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08/27/2006 18:25 #23091

sorry i missed you guys
i can't believe i missed all the action last night. i had an engagement to attend to and then...well...as the night wore on...i kind of forgot.

see this is what happened.

my friend who is like a soccer mom, living in wheatfield, never goes out. last night she managed to drag her ass to the bills game with a co-worker and somehow ended up at goodbar. she calls me at 10pm and asks what i'm doing. now, most nights i'm in bed by 10, but i had a bachelorette party i attended and was stopping by spot for a nightcap.
she calls me and asks me to meet her.

when i get there, i see her friend is obliterated and ask who is driving home. the friend insists she is perfectly fine and will drive her home no problem. i turn to my friend and say you better not let her drive you home or you'll be on the side of the road in a ditch. she turns to me and says, "um..you know what she told me?"

i'm like...."nooo?"

she's like..."she told me she smokes meth"

and so i'm like..."oh shit...that's some crazy shit!"

so, to make the short story long.....er.....i ended up driving her home and forgot about estrip.

i've been told i missed some surprise guests, for which i'm glad. ex #1 ended up showing up, which is soooo weird. thank god for that misconnect.

oh...and ex#2 calls today crying about how heart broken he is over the girl who left him. i told him that karma would come back to bite him on the nose.

no thanks...no boy drama for me.

oh yeah and i've missed jury duty for the second time in a row.....are they going to arrest me now? am i going to jail?

metalpeter - 08/28/06 18:05
If you didn't let them know you could be in some trouble. Not sure if they show up to peoples homes any more they may just put out a bench warrent. From what I'm reading your friend needed you more. Espicaly when it is someone who doesn't go out much, hope the bahlorette party was fun.

08/23/2006 19:25 #23090

I got a new job!
i will be joining the roswell family starting september 11th! i'll be running a couple of breast cancer studies. i've been trying to get this job forever and now i've finally succeeded! now i'll be rich and will do something that is challenging and rewarding!

I FINALLY GOT A REAL JOB

this makes 4 peeps working at roswell now, that i know of.

imk2 - 08/28/06 20:57
thanks for all the kind words everyone. i will be starting on 9/11 and will be working in carlton house. since i live in tonawanda (northern suburb of buffalo) i will have no choice but to drive. i kind of dread the parking as well, especially in the winter, but i dont think i have a choice.
chicoschica - 08/28/06 10:53
Hooray for you!!
It's totally awesome that you got a job you really really wanted - welcome aboard! (which is funny because i haven't even started yet either...)

I really hope to meet up with you guys at Roswell - and actually - I kind of want to ask how you all get there - car? metro? walk? bus?

I've been kind of spooked by the things I've heard about parking, ie, vandalism, etc.(I'd be stationed in the Trico lot, I guess - *great*), so I'm wondering how others manage.

When do you start? Where will you be working?
ladycroft - 08/24/06 12:18
yay! i knew you could do it :)
paul - 08/23/06 21:05
Congratulations. Now we can eat lunch together. I am a big fan of cafe 59 now.
mrmike - 08/23/06 20:58
Many congrats, it must be a great feeling. Savor it, I'm sure you'll knock em dead
metalpeter - 08/23/06 20:00
I'm glad to hear it is offical and wish you the best of luck. I'm sure there will be a lot of new things to learn and new challanges. That being said when you do a job that is rewarding and will wind up benifiting someone it is worth it. I'm sure doing something new can be stressfull at first but i'm sure you will learn and pick up things as you go along and you will be fine.
imk2 - 08/23/06 19:40
paul, enknot, me and chicoschica
leetee - 08/23/06 19:36
Congrats.

Other than Paul, i didn't know there were other epeeps working at Roswell. I'm so out of the loop.. but what else is new!

Hope you love the job!!
jason - 08/23/06 19:32
Congratulations! Jason was here first!

08/19/2006 21:22 #23089

china pictures on shutterfly
For those who'd like to see more china pictures, i uploaded them onto shutterfly, just like i promised.

after you click the link, click view pictures, when you come to the next page, chose "view as slideshow" it makes it a lot easier to view pictures.




metalpeter - 08/20/06 15:54
Great pics thanks for sharing them. Not sure if I have a favortie picture. The first one with you taking the picture in the mirror is preaty cool. Some of the Blue and Red building are preaty neat looking. Looks like a good time. I also like the pictures in side the temples. I'm glad I did the slide show like you suggest that is a much better way of seeing them.
mrmike - 08/20/06 14:24
These are great. I love the juxaposition between the brand new architecture and what has been around for centuries

08/15/2006 22:47 #23088

Flava FLAVE!
i feel so guilty for putting faben onto the flavor of love show. i try to use it as an example of how NOT to act, but instead we just sit there and break on these chicks the entire time.

to those who don't know......the new season has begun and it is absolutely awful, one chick has actually doo doo'd herself right on the stairs! there are white girls who wanna be black, bisexual sex fiends, ghetto rats and country bumpkins who quote, "want dark babies"! god help me for watching this smut, but i just can't help myself, i love it! and i think some of you may know just what i'm talking about.

whatever, i listen to NPR all day long, i'm entitled to this

FLAVA FLAVE!!!

metalpeter - 08/16/06 19:01
Did you say bisexaul sex fiends that is what I need. I admit I have only seen a few seconds of last season as I fliped chanels. So I guess he didn't find love last season. I will have to try and catch that I havn't seen any of the Surreal life or any of VH1 reality shows. But I still know that Flav fell in love with Brigdette Nelson and that spawned the first spin off.

