weezer's on 9/25

went to the bingo tonight
the whole family was going
and i need the money for ireland
of course, i won nothing
but came within 2 numbers of doing so very often
very frustrating.
coulda won $500 dollars.

anyway, that ain't so bad.
didn't really expect to win anyway.

i learned 2 new card games today
international and hearts
at least i can win more change from aunties
that'll go towards ireland

speaking of ireland, which i seem to be
i'm reading james joyce now
(i finished kerouac's the subterraneans last night-
it be the 2nd kerouac in a row
and i woulda been 3, if i hadn't asked dan
and he hadn't emphatically said joyce-
dan has read both, and anyway, i trust his opinion on books-
anyway, i just woulda picked kerouac's big sur
to have the old, sad kerouac finished with
so i can get back to the exuberant young one-
but that's another story)
-more actually, someone else's introduction to his book
dubliners
and it already makes me long to go
it'll be great, i can feel it
land o' at least *some* of my ancestors
somehow the bits i feel most akin to
even before the vastly pro-irish influences of otherdan
who was only half himself
his family, especially his father
(now deceased, i wrote about it here after the funeral)
made a sort of pilgrimage there at least once a year
and i really think
eventhough i haven't been yet
that that is what i too want to do

must go, anime on tv.

correction- jimmy's in his 30's
but i think he's early in them
so i was at least quite close

i've got a job.

it starts in october and pays $15 an hour under the table
basically, i stand by a gate with a walkie talkie
and when someone comes up to the gate
i ask where they're supposed to go
tell them
and let them in

hayley seemed to be getting a whole lot better
even came to visit me with auntie alice a couple times
then she came down with a fever
i think i'll call weezie (her mom, louise)
and ask how she's doing

speaking of things that begin with "weez"
i'm going to see weezer
i shall have to ask lauren when that is, so i can make sure i don't work that night
though i think it's this month, not next, so i'm ok
anyway, i wanna put it on my calendar, i think it's the 23rd but i'm not sure

i made a new comic
it abuses phil collins for no real reason
i was watching an infomercial for this 80's compilation
and this comic just popped into my head
(this was the one i was talking about last time, i think)
i've got a few other ideas running around in my head
but i'm slow getting them to paper

phil, beth, and i were supposed to hang this weekend
but beth got her wisdom teeth out, and is in no condition to go out
she's 22 now, and they say it hurts more to have them out as you get older.
it gave me a chance to give phil a voicemail with my cell phone number in it, anyway.
so that was good.

aunt eileen went home.
aunt shirley is gonna try and stay 2 years
if she can get a job.
i played cards with meme and the aunties a bunch
won some money playing blind pitch
went in the giant bottle for ireland
oh, by the way, lauren's neighbor chuck is coming with us
that's what that voicemail she left me said

i met chuck once
he seems like an alright guy to me
for some reason, his teeth are unsettling
like, they're too straight and white
i don't know, maybe i'm just odd
maybe sometime i'll ask lauren what she thinks

speaking of lauren, she still wants to kick al out
and wants me to get a job where al works
so al and i can get an apartment together
so she knows he's in good hands
but i really don't wanna be a telemarketer
and anyway, i'm not sure she was entirely serious
it was one of those kinds of suggestions, you know?

the gang still hasn't seen my new haircut.
but, you know, eventually.
i don't really think of it as new anymore
and then when someone sees it who hasn't yet
i kind of have to remember that it's still pretty new.
like when i saw nicole at lil general today
she's still not working there, but is, i guess
she wants to work in a coffee place
which is good, because i like coffee
and could go get coffee from her
i could now, but conveneince store coffee isn't all that good
her diary is back in the land of readables, as i found out a while ago
i need to catch up on the archives
as with so many comics now

i wanna buy instruments in ireland
like a new accordion
mmmm. accordions.
it's funny, cause i'm dressed like john linnell today.
maybe i'll call phil, and see if he wants to go for coffee or something.
but it's sunday night, so maybe he's watching futurama and such with beth
and taking care of her, cause of her tooth pain
and the worst part of it is, she only got half of them out
so it's possible that she has to go back.
i should ask about it next time
maybe they just took out enough so that
she wouldn't be bothered by them anymore.

hayley, as i hear, is kicking some major booty lately in soccer
which is cool she was in the paper recently
and may be again, aunt alice said
so i'll have to look for that

i'm gonna go watch futurama myself now.
later.