There and Back Again

Listening to: Once In A Lifetime (Keith Urban)
Pondering: Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader’s daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage. (John Le Carre)
I was searching government job sites this [...]

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Listening to: Planet Earth (Duran Duran)
Pondering: Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. (Sigmund Freud)
They are playing free-word association at Unconscious Mutterings and I thought I’d play along. Each week Luna Nina, the host of the site, posts ten words to which you can respond to with the first thing [...]

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Listening to: Calendar Girl (Stars)
Pondering: It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good. (Henri Rousseau)

Now doesn’t he look amazing? I just watched the DVD of a movie called Rancid which is, I think one of Matthew Settle’s newest movies. I first “met” Mr. Settle in the movie [...]

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Listening to: Am I Not Pretty Enough (Kasey Chambers)
Pondering: In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that’s not important to you or your state of well-being. (Steven Berkoff)
I woke up early this morning and read a few chapters of this really cheesy but can’t-stop-reading paperback I have been keeping on my [...]

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Listening to: Everyday Down (Joan Jones)
Pondering: Flow wine, smile woman, and the universe is consoled. Pierre Jean de Beranger
For as little as $20, I got all of my 4000+ songs back! Yes! My iTunes Folder is healthy again and I don’t have to mourn when I sync my iPod to my laptop now. [...]

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Listening to: I Try (Ben Taylor)
Pondering: If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? (Scott Adams)
Tonight, I managed to successfully wipe out ALL the songs in my iTunes folder. The shock of it still has me [...]

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