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I’ve been going to graduate school for the last three years, but I’ve been skipping the Falls semesters since I started. It always seemed that the Fall and Winter seasons are always busy and so I’ve avoided taking classes around this time of the year. This year was different. Every time you skip a semester you’re considered a drop-out and so you have to reapply to graduate school. The application fee is $50 and it…
Every year around this time, I’ll catch a moment on the radio or television where reporters will bring “something lighter” than the news they usually report. In that instant, I’m reminded that although the past year however long and on occasions wearisome it may have been, there were bright days that surprised and delighted. So in the spirit of the holidays, I’ll proceed to list a few of them. I found that family mattered to…
December is one of those months when there’s so many things happening that I’d wish they’d split it and make it into two separate months. I’d label them December and December Kicks Your Ass Again. I have too many things to do and not enough of me to do them all. Years prior to this one would have found me in a fairly good mood around this time of the year, even though I would…
Allow me put forth a scenario. There’s a person you’ve associated with for a while. Long enough for you to be comfortable with such that you can say inappropriate things and not give it a thought. Such thoughts include whether this person will think you’re a prick or lack social etiquette. In return you accord this person the same respect he/she’s offered you and not judge them on what he/she says however off-handed it might…
This post is an addendum to the long-winded onanism before the last one. This one will be a bit more brief, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. Even I was starting to get pissed at what a blowhard I was with that prior post. I started my first job in the middle of August ’96. The first week at any job is fairly uneventful. You’re given some tasks to get your oriented with the company…