TODAY (3/13)

Posted on 13/03/2008 by Severe

Is my Birthday!

You don’t hafta comment, er send me an email, er pretend ta call me (still nae phone), er drop by my office n take me out fer lunch (altho all that stuff would be nice!), ah just ask that you think about me today, preferably how awesome you think ah am. N you east-coasters should miss me a lil too, please 🙂

Twenty-Seven is a numbah that has much spiritual and mathematical significance. Ah think its a pretty rawkin age ta be, n am lookin forward ta fawkin all sortsa shite up this next year!

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LADIES & GENTLEMAN:

Posted on 11/03/2008 by Severe

think13!

(ah have nae idea why ahm nawt lookin in tha same direction as everyone else)

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How weak

Posted on 10/03/2008 by Severe

and unprofessional!

We’d been contacted by what ah will say no more about then that they are a country-western band from las vegas if we could help them git a gig. Well, favors are good, rite?

They decide instead that they’ll play anutha show but maybe they ken swing by tha bar we’re at at like midnite?

No thanks.

Ahm still pullin triple duty, unless, like ah said, ah pussy out.

Upside – Today ah biked ta berkeley. Ah really like how that sounds n what that meant. Walkin that first couple blocks on Telegraph on a beautiful Sunday w. my bike = excellent. N aftahwerds came home ta play some surprisingly rawkin musick somewhat out of tha blue. We felt like a band, just about, except ah had nae idea what they were gawna dae until they actually did it. Sounded pretty good tho, whatevah it was.

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DECISION MADE!

Posted on 05/03/2008 by Severe

Ah will start on March 18th as tha new Program Assistant for an amazing Environmental Organization. My current employer is really bummed that ahll be leavin them (n turnin down more money), but unnerstand my decision n isn’t holdin a grudge.

Thanks so much to everyone fer thar insight, comments, n thoughts. It really did make all tha difference.

Much love,
a fully employed Humble Observer

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Buy A Word…any word…..

Posted on 03/03/2008 by Severe

cross posted from tha BG

Ah found this on Laughing Squid.

The Big Word Project reminds me of that book The Phantom Tollbooth and tha scene whar thar at tha word market n buyin words. These folks have simplified tha concept, that tha worth is only based on how long it is. They say:

“About The Big Word Project

The Big Word Project has been set up by Paddy Donnelly and Lee Munroe, two Masters students from Northern Ireland, who are exploring what different words mean to different people. The project allows you to purchase a word from our list to represent your site. Your site will then represent this word in our list and when people click on it, they will be taken to your site. The project is aimed at changing definitions and creating a new tapestry of words, meaning altogether different things.

We’re selling words for $1 per letter. Find it, click it, buy it 🙂

For example, you may buy the word ‘Donkey’ for $6 and it will link to your site dedicated to donkeys. The word ‘Donkey’ will then be the gateway to your site and the definition will be changed. No longer will the word Donkey mean ‘a woodworking apparatus consisting of a clamping frame and saw, used for cutting marquetry veneers’, instead it will now be represented visually by ‘Chris’s Donkey Site’.”

Currently, ahve spent $10 ta secure both “severe” and “bass.” Ahve decided that whenevah ah git first dibs on eitha of those words from now, ah should just jump on it. Maybe some dumb-ass latah generation will credit me w. its conception….”you know, SEVERE, like in ‘severe bass?'”

Or maybe I just gave 10 bux to some Irish guys. Which I’m okay with.

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TORN

Posted on 01/03/2008 by Severe

my current job wants me. BAD.

problem? they can’t make me an offer until they have the posting up for 2 weeks internally. Which hasn’t happened yet.

But damn, they want me. N will pay me more. N will give me development experience. N are possibly tha best skool in tha WORLD.

but, tha otha job CAN make me an offer. N has. n is awesome. N thar will be a lawt of opportunities ta move up and sidewayz within tha organization. Whereas the current position is set at “Staff Assistant,” likelihood of promotion (and even interest in promotion within geographical possibilities) is close ta zero.

ah totally dont know what ta dae at tha moment. Thoughts?

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HELLZ YES!

Posted on 29/02/2008 by Severe

Ah gawt an offer from a prestigious Environmental Organization ta be a Program Assistant today!!!!!!

ah cannot explain how relieved n excited ah am that this has finally happened….aftah 4 fawkin months, somebody has finally recognized that ah would be a kickass full-time employee. N while ah would prolly take just about any offer ah gawt at this point in time, this is a group ah would LOVE ta werk fer.

AND tha place ahm currently tempin wants ta talk ta me tomorrow about possibly makin me full-time cuz my boss loves my work n my personality. My guess is – they can’t make me an offer tomorrow, even tho if they could, it would pay me WAY WAY more then tha place that did. HOWEVAH, ahve been here too long ta turn down a real offer, fer a job ah want, fer a potential bettah offer at a job ah also want. Maybe if ahd only been here 2 months, ahd be willin ta take a chance, but my loyalty lies w. whoevah ken pay me a livin wage…guaranteed. N that would be door numbah 1…..

but its like a weight has been lifted. Ah can’t describe how good it feels ta finally have this stuipd job thang taken care of. N now ah ken officially start lookin fer new digs in tha city.

My life is comin togetha, n ah am eternally grateful fer these opportunities, n tha support of my friends during this entire transition. It’s hard ta nawt think ah made tha right move leavin my comfortable and happy (but easy) life in NOVA fer tha great trendy unknown.

