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LOL like john will let a drink get away from him, come on

I imagine John chasing drinks down the street as they try to flee, little martini glasses on their little legs running in fear...

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bin?

Dan might be right about the drinks, which makes me ;_; all over again.

i have to put it out

Oh! Thanks. I feel better now.

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i'm not drinking this

THERE IS A LINE JOHN WILL NOT CROSS OMG

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shit, forgot deo

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so, uh, they just fired four ppl at my job (ps I was not one of them)

Yikes, how scary!

uh, yeah

jobs in DC dan you know who to see

i think i might fire myself for about 15 minutes this afternoon to go get a snack

Obviously you always have a place replacing John at his work, Dan.

oh yes dan would be excellent at selling people guitars.

And no one will even notice because you are identical twins and everything.

i am fired from sadsackville, bcz yesterday i got first disbursement of inheritance from my gram (rip), and now i have enough $ to decide where to move. candidates:

back to la
stay in sf
seattle
boston
providence
elsewhere

i basically have to reboot my career though, since i'm not really interested in teaching any more. so a full-time writing job in one of those places ... probably rules out seattle, at the least.

that plus boredoms has put me in the best mood i have been in for ten months, easy

i am going to go buy a 'hip' printed hoodie, a phone that works, and new glasses tomorrow

I would pick the cheapest city and do a lot of mailings from there, but then again I don't know how the writing game works.

Yeah... full-time writing job sounds difficult. I would combine "cheapest city" with "city with best climate" myself.

Although now that I wrote that, I suppose suggesting you come to the Twin Cities is going to sound kind of stupid.

full-time writing pretty much forces me to la/nyc/possibly sf ... which are the most expensive cities.

i am still planning a mn visit/drive-through in mid-late april, though

Hmmmm... I would probably choose SF, but that is only because I have friends there. Also, the food is awesome.

I would choose SF because it is awesome.

full-time writing is lately becoming the kind of job you do from home anyway, the phone shlubs and nightly rewrite gang are the folks who have to show up in the office anymore, right?

if you were big into sports or videogames you could do full-time writing from just about anywhere

the food in SF is okay, not awesome.

DC is rapidly becoming an awesome food city (which it has been but mostly for a limited range of regional things, now you can get practically anything, see I DIED picture bloggityblog etc)

full-time writing job in one of those places ... probably rules out seattle

why is this?

(last month i applied for a job at double fine / full throttle)

i actually prefer the food in la to sf, but mostly because i know where it is

lxy,

i have heard seattle does not offer that many (non-journalistic) writing opportunities?

There's fucking fantastic food in Boston but I would be very very wary of recommending it as a place to live.

yeah, after my brief stint in somerville ...

Wow, cool news Remy. I'd say SF or back here, but I would. As for writing opportunities in Seattle, let me ask when I'm there.

Writing game, from one vaguely in the know -- easy enough even to do from a soulless place like, oh, I dunno, Orange County, but face to face schmoozing with agents doubtless has its virtues. As it is most of the writing work I've gotten has been from out of the blue, so sometimes it's just a matter of 'presence,' in my case online.

Meantime, for everyone's enjoyment -- the sender of a mail to me today, based on how my account's web interface shortened it:

"National Eagle Scout Ass."

Doubtless.

I wouldn't recommend Boston because of the retarded-ass health insurance law.

if i move to the east coast, i will probably end up back in pvd (and possibly rooming with arthur)

i can parse that in many amusing ways xxpost

the food in SF is okay, not awesome.

-- El Tomboto,

We will never see eye to eye, Tom. ;_;

xpost -- And you will.

I should also say that I received this mail because I am in fact an honest to god Eagle Scout. Therefore I presumably possess...well, anyway.

hmm... maybe you're right, remy. that would explain why i haven't been able to ditch my shitty state university job for a better writing gig in the private sector. it's nice to have something to blame besides, you know, myself.

Eh, I find my state university job (non-shitty, happily) gives me the chance to write more because I'm not carrying any work home from work -- and because it doesn't make work at home seem like that, because it's not like I'm working all day on writing. *shrug* Mileage, variance, etc.

YAY my See's Candy order just arrived. The kids will have chocolate bunnies, etc. for Easter!!!! Also - scotchmallow eggs for me. YUM

does scotchmallow have real scotch in it?

Sadly for you, no.

It's honeyed marshmallow and caramel covered in dark chocolate. It sounds like it would be too sweet, but it is not.

Sara will you shot See's details for me so I can fwd to mother plz? Most popular Xmas refrain this year was GET YOUR HANDS OFF THAT BOX OF CANDY IT WAS $35.

Sure, here ya go:

http://www.sees.com/home.cfm or 1-800-895-7337

I usually do the "pick your own mix" and also get some of the Awesome Nut & Chew bars. They charge a bunch more for shipping when it's warmer because they package everything so it stays cold - I don't know when the cutoff date for the higher costs is, though. She could always order extra right now and stick in the freezer for later.