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Still waiting to hear from the NLRB. Still hopeful.
I talked to my old boss yesterday, the one who drove me out in the first place. She talked to me like an old friend, and revealed that she is unhappy and having troubles with the management. I listened, and took the time to mention the honest truth that I agreed with a lot of what she had done with the work and penalties. I'm going to leave, but at least for a time it might not suck as bad to be there if things don't work out. I need to keep applying for jobs but it's hard, harder when I have a good shot of having annother job.

More importantly, Scientists video a live giant squid!"

FEMA is both paying Bush's Brownie on payroll and giving out our taxpayer dollars to faith-based groups to compensate them for helping during Katrina. Question: will this include the Salvation Army, a vehemently anti-gay group? What about the Red Cross? (I say red cross as a control - they are ok so far as I know). Details from reuters

My stock experiment that was up 15-20% is now only up 1% in total, some things up 40%, many down. The one that really makes me cry is Alcoa - down 20% with a heavy investment in it (for me). I still love the stock, but wow that's a bit of a hard hit. I'm considering two possibilities since law school is preventing me accumulating money anymore: 1) just using index funds and not worrying about these stocks so much, 2) selling my insane success in caterpillar since I will have the gains offset by a loss-sale of crappy mutual funds from this year (but are there more gains to be had?), 3) ditching all stocks and paying off debt since I may well do better on a % basis to pay off that paltry 4.75% debt than to flatline or take losses on my investments. I might not gain so much, but my main success in finance is not making my money grow through investment so much as just having lumps of money from living beneath my means.

EDIT since most everyone I know won't read this so early (8am now)
People absolutely suck. Why is that that when a man with a cane got on the train at metro center, that out of 8 disabled seats filled with people who appeared perfectly fit, only I rose to let the man sit down...and I was in a non-disabled seat near the door? The hell with people, those newspaper leaving, door blocking, disabled seat hogging, and otherwise inconsiderate asshat people.

Butterfly kisses

For a moment the world stopped rushing, worrying, and making noise,
and succumbed to her kiss
lightly touching, like a butterfly had briefly alighted upon my lips
only to leave again
and return,
her tongue gently darting across my open mouth
there was nothing but this moment

Sounds so much nicer before the hike of the hundred butterflies at old rag. It turns out that butterflies, while beautiful and delicate creatures, have a strange penchant for horse poop. I kid you not - we walked down the fire road and you’d see piles of the poop de horse, with dozens of beautiful happy butterflies all feeding off of the droppings. They’d fly off in a flurry of delicate wings as you approached, leaving you with the fear of touching these lovely creatures and being smeared with dung like you lost a fight with a monkey.

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I can't help it - sure, DeLay is facing charges, but this shows the nature of the game:
As a sign of loyalty to DeLay after the grand jury returned indictments against three of his associates, House Republicans last November repealed a rule requiring any of their leaders to step aside if indicted. The rule was reinstituted in January after lawmakers returned to Washington from the holidays fearing the repeal might create a backlash from voters.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050928/ap_on_go_co/delay_investigation
I mean...the complete lack of shame is just unbelievable. This is after they were changing ethics rules to fit his frequent violations.