Maybe she just needed underwear?
monsterpants:
Anybody else following the Foxy Knoxy murder trial at all? I can’t figure if I believe that she is guilty or not, but I do know that I hate the way the media (British media, in...
No. Motivation.
May 2009
9 posts
Language Barriers
So here’s the thing about Australians: they totally speak a different language than I do. I mean, it’s all English, so I should be fine, but it’s a totally foreign version of English than the one to which I’m accustomed. A chain of examples:
Exhibit A
:
To the people on this side of the planet, everything pictured here is a pumpkin.
To me, these are all squash, and...
I arrived in Australia safely five days ago, without luggage. That came approximately 32 hours later, delivered to our door 20 minutes before the latest arrival time Baggage Claim at Melbourne gave us.
Two of my three flights were changed, so I went from Cleveland to Chicago to Los Angeles instead of from Cleveland to Dallas to Los Angeles. Qantas gave me no food for the first half of my...
To the staff at Annabell's
If my ID says that I am over 21 and I can recite the address on said ID, odds are I will also know the zip code. Also, for the record, I turned 21 three and a half years ago. Thanks.
April 2009
11 posts
Northeast Ohio now has a grilled cheese... →
Oh thank God.
Project Runway returns Thursday, August 20th, 2009, at 10 pm. On Lifetime, but I guess you can’t win them all…
WatchI love Akron.
Dear Celebrities,
You are not all size twos. Please stop pretending. Just, don’t. You’re not fooling anyone. Thanks.
Love and kisses,
Gillian
Some man had a tree. Growing in his lungs. →
Oh hay, Tumblr, you exist.
Is it wrong that I’ve recently decided I want to be British, and that when no one’s around or listening to me, I start speaking in a really terrible accent that I imagine is very British?
I think I need to stop watching so many episodes of Skins.
GUESS WHO IS COMING TO DURHAM
I’m super-jealous.
monsterpants:
Hint: They are mind blowingly stupid.
Answer: The Westboro Baptist Church!
An excerpt from a letter school sent to us warning us about them:
“This week, we have learned that the Phelps family, of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, plans to bring their vehement anti-gay messages to an off-campus location in Durham. Though their speech may be...
March 2009
7 posts
I have become a mattress for a 70 lb. chocolate lab.
Why I love the internet
My great uncle Wayne died on Sunday after a long battle with prostate cancer. I didn’t know him well; I only met him a few times as a child. He lived on the other side of the state, and my family isn’t too good at traveling to visit one another. My grandfather is understandably upset at the passing of his older brother, and I don’t have many words to comfort him. From what...
Music.
There’s a thing going around Facebook where you’re supposed to list the 25 most influential albums in your life. I’d do it there, I’ve been tagged to do it there, but I don’t really like Facebook all that well, if we’re going to be honest, so I’m doing it here instead, because I think it’s a cool idea. These are in no particular order. It’s...
February 2009
8 posts
