Oh hello there lj-land.

I think I might be allergic to my job. Not in the sense of "LOL my job sucks I am lazy and don't want to go to it." But more in the sense of "Every time I go to work lately I end up with a sinus headache." Not a severe headache, but enough that I can feel it. And it makes my ears feel weird. Really irritating.

Looking forward to Thanksgiving and sitting at the kids' table as I do each year. The age range for this table is 19-27. Average height is about 6'. WE ARE CHILDREN AND WE WILL HAVE OUR TABLE.

Already falling behind in this project:

Day 05 → Your favourite quote
"WAYNE GRETZKY'S IN TOWN?!?"-random dude on the street one time.

Never not funny. Anyway, I guess I'll pick a real quote. I don't really live by quotes. Ok, I live by quotes in the sense that I like to quote my favorite tv shows in everyday conversation whenever possible. I suppose right now my mantra is:

"Men are born to succeed, not fail".-Henry David Thoreau

I have to keep telling myself that.

Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
I know one of the days involves posting a YouTube video, so when that time comes, I'll post something really deep and meaningful, but for now MY FAVORITE YOUTUBE VIDEO:

WHY YOU HAFF TO BE MAD?

Today's adventure involved going to Staten Island for my Great Aunt Mary's Ninetieth (90th) birthday. That lady is awesome, and she said she's going to knit me a nice blue scarf. It was brought to my attention that my father, on his mother's side of the family, is one of 32 cousins. And that's only the one side of the family! I have no idea how many are on the other side. It's just so many people. I have 13 cousins in total and I can't even keep track of them all. Rock on, Irish Catholic during the baby boom family! Luckily only a few of those 32 people were actually present, because that would have been too mind-blowing. Today I also met some random second cousins and my grandfather gave me $20. So, a successful day I suppose.

Oh look, and just under the wire for today too:

Day 04 → Your favourite book
~*TWILIGHT*~
LOL J/K

This one is hard and I'll be honest I changed my answer a few times, but I'm going to have to go with:


There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
"That's some catch, that catch-22," he observed.
"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed


I am too tired to think of anything clever to say about this book, just that it's fantastic and both hilarious and tragic. READ IT.

YOU GUYS, THEY RANDOMLY LET ME LEAVE WORK EARLY TODAY! THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER! I don't even care that it means I don't get paid. I got to go home! Now I can really enjoy my Saturday evening plans of... absolutely nothing, actually. Whatever, I don't care, I'm not at the mall.

Moving along.

It's time for:

Day 03 → Your favourite television programme
(I'm keeping the non-American spellings from whoever I copied and pasted the list from originally)

To be honest, I don't really watch too much tv. Besides hockey, I I really only watch maybe 5 shows regularly: 30 Rock, The Office, Glee, How I Met Your Mother, and The Big Bang Theory. I'm not a huge tv person I guess, but I will say that I love the shows I do watch. HOWEVER, the greatest/my favorite tv show of all time:
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. BECAUSE THERE'S ALWAYS MONEY IN THE BANANA STAND!

Oh, but let's not forget the other greatest show ever made:

Thank you Canada!

Since I decided to start this yesterday, that would make today:

Day 02 → Your favourite movie
My favorite movie is:


No, that's really my favorite movie. It's not high cinema or anything, but whatever, I don't care. AND THAT SCENE IS NEVER NOT AWESOME.

True story: I wasn't into hockey at all, but I loved this movie, and my friend Kim and I, while watching this movie one time at her house after the Chirstmas Dance our senior year of high school, had this conversation:

Kim: So, how come neither of us ever got into hockey? It seems like it would be fun to actually watch.
Me: I don't know why really. I've always WANTED to watch it and secretly wanted to play. I guess it's not that popular so I just never could get into it. Also, I guess my family's more into baseball and therefore so am I.
Kim: Ok, so idea: LET'S START WATCHING HOCKEY!
Me: Um, we can't.
Kim: WHY?!
Me: They are having a lock out? I don't know, maybe you heard about it?
Kim: What, really?
Me: [explanation about the lock out. I'm not really sure how/why I knew so much about it.]
Kim: New plan: When hockey starts again, we will watch it! Ok, which team do we watch?
Me: That's a stupid question. The Rangers. Please.

THE END.

[That was paraphrased, clearly. I don't remember word for word what we said, but I remember having that conversation and personally deciding what our favorite team was going to be.]

