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[	Tags	|	knititng, work, yarn	]
[	Current Mood	|	tired	]
[	Current Music	|	Billy Elliot - Electricity	]

I'm working at Atelier and being paid in yarn, which is weird, but I spend a lot of my money on yarn anyway, so this is kind of saving me money. The yarn earnings are the same as money earnings, so for every hour I work, I earn ten dollars worth of yarn.

Do you know what that means?

I earned a sweater today. And I'll earn two sweaters next week. Screw knitting for other people; I'm making shit for myself. This job fucking rocks.

Plus I sold $300 worth of yarn to one lady and then she told one of the other women who works there that I was extremely helpful. That always feels really nice.

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[	Tags	|	theatre	]
[	Current Mood	|	tired	]
[	Current Music	|	Billy Elliot - Shine	]

Crying at Riverdance definitely means PMS.

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[	Tags	|	school	]
[	Current Mood	|	happy	]
[	Current Music	|	Miss Susie in my head	]

It feels quite good to have this gem shining at you from the top of your degree audit.


ALL REQUIREMENTS IDENTIFIED BELOW HAVE BEEN MET


Oh yes, now I am officially done with college. Gimme my diploma, University of Oregon.

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[	Tags	|	letters, travel	]
[	Current Mood	|	excited	]
[	Current Music	|	some Coldplay music stuck in my head	]

I bought tickets for an east coast excursion with money I do not have.

Dear February,

Please be now.

Love,
Alexa

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[	Tags	|	conversations, quotes	]
[	Current Mood	|	hungry	]
[	Current Music	|	Wicked - One Short Day	]

John
does he know?

Alexa
I don't know
Probably not
Not unless he can tell how often I Facebook stalk him

John
I think it's better if he doesn't know that

Alexa
That I want to bone him?
Or the Facebook stalking?
He and I have discussed Facebook stalking before

John
Both.
I guess

Alexa
We talked about the pseudo-celebrities that we Facebook stalk
No, he should know that I want to bone him so that he'll bone me
That is such a dirty sentence

John
Gotcha
and yes

Alexa
I think I won the dirty sentence of the day award with that one

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[	Tags	|	family, school, teaching	]
[	Current Mood	|	hungry	]

Apparently there's a school for deaf kids in the Peninsula that's named after my great-aunt. I totally want to pull the family card and get a job there.

Of course, Aunt Jean and I don't have the same last name. In fact, I don't even know where the hell Weingarten comes from. All four of her children have the last name Lees. Grandma Kathryn's birth name was Wolf, so I think it's safe to assume that was Aunt Jean's birth name, too. Even if I hadn't changed my last name when I was fourteen, she and I still wouldn't have a name in common.

Oh, and I don't speak ASL yet. Nor do I have my teaching credential yet. Hmm.

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[	Tags	|	holidays, rants	]
[	Current Mood	|	frustrated	]
[	Current Music	|	fucking awful xmas music that's stuck in my head	]

I am definitely over Christmas.

The entire city is decked out. When I got home for Thanksgiving, the freeway had giant candy canes lining it. All of the area surrounding Union Square is covered in lights and tinsel and bows and doves and angels. Every store everywhere is constantly playing Christmas music. I just feel isolated. Up until two years ago, Christmas was the day when I could sit at home all day and wonder when it would not be considered rude to text one of my friends (heaven forbid I call) because I didn't want to interrupt family time. Thankfully, I'm able to go to Drea's family's house for Christmas, though my mother is constantly insulted that I don't want to sit at home all day and do nothing with her, and even that's somewhat awkward for me because they're having family time, too. I mean, I'm sure if Christmas were a day when I could truly feel part of something, I wouldn't dislike it so much. But I hate that the music is forced on me and I hate that we all have to be consumers (sorry, I don't do holiday presents. If I see something I think you'll like in May or September or January, then I'll buy it for you in May or September or January. I'm not holding off for one day because it's THE day. I don't like that at all) and . . . I mean . . . It's freaking Hannukah, guys. And it was Thanksgiving when you started decorating!

By the way, Union Square's menorah is insulting. They've got this enormous, gaudy tree and Christmas music playing and they've had those things going since the Monday before Thanksgiving. They put up the menorah on the first night of Hannukah and leave it for eight days. It's a dumpy piece of cloth. I get that Judaism isn't exactly in the majority, but this thing is still a piece of crap. Before Union Square remodeled, their menorah was some huge, awesome piece of art that lit up instead of the dumbass cloth piece of shit.

Whatever. I swear I had a good day. I'm just bored because no one's home and everyone's busy and I always feel left out this time of year.

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[	Tags	|	jew	]
[	Current Mood	|	tired	]
[	Current Music	|	Glee - Maybe This Time	]

My Jewish friends have the least Jewish last names of all time.