wtf Atlanta

I received a mail-order package from someone in the  fatshionista community today and inside I found this grocery bag (as stuffing).  I felt like I had to hide it on the way home so no one would think it was mine.   read more

Atlanta is sweet. I'll talk more about it later, I'm using wireless at a coffee shop. But I did scour the music stores today!: Blur- "Beetlebum" [$2.50] Girl Talk- "Night Ripper" [$12] Guillemots- "From The Cliffs" [$2.50] The Hives- "Hate To Say I Told You So" [$3.50] Interpol- "Our Love To Admire (Deluxe Edition)" [$21.50] Interpol- "The Heinrich Maneuver (7")" [Free] Julius Airwave- "The City The Forest" [$5] Michael Zapruder's Rain Of Frogs- "New Ways Of Letting Go" [$6] Of Montreal- "Icons...

Yet more snow in Atlanta today. I'm sorry, I thought this didn't happen down here... Apartment says, "WTF?" Sydney says, "Brrrrrr..." All the pretty with none of the worry.

I can't believe it, my sister just informed me we did. I was up from 4am-5am and I felt the house rattle and the bed shake but I didn't know what it was....turns out it was an earthquake, totally nuts. 5.2 earthquake rocks large region of Midwest http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080418/ap_on_re_us/midwest_earthquake;_ylt=Am4M_iQP8OXsUnPOC_oGOFKs0NUE By JIM SUHR, Associated Press Writer 26 minutes ago WEST SALEM, Ill. - Residents across the Midwest were awakened Friday by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake...

"Boil water" alert still in effect for the next 24 to 48 hours . Currently boiling water in our two biggest pots so we'll have some to cook, drink, and brush teeth with tonight. The advisory says not to bathe, but whatever. I bathe in lakes and the ocean, I just don't drink the water while I'm doing it. I can wash my face off with boiled water after I'm done showering, I guess, just to be safe. WTF, Atlanta. WTF.

Recap: Phone wench for the Fairy Lot hotel company. I got my first obscene caller last night! But it was less shocking and more hilarious because I couldn't understand half of what he said; He wasn't really drunk, just very Georgian. He was talking really quietly into the phone and mumbling, so when I thought I heard "Atlanta, airport, X Street" I started doing a search. I asked him which hotel (we have a crapload in Atlanta) he wanted and I heard: "Girlfriend...boxers...13 inches...tucked in...