I have been having a terrible pain in my lower back, to the point where I can only sit completely straight up, lay completely flat, or stand completely erect. Whenever I stand up, or whenever I slightly slouch, I am in extreme pain which does not subside until I return to one of the three previously mentioned positions. This has lasted for the ( Read more... )

It's been nearly one year since I wrote in this livejournal. I'm not entirely sure if I have ever gone this long without posting anything to this blog, but by just making a cursory glance at my archive, I can deduce that no, I have never gone this long without posting. Part of me feels bad that over the last year, the only time I would ever visit ( Read more... )

I just love it when PR departments attempt to make their product promotions compatible with the tubes. For instance, check out this embedded image Mountain Dew wants me to post "in my favorite forums, blogs, and other internets." I may have made up the last part of that quote. Go to the website, give them all of your personal information, and be ( Read more... )

I was reading an article online, and decided to just read aloud the headline to Christie, hoping that it would inspire the best conversation ever. It worked ( Read more... )

We were at Joe Senser's, for the explicit purpose of playing trivia. We've taken to this bar for a few purposes, the nature of which I shall explain: 1) the trivia is easy here, rather than at Chuck and Sean's trivia, which is super hard. 2) The people who run the trivia there are super cool, and we get along with them. Some may even say we are " ( Read more... )

I was awoken this morning by a fellow ringing my doorbell. Apparently, he had found my checkbook out in the parking lot of the Super America down the street. I thought to myself that I must have really been an idiot, as how can someone drop his check book and not notice it? I thanked the man, and sent him on the way with a warm hand shake ( Read more... )

On Tuesday night, I had just gotten back from an evening with my brother, who the next day was moving out to California. Christie and I had a good time, and were ready to hit the hay by the time we got back home. As I was getting ready for bed, I noticed that one of the blinds were askew, so I stepped in to straighten it. And that's when it ( Read more... )

I was getting worried that my philosophical edge was getting a bit dull, so I picked Nietzsche's The Gay Science off the book shelf and started to peruse through it. As I thumbed through book 3, I came across one of my favorite sections, ( Kant's Joke. )

That's why it's not a problem when Israel kills over 400 Palestinians: because each and every one of them is a terrorist. I mean, maybe if some of those killed in these raids on Gaza were civilians, then Israel might be in trouble. But since EVERYONE IN GAZA IS A BAD GUY, there's no need to worry ( Read more... )

I am here to offer a little bit of advice to you, my dear readers, on how to successfully (or, at least, adequately) engage in a job interview. Now, you may balk at my presumption that I should give interview advice to you, as I have had a well documented struggle with even obtaining a call-back, yet alone an actual interview for a job. Do not ( Read more... )