Okay, will someone give me both sides of the Obama firing inspector Walpin story?

From what I heard this inspector had investigated the mayor of Sacramento from when he was a leader in americore for misusing funding. He found him guilty of misusing funds in such ways as paying for personal services. The inspector then gave public comments on his findings. He was just ask to resign or be fired and then was fired without being given 30 days. It was said that he was fired because he didn't give figures on how much money was wasted and gave public statements without backing.


So I only have the basics and they are probably not all the complete truth. Someone should let me know what is going on and everyone else should let me know what they think.

roooooooock lobster. ROCK LOBSTER!!!


Random question to anyone who cares to answer. When birds are circling around forming their own sort of bird tornado, what are they doing? Resting? Regrouping? Planning to attack someones car?

No, really, I have no clue. PLEASE TELL ME!!!!!!

More pictures to follow.

Wowzers. I was unaware that it had been four months since my last post. Even then most of the random tid bits of words I post are usually catch-up posts. So here we are again, back to the usual. Since the last post I have moved into a new apartment, graduated, and am getting laid on a regular basis. So I guess all is good in the world right now. Unfortunately the dichotomy of the world breaks down once again, as there is more to each of these stories than originally inferred.

So I moved into a new apartment and all was going good for the first few days. Don't get me wrong, this apartment is fun, unfortunately it is also full of crazies. As my landlord likes to say, "you gotta pay rent, but the entertainment is free". Since I've typed some of these things on my other blog, a lot of this will be cut from other sources.... for those of you who read my other blog... suck it up! To make it easier, the abridged version will come first, followed by my other two posts.

I guess the most notable change in my life was the arrival of the little red and black pipe bomb in the mail. It was the final signal telling me that it was time to enter the real world, whether I wanted to or not. Although it may have well exploded in my face, it was really just a piece of paper (albeit a piece that cost me thousands of dollars). So now I have a degree and a headache from hell wondering where the hell I'm going to get a job for a year before I enter back into school. For anyone who has ever been to Athens, you feel my pain when I say that there is no job market here. It's a service industry town fueled by the 20 or 30,000 kids who go to school here. As for a few years ago, it was ranked one of the poorest counties in the nation (since most of the wealth is brought in by the kids who go to school here and leave when they finish). According to wikipedia, "is the fifth-poorest county in the United States among those with populations over 100,000. [6]" So there you have it, and there goes my chances of finding a good job in the mean time. I start a part time job in Madison, Ga on Thursday (at least in the field I am trying to get into). A half hour commute is going to suck, but it's only 3 days a week. If anyone has any books on tape to suggest just let me know! I'll be trying to get something bit torrent-y to make some cds for the drive. In other news, my piercings are going to be retired. I can't have them with the job I want... and it's a job I really want.

Crazy Neighbors, the sequel:
After the crack whore dissappeared in the middle of the night only to have her family come get her stuff, the crazy old schizo aids lady walked naked to to church across the street. After that the redneck neighbor and his girlfriend decided to have a reasonable argument in the parking lot. By reasonable I mean reasonably wasted, and by argument I mean to say that he smashed a whole six pack on her car, busting her windshield and headlights. The night before that some bicyclist was hit at the intersection in front of my apartment. Ironically enough it was the guy on the bike that was drunk, not so funny is the fact that he's probably dead now. When I saw him, he didn't really look so good, and the cops that came the next night to arrest the neighbor said the EMT's said he didn't look so good either. So now another neighbor is off her meds and very vexing. She keeps yelling at me trying to give me clothes, trying to give other neighbors toilet paper, trying to show everyone pictures of her son that was taken away, breaking picture frames on her front porch, and yelling at my other neighbor saying that his, "mother is married to god. Don't you act like you don't know what I'm talking about!" She claims she's been waiting her whole life to talk to god and that when she finally did she got into an argument with him and called him an asshole. Got to love them crazies.

Homefront:
all is good and well. I'm not quite a veggie again, but pretty damn close. boy doesn't eat meat and so I'm not using it to cook. I still need to quit smoking, and hopefully I will. If anyone has any ideas other than candy or patches, let me know!!!!

So here are the other posts.... if you've made it this far... get out while you still can!!!!