So, in conclusion, Miracle made me become a hockey fan. Or something like that.

Maybe someday I'll actually be good at livejournal and make interesting posts and actually comment on people's entries. (I do actually read everything, but forget to comment. Sorry.) BUT NOT THIS DAY!!!!

Everything is the same, I guess. Still spending all my money on clothes and/or hockey. Recently attended 2 Rangers games (vs. Thrashers and vs. Caps). They lost both games. Still working. I think I had more I wanted to say, but I completely forgot. I'm awesome, clearly.

Anyway, I decided to do this 30 Days of Sharing thing that's going around. I'll probably fail to actually do this everyday. Sooooo, here we go.

Day 01 → Your favourite song

I actually have a playlist of my favorite songs that includes at least 32 songs of varying levels of musical quality that I love, but this is by far my favorite. HOW DOES IT FEEL?

( lyrics and the other 29 )

I just wanted to update to let everyone know about my impending doom, otherwise known as Black Friday. Actually, I'm dreading all of the next two weeks or so in terms of work. Because I'm working A LOT. I mean, it's less than if I had an actual full time job, but it's a great number of hours standing on my feet. For example, next Tuesday I'm scheduled to work 10-7, which isn't really too bad. Except that since I'm too nice or some shit like that, I agreed to cover for another girls shift since it's her birthday that day, which would mean working from 10-10. TWELVE HOURS. OPEN TIL CLOSE. WHY WOULD I AGREE TO THIS? She did say that she would cover one of my weekend shifts, since they seem to ALWAYS schedule me for Friday and Saturday nights. And she knows I hate working those.

On top of that I'm working a million other hours over the next couple of weeks (the only people who work more hours than me are the managers who have full time hours). And Black Friday I'm working 3pm-12am. BLERG. I mean, at least I'm not working the morning, that is the upside, but MIDNIGHT. And then I also have to work the next day as well. I am filled with dread. I need a new job.

OH HEY AS I WROTE THAT WORK CALLED AND I JUST AGREED TO COVER SOMEONE'S SHIFT TONIGHT. WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY DO I DO THESE THINGS?

And yet, I feel bad looking for new jobs right now because I feel like if I magically got something I'd be screwing the store over for the holiday season.

At least I can look forward to tomorrow, because I'm going to Rangers vs Capitals. I HOPE OVECHKIN PLAYS THAT WOULD BE REALLY EXCITING.

Aaaaaand now I have to go get ready for work. At least I'll get some monster paychecks so I can purchase more clothes from the store and fund my interest in hockey.

 So there was this thing that happened, and I was really excited, and then there was a parade! Which I went to! Also: Yankees!

Of course due to various stupidity and obstacles, I guess we didn't get there early enough. We ended up standing in a Location of Fail, right at the end of the parade where it turned down Chambers Street. But the parade turned away from us, so we weren't even that close. All of my pictures are mostly of people's hands and cameras. And there was an NBC truck blocking part of the view. Oh, and I was facing directly into the sun, so that didn't help my pictures any. Oh and there were so many people and I could barely move. Here are 5 pictures: 

( blerg )We tried to watch the ceremony on the big screen they had set up, but we couldn't hear anything, so we gave up and went home. So it was kind of a lame day for me.

However, I've decided that when the Rangers have a parade (WHEN NOT IF!!!!) , I'm basically camping out. It will be the most epic parade of all time.

Oh, hey, for comparison, here was my view from the Giants parade:
( g-men )
Still not sure how I pulled that off.

Oh yeah, and then on top of going to the parade, I had to work at 5. So before work, I went to Buffalo Wild Wings on the 4th floor of the Palisades Mall. Sitting at the next table was Rev Run (or DJ Run)! It was amazing. He was wearing a blue Adidas track suit and a fur coat.

I'm still tired from being awake for a ridiculous amount of hours, which were mostly spent standing. And I have work later. Blerg.

I feel like I'm getting sick, which is totally awesome. And by "totally awesome" I mean, exactly the opposite of that. It's fitting because tomorrow is what I am referring to as "MONO-VERSARY!" Since one year ago tomorrow, I began a week of having the worst sore throat ever, which I would later learn was ~mononucleosis. Which sucked, let me tell you. I mean, the guy I am certain I got it from had to spend time in the hospital because his spleen ruptured or something like that, so I guess I got off easy. It still sucked that I had a horrendously disgusting sore throat, was given antibiotics for no reason, was randomly exhausted all the time, and then had a weird rash-like thing on the day I was leaving to go to Boston (it didn't stop me from going and having a great time though. MONO AIN'T GONNA KEEP ME DOWN!). Oh and then having to get blood taken for the mono test, during which time the nurse couldn't find the vein until roughly the 27th time. Granted 3 weeks later I felt pretty much fine, but whatever, mono is lame.

