I get the feeling I should be writing something here today, but I just don’t know what it should be. Some undirected rambling follows.
I assumed that with it being mother’s day today, Costco and Walmart wouldn’t be busy… silly me. Both were absurdly busy, which I guess makes sense as everyone is probably scrambling to [...]

Well, I got in. Somehow I managed to beat out a few thousand other applicants to secure one of the ~50 spots available for ROTP (Regular Officer Training Program)  applicants who want to go to a civilian university as their educational institution of choice. What I heard is that 100,000 people inquire about the program, [...]

Roy F. Baumeister
You’re probably thinking that a talk called “Is there anything good about men” will be a short talk! Recent writings have not had much good to say about men. Titles like “Men Are Not Cost Effective” speak for themselves. Maureen Dowd’s book was called “Are Men Necessary?” and although she never gave an [...]

Tonight at work I overheard one of the servers making an oddly and probably unknowingly ignorant comment. He was referring to the new Rihanna song S&M, which includes the lyrics “…. chains and whips excite me … come on, I like it - like it.” He made some comment along the lines of “she gets [...]

When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin.
It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for.

In my experience, the people you drink with aren’t your friends. If your primary social activity with someone is alcohol-related, they are simply looking for someone to get smashed with, and any someone will do.
True friends are those people who would prefer to be sober around you so they can experience who you are [...]

If you’re going to be a fat drunk, be the best fat drunk that you can be. Don’t let a little thing like feeling and looking great side-track you! Otherwise, close the book on that lifestyle and set a course towards the light.

You want to get married. It’s taken a while to admit it. Saying it out loud — even in your mind — feels kind of desperate, kind of unfeminist, kind of definitely not you, or at least not any you that you recognize. Because you’re hardly like those girls on TLC saying yes to the [...]

The past few months have been pretty rough, and at times it’s been damn hard to even manage to get out of bed. I’ve come so very close to breaking down and making a phone call I know I shouldn’t, but thankfully I’ve managed to avoid that mistake thus far… probably because I haven’t been [...]

The thing you have to remember is - nobody else is paying as much attention to your failures as you are. You’re the only one who is obsessed with the importance of your own life. To everyone else, it’s just a blip on the radar screen, so just move on.
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Interview #2 [...]