I and many of my friends are in the midst of lengthy pre-production on an ambitious movie project. (We think the script is pretty fine, and hope to make a worthy film.) A while back, we spent the day doing something we haven't done in ages - shooting bits of scenes that would end up as source clips in the finished project. Well, these are all cheap ( Read more... )

Have you ever been walking down a corridor and had someone come around a corner and collide (or nearly collide) with you? I would imagine it happens all the time to most people. Actual collisions are probably uncommon, but there are surely a lot of near misses. If you ever walk down crowded sidewalks or corridors, do you have an easy time or hard ( Read more... )

On Friday I returned to Harper for the first time in about two years, to attend a retirement party for the VP I worked under for a majority of my years there. I had a lot of fun. It still feels like home even though I no longer have keys to the place. I guess it should, I lived there long enough. A year from now I might find myself back there again ( Read more... )

Officially full-time-with-benefits employed again as of February 23 (though I've been there since October 31 as a contractor). Significantly (10%) lower pay, so I'm not sure it's worthy of too much congratulation. Working downtown (right by the Sears Tower) has its most significant benefit in taking the train (less than 5 minute walk at either end ( Read more... )

I suppose I'm sort of over it enough now to mention that my position was eliminated on August 9, so I am currently unemployed. I was there for 23 years. I started right out of high school. It's the only job I ever had, and the only job I ever thought I would have.

Someone please find me more hours in the day. Thank you.

The book is up to 160,904 words, but I've still got a ton of work to do (and only a few weeks to do it in).

I'm 40, and graduating from community college on Friday with a student body that's mostly 19 or 20 ( Read more... )

Yesterday held a disappointment for me, but not the one that most people expected ( Read more... )

As exemplified earlier by rennStep 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random ( Read more... )

These are the states I have visited.

I'm not on any quest to visit every state, though.


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