I woke up this morning thinking of my mother, which made me cry. Because my mother always ends up making me cry one way or another ( Read more... )

Hey y'all, I'm unable to sleep and worried sick about how I'm going to keep my children fed and clothed and housed thanks to the GOP voting down the unemployment extension AGAIN, so I just made my first LJ poll ( Read more... )

So thanks to the incredible fail going on in the Senate, I've lost my unemployment benefits (have exhausted my initial state benefits and they're refusing to okay extensions ( Read more... )

Let me make one thing perfectly clear ( Read more... )

Woke up about half an hour ago from a terrible nightmare.

Why, even when things seem to be going so well, must I be plagued with self-doubt?

You guys, I have a job interview tomorrow morning with a large nonprofit. One of the employment agencies (the good one) that I signed with called me about it today. It's managing/organizing a database of donors for a fundraising event, a temp job that could possibly go until June. It's not ideal, but it would be a start, and a great help while I ( Read more... )

So if we don't all make our quota every day at work, our jobs are going to be outsourced to India. Management is already having a company there do some data-entry ( Read more... )

My sister finally got e-mail again and sent word that she has a MySpace page. Not only that, but so do my two younger brothers (21 and 16 ( Read more... )

And now, a break from the doom and gloom that's been on this page lately to bring you some of Sarah's greatest hits.

Sarah on:

Medicine
"I love my owie. But he's getting smaller."

Theology
"Did you and God make me? Well, thanks for making me, guys."

Biology
"Everything has tummies. But when spiders have tummies, it's called an AB-do-men."

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Like most everyone these days, I've been following the story of the Virginia Tech shooting. It's all over but the axe-grinding now as the talking heads subdivide a tragedy into opportunities to advance their own agendas: more gun control, less gun control, stricter campus security, etc ( Read more... )