I have not had internet at my apartment for almost a week I guess. It should be sorted out by the end of the week but for the time being I am in a hotel room in New Jersey. Until Saturday. Wooo.

Actually it's pretty cool. I figured since I was in Jersey I would check out the Rutgers campus while I'm here, and today that is exactly where the highway spit me out!

Also I will be hitting Trader Joes before I go home.

Getting to the hotel was crazy because the address of the hotel is correct but the entrance is off of a side street that you have to get to from a main scary highway. New Jersey loves its shopping plazas, I tell you what. But after calling the guy at the front desk I learned that the secret side street is right after a Perkins so I drove up and down looking for a Perkins and finally found it. So I'm here!

Also it is nice that it is very quiet here. I am on the top floor and there are no crazy people above me screaming and banging things around.

I had an idea. I wrote funny comics when I was at a job that made me want to shoot myself. Now I have a better job but the place where I live makes me want to shoot myself. So! Coming soon: BAD NEIGHBOR COMIX. You know you can't wait.

Okay that's all.

What the fuck Ithaca, why are you always in a hurry. The other week some guy almost mowed me down with his car when I was crossing Buffalo Street and I had to jump out of the way.

Today I was driving down Meadow Street in the middle lane and some asshat was in the left hand lane behind someone that was turning into the Ithaca Bakery parking lot. He couldn't wait two seconds for the guy to turn so he jerked his steering wheel and slammed right into me. He tried to drive off while I was pulling over. Then he tried to get me to not call the cops. Then when the police got there, he was fucking yelling at the officer. I was hoping he'd get tased. The officer was yelling back at him and I was just standing over by my car being embarrassed.

The only good part about this is that I was driving a rental car.

This, combined with my crazy neighbors that yell at each other and pound on the floor when I'm trying to sleep (I started screaming at them this morning, which made them pound more) makes me want to crawl into a hole for a while. A hole with alcohol in it.

Got keys to my new apartment today. I can't wait to hide in my walk-in closet!

I have been getting back into exercising six days a week. It's going well so far! I've been going back and forth between either my exercise bike or the elliptical at the Y and 30 Day Shred. The video is actually pretty excellent. I have a huge girlcrush on Jillian Michaels and I always wanted her to make me exercise until I cry. I haven't cried yet doing this video but it's really tough. It goes in three circuits of three minutes strength, two minutes cardio, and one minute abs. And there's no goofy dance routines like a lot of exercise videos have that I hate. I also rejoined Weight Watchers online and have been really paying attention to what I eat and make sure I'm drinking all the water I should be drinking every day. So far so good!

It looks like I might actually have Halloween plans and I'm nervous that my costume idea is totally stupid. I'm looking into backup plans. I will not be a sexy hobo.

Edit: Nevermind the horror girl is off I now have the BEST HALLOWEEN COSTUME IDEA EVER. Thanks to Bret's help.

I don't really like it when people make assumptions about me.

But I do like it when I have a really short work day (well, short in that I'm home early, I still have a buttload of work to do but that can be done while I sit on my couch)

dear everyone,

breadsticks from the olive garden might be the perfect food.

however, their pasta sauce tasted like tomato soup.

the hugeass beer made up for it though.

okay that's all!

:) :) :)

I feel completely used.

Holy shit did the opening credits to Dollhouse last season make it look like the Eliza Dushku show? It probably did but it seemed especially ridiculous just now.

I watched the first episode of season 2. The Dr. Saunders stuff is great. "Everyone has an excuse for not dealing." Yikes ouch. I want to pump my fist to this story line.

Didn't see Tahmoh Penikett's penis lines in the first episode, but I've got hopes for a nice solid season of seeing them.

Got a text message this morning that was meant for someone else. It said "U can have your life back as u now as u claim"

I don't totally understand what that means, but I think I get the idea and while the message wasn't meant for me I kind of want to text them back and thank them for reminding me that yeah my life belongs to me.

It was obviously sent in anger because it was followed up a few minutes later by "Yeah. Whatever" but you know, thanks all the same.

I'm at home with my parents until tomorrow and I'm watching the biggest loser with them. I don't understand. How hard is it to not eat a cupcake? Just don't eat it.

Also, Jillian I love you come marry me.

