Day 39

Things that are annoying about my job. I'm they're pretty much NBD.

All the Penn kids are back. They suck but how much can I really complain, since Penn's gigantic economic footprint pays my rent.

And so said the world.

Payments in Lieu of Taxes were born.

Day 38

Well, these are some pictures of a meal today I ate at Applebee's. How can I explain how this happened?

I'm dating a person from Wisconsin. And he has been wanting to go back to Applebees for their unlimited soup & salad lunch thing for like.... a year???

Umm. So I finally agreed to go again today. But the meal we had was SO MUCH WORSE than the disgusting unlimited food we ate last time. I cannot even describe. I have had better expired lunch meat from the back recesses of a Camden bodega ?? From a man cooking skewers of mystery meat in a van. From a homeless shelter. From a restaurant serving Costco coleslaw in the panhandle of Oklahoma.i have eaten a lot of fucked up food in my life and this was THE WORST????

I have eaten better lean cuisines????? I can go on and on.

Just look at it?????? We stared at the menu for 30 minutes, decided not to leave, and ended up with slop. And they didn't even make up for lack of quality with quantity. Also it was expensive.

So weird.

Day 37

I went to Dorney Park today to celebrate a friends birthday. It's an amusement park and a water park all in one. It's super weird to go to amusement parks?? We went on all the scary rides, which I usually hate. I felt like I was dying and being hurtled into the ground and like my legs or head were going to get cut off. I'm not quite sure why people willingly seek out these sensations but it was pretty interesting to experience them.

I am still getting used to having fun. It's kind of awesome! We got friendship bracelets! ILOVEMATCHINGBRACELETSALWAYS.

Day 36

Drinking so much ???? This is the only picture i took all day. Its the cat-filled aftermath of dinner party. I felt terrible all day. But I did meet with a reporter I've been trying to get in contact with, listen in on a frustrating conference call, walk downtown, buy grapes and root beer for one of my favorite friends, run four miles and do circuit training with my other favorite friend???

Day 35

Yesterday I organized a dinner party in under 15 minutes???

9 people came over for dinner! I made vegan gluten free tacos and we talked about which president was the hottest (pierce?????) and played apples to apples!!! Also basically the only drinks we had were a bottle of gin and a bag of limes. So I made everyone gin gimlets?

My life is so amazing right now! I have so many friends. I am the luckiest girl in the world.

Earlier in the day my boyfriend treated me to the biggest diet coke you can get (in Pennsylvania) for a dollar.

Day 34

Today I went to a church BBQ to help with unemployment outreach. I LOVED IT! I went rock hunting with children who pretended a big rock was a phone and used it to call Mr. Rock??? And I realized maybe I don't hate children, I just hate spoiled white children.

Then I finally stopped by the Oddities Shop I've been meaning to go to for like 3 months. It was closed.


then I just plopped around my neighborhood and thought about how much I FUCKING LOVE IT. there are block parties everywhere today. below is a picture of THE BEST BAR EVER. A place I went alone to one night and was the only white person and I tried to talk to people ??? But they wouldn't talk to me! And I apologized to the bartender for being white???? That's weird in retrospect and maybe I can never go back. Not sure.

Then I took a picture of a sign that said gin flavored soda for sale. But it turned out it was actually a Nation of Islam center and they were kinda pissed I took a picture. I thought it would make more sense if I knocked on the door and asked if they actually sold gin flavored soda. Nope. That just made the situation worse.

I LOVE PHILADELPHIA??? Nothing can ever make me leave??? I love it more and more every fucking day.

Day 33

I finally washed my bedclothes today. Guh my damn cats peed all over them because I didn't cuddle and play with them enough last week. What a shitty cat mom I am.

Anyway! I used the gigantic laundromat around the corner from me and an "80lb" washer. It cost $10?? But drying was free ?? I can't figure out if it was a good deal or not. Either way I'm proud of myself for figuring out how to use a laundromat. It was only my second time going to one ever???

And I don't have to use a towel as a sheet and blanket anymore or sleep in a comforter that smells deeply of cat urine.

I also met the owner of the laundromat who told me about the time he walked into a telephone pole while texting.

Day 32

Kates at work !

Everyone I work with is named Kate. Today we all sat on one bench outside to celebrate the parklet. Can you tell I am like 4 years older than everyone else???

I kind of don't fit in because I'm old and not fun anymore!! It's weird to be the dour one.

Day 31

Here are my running shoes and my new fanny pack!!!! When I use running as a mode of transit instead of as a hobby, it's super useful to have a fanny pack to carry my things!

Tonight my fanny pack held: a shirt, a bra, a pair of shorts, keys, debit card, ID, library card, $25, subway tokens.

Awesome! Ive run 8 miles in the last two days! Phew????? And also I haven't been drunk since Saturday?????

Needless to say I feel slightly less like a busted can of biscuits today.

Day 30

I'm in a meeting! Duhhhhh. But anyway I fell yesterday ( I do it weekly ??? I don't know why.) and it hurts a lot.

Day 29

Went to the Federal Reserve Branch museum. Here is a diorama depiction of what happened after the repeal of Glass-Steagall in 1999. Oops!

This was the only part of the museum that made any sense. I wish MsSnizz had been there to make some recommendations about how to curate a museum???? This museum was like having a seizure in an economics textbook.

