ha! i so win!

cigarette lady was back on my bus this afternoon, decked out in some hideous pink and lime outfit with bangles covering her wrists and these 1960s sunglasses on (never mind the fact that it had been raining for two hours before i picked her up). she's smoking as i pull up, and since i'm sitting for a while, she decides to smoke again before i leave - but she goes far, far away from the bus to do so. whoopah, harpy! thou art mine!

maybe it's a hollow victory, but it's the small things in life that please me, really.

upcoming rant: why accountants make me want to leave this country tomorrow. oy vay! dinnertime!
posted by kat thompson at 7:31 PM

sidenote: i love free speech. i love the fact that i can post a string of twenty obscenities on the 'net and no one's going to call me on it. just for good measure, here's a few more:

fuckfuckfuckingshittank. fuckityfuckityfuckfuckfuck. AAAAAHHH!

'k, i'm done now. byebye.
posted by kat thompson at 10:26 AM

fuck. fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck. fuck. fuckfuckfuckityfuck.

why don't things go according to quasi-plan? i'm going to go completely nuts. soon. tomorrow. now?

fuckfuckfuck. that feels a little better, but... still. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

fuck.
posted by kat thompson at 10:24 AM

my car's all better! les is the coolest man alive. word.

ok, so let's talk nba draft:

roger mason jr. going second in the second round to the bulls? i didn't figure he'd go quite so high, or basically at all. i figure he should've gone back to school, but as alex has pointed out, he'll get plenty o' playing time in chicago. with jay williams, too - oh, the irony. (?) [who is this jay williams kid and what did he do with jason? oh, you mean you'd rather not have the same name as a murderer? tsk, no fun!] let's see - who else? dan dickau going to the kings is fuckin' perfect. beautiful! juan dixon going to the wizards - ok, maybe - songaila going to the celtics? i think he'll look funny in green. carlos boozer is now a cavalier, amusingly enough. along with dajuan wagner, who also should've stayed in school.

alex and bert and i were discussing the merits of an all-acc team in the nba. let's say it's the bulls, just for fun: you've got lonny baxter or songaila playing big man and/or 4, roger mason jr at the 3, anthony grundy at the 2 [even though he's not in the draft this year], and jay williams at the point. and just for fun, we throw in dixon to back up williams, and archie miller to back up dixon [because he's short and it's funny to think about, at least for me. can you see yao ming standing next to miller? ha!], and, say, nigel dixon to back up baxter or songaila. it could be like the harlem globetrotters - except not really. not at all, in fact.

anyways, i'm sleepy, but not quite, since the coffee i had after dinner [yay free doubletree dinners!] has done its job of keeping me up rather well. this could be somewhat problematic when i have to be lucid at 5 am, but - i guess we'll see.

fnord.
posted by kat thompson at 11:56 PM

oh, bad bad kitty: my new [extremely] guilty pleasure [why am i so dumb?] is mtv's 'sorority life'. as bad as that is, it's somewhat comforting to know that the girls at uc-davis are just as moronic/shallow/what have you as the ones here. it's not something in the water after all - they all really are that dumb.

cd that i'm in looooove with right now: jeff buckley's 'grace'.

doo doo doo...
posted by kat thompson at 12:47 PM

now we've hit a new low: the contestants on tonight's episode of 'the weakest link' are college cheerleaders. oh, the amusement.
one of the guys from my school made his humble exit in the second round, but it was funny watching the host yell 'wahoowa! you are the weakest link!' at him.

what a great weekend i had! friday night i went up to the observatory and got to see two binary star systems, alberion (the bright star that's the tip of the beak in the constellation cygnus), and a giant star cluster that's 25,000 light years away. probably the oldest thing i'll ever see in my lifetime. it looked so quiet and static out there in the cluster - almost like looking at a photograph. kinda hard to believe those stars are still alive. it kinda made me wish i'd pursued my childhood interest in astronomy, since i used to love reading books on stars and constellations.

