dear life,
wow...it's been awhile, huh? well, guess what. i've had a series of startling revelations and apparently, i'm an actress. it's weird, i know.
what's that? oh, no...no i'm not 'an actress'...i'm just (at this moment in time) in demand to pretend to be other people. fictional people. more so than...well, ever, really.
it's super-bizarre no? yes. yes it is.
anyway, i wanted to let you know all that so that when you emerge from your theatre cocoon in a few months you're not totally blindsided by having to say things that are unscripted. and have real, actual interactions with people whom you've not seen in months and months. which reminds me...
gotta go, life. see you in january.
lurv
evel
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dear improv',
i miss you. can't wait to get back together.
lascivious wink...
hearts and stars,
evel
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dear brain,
i know...i know. i know that we've been stuck in windowless rooms with fake living spaces for a while. i know. and i know it's gonna be that way for a little while longer and i know you're getting a little stir crazy. it's okay. i still think you're great.
but, can we stop with the bizarre theatre-related anxiety dreams? can we? they're funny and all, great stories, but seriously - cut it out. i'd like to go back to all the other random shit that's equally funny and less prescient.
you're always with me. i like that about you.
gooo synapses!
evel
ps - please don't forget my lines!
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dear the tv show glee,
you suck. i hate you. i've watched two of you and you are really cloying and i am not a fan. also, why are all your female characters such grating stereotypes? and why doesn't jane lynch get more screen time/kudos for at least basing her stereotype in reality and making a really formidible and enjoyable villian?
and for that matter, why are my female friends putting up with this shit? stop watching bad tv. unless it's ANTM...
also, get a better sound editor - your musical numbers look like shit.
hates and skates,
evel
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dear dating,
i hate you, too. you're irritating.
grrrr
evel
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dear theatre,
thanks for giving me an excuse not to date. way to take a load off of me, no?
oh, and no thanks for reinforcing the concept of me being alone forever and never having enough money to retire/be financially independent.
and i reckon, thanks for smiling upon me the past few months.
i love you! i hate you!
evel
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dear vanity fair magazine,
look, i've never wanted to be famous...but now i'd really like to be interesting enough to be in you. in a non-scandalous way.
i'll work on it. but you guys are gonna have to lower your standards, okay? okay.
short-time reader, first time writer
evel
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dear fake chicken salad that i've been making and eating obsessively for the past week or so,
damn you're fine.
i want you inside me,
evel
Showing posts with label current events. Show all posts
Showing posts with label current events. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Friday, October 24, 2008
oh...dear...god...
it's another one of those moping about my life choices blog! yay!
so, yes. november is fast approaching. by my calculations, once i've written my rent check and paid for therapy and that other bill that's due in the first week of november, i'll have about $35 in my checking account until my next payday. which will be nov 14. this is assuming i don't buy groceries, take money out of my account, or need anything urgently that i don't currently own.
oh shit. Oooooohhhh shit.
so, um...i'm about to have a real big problem. i do have some savings, yes, and i'm comfortable taknig up to 200 more dollars out of savings. but, um...that's not gonig to be enough. let's put it this way...i'm making about 65% of what i had been making per month for the past, oh, 2.5 years. this is not okay. especially since what i had been making didn't really give me any money leftover at the end of each month for savings.
and i have been applying for any and every possible non-waiting tables job that is part-time that i can find. it's rough. it's really rough out there. and right now, it's not looking so good.
so...whereas before, i was having difficulty sleeping because of teaching the spider lesson at my otherwise nifty-but-part-time job, i am now having difficulty sleeping because of my financial situation created largely by my unwillingness to remain unhappy at a nightmare job.
theory - if it holds true - is that i am happier now. and to a large extent, yes. i am. but uh...wow am i worried. Wow. wow.
add to that, there's a lot of other shit happening right now. nevermind the whole national/international economic crisis and it being election season (which is stressful enough on its own), but then there's a lot of weird personal things happening right now including my further demonstrated inability to date successfully, octagenarian that i love and their many varied health crises, my sister having a really rough time of it right now, and impending mysterious changes at my artistic institute of choice (the one where don't get paid), and it's fucking cold already. it's uh...it's a lot.
and i hate to say it - especially since for the most part this year has been really positive for me, and on the whole i feel like i'm in a lot better 'headspace' now than i was 12 months ago - but the astrologers were right. 100%. i do, to an extent, fall into that horoscopery bullshit. no, my daily horoscope usually doesn't mean anything. and usually, i don't remember or care about the 'yearly astrological predictions', but all the ones that i read for 2008 essentially said that this year would be a doozy. and a doozy it has been. just...one thing after another this year. broad, sweeping, constant change. in all areas all teh time.
so i guess what i'm saying is, i'd like to get paid to be stable. maybe it's like a dare. like 'i dare you to not make any ginormous life changes for at least a week and to roll with the people around you making ginormous life changes in a pleasant manner and if you can do that, i'll give you $300'. Okay. sign me up. dare accepted! give me the $300! or even $100. or $10. whatever. i just...sigh..
