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clever title? hardly.
by mg at 07:47 PM on July 16, 2003
Hi. When last we spoke, I was begging for help moving. Since then, I've moved.
No one helped.
I ended up paying a couple college kids I found on the Internet, which is also how I find sexual partners, so maybe I should have just gone that route first, instyead ofg expecting that I had any friends.
Anyway, I'm in my new place now. It's very tilty. I put a level on the desk in the bedroom, and the little air bubble is over near the second set of lines. I put my dresser in one of the corners of the room, but I had to move it because the drawers kept opening. That's how titly the apartment is. But it is cheap, and I was being ousted from my old apartment, so I guess I'll take what I was forced to get. And like it.
Actually, the point of this wasn't to talk about my apartment, though I promise to at some point, because it is a positive hotbed of interpersonal intrigue. My last place, I lived there three years and didn't know the names of any of my neighbors. I already know that one of my neighbors is really a man, another spent some hard time in jail, and another runs a pornographic video company.
No, the point of this all was to complain that I don't have telephone or Internet yet. I'm not willing to pay for cable just so I can have cable Internet, and Verizon is evil - they wanted to charge me $125 to keep my old phone number, and are not going to be able to install my new phone until August. Fucking August.
So, while I haven't exactly been around much previous to moving, at least I would read posts and comments and whatnot. I've been kind of stressed, but I lurked, because I love. But now, I'm more stressed AND I don't have any way to check, even if I had the time. So, I just wanted to mention that I'm not exactly going to be around much. Even less so. I have no idea what you kids have been jibber jabbering about here for the last couple days, I wont exactly be able to reply in a timely manner if you email me, and. Well, thats it. Bye now.
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Ah... I see...
ENTER LOCKHEED. THE BADDESTSAMARITANSEMITE...
For starters... so lately, I've been doing some rash things... like I got kicked out of my office after losing a quick 50 grand, so I panic about something that I never panicked about before: my extensive tattooing which goes down to my forearms. The sun has been angry as of late, and I once again find myself having to wear longsleeves lest I be branded a delinquent, and entirely unemployable(except at a tattoo parlor and or gas station) villified for the mere fact that my youthful discretion allowed me to get beautiful extensive works of symbolic art on my body, you know, a living canvas... Please tell me I'm being Irrational and that tattoos are not 'taboo' anymore at all these days, especiallly if I could hide them completely in business attire, thus I can still obtain a white collared job... So I go slam down a quick 1700 dollars to get a first laser session on both my forearms(and that's just one session, it takes many, and that's just my forearms, still got my biceps, my pectorals, my ribs, and my abdominals... so I was all bloodied up for a few weeks, have to wait about 6 weeks between sessions, now it's scabby.... it's like the festering soar that is LOCKHEED... if I make it to the waterside... I'll be sure to write you a note...
by LOCKHEED at July 16, 2003 10:05 PM
Lockheed, what's your email address? You're in the bond business right? (Bond as in debt, not as in 007.)
by Eviltom at July 16, 2003 10:18 PM
Yaknow Lockheed, you could still work at a record store, or a movie theater, if it will let you wear long sleeves. The regional manager at the movie theater I worked at for a while totally had tattoos but kept them covered up with long sleeves. But you probably want something better-paying. One of the production coordinators at my other other job had tattoos all over, too, and it was no problem, she just wore long sleeves. You'll find something.
by jean at July 17, 2003 12:24 AM
I get the feeling that Lock will always find a way to pull through. As for this post it's always great to hear from you MG. My only question is: How did you post it? I am going to be similarly cyber-incommunicado up in New Jersey beginning tomorrow. If there's a way, I'll post from the windswept beach using my imaginary laptop.
by anna at July 17, 2003 6:45 AM
MG! Good to hear from you man. Verizon is an evil, evil beast. When I first moved to the D.C. area it was in August. It took them until October to get our phone activated. Fuckers. Good thing both my roomie and I had cells.
Lock, are you looking to change fields? I design a lot of AV systems for AOL and see poeple walking around that place with some serious ink showing. It seems that most .com and computer based companies don't give two shits what you look like as long as you can perform. I guess they are the enlightened bunch. There is also the music industry. They need people who know how to handle money and I'd be surprised if they cared about tats. If not just wear a long sleeved shirt to work and let your credentials speak for themselves.
by Ezy at July 17, 2003 8:57 AM
MG, Shannon & I used to live in a tilty apartment, and we hypothesized that we existed in a slightly different dimension, one where, hopefully, we would start finding bags of money. We never did, but maybe you will!
Lockheed, oh, the poster-within-comments:
If you LIKE your tattoos you should keep them. I know plenty of suit-by-day, ink-by-night business men types. If you like them, leave them. If you need them to be gone, get rid of them. But don't pick the scabs.
by Linz at July 17, 2003 9:40 AM
I mostly fester in a den off the back of my house. It's built on a concrete slab that used to be a deck. As such, it too is tilted. My fishtank acts as a level and confirms this logic-defying fact.
by anna at July 17, 2003 10:36 AM
my girlfriend and i just bought a house, and it's tilty as all hell. you walk in and can visually confirm that the middle of the living room is about a half a foot higher than the sides. it's totally stupid. but it was a steal, so i'm definitely not complaining...it's damn near impossible to get your foot in the real estate market around here for under 400k, and i just pulled it off. yippie kiy ay, etc. first thing we're doing is fixing the damn foundation though - i want to be able to sit at my computer without rolling backwards.
by JC at July 17, 2003 2:50 PM
My best friend/wife's ex is a master carpenter. He cannot imagine how one goes about building these tilty rooms. Carpentry is based on the principle of things being square and flat, not titty. Er, tilty.
by anna at July 17, 2003 3:37 PM
yeah, in our case, whoever did the foundation fucked up royally. when the house settled, it was fubar. should be pretty easy to fix though...just a matter of getting the pilings set to the right heights.
by JC at July 17, 2003 6:32 PM