Archive for April, 2004
(un)Happy Earth Day
Bush Hails His Environmental Record on Earth Day AARRG. I’d like to think that people of all political persuasions can agree that he’s had a horrible environmental record. Bush has made it easier for everyone from oil companies to factory hog farms to pollute. [Read More]
Uh-oh, breaking news, Jacko’s been indicted
I have absolutely no further comment, but I’ve been quite low on topical references throughout the 15 years of my journaling, so I figured I’d put this in. It’s so much more important than, say, 20 Iraqi kids dying earlier in Basra, along with 48 others. [Read More]
4 Things
OK, this will give me a nice break. Taken from who took it from . Name four bad habits you have: 1. Not cleaning out kitchen sink in a timely manner 2. Not cleaning out cats’ litter box in a timely manner 3. Sampling all the food I’ve bought after returning from [Read More]
What is the most annoying sound or smell you have experienced today?
I am not bored overall at work, as I do have plenty of work to do and actually find some of it interesting and challenging. (Now how about that?) But I do need frequent breaks (like every 5 minutes or so…yes, I know, I have a terrible work ethic, or at least I cannot [Read More]
I don’t think the office has AC
I did some walking again at lunchtime, this time indoors, at Northgate. I hate malls, but they do have AC, unlike this office. [Read More]
Too close to microwave
One minor annoyance at work…since we don’t have a breakroom, then microwave is out in the open, about ten feet from my cube, and so I smell every frozen entree that is nuked throughout the day. This does not just occur during lunch hours; I generally am smelling [Read More]
Nan!
One of Nan Keohane’s crowning achievements of her reign as empress of Duke over the past decade was completely overhauling residential life. I know she spent far more time raising billions of dollars than caring about where selective living groups would be living on [Read More]
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Sometimes I wake up so fucking empty, I wish I’d never been born, but what choice do I have? – Rachel Griffiths as Brenda, Six Feet Under, Season One, Episode 5 Yeah, that pretty sums things up. Must go to sleep… [Read More]
Separation of church and state
A well-written piece on the matter, picked from . Apparently the arguments presented here don’t mean a thing to those folks in Alabama who were supporting Justice Moore and his ten commandments display. [Read More]
Too hot to walk
And it’s only 83 degrees. I sweat too easily. Perhaps I sweat too easily because I’m too heavy. One reason I don’t like physical activity is because I don’t like to sweat so much. But if I’m going to stop being too heavy, I’ll need to [Read More]