The Racoon and the Vulture

I figured that eventually I should post a blog to let those of you who I haven't seen in a long time know how it's hanging. Lately I've sacrificed my social life on the alter of UGA only to get some shitty facts that I probably won't retain for more than another month. I feel like I got jipped, but at least I will eventually get something out of it. I know what you're thinking, "but that's what you said about those first two degrees." Not so. This one will actually get me where I want to be. Like a magical credit card that will take you on those cruises and posh vacations to the carribbean (only to realize that they are appealing to customers who will rack up debt doing so and then file bankruptcy later... so I guess the joke's on them). Long story short. This summer semester has stolen what last semblance of a soul I had left. Unlike the regular semester for O'chem, there is no drop test. There is no bonus. There is no sainity. There is no life. There is only mechanisms and the hope for a better world (the better world part just sounded right in my head since the rest of it sounded like a movie trailer. You know, with the guy talking in a deep voice and all to make it seem like their shitty movie may have suspense, thrills, and possibly throat cancer.)

As for the new apartment, I'm enthralled. I've been hanging out with Laura and Jenn a good bit as well as some of my other lovely neighbors. I just adore the fact that I can "stay home" and not in that boring 80 yr old woman way. When people ask me how I've been I can say, "oh, just hanging out out my house" as if it were a bore, when that could be the furthest thing from the truth. Well, besides politics anyway. I'd rather not go into all of the details due to the fact that I'm sure no one wants their business all over the internet for countless people to live vicariously through; however I will leave some juicy tid-bits for those who have actually read this far. You deserve something for being so patient, and I'm sure sending you a jpeg of a cookie probably won't suffice. So here we go with the infamous listing:
-cop is talking to someone through a door and you hear them yell back only to here the cop retort,"no ma'am. Please don't pee on me."
-Crackheads should not carry bags of clothes with them when trying to "commit suicide". I don't think they are egyptian, I don't think they think they're egyptian, and I'm almost positive they weren't a nuabian since they weren't being a complete dickhead.
-Don't aggro the dragon. it's never worth it.
-plastic chairs are more durable than you would expect. They also have the capability of flight as well.
-63 year olds (ish) should remain clothed at all times.... even if you do "say" that people look at you like you're 35
-Jesus is coming. We should all get naked. (I should use that excuse next time I'm trying to break the ice at a party)
-I have no idea how to grill, but chicken is supposed to be black, right?

on a more random note, I watched stanger than fiction last night. for those of you who have never been blessed with this experience, let me relay it to you. You can watch it through my eyes, my mind, my bullshit. It has a very douglass adams meets the movie pi feeling to it. It's quirky, it's amazing, it's fairly predictable. Although you may find yourself, as I did several times, saying what the character will say a few seconds before they say it... It does not diminish the worth of the movie. It's refreshing in that it has it's quirks. It has scenes to admire with their poignant messages coming across in full force (i.e. the cupcake sign shedding off water in the rain) and also has great camera work to analyze. Granted nothing is left to the imagination since they foreshadow everything so much and straight out tell you what the character is thinking (a'la old greek plays with their soliloquies and monologues), but it is very entertaining never the less.So there you are. That's the movie for ya. Judge for yourself since I'm really no movie critic.

Well, I'll get back to the real world now. I can feel myself slipping into the internet world. My words are diminishing to elipses and brb's, I have the overcompulsing urdge to complain about social drama, and I don't know why, but I feel like I need more picture up that I've taken of myself in the bathroom mirror or the emo shot from above the head. I must get out now!

oh yeah, and this morning I saw a vulture pulling a dead racoon out of the road... in the exact same location where the crackhead was laying when we found him.
So as for the subject line, this is one that doesn't have an explanation that is lurking hidden at the end of the post. For once there is no poem, no funny story, nothing. Out of all of the catch phrases that have been circulating around this past week, this is all I will leave you with. Spending time trying to pick the best one did leave me laughing hysterically for about twenty minutes, but to no avail. So all you get is some shitty words that made you think you were about to read an Aesop fable.
The End

Woot. I have some time off school for the first time in years (granted I have to go back in June, but I will neglect to remember that when I'm killing off brain cells this month).

