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| 09:36pm 11/07/2007 |
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just thought you'd like to know.
i spend most of my time here nowadays.
i've rediscovered the joy of blogging. you should check me out, on my other blog. or maybe i'll start crossposting. blogging has become my primary creative outlet, though i want to do more.
i'm now a deli manager (in training) for heb.
my cheese palate has expanded tremendously.
i'm also a business major at acc now.
but who am i really?
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| for those who haven't heard elsewhere |
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| 09:20pm 11/07/2006 |
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several pieces of news...
first and foremost, today is the 4th anniversary of the day i met the love of my life :) happy anniversary, baby!
i've been assimilated into the myspace collective. i'm http://www.myspace.com/fromager if anyone's interested. in the two days since i've been on i've found my long lost brother from my father's second marriage, who i haven't seen or spoken to in 10 years. we're talking now, and i'm hoping to maybe get together sometime soon. even though we haven't spoken, i've missed him, and thought about him all the time. through him i'm also on track to get in touch with my grandmother (father's mom), who i haven't seen in almost 17 years. far too much time has passed for me to let my father keep me away from that part of my family. tonight, i found my best friend from elementary and middle school. i messaged him, so we'll see what happens there. myspace is horribly addictive. i also found out that greg graffin, lead singer of bad religion, my favorite band ever, is releasing a solo album that's more folk-rocky than punk-rocky, much like mike ness did with 'cheating at soltaire.' the whole album is posted for preview on myspace, and it's awesome. definitely one to pick up.
all that said, life's going well. i love my wife, i love my family, i love my job, i'm just a big ball of awesomeness.
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| cheese! |
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| 12:39pm 31/05/2006 |
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wow, long time no update. so, what's been up with me? i got fired from my restaurant job, which i was fine with because i hated it anyway, and had a new job the next day. i'm now working for heb, the new south austin store at slaughter and espcarpment. the store is the first of its kind in the company, a hybrid between a regular heb and central market, so we carry lots of cool stuff. i'm in the deli, and as a subdepartment of the deli we have a specialty cheese shop, where we carry imported cheeses. well, i started in the main deli, but cheese shop was where i really wanted to be, so i spent my first month busting my ass to show my boss i could do the job, and when i asked to be moved to cheese shop he did so without hesitation. go me! now i'm learning all about the wonderful world of cheese and how it's made, where it comes from, what various cheeses taste like, etc. i'm also putting in an application to go through a training school to become a cheese specialist, which is essentially what i'm doing now, but by the end i'll have an insane knowledge of cheese (the training school covers over 600 different types) and a nice raise to go along with it. fingers crossed i get in!
i'm also taking time off school. three years without a break burned me out in a big way, and this last semester i didn't do well at all. so i'm taking the summer and fall off to get my head together and refocus, and i'll be returning in the spring, refreshed and ready to start my last stretch toward graduation.
finally, on a completely unrelated to anything note, i saw this in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) linguaphiles![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) and it made me laugh: 
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| tagged by mercuryuk |
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| 10:13am 14/11/2005 |
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List seven songs you are into right now.
No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to...
1. coheed and cambria "welcome home"
2. mudvayne "-1"
3. interpol "evil"
4. joy division "dead souls"
5. alkaline trio "all on black"
6. voodoo & serrano "blood is pumping"
7. the mars volta "l'via l'vieques"
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| goddammit |
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| 09:32pm 08/11/2005 |
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mood:  angry
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i am a native texan. i was born here, i was raised here. i've always loved texas, and being a texan. i've always been proud of my home state; it's a part of who i am. i've travelled all over the country and been subjected to every texan cliche and stereotype you can imagine. i've been made fun of, from lighthearted teasing to outright mean-spirited ridicule, for no other reason than the state i happened to be born and raised in. i've always taken it with my head held high, because i've always been proud of being a texan, until tonight. but not now.
not now.
i've never been so ashamed of my home state in my life. i just don't understand people. how can so many support legislated bigotry, hatred, and discrimination? was i too idealistic to hope that people might actually do the right thing? i suppose i can take some small comfort from the fact that my home city was the only city in the state (thus far, anyway) to actually vote down proposition 2, but it is a very small comfort.
