Oh yeah...so...I'm engaged to Travis now. Four years since we started dating (we don't have the exact date, but who knows? It could have been this weekend exactly four years ago). Anyways, I'll offer more details later but here's the gist:


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I got bored and changed my lj layout. I am actually really annoyed with parts of it. Eh. I'm too lazy to fix it and also, it's been so long that they've already completely revamped the process and I get lost among the menus. -__ ( Read more... )

So, it's been a year since graduation. ( What has changed or not changed )

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Alright, I feel like I have a lot of updating to do. Here's a summary: In the past few days I began taking melatonin supplements for insomnia, began working out at the gym (everyday except today), made chili for Super Bowl at work, had most of it taken by a coworker (at least $10 worth of my hard-earned money), and got a dog to have adventures with ( Read more... )

So...what I love about the nets (sometimes) is that you can find some really random stuff. You just have to follow this link and then this one and then tie it all together and suddenly make a neat discovery.
Of course this can sometimes take a lot of work. Unless you cheat and let somone else find the starting links for you. That's where this ( Read more... )

So...in case I forget cause I tend to forget that I have this journal, Have a merry christmas, happy hannukah, happy kwanzaa and a wonderful winer solstice....yeah I din't get it all but, just have a great break from whatever has been stressing you out recently. I'm working...but you other people....take a break...and have a little fun. <3

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One of the absolute best things about Wall*E are the end credits. They tell the story of what happens after the movie ends: revealing man's evolution and the recreation of Earth (with the help of those friendly robots) through the evolution of art (from stone age scrawls on walls to egyptian hieroglyphics to van gogh's impressionistic styl). All ( Read more... )

So we learned today that the parent company of the Daily Press (Tribune Co., whose flagship is the Chicago Tribune) could be less than a week away from filing for bankruptcy protection. We did not hear this from the Chicago Tribune but from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, even though the Tribune posted a bulletin on their Web site ( Read more... )

I wonder sometimes where some of these reporters we have working at this paper went to school. How about a little fact-checking? As hard times cuts into the number of positions available at newspapers, one must accept that there will never again be individuals tasked with the sole job of making sure all of the facts (from name spellings to peoples ( Read more... )