justanotherjames

Okay, this is a total "man post" which in and of itself sounds phallic and therefore supremely manly, but I was having a random, late night, coming down with a minor cold kinda thought and I realized, that if I'm not already there, I'm pretty close to having needed to shave on at least a semi-regular basis for half of my life. Weird...

I just got done watching a really good/cripplingly depressing movie on Netflix called "The High Cost of Living" with Zach Braff. Man...it's a different kind of movie, but it's good to see old Braff in a movie again, he's been kinda of low profile since Scrubs went off the air, aside from being the voice in those Pur water filter commercials. On a separate note,...
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So in a new development at my job, it seems a number of inmates are under the impression that I am an undercover Federal agent posing as a Correctional Officer, this pleases me.

As I sit here...staring down thirty...I wonder where I went wrong, insofar as, the standard growing up timeline. Granted I was the youngest and the only boy, but I look at my peers what with wives and/or committed partners. My sister who is three years older than me was married for damn near five years when she was my age. Granted she's a much more...
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Never a day a work without a story worth telling.

You know, honestly this schedule isn't that much different then when I was tending bar. Differences include going to work earlier, getting off work earlier, being consistently paid, being insured, being able to tell most of the people who are acting ignorantly to "shut the fuck up" and probably having a higher likelihood of a person wishing to do me grievous bodily harm. Monday and...
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So...yeah...C.O. I is absolutely an out there job. Went in for my first day on Sunday, got assigned to the fifth floor of CJC (City Justice Center) which is "the hole". Now, for those of you not familiar or fond of prison drama, "the hole" is where they send the nasty bastards who don't play well with others. So, that's where we go and it's...
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One more day of training, then I graduate on Friday, I feel like graduate should be in quotation marks, anything that only took a month doesn't really feel like a graduation to me, though it has been a rather enlightening month. I finished up my speech in class on Tuesday, it was submitted to the lieutenant and I've not heard anything about it being inappropriate,...
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I've almost comedown from the abject joy of the World Series, me and my best friend Matt were in the stadium for the post parade celebrations, it was an amazing atmosphere, just great moods and conviviality floating all around the city (aside from the one bitch on Market St. who yelled at me for orienting her chair slightly to the left so I could pass...
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Wow baseball...just wow. People gush about football, people gush about hockey and I'll admit, despite it being my birthright, it took me awhile to understand and appreciate baseball, but man...once you do, there's nothing like it. Thursday night in the course of an hour, I went from being convinced we weren't able to take a game six to being entirely convinced we couldn't possibly lose...
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