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i realized how few dvd's i've rented this summer.... must be the GTA4 additction throughout the month of july...
watched Tarnation on a long-ago suggestion from a co-worker (about a kid growing up in screwy situation with a mother who's brain is fried/damaged from shock and mental illness; documentary, with all sorts of photos and home movies throughout his life)... pretty powerful and sad. Same...
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i love me some Oregon Public Broadcasting....
i could watch hours of Charlie Rose, Bill Moyers, and all sorts of stuff like Frontline...
I watched American Masters: Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built. What a phenomenal look at a man who helped bring so much exceptional music to the masses, and in a way that according to this program was not as cut-throat, manipulative,...
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work laptop's hard drive crashed yesterday morning..... i'm doomed it appears to try to make up shit-loads of work-in-progress lost.... i am an idiot for not backing stuff up regularly. after erasing my flash drive this summer, getting a virus on my laptop #2, and leaving laptop #1 on the train, you'd think i'd have learned a fucking lesson by now.... idiot, idiot, idiot....
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what the hell am i still doing awake?
end of spring break and i soooo easily slipped into vampire mode. a few excellent shows (Knife World and Nadja, among others), a trip to a casino (out $80), a good book (The Road by Cormac McCarthy), lunches out with sister, absolutely no work done, a b-boy/80's show, Ace Combat 4, 3:10 to Yuma, No Country for...
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i went to a funeral service/viewing for a student i worked with for the last two years. i hadn't seen her since i changed districts in june, but didn't think the next time i saw her would be like this....
she was dressed up like a princess, tiara, pink dress, the works. another student, who became her boyfriend this year, wrote and read a tear-jerker...
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brain tumors shouldn't be allowed. period. my old kindergarten friend, radio station dj, and a person who introduced me to working with individuals with special needs went into the hospital this week with an orange-sized brain tumor..... not happy....

Jaimie is the dude who i helped give a radio show to, which led to me attending a dance he was djing for Camp Friendship (for...
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my sister bought a new Nissan Versa this weekend..... I spent my days buying fake cars on NeedForSpeed: Pro Street.... and not doing my work that is long overdue.
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i'm 33 now.
brother wished me a happy birthday, and let me know he's planning on getting hitched for the second time.
my sister gave me tickets for Circque, which is awesome.
i'm looking forward to the rain stopping someday.
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grandpa's in the hospital with funny feelin's in his chest. i need to drop a card in the mail today....
i'm so stoked i was smart enough to snag those old pictures of him that grandma was going to throw out.

MLKJr day, besides always reminding me of the man himself, brings back the memory of me forgetting my laptop on the MAX train with...
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