Hometown: The Roch, MI (aka. The Crotch, aka. Crotchscratcher, aka. Crotchmolester, aka. Rochester)
Currently Living: Clawson, MI
Height: 5'8
Weight: Ha ha, yeah right
Favorite Color: Blue (preferably navy)
Profession: Researcher
Favorite Nickname: Trick, Sloan
Favorite Drinks:Vodka Tonic, Guinness, Diet Dr. Pepper, Dirty Martinis, red wine
Favorite TV Show: Friends, Sex & The City, Project Runway, The Amazing Race, Iron Chef America
Least Favorite TV Show: A Baby Story, I Love Lucy, Martha Stewart, Everybody Loves Raymond, every hour long drama
Favorite Books: The History of Love, Beloved, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Fight Club, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The of Being, SurUnbearable Lightness vivor, Empire Falls, The Corrections, The Bell Jar
Favorite Movies: Little Miss Sunshine, Anchorman, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Wordplay, American Beauty, Life is Beautiful, Amelie, Breakfast Club, Singin In The Rain, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sleeping Beauty, Dancer in the Dark, Duets, The Virgin Suicides, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Austin Powers I, II & III, My Best Friends Wedding, Moulin Rouge, Tommy Boy, Billy Madison, The Shining, Gone With The Wind, Bridget Jones' Diary, Chicago, Love Actually
Guilty Pleasure Movies: Xanadu, Dirty Dancing, Overboard, Groundhog Day, Steel Magnolias, 10 Things I Hate About You, Bond movies, Footloose, Clue, Murder By Death, High Spirits, A Cinderella Story
What I Do Too Much: Check email, crossword puzzles, complain about my job to friends and family,
Obsessions: sushi, Indian food, ranch dressing, toenail polish, song lyrics, hands, awards shows, symmetry, avocados, maps, dreams, This American Life, the display in my car that tracks my MPG
Pet Peeves: loud eaters, slurping, gulping, arrogance, snoring, bad grammar, repetition, late mergers, ripping cardboard, the word "chunky", intolerance, couples in a restaurant sitting on the same side of a booth, pop-up ads, privacy manager, men that drive without shirts on, being foolish, unfairly jumping to conclusions, being made fun of, cat-calling, people who type too hard
Greatest Fear: crossing bridges
Relaxing Activites: late night drives to sing by myself, headstands, hot baths,
Wish I Was: Ansel Adams, Jenifer Aniston, in love, living alone
Prized Possessions: ring from my grandparents, flower pot of my Grandma's, electric blanket (temporarily broken), tongue scraper, my bed
Craziest Thing Ever Done: getting a tattoo, strip Jenga
Things I Eventually Want To Do: skydive, buy a guitar, learn how to play the aforementioned guitar, take flying lessons, travel to France, write a novel, learn how to play the harp, tap dancing lessons, run a marathon
Thursday, June 29, 2006 Believe it or not, I'm walking on air....Ladies and gentlemen. I have an announcement to make. It's the moment you've(I've) all been waiting for. I would like to announce that I HAVE A START DATE FOR MY NEW JOB.
Can you believe it? Yesterday there was this big flurry that apparently my start date had been set to July 1st (yup, that'd be Saturday). So I was getting this barrage of calls and emails trying to figure out why I was quitting without any notice. But things are mostly set and I have 2 months to get my act together and hand off the reins of one job to move to the other. Yes, 2 months is a long time but it allows multiple things to occur:
~ Me to finish school at the same time I'm switching jobs. ~ Me to finish school without have to fork up the $1,000+ tuition if I were to leave my job before the semester is over. ~ My boss to have enough time to find a replacement for me. ~ Me to hire in at a higher salary having a completed Master's degree under my belt (which I need to use lately since I've lost a couple pounds and my pants are hanging off my ass).
And most importantly...
~ To concurrently celebrate being done with school and starting a new job. My birthday conveniently falls right around that time too. Suffice it to say that I plan on being intoxicated for most of the end of August to mid-September (while my mother is in town, conveniently).
I'm optimistic this time. But still hesitant to start the fireworks. Maybe for this weekend at least, I'll just stick to sparklers.
Speaking of, I'm leaving work in 1 hour and then it's off to the lovely Northern expanses of Michigan. It's actually not that far away, but far enough to sit by one of the Great Lakes on a beach all weekend. I'm going up north armed with Scrabble, a book, a fierce determination to kick some ass at miniature golf, the boy, and a crapload of margarita mix. I cannot wait. Have a happy 4th and I'll see you round these parts next week. Sorry there is to be no blogging from up north. I don't think the motel (oh yes, it's a motel) we're staying at has high speed wireless internet.
