i quit

I quit Eddie Bauer today. I called and said that my mom died and I died and it just didn't look like I was going to be able to make it in for my first day of work. So that depressing job is out of the picture. Instead I got a job at an outdoor store. Much better.

oh Eddie

So I got a job and it's 1 part depressing and 1 part funny. Ok, well I guess it's 1.5 parts depressing and .5 parts funny actually. It's at Eddie Bauer. I'm going to work at Eddie Bauer because no other place in the whole freakin' town of Jackson wanted to hire me. None of the cool coffee shops, yarn store, book store, restaurants, bike shop - no one. But the preppy Eddie Bauer hired me on the spot. And today when I tried to get out of it by being difficult telling them that I would be gone from Dec. 19-30th, they had no problem with it. Damn.

My only other option was Pizza Hut. I accidentally called them the other week thinking I was calling another restaurant. When they answered "Pizza Hut, how can I help you?", I figured what the hell and asked them if they were hiring anyway. The girl sounded really enthusiastic and I thought she was going to hire me over the phone. She asked me what I was thinking I wanted to do. I told her I saw myself working at the cash register or a server or something. So I left it that I was really excited about the job and I would be over soon to fill out an application so I could be officially hired.

But I am picking up freelance design jobs. So that is 0 parts depressing and all parts exciting.

Emily thinks I'm cute

Got this in a myspace comment
"hey my friend emily saw your pics online and thinks you are cute add her to msn messenger at emily27cute@hotmail.com "

can you tell your friend emily that I don't swing that way, but I'm flattered?
but judging from her email address, emily thinks she's cute too.....

Current

I'm going to be a part of my friend's performance piece tomorrow night. You can watch her announcing peoples' actions around the world as they happen.
Current

Here is a list of what is going to be happening. Yours truly is #4.

11:30pm Liz
Broadcast intro
New General Catalog gallery space, the neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY

11:35pm Chuck Miller
drops the book S M L XL on the floor in the middle of a graduate lecture class
UC San Diego, CA

11:36pm Trey Kirchoff sets an old children's school desk on fire while
quoting Orson Wells
a rooftop, the neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY

11:37pm Laura Cooke
begins making a ceramics piece
Jackson Hole, Wyoming, by the Tetons

11:38pm Mark Hensel
goes for a drive in which he only makes right-hand turns
Austin, Texas

11:39pm Amanda Matles
teaches an old dog a new trick - to have "laser eyes" - using a camera
with a flash
South Lyon, MI (suburb of Detroit)

11:40pm Bryan Schatz
starts playing the mandolin
Santa Cruz, CA

11:41pm Brian White
draws panda bears on a wall using a light pointer and taking a
long-exposure photograph
Calendar St, Livingston, Montana

11:42pm Landon Van Soest
kills at least 3 mosquitoes with his right hand using a gripping
motion technique
outside of his bed's mosquito netting, Kenya

11:43pm Luke Wolcott
starts making hummus
his kitchen, Seattle, WA

11:44pm Matt McTernan
folds a paper crane via origami
Rhinebeck, NY

11:45pm Charlotte Young
hits her alarm clock and swears at me for waking her up at 4:45 in the morning
the East End, London, UK

11:46pm Adam Lowenbein
does an impression of Britney Spears ordering fried chicken
Pond Eddy, NY

11:47pm John Rosania
genuinely weeps on cue
somewhere in New York City

11:48pm Ben Gazy
starts masturbating with the intention of cumming into a shot glass
and drinking it later on in the broadcast
Seattle, WA

11:49pm Meg Frost
performs Taekwondo forms 1 - 3
Daegu, South Korea

11:50pm Tristan Brown
the last ten pages of Mouse and His Child, by Russell Hoban
221 Buckingham Place, Philadelphia, PA

11:51pm Lacey Peckenpaugh
starts baking
her kitchen, the neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

11:52pm Sarah Genta
leaves work for an environmental group to go hug a bush
Sacramento, CA

11:53pm Phil Buccellato
makes a to-do list
our apartment, Brooklyn, NY

11:54pm Oliver Evelyn-Rahr
scratches his foot
London, UK

11:55pm Athena Kokoronis
lights a clove cigarette
New York City

11:56pm Helen Harris
blows up three balloons and then pops them with a sewing needle
Birmingham, AL

11:57pm Lydia Briggs
closes her eyes and pictures New York City
Kyoto, Japan

11:58pm Michael Benevento
is triggered by an alarm to insert a ten hippopotamus count, out loud,
in the middle of a sentence
Baltimore, MD

11:59pm Tika Young
hula hoops
Sunnyside, Queens, NY

12:00am Petter Goldstine
performs the subversive exercises of falun gong
his rooftop, Brussels, Belgium

12:01am Mike Cataldi
pours a bottle of Fiji spring water into the Hudson River from the
center of the George Washington Bridge
New York City, NY

12:02am Bernie McGovern
rests his palm on another's beating chest while thinking of a dear
friend who has recently passed
the hallway leading to his bedroom, Chicago, IL

12:03am Sarah
brushes her teeth
Vienna, Austria

12:04am Justin Quinlan
kisses his 11 month-old nephew on the forehead
Philadelphia, PA

12:05am Margaret Rolicki
buries her work shoes
latitude 39.9541 N, longitude 75.2089 W, Philadelphia, PA

A Mother's Words....

"A little fish in a big pond or a little pond in a big fish"....words of wisdom from my mother

I was called a man....again

I held the door open for a woman to day and she said "Thank you Sir."

shitassmotherfuckerdamn

I went climbing Saturday. Will and I camped near Lake Tahoe in a climbing mecca called Lover's Leap. It was a beautiful fall day with a beautiful granite wall waiting for us to tackle it. Which Will did. I on the other hand did not so much tackle it as struggled up the little fucker, but with high spirits I might add. It actually was very nice crack climbing - I had a couple good hand jams (yes I know the lingo), and there were nice dikes in the rock to get good hand and feet holds. But I would say it all went down hill when a roof in the rock required a move I was not prepared to do - and all the good holds were gone. What the situation ended up being was me, hand jamming for dear life, legs doing the sewing machine - which was really helping the situation, for a good 20 minutes, and saying every swear word known. I fell a good 3 or 4 times only to be pried from the rock, swinging away from the safety of having something to hold on to, dangling in mid-air who knows how many feet above the ground. Will, like a good boyfriend, then hoisted me up a couple feet with the rope, so I could make the necessary move. Once I was safely over the roof, a round of cheers exploded from below, as my audience of expert climbers who had been watching the whole time rejoiced in my having made it. Will sent out a yipee back to them. I did not. I'm glad I couldn't say anything at the moment because if I had been forced to acknowledge them, it would have been the words that had been coming out of my mouth for the last 20 minutes. I don't think they would have appreciated being sworn at. But after a few more moves, including some face gripping, and a couple more "Mother of's..." I was at the top. thankyouverymuch.