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Not Actually Borges
25 February 2009 @ 09:35 pm
I'm going to be serving food at an upscale pub in College Park (a few miles straight South of my place). The pub is really awesome - built in a converted country house, owned by a team of British guys from Manchester, and the manager (who interviewed me) spent a year in Turkey!

So that's exciting. I'm already making a mental list of Things I Can Now Buy.

My buy priority:
  1. a pair of boots not salvaged from post-Katrina wreckage.
  2. 2 new pairs of jeans.
  3. some sort of cyclocross style bike, with mudguards!
  4. bus tickets to everywhere.
And, far in the future, I'd like to buy a better camera and a really fancy lens. But that requires untold wealth.
 
 
Not Actually Borges
19 October 2008 @ 01:17 pm
My parents are traveling to Turkey, so I've been spending most of my time trying to avoid telling them how long they should stay in Cappadocia.  I don't know guys, stick around until you get bored.  There's giant stone penii in every direction - you should be happy for a few days.

The bike's falling apart more than usual.  My cassette teeth are so worn down that a few of them are more round than square.  And somethings wrong with my right shifter - I think I can probably fix that.

Halloween parade yesterday, and Halloween things afterwards.  It was fun.  I realized that I shouldn't be around my musician friends when they've got instruments.  I realized for the millionth time how much I love October.  I realized that drunk people love bathrooms even more than they love shots, traffic cones, hamburgers, or promiscous members of their favored sex.

I got tricked into going on a date Friday night.  It was late, and I was confused, calling around to see who was still up at 10:40 pm.  I reached an old high school friend I hadn't talked to in months, they said come meet them, I did, and was introduced to this girl they'd been trying to get me to meet all those months ago.  It was pretty awkward (surpise!) - The girl and I are sitting next to each other, there's three other people at the table, and the whole time I get the idea that my "technique" is being closely inspected.  I wanted to leave very very badly after ten minutes, but I didn't want to insult the girl or my friends, so I invited the girl to come for a walk, which ended up being a bad idea, as the walk lead to my place, and a long drawn out morning the next day, and probably another week or so of journal entries along these lines.

I'm planning a Halloween pre-party on the day of.  It will be at my apartment from 6 until 9, there will be weirdo foreign horror movies (with an emphasis on Lucio Fulci's ripoffs of American zombie movies), hunch punch colored orange, and probably a smoke machine.  Maybe sandwiches too.

I am trying to find a way to organize all the parties and stuff happening over these next two weeks.  Halloween night is especially bad - Critical Mass, my pre-party, an alleycat at 9, the alleycat afterparty, Black Lips at Star Bar, and then like three different house parties.  I would like to try and be at all these things.  I would also like to get fairly trashed and makeout with a girl dressed as a sexy cat (this is my goal for most nights, but October is the only month it actually happens).

Oh, and a camping trip sometime in the future, but inside the city.  I'm thinking along the beltline - there's a few really nice spots that are far enough away from people that campfires can be set up with no problem.

Work still sucks, still looking for a new job.

Haven't felt any real inclination to eat lots of acid for three weeks now, which may or may not be a good sign.  Though, now that you mention it, I currently do want to eat lots of acid.

Whatevs.  I'm gonna go be in a pillow fight.
 
 
Current Music: Dark Dark Dark, doy.
 
 
Not Actually Borges
23 January 2008 @ 03:04 pm
After a long discussion with three registrars, I have decided not to use the name Benjamin "they'll put anything here" Grad on my diploma. I'm regretting the decision already.

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Over the weekend, I lost 11.7% of my net worth.

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The avocado originated in the Aztec language Nahuatl, where it was called ahuacatl, meaning 'testicle' because of its shape.

I have eaten three avocados since Friday.

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All of the clothes I'm currently wearing are described as "water-resistant".

It rained throughout yesterday, the day before, and snowed the day before that.

It's sunny and 50 degrees today.
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Not Actually Borges
05 September 2007 @ 04:59 pm
From something I wrote last night:

I'm sort of drunk right now, which means my brain keeps prompting me to talk about the opposite sex - but NO! - that way lies madness.

It didn't improve from there, because I was actually very drunk. Which is not conducive to good writing. Despite what Hemingway and Faulkner tell us.

How about some actual news?

'K:

1) Job interview Friday.
2) Down to $2 total.
3) Went and figured out how I managed to win the "Sidney Laineer Poetry Prize" - apparently, you can also win for good prose. I read my "winning submission", and cried a little on the inside.
4) Tried to get a job as a bouncer. Was laughed at.
5) Might stop by my first frat party of the semester this Friday.
6) Still have scraps of duct tape attached to my legs.
7) Michi's boyfriend of 4 years broke up with her - Zack did the hugging and back patting - I stuck with offering to help fight the guy.
8) Apparently not wearing shoes makes me "weird".
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