why the heck am i awake at 7 am? i want more sleep. like, forever. can i sleep through today? no, i cannot. da-yum...

Hey, I did see your contributions. Interesting stuff. And no, I still have one pile of boxes that will probably be there until I move next, at which point I will have bought another of everything that's in them, no doubt.

Huh. I see they switched the checkbox to "Make this message public." I'm really glad I found out over something so innocuous.

Oh, honey. I have hosted. I have waited. I have tended bar. I have managed. When I moved to New York, I worked here as a server for two years. It was awesome and awful and beautiful and bloody, and even though I finally, and utterly justifiably, walked out in the middle of a shift, I miss it sometimes. Your stories from the front bring me great joy.

Have you said you work at a tourist trap, too? Lindy's? The Stardust Diner? The Olive Garden in Times Square?

This poem was recently popularized by Mad Men -- and I can get behind that -- but I have been a proponent of it for years. Namely because I love Frank O'Hara and Mayakovsky. And it seems appropriate for most occasions in my life:

"Mayakovsky

Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.

The country is grey and
brown and white in trees,
snows and skies of laughter
always diminishing, less funny
not just darker, not just grey.

It may be the coldest day of
the year, what does he think of
that? I mean, what do I? And if I do,
perhaps I am myself again."

- Frank O'Hara

Oh, thanks. Yes, "fucking squirrel" is an inherently fun phrase.

I HATE these new comment threads, by the way. I'm cranky and set in my ways.

I don't know if I would say I love Rush, but I like them. So, what "age" are you? I thought you were pretty young, but then the Lemonheads, Smiths, Chicago, and Pixies made me think you may be closer to my age (30s).

Have you really sat down and listened to the Beatles, and still don't like them? If so, OK. I don't think there's ever been anybody better in the studio.

Naples Florida?
Did you think I didn't pay attention in Geography class while I passed you notes?
Ciao Bella,

chien

I'll try my desert island albums, off the top of my head (no order).
1. Grateful Dead, American Beauty
2. Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
3. Beatles, White Album
4. Beastie Boys, Paul's Boutique
5. Uncle Tupelo, No Depression
6. Rolling Stones, Let It Bleed
7. Miles Davis Quintet, Kind of Blue
8. Grateful Dead, Two from the Vault
9. Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks

Your's is much more diverse!

I love her refences to being "sworn to secrecy." I'm trembling in my knickers over here agonizing over her 2 pm's about how I'm hated. Who cares? People openly loathe her.