Side note: I was reading last year's entries about being sick, including one that I wrote after the election entitled, "IOWA: The New York of the Midwest!" It's making me laugh, because I vaguely remember talking about that (most likely with takemeback , because who else did I ever talk to last year, really), but mostly because I can't really remember what the point of that statement was.

The real point of this entry was to discuss how I think I'm getting sick. Hopefully, if it's anything at all, it's just a cold or something. I literally can't afford to be sick. Due to no money and no insurance. Also, last night I thought I was getting pink eye, and I almost lost my mind. I feel like I JUST HAD PINK EYE. Except that was 8 months ago, but still.

OH: I MIGHT BE GOING BACK TO NEW ORLEANS AT THE END OF JANUARY. Or something. A friend of mine and I were talking about maybe going down for a few days and visiting my friend Katie who lives there. I am waiting to hear back from the friend who wants to go to see if she approves the dates I suggested. Otherwise I will just go by myself, because I truly need to go back there ASAP. BEST CITY NOT NAMED NEW YORK IN THE WORLD!!!!

This entry was stupid, and I'm sorry.

YANKEES.

TIME FOR MY FAVORITE OBNOXIOUS CELEBRATORY GIF:

( OBNOXIOUS )
Sorry to all those who hate the Yankees.

I was in Barnes and Noble today, minding my own business/leafing through a Yankees book, when these two young women came up to me and said that they were students and they were wondering if they could ask me a question. I assumed they were doing a project for psychology or marketing or something, so I said, ok, fine. I immediately regretted this decision when they began asking me if I knew that God was female and shoved a Bible in my face and made me read passages that proved this to be true. They also asked me if I wanted to go to the Bible section to discuss this, which I declined, preferring to stay in the sports section next to the table of books about the Yankees. I felt really uncomfortable, but I never know how to get out of these situations, so the whole time I was just "Uh huh" and "Oh, that's interesting." Then they gave me a card with their phone number, so I could call them to set up a time to talk more about this topic. This was after I managed to get out of giving them my email so they could contact me. I'm probably not going to call them. I need to stop setting myself up for awkward scenarios.

Unrelated:

I bought Seasons 1&2 of 30 Rock the other day. What a great investment on my part. I've already watched Season 1. Good times.

ALSO:

Rangers vs. Coyotes tomorrow. I'm going. These were the tickets that were delivered and marked as a contagious substance for some reason. I'M REALLY EXCITED FOR THIS EVENT. I haven't been to a game yet this year AND MAH BOY PETR PRUCHA WILL BE THERE. Here is a GIF that sums up how I feel:


(I've had this saved for a while and needed an excuse to use it.)

Rangers better not fail me tomorrow.

THE END.

2009 AL East Champs! 

( Celebratory GIF )

Yes I am an obnoxious tool, but that was a wonderful memory of the season for me.

Go Yankees!

 Let's look at the weird package I received from FedEx today.

( huh? )I looked this up:
Category B infectious substances are infectious but do not meet the criteria for Category A. (Category A infectious substances are capable of causing permanent disability, life threatening or fatal disease to humans or animals when exposure to them occurs.)

Um, ok?

Here is the infectious substance:
( At least it's not life threatening )

So for all my hockey people: WATCHING HOCKEY IS INFECTIOUS (BUT NOT LIFE THREATENING). 

Just so you know:

I officially have tickets to at least one Rangers game this season. October 26, Rangers vs. Phoenix Coyotes. AW YEAH! I can't wait to see my beloved Petr Prucha, who I miss with all my heart, as well as Lauri Korpikoski. And Ilya Bryzgalov, just because he fills my heart with joy.

I CAN'T WAIT.

Also, Kim and I have already made plans for the first game of the season, which involved inviting people besides ourselves to come to my house and watch the game/drink. AND that day Shileagh Law, my favorite local band that plays Irish music is playing a local bar, so it's like my dream come true (hockey/Irish music). I'm super excited.

