Showing posts with label News - Amish Shooting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News - Amish Shooting. Show all posts

Friday, October 06, 2006

"You work real hard and the pay's real low and every hour goes oh-so-slow..."

Today I have some news for you.

Lancaster County is a dangerous place to be. The Amish shootings you have undoubtedly heard about occured her. And then, Wednesday night/Thursday morning there was a murder in Elizabethtown. At this rate, in a few days I will be moving to South Philly in order to feel safe.

Speaking of feeling safe (actually, no, this is a total non sequitor), today is my friend Becky (whom I call Beckydoll and who used to call me Sparky for reasons I still don't know) is turning 23. I feel the need to just sort of announce that. Because I'm cool like that.
Happy birthday Beckydoll! To commemorate your birthday I give you a moose who looks remarkably like me holding a bagel. Oh, wait...you took that picture, didn't you? :-P It's okay, cause I love it.

Oh, exciting news? Next weekend, I'm going home to Rhode Island!! I'm so excited. SO EXCITED!!!!

And, well, that's basically all there is to say. Mostly I am supposed to be studying for my math test.

Oh, no, wait. I did neglect to mention something. My job hunt. Remember how optomistic I was?
Well, A&F still hasn't called, neither has the club. You know, that club where everyone knows me? Where I am friends with almost everyone who works in the 18+ area? Yeah, that one.
And to top it off, just in case five weeks of hearing nothing wasn't enough so that I assumed H&M wasn't hiring me, I got a letter from them in the mail. They called my resume "impressive" and said they would keep my application on file and let me know if a position I was better suited for became available. Which is exactly the sort of thing I would say if I wanted to subtly and politely tell someone to go fuck themself. Sooo, I'm still unemployed, and running out of options I might actually enjoy working at.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

"And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad..."

The world has lost it's mind. Seriously. I can't even understand.

Five Amish girls in an Amish schoolhouse got killed -- and that's not counting the injured or the perpetrator who killed himself. Who does that? And over a twenty year old grudge that isn't even against the Amish but is against young girls? That's crazy on its own.

And then...I finally heard from someone in Rhode Island. And I almost wish I hadn't. Things are worse and more bizarre than I had imagined -- and believe me, I had imagined some pretty crazy shit going down. I can't go into details.

But I do want to go home. So badly. So, so, so badly.

And on another note: pet peeve of mine? Mixed signals!