michele

i got a job! now i’m gainfully employed and a student. it’s like…well, it’s like being someone with a job and classes. whee!

my job starts tomorrow at 10am. it’s part time. it’s working for the ricci institute on campus which is a main research arm of the center for pacific asia studies. they publish books, have wide-flung scholars and centers in other countries, they put on lectures, and they have a kick ass library of books mostly in chinese. i am going to be doing proofing work on one of the book projects which is a reference book for works on christianity in china all over the world. i think all over the world. though possibly just north america. well whatever, it is work which allows me to finally, FINALLY, put to use my english degree. and also it is work which keeps in the spirit of the masters degree i am currently working on. so i am very happy. =)

oh, speaking of being a student though. for those of you i have not seen or told, i deferred my entry into the MBA program because i started having doubts about my ability to be an ambitious worker type. and i started thinking that all the money which would be spent on an MBA could be better spent on a PhD in something a whole hell of a lot more interesting. but if i change my mind i can always re-enter in the next year. that will probably not happen though. bah.

when we were in college, the director of the honors program gave us this lovely farewell speech at the spring banquet. celebrating the entire honors class from the university of puget sound, 2001, i bet you were not expecting this to come back and bite you in the patootie. this is what we get for me moving and cleaning and rediscovering lost paperwork. shame. acres of shame. and also a befuddled regret as to why erica and i don’t have a club already. what the hell.

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i just got home from dropping jason off and as i was walking up to my door, i saw something small, and black and white moving across the sidewalk. instantly i panicked thinking it was moo who had somehow managed to escape the locked doors and windows. but then i noticed the odd humping movement of the lower back as it walked and concluded, skunk. how is it possible for a skunk to live in the middle of the city? sure the park is pretty close by, but why then is the skunk not IN the park? i am upset by this blatant disregard for property lines. he’s totally going to get hit by a car. i therefore must feed him from my dwindling supply of cat food which my mother provided me with upon moving. poor little skunk guy.

it’s a SKUNK! what am i THINKING?!

there’s this thing i found out about called “jump the shark” wherein there’s a specific episode in every television show’s life where they do something so absurd to garner ratings and just then plummet into stupidity. it seems to be very related to bringing animals onto a show. like on friends when they introduced the monkey as a character. this also works for all those old movies of reagan’s with the ape. fucking monkeys. i think it does not count if you’re speaking of mr. ed though. because hell, that horse was clever.

anyway, it’s kind of fun to look up your favorite shows and see the voting process about which episode it was that flirted with shark bait death.

coachella time! time to begin the rabid obsession which is me.

the concert is may 1st and 2nd.

so far confirmed that i have read about on the webpage are: (drum roll) the cure, radiohead, and the pixies. jacob, tell me you are soooo going.

there should be more info soon. but if those three are true, then holy shit, who needs more info?

just went to the cure webpage to confirm and it says kraftwerk and the flaming lips! flaming! i am so there!!

i feel lately like someone who just pops in here once a week and never has time to post. this is probably because it is true. damn not having internet access of my very own yet. sucks so much ass.

anyway, today was very busy in the east bay as i used part of nuala’s christmas present to go see ‘win a date with tad hamilton’ (thank you, nuala, thank you so much). and then i got film developed, bought a new laptop, did laundry, caught up on the internet, scanned all the photos, and uploaded them. plus i stole a microwave, snuck into ‘the butterfly effect’, and am carting off a certain mooser poosers in a carrier.

i really have nothing else to say about myself. i put more pictures in the musical filming folder. and then i created new albums for my apartment pictures and for that party at erica’s when jolie was here. so enjoy. and…maybe i will be able to post again soon with my new laptop if it can actually access the internet. we shall see.

in a tone of pompous self-importance i announce that i have a one bedroom apartment in san francisco, land of oppurtunity (to blame nuala) or at least really high rents. in the outer richmond. walking distance to china beach, all the asian food i could ask for, a movie theatre, and a gigantic gold domed church.

there will be a party. soon.

if you want to offer help in carrying boxes from the street into the apartment, feel free. (that’s happening this sunday afternoon)