This evening, after purchasing hockey tickets, Kim and I attended a half-way to St. Patrick's day party (even though it isn't yet half-way to St. Patrick's day). My dad's best friend is the owner of the bar sponsoring the event, and volunteered to work the door. This meant free admission, and since my dad knows the bartenders, this also meant free beers. And at one point, when it seemed we had to pay, I got my dad to pay for our drinks. It was awesome.

Basically I am in a great mood right now. I should probably go to bed though since I have gone out two nights in a row like I have some sort of social life or something.

howmanydaysuntilhockey.com

LESS THAN A MONTH. SO CLOSE.

Other important countdowns:

Days until I spend my whole paycheck: 6
Days until my half-birthday: 2. (very important!)

Actually I'm not really counting down until anything else. This update is useless. 

Also Yankees, wtf are you doing right now? Pretty sure that was the 34534th bases loaded walk THIS INNING. 

If I tell myself it's only one game, maybe i'll be ok.

I finally got my graduation gift from my parents! 

It's a lovely 13" MacBook Pro. Look:



( CHECK IT )I named it Mo Henrik, Lord of Cake. Because I am a tool.

I'm going to continue playing around with this bad boy for a while.

Yesterday I went down for an interview with the temp agency and I suppose it went ok. They said they would call me and let me know if they have any openings for me. So I could start temping soon.

I was actually an hour and a half early, due to planning on getting there early anyway and managing to catch a train at Tarrytown that left about 25 minutes early than I intended. It turned out that my interview place was right near a whole bunch of skyscrapers that I learned about in my skyscraper class last semester. Sadly I was all alone and I couldn't bore anyone with a long lecture about the architecture and zoning regulations of the time period when they were built.

I basically wandered around for a while and ate lunch in the underground concourse at Rockefeller Center. Then I went and chilled in this little park, which was down the block from where my interview was. Then I had the interview.

Oh, when I got home, my dad suggested I apply to work at one of the local banks. Not as just a part time or filler job until I get something else. Rather, as a REAL job in hopes that I get promoted and can have a career working at a bank. I asked him why I would want to do this and he told me that it was because that's "the kind of degree you have." I informed him that I he was apparently misinformed at some point during my four years in college. And he asked me what kind of degree I had, to which I had to explain that I had a B.A. in sociology, because he had either forgotten or just didn't  know this information.

I have no interest having a career in banking. While I have no options at the moment, that is basically the opposite of what I want to do with my life.

Maybe someday I will stop talking about Job Search Fail 09. Hopefully before everyone decides to unfriend me out of sheer boredom.

SLEEP FAIL.

For whatever reason I didn't sleep last night.

Today is going to be AWESOME.

Me right now:



The end.

First, let me just say that I am so sick of the ongoing monsoon-like conditions of the Tri-State Area. I know there's no use in complaining about this stupid weather, BUT GOD DAMN am I sick of the thunderstorms and downpours and the like. Oh and the ridiculous humidity. That sucks.

The Ongoing Job Search of Epic Fail is still going on and still pretty much failing. One of the job listings I'm looking at right at this moment needs me to submit my salary requirements in my cover letter. I don't really know what my salary requirements are other than "WHATEVER YOU WANT TO PAY ME." I'm not expecting a lot in terms of salaries, really.

I also sent in my resume to an employment agency (which I didn't really want to do), except that this agency is only for jobs with non-profits. And since I would greatly prefer working for a non-profit rather than a corporation, I figured why not. Plus even if I get just a temp job, it's better than no job and I would earn some money and maybe some actual experience.. And while I still don't have a job, THE AGENCY ACTUALLY CALLED ME. I was shocked because I have gotten so used to sending my resume to where ever and then, you know, never hearing back from them ever again. So I have to go down to their office in Manhattan on Tuesday and do an interview. However, I am not getting my hopes up, since the theme of my quest for a job is FAIL.

Oh, and look at this comforting list: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends.jsp

So, what I'm getting from this is that there are no jobs in NYC and I have to move to DC. TERRIBLE WORK, NEW YORK.

I'm just going listen to Vampire Weekend and just apply to random jobs that will never respond to my terrible lack of skills.

