I've done switched to a new journal/blog. It be at http://johnmemmer.wordpress.com

Millard Fuller was the first person I met at the Clinton School, other than my classmates, who truly made me happy to be in public service. He gave an inspiring and amazing hour-long speech at 8AM one morning and after the speech we got to meet with him and speak as an intimate group ( Read more... )

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I want to start writing in a journal again, and a non-paper journal is my only option. Right now I can't decide whether I want to keep typing in here or whether I want to make a completely new journal/blog that no one knows about. I don't know too many people who still use LJ, and the ones who do continue to use it I have the utmost respect for, so ( Read more... )

I plan on posting in here again some day. This school keeps me crazy busy. I love it yet I'm the most stressed I've been in my life. I've met and heard lectures from all sorts of people, from FBI agents to authors to politicians to filmmakers etc. I got to meet Hillary Clinton, Eric Schlosser(author of Fast Food Nation), Millard Fuller(founder of ( Read more... )

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I accidentally left my Ipod in the car overnight and it literally froze. I'm usually good about remembering that it gets super cold here overnight but I guess last nigt I forgot. Luckily, after putting it in my pocket for 10 minutes to warm it up it started working again ( Read more... )

For the past couple days I've been reading through my entire livejournal, from 2002 to present. It was really quite an enlightening experience, though I also saw how mundane and depressing most of my posts were/are. Despite this, I went ahead and copy and pasted most of the important ones to a word document so I can keep a copy of them in case LJ ( Read more... )

is super scary to drive in, especially when your windshield wipers freeze and cease to function, thus causing your windshield to rapidly become blanketed in a combination of water and ice. It also sucks when you try to turn right at a light in Denver and instead slide right through the intersection. It sure is perty though ( Read more... )