random conversation

My Boyfriend and I were walking to the bar one day when a conversation about writing came up. I can't remember the whole thing but this part stuck out and made me laugh.

BF: You've seen my e-mails I use semi-colons in them.



Me: My e-mails must drive you nuts when you read them. Half the time I don't even use punctuation.


BF: Yeah, but I consider that more of an artistic choice like Hubert Selby.

I can assure you as flattering a statment that is, my lack of punctuation is not artistic so much as it is lazy.

Thursday 13

13 things I love about summer

1. Sitting on the beach at night

2. Drinking out side

3. Pin Ball

4. Dairy Maid

5. Richie's Slush

6. Most of the college kids leave Boston

7. Sullys Hot Dogs

8. Trips to the Cape

9. Trips to NH

10. Long Car rides with the windows down

11. Iced Coffee

12. Feista

13. …

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A tip for all of you in the working world # 1

Never tell your boss " I might not be in on Friday because I may be too drunk" I had an employee tell me this today and I wanted to smack him. Honesty is not always the best policy.

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I can cross one off the list

I can cross number 3 off of my summer goals. I have an apartment for September! It's bigger than my current place and cheaper. It's a little further out of the city then where I am now but still on the T and the place is nice enough to over look the fact that I will no longer be living directly in Boston. Now I am going to start running around like crazy looking for furniture and appliances and pots and pans. Everything at my current place is the room mates. Which me luck.

Thursday 13

Thirteen Records That Mean Summer to Me

1. We Are The Only Friends That We Have- Pie Bald

2. Music For the Morning After- Pete Yorn

3. Either Or- Elliot Smith

4. Pinkerton- Weezer

5. Through Being Cool- Saves the Day

6. From Here to Infermery- Alkaline Trio

7. Bleed American- Jimmy Eat World

8. Employment- The Kaiser Chiefs

9.The Mouse and the Mask- Danger Doom

10. Decadence- Head Automatica

11.Pearl- Janice Joplin

12. Stay What You Are- Saves The Day

13. Crimson- Alkaline Trio…

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Header from Everybody Lies

Waiting for my great idea

So I know this guy in Philly he's a friend of a friend who has started one of the coolest things I have ever heard of. He runs monthly events that are like an open mic night for chefs called open chefame , he has a restaurant that lets them use the kitchen, he gets people who love to cook and are god at it to come in and do the meal and then he sells tickets to people to come in and eat whatever is being prepaired.

Reading up on Chefame made me start thinking about why it is no mater how hard I try I can't figure out what I want to do with my life or even what I am really good at. I know what I want out of a perfession A pleasent work envirment, a job that doesn't eat all my time, something that pays enough money so I don't have to worry about where rent is coming from this month or how I can make $20 feed me for a week and get me to and from work but I think those are things that every body wants.

I wish I could come up with a fantastic idea that would be fun to put into action and be able to suport myself with it. I would like to think I am cleaver and creative but maybe thats just not the case. Maybe I am just to lazy to actualy put any of the ideas I've had into action. Or maybe it's just too easy to stay in the rut of a job I am in. I can blame it on being too tired, not having the start up capitol or resources but aren't those all just excuses.

I guess the more I try and force myself to come up with an idea or a direction to go in the less likely I am to actually find what it is I'm looking for. I was just hoping by 26 I'd have at least some of it figured out.

how soon we forget

So I have a "friend" on face book who is a middle school teacher in the Boston Public Schools. Today she went off on a particular rant about be screwed over by the school she works for by getting stuck teaching middle school English again next year when she wants to teach high school.

The complaint in and of it self is not a bad one however what the conversation turned into was an all out bitch fest about the kids she teaches. She refers to them as monsters and comments on how stupid they are. Her and some of her other face book friends comment on how frightening it is that these children are our future. It bothers me that a teacher would openly bash there much younger students on a social networking site, it is both cruel and stupid on her part. If any one from the school saw that I am sure ( or at least I hope some action would be taken) I know if I was a parent and heard about that I would not want her teaching my child. Ialso feel like her selective memory may be working over time.

This woman and I grew up in the same neighborhood , we are the same age and we knew most of the same people. Most of those people were monsters, I remember in 7th grade she was chased through the streets of our neighborhood by a group of 12 and 13 year old boys and girls who encouraged her to kill her self and then beat her up all because she liked the same boy that a more popular girl liked. This boy she was beat up over failed the 8th grade 3 times before he decided school wasn't for him.

I guess the point I am trying to make is our generation was not any better than the kids she is teaching now and I don't know how she can forget that. If she is really that miserable teaching kids who are unruly and don't want to learn or even try to learn maybe she should teach in a privet school. Maybe if she has such a strong dislike for the kids she is teaching she shouldn't be teaching at all. Maybe she should be happy she has a job as an english teacher because they aren't really i demand it's Math and Science that are desperate for teachers. I don't know just a thought.

Thursday 13

13 goals for this summer

1. Get My Passport (I've never been outside of North America plus you need one just to get in to Canada these days)

2. Pass my summer class with flying colors

3. Find a place to live for september

4. Make it to the beach at least once

5. Grill a steak all by my self ( never have I ever grilled for my self go figure)

6. Learn how to play guitar ( it doesn't have to be well just well on my way)

7. Eat Lobster rolls from as many places in New England that I can.

8. Have a drink outside at least once a week.

9. Win enough tickets from Ski ball to get the big piece of crap from the arcade.

10. Get to PA for WAWA half and Half and the Q-Mart

11. Go on a bike ride and try not to fear being road pizza

12. Learn how to relax and not fill every spare moment with work

13. Go dancing

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There you have it folks. I'll follow up at the end of the summer and let you know what I actually got done.

I got the header from Everybody lies
http://www.samulli.com/weblog/thursday-13-headers

I put thing off for entirly to long

So I have this really awesome cheapo pink sparkly electric guitar. I bought it two years ago with the intent of teaching myself how to play and then starting a band, this has not happened yet. I think I will start learning this weekend.

Rens Universal truth for the day

Dr. Pepper Jelly bellys make the work day a little more bearable

My Idol god of the week

Kellys roast beef and cheese fries. the reason I am going to have a heart attack before I turn 30.

Thursday 13

My 13 Favorite Bars

1. Bukowski ,Boston MA

2. The Druid, Cambridge MA

3. National Mechanics, Philly PA

4. Doc Holidays, New York NY

5. The Deep Ellum, Allston MA

6. Charlies Kitchen, Cambridge MA

7. Tattooed Mom's, Philly PA

8. The Quater Deck, Cape Cod MA

9. The Middle East, Cambridge MA

10. The Farragut House, Boston MA

11. The Burn ( Sunday-Wednesday), somerville MA

12. Doyles Pub, Jamaica Plane MA

13.Suger Moms, Philly PA

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Once more with feeling

So I tried this blogging thing awhile back made a few posts got a couple of comments and then life got in the way and I stopped writing. For some reason I am now compelled to try this again. I think I just have so much going on in my head that I need some sort of outlet...and I may or may not be having my quarter life crises a year late. So lets see how this goes hopefully I'll keep up with it this time.