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Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
6:45 pm	i'm still alive, sort of so, hello mr. journal. i'm still in chicago, still working for intelligentsia (see previous entry). i have a pretty cool job now doing quality control which means that i sit around all day, taste coffee, and enter tasting and defect information into a fun database that i created. i'm preparing for another barista competition, the us championship, which is going to be starting on april 7th. what else is new...we have two dogs, pictures will surely follow. we have a cool pink kitchenaid mixer. it's pink! his name is mr. pink, maybe pictures will follow of mr. pink in action kneading some dough or something. sort of exciting is that we recently found out that we can connect to someone else's wireless connection in our apartment, so now we can surf the web like we're on some sort of professional surfing circuit. so just imagine me in a wetsuit, updating this. (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 17th, 2004
11:03 pm	gah. i can't believe i forgot to update my journal about this. one of the biggest things that has happened to me in a while. i got a job working for intelligentsia, and i'm moving to chicago in 2 weeks to start. there's a lot to get done before leaving and even more to do once i'm gone, but i'm excited. looking at my user icon really makes me miss my gerbils. i rode my first fixed gear bike today. i was helping amy at work change her pedals and some other stuff, and i rode around the parking lot. mmm, i must have one. Current Mood: excited (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004
10:09 am	so, sonia and james took a picture in berlin of what they described as "so THAT'S what strumpf means." ( check it out ) now everyone knows where i get my lingerie from! (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 25th, 2004
5:35 pm	i'm leaving for montreal on tuesday morning. i'm quite excited, and it should be fun. i think this is going to be the longest vacation i've gone on in over a year, and i've never gone around montreal except with my family when i was about 10. hugo was gone today so i got to run a lot of errands, and i'm pretty ready for my trip, just have to pack and go. wheeeeee. too bad i'll be almost completely out of communication and missing hugo. booo. Current Mood: shaken and stirred Current Music: white stripes- elephant (Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 13th, 2004
10:53 am	hugo being gone means that i really can't sleep all that well. one benefit is that i can fall asleep on the couch while watching tv and not get yelled at, but once i wake up on the couch i now have a really hard time falling back asleep. luckily this situation is only until tomorrow, so i can catch up on sleep in maybe 3 weeks or something. the next few weeks are going to be crazy. leaving saturday to go to minneapolis and come back on sunday. then work lots of hours to roast ahead so that i can take a week off work to go to footbag worlds. then a week at worlds. so i can sleep once i get back from montreal on maybe august 3rd or so. or maybe i'm being overly dramatic? either way, i miss hugo. Current Mood: clean (Comment on this)
Monday, July 5th, 2004
10:09 pm	the postal service's district sleeps alone really hits me. all i can think of while listening to it is being down on my knees crying and screaming uncontrollably, pulling at my hair, and being more alone than i have ever been. some day soon i might be that alone, i don't really know. i almost force myself to cry when listening to the postal service, just so that i can feel my tear ducts spitting down onto my cheeks and the corner of my eyes burning hot. the times i remember crying the most vividly is when hugo was right on the edge. it would always scare me so much, all i could do was cry and try to coax him back. even though i always hated it, i really liked feeling like i was the reason he wouldn't leave. i know that isn't wholly the truth, but it always made me feel loved. sometimes i wonder whether my time of crying on my knees is soon, or if it will never come. i would love to never have to be there, but like most things it isn't fully under my control. Current Music: postal service in my head (Comment on this)
Monday, May 3rd, 2004
8:09 am	( april showers bring may snow? ) crazy old wisconsin. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 26th, 2004
5:29 pm	( silly bunny ) Current Mood: chipper (Comment on this)
Thursday, April 1st, 2004
2:01 am	okay, so i know i haven't posted in a while, but tonight something exciting happened. hugo and i were playing scrabble, and i got my highest score ever, a 293. and that was without getting a 50 point bonus. i know it's not record breaking, or even all that amazing, but i'm pleased with it. my best word was possibly my best word ever, revved. it's not too often that you have both v's, but if you do, spell revved or some other variation of rev. and if possible get it on a triple word bonus with a double letter bonus. granted my 42 points was bettered by hugo's 45 for nighttime on the next turn, but i was pleased, and still am. Current Mood: pleased (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 17th, 2004
11:32 am	stalker? so last night at about 12.30 i got this phone call. some lady that i've never talked to. i asked if she had the wrong number and she said no. she asked me if i was michael strumpf, and i said yes. then she asked what my middle name was. i got sort of suspicious, wondering why she wanted to know, so i asked why. she said that she knows someone with my name and found my number online. has anything like that ever happened to you? i don't believe that my cell number is listed in any directories, and i couldn't find it while searching online. makes me sort of worried. what normal person would start calling random phone numbers at 12.30 am? Current Mood: clean shaven Current Music: roseanne (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, February 15th, 2004
