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http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/09/18/minneapolis.bridge.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

this is like the exact opposite of the Leonard Zakum Bridge experience

My life is not slipping away, then again I am a relaxed vampire.

cool, gimme $11,000

my life is totally slipping away. i'm tired. how to fix?!

let it go, this side of slippage is quite fun.

Well, for the tired part, I'd say a glass of wine and a nap would be a good start...

"The Relaxed Vampire" would have been Anne Rice's greatest novel if she hadn't suddenly gotten Jesus. Alas.

Can I be annoyingly positive? I still have an irrepressible feeling that I can kick arse and change the world.

KANGAROO

(for those uneducated in martial and culinary arts)

Justine, I changed careers at 28 and my first job in my new life was as receptionist. There's no right way to do things and as long as you accept that the retail work is a stepping stone for future things (and you don't need to know what they are, yet), you should be able to stop worrying. I know I'm being simplistic but think of the amazing things you HAVE done - moved continent, met the love of your life, and laid the foundations for a happy future.

Ned, I have (a little embarassingly) come off of a "Twilight" high. I am interested in your relaxed vampire and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Please tell me how not to have a depressing weekend. I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.

mark is kind of right. i was in post-college 'my degree won't get me a job' hell for a few years until i basically hit total bottom and have now spent the last 2 years slowly working my way back from that. it is so many baby steps, and it takes a long time, but i'll have a masters in may, and hopefully a higher level job by then, too (we'll see...). it's still really frustrating for me, though. i am nowhere near where i thought i'd be at this age, and i feel like my economic/professional/social lives are at a standstill. i feel like it is up to me and my attitude in the next 9 months to make or break myself with regard to my current employer. it's a lot of pressure.

I still have an irrepressible feeling that I can kick arse and change the world.

You were at the RNC right?

I didn't mean to start a possibly depressing discussion of life slipping away. I was really marveling at how time passes so quickly and how so much of it is used to deal with the mundane. I shall never kick the world's arse when I'm just living for the weekend.

hey susan, 'twilight' embarrassingly got me too - i was at work, didn't have a book, and the 19yr old goth i was working with told me i could read hers... i didn't get very far into it, but it SO reminds me of the christopher pike books i read and loved as a kid!

I am sucker for YA series. This series is no His Dark Materials but it's still a great read. I read all four of them in about two weeks and have started over at the beginning. Christopher Pike?

Actually, I do believe that Ed could kick arse and change the world.

I've been feeling low because of money stuff with insurance not covering neurotherapy for 4lex, plus spending all my time reading a freaking med surg book. I have to say, though, that when I get to clinicals, my experience has been that 1. they are impeding us with a ridiculous, sleep-depriving schedule but 2. suddenly there is a point to what I'm doing and I feel like I'm getting somewhere.

I keep reading references to "Twilight." So it's a book then? I'm so confused!

i don't know much about them, only what my girl at work told me, but it's a series of vampire novels. sounds tacky, but not bad actually.

susan, if you haven't read christopher pike, you should read 'the last vampire series'. not sure if you'll enjoy his stuff - i haven't read any since i was a kid, and it's not as 'literary' as phillip pullman, but they're short books so you'll know soon enough if you like them or not.

I will add it to my list.
Sara, it's a four-book series by Stephanie Meyers about teenage vampire (and werewolf) romance. The first book in the series is "Twilight" and the movie version of it comes out on 12/12.

let it go, this side of slippage is quite fun.

how do i make it more fun

in a few months i am going to slow down time.
i will get older but at a reduced rate
it will be like L O S T

xp Hey, I have a friend who has made a ton of money writing vampire chick lit, so I'm not going to judge it. Those books can be fun! And I need more fun in my life.

how when and why did this thread go lowercase

I'm almost always lowercase b/c I am lazy.

Ned, I have (a little embarassingly) come off of a "Twilight" high. I am interested in your relaxed vampire and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Let me work on that. *falls asleep in coffin*

So tell me about Blaine, where Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin are doing things today.

