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I am applying for a job that I really really hope I get, a photography job for preschoolers that will give me weekends and summers off. If I do that, I'll get to go to meets far more often. I miss going to meets.

There is also another possibility, with a wedding photography company, that will have me making as much in a day as I do now in a week. And I'd be happy with that, actually. I don't need to make tons of money, but I would *love* to have all that free time. I could use to pursue my own artistic endeavors, which may eventually make me some money, but not the point, really.

That would probably take up most of my weekends, but I'd be free to travel and visit people during the week which would be awesome.

So yeah. I'm ready for a step up and I hope something works out soon.

Maybe it's true I am a disaster.

Hey. People going to KoL Con. This fucking place is in Chandler. We should go. K.

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Good news: He is successfully moved into his new apartment.

Bad news: He will not have internet til Sunday, at best. So, no Balls Out show on Thursday.

I always feel a little bit like an impostor when I go to hardware stores.

This paragraph will lie to you in every sentence. That was not the last truth you will learn from this, although it might appear to be if you do not read closely. Beware the next sentence; it will flatter you with pretty words, but its heart is full of venom and bile. You have seen through its tricks. The preceding sentence was everything you were warned about, and more. All will be made clear in the second paragraph.

This paragraph will only tell you the truth. Tricks can be hidden in truths as well, but there are none of those here. There were no contradictions in the first paragraph. There will be none in the seventh paragraph; indeed, there will be no seventh paragraph at all. This knowledge is not important. Then again, importance is not as important as interest, which is why Trivial Pursuit is so popular but many people cannot find Darfur on a map. Darfur is important, but how many of Madonna's hits have reached number one is interesting. The third paragraph will not explain anything, but hold out hope nonetheless.

This paragraph will comfort and coddle you with soft and largely empty statements, sweetheart. You deserve a paragraph like this, after the confusion of the previous ones. You've done quite well to get so far. Many people would not have managed this. Your efforts are greatly appreciated, and have not gone unnoticed. The fourth paragraph will try to hurt you, but you must remember that it is striking out due to a sense of inadequacy at its failure to be able to clarify what's going on.

This paragraph will belittle you with hurtful comments masquerading as blunt truths, designed to strike at the fears you thought were secret -- which is no more than you deserve. Your friends find your habit of showing up late distasteful, and they mock your clothing choices while waiting for you. Check your cell phone call log; you'll notice that you place many more calls than you receive. This is not by chance. You will never look as good as you want to. You will always be an outsider. Your boss knows you have not been fulfilling your potential, and is preparing a reprimand. You're not fooling anyone. The fifth paragraph will tell you everything you need to know, if you were only smart enough to interpret it.

This paragraph will make subtle references, hinting at Shakespearean truths. Would that we were all as motivated as Ragnar Danneskjöld! Truly is it said, though, that sometimes you must run as fast as you can just to stay in place. Not all references are meant to be caught.

Think on this.

Online, smart people respond.

In person, smart people respond.

Online, idiots baleet/delete.

In person, idiots throw the first punch.

Obviously, you can tell the idiot because he can't respond.

Just an observation.

Take it as you will.

Back to the Cubs game. Fuck the Arizona Cardinals!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Three bagger? That was a triple!"

Yeah, I get the sarcasm,

I love you.

People who only post half of things said are fucktards.

People who attempt to call me a liar are worse.

People who insinuate that I'm an ass for marrying for love are ridiculous.

People who think everything said online is NOT a joke? Stupid.

People who send me a message then put me on ignore so I can't respond? Well, good-bye to you.

No, you can't see the sarcasm dripping off someone's lips in chat. It's hard to tell the difference.

Even if your entire life IS online chat. Which mine isn't .

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Hope none of you are offended.

<3 Much love
Amy

They said it couldn't happen, they tried to cancel it, but the MOO Party Is STILL happening this Thursday night at a NEW VENUE!( More )

But Nineveh has more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well. Should I not be concerned about that great city?

Jonah 4:11

In the passage above, God's rhetorically asking if he should destroy a bunch of innocents just because the city they're in is engineering their own destruction. And in the case of actual innocents -- those who not only don't know any better, but can't know any better -- I think that's a fair point.

