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this time difference is killing me

Joel is in the land that Arnold thinks he built with his fantastic movies, and I am here missing, working, dancing, singing, reading....
All that is true, everything except the dancing part, and the singing. Unless you count in the car, then yes, I have been singing.
You know what reality show I would actually watch? Christians fighting lions in a huge coliseum. It doesn't always have to be Christians, though. You could bring in different groups, like the cast of Dawson's Creek, Aerosmith, Keith Richards, everyone who hosts a design show... The list is endless and so is the entertainment.
Channeling Spyder Jerusalem:
I hate it here. However, people suck just as much, if not more, anywhere else you might end up. It really isn't all that bad. Enough people and things keep it interesting, but not too far away from absolutely nothing. In fact, absolutely nothing is just thirty minutes away. The further you go, the less there is, until you come up over yourself and BAM! there's civilization again.
Speaking of civilization, I have to get ready to go to the city. (N'awlins)
Mmmmm Muffaletta......

Nerds, Dorks, Freaks, and Punks unite!

Question: When did being smart become cool? When did the word “freak” being yelled out of a passing car become “there’s a unique individual”? The coded language of comic books and video games has been deciphered and can no longer be used as it once was. The choir dorks and the band nerds have taken over the school, jocks left in their wake. Insecure girls are finding solace in the pocket protector of their boyfriend; they look at their reflection in his coke bottle glasses and fix their hair. They giggle and hold on tighter whenever frags, dungeon masters, and thirtieth level trolls are mentioned. They look at the dice and yearn for twenty instead of seven. The Goth kids now hang out at Barnes and Noble, not to mention the punks. If they realized what they are implying they are, they would never hang out at Barnes and fucking Noble. At one point the Goths and punks could only be found among the late night drug stores, at a friend’s house (this was called a den) and in the late night places you could LARP (live action role playing) and play Duke Nuke ‘Em and Castle Wolfenstein until midnight or later. Barnes and Noble is a corporate bastard (they have a Starbucks for Christ’s sake!) they charge way too much for books, magazines, movies, music and coffee. Your poor asses do not need to be there.
The cons are packed full of people who have been infected, the ones who have turned. They just recently found out what it is to be a dork. They rented all the Star Trek, Babylon 5, Dr. Who, X-Files, Star Wars, comic book adaptation movies they can and prepare to become a nerd, dork, freak, or punk. This is a pattern that has to stop. I am in the last generation when nerds, dorks, freaks, and punks were not cool. We were ridiculed, beaten up, and left out. Because of this we (well, most of us) have risen above the drama and angst that goes along with being a “well adjusted student/person”. We are the ones rising into power. The market is flooded and the dork stock is plummeting. I don’t know what we can do about this. It seems like a blessing, but with so many of us out there (or so it seems) we will starve. It doesn’t seem right to me. Everything just seems less enjoyable since being a Dork, Goth, Punk or Nerd is cool. I now have to hunt harder and longer for the things that will entertain me.

(the views expressed above are my own. if you don't like it, tough titty, there is a small "x" in the upper right corner of the screen. click it.)

there's a little rebellious dork in all of us

I found this online comic and I think it is the best ever. Go and see for yourself.
Punks and Nerds
After all, Bruceman did save us all from the burning bus filled with poisonous children that vomited deadly bees of doom.

yeah, the economy is great!

