“And you, you will come too, young brother; for the days pass, and never return, and the South still waits for you. Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!’ ‘Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of the old life and into the new! Then some day, some day long hence, jog home here if you will, when the cup has been drained and the play has been played, and sit down by your quiet river with a store of goodly memories for company.”
Blog is fixed. I had a problem with my login not working right after I performed an upgrade on WordPress… turned out to just be one of those trial-and-error type problems. Lots of other people have had them, it seems… there just hasn’t been one clear solution.
I am a solidly-busy person, it seems. I work… I go home. I work again, I go home again. I’m not so much busy as I have my energy being all used up. I find myself going to bed at 6, 5, 4pm. It’s kind of pitiful. But I am making really good money lately. Still…
Oh, and check it out! Bree’s design is up for scoring (only one more day to go, though!): SAD SACK SUNDAE
Stockholm wakes up slowly
on drugs and mourning grief
the pure snow is for rent now
to all of Kungsholms square
It feels like when I came
here
way back in 93
Kent’s LP from last year, Tillbaka Till Samtiden (translation: Back To The Present) is pretty darn good. I find that this band never quite ever slips away from my consciousness… even when I haven’t listened to any of their songs in a long time. Another band that haunts my brain constantly is Grandaddy, though I rarely, if ever, listen to any of their stuff. Weird.
Well, the money is not back in my bank account just yet. I have received credit for it through PayPal, and all that is left is to transfer the funds. It’s an effing miserable annoyance, though. To think that these things just ‘happen’ electronically. It just makes me that much more wary of doing any kind of business through the wires. But it’s convenient and almost necessary for certain things, now. I keep thinking about how much control we’ve surrenderd from our daily lives to technology… all in the name of ‘convenience’.
I went waterskiing over the weekend, and also wake-boarding. It was quite a lot of fun.
I must work a hell hell hell of a lot in the next few days. I get up earlier than ever (awake by 3:30am, clocking in at 4:30am) and I’m making more food for more people in one day than I have in recent memory (something on the order of 300 people). These are the days that are rewarding (monetarily) but which also have the effect of draining away my happiness quite completely. I don’t want to be a dried prune… but if I am… then I am.
I should probably get a normal job. I should try try try really hard to get one. Harder than ever.
I can now count myself among the 65% of people under the age of thirty who have been the victim of identity theft. I have no clue how it happened. I have no idea how these miscreants in Vietnam got a hold of my financial information. The way it stands now, there are two possibilities: it was somehow phished/pharmed by a malicious piece of software directly from my computer as I browsed the web, OR, it was stolen from eBay or PayPal through an independent hack of their own systems (one that would be not yet publicized, if this is indeed the case).
In any case, pending an investigation by PayPal and eBay, I shall be refunded my $598.00 shortly.
I can only hope that it won’t happen again. Time to beef up the security!
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I am a student currently studying Visual Communication Technology at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH. I have great interest in making a career in the entertainment industry, working with video, photography, writing and graphic design.
