RAVE: Got some fucking business cards. I feel very Patrick Bateman. RANT: Because they changed my phone number after I ordered, they all have the wrong number. Sigh.
Rant; Trading in my quite nice Galaxy S Captivate for a dinky old Blackberry Curve RAVE: Knocking $51 off my monthly bill to do so.
FUCKING hell. We work in a warehouse. All AC units have called it quits. I have no airconditioning for the 65 climbers I'll have in the gym today, nor the 30 or so belayers, NOR any of the CrossFit athletes. Today is going to suck.
Mixed: Monday morning my girlfriend hurt her neck somehow. We were laying in bed, I went to pick her up for a hug and her head fell back. She said ow, so I set her down. Maybe lifted her head up 12"? Her whole body went numb and she couldn't move anything. Spent all of Monday into Tuesday at the ER. She slowly regained feeling and use of her extremities. Left side is still a bit weaker than the right though. Got home around noon yesterday. Evidently the myelin sheath around her spinal cord is damaged at one spot in her neck. Docs say it is a very small, subtle hole. 3 cases for this. 1 is the "trauma" caused it, in which case it should heal and everything should be fine. 2 is the hole was always there, and would probably stay like that. 3 is the onset of a degenerative disease like MS. Docs are leaning towards case 1, which is the best case, I suppose. They say we are extremely lucky that damage wasn't more severe. Suffice to say this has been a very draining experience. Barely got any sleep until last night. I don't think I've ever been that scared in my life. When the docs first mentioned MS was a possibility, she started crying and it took all I had to keep reassuring her and to not cry myself. Her mom drove her home, and so when I was alone in my car I broke down. She's been doing well though, and is able to do just about everything normally, just some things with her left wrist/ankle. Neck brace for 2 weeks. Have a follow up mri in 2 weeks and 3 months to reevaluate and hopefully eliminate the possibility of neurological disorders. Just needed someplace to vent. Didn't want to make her more worried or scared than she already is with all my concerns too. It's tough to hold someone you love's hand, look them in the eye and say, "everything is going to be ok" when in the back of your mind you know there's a possibility that's not true. All from a little bump/drop, on a bed? The world's a crazy place.
Rave Just had my first quarterly review at work...and it went well! I certainly have some things to work on as far as management is concerned, but I was aware of them and they are things that shouldn't be too hard to address. Rant Woman - I made it clear that I think you're fun and that I want to get to know you better. I'm sorry that I can't hang out with out again ASAP, but I had a life and a schedule before I met you, and I'll have that same life and schedule if this doesn't work out. You can deal with it, or you can't - either way, stop complaining about it.
?????: So my life has drastically changed in the past day. I got a call at 1:00 PM yesterday, asking if I can spend the next 5 weeks in... Oklahoma. I am typing this post in... Oklahoma. Rave: The reason I'm here: Shooting a primetime special for ESPN (Uno). Airing in October. Rave: Getting mad paper. Rantish: After moving to NYC, I have yet to get a gig in New York City Proper. I've been traveling the East Coast, and now I'm here. After this is done, I'll have spent more time in Oklahoma than I have in NYC. I was planning on bringing some of my friends down and hanging out in the city before fall, but this was too good to pass up. It's only 5 weeks, and I won't have to worry about money for quite some time. Hopefully it flies by.
RAVE: It's my birthday! There will be drinking tonight. RAVE: Work called me, and over scheduled. So I didn't have to go in! RAVE: I also have tomorrow off. (Requested for hangover day.) Middle of the week weekend why I think I will. RAVE: I am posting this while drinking! RAVE: Starting college next semester. Hopefully I will be a high school English teacher and wrestling coach in four years time. (Don't worry I will let TiB know where I am teaching so you guys will have plenty of time to transfer your kids out of my school.)
RaveHad a second interview for a job today that I absolutely killed. RantProbably still won't get the job due to stupid office politics. At least it was good interviewing experience for the near future.
Rave: Snowbird's are doing a show tomorrow. Cant fucking wait. Rave: 3rd day in a row of sunshine. Fuck you all, this is great. There was only like 4 days of sunshine in July.
Rant: Goddamn main breakers blowing. THIS is the temp at my desk. With a fan. I hate everything. I am not ranting about the weather. I am ranting about broken breakers, city permits, and losing over a thousand dollars this week.
THE NEXT FUCKING PERSON WHO POSTS A RANT OR RAVE ABOUT THE WEATHER GETS A WEEK OFF. Seriously. Enough.
Rave: Just brought the thunder in tennis. I was raining down deep lobs and my forehand was unbearably hot. My serve was 98 degrees with an 88% humidity.
Rant: Watching Nettdata stroke it to fantasies of me on MSN. I need an adult. Preferably Chris Hansen.
I really have no idea New spider man a younger black/spanish teenager. I can only imagine how the conversation at Marvel went. "So we've killed peter parker and we need a new spider man to step up." "Legal have suggested that need some more diversity, apparently having every single super hero caucasian and the whole white power thing about Thor is making us look a little unbalanced" "Ok, so lets think about what fits the theme. Lets talk about the Spider man identity" "A perpetual loser gets fucked by the man while saving his ass time and again. No money, absent parents, father figure gone, Flings handfuls of white goo at white women in the streets." "So he's an urban minority?" "Exactly! But we'll make him part spanish, or part Puerto Rican - cause he's REALLY bad with money." "Really?" "What could go wrong?" "Should we make him gay as well?" "What?" "Well, the whole lycra body suit thing?" "You're right. When you're right you're right. I want drawings of a twinky african/latin teenager in lycra on my desk by lunch, then clear my afternoon schedule and get started on the new Spiderman drawings!" "On it Boss!" To clarify - I actually think the story sounds cool - it just seems so fabricated/blatantly pandering - like they pushed the equality redraw a little too far.