when you apply your cologne in the apartment upstairs and i can smell it from here. come now, be a little more subtle!
not that it’s such a stinky thing. actually quite nice. if i wasn’t allergic to cologne.
that made me look like a grown-up:
things i did today that made me look like the immature 13-year old i am on the inside:
but i’m not smart enough to make it fit over there and look all pretty. and it’s too important for me not to put it up. please sign up and (i know i’m preaching to the choir here) vote no on 8. ok? thank you.
nobody told me there’d be bugs on the job site. crickets. big ones. hiding in the lumber.
please excuse allie from class. she is bug phobic. do not be alarmed if she runs screaming from the 2×6’s and hides in her car.
oh so tired. want sleep.
after being told that i had “too many electronics” in my backpack by the security person (are they all assholes? i think it’s a job requirement that they be assholes) i was allowed entry into the hallowed halls of the beverly hills courthouse. yep, i got moved from inglewood to beverly hills, which cut my driving time by a half hour, easy.
the case? well, i can tell you about it now since i got excused. YAY! i got excused! anyway, it was this 85 lb asian girl, maybe in her mid 20s, accused of driving under the influence and driving with a blood alcohol level at or above .08%. i swear, her legs were smaller than my arms. i waited 7 hours to be asked, “what is your occupation?” to which i responded, “full time student.” and i was excused. no pulling out my “that girl is too skinny to hold her alcohol and she probably doesn’t have the enzyme, either” line. i was amazed at how many people seemed to want to be there. or at least, answer honestly enough not to get excused. because i for one (even though i know it’s my civic duty, blah, blah, blah) was gonna pull the race card, the stupid girl card, and the “i bet she has a little dog in her purse” card to get out of serving on this jury.
at least that’s overwith. now i can go back to school. i missed a field trip today. sucks.
i have to report for jury duty in the morning!
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
no shorts, tank tops, or uniforms. sheesh.
in the past two days i’ve received no less than 4 messages about the choice john mccain made for his running mate, and none of them have been positive. the first was from jozjozjoz: You Know I Don’t Blog About Politics That Often. Second was a forwarded email from my friend, T Willis, which she blogged about here. It was a letter that i received from yet another friend, K, who doesn’t normally do the “political” thing but decided it was important enough to forward on. I’ll include the text of that letter after the jump. anyway, my friend and fellow voxxie, Helen, wrote an open letter to john mccain–go visit her and give it a read…
and your toes and whatever else you can, because i need the luck.
my summons for jury service arrived in the mail. and this week, the second week of school, is the week that i have to call in to see if they require my butt to be seated at the courthouse all day for possible jury selection. well, the first two days of calling in went well, i got the “you are not required to report” standard message. but last night it was, “group xxx, xxx, and xxx please call back tomorrow to receive further instruction.” which quite probably means i will have to go into the courthouse thursday or friday. but i hope not!
we’re doing a lot more “hands on” stuff at school, this week we’re learning how to lay out a building–an actual, full sized building (if you count a 259 sq ft building as “full sized”), on a site across the street from campus, and then friday we’re taking a field trip (!) to see one of our instructor’s former students on a job site. whee!
so i don’t want to go to be on some jury. even if it is my “civic duty.” that, and i don’t have a thing to wear.
because i haven’t been blogging lately. but i did notice today that yoshi updated my wordpress to whatever this current version is. so thanks, yoshi!
in other news, i’m into my second week of my second year at school and it’s going well, if you consider that my instructor is a bit of a grouch and has a way of making you feel dumb if you make a mistake, but whatever.
my allergies suck more than usual and i’m trying really hard not to rub my eyes (The Girlfriend doesn’t want me to start looking OLD, after all). been debating again about allergy shots, but beginning to feel as if it’s just not in the cards for me. so i’ll keep taking the drugs and hope that whatever’s been blooming this past month will wither and die soon.
as seen on efi and rick’s blogs: colorquiz meme.
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