A place for me to work stuff out and to post things that interest me.
Most of us can, if we choose,
make this world either a palace or a prison.
~Lord Avebury
I choose a palace.
~TKF
Do not let your fire go out,
spark by irreplaceable spark,
in the hopeless swamps of the approximate,
the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish,
in lonely frustration for the life you deserved,
but have never been able to reach.
Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won.
It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
~Ayn Rand
The democratic society's mythology of equality with its
attendant erasure of difference is an impossibility
in an actual, lived sense.
Therefore, according to this view, this
imaginary erasure cannot achieve an
actual democracy, because a sense of
community can only come with the recognition of difference.
~Slavoj Zizek, as paraphrased by Catherine M. Soussloff
Links!
A brand new link! Check it out!
deviantART
I thought the place was very cool. Oh, and all you Alias fans, you can find a very nice wallpaper there--
or rather, here--and a gorgeous Evanescence one, too!
Watcher's Diary
Slayage; The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies
Convert just about anything
Comes in really handy when you want to convert fahrenheit to celcius and vice versa!
Links to 100s of free calculators online
Everything from your due date to how much a house payment would be to a regular calculator
Reference Guide to Chicago Manual of Style
Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Atlas & Almanac
Quotation Search Engine
Complete HTML True Color Chart
Epicurious Recipes
Inn Recipes; Recipes for all Occasions
JobStar-Resumes & Cover Letters Advice
Overstock.com: Up to 80% off most items
Ediblenature.com
Things My Girlfriend & I Have Argued About
(Trust me--you'll be laughing outloud!)
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Beyond the Invisible
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The tale of the world is like a tree.
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Sturdily rooted in the past, the tale's branches spread out through the days that come. The many stories that make up its substance
unfold from bud to leaf to dry memory and back again, event connecting event like the threadwork of a spider's web, so that each creature of the world plays its part, understanding only aspects of the overall narrative, and perceiving, each with its particular talents, only glimpses
of the Great Mystery that underlies it all.
~Charles de Lint, Moonheart
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Wednesday, September 29, 2004
I wonder if they'll consider Prozac in my blood a selling point or a deterent???
Still no job yet, but I did get an interview this past Tuesday! It seems to have gone well, but who knows with these things. I've walked out of interviews thinking that I had a job locked up and then never heard from anyone again, so I'm not going to worry about it. If they call, they call.
The interview was for a part-time position at the Humane Society, doing data entry. It's okay money, decent hours, and seems like an interesting job with a pretty flexible boss. I certainly wouldn't mind hearing from them. However, to hedge my bets, I put in a couple of applications on the way home.
Meanwhile, a friend of ours works as a paramedic at the health clinic at the Toyota compound in Georgetown (just outside of Lexington). She says they're hiring a lot of people right now in admin and one person she recommended already got a job. She's taking my resume and reference sheet to them today and seems fairly positive she can get me on there. Now that would be a good job--a very nice salary, close to what I was making in Tallahassee but with full benefits. If it does come through, though, I'm not expecting to hear anything until mid-October or so and we need money NOW. In fact, we so desperately need money that I'm seriously considering selling plasma at this one place. Thing is, I don't know if they'll take my blood because of the medications I'm on. (Personally, I think some nice, soothing prozac and anti-anxiety medication would be just the ticket for someone in need of plasma, but I get the feeling they might not see it the same way...) I need to call them, I think, since it's $50 for the initial visit. My wedding ring is only worth $40 to the local pawn shops, which sucks, since I know they'll sell it for way more than that. If I had time, I'd just put it on Ebay. It is handmade, 16k white gold, with celtic knotwork hand-engraved all the way around. It's got to be worth more than $40 to somebody!
You know....I do have this extra kidney I'm not using.....
In other news, Allen has received permission from the school board to take the GED free of charge. He picked up his paperwork today. Now he just has to arrange to take the pre-test and then they'll set a date for him to take the actual GED exam. He started working last night and has already made some friends at work. He hung out with them afterwards and is in a great mood today. That's really awesome to see.
Nikki hasn't been washed away yet, though with 4 hurricanes hitting already and another one possibly on the way, it's really starting to concern me. That's more than the entire 4 years that I lived there! She says a few trees have gone down in the neighborhood, which is what I'm more concerned with than flooding. It doesn't really flood much in that particular part of town at all--but it is more or less a giant forest with trees looming all about. She says she's fine, though--just incredibly busy. She took a pretty hard load this year and I guess with work, she's having a little trouble juggling her time. (She was planning on taking some homework to work with her last night so that she could do it in her downtime, if she had any.) I told her that I don't want her stressing herself out--if it gets to be too much, she needs to cut her hours back at work. She says she's fine. However, I might call the woman she's staying with and get her opinion (when Nik isn't there, of course!).
Firefly was an awesome show that should never have been taken off the air and I can't wait until it comes out as a movie.
Sorry--that didn't have much to do with anything other than we finished up watching the entire one and only season of the show and I'm extremely irked that the network never gave it any real chance to get an audience. The writing is amazing, as is the interaction between the cast/characters.
Until the next time that I run off to the library!
2:31 PM
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