dan’s will

this week is very low. very awful. i can barely move. i want to sleep for a while.

tho i did have a great 3day wknd

keep it real

i was an ardent capitalist. it has only taken one year of working for the man on the plantation, seeing the disparity between the money the mgmt makes and the money we make to change that. im still not a socialist though. i just think there should be laws allowing me to wait i could get in trouble for writing that here.

i used to really believe in representitive gov't, too. Now I don't understand why anyone would. Look at all the fools. LOOK AT THEM. Or just admire all  the tv shows and hollywood and this massive amount of crap that people consider good and o 9/11 happened so go ahead and take away our rights. But I'm not much of a monarchist or anarchist, either. So i guess i believe in a revised form of representitive gov't … the one in which only my vote counts.

my life has been a crude attempt of emulating the main character of updike's rabbit books. Harry Angstrom. he's my hero. i wonder, tho, if i'd be better off emulating that lovable protagonist from confederecy of dunces. i would have to gain a lot of weight, but other than that i think i already got his mindset/worldview (i hate this word) down.

and i have been jealous, for quite some time now, of the entire cast from 'the decline of the american empire.' i want their life(s) (the talking only about sex part at least).

and and and i have learned that you can make fun of a girl's farts, but not her poops. who'd've guessed? apparently, they get embarrased by the latter. would've been nice to have known this.

This is my official Liz post.

Though she hasn’t been working at the bagel shop for even a month, she already got offered the Shift Manager position. Yah. They love her there.

And here’s a warning to the single guys out there. When Liz and I were dating it was clear that we had different music tastes. I like good music and she likes hip-hop and whatever crap they play on the radio. But she said she liked my music and that she doesn’t even listen to music much so its not a big deal that I don’t want to hear hers.

Yeah, that lasted long. Gradually, she plays her music more and more. It’s awful. Most of it sounds like some sixth grader whining about relationships. It’s all written with monosyllabic words forming the simplest sentences ever, topped with too many cliches to count. “It’s like I can’t breath” should not be repeated as a chorus.

We have a lot of ‘our music’. I wish we could just listen to that. Yes, all of the ‘our music’ is bands that were mine and then she liked them. But, theres a few she likes way more than I ever did (songs:ohia, decemberists). I keep hoping she’ll get completely out of the radio/hip-hop scene and just stick to those.

A much cuter thing that Liz does is the way she gets into the things I like. It always goes from utterly opposed to completely in love with. The flip-flop can take anywhere from days, to hours, to minutes. I have too many examples:

When she came down a few months ago I was in the middle of going through the Babylon 5 seasons, which I had loved so many years ago. When I put one on, she said “It’s ok if you wanna watch that star trek crap. I’ll just go read and do other stuff.” Man by the end of the first episode on that disc she was on the couch, eyes set on the TV, telling me to put the next episode on NOW.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force is another show that she initially considered “Dan’s crap.” She can be heard repeating one-liners from that cartoon quite often.

She abhored mexican food (especially the spiceness) when she first met me, and declared that she would never eat it. She would eat her meals, I would eat mine. Now she eats mexican 2-3 times a week, and is the first to look for which store has avocados on sale each weekend.

The latest occurance of her flip-flopping is this unique japanase gaem I got called Katamari Damacy (i’ve been meaning to and will post about this gaem soon). She thought it was the dumbest, stupidest gaem she had ever seen. And when different friends came over wanting to play it, she would tell them how retarded she thought it was. About a week later she asked me if she could play it.

She asked me very quietly and shyly, too, as if she was starting to realize that she shouldn’t judge my sometimes eccentric tastes too quickly.

I’m sure she could write a much longer post about a few of my oddities that she has to put up with. We have been having a lot of fun together, especially now that we are more settled into married life (in the same country, in the same room).

i got my raise. gonna go home and drink. and cry. and drink some more.

i actually wrote a much longer post bitching about everything here, but i remembered telling myself i wouldnt use this to complain about work. im sorry, folks. i don't want to consider myself one of those persons. i'll leave the title the same though.

have a good day. and weekend.

Liz spilt her tea and it went under the couch. We moved the couch and she wiped it up and told me to leave the couch like that so it could air dry. I did … for a while. After she went to bed I moved the couch back so I could sit on it while playing Chrono Trigger. Now our house smells like horrible mildew. It's probably on account of the gross amounts of milk she puts in her teas. She says its on account of me moving the couch back.