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Tomorrow marks the halfway point in my externship ( Read more... )

So, the radio only works some of the time. There is no pattern except that it does always work when the car is in park. I'm sure most of you remember when it would only work when I was in reverse, and believe me, I am still wondering what the transmission has to do with the radio ( Read more... )

I have a tired headache. You know the one. Where it burns behind your eyes and it is all you can do to keep your head up ( Read more... )

I was having a good day. I laid down to take a nap. I woke up from my nap to Job #2's ringtone, "My Give-A-Damn's Busted ( Read more... )

January: I started the year off at Matt and Laura's house with Dan, Matt's mother, and Dan's friend Tom and his (now, but not at the time) fiancee, Bethany. I had a great time. When we drove back, we stopped off at the house I'd been sharing with my cousin in Findlay that we were in the process of losing due to an epic financial crisis. I packed up ( Read more... )

It's a pretty rough translation, I admit, and I'm assuming that "ano" means "year", and not "anus" (I expected better than that from you, Babelfish)--but here is the Babelfish translated version of a letter I got today, with some judgment calls and explanations on my part regarding grammar and phrasing in parentheses ( Read more... )

Manager: "_________ (last night's manager) is fired ( Read more... )

"I have asked myself often during this journey: “How do I explain this back home?” … the poverty, growing despair, daily living conditions, the foundation of faith, singing and praising God with abandon, their generosity and their desire to journey in faith ( Read more... )

Emily: "I'm really glad you drove. I took a sleeping pill about an hour ago, and it's starting to hit me."

Me: *panicface* (because she had offered to drive!)

Emily: "Hahahaha, your face just now was GREAT!"

Me: (recovering) "I am driving us to every single function we ever go to together for the rest of our lives."