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Annie Maim

It's not a BACKslash.

About Me

MyGen Profile Generator I rule with an iron fist.

My Interests

Air conditioning, The Windy City Rollers, The Manic Attackers, Heart, Newcastle, roller derby, karaoke (especially when it lasts 8 hours), days off, Violet, listening to someone read baseball stats, when old people disapprove, liberalism, tofurky, Trader Joe's, font collecting, Simpsons trivia, thrift shopping, vintage dresses and coats, Hall's Vitamin C drops, watching people bowl, The Astros, The Cubs, Chambord, Rudyard's, Brad Moore, skates that don't make me bleed, the constant soreness, hoodie weather, Mark DeRosa, crossword puzzles on the El, giving up on sudoku, ice skating (but only when drunk, 'cause for some reason I can't do it sober), renting seasons of things on DVD - I don't care what. Both of my senators, visiting Texas but not having to stay there, being the pivot

Music:

At the Drive-In, Heart, Old 97s, Zeppelin, The Mars Volta, Splitsville, Blonde Redhead, Built to Spill, Sleater-Kinney, Television, David Bowie, Neutral Milk Hotel, Simon & Garfunkel, Patsy Cline, Brian Eno, Bruce Springsteen, Calexico, Edith Piaf, Les Savy Fav, Flaming Lips, Jug O' Lightnin', GNR, Hot Snakes, The Hold Steady, Pleasure Forever, Pixies, Sigur Ros, The Shins, Floyd, Tom Waits, The Weakerthans, Badfinger, Tori Amos, Dolly (who has put me on "her" top 8, for some reason), Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Dresden Dolls, Arcade Fire, Nicolai Dunger

Movies:

Auntie Mame, The Apartment, Anchorman, and other movies that begin with A.

Television:

The Simpsons, The Office, and even though I tried not to be, I am so addicted to "Lost" via Netflix. I'm trying out "The Sopranos," but so far I don't see what's so great about it.

Books:

Motherless Brooklyn, Diary of an Emotional Idiot, Jitterbug Perfume, Naked, The Master and Margarita, Lies and The Lying Liars Who Tell Them, The Bush-Hater's Handbook, Love & Other Demons, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Nickel & Dimed, Don't Think of an Elephant, Tim Sandlin's Sam & Maurey trilogy. Currently (re)reading: Until I Find You by John Irving and some of those Potter books (have you heard of those?).

Heroes:

We saw Spiderman at Hot Doug's today; he was no Batman.

My Blog

The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad knee

The Wednesday before the last bout I went to a sports medicine doctor I'd found on my insurance provider's website, chosen because of his proximity to my office. I'd been recommended a different doct...
Posted by Annie Maim on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:28:00 PST

Please note:

If my dodging skills were not so acute, fourteen of you would have hit me in the eye with your umbrellas. Please be more careful in the future. Your friend,Hatey...
Posted by Annie Maim on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:55:00 PST

Is that the best you can do?

Worst excuse for not coming in to work ever: "Our power went out last night and I didn't get any sleep. And there's a power line down in our back yard and I don't want to leave my daughter* home alone...
Posted by Annie Maim on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:31:00 PST

I vote for the last one.

We're having a delimma. We're unsure if today is Sarcasm Friday, Impression Friday, or Talk To Everyone Like They're Seven Years Old Friday. I knew these themed Fridays would start to be a pain in th...
Posted by Annie Maim on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:45:00 PST

Mispronuncian Friday

So we decided that "Cliche Friday" was getting pretty boring; it just doesn't bring as much joy as it once did. Today we've officially enacted "Mispronuncian Friday." In at least every third sentenc...
Posted by Annie Maim on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:13:00 PST

Manic is better than plain old "crazy."

My street has weekday parking restrictions, 7-9am on the west side and 4-6pm on the east side. This means that since I take the CTA to work, I have to park on the next street over. In doing so, I enco...
Posted by Annie Maim on Sun, 27 May 2007 07:53:00 PST

2:08pm Update:

I just painstakingly removed eleven staples that were holding two sheets of paper together. Eleven. Someone sat at a desk (or counter) and mashed a stapler eleven times (more if their aim was off or i...
Posted by Annie Maim on Tue, 22 May 2007 12:08:00 PST

An Employee's Guide to Sexual Harrassment -- The Pocket Edition

The Pocket Edition is 3x9. I don't know why, but I keep laughing about it, here, alone in my room.Maybe it's because Scott walked around all day with three quarters of it hanging out of his back pocke...
Posted by Annie Maim on Tue, 15 May 2007 03:50:00 PST

Another open letter. To the IRS.

Why do you insist on teasing me? First you send me a letter two weeks after I file -- is it my sizeable refund? Nope. It's just a friendly reminder that it's faster to e-file. Thanks. My refund was t...
Posted by Annie Maim on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:18:00 PST

Newly discovered talents

Who knew I was so good at taping garbage bags over busted out car windows? I mean I'm fantastic at it. It looks GREAT (and classy).Seriously, if you're going to break into my car, at least make it wor...
Posted by Annie Maim on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 11:47:00 PST