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Nov. 12th, 2009
09:19 am
Last night I babysat for I family I sit for on a regular basis. They usually pay me between 10 and 12 dollars an hour, but last night when I got home, I noticed that they only gave me $70 for working 9 hours.
I know this had to have been a mistake, so I texted the mom saying "Hey _______, I know it was probably a mistake, but I just noticed that ________ only gave me $70 for 9 hours..." It was around 1:20am, and the mom was pretty sauced at 1am when I left.
I haven't heard back from her yet....should I try again? I feel awkward, but I need to get paid for what I worked. Mind you, they were 2 hours later than they had initially said they'd be...
08:20 am
Are your nuts rancid? Have you ever put a rancid nut in your mouth? Do rancid nuts make you nauseous? What do you do to mask the odor of rancid nuts? Do you wish nuts would stop going rancid? If you were queen/king of the world would you ban rancid nuts everywhere? How do you measure the rancidity of a nut? Can nut rancidity be detected by licking a nut or does said nut need to actually be bitten? When rancid nuts are presented to you do you politely say "no thank you" or slap them away with the back of your hand? Would you refuse your boss's rancid nuts? Do you enjoy nuts when they're not rancid or are you just not a nut person, period?
06:47 am
I was laid off last month. I have started the job hunt, but it hit me yesterday, I'm terrified to get a new job. I'm positive I'm going to fail miserably at whatever the new job is, and I'll get my ass fired. Has anyone else had this experience? Do you have any advise on how to get over it?
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blah07:20 am - DC Update
I had this book about the Beatles when I was a kid and there was a photo in it of Paul standing around outside the Magical Mystery Tour bus and the caption said "Paul, waiting for the magic to begin." I don't know why that sticks with me, but it's one of those things embedded in my head. Waiting for the magic to begin. The truth, a lot of times, I've discovered, while making parenthetical asides so I can use more commas, is that while you thought you were waiting for the magic to begin, the magic was already happening.
So ... Tuesday I went to Washington DC to photograph three Supreme Court Justices, it was basically 12 hours of prep and setup for 30 seconds of actual shutter button pushing. I did get to listen to Justices Breyer, O'Connor and Kennedy talk for an hour and a half or so beforehand about Thurgood Marshall, cases they'd agreed on, cases they hadn't, all of which was pretty nice. I've photographed all of them before on several occasions, so the initial awkwardness that's sometimes there was gone but Justice O'Connor's husband, ill with Alzheimer's for twenty years, had taken a turn for the worse and she left quickly to get on a plane and go to the hospital to see him. I'm left powerfully impressed with her ability to deal with his illness for so long and with such strength -- with her ability to function in the face of such adversity, to talk with colleagues and have your photo taken and simply move from one place to another. She watched her husband of half a century slowly forget who she was and then watched him fall in love with another woman in the same assisted living center, and then watched him fade completely. John O'Connor died the following afternoon at the age of 79.
Flags were at half staff to honor the victims of Ft. Hood, but I'm now reminded that people go through powerful and tragic losses every day, and some of them deal with it with incredible grace and determination. I wish I had a flag for them.
I spent most of Tuesday taking photos with my iPhone waiting for the magic to begin, but really, it was already there.
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accomplished07:32 am - Power's Garden
Power's Garden by Dianne Ebertt Beeaff
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Written with such gorgeous language, this novel set in the drought stricken Gila Valley in Arizona is a sweeping, emotional epic. The Mormon Beechams and Texan rancher Brennicks are two very different families, coming together and clashing, struggling with the effects of war, weather, love, and religion. I really enjoyed this novel; the landscape is described so beautifully and I didn't want to put it down. I didn't know anything about this part of the country, especially during the WWI era. Fascinating book that I'd recommend to everybody!
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okay06:52 am - Book Review: Wally Lamb's WISHIN' AND HOPIN'
Hi Friends,
Here is my book review of Wally Lamb's heartwarming and laugh-out-loud holiday novella, WISHIN' AND HOPIN' (just released by Harper): http://www.examiner.com/x-3859-Hart
Be well,
John
05:03 am
How much money would you be willing to pay to spend an hour in a room full of puppies? Let's say there's ten of them, various breeds all at their peak of cuteness.
What about kittens?
I would easily shell out at least 20 bucks, probably more if I was having a bad day.
10:10 am
If you are feeling good today will you please tell me why?
if you are answering i'm assuming the Yes part so please just tell me why
10:07 am
If i'm a UK 10, (I think that's a US 6) will an XL threadless t-shirt (printed on american apparrel) fit like a dress?
X-posted
09:04 am - Families, who'd have em?
Lose yourself respect by apologising to someoone who treated You like shit or Lose the oppotunity to see half your family for the next few years?
12:45 am
What are some small, unusual things that give you a feeling of inordinate satisfaction? What little things give you a lift in the otherwise dreary everyday? Be creative and honest...
I just emptied my spam email folder and actually gave a happy little sigh.
02:38 am
do you twitter?
if you twitter can i follow you? (please insert name here)
no one i know twitters. its kind of boring.
01:13 am
I feel like I'm posting a lot tonight, sorry :( I have no one to ask about this and usually you guys are good with school advice.
I'm not doing so great in school this semester. I already withdrew from a class I know I would have ended up failing, and I'll probably still fail another. The rest of my grades will either be 2 Cs and a B, or 1 C and 2 Bs, depending on how the next two tests go. I'm just not feeling school. I've always been a great student, so I have no idea what's up. I've gone through a lot recently, I guess, but I don't know that it's what's affecting me. I've just sort of lost the will to get up, go to class, and study/do my work.
If my GPA goes below a 2.0, I'll lose my scholarship. It's from my dad's work, so he'll be LIVID. I don't think it'll drop below a 2.0, but it'll come close. My dad will be disappointed and angry either way. It's my education, but he pays for the part that his work doesn't, and he's always had high expectations of me and it SUCKS to disappoint him because he gets mopey and depressed for weeks afterward.
I'm thinking about taking a break next semester and hopefully getting a job and just working, then returning to school that summer or maybe next fall. But I don't know if my scholarship will pick me back up if I don't go in the Spring, and I'm terrified to even bring it up to my dad. I just am not feeling it and I feel like if I'm just going to do poorly again, there's no reason for me to go until I get my shit together.
How should I go about bringing this up to my dad in the nicest way possible? What do you think I should do, TQC? Take a break, or suck it up and continue going to college so I can get out of there faster?
10:41 pm
Will you please tell me everything you did today?
If you've done nothing today, make something up.
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