Thursday, June 22, 2006

In Fashion, the soft drinks, expansion...

Tomorrow is a big day. We’ll wake up bright and early and make our way to Chicago, (the New Age, but what would Frank Lloyd Wright say? Oh Columbia! Amusement or treasure, these optimistic pleasures Like the Ferris Wheel!)

I can’t help it.

We’ll be attending Jason and Sarah’s wedding. I’m excited to go. Jason has a been a good friend since I started in college I’m looking forward to seeing the likes of ben, mcglone, and Josiah once again. Let’s hope I can find my way through the concrete maze that is the city of Chicago and arrive on-time.

What makes me most nervous is that we will also be trying to sign on an apartment. I would feel much better about it if I was seeing apartments I like on craigslist within our price range. I guess I fear getting a crappy apartment for more money than I’d like to spend. I’ll try not to jump into anything. Wish me luck.

Saturday, June 17, 2006

make a wish

The fundraiser was a big success. Everything was set up on time and the food was lovingly prepared without so much as a gap in service. There was a moment during the afternoon in my pick-up and delivery that I messed up. It reminded me of a couple times in my employment history where I felt that I did my best and failed miserably, killing my self esteem. I freaked out, but got my bearings straight and everything worked out fine in the end. I was relieved by the time the party started.

Last night I had a dream where I was working for the make-a-wish foundation and I told everyone in the board room that we should be giving out vacations to healthy children who will remember them. Everyone started vomiting violently and they blamed me for making them, and the children, so ill.

Xtina read my previous post last night. We are currently in contract negotiations. Rather, while we are still planning on moving, we are thinking very critically about it.

Friday, June 16, 2006

the ghost of andy

Tonight is a huge fundraiser for the political campaign on which I've been working. I'll spend my afternoon moving tables, chairs, food, plates, glasses and everything heavy you can imagine. I'm fine with it, though. Christina is the one everyone will blame if something goes wrong; she's catering the whole thing. Needless to say, she's been anxious. Not that she didn't put this on herself, though. Her taking such an active role stems from her inability to say 'no' to anybody but me. This way we're giving more to the campaign than we could possibly provide monitarily so I'm truly grateful and while xtina has been hard to be comfortable around, it's worth it.

Last night I had a dream the xtina and I were at Jason's wedding reception and we were seated at the same table as andy warhol. He insisted, though, that we call him 'John.' And not just 'John,' but 'John Warhol.' He made everyone little glass sculptures and I told the other guests at the table that I'd seen better work from him in his past. What an asshole. Don't worry, the ghost of andy warhol doesn't decend upon me in my sleep on a regular basis.

I'm still nervous about the move, I don't need to write another post about it. Sometimes I lay awake at night and I resolve to tell xtina that we can't move, that we'd be giving too much up and I always talk myself out of it the next day. I wish I had a good job here. I simply don't feel good about it. I'm not excited at all anymore. Xtina is going to have a long talk with me when she reads this tomorrow. She'll cry, and I'll back off.

Friday, June 09, 2006

falling in line

Another Friday afternoon and the air smells like sweet perfume. No, something really does smell like perfume. I had a meeting with career services today. We talked about the move and it was reassuring that she didn't think I was crazy about moving without a job. She actually thought I was making the right decision, all the way. I was honest and told her I'm terrified. This morning I made an apointment with the 'apartment people' in chicago while I'm there for Jason's wedding. Looks like I'm on my way.

Tomorrow is Jason's bachelor party. We're going to blue chip casino where I'll triple our moving budget with one clickety-clack of the dice. Actually xtina threatened to hide the debit card.

I have the new thom yorke album. It's pretty good, along the same lines as a radiohead album, but not mind-shatteringly original. I'll give it a few listens, I assure you.

Monday, June 05, 2006

'found' and summer walks

I’m finally back to normal again – well, in regards to my health, that is. I took the weekend very slow with the exception of helping to re-hab a cherry hill market storefront for the LaGrand campaign and attending the ‘Found’ exhibition at the wealthy theater, that local cultural institution I always plan on visiting and never do. The ‘Found’ thing was great, Davy Rothbart can tell a great story, albeit a little short (I waited for the show longer than the show actually went). Now xtina and I have a new inside joke/phrase for our personal enjoyment – “the booty don’t stop,” courtesy of the Ypsilanti all-starz. I already used it while walking through the remnants of festival yesterday. We also took advantage of the beautiful day by visiting most of the tom otterness sculptures that have been placed around downtown. If you have an afternoon to kill and the weather is nice you should definitely do this – the sculptures are great! There is a map of sculpture locations available here: . One of our favorites is located on the blue pedestrian bridge connecting to the GVSU campus. It is days like yesterday that I will miss immensely when I’m gone – a picturesque cityscape, and essentially all to myself. It makes me feel huge.