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Nursing School Pt. 1
Oh woe is me. (Got the feelin' sorry for myself blues ( Read more... ) -
Nursing School
Before I'm allowed in to nursing school, they have several hoops they'd like me to jump through. I've been jumping through all of them like a good slave, but there's something that happened today I've got to tell you about ( Read more... ) -
Tailoring your sales pitch
I was making a deposit at Chase yesterday, and one of the bankers said he could help me. Now I know this means "I will take your things, take them to the teller, which is what you were going to do, and then poke around your account to see what I can get you to sign up for ( Read more... ) -
Customer Service
Gave two people free tickets yesterday, for exactly opposite reasons, made them both extremely happy ( Read more... ) -
Casual isn't always Casual
Let me tell you a little something about SB. SB is a huge, HUGE Harry Potter fan. She has the hardback editions of all seven books. She has the paperback editions of all seven books. She has the audio editions of all seven books. She owns all the movies. She's waiting until they put out the pack of all seven movies in the super-duper-deluxe, and ( Read more... ) -
Magic Phrase
I don't know what to call it, but I finally figured out the phrase that authors should/can use to make me love a story and/or character ( Read more... ) -
Someone else's mistakes
As most of you know, I'm always struggling to manage my money, as I only work part-time, and don't have (what I call,) a "grown-up job." The problem is, of course, that my desire for things hasn't waned with the smallness of my paycheck ( Read more... ) -
What Makes Something Offensive?
You know, I don't like to rant, I really don't. While I may find things asinine, I understand that I have big, rich buttons and that others have different buttons. While I may bitch about how stupid other people's buttons are, (never my own, of course,) I don't tend to put them in livejournal. Usually just not that important, ya know ( Read more... ) -
Y Chromosome?
Background: In the deleted scenes of Star Trek, there is a scene I have never watched (I have the Plain Jane version of the movie.) However, hearing about this scene, I have often said I'm thrilled they left it out, because I find it deeply offensive, as a woman. It's a scene set during Kirk's childhood, explaining why he took the car. It seems his ( Read more... ) -
Romantic Comedies
A friend of mine posted that women directors usually get stuck making rom-coms, and that Kathryn Bigelow has shown the world that women can direct anything and it can be great ( Read more... )