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School starts up again next week, and it begins with the first holiday of the semester. Thank you Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for being born on that day, thereby starting Spring '08 on the right note.

Finally saw the Simpson's movie. I was prepared and expecting to dislike it, but I rather enjoyed it. It is obvious that it is lacking a little of...
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Instead of echoing the thousands of redundant end-of-the-year lists that clog up the internet, television, and shitty magazines, I figured I'd merely pantomime them, and leave the jizzing all over LCD Soundsystem and Panda Bear to the other lists. This list is titled: The Top Great Things Chris Gro Discovered This Year. These things may not have been released in 2007...as a matter of fact,...
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I closed at work last night, which means I did not get home until about 3 am. It would have been closer to 2:30, but I had to drop off the spazzy sign-shaker kid at work who shakes signs and is a kid. Turns out he lives like a mile away from me, but in a weird spot where it takes a long time to...
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Do you ever find yourself, in the midst of your day, having the most inane, immature, ridiculous thoughts possible? I was at work the other day and for no reason at all I thought "hmmm, I wonder if Justin Timberlake would be friends with me; like if we met each other, if he'd take a liking to me and want to hang out." Bizarre.

I...
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I've been on this here website off and on since late 2002 and have never been particularly active. One can tell by the distinct lack of friends, comments, and testimonials. So to whom am I writing this? I think I'm writing it to anyone who may happen across my profile in a fit of indiscriminate clicking and wonder "hey, what's this dude's deal? No comments,...
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I saw a guy walking up the street today clad in dress clothes underneath a graduation robe. This would not have been notable save for the fact that I was a couple miles away from the colleges near work, and also that those colleges held their graduation ceremonies the week before. He was walking angrily and intently north toward the mountains, his head down and...
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I've sort of heard and listened to that album "In the Aeroplane, Over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel over the years. Enjoyed "Two-Headed Boy" and other than that, it never really did much for me. I'm not sure what happened but I burned a copy of it last week and listened on one of my inumerable drives to Orange County, and it nearly reduced...
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This place is the goddamned surface of the goddamned sun. Every day I tell myself "you know, I should go outside more. It'll be good for me." I then take one step outside, watch my skin begin to smoke like cracklin' bacon, and retreat, holing up in my room with books, records, and other accoutrements that don't produce heat. Whose idea was it to settle...
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So I was sittin' around yesterday at about 8:30, watching Under Siege and playin' guitar, when for some reason I felt like I had just climbed a mountain and passed out. I woke up 4 hours later wondering what the fuck happened. I had a pretty mellow day yesterday, there was no reason I should be so tired but I was. Shit, I have cancer,...
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Gonna be working some overtime at the Yorba Linda office for the next few weeks. It'll suck, but it'll be financially rewarding and its just for a month. My life descends further into Office Space tedium. Fuck it. I just need to find a girl that loves Kung Fu (or Slayer. Slayer is a reasonable substitute for Kung Fu).

Things are beginning to feel pretty...
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There are precious few things I miss about working as a flower delivery driver, the pay sucked, my bosses were idiots and the last two months I worked there were like being stuck as the houseguest of a couple that should have been divorced years ago but remain together out of both habit and spite.
The one thing I really do miss though was the...
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I keep forgetting about this journal. I guess I shouldn't be surprised about the lack of response to it. It's like a shitty zine that comes out sporadically and only covers bands that still play ska. Ooooh, take that, ska!

A friend/former supervisor I hadn't seen in a while rang me on Friday and made a bizarre request.
"This is going to seem like a...
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