It took years for me to earn the right to do so but today I voted.  No matter what happens, I could say that I was part of an historic moment and was not a casual observer.  More thoughts when the results are finalized, I'm sure.

J

I suppose I should really stop expecting more from humanity.  I truly thought I was an horrible pessimist, and it turns out that I'm an horrible optimist.  I guess being a kid from Southern California has given me some expectations that the part of the country I am in can't live up to.  I mean, I'm living in the age when I saw a woman and a black ( Read more... )

I found myself listening to Joy Division the other day, which some of my friends feel is only a sign of trouble and a spiraling down to the sad depths of my adolescent gothness. Well, that would have been true a few years ago. Listening to Joy Division just made me feel old. Some time in the last five years, I just realized, I've gotten old. ( Read more... )

I've come to realize that I've become so very far removed from people I thought were my friends. It's really not anyone's fault, although I'm sure at some point I'm going to feel like it is. Already I was upset at the whole thing with my best friend and him asking this girl to marry him and at some level, I should have known that I really shouldn ( Read more... )

It's been a very long time since I've posted an entry on my LJ account. This was one of the first blogs I've had. I've been sucked into myspace and that insipid facebook, but those aren't really anything more than social networks that really provide me with nothing more than more applications to deny or delete. It's through these so-called ( Read more... )

So I'm three decades old today. Pretty crazy, huh? I had a great day today, the details aren't that interesting but it was better than last year. Charles' birthday present to me was that he would take me to see a girlie movie. True to his word he sat through The Devil Wears Prada with no complaint. That's love, I tell ya ( Read more... )

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And other random musings...

WOOt, I'm officially a United ( Read more... )

soo much ass! oh my gothness gracious. i've worked this thing totally wrong. shouldn't i have cut my teeth at retail when i was younger? I couldn't find a job so i took a seasonal job at a toy store. ugh. so now i've been there two weeks and i know the agony of a seasonal employee. wow, this is shitty beyond belief. the only upside is that ( Read more... )

You know there's something to be said about looking decent in a picture. I know that everyone virtually hates their ID or driver's license picture but I, on the other hand, am vain and I take decent if not pretty nice ID pictures. So, here are my most recent license pictures.

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