This week's poll is up.

If you enjoyed my take on the experience of being unprepared, I'd appreciate a vote thrown my way. There are nearly 100 other great entries to read, however, and you can vote for any or all of them.

Voting closes Tuesday morning.

Thanks for your time and consideration.

Mike

This week's voting has begun.

If you enjoyed reading about the state of sports in Seattle...wait, let me rephrase that:

If you though my post on the state of sports in Seattle was well-written, I'd appreciate a vote (I'm about halfway down the page, in tribe spydielives ).

Voting runs until Monday morning.

I'll be out of touch for most of the day today, as I'm ( Read more... )

I've been trying to keep the begging asking for votes to a minimum. However, every week the competition gets a little stiffer, and the numbers dwindle (making elimination more likely). So I'll probably be doing this a little more frequently.

Anyway, this week's poll is up. The tribes have been realigned since I did this last; I'm in the third tribe ( Read more... )

This week's poll is up.

Note that, in order to vote in this poll, you must be a member of the community therealljidol . I believe you can join the community without having to have it clutter up your friends page, but don't quote me on that. (That said, you'd basically be signing on to watch a reality show that's actually very interesting and funny, and I'm on it ( Read more... )

1. Phillies in six; Rays in seven; Rays in seven in the World Series. (Yes, this directly contradicts what I said in last week's entry. Hey, this way, I'm guaranteed to be right. And wrong. But still right.)

2. The Seattle Seahawks will make the playoffs.

3. I will survive this weeks' LJ Idol voting in Tribe 2.  (If you have a LJ account, you can ( Read more... )

General life update: Overall, things are good: I'm settling into a rhythm at work, and they seem to want to keep me around; it's just a question of whether they can find a place to put me. The apartment is a bit of a mess, but I've got tomorrow to take care of that.

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Sports update: Red Sox over Dodgers in the World Series--you heard it here ( Read more... )

"Show Me What You've Learned...but Put the Diploma Away"

Growing up, I was always told that I needed to get good grades, have a variety of interests, and post good scores on my SATs. Now, while all of these things are good in their own right, the people who were telling me these things (mostly my teachers and parents, but also society at large) saw ( Read more... )