okay, well...i'm going to go see if any online surveys need me to take them. i'm being dead serious, i signed up for like three 'get paid to take free online surveys' services yesterday. in addition to applying for a bunch of jobs.
heigh-ho...
so, yes. november is fast approaching. by my calculations, once i've written my rent check and paid for therapy and that other bill that's due in the first week of november, i'll have about $35 in my checking account until my next payday. which will be nov 14. this is assuming i don't buy groceries, take money out of my account, or need anything urgently that i don't currently own.
oh shit. Oooooohhhh shit.
so, um...i'm about to have a real big problem. i do have some savings, yes, and i'm comfortable taknig up to 200 more dollars out of savings. but, um...that's not gonig to be enough. let's put it this way...i'm making about 65% of what i had been making per month for the past, oh, 2.5 years. this is not okay. especially since what i had been making didn't really give me any money leftover at the end of each month for savings.
and i have been applying for any and every possible non-waiting tables job that is part-time that i can find. it's rough. it's really rough out there. and right now, it's not looking so good.
so...whereas before, i was having difficulty sleeping because of teaching the spider lesson at my otherwise nifty-but-part-time job, i am now having difficulty sleeping because of my financial situation created largely by my unwillingness to remain unhappy at a nightmare job.
theory - if it holds true - is that i am happier now. and to a large extent, yes. i am. but uh...wow am i worried. Wow. wow.
add to that, there's a lot of other shit happening right now. nevermind the whole national/international economic crisis and it being election season (which is stressful enough on its own), but then there's a lot of weird personal things happening right now including my further demonstrated inability to date successfully, octagenarian that i love and their many varied health crises, my sister having a really rough time of it right now, and impending mysterious changes at my artistic institute of choice (the one where don't get paid), and it's fucking cold already. it's uh...it's a lot.
and i hate to say it - especially since for the most part this year has been really positive for me, and on the whole i feel like i'm in a lot better 'headspace' now than i was 12 months ago - but the astrologers were right. 100%. i do, to an extent, fall into that horoscopery bullshit. no, my daily horoscope usually doesn't mean anything. and usually, i don't remember or care about the 'yearly astrological predictions', but all the ones that i read for 2008 essentially said that this year would be a doozy. and a doozy it has been. just...one thing after another this year. broad, sweeping, constant change. in all areas all teh time.
so i guess what i'm saying is, i'd like to get paid to be stable. maybe it's like a dare. like 'i dare you to not make any ginormous life changes for at least a week and to roll with the people around you making ginormous life changes in a pleasant manner and if you can do that, i'll give you $300'. Okay. sign me up. dare accepted! give me the $300! or even $100. or $10. whatever. i just...sigh..
okay, well...i'm going to go see if any online surveys need me to take them. i'm being dead serious, i signed up for like three 'get paid to take free online surveys' services yesterday. in addition to applying for a bunch of jobs.
heigh-ho...
Friday, August 8, 2008
compare and contrast
cnn's front page on their website August 8, 2008 c. 4:00 pm EDT
lead story: [John] Edwards Admits to Extra-Marital Affair
headlines:
lead story: Russian Forces Battle georgians
headlines:
Fannie Mae reveals loss of $2.3bn
Spectacular Opening for Olympics
SpongeBob in NY torture sideshow
hmmm....
Hmmmmm.....
so...americans care more about the sordid details of a politician's private life, pot growing mexicans, slanderous campaigns, and the dow jones than they do about 1,400 civillians being killed in bombings in what will probably lead to an all-out war with a former super-power that's a little hot-headed and still has nukes . also we care about a whoooole bunch of things more than we do fannie mae - one of the biggest mortgage companies in the us - reporting an astronomical loss.
well, then...
lead story: [John] Edwards Admits to Extra-Marital Affair
headlines:
- Mexican cartels grow pot in U.S. national forests
- Ticker: Antichrist Obama in McCain ad?
- Cafferty: Right time for Obama vacation?
- CNNMoney: Dow surges on sinking oil
- Russian, Georgian troops in fierce fighting
- iReport.com: Georgians 'anxious' about war
- Afghan 'surge' may not be enough, general says
- China's president declares Olympics open
- Detroit mayor faces new felony charges
- Mom lied about missing tot's call, cops say
- Dead girl, 5, left last message for family
- Zakaria: Raw power and self-interest in Pakistan
- Glenn Beck : Drive naked, save America
- 106 mpg 'air car' creates buzz, questions
- Wedding-day disasters didn't stop 'I dos'
- Ghostly image caught on security cam
- CNN Wire: CVR found at copter crash site
lead story: Russian Forces Battle georgians
headlines:
Fannie Mae reveals loss of $2.3bn
Spectacular Opening for Olympics
SpongeBob in NY torture sideshow
hmmm....
Hmmmmm.....
so...americans care more about the sordid details of a politician's private life, pot growing mexicans, slanderous campaigns, and the dow jones than they do about 1,400 civillians being killed in bombings in what will probably lead to an all-out war with a former super-power that's a little hot-headed and still has nukes . also we care about a whoooole bunch of things more than we do fannie mae - one of the biggest mortgage companies in the us - reporting an astronomical loss.
well, then...
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