So here's the abridged update for teh homies:
-I move on Sunday, so I've been busy packing. One never realizes how much pointless shit they own until they have to cram it into boxes. Although I'll probably be better at tetris after this weekend.
-I'm going to have some time off between now and July 6th, so I'll probably be coming to visit some of you delinquents in ATL. Just say the word... but I may abduct your couch when I'm up there.
-The 25th Toli invitational was badass. I only came out with a few bruises and a broken ego from playing the choctaw, but it was awesome!!! I've been playing choctaw stickball a lot more lately and it is my new favorite thing in the whole world (I've only been playing for about 1 1/2 years though... so it will only get better).


Really that's about it. I'll see you guys around!

Between social drama bullshit and school, I've found myself lost in the mix. i guess it's just an interesting time of beginning and trying to forget again. In the past few weeks I've grown distant from everyone I've known and am starting to build back up again, so you may not hear from me again for a while. I find out in a week or two whether or not I get into grad school, I'm trying to find a house to move into with a new roommate (she's pre-vet and in a bunch of my classes), and I think I'm going to try and quit smoking (again). I guess it really is a new beginning.

Oh, and for some odd reason I've been listening a lot to a band called city and color. I'd never heard of them before this, but they're pretty badass. Or at least sad and slightly poppy/folksy which matches my mental landscape at the moment.

Yes! One year closer to menopause... I can't wait.

On a serious note though, I feel like today has the potential to be a really good day if I let it. Things have been going fairly well lately and I'm pretty content with the people I surround myself with. Tonight we are going to have the biggest bonfire ever with drunken zombies... because really, what better way to celebrate the day I came out of my mother covered in blood and screaming then to cover myself in fake blood, drink some, and run around in the middle of nowhere?

well, I'll post some pictures of the results later! I'm off to run a bunch of errands for tonight!

Just to let everyone know who is interested, there will be a lunar eclipse on the 20th. If you want a schedule of what's going on when in your area, just hit up this NASA website and click on your timezone!

lunar eclipse sched.

Everything is going pretty well over here. Here;s a blake poem to make your day!



The Nature of Infinity

The nature of Infinity is this: That every thing has its
Own Vortex; and when once a traveller thro' Eternity
Has pass'd that Vortex, he perceives it roll backward behind
His path, into a Globe itself enfolding, like a sun,
Or like a moon, or like a universe of starry majesty,
While he keeps onwards in his wondrous journey on the Earth,
Or like a human form, a friend with whom he liv'd benevolent.
As the eye of man views both the East and West, encompassing
Its vortex, and the North and South with all their starry host,
Also the rising sun and setting moon he views, surrounding
His corn-fields and his valleys of five hundred acres square.
Thus is the Earth one infinite plane, and not as apparent
To the weak traveller confin'd beneath the moony shade.
Thus is the Heaven a Vortex pass'd already, and the Earth
A Vortex not yet pass'd by the traveller thro' Eternity.

It's beautiful. The end.

New poll:

Emotion investment and sex!

So I have found lately that I really enjoy sex with one night stands or people that I have been with for a while and am really comfortable with. However, the 'getting to know you' sex with people that I'm starting to be really interested in can sometimes be very awkward (but still enjoyable).

What are your thoughts on the matter?

Ok, so here I am. I finally had enough money to buy a computer! Wish I could say that a lot of interesting things have happened since I last talked to a lot of you, but it's really the same old stuff around here. Athens really doesn't change much to begin with, but it changes even less when you are a student here. Luckily I think I should be done with a lot of my stuff by the end of the summer. I'm assuming that I won't get into the program I'm trying for this fall. However, I think the year break for me to apply again is much needed.

school, work, sleep, lather, rinse, repeat.

On an even brighter note, not only did I finally buy this magic box I call a computer, but I also got a cheap digital camera for chrimi from the fam. Pretty soon we'll have to test this baby out and see what it can do. Plus I've changed a good bit in the many many years since I've had a ton of pictures up. My new treadmill complements of the fam also (which I don't know whether to feel happy or insulted about since I asked for it) should come in handy for that though. Realistically I'll also probably have to cut back on the mounds of cigs I've been consuming to even try that daunting task.

"How'd you get stomach cancer again?"
"Eating cigarette butts.... you through with that?"

Well, I have class really early in the morning. I guess I should head to bed.

really, why didn't anyone tell me that the world existed before noon? Not that It would have changed my sleeping habits, but it's the principle of the matter