The economy is so great I have two jobs.
Yeah, I have resorted to having two jobs now. I got a job at the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center as a "floor person". Essentially I am going to get paid to play with kids and to make sure they are having a good time and learning things.
"Learn, damn you, learn!!!"
I don't start until August. Getting the job was probably a result of my last name more than anything. The Herrs are large supporters of the LMDC. Joel has been active in the fundraisers. I think I heard more about him than the job itself. "He's so talented."
You can't just lay the Harry Potter book out and not expect me to touch it. We got it in today and it is on Jan's desk. Thus far I have refrained from touching it, but I still have four more hours to work.
Tonight is the release party and I will be there along with Joel, my sister-in-law Hilary and her friends Eric and Katie. We will be dressed up in our house uniforms. Well, everyone but Joel. Katie and I are in Gryffindor and Hilary and Eric are Ravenclaw. I have a Harry Potter crossword puzzle i copied from the New York Times Book Review we can do and we have that Harry Potter card game to occupy our time. Not to mention the psp and gba. I wish we had that portable screen for the Gamecube so we could play Quiddich, but the other things will have to do.
I read Bukowski's Post Office Wednesday. Man, is that book hilarious. I will have to write up a review of that and Zorro when I get a chance.
For now, I am out.

bitter? check. sweet? doesn't seem to be here.

I have been so angry for the last few months. I lash out at people that are close to me (in more ways than yelling, screaming, and scathing encounters. sometimes it doesn't have to involve any type of physical encounter.) to people that i don't even know, or want to know.
The thing is I have nothing to be really upset about, and everything to be hopeful about.
My life is changing and people around me are changing and I am not sure I want it to all change. Change is a big thing, and not just the stuff in the console of your car. The magic word is change. You know what to do when you hear it: SCREAM!!!
Settling into married life, not hanging out with all my friends everynight until 2 or 3 in the morning, job hunting, getting used to our very own house and it full of our stuff and my cats lounging around in it, trying to get my confidence and courage that was doubted out of me by that lame ass professor back so I can write something descent again.
I am working on another project that i want to put up here when I am done.
I am also working on that literary zine and just waiting for the design so we can get it up and working.
I don't know why i have turned so mean lately. I think it is because I have apologized for things my entire life, things that could never possibly be my fault (thanks to being forever guilt-tripped when i was a child.) I'm tired of being taken advantaged of and walked over and treated like a goddamned child. So all that building up has produced this.
I'm not sure this is where I want to be.
I'm not blaming anyone.
I'm not even blaming myself.
This is just how I deal, apparently, and you and I will just have to get over it.
So, fuck you (meant to be taken lightly. like in SLC Punk)

meteorologist with a hard-on

Being employed by The Weather Channel does not equal any kind of sense about catastrophic weather conditions. Yes, we are aware of the possible damage that comes with storms like that. We live on the freekin' Gulf Coast. It comes with the zipcode. It is a chance we all take. People in Florida need to be used to this by now. Living on the limp dick of America sets you up for all kinds of trouble; so why act so surprised when all the hurricanes that form take a trip to Disney World? We on the rest of the Coast are glad you're there, it makes things slightly easier for us. Once a storm hits you, if it does decide to hit us, it is significantly weakened. I love how the "meteorologist" on the weather channel get excited and start dispatching their cronies to the various places along the water front, each one talking about how dangerous it is going to be, the wind is going to pick up anytime now, and the rain will fall and things will be hot and wet and windy; each one hoping that they will be the one in the middle of the storm. Its strange and almost erotic. The Weather Channel does have a hard-on for hurricane season, and they get every last drop out of it. When do you watch the weather channel around here if it isn't between the months of June and November? Yeah, you don't. Weather around here isn't what you'd call predictable. It could be gorgeous and sunny one minute,(and it is now) and have torrential rains and winds the next (that will probably happen tomorrow evening). Never believe the weatherman. They can predict that it will rain for the next two weeks and we won't see a drop of water for two months.
People have already started the mass exodus out of the south, so those of us still here have no way to get anywhere in a reasonable amount of time. I am staying here this time. Last time was too much and the Hurricane is'nt much of a threat now. The winds aren't over 150 mph, and that's fine with me.
It is amazing to think that by the end of the weekend there is a possibility that everything you know, everything you take for granted, will be gone. Nothing but shreds and splinters left. In the words of The Weather Channel, too bad for the Cubans, Haitians, and the Dominicans; good news for us.

Jiyun

Look what I did!