Thursday, July 10, 2003

 

Nobody Sees Me

I got a CUTE haircut last night and NOBODY has noticed. Nobody except Andy who was the only one who knew in advance I was cutting it.

Nobody cares about me AT ALL!

posted by Krizzer 4:57 PM

 

Sleepus Interuptus

I was snug in my little bed last night. I was cozy and not too warm and not too cool. I was making yummy sleep noises.

And around 1:30 am I heard the rattle of a key in the door. Andy had been out with "the boys" and had walked from downtown to my apartment to crawl in with me. After the initial scare of someone opening my front door (which I can see from my bed in my one bedroom/studio apt) in the middle of the night, I was happy to see him. He was slightly drunk but he was feeling cuddly too, so come on in! The bed is fine!

And he was kinda hungry and now that ya mention it, I hadn't had any dinner. So we fired up the microwave and ate us some Dinty Moore in bed. All good. All great. Now it's very late. Let's go to sleep. Now please.

NOPE! Andy suddenly got the talkies. He came down with a rampaging case of Blabbermouth Disease! And he WOULD NOT let me go to sleep!! I humored him. I asked nicely. I pleaded. I shushhed. I scolded. I told him to shut up. I tried rubbing his back to make him settle down. NO GOOD!!! He YAPPED on about nonsense for hours!

He had to tell me all about his great idea. I'd mentioned I'd like to open a theatre someday. And he had this GREAT BRAND NEW IDEA!! What if you opened a theatre that was a (now hold on to your seat) combination of a theatre and a (are you ready?) restaraunt!!!?? What a fantastic idea!!

"You mean a dinner theatre?" I asked.

"Oh" he says "Well, maybe it's already been done." But that's ok cause this one will be different and let me count the ways. Let me count the ways until FOUR O'CLOCK in the morning!!! Oh, sure. He's not working right now. He can sleep in until WHENEVER today. But I had to get up early and go to work yesterday, and I had to get up again in the morning and go to work today! I need my sleep!

You know. He wouldn't shut up until I finally got so frustrated I CRIED! And he went to go sleep on the couch. For 2 seconds. Then he came back to bed and wanted to know if I was really crying. Then he thought, wouldn't this scene be a good idea for one of the plays in his dinner theatre?

He got the message though, kissed me, and finally SHUT UP!!!

He's a cutey. I love him. I love it that he likes to play, and it was great he was in a happy, playful mood. He's adorable, and even when he's pissing me off I still think he's cute and it makes me even madder sometimes.

BUT LAST NIGHT I COULD HAVE KILLED HIM!!!

posted by Krizzer 10:55 AM

Wednesday, July 09, 2003

 

Mixed Emotions

i heard the news today, oh boy...

Gary Payton is going to play for the Lakers next year.

Oh Gary. I love Gary. And I hate the Lakers. But at least he's not going to play for the Utah Jazz.

I guess I'll have to root for the Lakers a LITTLE bit now. I'd really like Gary to get his Ring one of these years.

But damn! He don't make it easy on me!

posted by Krizzer 3:37 PM

 

Stupid, Dull, Unimportant Question

So, in my work I have the need to use black ball point pens. They must be black, and they must be the classic "ball-point" style. No rollerball pens, which I'd prefer. We actually have good reason to standardize the style of pen many of us use. Now, I'm allowed to use any pen I wish for some things. And I do. Oh, do I ever! But when I'm filling out a bid form I must use a black ball point pen.

And here's the stupid, dull, unimportant question:

Does anyone out there recommend a brand? I find that BLUE ballpoint pens write very smoothly and nicely. The ink just flows like silk, and it comes out nice and dark and one does not have to trace over the words or number one had just written, in order to make it legible, in order to make it survive a photocopier.

But all the black pens I've tried SUCK. The ink comes out grey and patchy. I have to press especially hard to get it dark enough to reproduce in the copier or fax machine. And sometimes I'll have to write out 200+ bid prices, in numbers, and then write the words out longhand. And, well, it hurts my hand and pisses me off. And I wish I could use a blue pen. (or a PURPLE pen!) and I wish I could use a rollerball, but I can't.

Any ideas?

posted by Krizzer 3:23 PM

 

New Sensation

Can I just tell you all how excited I am?

