Today I learn that my roommate T is moving to Egypt on Thursday. Time to get a new roommate.
Later on I learn that my roommate G is engaged. Time to get a new apartment.
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24 Jun 2009 1:00 amcategories: Ranting
A few days ago, I looked my girlfriend in the eyes and said to her, "I have only three emotions: joy, happiness, and chill."
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18 Jun 2009 4:21 amcategories: Dating | Gender politics
My fellow Americans, Jimmy Fallon wants to reunite the cast of my favorite Saturday Morning TV show from my youth: Saved By The Bell.
First, he convinced Mr. Belding:
Then, he talked Lisa Turtle into it.
Next, AC Slater agreed to come.
Zach Morris and Jessie Spano are in.
All that is left is for Kelly and Screech to join up and the reunion is on. So go sign Jimmy's petition. Let's make the dream happen!
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9 Jun 2009 1:45 pmcategories: Entertainment
I saw quite the story on the local news. A man intentionally swerved onto the side walk to hit five kids walking home from school. He was not drunk, he was "depressed". I thought about the logic of "I'm depressed, maybe I'll run someone over". It didn't make much sense to me UNTIL:
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21 May 2009 2:10 pmcategories: Life observations
Dun, dun, dunnnn . . .
So from the very beginning, I knew people were blowing the swine flu way out of proportion, but whatever. I didn't think anyone in the small town where I work would actually get it--then they did. Yesterday, I was told that school was cancelled for the rest of the week. Yay! (except for the person who's sick, of course--they have my deepest sympathies, really).
I guess that's a good thing--it's the end of the year and no-one wants to be there anyway. The only downside is that because of school renovations, TAKS tests, various times I had to be out due to injuries from my car accident (because who actually does anything productive in a classroom when there's a substitute), and now health cautions, we have to pack 6 weeks'-worth of instruction into 2 and a half weeks of actual class time.
But now they're saying "Oops, take that back--we'll be back in school on Thursday." You can't tell people they have four days off and then take it back. Well, technically they can, but I don't even want to think about how hacked off the darling 13 and 14-year-olds will be tomorrow.
Please pardon me for being crude, and I can't believe I'm really putting this in print, and I'll probably really regret it later, but in the words of my sister's friend, "There are 90 cases of swine flu and everyone starts wearing masks, but millions of people have AIDS, and people still don't wear condoms."
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6 May 2009 3:11 pmcategories: Life observations | Health/medicine
Recently, my girlfriend and I had a huge fight of dramatic proportions about an issue that has troubled civilized society since the time that Romans reached the height of their glory.
That's right, we debated that age-old conundrum of whether the toilet seat should remain up or down.
Not a big deal, right? Think again. It was a war of attrition. There was no quarter given. Soldiers were killed; villages were pillaged and burned. It is the children who suffer the most.
She may have won the battle, but I will win ... the next battle.
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22 Apr 2009 4:23 pmcategories: Dating | Gender politics
Today I attended the Tea Party in Conroe, TX (Montgomery County). It was a huge success.
Official numbers show that at least 899 people signed in. Given that not all of the people attending the event signed in at the table, the best estimate puts total attendance over the course of the event around 1200 people, including those not of voting age (one girl had a sign that said "I'm Only Nine Years Old and I'm Already $143,000 in Debt" or something to that effect).
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15 Apr 2009 11:53 pmcategories: Politics
So do you think it is either practical or ethical for a professor to give his students a syllabus 28 pages long, with a table of contents? On top of that, every assignment should be approximately 1 page in length, but the assignment directions are about 4 pages.
This is making me wonder why the heck I went back to school.
And on a political note, did you know that funding for school library programs puts librarians in the same category as janitors and paper towels. Clearly, public education is a failing system.
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11 Apr 2009 1:43 pmcategories: Ranting | Life observations
I miss him. I can still hear him, see him... but he's not there. I talk to him sometimes. I'd like to think he is listening, but deep down I know he's gone...
My husband was once full of life. He loved the outdoors and all that went with it, like fishing and looking for bugs. Then, on September 25, 2007, he got sick. I should have seen the warning signs leading up to it, they were obvious. I ignored them. I was sure he would always be with me.
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28 Mar 2009 0:46 amcategories: Ranting | Dating
The world would be a safer place if more of us carried guns.
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24 Mar 2009 7:52 pmcategories: Life observations
