past summary, future outlook

since july i have:

–cut and dyed my hair

my hair is still mad long, but now i have fringe.  one of the things that makes me an absolute neurotic mess is that i hate the word “bangs.”  i don’t want to have bangs.  i have pieces of hair in the front of my head that lay on or cover up my forehead, but those are not bangs.  that is my fringe.  i associate bangs with awful feathered hair and acid washed jeans and i’ll be damned if that’s ever me.  FRINGE!

–saw g. love at the brewery

g. love was awesome.  the fight that liana and i got into afterward was not awesome.  it started to mist right at the end of the show.  josh was a trooper.  we made the whole night a dedication to danny glover, and were randomly high fiving strangers and toasting with them to the fine cinematic prowess of “d.g.” as we came to call him.

called up brendon while in rochester and he gave us the wrong directions.  liana started talking shit, but i think it was because she was drunk, and it all became really uncomfortable, but was put over the edge when we got in a fight about darts.  that’s just silly.  after this, we didn’t talk for a month.

last weekend, liana and i had a really good time together, so i think all old wounds are healed, but i admit that it will be hard for me to try to forget about this incident.

–decided to go to nyc

cole got a credit card application in the mail from priority club, and i got one from jetblue.  we decided to look together to see if there were any hotels in nyc where he could use his points for a free night.  we found one.  26th and 6th.  going there oct. 23, 24, 25.  possibly seeing my uncle’s show?  rollerblading in central park.  being all cute and fall-ish in the city.  hitting up some gay bars.  dinner with johnny, jenny, coral, mark karwan, everyone else in the entire world who lives in nyc?  brooklyn bridge, history of nyc museum.  mass at st. patricks.  i’m not particularly religious, but i told cole i would go with him, and i love the arcitecture of old churches.  i’m excited about this all around.

–went to a beer festival in pittsburgh

i went with adam and katie.  stayed at their house, watched news and sports all weekend.  drank too much beer and threw up about 9 hours after getting home from the beer fest, not even due to beer, but due to bad spinach dip.  how ridiculous.  we brought e.t. to the beer fest and made him pour some of the beers.  the brewers were quite pleased at our ridiculousness.  got a customized grocery bag made out of an old t-shirt.  video taped katie and me shouting “fuck them” at every passing car due to our annoyance that adam and the other roommate, chris, hadn’t waited for us to walk to another friend’s house.

–watched the bills go 4-0

this is amazing.  go bills!  beat the cardinals tomorrow and they’re undefeated into the bye week.  fuckin a!

–switched departments at work, and thusly switched shifts at my disposable job

i now work monday through friday at the hotel from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.  weekends off, all the time.  except that i work saturday at my other job, but you know, beyond that.  i now work in the catering department and i help people plan and book parties.  menus, food, set up, tables, cooking, cleaning, table linen, silverware.  these are now my main concerns.

this has been a really nice switch.  i have an office.  with windows.  and a desk that i sit at all day and listen to great music at.  i print, i file, i copy, i hole punch, i sort, i label.  i’m so relaxed and happy.

i work nights at the other job now, and it’s all right.  my friend syd got a job as a manager there.  this is awesome for her because i feel that she lacked self confidence a little before and that this will be good for her.  however, she has been monitoring and reporting back to me about things that she noticed about my performance in such a way that it makes me feel like she thinks i’m incompetant.

the other day, a young teen answered the phone, and was trying to be funny and kept saying the same stuff over and over.  sometimes, i want to play those games, and i want to stay on the phone just to be like, what what… i’m not hanging up.  you don’t win.  i’m not annoyed.  i was playing along and syd called out my name and was like, maggie… end the call.  no shit, end it.  i’m just injecting some personal satisfaction into my otherwise boring drone job.

if i had applied for manager when the position was open, i would have gotten it in a heartbeat.  i am very good at what i do and have a natural lack for leadership.  however, i make more money in commission on a weekly basis than i would as a manager, so when someone nonchalantly asked me about whether i would be interested, i responded with “hell no!”

anyway, this is how thing have been going.  a lot of work, and as much fun as possible.

upcoming in fall–

10/8– old 97s?

10/10– gwar?

10/18– black crowes?

10/23– go to nyc

10/25– return from nyc

10/31– pittsburgh halloween party?

11/4– VOTE!

11/4– ub bulls game with lindsey

11/9– drive by truckers in boston?

11/11– drive by truckers in pittsburgh?

11/25– dark star orchestra

11/28– david byrne

11/29– ani difranco

12/10– bela fleck