I'M SAVIN' THE WORLD!!!!!

Well, I'm no longer amongst the ranks of the unemployed. I have to say, if anybody ever absolutely NAILED an interview, it was me today. I spoke and they drank it up... Every last drop. I even got a middle management position! Yes, middle management, largely unimportant and completely disposable. Booya! So yeah, I'm going to be saving the world working for The Sierra Club.
Seriously though, I'm really stoked about it. The campaign this summer sounds great, and it will be a good chance for me to experience a grassroots political campaign. Call me a hippy, tree-hugger, or whatever you want, but I'm excited. And there aren't even any morning hours. How much better could it get?

rant:

I am absolutely amazed at the number of people who obviously don't use any type of spelling or grammar check for their Internet work. How hard is it? There is a spell check right here in blogger for all those blogspotters out there. And for you non-google people, you can all just do what I do: copy and paste into a new word document. Viola! Seriously, how hard is that? Do people even read what they write? If they did they would surely catch at least SOME of their glaring mistakes. Examples: today I was linked to a page and in the first sentence they misspelled college. I'm sure their place of higher education is appreciative of that. I went to another page and the author claimed to be a writer, yet they used absolutely NO capitalization. It was uniform throughout the entry, however, so at least they were consistently wrong. It went beyond the lack of capitalization, though, there were also numerous spelling and grammatical errors that just screamed at me. Please, people, read what you write!!!

I guess I shouldn't judge, F. Scott Fitzgerald had the spelling and grammar skills of a third grader... And I'm not perfect either. I frequently have run-on or fragment sentences, and I have no concept of how/when to separate paragraphs. I do, however, perform a spelling and grammar check on all of my entries, and also thoroughly read them several times.

Five points if you can find an error in this entry beyond stylistic choices. I'm sure I made at least one mistake.

About that movie...

I've decided to make this title a recurring theme on my blog. This last weekend Dan, TJ and I met up at Delano to watch Batman Begins, and I can't think of a single thing I didn't like about it. Now I have only seen one other Batman movies, so I didn't have a problem with Bale portraying Batman, but even if I was a die-hard Keaton or Clooney fan I can't imagine a complaint. Tough and gritty, Bale solidly embodied everything I thought Batman should be. The special effects were seamlessly edited (and cool), the score was awesome, the cinematography/lighting was well done, and the acting quality of all characters was very good in my opinion. There were moments in the beginning when the plot did seem a little hurried, but I feel that is excusable when trying to establish the foundation to a saga such as this. Overall, I thought it was a solid film, and would recommend it to anybody. Oh, and Katie Holmes is HOT! Did anybody know that she auditioned for Buffy once upon a time?

I need a change... of pants

I have never been on a roller coaster. Well, rather, I have never been on a REAL roller coaster. Once, when I was ten or so, my aunt took me to the state fair midway and they had a smallish one. I don't know if it's still there every year, but I remember even at that young age it left me kind of disappointed. After seeing THIS picture, I decided that it is about time my coaster-cherry was popped. (I think if I ever went on that ride I would shit my pants. And not a nice log turd either, but massive squirts... Kind of yellow-y brown in color.) Anyway, we should plan a trip sometime. The destination wouldn't have to be MN, either. If better coasters can be had within a days drive, then I say we pack up and take a road trip. As far as time frame, I'm thinking late summer or so.

zzzzzzz

I am bored. Bored, bored, bored. I have absolutely nothing to do. I have been trying to find a job lately, and I have had absolutely no luck. Zip, zap, zilch. The big zero. I take that back, there have been a couple job postings that I have seen for telemarketing openings. There you go, if I wanted to I could call everybody in America over their dinner hour. And believe me, my continued unemployment is not for lack of trying. I have made calls, I have poured over every employment classified I could find, and when I got tired of the newspapers I even went to the Internet. But with the qualifications I have right now, apparently nobody wants to hire me. I wish I could still do construction. I would have already made 1000 dollars in the last two weeks. But as the saying goes, wish in one hand and sh*t in the other and see which one fills up faster. Seriously though, I've decided that unless I find a job by the end of tomorrow, I need to stop looking for full time and just get as many hours as possible at the local gas station or something. If I don't, fall semester is going to come and I'm not going to have enough money to pay even the first half. My problem is that I have no skills, and due to the ol' stump, I can't do any of the stuff I have experience in. Forget retail, I may have done and enjoyed it once, but there is no way in hell I could be on concrete floors 8 hours a day. Construction? Yeah, picture me climbing a 25-foot ladder with a hundred pound bundle of shingles on my shoulder and then picture me spending two months in the hospital. And then there's the military experience... Ok, that qualifies me to be either a cop or security guard, and neither of those jobs accepts people with mobility problems.

So, does anybody know of places hiring where I wouldn't need any skills or experience, but where I could also sit for part of a shift? I don't need to be on my ass the whole time, but I need to be able to sit down on a stool or some boxes at least a little while. I've tried looking for some second and third shift jobs at gas stations, but none of the places I checked were hiring.

Why I hope to never have an office job

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Cars... (drool)

I'm sure by now everybody has seen the new Mitsubishi Eclipse either at the autoshow or on tv commercials. Whether you like it or not, you have to admit that it represents a bold styling change. I see a lot of cues taken from other cars, and I want to hear what you think it looks like. Do the angles up front look like a Ferrari? The fender flares like a Maserati? How about the rear and an infinity G35 coupe? What do you think? Back your opinion up with links to pics.
Oh, and HERE is your link to the Eclipse gallery.

And I would much prefer a Ferrari Maranello to that Porsche. Wouldn't it be great to walk around this lot...