i am so pissed.

just got through looking at this...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2U-rMImn4PQ

why in the FUCK do the liberal bleeding heart peacenik idiots like Susan Saranwrap and her bestest buddy Charlie Sheen insist that 9/11 was was a conspiracy by Bush when all the evidence points to the contrary??? jeez louise. how blind. Susan will just love it when she's wrapped in a fuckin burqa too.

Damn.

NEVER FORGET. EVER.

And oh yeah, school too.

Well, made it through the Oral Communications class, A-. No, Mr Wilds wasn't any more focused in this one than he was in the last one. Example: team consists of me, Richter, Sha', and Jonathan. We completely BS'd our way through the major team presentation of 10 powerpoint slides in 20 minutes. For being so damn vague in terms of the actual assignment, he was cutting absolutely no slack with timing and slide explanation. We got 3 points taken off total of 15; 1 of these points was for going over by 30 seconds. 30 seconds !!! Whatever. My grade point average is now 3.83. still A.
My new teacher is Mr Davidson who is about 5ft tall and very metrosexual. If he's not gay, he's missing a very good chance. Nice guy, but he's a clinical psychologist by education and has this weird way of staring through you for about 5 seconds once you answer a question. A bit disconcerting, that. No big deal, really; just takes a bit of getting used to. He also expects us to actually read (gasp!) the assigned information; Wilds could've cared less. Having to get used back to that too.
Anyway, it's 10pm. Did yardwork once I got home.. weedeaters are fun!.. and had my learning team online chat. I now must go shower and go to bed so I will be useful in the morning.

ALERT. BITCHY RANT FOLLOWING....

I am SO not happy with my job right now.. we had some major weather systems come through here on Friday 4/7 which came pretty close to my work. There are 3 floors and 2 wings to the building; the entire east wing is empty, as is the third floor of the west wing. I work on the first floor of west, therefore 1W. Severe thunderstorm warnings & tornado watches and warnings all friggin day; however, it did not even rain at my work til almost 3:30pm. This may have contributed to the following decision, I don't know.
Here's what basically happened; at about 4pm one of the guys from 2W came down to get his 7 1/2mos pregnant wife who works with me. He said Long Term Care (the company he works for, used to own who I work for, loooong story) was evacuating the building due to tornado warnings around the airport. The 50 or so people who work on 2W had been in the interior hallway since about 3:15pm, and their management had decided to send them home.
WE DID NOT HEAR A SINGLE DAMNED THING FROM OUR MANAGEMENT. NOTHING. NADA. ZIP. ZERO.
They were being sent home whilst we were answering phones and completely unaware of anything close. Most of us had one of the local weather websites up (Channel 5, Ch 4, Weather.com, something) but no streaming video (won't let us) or internet radio (ditto, eats up too much bandwidth sez the IT gods. whatever). One person had a radio on our floor and heard about a warning near the airport; brought it to supervisor's attention but don't know what happened to it after that. Bad thing is, one of the assistant supervisors has family that lives in Sumner Co; she was absolutely frantic and could not wait to get out of there to go check on her dad & grandmother.
Here's my thing: If management's decision is to keep us on the phones, at least make it look like you give a shit by saying, "we think you'll be safer here than out on the street trying to get home" or some bullshit like that. We didn't even get that. I am really trying to see why I should stay with a company who would rather us meet their fucking service levels than see if their employees are safe or not.
I am seriously considering looking for another job. In Nashville's market right now, that is not an easy decision to make. I have to pray and think about it, ask advice, network, etc. I am going to need a lot of help and support.

y'know, I really should post more often.

got this from a blog i read most every day at lunch. topic this day was slamming Alec Baldwin (guy from Red October, Kim Basinger's ex) where Ann Coulter got him between the legs, so to speak. referring to him as Arec Bardwin referencing the movie Team America where Kim Jong-Il calls him that.. found this nifty bit o'wisdom...

The tactic of shouting down a speaker to prevent them from speaking is not a valid expression of freedom of speech. Rather the contrary.

Found this bit o'misogyny too from Lileks...

As for Katie Couric taking over the CBS news: if you spot me a whoop, I could probably muster a de-do, but I'd have to borrow the de, and I'm not putting down a deposit. My paper has the story on the front page, above the fold, with a big photo of La Femme Perqui (SNORT !! ..ed.); the headline reads NEW ANCHOR, NEW ERA.

"Captain Smith, you stand relieved. I'll take the helm."
"Thank you, Mr. Lightoller."

Snicker. like anyone watches CBS anymore anyway.

even more heh.

A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost.
She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 4909 minutes west longitude.
She rolled her eyes and said, "You must be a Republican."
"I am," replied the man. "How did you know?"
"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help to me."
The man smiled and responded, "You must be a Democrat."
"I am," replied the balloonist. "How did you know?"
"Well," said the man, "you don't know where you are or where you're going. You've risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, now it's my fault."

heh.

how bored am i? here ya go.

***You Are Jan Brady***

Brainy and a little introverted, you tend to think life is a lot worse than it actually is. And while you may think you're a little goofy looking, most people consider you to be a major babe.

What Brady Are You?

http://www.blogthings.com/whatbradyareyouquiz/

Wow. Now that's chutzpah.

Fake Chicago university scored Final Four tickets
By Frank Mathie March 28, 2006 -
It's almost impossible to get tickets to college basketball's Final Four tournament. Many years ago some creative people in Chicago found a way to get tickets by creating their own phantom school. It was called Maguire University.
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Kelly's Pub on Webster has been headquarters for DePaul fans since the early 1930's, but every year at this time there is a change of allegiance. Kelly's Pub is suddenly transformed into Maguire University, founded in 1963. Some of the students even have class rings.
"Maguire University started basically with a bunch of high school coaches on the West Side who used to hang out in a place called Maguire's Pub in Forest Park," said John Kelly, dean of Maguire University Fun and Frolic. Those coaches created Maguire University, a fake college, so they could get tickets to the Final Four each year. The NCAA fell for the scam and Maguire U was an official school. "We got away with our ticket allotment for two years and then Bill Jauss broke a story in the Chicago Tribune about it, and from then on the NCAA didn't take too much of a liking to it," Kelly said.
Maguire U then had to acquire their own tickets, and they moved to their new administration building at Kelly's Pub, and for 44 straight Final Fours they have partied at the Big Dance. But the students there still like to laugh about the times Division I teams tried to set up games with little Maguire. "Yes, the Air Force Academy," said Art Duffy, career student at Maguire University. "They called and asked for a game." Of course they couldn't. They didn't really exist, but it sure is a great college to attend -- for life.
Lyle Sammons is majoring in Final Four festivities What does Maguire University do for him? "Nothing." But what about that "Final Five" title?
They say they are always the fifth team at the Final Four.