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St. Patrick's Day. Teetotaler living in a neighborhood not that far from two bars. Annoyed to say the least. I didn't wear green either. But I did listen to the Dropkick Murphys in the office all night long.

Almost done training the new girl on all she needs to know so we can have her working alone some nights. Will be such a welcome relief...
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I tend to be a hermit. Keeping strange hours at work helps the process, especially in a sleepy town where they roll up the sidewalks around 9 p.m. and the only people out past midnight are cops and the inebriated. Sometimes I like it, sometimes I don't.

These days I'm working a weekend shift for about a month, all by my lonesome. There was a...
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Day off. Listening to Social Distortion with some Weezer tossed in here and there. Not much going except a planned nap in the afternoon. A day of nothing but relaxation. No deadlines. No arguing with reporters or editors. No having to check the wire to see if the latest thing to blow up needs to the make the front page or not.

Been thinking about...
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Two notes about working in news...

1) You know you've been in it too long when you find yourself think, "Save the attempted assassinations for the days I'm working, people. I want something interesting to put on page one, too."

2) It's funny how a news organization's deadlines get all fucked up by a homoerotic hobby where men chase each other around and wrestle one...
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It's a tired cliche, but I swear it's like every woman I like or have any interest in gravitates toward men who treat them like shit. Maybe I should work on being an angry dick like I used to be in the past, though I was never one to treat women poorly.

Like I said...a tired cliche. So is life sometimes.

Been off and hibernating all week, which goes well alongside the snowfall we've been receiving. I really can't stand the cold. How about we give up on the east coast entirely during the winter months?

Been thinking about getting a cat since I've been a few months without one and miss having a furball sleeping and purring next to me on these cold snowy nights....
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Worked today. Get to work every day through until Thursday of next week. Then I get to go back that Friday. Gonna be a fun two weeks, though I guess I shouldn't complain since I'll be getting some overtime.

Just me and a trainee working on Thanksgiving, too. Somehow I predict I'll be giving our sports guy some pages to lay out if the newspaper...
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Said my final goodbyes to Snickerdoodle the Cat today and finally drew her suffering to an end with her falling asleep forever in my arms. I like to think she's at peace finally, but there's going to be little peace for me for a while. I'm going to miss feeling her curled up against me every night. The house feels an empty place now.

It really is quite amazing how we can be our own worst enemies at times, but I really don't feel like going into it right now. I just feel like going to sleep. Slept 12 hours before going into work today. Still feel like I should sleep another 24 more. That said, I've been asleep in other ways for far too long.

My cat, Snickerdoodle, has been sick for a while now - barely able to hold anything down, not nearly as active or chipper as her usual self, not greeting me at the door like a dog when I get home from work - and I think it's time for me to do the humane thing with her.

That kills me.

I've done it before with...
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