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03:58 am
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thanksgiving, eh?
What am I thankful for?
I'm thankful for not having been hit by a bus. I'm thankful for not having cancer or the AIDS. Not being homeless is pretty cool too.
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07:07 am
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dunt.
So, I talked to my dad for a while. The topic shifted to work stuff, and retarded coworkers, as usual. I've never worked with my dad, but what I've heard from anyone with half a brain that has worked with him (including my uncle who isn't on speaking terms with my dad) is that he's damned good at what he does. Anyway, from the sound of it, the guys he works with seem to be very, very shortsighted. Instead of doing what they're told and trying to figure out why (or even ask why), they question everything and try to do it their own way, in what looks like an attempt to make themselves look good. It looks like they're focused entirely on making themselves look good to their boss at this one company that they're working for right now instead of trying to improve their skillset. Which is more important? Looking good to the owner of a single small company, a company that won't be around forever, or making it so you could get and keep a job at any other company?
Some of the best work advice I've ever been given (from my grandfather and my dad) is that you should pick out the oldest, grayest motherfucker, help him out however you can, and listen to everything he says. It makes sense. In any physical job, you can't make it til you're old and gray without knowing more than everyone else. Hell, ignoring the physical part, in any job, if someone's old and gray and has been doing it since they were young, there must be some reason they're still around.
I'll cut it off here before this rant flows into another. Summarizing: one can find something useful to learn from every single person. One would be stupid to not try to leech as much information off of the gray-hairs as possible. Expanding one's skillset is more important than impressing any one boss, for there is no guarantee that one's employer will still be around even tomorrow.
Pardon the wall of text and the poor grammar. I'm too lazy right now to fix it.
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05:14 am
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status update
Ok. Working a job that I've hated since the day I started. I'm a temp still, but hoping to get hired on perm. Why? Decent pay. Not many other options.
Not much of anything else has changed. I got a haircut about a month ago. It was shorter than it had been in 8 years or so. I'm about due for a trim.
Aside from that, I mostly just get up, go to work, come home, sit in the garage smoking and practicing with the guitar for a couple hours, go to bed, repeat. Sometimes I go for coffee/food on my way home.
The weekends are usually just catching up on crap I couldn't do during the week and trying to find something not entirely boring to do in the evening.
On the whole chick front, I can't even get myself to put out a minimal amount of effort. I think my standards have gotten too high compared to what I can get, but it's not worth sacrificing any of them. I want a) not crazy, b) at least moderately intelligent, c) at least mildly attractive, and d) attracted to me. I think maybe d and a/b/c might be mutually exclusive. hawr hawr.
I don't really have much else to say.
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05:07 am
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For no apparent reason
I am going to post a bunch of my favorite garfield-minus-garfield strips
( I blame Dave )
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02:52 am
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one of my favorite quotes from a book
from the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation of Notes From the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Not just wicked, no, I never even managed to become anything: neither wicked nor good, neither a scoundrel nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and utterly futile consolation that it is even impossible for an intelligent man seriously to become anything, and only fools become something."
I'm not going to provide any commentary past stating that I like that quote.
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04:04 am
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You know what's an awesome song?
"Comfortably Numb" - Pink Floyd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkJNyQfAprY (couldn't find anything better to link to)
Still one of my fav. bands. <3
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04:32 am
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one thing I've realized.
The world doesn't reward anything as much as being 'likeable'. Hard work and anything else is always trumped by charisma.
I need to find some way to up my rating there.
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02:25 am
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This is why I think reading classics is important.
"Then it don' matter. Then I'll be all aroun' in the dark. I'll be ever'where -- wherever you look. Wherever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an' -- I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build -- why, I'll be there. See? God, I'm talkin' like Casy. Comes of thinkin' about him so much. Seems like I can see him sometimes."
from The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (Tom Joad talking to his mother)
"Now Tom said 'Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy
Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air
Look for me Mom I'll be there
Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand
Or decent job or a helpin' hand
Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free
Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me.'"
from "The Ghost of Tom Joad" - Bruce Springsteen (later covered by Rage Against The Machine)
Had I not read The Grapes of Wrath I would've had no idea who Tom Joad was and part of the meaning of that song would've been lost on me.
