While completing my lower division coursework at Glendale Community College, I frequented the so-called Freak's Corner. I say frequented, but it wasn't so much a place really as it was a clique of nerds, geeks and dorks (oh, and let's not forget the most freakish of the lot: the stupid drama majors.) Truly, The Freak's Corner was simply the name ( Read more... )

Question: If Brian slept seventeen hours over a five day period, with two hours the first night and six the last, taking a total of ten sleeping pills during this time, how many 7 am Monday morning leafblowers are complete bullshit?
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Suddenly realizing that George (my destructively hyperactive affenpinscher) had run out of dog food, I decided to take a quick trip to the corner liquor store - for one must not keep a hungry George waiting if one values one's sanity. No sooner am in the store than I am approached by a large thuggish individual and his mini-thug sidekick.
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We all know something of pain. We lose friends and loved ones. Try and fail. Humiliate ourselves. It all hurts. It's the same drama played out in the hearts and minds of every human being who ever was, is or will be. To suffer is part of the human condition.

This is why we have empathy; the gift which allows us to identify and understand ( Read more... )

Apparently I am worth $2,409,120.00 on HumanForSale.com How about the rest of y'all? :-)

I had the strangest dream.

It's hot. Everything blurs with heat haze. I'm riding shotgun in a '76 Impala. 1918underwood is at the wheel. We're traveling up a steep road, looking for a parking space. Time slows to a crawl as I note, with some disbelief, that each side of the street is lined with cars from the 1970s ( Read more... )

As you may or may not know, I've decided to go for my teaching credential. Thanks to Dubya, I now need to pass the CSET, the California Subject Examination for Teachers. (Yes Bush, in his infinite wisdom decided that the way to deal with a teacher shortage was to thin the herd a little.) The test comes in a variety of flavors. To teach grade school ( Read more... )

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It has recently come to my attention that I spend too much time trying to make sense of my emotions ( Read more... )