Monday, July 28, 2003
Sunday, July 27, 2003
TOGETHER AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME
I'm utterly speechless. My being - heart, mind, body and soul - is spinning around and around. I'm mired in contradictions. I'm feeling the total bliss of simple contentment. I have finally touched someone I've seemed to know for 100 years. I'm finally feeling a closeness that can only be described as oneness...
I think I'll write more once I'm all sorted out -- which may not be for awhile.
It's still sort of jumbled... but it's so good.
I'm utterly speechless. My being - heart, mind, body and soul - is spinning around and around. I'm mired in contradictions. I'm feeling the total bliss of simple contentment. I have finally touched someone I've seemed to know for 100 years. I'm finally feeling a closeness that can only be described as oneness...
I think I'll write more once I'm all sorted out -- which may not be for awhile.
It's still sort of jumbled... but it's so good.
Saturday, July 26, 2003
THOUGHTS AS I COUNT DOWN
Isn't this the best part of breaking upSeventeen hours left.
Finding someone else you can't get enough of
Someone who wants to be with you too
It's an itch we know we're gonna scratch
It's gonna take awhile for this egg to hatch
But wouldn't it be beautiful
Here we go, we're at the beginning
We haven't f***ed yet, but my head's spinning
Why Can't I
Liz Phair
MY WEEKLY PERSONALITY ANALYSIS
I figured why not make this a regular feature. Everyone should spend time analyzing themselves at least once a week, anyway.
This is true, because...
I figured why not make this a regular feature. Everyone should spend time analyzing themselves at least once a week, anyway.
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I'm Obi-Wan Kenobi, which Jedi Knight are you??? |
| Take the Jedi Personality Quiz at MHoNiP | |
This is true, because...
One of the galaxy's most honored and respected Jedi Knights, you were instrumental in galatic events both early and late in life. You were instrumental in awakening the powers of the Force in young Luke Skywalker in the end of your days, but in your younger days, due to your arrogance, you thought you could be a good as Yoda and train Anakin Skywalker to be a great Jedi Knight. He later became Darth Vader. Oops….Sounds about right.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE AT SUCH A TENDER AGE
Now, this is what I call community service!
At 14, I was still reading Justice League comics. Hell, I read one two weeks ago!
Now, this is what I call community service!
At 14, I was still reading Justice League comics. Hell, I read one two weeks ago!
TICK, TOCK, TICK
Thirty-six hours from now, we'll see if life really rebounds, if what goes around really does come around, and if dreams can come true after being broken to pieces.
Thirty-six hours from now, we'll see if life really rebounds, if what goes around really does come around, and if dreams can come true after being broken to pieces.
In the end the love we live withI don't care what people say, Robert Lamm is still one of the great American songwriters.
Is the love that we wait for
And the waiting cuts like a knife
In the end the love we hoped for
Is the love that we learned with
Looking for the love of my life
The love of my life
The Love of My Life
words/music by Robert Lamm/Jim Vallance
perf. by Robert Lamm
Thursday, July 24, 2003
REVENGE OF MY INNER NERD
I was at Barnes and Noble today buying a "Welcome Home" gift for a friend. I resolved NOT to indulge on this book I've had my eye on for awhile, Mike Nelson's Mind Over Matters. I succeeded!
Instead, I bought Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks. It seems that I keep seeing this referenced just about everywhere as of late. It's an interesting and humorous treatise on "bourgeois bohemians," a class of people the author defines as:
I was at Barnes and Noble today buying a "Welcome Home" gift for a friend. I resolved NOT to indulge on this book I've had my eye on for awhile, Mike Nelson's Mind Over Matters. I succeeded!
Instead, I bought Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks. It seems that I keep seeing this referenced just about everywhere as of late. It's an interesting and humorous treatise on "bourgeois bohemians," a class of people the author defines as:
...those who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise to the hippie values of the bohemian countercultureI'd write more about it (and plan to, eventually), but I think I'm going to finish reading it tonight, first. I'm about half-way through it already, proving once again how fast I can read stuff I care about.
MY NEW FAVORITE WEBSITE... NO, I MEAN IT THIS TIME!
The Oracle of Starbucks
It works so well, I'd almost be willing to follow whatever pseudo-cult that's sure to build a religion around it.
Oh, that's right, I already worship at the altar of Starbucks. I forgot for a second.
The Oracle of Starbucks
It works so well, I'd almost be willing to follow whatever pseudo-cult that's sure to build a religion around it.
Oh, that's right, I already worship at the altar of Starbucks. I forgot for a second.
Wednesday, July 23, 2003
Tuesday, July 22, 2003
FINALLY, A TV SHOW BANDWAGON I WON'T JUMP ON
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy on Bravo - I described the concept to a friend who said , "This sounds vaguely offensive." I agreed, but this was the very reason I had to see it.
As usual, though, whenever something promises to be titilatingly offensive, it ends up being mostly harmless and rather silly.
