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By the time I sat down to my computer to write this, I already had 8 different ways I wanted to start this. So I guess I’ll just start talking and see where this goes. I’ve been myopically focus...

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(1) 13 years ago, I left acting because I wanted “the little slice of Americana” more than I wanted anything else. I didn’t know how to get it, but I knew that trying to be a professional actor ...

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Remember my San Francisco thing? Y’know… the trip where I told my future employers that I could not accept the job if it would not be cool to go on? The trip where I only missed two days of work ...

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Just got email confirmation that I did not get the Cedar Rapids job. I feel heartbroken. I feel like once again I was shown that things could be better… that Wife and I might finally get a break...

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Perhaps best summarized by the two following image: What was your biggest life lesson this year and what did you learn? I continue to learn a great deal about myself. I learned a great dea...

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Still no call from the ACA Job. I think I’ve entered into the anger stage of loss. Because I keep thinking that there is NO WAY I could be more professionally qualified for this job. Like… the j...

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I should have guessed that today would be a Two Entry (or more) Day. DEFINITELY more if I get the phone call. Though, I’m guessing I won’t be getting it today. Just intuition. Last night, I fi...

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I wasn’t going to write in here today. I was going to let the day happen… take a break from writing… allow those who may wish to a chance to catch up, lol. But I reconsidered as I should docume...

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Well… consider my fuse lit. Chinese Boss has a large mountain of Immigration work that (1) needs to be done immediately and (2) needs to be flawless otherwise our clients will suffer and if our c...

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I’ve mentioned it before, I’ll mention it again… the first e-mail address name I ever had for myself was BatVillains. I still use it occasionally for spam-potential e-mail requests (see also: Gi...

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“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich t...

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My day began at 5:30 this morning, when I set my alarm. My Wife doesn’t understand why I set my alarm to wake me an hour before I have to leave the house. It is an important part of pain manage...

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Have I mentioned that I really hope I get that job I interviewed for? Have I mentioned that, just because we are in the age of Cell Phones, that doesn’t make it cool for employers to bother you w...

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Two roads diverged in a tortured metaphor and neither could be chosen. The roads, you see were fractured possibilities of a future yet to be created. Being the traveler, I could not select which...

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(1) It is… difficult being in a position where there is nothing you can do about something you want. It is interesting. So many people scoff at the idea of fate or chance or luck. My brother, ...

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(1) I picked up 7.9 billable hours yesterday. That is entirely due to Chinese Boss agreeing to pay me 4 hours for any Legal Aid Day… provided I do something with those 4 hours that would work to...

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Around this time last year, I was feeling pretty depressed. I had really wanted a job with the Polk County Attorney Juvenile Division. I had gotten an interview. But as I left that interview, I...

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I am going to explode with technological rage and fury but first… The interview went well. No way to know for sure if I nailed it but I have experience, I was relaxed, I made jokes, and I demons...

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So, I got up early today to do my work. Checked E-Mails at 8. Went to Ames and Back to grab some much needed discovery. Started researching Divorce and International Law. Read some terrible thing...

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So, I am doing that one thing I didn’t want to do. I’m getting excited. I’m getting my hopes up. I’m actively contemplating a move, a job change, house hunting, all of it. I am hoping. I am g...

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So, yesterday was a long day. But I enjoyed it (after the first several hours). 2 am Sunday Morning, my wife was like a woman possessed. Shrieking, screaming, crying, injuring herself, insulti...

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So… after a ridiculous and exhausting night with Drunk Shouty Sobby Wife, she is sleeping in the bedroom while my guest and I watch K-On. Then my phone explodes into text messages from work, a ph...

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My wife drank WAY too much last night. Ruined the evening. Then I woke up at 2 am with her shouting and sobbing at the top of her lungs. Mind you, we still have a guest in our fucking house. And ...

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Today is a three entry day. Maybe more. And for that I apologize. But… it comes with what is going on right now. Seriously… I have four things listed on my TO DO list. (1) Finish Asylum Petiti...

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I have a song stuck in my head. Just the very last bit of it, in fact. You can ne’er return again Which… is so eerily appropriate. Because that is from the song “Toyland” and the only time I eve...

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