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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
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9:48 pm - !!!!!!!!! UPDATE !!!!!!!!111
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| Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
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1:16 am - Holy Shit
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People are actually celebrating in the streets in my neighborhood at this late hour. This is just plain crazy. I don't know what's more shocking, that, or the fact that traditionally red NC is still too close to call at midnight, or the fact that Elizabeth Dole was ahead in the polls a week ago until she aired that stupid 'Godless' ad and got her ass handed to her by damn near 10 points, or that we have a female governor now. Wow.
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| Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
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| Friday, July 18th, 2008
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10:57 pm - A Slightly Altered Memequizweb2.0 Thing
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Same idea as the Book thing going around, but using the IMDB Top 250. Rules -
1) Look at the list and bold those you have seen.
2) Italicize those you intend to see.
3) Underline the movies you LOVE.
4) Strike out the movies you have no intention of ever watching.
5) Bold and strike movies you watched but hated.
6) Reprint this list in your own LJ ( Read more... )
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| Sunday, July 6th, 2008
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10:45 pm - hay hay book meme
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The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading.
5) Bold and strike books you read but hated.
6) Reprint this list in your own LJ 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (OK I read Genesis and Revelation and a bit of Proverbs and giggled at Leviticus)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (so long ago I remember none of it)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (I got through maybe 300 pages and said "know what, fuck you" and stopped)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I struck out very little, because I hate to rule anything out, but fuck if I ever intend to spend time reading Jane Austen because I can't bear a bunch of white women saying supposedly charming witty things to each other and having tea parties in their big fuck-off hats. Also, fuck Charles Dickens. Also I can never find Watership Down in the damn bookstore.
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| Saturday, December 8th, 2007
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9:45 pm - This is clearly inaccurate
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I have bought exactly 8 comic books in 13 years and overall am not a huge fan of Sci Fi, with, er, certain exceptions
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| Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
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5:29 am - and in the dark humor department...
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I didn't have my camera with me so I couldn't snap a picture, so here's a photoshop approximation of a license plate I spotted on the way to work recently
current mood:  amused
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| Monday, June 4th, 2007
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12:09 am - Is it just plain sad...
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...or does it speak for the quality of the thing that a TV show should induce a sense of doom and tension in me? Jesus God.
Non-HBO subscribers, feel free to ignore.
current music: it's not going to be okay this time
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| Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
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2:29 pm - 11 hours in a car with a large englishman...
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...are made alot more entertaining when he belts out the occasional "MYAAAAAAY!" inbetween ruminations on whether Denny's or Waffle House is better (Waffle House Krew yo, kovered smovered peppah'd n capped 4 lyfe dogg serious times).
Anyway, I have returned from Florida's gulf coast which is shockingly cheap compared to NC, and shockingly modest when compared to the 20-story monstrosities that dot places like Myrtle Beach SC.
Anyway, pictures and video of the concert are both up...photos of drunken fatties cavorting on white sand will come later.
All in all I was very surprised by how much I liked this show, as I was expecting something that was largely a retread of the 99-00-02 tours minus the DSotM set, but those tours are astonishingly low-key in comparison.
In other news, I quit my horrible job today. Well, gave two weeks notice...my last day is June 6th. ROCK.
current mood:  ecstatic
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| Thursday, May 17th, 2007
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1:21 pm - good tiiiiiimes
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So yesterday I have to get up at 4:30am because Jen has smoke school in Wilmington (apparently working for NCDENR's air quality division requires you to pass a test every six months where you rate the opacity of smoke columns according to a ridiculous and completely arbitrary scale), and I want to accompany so we can fart around in New Hanover county all day. Which we do. I got maybe 3 hours of sleep the previous night, and when we got home I was up until 11:30 burning DVD-Rs and packing stuff (I could have completed this earlier, but I ain't waitin' till next week to watch Lost dammit). Today when I get off work in an hour and a half or so, I have to drive half an hour back to Fayetteville, finish getting my shit together, and at 5pm drive 3 hours to Charlotte. Then at 8am tomorrow, go pick up a rental car and drive 10 more hours down to Tampa, Florida with a big huge englishman as navigator and co-pilot.