However, I did like the end bit where the "Fab Five" watch the results of their make-over on video as the straight guy tries to impress whoever thought he needed the make-over in the first place. You know me -- always love that MST3K vibe.
I'll stick to Iron Chef and Trading Spaces. Heck, I'd probably watch another episode of Stripperella first. Ok ok, I wouldn't go that far.
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy on Bravo - I described the concept to a friend who said , "This sounds vaguely offensive." I agreed, but this was the very reason I had to see it.
As usual, though, whenever something promises to be titilatingly offensive, it ends up being mostly harmless and rather silly.
However, I did like the end bit where the "Fab Five" watch the results of their make-over on video as the straight guy tries to impress whoever thought he needed the make-over in the first place. You know me -- always love that MST3K vibe.
I'll stick to Iron Chef and Trading Spaces. Heck, I'd probably watch another episode of Stripperella first. Ok ok, I wouldn't go that far.
OPPORTUNITY IS "NOWHERE" OR "NOW HERE"?
I saw this referenced in someone else's blog. My apologies, but I just can't remember where.
In any case, whoever green-lit this web address is proof of why one needs degrees in the areas of marketing and advertising.
www.whorepresents.com.
Go on, click it... you know you want to.
I saw this referenced in someone else's blog. My apologies, but I just can't remember where.
In any case, whoever green-lit this web address is proof of why one needs degrees in the areas of marketing and advertising.
www.whorepresents.com.
Go on, click it... you know you want to.
AND, STILL NO WEATHER PIXIE!
Since Site Meter tells me that a few more people read this blog than the 2 to 5 people I already know read it, I decided to try a little experiment.
I popped in a Tag Board for general comments and/or polling the masses about whatever random question occurs to me.
So, let's see...
Since Site Meter tells me that a few more people read this blog than the 2 to 5 people I already know read it, I decided to try a little experiment.
I popped in a Tag Board for general comments and/or polling the masses about whatever random question occurs to me.
So, let's see...
Commenting available on every post - CHECK
Random "What sort of (blank) are you?" quizzes - CHECK
A couple of advertising banners/buttons - CHECK
A link to wilwheaton.net - CHECK
Tagboard - CHECK
A weather pixie - _________
Monday, July 21, 2003
EARLY EXAMPLE OF THE CORRUPTING INFLUENCE OF CORPORATE AMERICA?
I was talking with a friend of mine -- no, no one had "hurt her pride." Get it? Tom Petty and the... eh, nevermind. I was talking to her earlier this morning, and we briefly hit upon the subject of Lee Majors, the Six Million Dollar Man. Don't bother wondering how something like that would come up; that's just how we are. Anyway, I had this epiphany:
Remember the Steve Austin doll and how you'd have to roll back the fake skin of his bionic arm to see the two molded pieces of plastic with stickers of "bionic circuitry" on them? It hit me -- was I being serriptitiously trained on condom use? No wonder I and a few others I know - who are now well outside the MTV demographic - don't seem overly troubled by the issue of "condoms in the classroom." We were already trained in one aspect of their use between the ages of 5 and 7!
Alas, while it was an epiphany for me, I discovered later, it wasn't an original observation.
I was talking with a friend of mine -- no, no one had "hurt her pride." Get it? Tom Petty and the... eh, nevermind. I was talking to her earlier this morning, and we briefly hit upon the subject of Lee Majors, the Six Million Dollar Man. Don't bother wondering how something like that would come up; that's just how we are. Anyway, I had this epiphany:
Remember the Steve Austin doll and how you'd have to roll back the fake skin of his bionic arm to see the two molded pieces of plastic with stickers of "bionic circuitry" on them? It hit me -- was I being serriptitiously trained on condom use? No wonder I and a few others I know - who are now well outside the MTV demographic - don't seem overly troubled by the issue of "condoms in the classroom." We were already trained in one aspect of their use between the ages of 5 and 7!
Alas, while it was an epiphany for me, I discovered later, it wasn't an original observation.
Sunday, July 20, 2003
ANOTHER PLEASANT VALLEY SUNDAY
I had a bit of time after church and was sitting here rummaging through email.
This month's issue of the WORK IT! Newsletter (it's a job search book written by Allison Hemming, an alum of my alma mater, the University of Dayton) had this piece of advice as to how to get yourself out of a job-hunting rut. I highlighted a key section.
I personally can't wait to watch David Carradine in action again!
No, I'm serious!
I had a bit of time after church and was sitting here rummaging through email.
This month's issue of the WORK IT! Newsletter (it's a job search book written by Allison Hemming, an alum of my alma mater, the University of Dayton) had this piece of advice as to how to get yourself out of a job-hunting rut. I highlighted a key section.
2. Give yourself a break (literally!).
It doesn't matter if it's one day or one week, but you need
to close the chapter of your job hunt that's not working so
you can start another chapter that will. Go to a museum,
pick up a mystery novel, watch all the Tarantino flicks so
you can get ready to deconstruct his new movie, Kill Bill.
I personally can't wait to watch David Carradine in action again!
No, I'm serious!
Saturday, July 19, 2003
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