LIVIN' ON A PRAYER
This is such a good Bon Jovi song. I had completely forgotten about it until tonight. It reminds me of last summer and the ten of us living in one apartment. Of those hot summer nights spent playing guitar, karaoke bars, and last minute trips to dance clubs.
posted by Luis 2:13 AM
5.23.2003
Is Clay gay? ... an Advocate.com exclusive
"Clay [from American Idol] told a gushing female reporter that he's looking for a girl who's 'not too primped and permed and curled'"
WHAT?!
posted by Luis 10:58 AM
5.21.2003
SHOUT OUT
I finally added shoutouts so that the two people who read my blog can leave messages about how cool they think I am.
posted by Luis 10:34 PM
5.18.2003
YMCA
So my friend MC (I shall refer to her as MC in my blog to protect her identity - she's on the run). So yeah Maria Cr....oops...I mean MC is back from Spain and I got to spend some quality time with her today. Bird crap and nose bloods...aah, so good! Really, it was fun. We went to a Yankees game...although they lost, the guys who sweep the dirt on the field performed to YMCA so that made up for it.
MC informed me that each player gets to pick a song to be played when they're up at bat. I thought that was cool. I was waiting to hear some Cher but my hopes were shattered...no gay Yankees player.
posted by Luis 10:49 PM
5.16.2003
THE SQUIRREL IS STUCK
It boggles my mind how incredibly poorly my parents behave themselves when it comes to dealing with other people.
When telemarketers call, instead of giving them the staple response of "I'm not interested" my mom feels obliged to flat out lie. But not one of those lies like "oh no, I already have my paper delivered" but ones that involve complex story lines, various characters, and sometimes multiple locations. No kidding, she'll actually stay on the phone with a telemarketer explaining all this to them. I guess it serves them right for calling and bothering us.
Restaurants aren't any better. My parents will look at the menu, close it and put it down as if they know what they want, and once the waiter comes they ask for something that's nowhere on the menu! Who does that?! The waitor is puzzled thinking maybe there's some new item he doesn't know about...but no, my parents don't do menus.
And today, I get home from work and my sister is standing outside the door with the phone in her hand. Apparently she just called 9-1-1 because there is a squirrel stuck between the fence holes. Then my mom tells me the squirrel has been stuck there all day (yet she only decides to do something about it now). She continues to say that the squirrel's 'friends' have been pulling its tail all day trying to set it free. (By the way, my mom likes to exaggerate things).
She also expresses her anxiety over how long it's taking them to get here to free the squirrel. "I've seen news stories about how slow 911 response times are. What if it were a person?!" she keeps saying.
IT'S A FREAKING SQUIRREL!
posted by Luis 4:47 PM
5.13.2003
HE HAS A WIFE
Scenario today at work: I was crouching down behind my desk putting some files away.
Rugged, pleasant looking man: What are you doing?
Me: I'm hiding from everyone!
Pleasant looking man: Heh, I don't blame you.
Me: (inside voice) Would you like to come down here and hide with me? Wink, wink.
posted by Luis 9:57 PM
5.09.2003
I was never one to agree with the whole "marry rich" fantasy. I was always gonna make my own money and BE rich. So on Will & Grace today, Karen's husband died and he left her all of his money. She gets to drink happily. I want to be loved like that. Like she said, money is really how you show people you love them.
posted by Luis 12:09 AM
5.08.2003
So I recently found out my little sister gets up at like 5:30 in the morning every day! Is that abnormal? I tell her it is! As it goes in my family, point out each other's eccentricities and brand them with disapproval.
posted by Luis 11:55 PM
So I just spent half an hour rewriting about 12 pages (no kidding) of notes I had to take today for my temp job. I'm taking over while this girl gets married and goes on her honeymoon. hmm, so they want me to do real work. They want me to do all her work? Don't they know the main functions and talents of a temp lie in fooling everyone you're working hard by convincingly stretching out a 30 minute task into 4 hours? Or that under 'software' in a resume, a temp usually lists MS Word first but what should really be there is Minesweeper? Damn them, they expect me to deal with the phones AND take care of everyone else's shit; which by the way I don't really understand so I feel like i'm gonna screw everybody over. I wish I could say that's what they deserved for actually hiring a temp instead of having a perm do this crap job but I feel guilty if I don't do the job well. So I guess this is why i was up rewriting my notes as if i had some sort of exam tomorrow.
posted by Luis 12:04 AM
5.06.2003
I saw X2 today. It's pretty sad when I am affected by the death of one of the characters, even though I know what will most likely come out of it in X3. oh yeah, annoying guy with popcorn sat next to me. who came up with the idea of eating popcorn during movies? It's the most disturbing sound when the person eating doesn't even come up for air until that very last kernel is down their throat. I wish I could've taken all those unpopped salty kernels and flicked them right into his eyeball. But I couldn't. That would've been mean.
My job assignment starting tomorrow is at a company that likes to get things started early...7:30am to be precise. what happened to the good old 9-5? I am getting up at 6 for this one.
posted by Luis 11:03 PM
5.04.2003
TEQUILA
Man, I wonder why I'm not drunk tonight? I used to have so much more fun. Not that being drunk and partying with other drunkards in itself is fun but it sure does help. Annoying people are so much more tolerable when you're drunk. I LOVE the world when I've taken back a few. If I were on Oprah she'd object to how the happiest moments in my life have involved alcohol, how I'm really empty inside and need to fill that void which stems from childhood with alcohol. Well screw you Oprah! Twenty billion dollars buys you a lot of happiness...of course you don't need tequila.
I think I'm getting cabin fever...need to get out tomorrow.
posted by Luis 2:06 AM
5.01.2003
GOOD FRIENDS + MADONNA DRAG QUEENS = FUN!
So I went back to Boston this past weekend for my friend's birthday spectacular. Good times were had by all. There was a Margaret Cho show, conversation over dinner, quality quiet times, and of course dancing with Madonna Drag performers...oh yeah, who can forget acapella concerts and chorizo jokes. Seeing old friends is very cool!
posted by Luis 1:02 PM