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02:03 pm
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I'll just leave this here.
“We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”
-Henry Louis Mencken
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
-Richard Dawkins
“It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so”
-Ernestine Rose
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04:28 am
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stolen from dave (fuck yeah its a survey, suck it)
( for your convenience )
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05:50 am
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stuff.
I still have more stuff than I need. I think it's about time for me to start another round of sorting out and trashing/giving away stuff I don't want or need.
at least I've been somewhat good about not buying useless junk lately.
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04:25 am
[Link] | I looked back at my LJ archive thingy. Wow. I used to post like every other day.
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02:36 am
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blah
So. update I guess.
Things suck on the work front, so I'll be taking a few extra classes (might as well) and will hit that again in the spring. Hopefully things will have picked up again by then. So much for being done with school. Trying to turn it into something less specialized, maybe I can open up some other options.
As for everything else, I've mostly been reading, working on trying to suck less at drawing, practicing with the guitar (still suck but getting better), and playing fallout 3. I could probably already be done with that game, but I spend way too much time exploring. I've been trying to average at least an hour per day with each the sketchbook and guitar. I've almost run out of Camus books and almost out of Dostoevsky. I have a habit of finding an author I like and reading near everything of theirs I can find, then trying to find a new author to read.
That's pretty much it lately.
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03:51 am
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Update
everything sucks.
that is all.
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11:09 pm
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crossposted from myspace
So, still plugging away. Just working, bringing home paychecks, saving most of it.
Still looking for something to look forward to. Still not finding much. Still just doing what I have to do because I know I have to. Whatev.
Current Mood:  blah
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12:18 am
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lol
Wow. Ramming speed? 4 spindly legs?
ahahahaha PERFECT.
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11:29 pm
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elections...
Every election year I lose a little bit of faith in a democracy where anyone can vote.
First off, I almost wonder if it would be better to require people to pass some sort of IQ test, a critical-thinking test, and require people to take a civics class to be able to earn the right to vote.
Second, what ever happened to real debates? We don't have real debates anymore. In a real debate, the participants must actually address the questions given to them, instead of skirting the question and running through their talking points and catchphrases. Then come the rebuttals, and all that other good stuff.
Third, I must say that I absolutely loathe those political shows on CNN where they have two guests yelling over each other without really saying anything.
All of this is in addition to my dislike of the plurality voting system.
HOORAY FOR VENTING ABOUT THINGS SOME MIGHT SAY I DON'T REALLY KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT.
edit: I forget where I saw it, but I read someone say that in some countries voting is mandatory. I really dislike that idea. I really don't want people that would normally be too lazy or too apathetic to vote having any say in anything. If this set of people were forced to vote, on what would they base their decisions? If they normally wouldn't put out the effort to vote, I doubt they'd put out the effort to try to make an informed decision. They'd be cannon-fodder for these hollywood style campaigns, and our elections would be even closer to Beauty Pageants or Popularity Contests or whatnot.
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11:11 pm
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might as well say something
just because it's been a while.
Not much new. Working way too many hours and getting nowhere. Decent pay, but the security is so terrible that I can't really do anything yet.
whatever.
Aside from work, there hasn't really been anything going on.
Current Mood:  frustrated
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02:22 am
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Status update: not much change
Still got the undirected hate-mode going on, but it's at a simmer instead of a boil now.
*shrug*
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03:36 am
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Hmm. Odd.
filled with an undirected, baseless hate lately.
Really generalized. Not really focused on any one person or group of people.
to quote Chuck Palahniuk (because I'm too lazy to write anything myself)
"I wanted to breathe smoke.
Birds and deer are a silly luxury, and all the fish should be floating.
I wanted to burn the Louvre. I'd do the Elgin Marbles with a sledgehammer and wipe my ass with the Mona Lisa."
The only concrete thing I've got in my head out of all of this is just that I'm sick of always giving everyone the benefit of the doubt, especially when I probably wouldn't get the same in return. I should actually let myself get pissed off about things it would be reasonable for me to be pissed off about.
Current Mood: irate
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