Job Seeking In The Modern Age

The downside to applying for jobs online is that you find yourself leaping out of your skin every time your mail notifier makes a noise.

Stupid Hormones

In a word: PMS.

Adventure!

Even now, there is a part of me that leaps in joy at the sight of a gigantic mound of dirt at a construction site.

Protection

Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you cannot keep someone from making their own mistakes.

Don't Carry The (In/Mid/End) World Upon Your Shoulders

Forever more, Hey Jude will make me think of a certain gunslinger.

Contrary To Popular Belief, "Mo' Money, Mo' Problems" Could Not Be Further From The Truth

After doing the math on my income, I have come to the conclusion that I desperately need a higher paying job.

The Meeting Of The Powers

Tonight my mother, father, and baby sister will meet Dan's mother for the first time, but while I'm sure everything will be fine, I cannot shake this nervousness.

The Ties That Bind

Getting drunk on wine with your boyfriend's mom is a wonderful experience.

"I Love Her But I Love You More"

Sitting at India Mahal with one of my closest friends, knowing that I'll probably never see her again makes me sad but simply knowing her makes me a better person.

Happiness Is A Blank Page Waiting To Be Filled

There is a delightfully simple pleasure in the physical act of writing that cannot even begin to be emulated by writing on the computer: the scratch of the tip of the pen against the grain of the paper, the scent of the ink, the minute motions of the fingers and hand...

Sleepy Sleepy

Slow Sundays at work make me feel like I have not slept in a week.

From That Which Is Broken Comes Beauty

Butterflies from a broken sand dollar ornament are my secret consolation prize for time wasted inside on a gorgeous day.

Think Of Childhood Friends And The Dreams We Had

I used to believe that I knew exactly how I felt about almost everything, but now I know that I was wrong.

Try To Think About That And Not Quickly Re-Evaulate The Way You Spend Your Time

If I live to be one hundred years old I am already almost one-fourth of the way though my life.

All So My Boss Can Prove A Point

Working eleven and one half hours straight at a tee-shirt shop is fucking ridiculous.

Heaven By Comparison

I miss my little (quiet, neat, comfortable, familiar, non-insane) holiday shop.

I Don't Feel Any More Well Prepared For My Senility

Well, if having a 401K made me a grown-up, I suppose rolling it over into an IRA makes me a full blown adult.

Probably Less Clean And More Flammable But Also More Real

What was it like before money was simply numbers on a computer screen?

Know What I Mean, Vern?

Sometimes words fail to adequately and accurately express how I feel and, lest I become inconsolably frustrated, I must simply resign myself and my thoughts to their respective fates.

Who Knows What May Become Of Him, Or What He May Become

Looking into the eyes of my newborn nephew, I finally understand why people say that children are full of promise - like an open ended thought.

Wash Away

Standing in the warm summer rain with my best friend makes me happy and allows me to forget about everything else for awhile.

Low Fuel Lights, For Example

Sitting in a borrowed car that has run out of gas with an incredibly pregnant woman and a toddler on a very hot and humid day makes you appreciate the finer things in life.

Save Me Mommy!

When your seventy pound puppy climbs on top of you in response to the belated fireworks outside, you become intimately aware of the fragility of your internal organs.

Some Might Call It "Limitless Patience". I Haven't Made Up My Mind Just Yet.

In retrospect, I cannot believe that I just stood there and let her insults ("like a thief in the night") and complaints wash over like I did.

"Hello, Two Sisters?"

The world just feels more right now that she is working at the bookshop again.

An Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living

Philosophy is one of my guilty pleasures.

I Declare My Independance From This Police State

I miss my rights.

Faith, Blind

Blind faith is as dangerous as it is foolish.

The Happening

The sixty million dollar budget for this interesting, albeit lacking, film could have been used to feed a starving country but instead it was spent on something that has no real usefulness or practical application what so ever.

Such A Tasty Member Of The Cashew Family

Mango(e)s make me happy.