Archive for October, 2006

happy halloween

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

a fitting song for the day, i think. (click and enjoy.)

Hands cover whispers of the lovers’ fright
Fear-cloaked renditions of that autumn night
Digging up rumours of the kids in the park
What awful things happened in the dark

Take just one last dare
Pretend you don’t care
Till twilight falls
Wait, there’s someone else here
And I can’t stop my tears
I’ve never been so scared

In the cellar buried 6 feet deep
The lover’s shaken from a dreamless sleep
Nails clawing splinters from the ceiling and floor
Shrieking like the witches til his stitches are sore

Take just one last dare
Pretend you don’t care
Till twilight falls
Wait, there’s someone else here
And I can’t stop my tears
I’ve never been so scared

Calling for the other
Searching for her lover
Secrets she discovers drain her face of color

1, 2, 3, 4, underneath the cellar floor
5, 6, 7, 8, lover will suffocate

the birthday massacre – lovers end

i don’t know… you think of a title.

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

i have been writing lately, believe it or not, but it almost never actually makes it to my blog. i don’t know why, then, that some of it does. it should either work or not. whatever. i haven’t found a way to blog from work without it being a pain in the ass, so i’ll probably just write there and email it to myself, and post it when i get home. or something.

work has been really good. the people there are so unbelievably nice. i’m kind of making friends, and it’s neat. and, except for calling people (which is fast becoming a large part of my job), i like the work. i have trouble calling friends and family members. calling strangers that might be busy or pissy can be downright scary. but i keep doing it, because i think i’ll get used to it. and, if i didn’t do it, i’d have to quit my job. but my boss sent me an instant message saying i was doing a good job on the phone, so i’ll just go with that.

i talked to my sister for a while today. which is nice, coz we just don’t have time anymore. but she mentioned that when our grandma called the other day, she was kind of upset. i don’t remember whether i talked about it on here, but right after i moved here, i accidentally told her about dad’s new family. and i guess she didn’t know. and maybe i wasn’t supposed to tell. i don’t know. but she acted like it didn’t bother her, so i assumed she was fine. she called while i was at work the other day, and i talked for a couple minutes but told her i was at work, and she said she’d call later. and didn’t. so, even though dad should have told her to begin with, i’m feeling guilty because i’m the one that said something and now she’s upset. maybe dad was right and we shouldn’t have said anything. i don’t know. but i was supposed to tell dad i told her so he could talk to her about it, and i’ve been avoiding it. i don’t really feel like getting into a fight about it. but i feel like a selfish asshole because apparently this has really been bothering her and she doesn’t want to talk to him until he knows she knows. i don’t know how i end up stuck in the middle of everything all the time. i just feel really bad for her. so i tried to call dad but he wasn’t available so i left a message. he’s out of town on business, so i felt pretty shitty about just leaving a message like that on his cell. but i’m sick of this weighing on my conscience, and had no idea until today how upset my grandma is.

i was going to talk about how great work is going, but now i just feel like shit.

click-clunk

Monday, October 9th, 2006

the other day i was driving to work, and stopped at a stop light. this white-bread guy in a business suit was crossing the crosswalk. i reached over and locked my power locks, with that audible click-clunk. he glanced at me, and i smirked at him.

this has probably never happened to him in his life. i hope it made him think.

but he probably just thought i was crazy.

ames

Monday, October 9th, 2006

i see that 1/3 of my email posts made it to my blog this time. whatever.

anyway, deb linked to a wikipedia article about the town where she was born. it was pretty neat, so i’ve decided to do the same. i present to you, gish’s city of birth, ames iowa. as you can see, it is both boring and weird. like me. the article even mentions where my dad used to work, the nadc. neat.

slow news day

Monday, October 9th, 2006

when (if) i get knocked up, do not ever, for any reason, call me
“preggers.” i fucking hate that word.

thank you.

it’s stupid because it’s true

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

i was going through some old stuff, trying to find some cute stuff to stick on my desk at work, when i came across the following:

lick
(gish, being licked by a friend, who shall go unnamed.)

this was taken at my sweet 16 party, which sohei hosted. i can’t find any of the other pictures from that event, but i think it’s just as well, don’t you?

and, found in a notebook from 8th grade:

kristan to [gish] – what color is your life today?
[gish] to krispy – what day? my life is like cancer when it turns black.

ultimately, it was a silly conversation, but it just goes to show that i was always pretty much this way. sorry.

work work work

Friday, October 6th, 2006

i think i managed to erase my failed email post. i did manage a successful post today, though, apparently. since it has to be plain text, i just pasted the link instead of making it clicky. but you know.

so my first full week of work is over, and it was good. sohei visited me at lunch today. and it turns out i’m a much more private person than i thought. a coworker wanted to add me on myspace, and i didn’t want to look like a jerk so i did. but i’m kind of worried she’s going to find out things i don’t want her to. i don’t know what that would be, but still. i guess i’m more worried that my boss, who is also on myspace, will think something. again, i don’t know what. and what i’m downright terrified of is someone finding my blog. though the people i work with are pretty tech-savvy, so i assume it could very well be found someday. i don’t think it helped that my myspace login is my domain email addy, and she was standing behind me when i logged in. aside from my tired, whiny rant on my first day, though, there’s really nothing negative about work. and nothing at all negative about her. still, i just assume people will think i’m weird. because i am. of course, people probably think i’m downright odd anyway. ;_;

anyway, today went well. the morning was tough, coz i made a couple mistakes. they were easy enough to fix, but when you’re trying to prove yourself and stuff, it’s embarrassing. and i keep having to ask a bunch of questions. but i did a lot of it myself, and even took a call today. it was quite by accident, but it went okay. the lady was really nice anyway. and everyone is just so nice so far. this lady i’ve been hanging out with went to lunch with sohei and i, and sohei is suspicious of her. he thinks she’s going to be trouble. i’ve learned to trust him on this stuff, after what happened with my last supervisor. i really like her, though, so i’m going to keep talking to her. but i’ll be careful of what i say. if everyone likes me, it’ll make my life at work so much easier. it’s just so hard.

anyway, it’s time to go to the store. so i’d better go do that.

things that just sound… wrong.

Friday, October 6th, 2006

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/10/06/foleyphoto/index.html

stupid website…

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

okay. well i posted from work and it didn’t show up. anyone know how to do a cron job? -_-

post via email

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

okay, i managed to figure out how to post via email, so y’all will hopefully be hearing from me more often. i don’t want to use anything that has to do with my website at work, so i’ll be emailing my posts via gmail. i’ve wanted to talk about stuff, but by the time i get home, i’m pretty tired. and tonight i’m sick and tired, so i’ll be going now. i still haven’t figured out my damn flickr addy, but when i do, i’ll post some pics, too.

good bear

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

i just wanted to point out that sohei has been a pretty damn good bear lately. ^3^

that is all.