There are just some things that I should not read, that I stupidly click on anyway. Why do I punish myself like this? After reading the blog, of course I spilled out my opinion. I hit the Submit button. Immediately went back and clicked on the Edit button. Found I couldn't entirely delete my response and had to leave a period behind as a sign that read 'I did read, and had to retract my original comment.' Everyone has a right to their opinion, no matter how wrong it is to me. I d...

Summer session at my university always brings on a change in demographics. Gone are the pasty faces, replaced by a multitude of ethnicity. In the fall, minorities average (I'm guessing.) in at about 15% for general courses like Psychology, History, and English credits. Courses that draw a specific audience like Native Studies, Black Studies also allow for the majority to attend, and usually make up the most of the population as well. Simply put, even for specialized courses, minority numb...

Last night I had another one of those annoying tornado dreams. I have them all the time. I'm always the one trying to lead everyone to safety, yet no one is listening because they are all panicking. I'm the one who is in the safest place, while others are lifted from their feet, whisked off to godknowswhere. These dreams are so vivid. I can feel the wind blowing my hair and pushing my body around, and the sound of the wind is deafening. Objects fly at random, often coming close to hitti...

I've been waiting to add new sites on My Favorites list for awhile now. I like checking out where other people give links... it's interesting to see what attracts someone to something, plain and simple. I've been living in my hometown, off and on, for about 15 years. A lot has changed around here. Shops come and go, as do the people. We are slowly starting to attract international and big box businesses, but the change isn't in your face. In the end, it is still just a small university t...

I know that the technology exists where I should no longer have to make appointments with someone else, verbally and at the same time. I should be able to leave a message on her voice mail, say I'm free between 10 and 2 everyday for the next two weeks, go ahead and set it up. Let me know when, and I will see you there. But better still, she should be able to have her schedule online, and I should be able to fill my name into the next available slot. I know some might say there's some sec...

I wish I knew who it was I was talking to, when that person said that one of their favorite movies was 'True Romance'. I've been giving it a lot of thought, and now, I immediately wish to propose. Because, hopefully, they saw the same thing in the movie that made them appreciate it the way that I did. And if they did, well sweetheart... you're lucky I consumed one too many pints to be sure about who you are. Otherwise, we'd have a wedding to get ready for. 'True Romance', for me, was a gr...

I've mentioned this before, I think... I know a lot of people who think that I am a lot younger than what I actually am. I'm 34, but generally, people think I'm about 25 or a little bit younger. I've been carded recently for both cigarettes and at a bar that I don't normally go to, but that stopped happening a couple of years ago, too, on average. Now, I have a twin... who everyone thinks is way older than me, because they only think that we are plain sisters (of course we're non-iden...

I noticed today how the Top Ten lists have changed... and it surprised me, pleasantly. The biggest change? Dharmagrl!!!! I am glad to see her name on both lists. Way to go! I'm also glad to see opie's going down on the list... I never actually thought that it was fair that this user's name was taking the space that should be allotted for someone who's actually contributing on a regular basis. I'm sad to see Macky lose his ten spot... it was a short ride, but I'm sure it'll be there ag...

I've decided not to renew my internet service at home. One of the main reasons is because my computer is just a peice of crap. I've seen super high speed computers, and your run of the mill computers and both of these kinds are infinitely more superior to the task of web reading than this thing. Simply put, what probably takes most of you seconds to view here at Joeuser takes me minutes, and often more, depending on the frequency of times my service connection is broken. I'm not even going t...

I had a completely flippant kind of post set to release out on Joeuser, but have to admit that it is not what I really want to portray. I don't want to give the impression that I mean this as a joke or a call for submissions, but I've been giving this a lot of thought. I am actually hoping too hear from anyone who is looking to go a bit beyond Joeuser. In this, I mean, I would like to exchange addresses and ultimately emails from anyone who is interested in corresponding a bit beyond the ...

Every Tuesday night, I feel this way. I've got to stop thinking that I'm some sort of athelete. So I went to my basketball night, and I thought I was hot piss. I was running up a storm, throwing hard cross-court passes, and scored five remarkable baskets, but it was the final one that seems to have done me in. I caught Malaka's eye, and psychic-like, knew the play. But everyone forgets that I'm LEFT-handed, and she just launched one at me. And like some 2K Harlem Globetrotter, I cau...

So, Ive been spending some time at the Uni today, relishing the highspeed connection. And can you ever tell that school is almost finished for the year. It's loud, noisy, and there's a general feeling of excitement in the air. It's hard to say who's more excited, the students who have finished exams for the year, or the Hockey addicts. Either way, I don't give a shit. I hate hockey, and I haven't had to sit an exam for several years... one of the pluses of being a student in Cultural Studies ...

This is going to be a pretty personal post. I'm just trying to muddle through the past events of a couple of days, maybe writing about it will help. Then again, maybe it will just be me peeling off one more layer. Good thing I'm not including pictures. So, in the past 24 hours I've come in contact with not one, not two, but three people from my personal past. It's really given me the opportunity to look back, and see how much I've grown, and declined in maturity. I went to the gas st...

It's that time of year where the newly graduated begin to question the reason behind their past four years of higher learning. Some say, they chose wisely. They studied the current and future markets in regards to career placement and picked an area of study that would better their chances at gaining employment. These people learned about their desired career, studied the methods that would enable them to become efficient at their job, and began submitting resumes early in the year, or eve...

One of the most challenging aspects of parenthood is empathy. For all the reasons that Kole hates to do homework, I did too. I remember homework time being the most frustrating, tear-inducing, boring and agonizing time of day. I would spend much of it in just sheer negativity... and would beg my mother in a hundred different ways to let me not do it. Of course, it never worked out. I find myself in her position now, faced with her begging, crying, whining and procrastinating. And I find mys...