Nicole

We don’t need Dillon, it’ll be okay…

Here’s a lil’ something I found on a professor-rating website: http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/Funniest.jsp I like #1 a lot.

This is really more of a paper journal type topic matter, but I’m all about гласность (glasnost–openness) and перестроика (perestroika–rebuilding) these days. This is the start of late-communist-era me. Not that I’m a red. Or am I? Call me Nikki the Pinko.

Speaking of color, that’s what I wanted to write about. I see everything in glorious Technicolor. I see the mistakes I’ve made, the problems I’ve caused, as well as the ones I was about to perpetrate.

I see the way clear, I have been to the mountaintop.

Today was awesome in class, because I feel like I know what Tolstoy and Chekhov were thinking when they were writing. My profs both kinda agreed with me, some of the other students disagreed, but I’m sticking to my guns.

I see the way things are playing out around me. It’s not my business, but sometimes things can’t be helped. I am picturing some resistance and future hurt, but really, why? If we could just be really honest with ourselves, we would save ourselves such time, effort, and heartache.

There just can’t be enough purifying of our minds and hearts and bodies, as long as we are imperfect.

Lost causes, there’s been a little inkling of a new novel about them in my head for a while. But right now I want to save them all. Can it be done? The Technicolor гласность says, наверно нет. But also that I will feel better for trying.

Top post-graduate desired destinations: New York, Boston, Vancouver, ORTONVILLE. How’s that for honesty?

The conclusion of the matter, everything having been heard, is: Fear the true God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole obligation of man. ~~Eccl 12:13

The listing is funny enough, but the reviews are hilarious! Corey Feldman sings. I kind of want to hear it now.

I was so tired, I made myself go to bed as soon as the game was over… I didn’t even get a chance to say, that was so awesome!!!!!

Why is it when your team wins, you feel like everything is possible? ‘Scuse me while I kiss the sky… (I have been really into Hendrix lately, dunno why)

Seriously, that was SO AWESOME!!!!

Nomar who?

Between the Pats and the Sox, I don’t think it’s even safe how much happiness I’m deriving from sports. The only win that surpasses the joy of a Boston/New England victory is Gary Stevens and Point Given in the Belmont in 2001, which had me sobbing, and made me feel like I could make a comeback too…

And let’s not discount the Wolverines while we’re at it. Pretty solid seasons thus far all around.

Hail to all the victors.

This was in my yahoo inbox:

Gentili Signori,

parlo correttamente 5 lingue, sono esperto di informatica hardware e
software, pubblicitа e e-marketing, mailing lists e gruppi di utenti.

Cerco un lavoro full time in Italia con disponibilitа a viaggiare a
qualunque paese del mondo.

In allegato il mio curriculum vitae, prego di confermarne la corretta
ricezione.

Distinti Ossequi,

Lorenzo F. Pascucci

*****

There is a doc attached, evidently his resume, and this is the cover letter for it, as near as I can figure. Seems like the real thing, the only question is, why would some Italian dude think I can hire him for e-commerce?

I’m gonna post a quote from Stroke 9, one of my fave late 90s bands, even though someone on my friends list recently described them as “craptastic.” Well, my dear reading public, chew on this and decide for thyselves.

We move a mile a minute
Just to keep ourselves in it.
Now I think we’ve come too far not to win it…

I had this in my head as I was rushing around today. And it’s so true, life is going a mile a minute, and as much as I want to throw in the towel and run away sometimes, I’ve come too far. And taking it from the micro level to the macro, we as God’s worshippers have endured this far, we are SO CLOSE, let us please not get distracted or discouraged or delayed now.

And I would also like to dedicate those words to the Red Sox. We’ve come too far too well to fall apart in front of those jerks.

Go Eminem!

The spokesperson says that Michael feels the video is “disrespectful.” Um, since when does being a child molester deserve respect? When you break societal norms and mores and laws, then society breaks you, you don’t get to have respect anymore. Call me an ISTJ but I like that about human beings. Maybe it’s our God-given sense of justice coming through.

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I’m headed north late Friday night, for 4 fun-filled days. [How does one best convey sarcasm in print, anyway?] Yesterday at 6 pm my dad was on the phone asking, “Where are you?” Let’s hope he’s more lucid by the weekend.

Oh well, I’m going to give my mom a break, and see my little pitbully man, and go to the PT/WT and CBS, and maybe even have a big’ol’ bonfire in true Lee Township redneck fashion, so it’ll be good.

I should frame it, I really should.

It consists of a $36.72 charge at Meijer (yes, I only buy groceries once a month now), $3.82 on half.com, and $91.07 in gasoline charges. With the rebates the card pays on gas, $8.48 of that will be back in my tank.

So although I’ve simplified my life a lot, I still drive too much. And last month was the first time in 3 years I’ve paid more than $2 a gallon. The last time was the evening of Sept. 11, 2001, when my dad insisted that we all head on down to get in line at Tom’s Country Corners (gas station/hardware/pharmacy/broasted chicken takeout) just in case World War III had begun and we might need to drive away from it or something. But the rest of the mob had the same ill-logic. Anyway. The things we’ve lived though, eh?

Well, obviously, because they’re usually my day off. And I love Sunday meetings more than the others. Sunday service and/or going out to lunch with people makes that much better.

Often on Sundays I drive around without a destination. Today I rode my bike around, and checked out some open houses. Anyone wanna lend me $348,000? Oh, who am I kidding. Anyone wanna give me $348,000?

Speaking of A2 real estate, I keep speculating what life might be like if I were to stay here permanently. I’ve spent a bit of time around chillens lately, and while I still have zero maternal instinct, I still kind of wonder what it would be like. Pale, white-haired little screechy things, if they were to take after me. They’d probably fit right in Ann Arbor.

I’ve been cleaning my apartment. It makes me sad how I’ve never painted or decorated, and how I save the boxes everything comes in, because I know I’ll have to move. Maybe I should paint the place purple and recycle the cardboard and stay here forever in my little abode, with its perfect view of the 2nd- and 3rd-tallest buildings in the city.

Or not.

Anyway, it boggles the mind the things I’ve saved in the last year. I am getting too sleepy to write about them now, and the next 3 days will be busy, but I will get to it… sometime.

Ta ta.

YES!!!!

You’re in touch with the world, and you have a very
strong opinion on things like politics and war.
Even if you do end up changing your image in
the future, most of us will still like you.

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I don’t think quiz results have ever made me so happy in my life.

I didn’t know it was possible to be a materialistic nerd, but at least I must be balanced.

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