January 2010
18 posts
Anonymous asked: What caused the economic crisis that we are in?
Massachusetts Congressional Districts Map (.pdf) →
In case you were wondering:
The district I’m looking to represent is Mass First. I still have a lot of stuff to do, it seems, before I even end up on the ballot, but I’m working on it. Well, not right now, as it’s Saturday and the offices are closed. But you know. I live in Amherst there, which is why I’m trying to run in that district. Technically, I don’t have...
Updates!
What’s new, you probably didn’t ask but maybe now are thinking you’d like to? One step ahead of you!
-Got some kind of stomach bug. Hit me at work on Saturday night. I started to feel a bit sick before lunch, and within a couple hours I was throwing up and being sent home early. Haven’t been able to keep down anything aside from fruit and bread ever since without a...
To know where you're going, it's good to look at... →
On Conan
There’s a lot of talk about Conan on here today. Now, I’ve not watched much of his stuff, to be honest with you. For most of the time since I last had a bedtime, I’ve been pretty nocturnal. Which sounds like I should have seen it more, but I spent most of that time either working midnight shifts or doing stuff with my friends that didn’t involve a tv. I’ve seen a...
Just checking in real quick, with two notes to make.
1.) I have Skype now. Thought I’d try it out, see what the deal is, you know. I know of a whopping two people I know who use it, and one is my roommate. I’m not doing the whole phone number thing with it, though, but if you use it I can be reached as n1ghtcrwler whenever I’m home. Or somewhere else with internet, I guess. ...
Sitting at Panera Bread drinking chai and checking tumblr. I’m that guy. I even have the beard.
Well, see, I wanted to download this update for this program I have before I go back to work (worked Friendly’s last evening, then Wal*Mart overnight, and now going back to Friendly’s), and this was the only place between the two jobs that had internet access. So, here I am,...
The very last space shuttle launch is scheduled...
Listen.
I need to be there.
I found the 'ask me a question' function →
I also found the submissions function, and was debating turning that on, but not yet. I will if I feel like I’m going to be gone significantly more than I feel I will be in the next week or so.
Alright, here’s the thing. I kind of feel guilty putting this up because I’ve hardly ever asked any of you anything. Fact is, I’m not very good at it. Oh, I can ask questions...
I’m more or less back, but currently trying to mash up the qualities I like from about five different themes to change my page. If by chance any of you go there and it isn’t working, try again later.
By the way, where’d this new ask function come from? I don’t see it anywhere. Really, tumblr is getting very inquisitive lately. I may just try it sometime. As long as it...
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“Hey There Ophelia” - MC Lars
The...
I know it wasn't terribly popular
but I rather liked 2009. Aside from my car dying, I don’t really have much negative to say about it (as far as the things occuring directly in my life are concerned). Everything else, no matter how bothersome it seemed at the time, has by now shown itself to be part of setting up for what I hope will turn out quite well this year. I like the direction I’m headed and I look forward...
On Online Dating
Me: Yeah, no one writes me on there.
Chris: I get the most hilarious people, though.
Me: Well, you know.
Chris: I mean, some of Andy's friends apparently use this ChristianMingle site, too.
Me: I tried eHarmony. They said they had no one they could match me with.
Chris: Maybe you should try another site.
Me: eHarmony said that I'm not compatible with human beings.
Chris: Well, in your region.
Me: I removed the distance restrictions.
Chris: Dang.
Me: I can't help but think Jack the Ripper would've gotten at least two.
Chris: "Well, you like to dice up women. You have a real interest here..."
Goal for 2010
Him: So, what if you ask her out, and she says no?
Me: Then I accept that and look elsewhere. Hope she doesn't get weird about being around me.
Him: That's it?
Me: Yeah, why?
Him: Well, it just seems...odd.
Me: There isn't a relationship to have invested heavily into, so I haven't. I would like for there to be, but I can't base how I feel on things that haven't happened.
Him: I guess. I just can't ever separate like that.
Me: From what I can tell, your method is the more common one. Personally, I don't think it makes sense, but it doesn't have to. It's an emotional thing.
----Later, and there was a connection between the two but it was kind of long----
Me: Well, there were a few reasons I came up here, but yeah, one of them was her.
Him: ?
Me: Here's the thing. I had told her to get out of my life, but it wasn't the first time. It wasn't even the first time I'd meant it. Fact is, no matter what we did, if there was even the slimmest chance of us ending up back together, we always did. It didn't matter what the circumstances were, eventually we would run into each other and it would start all over again. And I could see that it wasn't going to stop as long as we were both in the same area. We would just keep going back and forth, coming together and breaking up, over and over, until one of us just snapped and killed the other.
Him: Oh...wow.
Me: I mean, I hear she's married now. And probably living in France, so we weren't going to be in the same area anymore, but you know.
Him: Well, at least she was married.
Me: Doesn't matter. I don't know if it was some twist of fate or a sick addiction, but we would've ended up together eventually anyway.
Him: You think she'd cheat on him with you?
Me: She did.
Him: ...oh.
Me: But the point is, my losing that job made me flexible enough to leave the area, getting some much-needed distance between her and I gave me the desire to leave, and Chris gave me somewhere to go that was far enough away, had some family around, and where I could help do some real good. So I went.
Him: But that isn't here.
Me: No. That was another entire set of circumstances. To be honest, I don't think I could have avoided at least passing through here.
Him: What do you mean?
Me: Looking back, I see a pattern. When I just let go, and let myself drift, I was slowly inching along the route that brought me here. When I tried to control my circumstances, they fell out from under me and I ended up being shoved along the same path anyway. Everything in my life for years now has converged on me being here, even when they had to fight pretty solid odds. I don't know that I'm always going to be here, but I suspect that no matter what I did, I would have come eventually anyway.
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Now I just need to find out why.
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“Auld Lang Syne” - Frank Sinatra &...