December 2010
69 posts
“Everyone was so worried about who was going to want to see this movie, the...”
The Peoples Republic of the United States
One of my biggest concerns with society today is people’s lack of comprehension of reality. I was in a Federal Budgeting class last week and the asinine input that was offered up by my fellow classmates was astounding. “Will we be bought out by China?”. Seriously. Is this seriously a belief of Middle America? MIDDLE AMERICA. I’m talking about, the majority of our population. People are generally...
I struggle for all events that require me to dress up. Not feeling comfortable in dresses and loathing the “lesbians in ties” look, I never really know what to wear to stand out or simply just not wear Levis 511’s and a thermal. What can I do to dress it up..not trying too hard…a shabby chic if you will?
December 31, 2010: Baggage Claim
We decided to send out 2010 in style..anti detox, and baggage aplenty. plus equals
Office Pet Peeve of the day #4
M.i.c.r.o.w.a.v.e.a.b.l.e.p.o.p.c.o.r.n. In it’s entirety.
“The List”
– On Rosanne’s 18th birthday, her father wrote down a list of 100
essential country songs he felt Rosanne should know. Now, Rosanne
Cash’s album “The List” is up for a 2011 Grammy. Roseanne
Cash: The List
All Songs Considered: Listeners Pick the Best...
NPR All Songs Considered Best of 2010
Office Pet Peeve of the day #3
When I sneeze do not cross cube lines and yell over our fabricated walls to tell me that God blesses me. Mind your own damn business. Im sick over here; the last thing im concerned with is someone blessing me, least of all God.
Office Pet Peeve of the day #2
The government’s implied responsibility to “create” words. Offeror is not a real word. Neither is deobligation. Im tired of editing word documents that my supervisors would find to be completely correct but Microsoft believes they deserve a red squiggly underline.
Office Pet Peeve of the day
When people walk into the building and I’m holding the door open for them and instead of just continuing to walk through the door (which has been already opened for them) they consciously stop to ensure that they hit the handicapped access button so that the next door we walk through becomes automatically ajar as if it were gates entering into some sort of holy land. I am all for handicapped...
The world spins madly on
Pulling the sheets over your head doesn’t protect you. Doesn’t change the past present or future. The world still spins madly outside…but for a few minutes you are insulated. Unreachable. I pulled the cats under with me to share my new world if only for a few minutes. Stolen minutes from reality where you can forget everything thats going on. It’s like the ability to close...
The snow got my goat
How anticlimactic. Here I sit, 2 days after christmas in my cube. Without enough foresight to take annual leave today, I PRAYED for the first time in my adult life (as far as my memory serves) for snow. I rushed and gave myself indigestion yesterday trying to get home before this “blizzard”. Then I drank a 750 mL of a Rodenback while I stared out my window for hours waiting for...
“You’re pouting in your sleep I’m waking still yawning We’re proving to each...”
Happy Holidays From Skewville →
A combination cooking method using both moist and...
My insatiable craving for short ribs these past few weeks decidedly monopolized my Sunday. Hangover in tow, I dragged myself to the Harris Teeter because I knew I had to get these suckers in if they were to braise for the full 7 hours. patiently stirring the polenta A sexy slow braise… The final product. Culinary Success.
Fact: Bruce Springsteen’s “Santa Clause is Comin to Town” is the best christmas song ever.
Fact: its snowing.
Atomica and "the one with all the cheeses"
In honor of detox december i’ve tried picking up a new hobby that doesn’t involve booze, breasts, babes, etc. Unfortunately for me, I can’t seem to get away from that, and instead now I just TAKE PICTURES of booze, breasts, babes, etc.
Lovely little outing last night to the new Pizzeria Paradiso location on King Street in Alexandria.
I got a flemish sour ale.
and ate...
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“We knew that, politically, once you get it into law, it becomes almost...”
– Dan Bartlett, on the Bush Tax Cuts
Glee Cast - Baby It’s Cold Outside
Alternate Work Schedule
There’s a chilly calm as I look at those big windows into the December morning. You’ve just left me for work and ordered me to go back to sleep. “I should enjoy my morning to sleep in” you said..But its tough to tell you that once your warm body rolled out and into the shower this morning I’ve been unable to close my eyes. But thats the truth.
Now, you’ve left...
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible...”
– Albert Camus
2010
Pets acquired: 1
Number of full-time jobs I’ve had: 1
Number of shows I’ve been to: 24
Number of parking tickets received: Countless
Cities I’ve visited for 24 hours or more:
• Austin, TX
• Baltimore, MD
• Cape May, NJ
• Columbia, MD
• Farmville, VA
• Los Angeles, CA
• Nags Head, NC
• New York, NY
• Philadelphia, PA
• Pittsburgh, PA
• Rehoboth, DE
• Richmond, VA
• San Antonio, TX
• Virginia Beach, VA
Zeitgeist 2010: How the world searched →
In the search team we talk a lot about that people are always looking for new things with Google. In fact, about 20% of our queries are new each day. As it gets to be the end of the year, it’s a…
Houses - Soak It Up
Op-Ed Columnist: Still Digging →
While Washington is arguing over who won the tax-cut war, the United States is getting out-hustled and out-educated.
LAWTLDN
Taking a lunchtime adventure out into the frigid depths of the arctic today, over to Borders at Farragut North. One great thing about being in the career field of acquisitions: I’ve become pretty good at procuring things for myself. Today’s purchase: Look at What The Light Did Now, ON HOLD UNDER GREEN…The Feist Documentary which follows her hushed indie folk throughout the...
Deadmau5 - I Can’t Behave Myself