Tag Archives: frustration

Oct
21
2008

What Is Your Excuse

Picture from NYT Website, Cause I can’t travel to Colombia right now.
I have heard it all in my days. I’m not very old, but I’m not incredibly dumb or very young. The more people I talk to, the more I realize that Americans just don’t like to read, and don’t like to think. (This notion [...]

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Sep
26
2008

The Jackass

In the middle of my junior year of high school the school I was attending gave me the boot. It was like being fired from a job. It’s really weird because the school was private, and my mom (single parent) was paying the tuition for me. I was just too edgy and was too hardcore [...]

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Aug
25
2008

The Movie Life

I sometimes struggle with escapism. I’m sorry, I just try to escape at every notion of every day that doesn’t have something for me to do. At work, I am usually busy with random crap that I have to get done. Not to say that the job is crap, because it’s not necessarily that, it’s [...]

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Aug
06
2008

You Think You Have It Rough

I always am first to try to say that my job sucks, or that my life is rough. But there’s always times that magnify things to one side or the other. Today I was thinking about one such time, and really, there’s nothing that compares to the task that I was asked to work on [...]

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Jun
19
2008

Sinner and Saint

Artwork by Dave Kinsey
I’ve been frantic lately. Frantic in a way that most people don’t ever see me exhibit. Probably because no one ever cares to talk to me in depth about it, nor is it that important. If I am all things to all men, why is it that there is no connection, no [...]

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Jun
11
2008

Bread Machine Hell

As you guys already know, I went to a yard sale last weekend. It was huge, and one thing that I forgot to mention was that my wife and I purchased a bread maker. The owners said that they never used it, and sold it to us for $20. We thought that was a great [...]

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