We're home, after waking up at 5 am (Ireland time) to turn in the rental car, sitting in the airport for almost eight hours, sitting in the airplane for about seven hours, and getting caught in traffic in the taxi home. We've been up about twenty hours altogether, after two nights of poor sleep. I'm bushed. Too bad we came home for the noisiest ( Read more... )

How malleable is the human mind? How can the organ responsible for integration of varied and continuous sensory input with self-awareness and consciousness (and, if we're lucky, a dash of thought and logic, with a dollop of compassion and empathy...but that's a lot to ask) - how can this organ maintain an optimal, "sane" picture of the surrounding ( Read more... )

I can't help it - this has to be posted. Good gods, even comedians can't come up with better material than this!

( my father's funniest one yet )

My job orientation went well yesterday, despite being nothing more than the usual corporate indoctrination. Basically, a group of us sat in a small room and filled out paperwork, and then watched these videos brightly showing every way the company is wonderful and awesome. Some people are impressed by that, but I have dreams bigger than retail. If ( Read more... )

The human mind is a complex, confusing organ. Just a tiny nudge - a sensory blip, for instance, or a drop more of one chemical instead of another - can derail all semblance of "normal" perception and send the unfortunate passenger consciousness on a terrible ride through nightmare landscapes. Sometimes it amazes me that a few pounds of water and ( Read more... )

One of the places I applied to gave me a call Sunday night, so I have my very first interview Wednesday morning. If they hire me, I can work with them until sometime in December, when I'll find out for certain about the crossing guard position, and if I get the latter job, I'll quit this place quicker than a heartbeat, and in the prime shopping ( Read more... )

Audrey and Dan left the heater off before their trip to Pennsylvania, so the past couple nights have been chilly affairs. Dan offered to reimburse us if we decided to go buy a space heater, but it hasn't reached that point, not yet at least. We rent from nice people ( Read more... )

A public service anouncement for everyone on my friends list:

My father, a schizophrenic and paranoid delusional maniac with a history of homicidal threats and weapons violations, now has a livejournal: trailstoyou. Unless you want hilarious and elliptical commentary that makes no sense whatsoever, I recommend you ban him from commenting on your journal. Go ( Read more... )

Still feeling lightheaded and crawling out of my skin, despite napping for more than two hours earlier this afternoon, but I think I'm getting a little bit better. I'm not nauseous or anything, and my appetite's been good, so the only symptoms have been nervous. Maybe it has something to do with my blood pressure -- stopping the medication may have ( Read more... )

My father was caught finally about a couple months ago, after skipping out on bail more than two years ago. After spending a month in jail, the prosecutors, taking pity perhaps on his delusional nature, released him and agreed to pay for him to go to three classes a week at the community college. A man who was arrested for carrying a concealed ( Read more... )