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Champaign chaos continues. The annual mustache contest was last night. It always amazes me what ridiculous shit my community is up to. Surrounded by a beer garden of wet brained St. Jackists (patron saint of gambling and boozing, at least our patron saint) the air is filled with cawing, the Pi Omega call, yes, there is an expansive faux frat, we all have nick names,...
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All if this waiting is stressing me out a little. From now to June 11th I am in limbo. I don't know where I'll be next year, living, working and all. I go for my second round of interviews on June 11th. I don't really want to move to Kansas City but a hefty HEFTY raise could be awaiting. I wouldn't leave for all the...
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I'm sure I'm not the first (and the reason I bring this up is because of a recent post I made in Juliana's journal.) It's the conversation of sex. I'm not sure how familiar people are with Capoiera, this is a Brasilian martial art started by African slaves. Disguised as dancing to hide from their Portugese oppressors, this acrobatic martial artform is centered around the...
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There's something unnerving about hearing yourself recorded. I've been singing with a friends group and during practice we record with this little tape recorder, straight out of your read along turn the page tone moments in preschool. Some of the songs are pretty difficult to sing (it's bluegrass) which I'm not really down with but it's fun to just hit some notes and dance around...
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All right, I don't listen to Alk Trio, WTF is <3. I see it enough to piss me off. Is it really worth listening to? I've heard conflicting opinions about this group. Besides the name "Alk Trio" being super clever, why don't they call themselves the Noble Gases, or the Heavy Metals, or the Isotopes, or Ground Level, or Manmade Elements, Californium, Molecular Weight, Spin,...
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the meal was average, that's what happens I s'pose when you start cooking at 9:40 and working in somone elses kitchen (limited). The sauce was great, the crostini were incomplete sans almonds due to a friends oversight, no problem, but they would have been better. the Morrels, not bland, but not real flavorful mushrooms. I will have to prepare them differently next time, I think...
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Worked all day yesterday, went home and banged out some yard work. The impending rain storm was swooping in. I needed to get this fucking dirt tilled and seeded. After 2 hours my forearms pulsed and ached. Neighbors were "humphing" in their homes. The rain blew around us, and I was finished with just enough time to return the tiller, the truck, and meet some...
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went mushroom hunting today for the first time. I have relatives south of here that make a yearly treck into the woods to check their "spots" I've been wanting to do this for a long time and finally made it down there. I was with a second cousin's husband who is 65, and a chhhhaaainn smoker, he will, and I can nearly guarantee that he...
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cinco de mayo, well, it's finally over. apparently it's a great excuse for whiteys to go out and get plastered and possibly laid by hot mexican girls who love to dance. struggling at work though, I was with a group and we are all well known at this restaurant so they kept bringing out shots of tequila, I have trouble saying no, sooooo we got...
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Yao, last night was rough through and through. Terrible time with the parents, down dobbered completely, pull myself out of it by nearly finishing the paint job in the dining room, then my one of my roommates has a birthday party for himself until 2:30am, maybe I'm becoming a weiner, but I got shit to do on Wedensday morning, just a little rude. Take it...
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