The Life of Lia

I GOT A NEW JOB!

Halle-fuckin-lujah.

I start Wednesday. Making $0.75/hr more than I make now. With no overnight shifts. And theoretically with managers who aren't scuzzbags.
As I told a friend just now, I am 99.999998% sure I will like this job at least 500% better than my current job.

Though I might keep a couple of shifts a week at my current (soon to be old) job just for the extra money...because even working full time at a new job and part time at the old job, I will still only be working about as many hours a week as I currently do at one.

I am so so so so so happy about this that words cannot express it.

Plus I am looking forward to working at a store I actually love. I'm sure half my paycheque every week will go towards merchandise there, but whatever. :)

If insomnia were a man, I would murder him.
Slowly.
With a rusty chainsaw.

Wow. So tonight was Girl's Night Out/In as a semi-celebration of St. Patrick's Day and Erin's birthday next week... we went to dinner at Lone Star, for which we had to wait for 50 minutes because they don't take reservations, but that was fun anyway. Then we walked to Carling's house to drop off her leftovers, and then waited half an hour for a cab to take us to Whitney & Erin's residence, which never came, so instead we walked to my place (which was like 2 minutes away) so I could change my shoes (since those of use in heels were just about crying after standing waiting at the restaurant for 50 minutes and standing waiting for a cab for 30 minutes), but we called another cab company, which sent a cab van right away, so we didn't have to walk all the way! Yay!
Anyway, then we hung out at Whitney's for the rest of the night, drinking and just being idiotic for the fun of it. We had a bottle of absinthe to dive into, which was fun, let me tell you. For those of you who live in countries where absinthe is totally legal and readily available really should try it. I mean, it's semi disgusting if you don't like anise-flavoured things (which I don't really), but it's the coolest drunk ever. It's like being drunk only with your brain still working. Wikipedia describes it was a "lucid drunk," as I just looked up, and that's not just hype. It's really what happens. If anyone doesn't like drinking because of the way it makes you stupid and silly...try absinthe. Seriously. It's the weirdest, coolest thing ever. I think it's our new drink of choice. "Ridiculous awesome," I believe was the phrase we coined.
Though when it was time to come home it took us an HOUR to get through to any of the three cab companies in Kingston (tonight being the busiest night of the near next to New Year's Eve), but once we got through it only took about five minutes for a cab to show up, so that was nice.
And now I am home, and very tired, and kind of tingly, so I shall hie me off to sleep now.

Good night!

Someone downstairs is cooking fish. Thank god for air freshener. *gag*

I am putting far too much thought and effort into something that's only worth 5% of my final grade. I could be watching Firefly in preparation for Serenity's release tomorrow, but nooooooooo I'm agonizing over a mini assignment.

And I like to say that I'm smart. Pfft.

P.S. It's rather challenging to sound both intelligent and amusing at the same time, while relying on formal diction and structure.

P.P.S. I HATE having to think of titles for essays! HATE IT!

P.P.P.S. I'm done. :)

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make anyone feel safe and you are exceptionally
thoughtful. You are a delicate beauty.


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1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

Um..."nearest book" is kind of relative, considering all my books are on the same shelf right above me...

Middlemarch, by George Eliot
"Loud men called his subdued tone an undertone, and sometimes implied that it was inconsistent with openness; though there seems to be no reason why a loud man should not be given to concealment of anything except his own voice, unless it can be shown that Holy Writ has placed the seat of candour in the lungs."

Phew. How's THAT for a single sentence? Those Victorians sure were long-winded...

From the book I'm reading: "The States was only a short plane ride away. He'd stopped thinking of them as home years before," (Roberts 253).

Can I just point out this GLARING error? I can understand how one might be uncertain as to whether to refer to the United States as a singular or plural (though, as it's the name of a SINGLE country, it should be the former). However, you could at least be CONSISTENT! UGH!

Guys, my mom wants me to give her a list of things I want for my birthday, but I don't have any ideas. She's tired of my list consisting of money, books, and DVDs. :P

Suggestions?