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.