I wrote this list, please pass it on if you find it interesting or want to educate others!

1) Of the top 10 Petroleum exporters, 2 are actively hostile toward the US (Iran and Venezuela) and 3 (Russia, Nigeria and Algeria) aren’t exactly allies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum#Export). Oil has propped up dictatorships from Latin America to ( Read more... )

Is it just me, or does shit like the attacks in Mumbai make you want to give up on humanity? We are a fucked up group of animals.

For anyone who stays in hotels, nice hotels, the kind with bellmen and a concierge, here's a tip for you: If someone spends 5 or 10 minutes telling you about things to do in the city, places to eat, sets up appointments for you etc, don't thank them. FUCKING TIP THEM.

Drank too much this weekend and ended up kind of anxious/depressed today as a result. Yay. Possibly start work tomorrow, after 3 months of sending out probably 60, 70, 80 applications. It's not particularly exciting, but it is money so that's all I really care about for the time being. I gotta say, I don't really like having to spend a year of my ( Read more... )

"I began to feel the melancholy of the solo traveler: On the flip side of every foreign adventure is the startling sense that you don't belong there."

That's kind of how I feel, but unfortunately this is not a foreign adventure...

Got home on Saturday, still pretty weirded out. America, good food, but fucking annoying.

I'm having a hard time coming to any kind of conclusion about how I feel about leaving here. I think it's difficult because it's not a cut and dry kind of situation. There are a lot of things that annoy the fuck out of me on a daily basis, but there are, of course, a lot of good things. That sounds really damn stupid, sorry, I'm hung over. We went ( Read more... )

Put up some pics from our trip up North on ye olde blog. Also, on a semi-related note, Blogger can suck my fucking balls.

Just curious about other people's musical tastes, so I wrote this form in which you fill in answers to things (ahem, survey). So... take it, and feel free to add to it ( Read more... )

I'm not one to quote song lyrics, although I'm about to do it, but this is my favorite chorus, maybe of all time, from Joyride by  Built to Spill:

love is just a joyride
drink a lot of beer and climb inside
lay your foot down on the gas
leave it there until you crash

Yeah, good shit. And now, back to work....