I knew this day would come. I'd been anticipating it since September. Yesterday I spent two hours cleaning raw sewage off of film from a New Orleans courthouse basement. The bag it came in was swirling with brown chunky water. My Supervisor handed me a blue plastic suit, gloves, and germ filtering mask and told me to go to work. I slowly ( Read more... )

I'm really bad about posting things. I used to be really into it, but now it just kind of tires me. Now that I have this blog thing I feel an obligation to keep up with it. To let everyone know how cool, wonderful, and exciting my life has been. And, therin lies the trouble. My life really isn't many of those things, and certainly isn't on a ( Read more... )

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Groundhog's Day always seemed SO stupid to me. Tormenting a poor critter so he could "tell" us whether or not it was going to be winter for longer or not (especially since we've had trees budding here for at least three weeks). And it made me a little more ticked off at the Catholics for letting the Celts, kind of, sort of, hang on to one of their ( Read more... )

Today was not the best day to go to the National Postal Museum. Not because of the museum(it is a wonderful Smithsonian gem that receives too little attention), but because I got caught up in the hordes of anti-abortion protesters thronging through Union Station. There were your usual clutches of clergymen and and women who'd recounted after ( Read more... )