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Wednesday, 31 May 2006

People I Heart Without Actually Knowing Them

The Rock Creek Rambler:

"I've been noticing a lot of signs around town that say 'A Call To Your Conscience: Save Darfur.'  So the other day I called my conscience and we met at Starbucks to discuss the issue over caramel macchiatos.  After some spirited and informed debate, we decided that Darfur should in fact be saved.  Afterwards we went to Urban Outfitters and my conscience bought this hilarious shirt that said 'Gettin' Lucky In Kentucky?'  He's such a card.  Anyway, I've notified the Congress, the president, and the UN of our decision.  It should be saved any day now.

But just in case our resolution somehow fails, I've purchased posters, wristbands, bumper stickers, tshirts, and car ribbon magnets from the Save Darfur Store.  After all, nothing effects international political change like a car ribbon magnet.

I'm just so thankful that no one's trivializing such an important issue with simple-minded sloganeering."
by: DJGroovySlug at May 31, 2006 09:12 | link | comments (1) things that make me happy

Tuesday, 30 May 2006

Arlene's On-Going Birthday Wishlist

Pee and Poo
by: DJGroovySlug at May 30, 2006 15:12 | link | comments

Tuesday, 30 May 2006

My weekend was super awesome. Amazing. Fantastic. Wonderful. Except.

WHEN IS IT EVER OKAY TO INVITE YOUR FRIEND OVER FOR A BBQ KNOWING FULLY WELL THAT YOU HAVE ALSO INVITED HER EX-BOYFRIEND AND HIS NEW GIRLFRIEND. WHY IS IT EVEN A GOOD IDEA?

Okay let me preface this.  When my ex and I broke up last year, we were lucky (and smart) to have no property, money or basically anything that belonged to both of us.  But we had mutual friends, a concept that invites complications on relationships the world over.

I made it clear from the beginning that I wasn't particularly interested in re-hashing that group: me + friends + ex = not good time for Arlene.  It was just too complicated.  But the friends were clearly counting down the days when we could all hang out again.

So N invited me to her BBQ yesterday and of course I agreed because all my old friends would be there and I would get free food and beer. I fell asleep mid-afternoon when my friend Sanjay called to ask me what I'm doing ("HRmpnfhae, erm, I'm supposed to be at a BBQ forty-five minutes ago").  Since he woke me up I told him to come along.  Imagine my surprise when we enter the house and there is The Ex.  Um, okay.  I'm caught off guard.  BUT WAIT.  OH there's his new girlfriend. Hi New Girlfriend! Yes, I'm Bryan's Ex, the girl he told you he dumped (me and my friends had a good laugh over that story, btw). 

SERIOUSLY.  WHY IS THIS EVEN HAPPENING?

I downed three Coronas in a row, put up with it for about 2 hours then dragged Sanjay the heck out of there to our friend Rob's house where we stayed for another four hours.  During the actual BBQ From Hell, Sanjay said the look on my face was pretty priceless when I saw The Ex, but that I handled it so well he just figured I had hung out with Ex + New Girlfriend before.  Um no. 

Mostly I'm just a little upset that NO ONE BOTHERED TO TELL ME HE WAS GOING TO BE THERE, and with the new girl, no less.  It's not that I'm not over him, or that it bothers me, it was just really weird.  It's a dynamic that I'm not interested in inviting into my life.  I have no desire to start hanging out with my ex and whatever girls he is with. 

Mostly I feel like this is a super sheisty move on the part of my friends, especially because they insisted I bring The (New) Boy along and were disappointed to learn he was out of town.  Um, how crappy a move would that be on The (New) Boy if I dragged him to this BBQ and he had to sit there and eat with my ex, my ex's new girlfriend and all our mutual friends. Yeah.  Not going to happen.

I know some groups are completely all about being friends and hanging out even after break-ups.  But that is definitely not me and I can't believe I was so naive to not even realize what would probably go down.

