I've said this before, but I'll say it again: I usually get along with individual people. You can have decent conversations with them and civilly disagree. It's big groups I've got problems with, because (again, generally speaking) they tend towards the mob end of things and I'm not comfortable with that. I am willing to make an exception for some ( Read more... )

So I promised an update on my job situation. Here it is. The current situation is as follows ( Read more... )

Things you don't put on FB: in about 25 minutes I will find out if I am to be downsized in the new year. Which I fully expect to be, given the fact there's three of us in the archive, they intend to keep one, the selection rules are clear and favor someone else. I'm ok with this, as I'm looking to take the next step in my career anyway. So why is ( Read more... )

You know it's getting lonely on livejournal when they release a new (and goddamn awful) front page and you can't find any update decrying it's the end of livejournal as we know it and therefor the end of the world. I guess the end of the world already happened and there's no need for it to be mentioned anymore. Still feeling fine though.

I don't normally write about Justin Bieber, but when I do... I'm saying he's a nineteen year old doing nineteen year old things. And given the fact that most nineteen year olds can be a bit of prick most of the times, he's being a bit of a prick most of the times. Problem with this is is that most nineteen year olds have parents who set boundries ( Read more... )

ANP 12:12 PM EDT, Monday August 5, 2013 ( Read more... )

What teachers make by Taylor Mali. Slam poetry as it's meant to be. Powerful, intense, speaking Truth. bloody brilliant!

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It's been a while since I've seen a Tedtalk I really liked, but here's one that really hit home: Why pizza is better than baseball.

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So color me confused. Ever since LJ began hosting ONTD and mentioning popular posts on the front page I occasionally enter the weird and wacky world of celebrity watching. My normal celebrity news fix comes by courtesy of the Hollywood Babylon podcast and therefor mostly consists of Lindsey Lohan / Amanda Bynes / Justin Bieber / that 16 year old ( Read more... )

To lend the title from a section Kevin Smith's and Ralph Garmend's Hollywood Babylon: here's some shit that should not be. For those who don't listen to this excellent podcast, Shit THat Should Not Be deals with the weird stuff that appears in movies when they're released. Even though they are seen, and checked, by at least dozens of people before ( Read more... )