Day 28

Had a double date/ meeting today to discuss school reform campaign. Maybe this is what it means to have couple friends. This is us giving each other a four-way high five. Maybe we'll have a four-way sexual encounter one day.

Day 27

Cat on a mission. / cats don't like to take walks.

Day 26

Malcolm X Park is right next to my house! The General Assembly is dead. But I did take a walk to a punk cafe and talk about organizing. I ate a vegan chocolate cookie and was very hungover. I remained hungover until I went to sleep, because I am an idiot.

Day 25

Wow ummm last night was insane. We got very drunk at our local bar. A woman felt up my boyfriend's belly and yelled TONY THE LOVER and PUNCH THE BUTT and another tried to sell us half used bottles of perfume and then violently puked in a trash can then made out with a guy in the back of the bar. Super strange, but my new favorite bar in the neighborhood.

Day 24

Lol. I quit my job??? I dont know what I'm doing with my life???? But I guess wearing uncomfortable shoes at a fancy law firm probably doesn't fit in.

Day 23

I am mad and depressed. I am hurting not only because these high heeled shoes are scraping the skin off my heels but because I am in a tall building with an elevator. I want to quit. I want to quit. I want to quit. I feel better somewhere else. I think there is another way to do this.

Day 22

Train station in Manassas, Virginia. The last time I was here I was ON THE TRAIN? Taking a 26 hour train ride to Chicago. Needless to say I felt wistful and panicked and unsettled an remorseful.

Then I contemplated for a long time what it would be like to have children and a husband who don't share my values. Spending time with my family always makes me question my basic assumptions about life and choices I am afraid ill make.

Day 21

I think pictures speak louder than words on today's episode of pixadelphia. I am only slightly below the mason dixon line but life is pretty weird down in Northern Virginia. We all got ragingly drunk on Walmart wine and everyone told me to get a phd. I caught my first fish with a piece of hot dog and rode in a pickup truck???? Lol???????? I approached it with foreign coastie vigor and drank a bud light platinum and also a 6 layer salad.

Layer 1 iceberg lettuce
Layer 2 bacon
Layer 3 canned peas
Layer 4 mayonnaise ( sour cream???)
Layer 5 red onions
Layer 6 grated cheddar cheese from a bag.


Uhhh surprisingly it was FUCKING DELICIOUS.

Day 20

This is my train station !!!!! I love 52nd Street! It was my dream to live here and I made it reality. I am typically the only white person here.

Taking public transit makes me feel liberated and independent and empowered and connected to humanity. I love it. I take the train a lot , and I even take the bus!!! It just makes me super proud of myself because I was actually really afraid of it before. Not like afraid in the sense that I would get hurt, more like I couldn't predict where I could get on and off and I would be late and frustrated. Anyway, I use SEPTA all the time.

It was named the best transit system in America by the "transportation times" or something. Well, that's ridiculous BUT I can say that despite the derisive things everyone says about SEPTA, I can get everywhere on it and it moves a hell of a lot of people everyday.

Day 19

Here are my cats! They like to sit on my side table. They also like to run all over my bedroom and my body l at 4am and hiss at each other. It's annoying. I love them but they peed on my bed. Because I didn't sleep at my house for 3 nights. I learned my lesson.

Nothing else good happened to me today except I hung out with my favorite friend and I sat on his porch and talked about the Haitian revolution.

Day 18

The view from the wonderful Spring Garden St Station! It's on the highway. Something weird happens to me everyone here. Last time a mentally disabled woman borrowed my phone and used it to yell at someone.

Day 17

I went to the Philadelphia history museum! Of course I loved it???? It was free and small and I cried a lot inside. There was a whole room about how incarceration ruins families. And also just random philly words and quotes everywhere. And a huuuuuge map!!!!

Interestingly, the most commented on event during the last 4 decades was the MOVE bombing.

Day 16

My friend and I went to Lancaster, PA! It was my first time in Amish country. We went to the outlets??? Which were terrible ( and not in the way actual inexpensive outlets are crowded and terrible but in the way everything there was still too expensive to afford to buy.)

Anyway, on a wonderful recommendation we went to Good. n Plenty. I ate apple butter and sour kraut and pork and a bite of ham and meatloaf and shoo fly pie????? Also pickled vegetable chowchow and mashed potatoes with white gravy. One might say everything was bland and terrible OR one might say it was SO FUCKING FUN???? With homemade rolls and weird old timely atmosphere.

I FINALLY bought a spoon rest

It says : " KISSIN' DON'T LAST COOKIN' DO"

Which is... So true.

Day 15

Here is 30th Street Station at 2am. Whoops who knew that public transit stops running at midnight??? Had to/Accidentally chose to walk home 5 miles to the bar.

It was a nice, albeit kind of sloshy walk home. Also I walked right on the sidewalk where a neighbor would soon kill himself by jumping out of his own building. I guess im glad that didn't happen while I was right beneath!

Day 14

This is my fave view in the world!!!! A big juicy booty, gin in a cup, awesome wood bar and Summertime by Will Smith blasting. This shit is my jam.

It's Sunday night... Let my server weekend commence!!!!!

I used to dread Sundays and throw up and cry and feel so terrible I wanted to die. Now I dont. Monday is my favorite day of the week. It's do whatever I want day.