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like mariah carey, you know? // 2003-05-16

last night i actually socialized. and it was refreshing. i met my freelancer pals, rob and paul, at shorty's for beer and pinball (and a veggie chili cheese dog, thank you very much). if you know me, you know i'm a brilliant ms pacman player, but i'm miserable at pinball. paul is quite the pinball aficionado. he gave us a tour of all the good ones at shorty's, but i think my favorite is medieval madness. i made it past lord howard hurtz, but i couldn't quite conquer that frenchy guy. and who knew that pinball machines actually had plots?!

a group of loud clowns raided shorty's later, which was quite appropriate and seemed to make sense to me at the time given that i had consumed a pitcher of pbr with paul (pbr is pabst blue ribbon, for those of you who haven't jumped on the pbr hipster bandwagon yet). i think maybe it was these guys, though i can't be sure.

and in just a few minutes, i will be telling my boss that my last day here is going to be july 3. i suspect she thinks i was planning on sticking around through august, so i'm sure it'll come as a blow. but seriously, i need some quality time off. if i was a rock star i would need to check into some kind of "clinic" for "exhaustion".

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