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El Corazon
By Steve Earle
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5 days and counting.  i’m both looking forward to leaving and getting back to calgary and all my buddies back there.  as well as my old job of landscaping, as crazy as that may sound.  the long hours, and hard work, will [...]

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Grandma’s Boy (Unrated Edition)
By Linda Cardellini, Allen Covert, Peter Dante, Shirley Jones, Shirley Knight, Joel Moore, Kevin Nealon, Doris Roberts, Nick Swardson, Jonah Hill, Kelvin Yu, Chuck Church, Scott Halberstadt, Heidi Hawking, Shana Hiatt, Todd Holland (II), John Kirk (IV), Geno Kirkland, Joe Koons, Bryan Ling
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the penguins [...]

well, it’s been quite a while since i’ve posted so here’s a quick update.  my visa expires in two weeks, so i’m out of here by then.  it’ll be good to get out of this place, although i will really miss some of korea, friends i’ve made here, and some of the students.  i haven’t [...]

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Hypnotize
By System of a Down
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“just one more week.  just one more week.”…. that’s been the mantra of rich, hayley and i for the last 8 days.  that’s b/c last week thursday we were told that starting feb. 26 we would no longer be teaching afternoon [...]

so today was valentine’s day.  it was a balls up in nearly every respect.  we (rich, hayley and i) also had a meeting with cathy the new director that was the most irritating and aggravating meeting i’ve ever been in.  the woman is a fucking brick wall.  she’s got some ideas that will never work [...]

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Idlewild
By OutKast
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well, it’s tuesday night, which means it’s server maintenance night for world of warcraft, so i figure i might as well update this little blog here.
not much has really been going on out here.  kind of just winding time down until the end of [...]

well, it’s a thursday night, and i’m feeling fantastic b/c tomorrow evening i take off for thailand for 8 days.  it’s going to be friggin awesome.  i land in bangkok just after midnight, where my buddy cliff is waiting for me.  then we’re going to head to phuket for the week, and then back to [...]

welp.  dave and amy left last night.  it could really suck without them here since him and i got along so damn well.  even our atm pins were almost identical.  without even talking about them.  oh well.  hopefully i can make it out the uk sometime next year to see them again.  if not… they [...]

well, i am now 27.  happy birthday to me i guess.  my dad got married when he was 27, so i guess that kind of puts the pressure on me…. crap.  now to find a woman…..
work today sucked.  the friggin lazy bastards were lazy and stupid about changing an ink cartridge when i asked them [...]

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Hipeponymous
By The Tragically Hip
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well, i think i’m buzzing enough to write about the bullshit i had to put up with this morning.  so i think i told you about how one morning a week we’ve got to be at school at 8:30 in the morning [...]