Basically, I'm living in a car lately.
When I return Monday I should hear 100% for sure whether or not I get that other job. Sweet.
As an unrelated aside, ever since moving into the apartment, Jen has commented on a habit I've developed that disturbs me : talking in my sleep. She says it's usually a soft chat with an up-and-down cadence that is unintelligible...but in the last couple of months, I have apparently started using my hands to gesticulate while doing this sleep-talking, pointing at or gesturing to whoever I am apparently talking to, and at one point last week I had a fucking [i]shouting match[/i] with some unseen adversary. I apologized profusely; I can't imagine how weird and disturbing it must be to have your companion wake you up, having a loud passionate argument in his sleep. This bothers me, as I never talked in my sleep before we moved in there and [b]definitely[/b] never shouted. She seems nonplussed and slightly amused by it.
current mood:  contemplative
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| Thursday, November 30th, 2006
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1:14 pm - thanks for this, BYOB
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| Thursday, September 7th, 2006
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9:25 pm - Welp, I did it.
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Moved out, that is. I am now a citizen of Fayettenam (fun fact : in Wikipedia's picture of downtown, the woman's workplace is visible).
My week has proceeded thus :
Sat : work 8a-10p
Sun : work 8a-10p
Mon : up until 4am packing stuff, moving stuff to Raeford 12:00pm-9:00pm
Tue : moving to new apartment 7:30am-1:30pm, 1:30-2:00pm getting electric in our names (fun fact : since she has some sort of credit with utility companies, putting it in her name saved us a $300 fee), 2:00-4:00pm, getting stuff from Wal-Mart that we needed,
4:00-7:30pm, trying to sort furniture, 8:00p-9:00p TV break (only break of the day besides lunch), 9:00p-2:00a unpacking
Wed : Drive home, take care of some business at the bank, work 3:00p-10:00p
Thu : work 8a-10p
Fri : work 8a-10p
When I work these two doubles a week (shitty hours to work, but it gives me 4 days off a week), I stay here at work overnight, so I've only gotten to spend one night in the new place.
I've also had a hellish time with the cable company. A short history :
Sat 9/2 : I call to arrange service and hookup. The lady says someone should be out there Tue 9/5. Great.
Tue 9/5 : I call them. "I dunno why she said Tue, it will be Thu at the earliest"
Thu 9/5 : I call them. "I dunno why he said Thu, it will be next Tue 9/12 at the earliest, and another 4-5 days for service after that (approx 9/15)"
Tue 9/5 : Jen goes to the cable office in person. "I dunno why he said next Tue 9/12, it will be Thu 9/14 at the earliest".
Fuck you, Time Warner. I need internet access >:(
current mood: Livid
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| Saturday, July 15th, 2006
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10:17 am - See y'all in a week
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| Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
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12:15 pm - I had a job interview today
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Hotel Font Desk with the following additional duties : driving the company van to pick up "contract guests" like Greyhound drivers and Amtrak engineers and sundry other guests; cleaning what rooms the housekeepers didn't get to (apparently they leave at 9am?!?!) for a $1 per room bounty...
All for the princely sum of $6/hr with a raise to $7 within a year.
Thanks but no thanks...hell I *started* my current job at $7 and that was 4 years ago
current mood:  awake
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| Monday, June 26th, 2006
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3:19 pm - E10 Fuel is Bullshit man
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OK, I was happy when our local "green fuel" station opened. E10 (10% Ethanol Blend)! E85! Biodiesel! Awesome!
I'm filling up with E10! I now consume 10% less gasoline than I used to for the same price! I am doing a tiny service to my country in order to help get us off the foreign oil tit! If everyone did what I did, why those screwheads in OPEC would be thrown for a loop wouldn't they!
