I'm up here after my interview with Nova yesterday. They'll let me know in three weeks what's going on with that. As for how the interview went, I have no idea ( Read more... )

With all of you as my witnesses, I will buy the "Madam" version of this once I get a real, salaried job.

"The rising and the shining cannot be postponed indefinitely. Though shining isn't compulsory in this intractable world, the rising eventually is."

Oh, Stephen Fry. Oh, Simon Carr.

Nova wants to interview me.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Yeah, it's basically a 2 hr. information session and a 45 min. interview, but still it's a sign that things might go the way I want to go.

I jumped the first hurdle. Now it's my turn to nail the finish line.

A group of U.S. politicians led by a Japanese-American are trying to pass a resolution in the House to force Japan to apologize for the comfort women from WWII. These people are morons ( Read more... )

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I don't know how I missed it before, but Hugh Laurie, the actor who plays House, is the British Hugh Laurie who starred as Bertie Wooster in the British television series Jeeves and Wooster.

Must've been the facial fuzz and the American accent.

I have a lot of debt. Including my student loans (which compromise rougly half of it) I have as much debt as my annual income last year ($17K). The other half is split between 2 credit cards, both with limits exceeding $5K apiece. I'm trying to watch control my spending, and I'm applying to a credit counseling firm that was recommended by my ( Read more... )

My lips are swollen like overstuffed sausages, which is just what they feel like here on my face right now. I don't know what I'm reacting to, but I willing to bet it was the lip balm I put on just before I started to feel a lump form on my top lip. (Curses, Burt's Bees!) It's too bad my lips didn't swell perfectly symetrically otherwise I'd ( Read more... )

I'm back in central IL until Tuesday, so whoever wants me, post your # or call me (309)648-9008.

I love my corgi! My siblings and I have morphed together into giant robot fighting evil and boredom in the Midwest.