I'm sorry that I cannot make comments or reply to comments. My computer seems to be too old for the new formatting that LJ is using now. I cannot hit the reply button for some reason, but I can post.

So the last time we saw our hero, he was dropping out of yet another graduate program, he was drinking too much & gaining a lot of weight, two very dear 20-year relationships had finally and utterly imploded, and he'd just been laid off from a really good job where he worked for the State of Oregon as a geologist (level 2 ( Read more... )

I am going to consciously make it my inclination over the next few weeks to say yes rather than no. No is too easy and comfortable and there's no change when I always say no.

Wow, I think I've reached the point where young guys are contacting me because I look like a Daddy. Weird!

I just applied for three jobs: assistant to a chemist doing chromatography and other very detailed lab work, kindergarten assistant at a cool sounding charter school, and as a tutor at a high school upward bound program. They were very different emails.

Well the answer is easy, I guess. Just stop doing it. I think I will drop this account sometime soon. I'm going to keep the facebook one though, because it's facile and is more like keeping an address book. So yeah...whittling down computer interaction in favor of real life physical interactions.

So I have interacted with few people here on Lj. I am not sure why that is, but I decided to whittle down the reading list to people I know, who are entertaining or that I interact with a lot. I just haven't given a lot to online interaction and haven't gotten much back either. I just don't like it ( Read more... )

I ate a large breakfast. I studied. I farted around on the computer - a lot.

I ate a cheeseburger. I studied and am farting around on the computer - a lot.

Tonight I will sleep.

If you are a US resident and could never under any circumstances afford private health insurance, copy this meme to your LJ. Even if you have health care through work now, write as if your one-layoff-away-from-losing-it has happened and you're facing the job of getting insurance on your own.

If you have friends or family members who are in the same ( Read more... )

There's an ad that keeps popping up that says "do you suffer from irrational disbelief syndrome?"

Why, yes I do.