It makes me a little sad because this definitely means that I'll probably be significantly limiting hanging out with my old friends, at least for the summer while The Ex is home from school.  But there's really no other way around it.  Luckily I have my own stuff going on so I'll be more than fine.
by: DJGroovySlug at May 30, 2006 10:50 | link | comments (3) random thoughts

Friday, 26 May 2006

Meloncholy

I'm irritable and now AG is too and quite frankly the only thing that can save this is copious amounts of alcohol but I swear I'm not an alcoholic!!! Drinking is not a way to solve problems, merely to forget about them until a time when you find a better solution. 

Mostly I'm just wondering why they won't let us go home early because NO ONE IS HERE AND THERE'S ONLY AN HOUR LEFT IN THE WORKDAY AND let me just say that I'm the world's most underemotional person, at least when it comes to sadness and other lousy emotions, but all I want to do is just lie in bed and be an absolute miserable person, the type who makes snarky comments when you ask her what she wants for dinner.
by: DJGroovySlug at May 26, 2006 16:10 | link | comments (1) things that make me unhappy

Friday, 26 May 2006

A List of Lists

Things that I am not ashamed of:
  • I would readily buy:
    • Golden Girls Complete Series on DVD
    • Any celebrity gossip magazine
    • camouflage cargo shorts
  • I really enjoy eating:
    • Cheetos
    • Taco Bell
    • Anything dipped in ranch dressing
  • I actually watch:
    • America's Next Top Model
    • Iron Chef
    • Laguna Beach
  • I obsessively read:
    • celebrity gossip blogs
    • Carolyn Hax
    • Gene Weingarten

Things that I am really excited about:

Things that I will do this weekend:

  • pilates
  • shopp for camouflage cargo shorts
  • catch up on netflix
  • study for the GREs
  • laundry
  • sit around
  • BBQ
  • sleep in
  • X-Men 3
  • not work
by: DJGroovySlug at May 26, 2006 13:11 | link | comments random thoughts

Thursday, 25 May 2006

I didn't watch either Lost or American Idol last night and I'm not quite sure if that makes me a good or bad person.  I suspect neither.  I haven't seen an episode of either and I'm quite convinced that somehow my life is lacking as a result, since everyone seems to make me feel such a way.  People are so concerned, in fact, that I regularly receive guidance on my TV viewing schedules.  Among other things,  apparently I should be watching: Lost, The Sopranos, Grey's Anatomy, 24, The Wire, The O.C., and Project Runway.  HOW HAVE I MANAGED TO SURVIVE THIS LONG, I HAVE NO IDEA.   I imagine that when it comes time for me to watch the tube (say, some major accident that lives me debilitated) the TV Gods will spite my lack of previous sacrefices with horrible things like a reality TV channel or some such nonsense.  Or extend the "Deal or No Deal" contract into 2056.

Rather than get caught up on whatever complicated plotline full of over-analyzed minutiae that was on last night, I went out and enjoyed an over-produced, over-priced movie in an over-air conditioned theater.  Actually, the movie was "Over the Hedge," which I wanted to see every since I heard it basically made fun of human over-consumption.  I went with my movie buddy, that person everyone has in their life for when you want to see a movie no one else wants to see.  He enjoyed it too.  How can you not love any movie that has this exchange:

RJ: That is an SUV.
Penny: It's so big!
Lew: How many humans fit in there?
RJ: Usually...one.

So go forth, my beautiful peons and enjoy the movie I doth recommend. 

(PS we got drinks beforehand and I got a Guinness.  A gentleman way on the other side of the bar came over and said he had to shake my hand because he had never before seen a girl order a Guinness.  Um, you clearly haven't met all of my female friends.  He even informed me that now they do this thing where they pour Guiness over some pale ale and WOW it's like an amazing feat of beer technology.  Unfortunately he couldn't remember what it was called, so I guess my introduction speciality beer mixes will have to wait until I one day discover this magical drink. Yes I'm being sarcastic.)
by: DJGroovySlug at May 25, 2006 14:20 | link | comments (2) dj groovy slug recommends

Wednesday, 24 May 2006

This internet art project is so meta, it's making my head explode.  It's a web app that lets anyone on the page move around colored blocks.  Anyone.  You can sit and watch everyone else screw around, work on your own project or screw up other peoples' projects.  I've done a combination of all three.