That was a month ago. Today while looking at my gas spreadsheet (OK I'm enough of a fucking nerd to spreadsheet all my gas purchases from October 2004 to today), I realized that E10 has cut my personal gas consumption by 10%...but it has also reduced my fuel efficiency by 11% (from 27mpg to just under 25mpg). So by buying less gas, I wind up having to buy *more* gas just to go the same distance.
Man this is some stone cold bullshit.
current mood:  busy
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| Friday, June 23rd, 2006
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6:16 pm - The Week in Review...BACKWARDS
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Today : A customer walks all the way to the office to ask "There's three switches in the bathroom, I know one's the light, one's the fan, and one's the heat, but which one is which?"
Thursday : The woman finally gets a damn job six months after graduating and after 100+ applications and/or interviews. Dept of Air Quality or somesuch, state job, state benefits, woop woop
Monday :
WOOP WOOP YAAGAGAGAGAAAGAGAH
I will count this as a successful week if numbnuts quit calling me asking me for a wakeup call and give me 2 minutes of fucking peace before I clock out
current mood:  tired
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| Sunday, May 21st, 2006
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9:29 pm - Downers and speed, all the drugs that you need
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While cleaning the hall closet this weekend, I found this gem, probably circa 1991 :
current mood: amused
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| Sunday, May 7th, 2006
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4:42 pm - Blogging in the Post-9/11 Wikisphere
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I'm sure I'm ending alot of long-running betting pools about when I would update again, and I'm sorry I just haven't had the inclincation. The day to day comings and goings of my life are so unimaginably dull to me, I can't imagine how bad they would be to *you* people, so you should feel happy that I'm sparing you. Anyhoo, update time.
In August, me and Jen spent a week in Jackson, TN visiting a friend of hers. It was nice to have a week off for *anything*, especially after the way last summer went. June of '05 was the US Open, which I was pretty much left to handle entirely on my own, as management took 6 days of that week off. Thus I am left to organize everything from the housekeeping schedule to dealing with everyone's deposit and contracts to dealing with Restaurant Associates (a $50,000 contract) to counting boxes of fucking Kleenex. I still have room assignments for most of these people memorized, almost a full year later. As you can probably guess, I was not compensated for all the extra work.
This was followed in late July/early August by the National Black Biker Roundup, which was another weeklong clusterfuck headache of unimaginable proportions. I can't now say that I was never involved in high drama involving a group of 60 year old bikers.
So anyway, a week off was nice. Jackson was nice, if sort of a bizzarro version of the south that I'm used to. I never imagined I would see a group of black people selling Confederate memorobilia and t-shirts praising Nathan Bedford Forrest, one of the founding members of the KKK, but now thanks to some weird Flea Mall sale at the Jackson fairgrounds, I have. It also gave me the chance to add Tennessee (mostly very very nice), Missouri (oh god what is this flat hellhole), Arkansas (oh god what is more of this flat hellhole), and Mississippi (OH JESUS GOD TAKE ME BACK TO ARKANSAS OR SOMETHING) to my too-short list of states I've visited. I'll post pics of this trip (and other random pics) if anyone cares to see them. At least I finally crossed the Mississippi and heard a radio station whose call letters started with "K" before I die.
The fall was largely uneventful. In early December, Jen graduated with a BS (rofl lol lammo) in Environmental Biology. She has been applying for jobs since mid-November, all over the southeast (everything east of the Mississippi and south of the Mason-Dixon has been fair game), well over 100 applications sent out which has resulted in maybe a dozen phone or in-person interviews almost 6 months since she started looking. Do jobs still exist in this country? What the hell is going on here? Didn't a Bachelor's degree used to be good enough? Is a Bachelor's the new GED?
Anyway, I'm tired of typing and I'm at work anyway and was updating mostly out of boredom, so I guess I'll finish this in a later update. Stay tuned to see how I ruined another christmas!
current mood:  bored
current music: buckets of rain pourin' on the roof, dogg
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| Thursday, November 10th, 2005
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4:25 am - aiaeieaaieaie
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| Friday, August 5th, 2005
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8:39 pm - Off to Tennessee (sp?) for a Week
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