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| stolen from skwrl2 |
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| 02:06pm 27/08/2005 |
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i think i've done this before somewhere in the past, but this made me laugh too hard not to post
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| well, poop |
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| 08:46pm 17/08/2005 |
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running a degree audit, i just discovered that i can't take language credit for asl :( as i'm determined to keep spanish my minor, that means i have to take a different language. at the moment, it's looking like it'll be italian, but we'll see if that's still available when my add/drop date comes around.
this just sucks, because i'd love to take asl, but i don't have room for 4 semesters worth of elective credit, especially this close to graduation. |
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| i did it!!! |
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| 05:16pm 16/08/2005 |
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official grades haven't been posted yet, but i just got my scores back from my spanish final...96, which gives me a 93 for the term in the class...my first A since i've gone back to school! :)
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| i am pleased to announce |
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| 09:38pm 30/11/2004 |
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that this past friday, 11-26-04, starj, the love of my life, did me the honor of becoming my wife
i didn't think it was possible for me to get any happier, but it seems that i just get more and more happy as the time passes...
thank you baby, for everything. thank you for marrying me, for believing in me, for motivating me, for supporting me through everything. i promise to do the same for you, always. |
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| dammit this sucks |
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| 02:59pm 17/09/2003 |
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mood: aggravated music: the burden brothers "dirty sanchez"
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eRIK's flight out of norfolk tomorrow got cancelled, so he's not coming in after all. and i was really looking forward to seeing him.
/me stabs isabel |
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| why oh why can't i sleep? |
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| 02:26am 19/08/2003 |
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mood:  tired music: sasha & digweed "northern exposure expeditions-expedition 2"
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insomnia sucks ass. especially when one has no tv reception, the dvd collection has been watched a million times over, no one's up to talk to, there's nothing happening on any of the message boards or email lists, and i'm fresh out of reading material. blah.
anyhow, i've been gone for awhile so i suppose i should post a short update of sorts. the last six weeks have flown by. where did the time go? it seems like just a few days ago that i was flying out to tn to move j out of her dorm and drive her back home, but now she's gone back to school. i'm still unemployed and looking, but so far with little luck. in all the resumes i've sent out, i only got two calls for interviews (one of which actually resulted in a call back for a second interview, but which ultimately didn't pan out). now i'm branching out into retail, which is probably better anyway, since i'd like to find something that i can work full time at for the next few months, but then transition into part time in january when school starts. it'll be a lot less hassle to do that than to have to quit one job then start looking for another. i had been a bit worried about paying for school, what with the being offered crap for financial aid and the not having a job and all, but that's been covered, at least for the first semester (and, if things work out right, the entire first year). i love my family.
i also love my fiancee. we weren't real sure how things were going to work out over this summer, since i've been living on my own so long and she's never lived with anyone in that sort of domestic situation before. but, as it turns out, things went beautifully. we had our issues, of course (who doesn't when adjusting to a new situation?), but in the end we came through closer than ever :) i miss you baby.
i think my leg's all healed up (at least, it feels that way), and i'm ready to get out and start playing soccer again. yay!
i just finished "coraline" and feel i must reassert that neil gaiman is a genius. must now make another trip to half price to buy more books.
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| and another |
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| 12:27pm 02/07/2003 |
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You are a six-winged Halfbreed!
You belong neither to Heaven nor to Hell. You are
doomed to wander the Realms That Are In Between
for all eternity until the Judgement Day. Your
fate is absolute loneliness. You are punished
for a crime you did not commit and redemption
is not within your reach. Your powers are
unknown - it's said that a halfbreed will be
the end of everything one day. Therefore you
are feared and hated. Your only hope is to find
the other half of your soul - it is your only
solace.
What kind of supernatural being are you?
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| like the lemming i am... |
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| 06:33pm 29/06/2003 |
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:D
Ravenclaw! Some might see you as a bit haughty, but
that's just because they lack the intellectual
capacity to be worthy of your presence. You see
little difference between enlightenment and
entertainment; learning experiences are
tremendously enjoyable for you. And remember,
kids: just because you're brilliant doesn't
mean you're studious!
A More Unique Hogwarts Sorting Quiz
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