how to work

Not that anyone asked, but here's my two cents.

#1:
Don't expect anything. Expect everything. As much as you don't want it to, it is likely to happen, whatever "it" is. Whether you're sure that your boss won't pull out her psycho card in the middle of a work day or not, just remember that these people are not your friends. They are not your family. You do not know them. They still live with their parents post-grad school, they still don't know the difference between "our" and "are", and they still haven't figured out that pointing out their bad boob job is no way to get a date.

#2:
Keep your head up, but still low enough that no one will notice. Don't let them make you quit. Make them quit. Do everything with a smile, and then share your torture tactics with you coworkers over a Lean Cuisine.

#3:
You will probably never be paid what you're worth, but the insurance makes it okay. Right.

Work's not going well, if anyone is wondering. I'm holding out for a promotion or a transfer, but this one is wearing me thin. Please, learn how to spell, learn how to manage, and learn how to be a human being. Don't be such a boob.

god and evolution

I found an interesting post at shelleytherepublican.com today:

That is the lucky blessing of citizens of the USA. It is clear that there has been devine intervention in that case. God gave the Godly of Old England an empty land to populate and spread the Good Word to the brown and yellow natives that lived there ignorant of Original Sin, God’s covenant with Abraham, Jacob, Isaac, Israel, Moses, et cetera and the jews generally, the troubled history of that race to establish a workable state and at the same time stay true to the what their jealous god told them what to do, what with golden cows, kings, slatternly women, and what not, and then that Jesus was foreseen, that a preacher came to announce His arrival and baptise Him, and God impregated a working class woman, and her husband adopted him and taught him his honourble trade (which makes we question whether the neuclear family is the basic building block of humanity) and Jesus followed his father’s trade, and then preached the Good News for a brief ministry, and then was subject to interdiction by the Roman State and the local religious bigwigs, and was cruxified. He died for us to conquer Original Sin, so that we can choose whether we go to Hell or be saved on the Judgement Day before Jesus Himself if we believed in God his father who is the creator and sustainer of all.

But when I do a search for “jesus and evolution” at biblegateway.com the result is:
“Sorry. No results found for “jesus and evolution” in Keyword Search.”
Yeah right! Didn’t Jesus say love thy neighbour? But didn’t Darwin say “survival of the fittest”? They don’t fit together. If you are a liberal christian who wants to believe in God and Evolution at the same time, then do you think God can contradict himself? The Bible makes it quite clear that God is a man by the way, and if he wasn’t, how would he have been able to make love to the Blessed Mary?

Believe in the Bible, or you will be damned for eternity.

Sometimes crazy people scare me. Maybe this person is not crazy all the time, but it's interesting to me that the same people that say "Love thy neighbor" are also threatenting the rest of us with eternal damnation.

fire!!

As Amy and I were driving to her work today, we saw our first downtown fire. We've lived here for almost four years and had yet to see anything very exciting happening down here, but today was the day! Someone's welding tanks ignited and caused a HUGE fire over on Industrial. I'm watching the news about it right now, and it looks like it was a gigantic fire. When we drove over 30 earlier, we actually saw one of the explosions, and the flames were OVER the highway...Okay, they just said two people have been taken to Parkland in serious condition, so hopefully they're okay.

I'll admit, when we first saw this fire, I think we were both just a little afraid that it was some sort of attack...luckily it's just an accident.

one documentary to watch...

And one that I could definitely have done without. First, the better of the two:

Operation: Dreamland
A brief look at a few soldiers the 505th battalion of the 82nd airborne in Falluja before the final seige in 2004. This was an excellent documentary, much different from Michael Moore's "9/11" representation of soldiers in Iraq. There were a few men (and yes, all the soldiers were men) that wanted to shoot and kill and shoot and kill, but there were also explanations as to why they seemed so bloodthirsty, and the cameras kept rolling when they discussed their thoughts with other soldiers. This reinforces how scary it is for everyone over there, and it was refreshing to hear American military members express doubts about their task overseas. A must see.

The second documentary is not even worth giving a synopsis, but let me attempt a warning: Don't watch Paper Clips. It's as simple as that. I wrongly assumed that this would be an interesting look into the non-tolerance of rural areas towards the Jewish community, and instead it was just an overview of the Holocaust. So, if you've already taken a history class, at any point in your life, you don't need to watch this.

Yay for no work days, and yay for Blockbuster online rentals!

Work

Working on the weekends has become more than tedious. Every Friday night, while the rest of this city settles in for a restful weekend, I dread the next morning. It's not that I don't like my job, because I do, I just wish it didn't have to be EVERY SINGLE weekend!! Ah well, I signed up for it, it's my own fault. All I can do at this point is keep my fingers crossed for a promotion. And believe me, they're all crossed.

Amy and I went to Half Price Books and bought a "Home Buying for Dummies" book this morning. We're hoping to purchase our first house in the next year or so, and I have to admit, I'm incredibly excited. Life has been boring lately, and it should be fun to have a new goal. Although perhaps finishing school and scoring an amazing job should be enough to satisfy, but they're not. I have about 30 hours left to finish in my degree, and that's yet another thing I can't wait for. I strongly dislike school, and I'm ready for all my hard work to actually go towards an end product, rather than a grade book.

It's been a while since I updated, but suprisingly this is all I have to write. Maybe tomorrow I'll post pictures of my shoot with Val tonight.