Unemployment was much better than I ever imagined and it’s probably just because I already had a new job lined up and I had money in the bank, so all I did was lay about watching netflix and going to thrift stores.

The new job:
So basically, I am TECH SUPPORT and all the weird flotsam and jetsam that falls under that heading. And whoooo boy there’s a bit. My first week was disconcerting. What is weird:
I’m never alone. And I mean by that, everywhere I go people are making eye contact, dragging me into conversation…I don’t know how to get it across. I’m used to having a respite at breaks or lunch, but here I am surrounded at all times by anywhere in between 15-40 people, who all want to “hang out.” Considering these people talk for 8 hours a day, you’d think they’d want some quiet in their off clock moments. You’d think.
I have a new best friend, unfortunately I have no say in the matter. Worsened by the fact that I’m not especially receptive in the matter. I’m trying to expand my world view so that I can handle this person’s very abrasive nature, but it’s proved rocky so far. Everything about M is against my nature, but we live practically next to each other and we sit next to each other for at least the next three weeks (including lunch & breaks where M literally follows me), and god knowing I’m sure we’ll have our desks together. Enough about that, I’ve also found a friend in a delightful NY transplant, so it’s not all gloom and missed sarcasm.

My job unexpectedly also includes working directly with the factory in Korea to suss out issues. So if you get an LG android phone, chances are I’m on the back end fixing any glitches! (or at least trying my best to hide them from you). And soon I’ll have a hot little Ally in my hands so I’ll see them before they go too far.

I’ll stop because the wine is hitting me, and I have to get up at 6am again tomorrow so my bedtime is fast approaching.

I’m sure you know this already, but I love you, just for good measure. Goodnight sweet friends.

And we will all the pleasures prove

Of a marriage conducted with economy

In the Twentieth Century Anno Donomy.

We’ll live in a dear little walk-up flat

With practically room to swing a cat

And a potted cactus to give it hauteur

And a bathtub equipped with dark brown water.

We’ll eat, without undue discouragement,

Foods low in cost and good in nouragement

And quaff with pleasure, while chatting wittily,

The peculiar wine of little Italy.

We’ll remind each other it’s smart to be thrifty

And buy our clothes for something-fifty.

We’ll stand in line on holidays

For seats at unpopular matinees

And every Sunday we’ll have a lark

And take a walk in Central Park

And one of these days not too remote

I’ll probably up and cut your throat.

is among the woodland creatures.

The vixen knows I have to return

before dawn, and laughs.

How the clouds shudder. And

on my snow collar falls

a layer of brittle ice.

In winter my beloved

is a tree among trees and invites

the hapless crows

into her beautiful boughs. She knows

that at dawn the wind

lifts her stiff, rime-coated

evening dress and chases me home.

In winter my beloved

is among the fish and dumb.

Enthralled by the waters, tremulous

from the stroking of her fins,

I stand on the shore and see,

until ice floes drive me away,

how she dives and turns.

And struck again by the hunting cry

of the bird that stiffens

its wings above me, I fall

in the open field: she plucks

the hens and throws me a white

collar bone. I put it round my neck

and go on through the bitter down.

Faithless is my beloved

I know, sometimes she hovers

on high heels into town,

in the bars she kisses the glasses

with a straw deep in their mouths

and words come to her for everyone.

But I am not versed in this language.

Fog land have I seen,

Fog heart have I eaten.

Alabama Arkansas

I do Love my Ma and Pa
But not as much as I do

Love you

Holy Moly Me oh My

You’re the apple of my eye
Girl, ain’t never loved one like you
Man oh Man

You’re my best friend

I scream it to the nothingness
that we got everything we need
Hot and Heavy pumpkin pie
Chocolate candy Jesus Christ
Aint nothin please me more than you

Home, Let me come Home
Home is Whenever Im with you
Home, yes I am Home
Home is wherever Im with you

I follow you into the park, thru the jungle thru the dark

Girl ain’t never loved one like you
Moats and boats and Waterfalls, Alleyways and payphone calls
I been everywhere with you

Laugh until we think we’ll die, barefoot on a summer night
never could be sweeter than with you

Jade, you remember that night you fell outa my window?

ya you came jumpin out after me
well, you were bleedin all over the place and I covered your ass with your dress and we went off to the hospital, you remember that?
ya
well there’s somethin I never told you bout that night
what didnt you tell me?
well, while you were sitting in the back seat smokin a cigarette you thought was gonna be your last, I was fallin deep, deep in love with you, and I never told you till just now!

]]> http://longknivesdrawn.net/?feed=rss2&p=536 0 http://longknivesdrawn.net/?p=535 http://longknivesdrawn.net/?p=535#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 16:40:00 +0000 lindsey http://longknivesdrawn.net/?p=535 The parts of my dreams I’ll deign to recall were about the couple who lived here before I did. They bought the home new, and judging from some paperwork I found it was probably around 1960, maybe a bit before. In my dreams they were just doing normal things around their house. The furniture was sort of transient in image, the swingsets out back were new. The porch had cute metal furniture in colors like mint green and salmon. They were some mixture of Betty & Don Draper, and the elderly couple in UP.
It’s somehow comforting to “remember” this couple loving and living for fifty years, leaving behind ghost images of previous kitchen routines. He died late last year and she moved in with her children, and sometimes I get her mail still. It’s always signed something like, “Your sister in Christian love.”

Ghostly impressions, I guess.

Another Sookie Stackhouse book came out at the beginning of May and on a whim I looked it up and ran down the the store as soon as I realized it was out.  I tore that shit up since last night.