It only took 13 years but I finally have a non-temporary teaching job.

Seem that spammers are the only people who look at my LJ.

Yet more spam on my LJ.  Again on posts years old.
This one was in English rather than Cyrillic. That's different. 

I found this article: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81675.html today.
The main point of the article is not why I am reposting it.  Rather I am struck by a comment made about how the candidates speak to audiences.  
From page 2: "“Sometimes I feel like the campaign is not about what they will bring to the table - not about the people - but ( Read more... )

I continue to get Cyrillic text posts added to my old journal entries.
I block them all as spam.  Some are obviously spam but some are very short, contain no links and otherwise look like legitimate comments.  But they are comments on years-old entries and are in a text I cannot read.
Meh.

In September of 2010 I separated my left shoulder.  :(  It is mostly healed.  I thought it was all healed but as I've been trying to do this 100 push-ups a day challenge the left shoulder has gotten more and more aggravated ( Read more... )

On the AEMMA list a challenge was made to do 100 pushups each day during December.  Not necessarily as a single set.  10 of 10 over the course of the day if that is what one can do.
I've decided to take this challenge.
Being upper body work it won't aggravate my ankle.  But it will work to satisfy my need to do something physical exercise related.
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This post makes the 6th time I've posted anything at all to LJ in the year 2011.
Checking my friends tab I see posts from only one person.  I also see a service update post from the LJ crew.
That is all.
Tumbleweeds may now roll.

I rarely post here anymore.  Other social media websites have won the battle as far as I am concerned ( Read more... )

Every day I send out more job applications.  I never hear anything back.
It feels like I am bailing out the Titanic with a teaspoon.

(posted here rather than in other more popular social media because I strongly suspect that no one reads LJ anymore.  But I still wanted the catharsis of venting)