I can't post this on FB because I have too many professional type contacts on there. So maybe I'll just keep this LJ for my secret stuff, as I intended in 2002 when I started this journal ( Read more... )

So with two job offers, I have been forced to contact the employer with whom I really want to work and sort of back them into a corner and let them know that although I was very interested in their job, I had received another offer and needed to know my status. I have totally proceeded with the first job but the second employer has invested a ( Read more... )

I had a orientation today to enter the extra glamorous world of substitute teaching. Actually not a bad gig, if they like me I can get a provisional teachers license which will allow me 3 years to get my MA in Spec Ed. So they will start me at a silly wage but if I get a provisional teachers license I'll make over 40k which is more money than I ( Read more... )

No doubt, I'm dying. I"m supposed to be in AZ this weekend, yucking it up and hanging with the elk in Flagstaff but I'm hanging in VA sick as something sick. I actually like the dreamy, floating feeling of a fever and were it not for the stuffy nose and headache, I would be very happy. I used to pay my dealer to feel this way. (Actually, I bought ( Read more... )

Christians!

I'm Sangha shopping in my new home and I've found a few groups here. I was spoiled by going to the Tibetan cultural center in Bloomington, IN, it was such a cool place. The Buddhists monks that I have met here are Vietnamese and practice a type of Zen that I never heard of before. As long as no one hits me with a stick, I'm going to continue ( Read more... )

I have had two acquaintances die this week. Both died after complications from taking Percodan (or Percocet---I can't remember which). Both women were recovering from minor surgery and neither one were abusing their medication. One had the lining of her stomach tear and one asphyxiated (I don't have the details of that one). I was consoling a ( Read more... )

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Some drunk hit my car last night. I was sitting at a stoplight and this crazy bitch rammed into some poor sucker who in turn ran into me and another woman. The crazy bitch rolled her barley functioning car into a parking and ran away. SHE RAN AWAY. whore.

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Now here is the most liberal moment I have had in months....yesterday I'm in Starbucks, doing my handicrafts when a transgendered person comes in to announce that Michael Jackson had died and I immediately started to cry. CRY. I called Tim who confirmed the news and I was totally dysfunctional for the rest of the day. Tim's life is pop music so he ( Read more... )