due to my big announcement, i will be expecting expensive gifts as early as this afternoon. as you might imagine things have gone rather quickly for me and shannon but what can i say, we are in love.

before falling asleep on the car ride to work (as i always do), we were listening to wfnx and in the usually annoying banter of their morning show i heard something that made sense and i think would help some people (girls) i know. if you hang out with guys, generally 3 or more, and are the only girl, expect to be made fun of. its what we do. or if not expect atleast to be not talked to. after that i all remember is some sort of crappy news report on how there is a rising epidemic of 12 year olds drinking cough medicine to trip. never attempted by myself i have heard nothing but the worst from the many i know whove tried this. known commonly (to me) as robo-tripping you basically drink a bottle or two of robitussin dm and proceed to "trip" although most accounts involve the words "fucking stupid" and "sleepy drunk" and "not ever going to do it again". evidently, there is some sort of attempt to stop kids from buying cough medicine. all i can say is 'bravo', this sort of thing needs to be shut the fuck down to prevent kids who havent hit puberty from making this giant mistake. id say lock them up but since it is a standard over the counter phamaceutical product, the only thing they are doing wrong is "using it in a manner other than directed", which is little more than a liability assurance, leaving no crime to prosecute. see what happens when pot is illegal? it makes kids go into drugstores and look for much more harmful substitutes ultimately deciding their fates making all future generations pimps, crack whores, and paint sniffing homeless people. so go ahead politicians of our fair land, continue to ruthlessly prosecute 16 year olds for possession of a gram of weed, while allowing the same kids to trip like you did thirty years ago. good call morons.

"dont shit a shitter", my boss reminded me as i used the alt+tab combo to pretend like i was reading my company email. its all good though cause he is clearly hungover and got here a solid hour after i did so i am in the clear. not to mention, he is a hippy and doesnt give a shit to begin with. he wasnt too impressed with the picture i drew of him with devil horns whipping the co-ops though.

it finally happened. myself and the chrises have been waiting for the day wed get to move into our apartment for quite some time now, and that wait is over. after patting ourselves on the back for what a good job we did finding it, we picked out of a hat for who got first choice of rooms. we were unanimous in our rankings of the three rooms, and lucky me, i was got first choice picking the largest. i find it fairly comical that not only am i the only one without any furniture yet, but i also was the one most willing to share a room while the other two remained adament in their desire to have their own. suckers. our place will be nasty once we are completely moved in which likely wont happen till closer to the end of the month, but now it is pretty barren. roof access was a nice surprise to get, although there is no railing of any kind making drunken adventures up there slightly treacherous. needless to say they will happen anyway.

"i dont like squirrels. they are always making plans. anytime you get near them they run away saying 'hey they saw me'. they are really sort of scary. plus they are morons."

poorly paraphrased from a conversation i had with my roomates this fine afternoon. it was a lot funnier than i made it sound just now.