Today at the newfangled behemoth called Children's Hospital in Lawrenceville is Employee Appreciation Day, which means free food.  Here's what health care professionials are supposed to eat: macaroni salad or cucumber salad, half a corn on the cob, veggie burger / hamburger / hot dog or barbeque chicken and lastly a cookie or a brownie, with a ( Read more... )

Now that I begin 'spring break,' I am reminded of how outside I always feel.  Other people, when given the gift of a chunk of time, will do what they always want to and never have time to.  But me, it just gives me time to think and time to think is always time too much.  It is time to uselessly analyze my own inability to do anything but uselessly ( Read more... )

It's the 2nd day of January and I haven't had chocolate yet!  That's one of my goals.  When you see people in movies like Ryan Reynold's character in 'Just Friends' or Parker Posey in 'Adam & Steve,' I think it's pretty accurate that they just don't eat that kind of food.  I can't moderate junk food, it's addictive for a reason: so you will ( Read more... )

Finally the semester is over.  Overcome with inspiration to study German, I switched almost all my classes and it was not really the right decision, I don't think.  It was kind of like an experiment, wherein I get maybe the worst grades I've ever gotten and perhaps realize my "true calling."  I don't believe such a thing exists or at least it's not ( Read more... )

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Wow, today I came into work (for a change, rather than not working and also not doing school work either) and there's just a few of us.  So, Dr. Y was telling us about what UPMC has been doing, building a new hospital in Monroeville as competition for another hospital and firing lots of employees, but hiring new ones next year (for the new ( Read more... )

On Wednesday, I sat in the Thuringian delegate section of Dr. Arpad von Klimo's Modern German History class.  The only two other people besides me in our section that always come were chatting.  In the minutes before class started, it has not been unfamiliar for us to have a short political discussion - not us three, but the more outspoken people ( Read more... )

Mike Kimber (who said "I really feel that anybody that stands behind George Bush is like mentally retarded," which me and my mom really enjoyed)
Amy Goodman
Juan Gonzalez
Jeremy Scahill
Laura Flanders
John Cusack (who called for a vocal, mobile Left in this country)
and many other people

While reading about American neo-Nazism I stumbled upon this blog, that had so many words for "Obama" such as "the funky monkey," "Obongo...."  These people really need to get with the human race. 

Hello blogsphere, I've heard that you exist.  Did you know that if Obama wins, "the Blacks" will take over ( Read more... )