It's interesting that this is the place that I turn to when I'm feeling maudlin. It's been here since 2000, a sounding board from my sadder thoughts, a melancholy blot over the rest of my life. It's been almost two years without such a stain, and that even includes when I got laid off from my job (though that cloud was shot through with silver ( Read more... )

It's funny, that whenever I switch computers or operating systems this falls down by the wayside ( Read more... )

100% The Allosaurus
84% Dennis Kucinich
82% Mike Gravel
82% Chris Dodd
81% Joe Biden
81% Barack Obama
79% John Edwards
74% Hillary Clinton
74% Bill Richardson
37% Rudy Giuliani
31% John McCain
28% Ron Paul
23% Mike Huckabee
23% Mitt Romney
15% Tom Tancredo
13% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

Except for the Allosaurus, only he would have ( Read more... )

Is it just me, or has the United States of America become the world's most petulant child over the past seven years?

I mean seriously, I'm beginning to think that a whole lot of people just started doing a whole lot of kool aid drinking in the interim for us to go from pretty okay guys to total douchebags.

I am actually a terrible boyfriend, but that's not really what this post is about. Let's just back off from that for a minute.

Lately a few of my friends have been drawing lines in a sprawling argument that I'm sure has bred a lot of anxiety. See, one of my friends sees something that these other friends do and thinks that it's wholly irrational and ( Read more... )

I think that the assignment of the first three seems fairly arbitrary.

1.

Television and Radio Reporter

2.

Anthropologist

3.

Print Journalist

4.

Genetic Counselor

5.

Human Resources Specialist

6.

Communications Specialist

7.

Political Aide

8.

Public Policy Analyst

9.

Lobbyist
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I'm pretty sure that I've mastered the secrets to "platonic dating," through some fault of my own.

I'll blame it on attitude.

Yeah, yeah it does.

So, I believe that I've mentioned my intern related problems previously in this blog. Many people had many brilliant things to say, and they were all very helpful and I decided that I'd take the problem right to the source, but being a white-bread-chicken-shit-mother-fucker I couldn't think of a way to do it face to face, for various reasons.

So ( Read more... )

I clearly like to update as little as possible these days, and that's for any number of reasons.

I think today it's primarily that it's in the early hours (relatively) of a Sunday morning and I don't quite have anyone to talk too about my current
state of mind.

So there's this intern over at CNC, let's call her Allison Kostka, that I've built up a ( Read more... )