obfuscated girl

what's up milWAUKEE

The best thing about this video besides the song itself is as per usual the comments on the Youtube page.

"hes not a geek, faggot"

I don't really miss the internet, guys.

shhhhhhhh

You know how it feels in your lips the day after they have been kissed for hours and hours, like they are twice their normal size and they tingle?

...Yeah, I wouldn't know anything about that.

this is the last day of our acquaintance

The downside of starting/having a 9-5 job:
I probably can't go see these guys in Madison in March, because they are playing on a Sunday. Unless you would like to give me a ride.
The upside of starting/having a 9-5 job:

EVERYTHING ELSE.

I have been in the best mood for like three days now and it only has a tiny bit to do with the fact that I actually got my federal tax refund this year and can afford to buy desperately-needed ladyunderthings and no longer resemble one of those ladies that you see in National Geographic with shit through their noses. Ahem.
This is a show that I am most likely almost definitely going to see, as it is on a Friday and $14, and here is a song that absolutely kills me by this band, like listen to it seven times in a row and squinch your eyes shut in public places and the contemplate religion kills me:
Low-Murderer
This is what I wrote about them the last time they were in town.
Also: ask me about the phone number that I now possess of a real live boy who does not live inside the internet!
Actually don't ask me about that, because I probably won't tell you.

ten things i learned from degrassi the next generation

This is one of those habits that you develop when you are unemployed and can revel in such habits because there is little else to do if you are awake at 7:30 in the damn morning every morning anyway. Because I imagine I will have to quit this habit as of next week, I am compiling this list. The beautiful thing about these things that I have learned is that I learned all of them over the course of like two weeks, with a ratio of about two Issues explored per episode.

1. getting pregnant when you are 15=bad
2. deciding to move in with your boyfriend who is equally 15 and raise the baby=bad
2a. because in order to support his unborn child he will take a job at a Canadian drugstore and then when he realizes he makes minimum wage he will decide to sell Oxycontin and then when he gets caught by his boss he will have an attack of conscience and then get beaten up by his one customer who mysteriously looks like he is 35 at a bonfire
3. anorexia=bad, but can be cured over the course of a week if your parents tell you that they love you the way you are
4. abusive relationships=bad, and if you are the abuser and you send your (popular) girlfriend to the hospital and are as a result a social pariah you will become so deranged from the abuse of your peers that after getting a bucket of paint and feathers dumped on you on a Canadian quiz show you will bring a gun to school and confine Degrassi's star basketball player to a wheelchair and then kill yourself
4a. this is also bad
5. making friends with dudes who have video cameras=bad if you get drunk around them because you will take your top off and get videotaped doing it and then you will totally be the school slut and ruin your secret relationship with the sensitive rockstar
6. there is something called "Student Welfare" in Canada that mysteriously allows underage kids to live by themselves if they get their shop teacher to sign a weekly form, which is convenient for having underage sex
6a. AND THAT IS BAD
7 goth girls all totally cut themselves
7a. but it is because they put too much pressure on themselves because their mothers are alcoholic
7b. both of these things are bad
8. being a lesbian is okay, but on average you will only stay a lesbian for about a month
9. Canadian pop music is kind of terrible
10. if you are confined to a wheelchair as a result of a tragic shooting you will never recapture the glory of your former basketball star self and your girlfriend will totally break up with you because you have become an art fag

the end

and the chipstain's grease will come out in the bath

It is official:
I was not hallucinating the second job offer. I start working in medical records at Healthcare for the Homeless on Monday. The hourly wage is more than I have ever made in my life. Which is not really all that impressive but still. Soon I will start saying things like "TGIF" and keeping Cathy cartoons in my cubicle, and fuck, probably HAVING a cubicle, along with keeping adorable posters of kitties that say things like "hang in there." I will have weekends and happy hours and I will eventually be able to maybe see a doctor and I will not be worrying about whether the people who work at the coffeehouse and the library that I go to every day are secretly laughing at me because I am clearly not doing anything with my life and then start thinking about why I think about what other people think about me so much.
In other news, it is good that I am not starting until Monday because we are supposed to get at least ten inches of snow, starting tonight.

"A WINTER STORM TRACKING ACROSS THE CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI VALLEY INTO THE OHIO VALLEY IS EXPECTED TO BRING A SWATH OF HEAVY SNOW TO THE AREA. [...] THE MILWAUKEE METROPOLITAN AREA COULD SEE AROUND 12 INCHES.

IN ADDITION TO THE SNOW...STRONG NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS WILL PRODUCE BLOWING AND DRIFTING.

A WINTER STORM WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN HEAVY SNOW IS EXPECTED TO COMBINE WITH STRONG WINDS OF 25 MPH OR MORE TO CAUSE MAJOR IMPACTS TO COMMERCE AND SOCIETY.

TRAVEL IS EXPECTED TO BECOME TREACHEROUS TONIGHT... CONTINUING INTO WEDNESDAY. ALL INTERESTS SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST FORECAST...AND BE PREPARED TO ALTER YOUR TRAVEL PLANS WEDNESDAY MORNING."

Like, I know that people often resort to talking about the weather when they run out of other things to talk about, but I don't remember winter ever ever EVER being this bad. Hold me.

ask about me

And now:
An IM conversation that illustrates exactly how my day is going, starring me and Brian.

1. me: BRIAN.
Brian: Money!*
me: THAT IS NOT ALL.
I just got a voicemail from Healthcare For The Homeless
which would be the place I told you about, the Just In Case interview
and they OFFERED ME A JOB
Brian: Hahahahahahahahaha
It does pour, don't it?
me: EVERYTHING IS COMING UP MILHOUSE.
I'm not sure if--it doesn't sound like the original position I interviewed for. if it is like a file clerk or something, fuck that.
BUT BRIAN I CAN KIND OF AFFORD TO SAY "FUCK THAT"
Brian: Hah! Totally true.

-fin-

*I got my state tax refund today. It is sort of huge. Tonight, Veronica, we dine like the lower middle class to which we aspire.