February 2012
1 post
"Mr. Cody, them freezy pops I snuck in my backpack...
You need to go read this blog. Immediately.
January 2012
4 posts
If I was someone who used four sqaure
My day would consist of lesbian bar USA.
And this is a fucking great day.
Oh. Also. I got fired today.
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When you're 22, the idea of going to law school...
I mean. You’re kind of entering adulthood with the whole path-to-the-“prestigious”-career things. But really, really, its 3 more years of binge drinking (although better timed) in nicer bars with nicer apartments while straddling the line between poverty and “omg look at all this money the government gave me!” Because you’re 22. and the fact that your $8 vodka...
Reasons it's good to have a boyfriend:
You know, besides the happiness and love and crap.
The power is out in my apartment is out till Monday and I have a place to live for the weekend that doesn’t involve attempts at mimicking the caveman experience.
I had to work a full day today
And my boss of course continued his trend of finding a new way to ruin my day, everyday.
And we Have now finished week number 2 of no cable or Internet in the new apartment.
But I’m reliving the budding romance of Ryan Atwood and Marisa cooper so imma call this day a wash.
December 2011
9 posts
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“So you guys have fun today or what?”
– Words to ensure everyone of you employees hates you on December 26 at 5pm.
1 tag
Off to the suburbs for Christmas eve.
So obviously there’s a nalgene full of red wine in my overnight bag.
“The best part of having a relationship is getting to call the person or lay down...”
– Tegan Quin (via f0rallweknow)
“We’ll tip you well”
– Sure sign I’m about to receive a terrible tip.
“(You know what’s bogus? There is so much discrimination towards people...”
– Mr. KB is having some major white people problems this holiday season.
“It’s been almost a year since I tried burning my parent’s house down...”
– Christmas Party Invitation of the Day
“you can’t quit poverty.”
– New Condo Slogan. (courtesy of Charlie Harper)
November 2011
14 posts
2 tags
I just sent a handwritten thank you card to the...
I feel like a grown up. At least for a moment.
“Did we find love because we grew up, got real and worked through our issues? No....”
– Sara Eckel, NY Times (via live-to-the-point-of-tears)
I'll advised after a botte of wine
Ambien. I cant distinguish comedy and reality tv
And my screen is crooked.
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Today I am thankful for:
The pills of the world that keep my family from killing each other during the holidays.
Also for restaurants open on holidays so we have a place to eat in public which keeps everyone from screaming at each other.
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Daily source of stress::
resumes and cover letters.
“Only aunt Jamie gets a hangover from work.”
“Just fyi. My mattress is currently standing up against my bedroom wall, i...”
– My spending Saturday night cocktailing leads to a boyfriend with the need to complete projects. Projects which are sure to end badly. Exhibit A.
“What’s this going to look like when Jamie Lynn spills red wine onto it?”
– Thoughts going through boyfriends head while buying a comforter.
Sudden Loss Syndrome: Unemployment and Identity →
So, I’m techniclly a lawyer now. The State of Illinois gave me a fancy piece of paper and everything. But I have yet to be employed, so really, I have no identity.
I was a student for 20 years. Now, well now I’m not really much of anything. And it has been very depressing/ overwhelming. And I don’t really like it.
“Is there anyone who thinks sexual harassment is a real thing? Is there anyone...”
– A right-wing commentator actually said this. And then The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates applied the smackdown.
(Via Nick Baumann)
Today in ” let’s blame the worlds problems on lawyers”
“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you...”
– Anthony Bourdain (via emotional-algebra)
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“But, having lived most of my adult life among them, experience tells me that...”
– Tea Party vs. OWS: The psychology and ideology of responsibility (via azspot)
This. I get all kinds of rage when libertarians try and act like they’re all morally superior to conservatives. No. No you are not. You are the same.
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tonight I made 6 dollars
so I hung around afterwards for 2 hours cause I figure if I at least get drunk for free it evens out.
Do well in school kids, cause cocktail waitressing sucks.
And now I go sleep on a couch.
October 2011
14 posts
“Can you believe that Jamie summered in Cambodia all by herself and didn’t...”
– More roommate love
“I’m a liberal, so I probably dream bigger than you. For instance, I want...”
– An Open Letter to that 53% Guy
“Ok, I’m out of here. I’ve read enough of the Internet today b”
– Parting words from work this afternoon. I need a real job stat.
“Maybe I’ll adopt 10 more dogs if I get a better job … And 5 more law...”
– Roommate love
The glamorous life of a lawyer.
Well, I’m a cocktail waitress now. Well actually have been for 1.5 months. And I somehow forgot to remind myself of how fucking ridiculous of a job it can be sometimes.
24 hours ago I mopped vomit off a wall.
it was totally worth the $150 tip I’d received from the vommer moments earlier.
And at least he had the courtesy to buy me a bunch of shots before bestowing such a task...
“People go to the other bars around here to look pretty and be seen. Then they...”
– Door guy door guy unknowingly letting me know that this bar is a jamielynn type of bar.
Convo regarding the get Jamie off Aimees couch...
Brian: : there's an opening at my work Jamie should apply for. But it only pays $50k
Aimee: : Jamie wouldn't even know what to do with $50k. I'd walk in and the place would be covered in wine bottles.
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Keeping it classy in the south loop
I mixed $3 wine that’s been aging for a week with fresh $3 wine.
I do not advise this.
“… For a long time I thought my biggest heist was fooling everyone into believing...”
– Miranda July, “Shoplifting to Stay Free” (via meaghano) (via live-to-the-point-of-tears)
September 2011
4 posts
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“I have yet to see a death case among the dozens coming to the Supreme Court on...”
– Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg (via absurdlakefront)
I haven’t been following anything legal related for about a month now because all it does is remind me a) bar results are quickly approaching and b) i’m a cocktail waitress with a law degree BUT. This is all sorts of...
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Story of the state of my life.
Today the state of illinois declared me fit to be a lawyer.
Today I made less than $10 an hour cocktail waitressing.
Right now, I am feeling very sorry for myself.
Breaking news:: Jamie lynn loved as Jamie Lynn
Somehow. I continue to wonder how I got so lucky to have this man in my life.
I’m not sure how this is supposed to go — or if ive reached a vom-tastic woman-hood
But oh god how did I find this man.
Things that make me sad::
My first night back into cocktail waitressing tonight has been the most I’ve used my brain since the bar exam.
August 2011
19 posts
“People think that it’s a joy to own things. But it really isn’t.”
– John McAfee (via azspot)
WHERE DID IT ALL COME FROM???!! (moving has not been a smooth process. At all.)
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3 years, 3 months later, the apartment I attempted...
I had a bed in an apartment all to my own. I chose when to leave it. who to invite to it. how to behave in it. how to live in it.
I did a lot of growing up in that tiny little apartment. I fell in love in that apartment. I made mistakes in that apartment. I braved it out on my own for the first time. I learned how to rely on myself. I (began) to learn how to trust myself. And above all...
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Here is everything I learned in New York →
texturism:
but in life, you can either ask for what you want and suffer the possibility of judgment, or you can pretend you want something else and almost certainly get it. it’s remarkable to me how long i chose the latter. - sarah heploa | via ellens: sebastianwaters
I hope to somehow figure out how to learn this lesson.