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| Thursday, May 1st, 2008 | | 10:54 pm |
Low
I never thought my household would be poor to the point where we were actually unsure as to whether or not we would be able to eat the next day.
Sigh... | | Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 | | 12:00 am |
I am feeling violent. I wish to lash out and inflict meaningless destruction on things around me, as I feel completely powerless to make progress on that which does have meaning.
That rational part of my brain says this is irrational, and I do not care.
The downside to being coldly rational for the greater part of one's existence? When your emotions do show up, you really have few functional ways of dealing with them. | | Sunday, April 13th, 2008 | | 5:31 pm |
Audition So, I'm thinking about auditioning for the community theater's production of Bare, but I have no idea what I should do for a monologue and "up tempo rock song" to perform. Anyone have any suggestions? | | Monday, April 7th, 2008 | | 12:57 pm |
Things are looking up!
Yay, I am now employed at Navy Federal Credit Union, making 15% more than I did at Chevy Chase, rawk on. | | Friday, March 28th, 2008 | | 11:26 pm |
Squee!
For those of you who know me, you know I have a love/hate relationship with pop cultuer/music. Specifically, I love it, and I love to make fun of it, which is why I love Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Video on Trial.
And, joygasm, I just discovered Video on Trial did 1980s-themed episodes! *dance*
| | Thursday, March 27th, 2008 | | 10:25 pm |
| | Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 | | 3:01 pm |
Heard on NPR...
Martha Raditz: Two-thirds of Americans say [the Iraq war] is not worth fighting.
Dick Cheney: Abraham Lincoln didn't listen to polls during the civil war.
Well, yeah, but by the time the fifth anniversary of that war was marked, it had been over for a year... | | Sunday, March 9th, 2008 | | 11:34 pm |
Josh (a vegan): I'm still on the fence about honey.
Tommy: Well, yeah, but there are other very necessary agricultural uses for the domestication of bees. Without them, there wouldn't be the means to maintain the infrastructure to maintain the vegan lifestyle. I mean, it's either bees or hire mexicans to hand pollinate everything. | | Friday, March 7th, 2008 | | 10:40 pm |
| | Monday, February 18th, 2008 | | 5:24 pm |
| | Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 | | 7:26 pm |
RAGE!
People can't fucking drive around here. You don't have to fucking brake in the middle of a turn, you don't have to wait for a full car-length of space in front of you after the light changes to move, and you don't fucking have to drive at half-speed because of a little ice!
All that, plus the fact that I missed out on being able to to vote today by *exactly* nine seconds is making me incomparably frustrated at the moment. | | Saturday, January 26th, 2008 | | 2:17 pm |
Uh, I guess it is the thought that counts? Okay, so someone has anonymously sent me a fleshlight (NSFW), and I'm very puzzled as to why... | | Thursday, January 17th, 2008 | | 10:37 pm |
Fucking "Wintery Mix"
So, I had the most frustrating, most thwarted-feeling day ever.
Left the house around nine for a ten thirty class, didn't arrive until about 12:10 (class was over at 11:50). This was a combination of me never having been to the Alexandria campus, people being unable to drive properly, and the fact that I need new windshield wipers because mine leave everything streaky, and thus signs unreadable.
Considering I had also missed the Tuesday session of this class, I decided to track down my professor and get any handouts and apologize for missing te first two sessions. I get to the Applied Sciences office, and these two moronic girls are blathering on with the receptionist about classes *which aren't actually in the college of applied sciences*! Worse, for some reason the receptionist is humoring them, so I stand behind them for a good twenty minutes until they finally get it that they have to head downstairs to the humanities department to discuss sociology, and across the city for any hospital technology courses.
Had a pleasant little chat my Botany professor, then proceeded to get lost (again) en route to a branch of the bank where I'm helping out. Left Alexandria campus around 13:30, arrived at work at 14:45. Ended up going down King St all the way to the waterfront because somehow I missed the turn onto US 1 south.
After work, I drive merrily along towards the Annandale campus for my calculus class... only to find that all the classes have been cancelled, and I could have just driven directly home.
Gbargle, blah, *passout* | | Sunday, January 13th, 2008 | | 3:10 am |
Spent today spinning in my own head, which isn't good for when I need to accomplish tasks like driving, but I managed to avoid any accidents that could be linked back to a 94 Integra, so I think I'm okay.
For a while I've been marking my cold, detached, analytical side as something of a hinderance, a negative quality, but more and more I think it is soemthing I'm fundamentally stuck with, and really isn't the fatal character flaw that I've been making it out to be. I may also have been using it as a scapegoat for any number of other problems I have in my life and relationships.
Nothing more conclusive than that after a day of navel-gazing. | | Saturday, January 12th, 2008 | | 4:24 pm |
So I'm single again, a combination of grievous timing calculations on my part plus what I suppose would have become irreconcilable differences in demeanor.
C'est tout. | | Monday, December 24th, 2007 | | 12:43 am |
Sweeney Todd
Pretty good movie-musical, the over-all art direction was amazing, and I really enjoyed the casting. Although the voices aren't show stopping, they certainly fit the scenes very well.
It was, however, a bit odd to actually see up-close the gore I usually only got to see from the nose-bleed seats in the theater. Furthermore, I was slightly disturbed at how young the actor was that played the part of Tobias, considering all the trauma he goes through later in the show. It made "Not While I'm Around" especially poignant.
Whoever was playing Anthony Hope really sucked, though. | | Monday, December 17th, 2007 | | 12:44 am |
| | Saturday, December 15th, 2007 | | 1:24 pm |
In case I haven't yet told you...
I'm pretty sure I managed pretty good coverage assaulting everyone with this news on AIM, over Facebook, Myspace, or in person, but just to be sure I think I'll cover this front as well.
I have a boyfriend now, his name is Luis, he's twenty-two, lives in Woodbridge, adorable, El Salvadoran, huge video game geek and plays Yu-Gi-Oh.
C'est tout. =) | | Friday, December 7th, 2007 | | 8:47 pm |
Frustration
Today's Tommy factoid: I am an incredibly deliberate, somewhat inflexible person. When plans I make are thwarted or changed, I become frustrated to the point where it almost overwhelms me.
The event that highlighted this particular aspect of my psyche today was my attempt to register for classes to finally be done with NVCC once and for all. I'd planning this for weeks, for on this date I would actually have the fundage to pull it off.
When I clicked "submit", however, red X-marks appeared next to all of my selections, and I was informed that there was a hold on my records and I would not be able to register for classes at this time.
A reasonable person would simply make an appointment to meet a counselor the next day. I, however, became nauseous, my throat tightened up, and my temperature rose. At work all I could think of was being trapped in my job, and I wanted with every fiber of my being to run out the door and to the college to get whatever mess there was fixed.
On a smaller scale, I tried to post a comment to someone's journal today, but was informed that I had been banned from posting. That annoyed me more than it really should have, and actually prompted to make a journal entry about my various frustrations today.
Lately I tend to verbalize a lot of posts to the air around me, but then get bogged down in the particulars of translating speech into logical, clear text. This happens a lot with comments to friends' journals, which is why I tend to comment as rarely as I post sometimes. | | Thursday, December 6th, 2007 | | 6:51 pm |
Downside to NPR? I think I've been listening to " Prairie Home Companion" a bit too much lately, as I just referred to a casserole as a hot dish. |
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