Workplace vignette
We’ve recently started allowing patrons to check out DVDs. We’ve got a weird mix of arty Criterion Collection movies, middlebrow “classics” like Star Wars and Chinatown, and then a bunch of vaguely sex/gender/New York themed stuff. I’m guessing as to the philosophy of our collection, but there is definitely a focus on [...]

I am poised to spend a significant amount of time socializing with not one, but two people that are not Ian, Jessica, Miles or a family member within the span of seven days. For me, this is a nearly unprecedented level of social flightiness!

So I finally get things up and running for 2004 on monkeypomo.com and I find out my web host is MIA and someone has hacked the server or something silly like that.
However, literally hours before this dastardly malfeasance occurred, I got a look at the search strings that brought people to my site in the [...]

Within my sliver of the world, there are fewer than 21 hours left in 2003.
I’m still pretty shaky on what my New Year’s plans are outside of going into New York at some point with vodka strapped on my person like an ammo belt.

Okay, here’s a passage from an AMG artist profile:
In addition to overcoming drug addiction and beginning work on a second solo album, Doughty continued to do solo tours and was heard contributing vocals to BT’s club hit “Never Gonna Come Back Down.”
Wow, how does someone find the time to work on a second solo album [...]

Because Levi doesn’t believe me:
I have a new job. It is still in the retail sector, but not strictly in the “screaming children at midnight on a Saturday on Rt. 46 retail job” sense that my last two positions have been. I am finishing up the training to be an e-mail/phone representative for [...]

I have a new job. I don’t hate it yet.

By the afternoon of 10 September 2003, the fire department’s sign had been expanded to
REMEMBERING
09-11-2001
HOW SAD
And then on the day in question, the sign maker got extra verbose!
REMEMBERING
09-11-2001
HOW SAD
UNBELIEVABLE TWO YEARS
…which pretty much sounds like something you’d put in a high school yearbook.
The sign now reads, “ARE YOU READY FOR ISABELLE?” which also sounds inappropriately [...]

We are entering into September. It’s my favorite season – the foliage, the smell of burning leaves wafting through the frosty air (seriously, possibly my favorite olfactory experience), the expanded wardrobe opportunities, the giant Sears Christmas catalogs of my youth, the selection of new school supplies… it’s really pretty awesome. And this year, [...]

Nearly three years after my last formal contact in regards to employment at McSwy’s, my name appears on their site for the first time.
My brain did not explode.