That “High School Never Ends” song annoys me. It’s stupid and incorrect and catchy. Damn it. I hate anything that comes to your mind when you think of “the red carpet”, “hollywood”, or “celebrity gossip”. It’s all worthless. I also hated high school. This is a hate-filled post, apparently. Let’s try to counteract that with a […]
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Area Woman Thankful She’s Not Vomiting
Life today was a little crazier than usual in the good ol’ South Loop. Like, fire-trucks-and-helicopters-with-search-lights crazy. An old, abandoned building about two blocks from my apartment caught fire at approximately 3PM. It’s causing a bit of a ruckus because the building was designed by Louis Sullivan, a Chicago architect. It’s still burning and firefighters are […]
“Never Thought it Would Be Like This,” Area Woman Says
There’s nothing to make you feel incredibly lazy like 200 marathon runners up and going at the break of dawn. Sunday was the annual Chicago Marathon and our lobby was a madhouse. I admire people who run marathons. Clearly they’re insane, but it’s still admirable. Tim and I applied for our passports this morning. In […]
Area Woman Scares Self with Google
Okay all you skeptics (being Tim, mainly)–I called Columbia about spring admission. It was almost word for word from my second little scenario. There’s no spring entry because of the way the program is set up, which I guess makes sense. I want to schedule a meeting with someone from the fiction writing faculty and […]
Area Woman Feels Blah, Receives Chocolate
Work started out a little blah but Marty brought me some peanut butter cups and I am very happy now. I hadn’t mentioned this yet but Paige is quitting the hotel. She turned in her two weeks notice yesterday. We’re training a new woman named Dolly, who is from the Phillippines. She seems nice. It […]