And, with holding my 18-year-old cat as he died, the last vestige of my childhood has gone. He'd had a long run; yet, I still feel terrible for not taking him in for euthanasia earlier. He'd begun to mew pathetically earlier this week, and, stupidly, I'd figured he had a mere stomach problem as he'd gotten through on more than a few occasions ( Read more... )

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So, after playing telephone tag with a few more-interesting potential employers for a week, I got fed up with waiting and getting further into debt, so I went back to landscaping. I'm with a bigger company this time around, as part of a two-man Bobcat crew... I drive the truck and do the manual labour, he runs the machine ( Read more... )

Now that school's out for the summer and all the reading I do is strictly for pleasure, I've resumed working my way through the list of "classic" novels that, despite being constantly referenced in pop culture, I haven't read. To date, I've gotten through:

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly
Joseph Heller's Catch-22( ( Read more... )

It's likely because of either the course I took on Weimar Germany or the one on Soviet propaganda, but either way I absolutely love this short. It's less than a decade old, and by a Canadian director. Praise be to jwz for showing this to me.

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I've just been struck by a blinding flash of the obvious.

It's like my entire opaque outlook has, by virtue of a little incidental clarity, been inverted; now that I see differently, the way I was thinking before was so absurd as to be hilarious.

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Weekend has been the harbinger of relatively good news ( Read more... )