shut up!!!!!!!

what a friggin nice day we've had here in Iowa. it was 58 degrees and sunny, which is a total difference than just a few days ago, when it was 30 and windy (and of course, its supposed to be 30 and windy tomorrow).

i am slowly settling into my apartment, taking my time with all the unpacking.... though the only things i have left to unpack are my DVDs and CDs. Dave, a guy i work with at the Courier, should be moving in sometime this week, so that'll be nice. i must say, its cool to have your own place, but it can be pretty darn quiet when you're by yourself. speaking of quiet, or more acurately the lack thereof, i am having some major issues with my downstairs neighbors. for the past 3 weeks or so, the often serene slience of my new place has been shattered by the muffled yelling/screaming/slamming of doors coming from the apartment below me. it amazes me how these people can live together when they are almost constantly cursing at one another..... heck, i hear the f-bomb more times in a day now than i would listening to a gangster rap CD. the first few times, it was a bit scarey to hear them yelling insults and threats at one another, but anymore its just annoying as hell. i really hope something will be done about it soon... i don't know how much longer i can take it.

V for Valentine

so, the day of St. Valentine, the patron saint of forced romanticism and $80 flowers, has come and gone for another year. how was is for you guys? for me it was simply a normal day, the same as any other 14th day of the month, sandwhiched between the 13th and 15th. all day long, i was thinking about V-Day and about why it bugs the hell out of me, and i think i may have come up with the reason: 364 days of the year, i wake up and think to myself, 'i'm single' (now, sometimes thats an indifferent observation, sometimes its with relief, and sometimes its with heaviness i think that), no one seems to notice..... however, on Valentine's day, i wake up and the whole world collectively tells me, all damn day long, that i am single; and not in an understanding, sympathetic way either. the radio belittles me with such messages as 'You're Nobody 'Till Somebody Loves You' and myriad other variations of the same depressing message. anyway, i am glad to see it gone for another year. i do wonder what St. Valentine would think if he were around to see what we've attatched to his namesake by way of this commercial holiday...... i don't think he would be flattered.