saturday i worked early, took a long nap, and then went to a pool party at noel's, requisite with a) much, much beer b) even more meat and other sundry foods c) puntable dogs [oh, they're fun to kick into pools!] d) old people and e) old people doing stupid things, such as taking chainsaws and axes to small trees in the hopes of making tiki poles. yeah, you can imagine how that turned out - though, so far as i know, no one lost a limb. but then, no tikis were made, either.

sunday (that's today if you're keeping track) i worked early again and then went hiking with kim. we found a swimming hole outside crozet, which was about two miles along a trail well off the beaten path. the water was cold, but the swimming was lovely, as was the sunny weather. it was great to just spend a day outside for once - it was very quiet and picturesque [well, until the sorority girls showed up], and as much as i didn't want to leave, we eventually had to. good thing we left when we did though, since it got pretty crowded with people and dogs.

so... yeah. that's it for now. after dinner, i'm going to bed. brian, on the off chance you're reading this, i hope your weekend was good and that we can talk soon. i miss you. =/
posted by kat thompson at 8:55 PM

jesus christ. i'm so pissed. i had this huge, long post written down, and when i went to publish it, some bullshit script error appeared and it all went away. aaaaaagh! it was good, too! i was being bitchy and judgemental and even a little sarcastic! and it's all gone!
[beats head against wall]

well, i'm not going to rewrite all of it, but i will share the story of the cigarette lady because she was much more irksome than the other idiot i encountered today, whom i'd just as soon rather forget. so anyways-

[i'm a bus driver, so that knowledge might enhance your enjoyment of the tale]

so it's around 6pm, and i'm about an hour away from getting off work and going home to grab dinner. i'm pretty hungry at this point, so when a i pick up a lady at mcdonald's who has a bag of yummy-smelling food, i grow a bit jealous, especially when she starts eating it in the back of the bus. i mean, you're not _supposed_ to eat on the bus unless you're the driver - that's just the way it is. ha! =) anyways, i'm tootin' along on my route, and this lady's all alone in the back with her mcd's, when all of a sudden i smell cigarette smoke. now, there are signs posted all over the bus that say, in large letters, 'no smoking please', so i think to myself, surely this woman cannot be smoking. except she is, and what she doesn't realize is that in my bus mirror i can see her arm hanging out the window of the bus, cigarette dangling from her fingers. oooook. so i stop at my next stop, and turn around and ask her, 'ma'am, could you please not smoke on the bus', and at the word 'please' i see the cigarette drop from her fingers onto the pavement below. in response, she says, 'i wasn't smoking'. taken completely aback by the audacity of this statement [let's review: 1) she's the only one on the bus - who else could it be? 2) i'm a bus driver, i know what cigarette smoke smells like! 3) i have just seen her hand not only holding but also throwing the cigarette onto the ground, and i can see it rolling underneath one of the rear tires], i half-laugh and reply, 'i'm sorry, i thought i saw you holding a cigarette'. to which she replies, 'no, you're mistaken'.

i might as well go have the words 'I AM A FUCKING MORON' tattooed across my forehead, since clearly i am. clearly.

uuuugh. whywhywhywhy?

that crap aside, i'm off to play nighttime capture the flag [whoops, almost wrote 'fag' there. no no, it's not a rehearsal night!]. sweeet.
posted by kat thompson at 9:01 PM

so... fun new way to sober up right quick: galloping through the pouring rain to one's car, dodging the hailstones, and crawling home on four wheels, only to find the street on which one lives a torrentially flooding river. i must say, whoever designed this town certainly didn't anticipate the possibility of more than an inch of rain at a time here, much less where to steer a foot or two of running water.

sure, it was fun to frolic in the downpour, especially with a few beers under one's belt, but really...

cosby reruns aside, it's bedtime. blorgh.
posted by kat thompson at 12:22 AM

apparently, staying up to watch the us-mexico match last night infused me with a need to never sleep again. i had one large cup of coffee at work yesterday morning, took a two-hour nap before dinnertime, and here it is almost 1 am, when i have to be at work at 7, and i feel like i could stay up all night all over again. will i? no, but the sheer possibility of it frightens me.

i love the mechanics at work: they're able to fix my car in exchange for a case of cheap beer. sometimes, i love being a woman.

anyways, time to battle the bugs for room in the shower. oooh...
posted by kat thompson at 1:01 AM

ooooooohhhh-kay.

