5 Things I was Doing 10 years Ago:
(1) Checking groceries at Albertson's
(2) Taking Spanish at Quad C
(3) Trying to decide when, or even if, I was going to go back to school full-time
(4) Living with my parents
(5) Wondering what the future held for me

5 Things On My To-Do List Today:
(1) Look for certain docs for work
(2) Pay bills
(3) Get an ( Read more... )

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first few lines from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on a search engine is CHEATING!
Step 5: If you like the game, post your own.

[Note: One of my first ( Read more... )

Usually, "Where were you when..." moments are defined by tragic events. "Where were you when you heard about Pearl Harbor?" "Where were you when you heard that JFK was shot?" "Where were you when you heard about 9/11 ( Read more... )

Couldn't get the map to embed, so if you want to see it, go here.

If we wake up in the morning with President-Elect McCain, it will be the biggest presidential upset since Dewey Didn't Defeat Truman. I'm fairly confident in thinking there will be a electoral vote landslide for Obama. The popular vote will be closer, but as we all learned in 2000, popular vote doesn't count ( Read more... )

Only three more minutes till midnight. Maybe it will all be over at midnight. Oh God...everyone is dead! The entire troop is dead! They've all been slaughtered horribly! I don't know if anyone else is alive out here. Only two more minutes to go...the radios are dead, cell phones don't work, the cars won't start...so much blood! So much ( Read more... )

I wish I knew what the hell was going on out here. We can't find the lieutenant anywhere. Our radios aren't working, despite all the batteries being fully charged. We have no cell phone reception, either. And this fog has settled in. I know this was supposed to be an easy assignment, but really, this is ridiculous. Wait a second, I can't hear ( Read more... )

What has happened the last two Halloween nights at the Cooper Woods is highly classified. I was not informed of the details, but several local teenagers have been killed in those woods each of the last two years. There are rumors that an escaped maniac returns to the woods every October 31st to wreck havoc, but those are nothing more than rumors ( Read more... )

Specifically, my lower back.

It's not consistent, and it's not debilitating. Actually, it usually goes away after I move around for a while. But it's still really annoying. I'm only 31. I'm too young to be having back problems.

I know I should go to the doctor, but even though I advise everyone else to head there no matter how slight the problem, I ( Read more... )

John had a choice between screening two movies last night--An American Carol or Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Perverse curiosity led him to pick Carol, and me to come up after the debate to watch it with him.

My hopes for Carol were--well, not exactly high, but not completely bottom-of-the-barrel, since director David Zucker was responsible ( Read more... )