Where I work

So my main source of income here is my temp job at SEIU Local 32BJ, a position I got thanks to a friend's recommendation as well as my valuable experience working with Fred Bucholz, DuPage County Recorder (probably more the former than the latter).

The work consists mainly of me calling the shysters in the Bronx who didn't turn in their new contracts and harassing them. It would be a grind if I didn't work with old-school union men with filthy mouths and weird senses of humor. There are a lot of stories, but I think an exchange that happened today sums up the work environment pretty well:

John walks/flows over near my desk, notices a paperback book

John: What you reading? Kavalier and Clay? What's that about?

Myself: It's a story by Michael Chabon, it won the Pulitzer a few years ago.

John: Oh the Pulitzer, of course. Hey, Anthony, you always read Pulitzers right? Anthony reads the new Pulitzer every year.

Anthony (yelling from his office): Hey I know who Pulitzer is you fuck!

John: Every year, Anthony hears who won the new Pulitzer and he gets angry, cause no one fucking Pulz It more than he does! Ha!

Anthony: He was a non-union fuck he was!

John: No one pulls it more than this guy here!

Anthony (still yelling from his office): Pulitzer was an anti-union cocksucker! This asshole doesn't know that! Haven't you seen Newsies?!

Myself: ...

Blog Restart

Getting this thing back up and running took much longer than I thought. 

Lots of things I want to post about, lots of new things in my life etc etc...

for now-

Quick Update

The last ten days have been spent preparing for moving and moving and unpacking and not having an internet connection. It was hot in New York but now it's nice.

I have a lot to write about but it'll probably have to wait until we figure things out with Verizon.

I'm trying to compensate for not writing here by posting to Twitter more, so if you're really interested you can check here.

Old Stuff

Packing up my things I found a cd of old drawings I sort of forgot about

This one used to hang in the living room of our Woodland house

Pre-Move Anxiety

Last night I was at Andrew Bird's free show at the Pritzker Pavilion. He opened the set with an amazing version of The Handsome Family's "Giant of Illinois", a song I absolutely love. 

Looking behind me at the big crowd and the lights of the city I was overwhelmed with the feeling that I was making a big mistake by going. One week to go.