a pic of my new niece. the first kid born from one of my siblings. hannah. you must admit the cuteness is almost overpowering...

yesterday, something horrible was brought to my attention. due to mooching family members, my friends and i are basically out of a place to hang out. 1 of them is for at least 3 months. the other is indefinitely. we brainstormed for the fate of the gang. we figured we could hang at a few places around the neighborhood every now and then. but the idea we landed on was something like this: we build a shed. the specifics, an elaborate fort. we put our heads together and figured we could get different supplies from different people. one kid has lumber contacts, another, insolation, carpeting, shingles, a truck, old furniture. so today we broke ground on the place. too bad we didn't have a camera, cuz we thought it was funny. we're building it in our friend's yard. his parents are totally cool with it too. so that's kinda funny. the preliminary name for the shed (or shanty) is "monticello" but we think that's already been taken... might have to go with "falconhead" we're calling the plans "project storm cloud" for no reason in particular. what a waste of my weekend. heh.

i've been working really well lately. the other day, it was thursday, i believe. or friday. we got this awesome talk at work in a meeting with our big bosses. they talked about what makes a good team and blah blah, i dunno. i've never been affected by the "team" speeches, but this one was just different. they admit we're underpaid, and i know i'm underpaid. but i've never done such fulfilling work. it's really quite meaningless data entry, but i just feel so good when i'm there. which brings me to my next... thing. i've started working overtime. not cuz i want the money or something, but because i like being at work so much. i also found out that our CEO works in the same building, and i think he waved to me once. i know his name, but i'm not sure what he looks like. all i know is that people are careful not to tread on his path. so today, they let me interview people! of course, i was accompanied by a real boss, but it was so cool to be on the other side. and i totally sounded professional and so wise, like a miniature buddah covered in hair.

tasty ipod girl took my blanche cd, cuz i was giving another speech about how much i love blanche and how blanche is so blanche and they write they best lyrics and blanche blanche love. so she took it and listened to it, and likes it too! this makes her eligible to marry me. for blanche is one of the key's to my heart. i told her this, and she said we'll get married, all in joking, but it was another uplifting moment for me today. i've had this decemberists song "the engine driver" stuck in my head now for... 75 hours or so. it must be some kind of world record. and i'm still not sick of it at all. not one bit. and i can play it now! sweet. i've made plans this week to vacuum my car. so that's fairly exciting.. and it's weird. the longer the blog, the less the comments. i'm just destroying myself.

i got my friend a job at my work. i feel good for doing something good. we were all sitting around tonight watching movies and one of us said something like "i do the opposite of what people say. so if somebody thinks i like em, i hate em." and my friend says "good, cuz i hate myself." and i go "yeah! me too!" and we all sat around for a second them laughed and we collectively said something like "hooray for low self esteem!" so ermmm anyway. he's gonna be a sorter at my work, i'm not a sorter. i hope he works for a while so i don't lose my credibility.

i'm constantly defining myself. meaning, trying to find out who i am. i'll never have to defend myself to anyone, if they don't understand me. i do things for logical reasons, and i don't trash people behind their backs, and i never lose my cool. i have the ability to experience very vivid emotions, high highs and low lows. this tends to drain me. in which i go through a time period to recharge my batteries, if that makes sense. i'm honest, extrememly loyal, and whatever else you wanna put here. i may seem like a jerk to those on the outside who don't understand, tough luck for them huh? meh, i'm so tired i have nothing else to say.

so tonight, i was planning on just staying in. but i got a call from the magic fingers, not an emergency, they were just bored and wanted me to hang out. so i went over there on the condition that i got a baked potato from them. i got there, had the potato (it wasn't very good hehe) and umm we hung out and played music till my wrist hurted. we always laugh so hard when "writing" songs cuz travis, the viola player is the funniest person in the world. at least to me, and when i rank the world's funniest people, he's #1. anyway, he and his sister are so weird. whenever i go over there we instantly start talking like crazy people and coming up with really crazy ideas or just being total idiots in general. or dancing around the house or singing or building forts, it's odd cuz i feel so extremely comfortable around them, i can act like an idiot kid again. we have this big plan for friday to be the night of laughs, watching the brian regan dvd, anchorman (again for me) getting some pizzas, complimenting the pizza girl on her wrists and then making a weird face at her, playing with my hair, going to see the screening of the short film i was in, and yeah. it's a very full plan.

on the work front, i'm having my friend tommy put in an application, i hope he can land the job somewhere doing something. he's cool, and a lot like me, except like more ruthless. we had a contest to see who hated more, and i won cuz i knew of more things to hate. so at least i have that going for me. there's like the competition to see who's more evil, me or tommy. we usually come out dead even, we have that mutual respect for each other to see who is less compassionate. i think he wins though on the good meter cuz he goes to church, so i have that going for me too. but i'm more socially acceptable and don't say horribly inappropriate things about funny looking people, like he does. ya see? we're dead even. anyway, i hope he can land the job, cuz we need another weirdo like me at work. they're just hiring like 50 girls, and ermmm while that's good and all to some extent, it's also kinda crappy cuz i weird all of them out and none of them talk to me, and they all have secret girl clubs.

here's the link to that short film i was in, if you haven't seen it already. hop over there and feel free to review the film too! http://www.studentfilms.com/film/get.do?id=798" title="http://www.studentfilms.com/film/get.do?id=798" target="_blank"http://www.studentfilms.com/f...

ok i've had enough of the world ripping on burger king! i'm taking a stand for it once and for all. now, when we compare the fast food burger places, we compare 3 things here. and we use some categories for our ranking system. our restaurants: burger king, wendy's, mcdonalds.

Hamburgers
1. Burger King
2. Wendy's (except the place is so cold the cheese doesn't melt)
3. Mcdonalds (nobody likes those stupid little bits of onion)

Service
1. Wendy's
2. Burger King
3. Mcdonalds

Chicken Nuggets
1. Mcdonalds
2. Burger King
3. Wendy's

The Diner Itself
1. Burger King
2. Wendy's (but it's freezing)
3. Mcdonalds (this is just trashed out in general)

Fries (the most controversial of the categories)
1. Burger King (they're crispy, hot, and have some special seasoning!)
2. Wendy's (they're usually crispy, but not the proper zing to em)
3. Mcdonalds (soggy bunches of cold crap)

so even though i don't really eat out much anymore, i still have it in me for a debate about it. looks like burger king is the champion of the burger places.

ya know i really hate tblog recently. all the freaking issues.. grrr. i'm reading artemis fowl: the eternity code, even though it came out forever ago. i really like the artemis fowl books. they'd make a super cool movie. hrmmmm but when? "write a script and front the money." that's what jaron says when he doesn't wanna do your film. so the tattoo on my arm today is gorillaz related. it looks like this sorta:

just the outline of the angel thing. it's kinda cool. i like it. i got not sleep last nite. not a wink. but i guess it all evened out during the day cuz work flew by. they let me go 10 minutes early even! wow. so i think i'll treat myself to a sandwich tonight for dinner. i'm a high roller.