Before I actually get to this post I want to comment that I may be leaving livejournal behind. All the cool kids have blogspot and frankly, I'm a follower when it comes to blogging. This is the area in my life where I succumb to peer pressure and try to be cool. I don't really think anyone looks at my livejournal page anymore anyways so it probably ( Read more... )

Yes, it snowed again. Yesterday it was sunny and warm and today I woke up to snow on the ground. I came out in my little ballet flats and found myself sliding across the driveway. Gracefully? HA. Of course not. I almost fell on my butt. I had to go back inside to change my shoes since I felt certain that if I attempted t0 walk across the parking ( Read more... )

I write this to chronicle my laughable challenge of maintaining a professional demeanor at work. Maybe I'm not suited for corporate life. Not that I am incapable of acting in a professional manner. However, once I have been working with the same people for some time ( I have been at my job for 6 months as of today) I struggle to not treat them in ( Read more... )

Today it reached a balmy FORTY SIX degrees outside! I had started to forget what that type of warmth felt like.... Anyway. Joe and I took part in a wonderful Syracuse tradition- go to the car wash and get the incredibly thick layer of salt and chemicals off your car before the temperature dips below freezing again! Yay! Seriously, it was like a ( Read more... )

Today I found myself thinking "There's no chance in hell I'll-" And then's when my brain abruptly stopped (I think this is from a condition called "losing you train of thought," something I have developed more and more) to say, "Eh?" What is this saying we all use? I mean, you want to make a point you exclaim brusquely "There is no chance IN HELL I ( Read more... )

Today was one of those special mornings. I awoke to find about 2 inches of snow, maybe three on the ground with the tiny, fast falling snow that is a Syracuse specialty mounting at every second. Literally, while cleaning my car by the time I got to the back, the front had already accumulated a significant amount of snow on it ( Read more... )

Yesterday I wrote a letter to a friend I had in high school. He's in jail now, sitting on death row. I struggled from the time of his arrest in fall 2007 until now to decide to write the letter. What could I say? What is there to say? Why would he even want to hear from me, someone he hadn't seen in years ( Read more... )

Honestly, how did our friend Ben get passed over for that role? Is he not one of the coolest of the founding fathers? Oh sure, I know, he was accused of a wee bit of philandering, but seriously, which founding father wasn't? Let's focus instead on the cool aspects of Ben Franklin and why he completely deserves to be on the pimpin' $100 bill ( Read more... )

(I wrote this but didn't post it here, I posted it only on facebook. Here it is ( Read more... )

Dear Syracuse Natives ( Read more... )