mom placation was ironing by which mens perrypops in a womansuit is the new child mystericating teats that can taint baconated digestive broads plastercasting gnostically from the great gospel wwjh

btw I looked at my office and said "fuck that noise"

now I am about to assemble shelves, at some point I should eat

god dan you are so bourgie what with your walk-in closets and home offices! sheesh!

i have both of those things now i will be excised from the proletariat ;_;

If we were in the South End instead of Somerville, my posts would all be like "we bought a chair, now we have to throw out the bed to make it fit" or "oh shit my money, why is it all in my rent/mortgage"

(also my "home office" is really "side-nook in the living room with a sheet hanging over it to close it off")

I just got out of the house, went to Jerry's and spent $40 on a food-shop that would cost $20 tops in London. Damn.

...but I have Ambassador wieners. And I had a corn dog, to go.

Do I have to ask why my dog is stalking me now?

we are truly in a bad economy when a librarian and a small business owner rise to the ranks of the economic elite. xposts

^^^I prefer these new overlords.

HELLO IT IS MY BIRTHDAY

i just got semi-wasted off two glasses of wine at a bar in alameda called 'the new zealander'

yay hb ruby!

omg i got TONS OF PRESENTS

wtf no one revived my b-day thread from last year, i am heartbroken

you will notice that i am still posting on the internets which means that i am not on an airplane? why you ask? because my flight was canceled again and there is nothing i can do to get home til tuesday, and even then, it would be flying through columbus and cincinnati to some out of the way place like charlotte where i'd still ahve to drive an hour and a half to get home. so. i am taking a bus to dc in the am and hitching a ride to richmond with my sister and her husband, who will continue to norfolk while my father drives up from sc to get me in richmond, turn around and take me back home.

fuck an air travel.

aww, sorry ruby i have been distracted!

it's okay - i'm too busy playing with my new presents to be sad! holy shit i got so much cool stuff:

1. 'counterpoint' - photography book by parkeharriso
2. 'the upset' - contemporary lowbrow artists
3. two volumes of willa cather works from library of america
4. signed copy of 'drop city' by t.c. boyle
5. THREE smashing pumpkins dvds, two of which i used to have but don't work on US players, and the newest one
6. first edition of 'call if you need me' by raymond carver, to replace my cheap paperback
7. beautiful letterpress printed book 'proofs' by john crombie from kickshaws press
8. 'horsebucket' by carol es
9. signed first of 'microserfs' by douglas coupland
10. beautiful matt furie print, 1/10, with romantic birthday note from jordan on the back
11. chapbook of prose poetry from palOmine press
12. a wooden object that is a special tool for creating precise signature holes (for making books)
13. a large and expensive bottle of my favourite perfume
14. a super special present that i am getting sometime in january, but jordan won't tell me what it is (some kind of special book, is my guess)

i can't find it!

Oh fucking hell tza, that is just the WORST. Please to check if Mercury in retrograde or something, damn.

this is just the icing on a shit week but damn. what karmic gods did i offend!?

OMG maybe things will be better because i just got a check from my school for $499.90 that they "forgot" to apply to my tuition this semester!

OMG HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUST1N3!!!!

tza, I hope that check is a sign of good things to come. LOTS of them!

OMG I AM SO COLD ;_;

ugh i gotta go shovel

ugh me too, and I am so not used to this.

I hope neither of you froze to death. This weather is absurd.

No chance, got one of our snowblowing neighbours to give me a hand. 10 minutes later, job done.

i just fapped with ned and libcrypt, and made my first ever 911 call...

heading out of sf, just about to get on the freeway, tons of traffic, and we notice that our lane is not moving and tons of cars are cutting out. we finally decide to follow suit after we realise the car in front of us isn't moving. as we pull alongside i see this guy slumped over so i called 911. wasn't anywhere for us to pullover and it was pouring with rain... hope the guy is okay.

i have finally made it home after a very long day. so glad to be here!
how was lib?

libcrypt was way cool, really nice dude.

1. Snowblowers are awesome and this year pretty much necessary
2. I hope that guy was okay, too; good for you for calling 911. I hope your FAP was enjoyable other than that!
3. Yay, tehresa made it home!

j. and j. and lib and his wife = all the roxor. :-)

Ned! Have to solve a California mystery over the hols concerning relatives who owned a giant construction company in LA/OC in early C20, can you help? They built, amongst other things, Huntington Beach Pier.

Wow, J -- glad you guys called 911! Mental image of all these people just driving away as if nothing more than a stuck car not cool, good thing you tried to alert someone and w/o sounding like a hippy, good karma there.. Also sounds like you had a fab birthday. Me, just killing time until Mom gets back from Florida at 1am.

Justine and Jordan were totally great peeps and I was seriously awed by meeting the (in)famous Ned R! A+++ FAP; would fap again!

i'm so jealous of this fap!

Me, too!!!!!

It were great it were.

S., let me get back to you on your question later in the week when I can more readily get hold of people who might know...

Thanks Ned, I'm looking for stuff that happened btwn 1912-1920, hit me up on Facebook as don't want to incur the wrath of the interweb, if you know what I mean! All the stuff is on public records that are ringfenced so genealogy obsessives will pay for the info. We're trying to find out what happened to a family trust.

^^^ suzy has made us all afraid of the genealogy mafia!

fuck the genealogy mafia with beesticks

What's a geneaology mafia? I hope it's not the DAR or somesuch, my gran wouldn't join on principle (I didn't blame her).

I just think it's wrong that I can't check all voter, census or newspaper records to find out WTF happened to my great-grandfather, his father and his uncle.

I think the important question here is "what is a beestick?!"

Oh, that too.

Damn, I'm bored. I've done the shoveling and idiot cold-callers keep phoning my mom's landline and when she is not home, they ask if they can phone tomorrow. Finally I said 'on Christmas Eve?' Use your brain OH WAIT you're in a call centre QED.

"beestick" = "stick with bees on it"

Thanks for that clarification, Daniel.

suzy, being bored is bad. I have no good suggestions other than to hide in a warm bed and read trashy fiction. I would do that myself, except I have articles to read and online "discussion questions" to answer.

I'm still none the wiser as to waht is genealogy mafia.

I'm going Uptown and Downtown momentarily, it's much warmer than it was, but first a little lunch so I don't pig out on the road.

"genealogy mafia" = "something that gets created when Sara misreads one of your posts"

OIC> We'll miss you and Joei when drinking later this week!

Likewise (only when I say "later this week" I mean "tonight" ^_^)

"genealogy mafia" = "something that gets created when Sara decides to make up new organizations that should exist if they don't"