TELEVISION!

Hey I am back from SPX!

There were so many nice and talented people there, which made for a really super time.

cantdrawcanswim made a list of stuff he bought so I'm gonna make a list of what I bought too!

I bought:

1)The Best Thing in the World and The Cat-erion Collection from heypais. Oh and a loafing merit badge! Chickpea was rubbing herself all up on The Best Thing in the World earlier. She knows good comics about good cats.
2)Dear HxC Dan from joshpm because he draws cute and I also bought a copy of I Saw You.. from his table and it is making me laugh and be really sad at the same time
3)Proof of Concept: Celebrating the Marriage of the Monorail by RM Rhodes
4)One Year in Indiana by Kurt Dinse. He had two different volumes so I bought them both and he's really awesome. I laughed a bunch reading them and holy crap I like the way he draws. Also he was a super nice guy to talk to.
5)Oh No a Meteor by nedroidcomics Yeah! I also bought a shiny Beartato button and a Reginald button. I also didn't tell him how much I like his comics because I was too shy. HEY I LIKE YOUR COMICS A LOT.
6)Dapper Chap Quarterly from people at the Bear Collective. I cannot find their website but the two people that were at their table were super cute and they had tons of awesome stuff. I'm kind of in love with this comic and want the second volume.

I think that is all I bought, aside from a giant falafel sandwich and a 7 layer burrito on the way home.

Dear everyone at SPX, I wanted to buy everything from all of you. :( :(

I also drew about my trip to SPX but my tablet is broken and I want to fix stuff up. BOO.

I've been crying like a big baby today.

Because of cantdrawcanswim's Momentum comics (Part I, Part II)

And Forever's Not So Long

EMOTIONS!

I am ready to get out of here and have a fun weekend in Maryland yeah.

I GOT A NEW APARTMENT FUCK YEAH

LEAVING FOR SPX TOMORROW NIGHT.

Just put in for vacation times for the holidays.

Edit: Might get a new apartment downtown. Two bedrooms, a back deck, and CENTRAL AIR.

Things are a-okay.

Hey guys I got a new fuckin' haircut

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I kind of hated it at first because it's nothing like what I wanted. But I've softened up to it now that I've washed all the crap out of it. D:

Next cut I get is gonna be a pixie cut. Oh man I love short hair.

Bret and I went to Five Guys tonight for dinner, which opened up in Ithaca today. The parking lot smelled like beef.

I ate a veggie sandwich which is pretty much a bun with whatever vegetables and sauces you want on it. It was not the most satisfying thing ever but people do not go there to eat veggie sandwiches. The cajun fries were pretty awesome, though.

Bret ate a cheeseburger which was actually a double cheeseburger. Who knew!

Today I also tried on lots of clothes and bought some too. Tomorrow I am looking at an apartment downtown. I always get scared about looking at apartments like the person that's showing it is gonna be some murderer. :|

But it's a half mile walk from the commons and is right near Cornell but not in collegetown. So maybe getting murdered would be worth it.

Tuesday I get all my hairs chopped off!

Mountain Goats show was tonight. It was very nice. Bret was feeling crappy but he came anyway and ended up feeling better a bit into the show. Brian was there too, and it was so nice to see him. I made him give me two hugs. John Darnielle played solo acoustic and I really did miss Peter Hughes, but hopefully I will get to see him at another show sometime soon! Thinking about the Boston show. Dunno.

But anyway the show was pretty awesome, a lot of old songs and a good amount of new ones. I think the new album is super.

Bret and I went to Manos afterward. I had a big slice of blueberry pie with ice cream. Unnngh so good.

We talked some and that was also nice. I'm pretty scared about my future. But it's not debilitating, so.

Surprise! Brian is in Ithaca all this week working at Cornell and trying not to get the swine flu. Weird how that stuff works out. I hadn't actually talked to him in quite a while. It was nice to.

We're gonna hang out on Thursday night, due to scheduling conflicts before that. I'm really looking forward to it. I need something normal.

Oh yeah, stenciled a shirt tonight. I am good at this shit. There are a ton of shirts laying around and I will do more! Also, there is a yarn store in the Triphammer Mall that I've been meaning to go to. Woo arts and crafts.