I will admit I used to love Public Enemy. But you notice the guy with the show is the crazy Yeah Boy with the Giant clock, not Terminator X who they kicked out for being anti semetic or Chuck D the Concous of the group. I have no idea if any of them are still making music or not.
libertad - 08/16/06 01:48
you hooked me at your pool. This show is like crack and there is plenty to go around.
carolinian - 08/16/06 00:56
I love that show! It's pure sleaze with almost no actual redeeming values, apart from a cool viking helmet and reliving the Public Enemy phase I went through in middle school. It kicks ass.

But if you want to try to distill some useful moral out of the show, I think it would be "have respect for yourself and don't put your self worth into other people's hands."

Let's be honest: Flav is a man and getting paid good money (and perhaps getting put up into a mansion if he doesn't own it) to have sex with upwards of two dozen attractive women every week on national TV. He gets to see said beautiful women literally claw at each other to be with him, which must be such an ego trip, especially with millions of people watching it. As long as Miss Right is never really found or splits with him soon after, the party keeps on continuing for Flav. Is there really any kind of incentive to pick one contestant and settle down?

Any self-respecting person would either milk the free publicity for all its worth and not take it seriously, or would refuse to be played like a violin and they'd leave. Being like New York last season and basing all her self-worth on her prospects of becoming Mrs. Flav is a lesson on "how not to act".


08/11/2006 20:46 #23087

i know you wanna get all up in my booty
BUT DAMN!

so someone rammed my ass today. i was sitting at a red light on transit, talking to my mom, and this girl just plowed into my bumper. it was like one of those volkswagen commercials where people are driving talking, shooting the shit, when they suddenly get side swiped out of nowhere.

i swear if my mom was not in my car today, no one would believe me that these accidents are not my fault. if i came home today saying that someone hit me again, they'd think that it has to be my driving. last time i had a 120 y/o judge hit me. and the time before that, someone ran me off the thruway and made me loose control of my car and plow into the divider at 50 miles an hour. luckily only my sternum was broken.

i had a doctors visit today. this is a continuing saga of unexplainable upper back right side shoulder and headache pain. x-ray and ultrasound were normal. all blood work was normal except for vitamin b-12 levels. they were about 200, where the normal range is 200-1100. so the doctor said that since b12 deficiencies can be responsible for neurological issues, this could be why i'm in pain. so she decided to bring me in every week for a month for b12 shots, starting today. this still doesn't disprove my self diagnosis of multiple sclerosis as the two are very closely associated. it has been thought that b12 deficiency is associated with the cause of MS as it destroys the myelin sheath of nerve cells, which is what MS consists of. i think i'll bring this up to my doctor next week.

also, i went to see world trade center today. i did cry the entire time, but i'm not sure if it was because the movie was extraordinary or anything like that, it's an emotional subject, so just about everyone was crying including (e:des) . i'd give it 3.5 out of 5.

des - 08/13/06 14:28
now god damnit I told you I wasnt crying, you got salt in my eye throwing popcorn ;)
Did I mention I hate Nicholas Cage?
metalpeter - 08/12/06 19:39
I wish you luck in getting better. Hopefully the shots do the trick. At least the doctor is trying to treat the problem as opposed to the pain and numbeness. Often in this country we fight the symptoms instead of the underlying problem. Hopefully it is just low b vitimins.
libertad - 08/11/06 23:13
Shots? Can't you take something internally? What foods have b12? Nuts? I hope you are ok. Looks like you are at your centenial post.
imk2 - 08/11/06 23:08
noo, nooo, i really dont want to have ms, but that's what i thought i had. the back shoulder headache are really weird tho. it's like the entire upper right hand side of my body is different. everything is weird feeling. i cant really explain it. it tingles and it burns and it falls asleep and there is a spot on my back about six inches long and two inches wide that is numb all the time for like the past 4 years. everything on the right hand side feels different. teeth, tonsil (yes i can feel it) eye, ear, etc. so that's what i mean by pain. and it's getting progressively worse as the years go on. now my hand and right hip are falling asleep at night. i almost feel like giving up, like i will never find an answer.
jenks - 08/11/06 22:51
holy shite... "only" your sternum was broken? that's not an easy bone to break.... Glad you're ok this time... Not sure I agree that your B12 level explains shoulder pain.... but that's not really my area... And the shots can't hurt anything... (well except literally). You don't want to have MS though.