However, I'm noticing an increasing number of "willful innocents" these days -- people who are refusing to be informed because they don't like what they're hearing. These people can quite honestly cry, "But I didn't know!" when the truth becomes inescapable, but I hardly feel that that should excuse them. They could have known; they just chose not to.

Al Gore recently argued that we need to pass legislation requiring 100% of our energy to be clean and renewable within ten years. This morning, I was reading a response by the ACCCE, a coalition of coal companies, in which they took him to task for his ridiculous claims.

Al Gore associated himself with the mainstream by claiming there is scientific certainty that climate change is an issue that must be addressed in a timely fashion...[H]e is not in the mainstream regarding what policy makers in the U.S. and around the world believe is necessary and achievable.

Those lines are from the first two paragraphs; the rest of the piece is spent attacking this straw man. In case you missed it, it could also be phrased as, "Al Gore says that scientists say one thing, when actually, politicians say something completely different!" There's no actual claim that he's wrong -- just the assertion that surely if he were right, someone in charge would have done something about it already.

Like Jonah, I'm having a hard time working up the desire to save these people from themselves. I don't have the option of running away to Tarshish; if they succeed in wrecking the environment, I'm going down with them. Perhaps some other prophet will come along and get them to don green sackcloth and renewable ashes. As for me, I'm just going to hang out under this vine and watch.

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TOME OF SNOW CONE SUMMONING!!

Other...stuff. You come. You listen. Oh yes. Mmmmhmmm.

Hot on the heels of Phyphor, please welcome Kakadesu to our DJ lineup!

His plan is to be on air Mondays at 4 AM Eastern time (which I believe is 8 AM GMT), so you Europeans and Australians will have a better chance of catching his shows than us Americans.

I think we need to reintroduce the concept of "survival of the fittest" into modern society. There's too much time and effort spent protecting people in wholly unnecessary ways -- or at least, ways that I hope are wholly unnecessary. The only thing more ridiculous than the warning labels telling you not to use your hair dryer in the bath is the idea that someone old enough to have purchased their own appliances might actually need this advice.

I don't think that anyone actually needs to be shielded from half of these things; I believe that the warnings and protections exist because there are people paid to think of the stupidest thing a human might do, and then caution us all not to do that. I have to believe this, as my faith in humanity is low enough as it is. It's just not safe for me to begin to think that folks actually need these things.

Case in point: I was just reading an article about a trailer for the upcoming Watchmen movie. MTV bills the piece as "Zack Snyder Reveals Secrets In 'Watchmen' Trailer," but I think the Onion's AV club was more accurate in their title, "The MPAA Thinks You're Stupid." Apparently, in the trailer, an assassin is shown preparing to shoot one of the characters. But for 12 frames, he points the gun directly at the camera -- or rather, he did in the original trailer. You see, the MPAA believes that were viewers to see a gun pointed directly at them, they might -- I don't know; it's not specified. They might scream, or flee, or cry "Fire!" in a crowded theater. They could be overcome with the vapors, or turn on fellow moviegoers in a sudden homicidal rage. We may never know, as the MPAA will only allow guns to be pointed at angles, at least in advertising. Once you go to see the actual movie, it's apparently on your own head; if you faint or vomit pea soup, it's your own fault for paying to be there.

Is this a real concern? Are there actually people unclear on the fact that the people inside the television set can't get out and hurt them? Are there actually enough of them that they represent a market force?

Actually, never mind. I probably don't really want to know the answers to these questions.

It looks like we'll be going to the greater St. Louis area after all. August 2.

[Go with the grace of the son of G.O.D.]

So I just got back from seeing The Dark Knight on IMAX.
I won't spoil anything but I will say a few things...
Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker blew my fucking mind.
I got goosebumps several times during the movie.
My heart beat out of my chest like the entire time.
I have such a nerdgasm for this movie, hardcore.

If you haven't seen it yet, for fuck's sake... it's probably the best Batman movie ever made.... go see it NOW. If you can see it in IMAX, do it, it's worth the money doubled.