Much love and appreciation fer you, my friends, n to tha universe fer bringin us togetha. Sometimes life is hard…sometimes life is shitty…sometimes life is good….n right now, LIFE IS AWESOME!

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thursday will be a tuff day

Posted on 28/02/2008 by Severe

It’s 1 am, ahm prolly at least 30, if nawt more like 60, minutes from sleep. See below post, n you’ll know that ah hafta be at werk at 9 am (meanin, out tha house ABSOLUTELY nae latah then 8:05). Howevah, ahm pretty sure Warren Teagarden recently rawked tha Stork Club, n ah sorta have pictures ta prove it (altho most of them are fuzzy).

Yoga was switched ta tomorrow as well, as an act of universe synchronicity. But this means nawt only will ah need ta be out my house in 7 hours, but tha ah wont be back here till past 9 pm tomorrow; that day includes 8 hours o work (likely data entry), a phone call w. a potential employer, 2 hours of commute, 90 minutes of bikram (which ah haven’t been ta since Sat), n cleanin tha studio (45ish mins., depending). This all before ah have dinnah, relax, n process everythang from today n tomorrow.

As busy as this current life ah have is keepin me, ah hafta admit, ahm pretty fawkin happy. Which was tha point of movin out here, rite?

Also – It’s been exactly four months since ah gawt here. Ah arrived Oct. 27th (which incidentally is tha date of tha last think13 “balance” performance), ahm on tha verge of somethang. Ah ken totally feel it. Bein on stage 5 times this year is nice too!

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More Workplace Bullshit

Posted on 27/02/2008 by Severe

So when my boss starts off a conversation w. “It’s come to my attention that,” its nawt a good thang. Howevah, being that ahve been a pretty good lil employee thus far, my brain is sorta like “ah didn’t fawk up!”

Well, it’s come to my boss’ attention that my corporate conservative “casual” office place doesn’t allow temps to work unsupervised This is a bummer b/c ah have band practice 1 er 2 times a week in tha city, but nawt until 7 pm. So in tha past, at this job n tha last, ahve been comin in 10 n leavin at 6 on evenins like that, as an hour ta git from one place to anutha is a lawt less time ta kill.

So tha otha two officers in my department were out this mornin, n ah sent my supervisor an email askin if that meant ah had ta take lunch at tha same time as tha otha staff assistant (who, while 2 years my junior, as a REAL employee of my institution, is a supervisor). My boss said he thought that would be stupid, n assumed that, unless he heard othawise, ah was okay ta be in tha office from 9 – 5, which is good, as tha bosses here dae a lawt of travelling.

Well, it came to his attention AGAIN that officer who is here today n tha otha assistant will be leavin at 3:30 fer a meeting. Which means ah hafta leave as well. AND ah can’t git paid past when ah leave. So today, ahm out 2 hours of werk (n ah git a good hourly rate here) b/c of stupid corporate rules.

Ta let you know a lil more about tha environment that is bein sublet, ah looked online ta see what this company did. n they invest money in management teams in the 10 – 100 MILLION dollar range. Ah guess tha more money you invest, tha more pleasure you git outta bein a complete douchebag.

Tha one thang ah dae like about this, is my boss pointed out that by treatin me like garbage, ah was WAY more likely ta try n destroy all tha nice thangs in this office then if they just treated me like a human being. But apparently, b/c ahma temp, ah pose GRAVE security issues.

This post brought ta you, on tha companies dime, b/c of bullshit.

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Break-ups suck

Posted on 27/02/2008 by Severe

A couple of weeks ago, think13 played a pretty wild show at a local Irish bar. While our musick was relatively tame, tha nite of daein our own sound, drinkin waay too much, n a stolen handbag was plenty of nutzo. Ah knew before tha nite even began we’d be talkin about that “crazy first nite” at Irelands 32.

Unfortunetly, some of tha crazy gawt a bit big fer its britches.

A good friend of our guitarist had their handbag stolen at that show, n soon aftah all her friends received nasty text messages from tha thief. Luckily, somebody had tha incident on tape.

Nawt so luckily, tha evidence strongly points to tha significant other of one of our hand percussionists. It very clearly shows her putting her bag and jacket on top of the handbag, n then latah, picking it up, revealing tha handbag as missing.

Ahll be honest, this significant otha wasn’t my favorite person in tha world (ahm nawt such a fan of girlfriends who sit in on EVERY band practice, especially when they are somewhat of a distraction to tha band member), but ah didn’t really think that badly of her. But tha videotape is what tha cops called “a classic case,” and its given us a bad name w. tha Irish community. Charges are bein filed, etc. etc.

Our hand percussionist was told he needed ta “take care of it.” Unfortunetly, this did nawt translate in his head to “dump yer girlfriend.” Ah remembah bein 21, n thinkin that tha relationship ah was in was IT. So ah feel fer tha kid, n identify w. whar he’s comin from.

Howevah, while a band is a family, its tha kind of family you CAN choose. And this band, is a bizness to some extent (or will be). And this girlfriend, is a liability.

So, while it broke our hearts (others more then mine, this guy has been w/ think13 for a long long time), we had to make a choice based on his choice. And he’s still gawt a girlfriend, but nae band.

In good news fer think13, we just subletted a practice space (a pretty decent one too) in tha city. This is obviously a new beginnin fer us. It just sucks that tha first thang we did in our new practice space is fire a drummer.

N now, tha search is on fer anutha percussionist. Our friend left some fairly big shoes ta fill….

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