I've got a new plan for my life. I'm going back to school. I think I mentioned in an earlier post that I was considering a Dental Hygiene program, and I've looked into it quite deeply, and I'm going to do it!

Now I know you're surprised. We all are. But the more I look at it the more I think it is the ABSOLUTELY PERFECT job for me. It has everything I want in a job, and I know I'll be good at it. Here are the pros and cons:

Pros

o I’d be good at it
o It’s an interesting job
o I’d feel good about doing it
o I’d be able to do it even when I’m old
o It’s not a profession or career that would suck up all of my free time.
o It would offer variety and flexibility, since often Hygienists work a couple of days at one office, and a couple of days at a different office.
o It’s only a 2 year program, not counting the pre-requisites. The pre-reqs I can do in the next 2 years while still working at MyCurrentJob, which gives me time to gear up and get back in the swing of school and prepare to move to Shoreline and go back to school full time.
o Knowing that I’m only going to be at MyCurrentJob for 2 more years sure makes being here for now a hell of a lot more bearable.
o There is enormous job opportunity, even in Bellingham. In fact, the Dept. of Labor projects it to be one of the 30 fastest growing occupations. So I could work HERE (big priority) but also get a job anywhere I wanted.
o It pays a lot (I’d actually be able to buy a house some day!)
o I would make enough that I wouldn’t have to work full time
o Not working full time would allow me to pursue my MANY interests.
o Good benefits – including dental!!
o I’d be able to save up money to start a business if I wanted to (ie a theatre company)
o If the business flopped I’d always be able to go back to Dental Hygiene, and make good money.
o I won’t have to rely on my parents anymore, from help with my financial aid to miscellaneous emergencies like car problems.
o I’d be able to take REAL vacations, because I’d be able to afford both the time and money.
o I won’t have to stand-up all day. But I also won’t have to sit on my ass all day.
o I won’t have to look busy, answer phones, deal with construction workers, be yelled at, be undervalued, be paid less than people around me who have little or no education, be embarrassed about what I do for a living.
o I won’t have to dress up, in fact I’d get to wear pajamas to work.
o Dentist’s offices usually have fishtanks – and I love fish!
o I’d look really cute in a lab coat and mask
o Free People magazine.
o My parents are behind me, and my dad said he’d help me with $ for school.
o I am excited about and have a lot of hope for the future.
o I LOVE the feeling of having a plan, a direction, a goal. I’ve spent most of my life not knowing what I want to do with it, and making a decision is such a relief. It feels right. It feels great!
o I know there’s more on this list. Every time I think about it I think of something else to add on the “Pro” side.

Cons

o The two- year program at Shoreline is EXPENSIVE. Like $14,000. To pay for the program, I’ll have to take out more loans, which are already a great burden.
o I’ll have to move for 2 years.

There are probably other Cons too, but I truly haven't come up with them yet. And the Cons I have are SHORT -TERM problems, whereas the Pros are life-long benefits. AND with the money I'd be making at STARTING wages, I'd be able to pay off the Student Loans I have now, PLUS the additional loans, in half the time it will take me to pay off the loans I have now with the way I'm going. Probably a lot less than half.

And Shoreline is in North Seattle, so it's not THAT far from home, I could still go home on weekends. Plus I'd be a LOT closer to Lint's house! Bike rides - YAY!

So I start taking Biology at Whatcom this fall. I'm excited to go back to school.

And this is funny: I got a copy of my transcript from WWU, and I looked at it and said "Linguistics? When did I ever take Linguistic? And Geography? I have no memory of that! And what the heck is "EVS ST SCIENCE"?" Must be some Environmental Studies class I do not recall at all. In fact, I didn't remember that I'd taken English 101, but I knew I must have in order to graduate. Then I thought "Oh yah, I think that was the class where we used "Collegiate Writer" (aka out-of-date-DOS-based-word-processing-program). Oh, I remember being late to that final. So, basically all I remember from that class was the word processing program we used, and being late to the final. But the class itself is one big blank.


These class I took to satisfy my GURs, my "General Undergraduate Requirments" or whatever. My "Classes you're supposed to take so we can say we gave you a well-rounded education." So, my question is: if I can't even remember taking these class, then....ummm....what could I have possibly LEARNED in any of them? What was the point of taking them!!!

posted by Krizzer 11:11 AM