1) my poor car is leaking coolant like no one's business, which perturbs and annoys me. perhaps i've finally run over one too many small children, eh?

2) so i've gotten myself involved in a local theater's summer festival, which involves stage managing an all-male version of shakespeare's "taming of the shrew". that's all i was told before dropping in on my first rehearsal, which was tonight. based on the fact that the play's actual title is "kiss me nate, or why boys are the bitchiest of them all: a shakespearean play brought into 21st-century gayness by [insert director's name here]", i now know that this could be the most bizarre project i've ever involved myself in.

in case you were wondering, there's a thong, a pair of vinyl pants, and a dog collar and leash all present in this play.

god help us all.

well, it'll be interesting to see how this play's received in this oh so tolerant [snort] southern town... i won't lie, i think it'll be a blast and it'll ruffle a few feathers. i'm thoroughly psyched to be a part of it. that said, though, god forbid if the cast and crew ever go out for drinks and start discussing.... things...

tonight's mission: stay up all night to catch usa vs. mexico! w00t!
posted by kat thompson at 9:05 PM

download du jour: filter, "take a picture". i know it's old, but it's still good.

today's post-jagermeister fun: catching a lynchburg hillcats game. they're a class-A affiliate of the pirates, which i guess is ok. i just wish i'd been healthy enough to sample the sonic milkshakes afterwards, but then, i guess that's what next time's for. =)
posted by kat thompson at 11:49 PM

completely fucked-up movie that everyone should see: todd solondz's "happiness". jesus, it makes me never want to leave my house again. yet, it was excellent.

much less fucked up, but still entertaining (especially if you're of irish descent or know someone who is): stephen frears' "the snapper". bonus: it's got chief o'brien (colm meaney) in it!

ok, time for dinner.
posted by kat thompson at 7:24 PM

randonmness: i've been messing with some of the colors for the blog, and i've decided that the only thing i really like is the blue & orange byline. so, that's all the color you get for now. deal, i'm feeling minimalist. =P
posted by kat thompson at 1:21 AM

so. the damned lakers three-peat, in one of the most dull and anticlimactic series i've ever seen. ::yawn:: at least this means the season's over already...

tonight i saw the film "gosford park" for all of $3. i can't tell you whether or not i liked it, because halfway through the a/c in the theater cut off [the place was built in 1912, so amenities aren't exactly new] and it got rather warm. those of you who know me or ever took a class with me, know that when in a warm, cozy room, i tend to doze off, and that's exactly what happened during the film. as such, i missed some crucial dialogue and plot points, so when the film ended, i didn't have a good grasp on what had happened. it's ok though, maggie smith and ryan philippe are two decent reasons alone to see the film again.

the highlight of the evening was definitely the cookies & cream at chap's. yum yum, frozen goodness.

...and i'm spent.
posted by kat thompson at 12:26 AM

ok, so i voted against going to baja bean in favor of sleep, which is why i'm, um, still awake. erm....ok. i don't know, i was feeling kind of antisocial tonight. i blame it on gordon, for coming over and ruining my perfect game of 1080. ;-)

i am infinitely amused by dynamite hack and the geto boys. also, stephen king's "the langoliers" was on tv earlier, and you can't go wrong with bronson pinchot shredding paper and screaming his head off at awfully-graphic'ed steel monsters.

good night, craiggy-weggy...
posted by kat thompson at 12:41 AM

hmmm. i know everyone and their mother has a blog out there, but i figured, what harm can one more bitchy, useless, opinionated person do? ::evil cackle::

i'm sure this won't last more than a couple of months, but i thought it might be fun to try anyways, at least now that i have my precious DSL back. today's news: i am a total slackass and i hate nurses. that's it for now. i might go to karaoke at baja bean in a couple of hours, but since i have to work early tomorrow, sleep might take precedence over fun. 'fun'.

vamos a ver.
posted by kat thompson at 8:56 PM