so i am basically inches away from getting this job at the boys and girls club where i would be in charge of 35-40 teenagers all summer long. the problem is, the freakin guy that runs the place is lazy and just won't give me the job already. its driving me crazy. i hate the run around. if you say you are desperate for a male to work there, just ( Read more... )

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drove to amarillo the other day with my dad. what a sight. i love the panhandle land so much. its so endless and so untouched. you could see plenty of dustbowl abandoned shacks still standing. as we watched combines harvesting wheat and tractors planting cotton, i could see how much my dad missed farming. makes me want to get rich some day just so ( Read more... )

holy bajesus, blink tickets go on sale in a week and i have no money. what to do?

if only my fantasy baseball team wasn't in last place, maybe i would feel a little better. on a good note, i will be making my triumphant return to the baseball *errr softball* diamond sometime next week on a team with some high school friends. i'm gonna call my shot first thing. i still dream of being a pro baseball player....on another sort of ( Read more... )

So I have no money, no job, no internet (I'm at the library), no place to live next year, another speeding ticket to pay off, and no one except my friend Chris to talk to in McKinney. It is going to be an interesting summer. My Dad had his pay cut by 10% leaving my family $300 dollars short a month to cover the bills, and my Mom has no idea about ( Read more... )

This guy is a true inspiration (and an AmeriCorps alum!). I picked up a copy of the most recent "Rolling Stone" when I was waiting for my food at Nau's this weekend. The cover featured an article about Bob Dylan's image of America, but I could only seem to read this article about this mayor of the small town of Braddock, Pennsylvania. This town was ( Read more... )

goodness my birthday is in 2 or 3ish days. 20 freakin 2. where did the time go? i still feel 18 at times, and 85 at others. how did i end up at this person? what were the events that shifted and shaped me? will i ever be ready for the adult world? will i ever quit questioning any and everything? will i ever gain my confidence back? will i ever get ( Read more... )

10 years ago today my life was shaken and changed forever. I remember sitting in my 6th grade humanities class watching the breaking news in silence as the events at Columbine High School unfolded. I remember the images of the SWAT team surrounding the building, a student dragging his body over shattered glass to fall out of a 2nd story window, ( Read more... )