Hmmmm, I think I've driven through Blaine once or twice. It seemed sort of bereft of people, as I recall. But maybe it makes more sense for McCain/Palin to go there than into the Twin Cities... yeah, I have no idea why they chose Blaine. (Is it in Stearns County? That's a pretty R county).

Michelle Bachman is their Rep.

Um, they host some sort of national youth soccer championship, there. That's a big thing for Blaine. I remember quiet. I remember Cicada song. I think I got a hot dog in an SA in Blaine, once.

Michelle Bachman is vile. She has nice hair, though.

the worst "show" i ever did was in blaine. also led to someone bouncing a $13000 check to us. fuck blaine.

So, no signs of life, vile people with nice hair and financial irresponsibility = McCain/Palin are right at home!

See, it all makes sense.

yeah fuck Blaine

You first. I insist.

i wish there were still a blink function for:

god, i know this feeling. i was so stressed about finding work, and i thought getting a job - any job - would ease that stress, but i almost feel worse. every day i wake up and think about how i'm almost 30 and i work in a shitty retail job, have a useless university education, and basically no career prospects. it's extremely depressing, and i feel like i'm running out of time to make any radical changes to the path i'm on.

― your ass is (Rubyredd), Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:39 AM (2 days ago)

Blaine. Because Sarah Palin wants to speak at people who will make her voice sound less annoying.

Anoooooooohhhhhhka Couney.

She needs to go even further north. I'd like to send her to the Arctic Circle myself.

zing!

omg my life is a disaster.

that is all.

hi tza, me too. dumped, drinking way too much, kinda dislike my new job, have to leave seattle soon, no career prospects in LA, no idea what i want to do in my life.

(and on wednesday i have to fly back east to my sister's Actual Wedding and Baby Shower, present a toast to love, see her new house, and face all the guests/relatives/high school teachers who will ask me, you know, how and what i'm doing with my days)

god i dread telling ppl i haven't seen in awhile what i'm doing with my life: 'yeah i work in a clothing store' 'but didn't you just finally graduate from uni?' 'uh yeah'.

seriously, at the point when you are in the executive offices of macy's yelling at the store management for their incompetency, you realize just how ridiculous your life has become.

remy why do you have to leave seattle

More details, tza.

I'm feeling less doomed this Monday. Mostly b/c yesterday I decided I wasn't going to be unhappy with aspects of my life anymore, just pointless. Now let's see if that attitude lasts until the end of the day. I'm surprised it lasted this long.

J, I think you're forgetting how big of a thing it is to move halfway around the world, start a new relationship, etc. Cut yourself some slack and enjoy the clothes-working for awhile!

if sarah palin would take over an ice road truckers load all the way up to the de beers mines and back..well i still wouldnt vote for her but that would be v. cool.

hello all from sunny (yes it really is) norway.

Is it also icy?

No, not yet, the leaves are starting to turn and there is some nice colour appearing.

xpostsss yeah i'm trying really hard to not let this job get me down... i mean, yes it's cool that i found my best friend, that i'm here, that we've got this small press going (10 pre-orders for our first chapbook!), but i can't seem to get out of this funk concerning my job. i've haven't felt this bad about going to work since i was 19. i think more than the job itself, it's the fact that i don't work with anyone who has a personality or a sense of humour. so depressing. but only about 9 months to go.

also: it would appear that i'm not really paying much tax - only about 2-3%. does this sound right - since i'd be getting most of my tax back at the end of the year, or when i return to nz - or are the payroll people fucking something up?

Hmm, I usually have 18% taken out of my check. Could it have something to do with your residency status?

yeah i thought i'd be taxed at around the regular rate, and then have to file a return when i leave to get it all back (afaik that's pretty standard in most countries).

i opened my first american bank account on saturday! it wasn't nearly as stressful as i imagined.