Several unrelated things to mention:

-Today I dropped my sister off at work and having NOTHING TO DO, I decided I might as well attempt to get some exercise. I dug up my crappy roller blades (they are so horrible) and then headed to Rockland Lake. I am not sure what possessed me to go roller blading rather than walking, since I haven't roller bladed in years and years, but there I was with roller blades on doing the 3 miles around the lake. It was actually a lot more difficult than I had anticipated and now my legs are sore. Luckily it was a really nice day and it wasn't so terrible. I'll probably do this more often, or maybe upgrade to a bike next time.

-GOSSIP!: I don't know if anyone here is following the stupidity of Jon & Kate getting divorced, but I discovered that Jon's new girlfriend is my age, is from my town, and went to my middle school. I am pretty sure she was in my 8th grade gym class. It's possible I'm thinking of the wrong person, my middle school was huge (2000+ students, ridiculous), but I know that this girl definitely was in middle school with me. So: EWWW. So weird.

-I had a dream the other night that I ended up in Alaska and I was hanging out with Brandon Dubinsky (one of my favorite Rangers), who was inexplicably wearing a Coyotes sweater, and we were basically best friends. He was really excited I was there, because he really wanted to show me what Alaska was all about. And he was giving me a tour of his hometown, which was going well, but then he wanted to take me on a hike in the woods, which I refused to go on, because I was afraid that we would get lost in the woods or just starve to death, a la Into the Wild. So we had a big fight, and he stormed off into the forest and I was terrified he would never come back and it would be my fault, and I woke up in a panic that I had just ruined the New York Rangers team.

-When I told my sister about this dream, I got to the part about him wearing Phoenix gear, and my sister remarked that thiw was "one of my greatest fears." Possibly an exaggeration, but I never really got over Petr Prucha getting traded to Phoenix. (I REFUSE TO MOVE ON) And then later that day Lauri Korpikoski got traded to Phoenix, and I just had to laugh.

-Going to see Harry Potter tomorow. WOO! I wasn't even planning on going tomorrow, but when I picked my sister up from work, she had first gone upstairs to the movie theater and bought us tickets for tomorrow afternoon. YAY.

-AMERICAN LEAGUE WINS AGAIN! WOO! And it was nice to see Mariano Rivera get the save there. Because he is the best. And my favorite. I hope he plays FOREVER. Also: Ichiro was the cutest when he was getting Obama's autograph.

-VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!!!! RANGERS PRE-SEASON SCHEDULE:

Tuesday, Sept 15: vs. Bruins at MSG, 7
Wednesday, Sept. 16: at Devils, 7
Friday, Sept. 18: at Red Wings, 7:30
Saturday, Sept. 19: at Bruins, 4
Monday, Sept. 21: vs. Red Wings at MSG, 7
Thursday, Sept. 24: vs. Capitals at MSG, 7
Sunday, Sept. 27: at Capitals, noon

Let's see: the last hockey game I attended was Rangers @ Bruins when 1. The Bruins clinched the conference 2. Sean Avery hit Tim Thomas in the head. My least favorite Capital is currently a member of the Rangers (I AM STILL NOT HAPPY ABOUT THIS). Oh and I irrationally dislike the Red Wings. SHOULD BE GOOD TIMES.

-The End.

My parents went to Mohegan Sun for the week, and left my sister and I home. When my mom suggested going on vacation, my sister and I vetoed the idea, since our family's tendency to get into fights is only amplified when we are forced to be in each other's presence for a week straight (and there is less of an escape than when we are all at home). So my mom was like, "Screw you guys." And now my parents are at a casino. 

We haven't really made much of this. Mostly we've spent the past two days sleeping a lot. I'm still mostly stuck here because I have to be around to take the aforementioned sister to and from her job at the mall. And then, no one is around to entertain me, since of my two friends, one is preoccupied since her brother's wife just had a baby and the other is still in Wyoming. I guess I could force my sister to come on an adventure with me or something, but we would probably disagree on what to do.

I wonder if she would be up for driving up to Woodstock one of these days. Or maybe go to Tarrytown and take the train to the city? It's actually totally inconvenient to do both of these things but I AM SO BORED AHHH. I guess I could have agreed to a vacation, but a week in Cape Cod with my parents would be a combination of everyone being miserable + me being bored (because I get bored just sitting on a beach for a vacation. I'm weird.). I know this based on Myrtle Beach trip of last year. It was horrible.

If I had money or friends, maybe I could organize a trip somewhere with people whose constant presence wouldn't make me go crazy, but since I have neither of those things I will stay home.