 Mosaic!

The funny thing is, people seem willing to totally help you, to the point where you can psych them out.  I moved a small collection of blocks and just started randomly arranging them in a nonsensical way, and in a creepy ghost-like maneuver, a bunch of people started bringing blocks over to my area.  I'm not sure what to make of this, but it has wasted a sufficient portion of my morning.
by: DJGroovySlug at May 24, 2006 11:35 | link | comments (1) random thoughts

Tuesday, 23 May 2006

AKA this probably means I actually miss him. Gah I hate it when feelings get in the way of, like, stuff.

The Boy is out of town for a while, visiting the motherland aka the Israeli government got together and created a mildly propagandistic program entitled "Birthright" that gives Jewish young adults a free trip to Israel for 10 days. I spent the two weeks up to his departure mumbling about the unfairness of it all.  When is the Catholic Church going to get together and send us over to Rome to meet the Pope?  I NEED TO CONNECT TO GOD AND EAT LOTS OF NEOPOLITAN PIZZA.

So anyway, he's out of town which means it's the perfect opportunity to act like my usual crazy single self, except in a not really sort of way.  Life feels exactly the same as before, barring the significant lack of free meals, which is hindering my desire to go back to pre-boyfriend-aka-hangers-on-who
-IMs-all-the-time-wanting-to-know-"What's up?"-when-I-just-want-to-scream-"WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS UP IN MY STUFF?"-life, since I now need to somehow fend for myself when it comes to food. 

Okay so it's only been like, 48 hours.  And really, he didn't buy me that many meals.  And we only saw each other like 2 days a week. 

But it's amazing how many people subconsciously know I don't have a boyfriend (for all technical purposes, I don't right now.  In fact, I can't guarantee that [a] he's alive, [b] he hasn't fallen for some jewish girl [c] he actually went anywhere, although I'm pretty sure that if he hasn't he created all new internet aliases for himself, because there is no way this Boy gave up the internet for more than 2 hours).  I'm getting all kinds of calls from people wanting to hang out, which has been a problem since I was looking forward to a whole lot of sitting around, eating a week's worth of leftover pasta and saving money since I've already spent my entire paycheck until the 1st of the month aka I love my new pair of shoes.

Who am I kidding? This is great!! Excessive socializing, purchasing of overpriced, unnecessary footwear, and being able to talk about whatever I want on my blog because checking one's Bloglines isn't a part of discovering the Jewish people and the great country of Israel?  Now that's my birthright. Aka WOOHOO!
by: DJGroovySlug at May 23, 2006 13:40 | link | comments (5) random thoughts

Monday, 22 May 2006

Weekend Update

We spent 24 hours in Charlottesville for the UVA graduation, which really consisted of the kind of night where you are so ill the next morning you can taste the very smallest hint of alcohol in your toothpaste and become completely repulsed.  That was followed by skipping out on the graduation ceremony the next morning for Bodo's Bagels.  MMMMmmmm Bodo's bagels.  Rumor has it that Bodo's will be opening in the district soon but since it took close to six years for the Bodo's to open on the Corner, I'm assuming it'll be a while.

So this morning I'm running late and the shuttle to the metro has been filling up as the new apartment buildings in our development continue to fill up with new tenants so being late is no longer an option.  And what am I doing? I'm running around after the stupid hamster who won't let me catch her.  Why is she even awake? I could've throttled her I was so angry.  Not that it mattered, the shuttle driver, who is notoriously bad, was about 10 minutes late anyway.  Really, he's not much higher on the scale than the hamster.
by: DJGroovySlug at May 22, 2006 10:25 | link | comments

Saturday, 20 May 2006

I'm eating a black and white cookie.  Certainly not as good as the last one I had in New York City last year.  I believe this calls for a emergency trip to New York City.  Maybe I'll pick up some lox while I'm there...
by: DJGroovySlug at May 20, 2006 13:09 | link | comments random thoughts