5:18 pm	today is sunday. seeing how it is a sunday, the day has been going slowly. hugo woke me up around 7 or so this morning for some reason. probably cause only one of us went to sleep last night. that was fine. i ate a mango and brewed up some coffee and i was ready to go. goals for the day were going to target and then cleaning up the apartment. we managed to get to target around 9 which was great, cause there were very few whining kids. we went to barnes & noble afterward and i got jerry stiller's biography for $3.98. now that's a deal for the comedy i'm expecting. hugo is sleeping now, so we haven't been cleaning. ian from seattle said that he'd stitch a footbag for me, so i decided to knit a bag to hold footbags. i've been doing that for a while now, and i'm absolutely no where near done. i'm pretty slow at knitting, so it's going to take a long time. i also have to knit rachel something. maybe i'll knit her a ball gag. that would be funny. tomorrow is the decision day, do i take the job at cargo coffee or not. i applied there, and the owner offered me a job to take over their coffee roasting. the only downsides to the job are that i have to make a commitment of a few months, and i'm not sure if i get any health insurance or anything. i'm excited, though, and want to work there. i think that i will be able to get a lot of satisfaction from knowing that people like the coffee that i roast. so i guess we'll see. Current Mood: contemplative (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 11th, 2004
9:07 pm	reality tv wednesday so, the only tv on wednesday nights are reality tv shows. i just watched the apprentice, american idol, the bachelorette, and now celebrity mole is on. the bachelorette is only interesting because it's right at the end. i think that i can watch any type of sport if it is right near the end of the game, and that's sort of like reality tv. the show seems boring, but eliminating 1 out of 3 or 4 people can be interesting. i want her to pick matthew. 2 of the final 3 are in pharmaceutical sales. maybe i should go into that? or maybe i should just get any job possible. (Comment on this)
Monday, February 9th, 2004
11:55 pm	my life is meaningless You are YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON TELEVISION. Sometimes, you wonder why you couldn't just be Canadian. Some people say you are weird. You have an interesting sense of humor and a meaningless life. But, you're nearly Canadian, so did you expect better? Which old school Nickelodeon show are you? brought to you by Quizilla (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, February 7th, 2004
6:07 pm	sushi inspired by blake making sushi for me back in seattle, i made my first attempt at making sushi today. used cucumbers, carrots, avocados, and yellow bell peppers. they were delicious. ( click here to see the tastiness ) (Comment on this)
3:13 am	minigolf okay. i'm hereby retiring from minigolf until someone beats me. drew and i had been competing and we were both stuck at 8 under for a while. that was until this score, -13. ( view my magical putting ) Current Mood: giddy Current Music: simpsons theme on season 3 dvd (Comment on this)
12:04 am	so...i guess i'll update this thing. i've been doing a lot of snooping on lj. i even joined two communities. good fun stuff. i've been wasting a lot of time competing with drew on mini golf. what else is new with mike? i've been applying for jobs, but don't have one yet. it would be awesome to be a messenger in town here, but there's only one company, and winter isn't their busiest season. and based on how well i drive in the snow, i don't know how well i'd ride. i guess i'd put on some cyclocross tires and just go crazy. i don't know though...skidding down a hill with no sight of stopping doesn't sound that great. really that's about it. i found some footbag buddies and a knitting circle. been selling lots of stuff on ebay. i guess that's about it. yeah. Current Mood: chipper (Comment on this)
Monday, January 26th, 2004
9:04 pm	can you tell i'm a privileged person? create your own visited states map or write about it on the open travel guide Current Mood: well traveled (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 1st, 2004
11:42 am	sorry for not posting for so long. i could make a list of at least one excuse, but at the top of the list would be laziness-the exact reason why i'm not making the list. still getting things settled here in madison. hopefully we can give my mac addresses to the management people so that i can go online from my computer and not hog hugo's. last night we picked marcelle up from the airport and then hung out with her and brian. for all of you seattlites, those are the people that are replacing you. they are my new friends, and you mean nothing to me anymore. okay, maybe you mean something, cause i think maybe some people owe me money. hah. i keed, i keed. (by the way, anyone heard the triumph cd yet? dick, i'm looking your way.) everything is nice here so far. what wouldn't be nice when you don't have a job or anything to do? we rode our bikes over to campus yesterday, and that was an adventure. it was sunny out, so we forgot about it being around 30 degrees out. neither of us wore gloves, and needless to say my hands were hurting for quite some time afterward. well, back to high adventure that's beyond compare. Current Mood: happy Current Music: Love lift us up where we belong--Joe Cocker (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 20th, 2003
1:16 am	goodbye goodbye cruel world...i mean, seattle. see you later. -mike Current Mood: anxious Current Music: white stripes in my head and hugo sleeping (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 7th, 2003
9:03 pm	oh canada... just got back from a trip to victoria, bc. good stuff. hung out with a bunch of hippies. good stuff. for once i was with my own kind. managed to eat at a really good vegan place called green cuisine that this guy matt works at. too bad i wasn't very hungry, i would have liked to eat more. so, 3 more days of classes left. then two finals, a presentation, and i'm done. i guess that's still quite a bit, but i think it'll go smoothly. i know no one really wants to see me before i leave, but i want to see people one last time before i go. i have to stop by the bike shop on wednesday, i still owe dick a dinner, and blake owes me a dinner with him for flaking so much. hopefully i'll be able to pack in more than 3 people in the next 2 weeks. it was nice in the apartment that i was staying in last night, cause allan turns on his heater. stupid me not turning it on. oh well, only 2 more weeks of sitting in front of the computer with a knit cap and a fleece. Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: drivin' down the freeway (4 Comments |Comment on this)