tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39928222012-02-06T12:01:20.287-05:00jaimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09065436297744310539noreply@blogger.comBlogger691100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3992822.post-1138767278309877312006-01-31T23:13:00.000-05:002006-01-31T23:16:39.566-05:00

"Obviously, such research does not speak at all to the question of the prejudice level of the president," said Banaji, "but it does show that George W. Bush is appealing as a leader to those Americans who harbor greater anti-black prejudice." (Here's a link for ya.)

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I feel like I'm becoming a total TIME blogger (insert inappropriate word here), but Christine Gorman's blog on global health is truly after my own heart, despite its disturbing content at times.On malaria drugs, their effectiveness, and companies that like producing ineffective drugs: Read this. Then this.

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Everyone should know that the New York Times and International Herald Tribune are working together on a truly enjoyable blog on the World Economic Forum at Davos, and not just because there's at least one post talking about Angelina's pregnancy.One item I'm particularly interested in is the announcement of the Red campaign. For those of you who haven't heard, it's a bunch of corporate partners,

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For kicks, another old post I stumbled across:"our country is better than this. we're smarter than this. we should know that unless we act differently, our time will be no different than that of all people who ever lived. that our united states will not be an eternal, lasting good unless we rectify mistakes of the past and stop making them---until we actually subscribe to our constitution. we

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1: Bob Woodruff and his cameraman were victims of a makeshift bomb; as I write, they're in surgery. To do something active: Committee to Protect Journalists.2: I was watching the McLaughlin Group this morning and I'm not sure if it's my slightly hungover state or the crew was just more passionate than usual, but the debate on the recent political ascendance of Hamas in the Palestinian

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Back from my quick jaunt off to see relatives and recovering from New Year's Eve. It's a bright new year. We can all eat a little better, exercise more, and work on our time management. It's another opportunity.I'm hoping that this new year will bring even more coverage of Africa, but specifically, of the solutions, not just the problems. More cover stories about the Bill and Melinda Gates

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The Kaiser Family Foundation has an incredible online learning center for anyone interested in issues surrounding public health policy. It has powerpoint-based tutorials where you can download the slides and/or watch the presentation and a collection of syllabi on various topics. Wonderfully helpful, even email spammed a bunch of friends about it.Anyway, there's on on the Global AIDS Pandemic.

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Impact of Menstruation on School Attendance: The Girls Drop Out for a Week or SoThe hygiene issues at African schools prove troublesome for girls entering (and throughout, of course) puberty. The article, focusing on Ethiopia, talks about the lack of water and latrines."Researchers throughout sub-Saharan Africa have documented that lack of sanitary pads, a clean, girls-only latrine and water for

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Sometimes you've just got to be quiet and look.

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"I cannot accept, your canon that we are to judge pope and king unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."-- Lord Acton "The papers offer no proof of PETA's involvement in illegal activity. But more than 100 pages of heavily

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This was breaking news on CNN today: "President Bush defends eavesdropping program in U.S., says he'll keep using it as long as terrorists threaten nation." Read: President Bush defends violations of civil rights, says he'll continue such appalling behavior as long as he's in power, Congress is fairly inept,* and the sky is blue. When people read that breaking news, do they actually

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11-Year-Old Arlingtonian Way Ahead of Me"To collect the bikes, Winston set up a nonprofit group called Wheels to Africa, and he contacted Bikes for the World, an Arlington-based organization that ships bicycles to developing countries, including some in Africa. To defray shipping costs, Winston collected $10 from each donor."Much Better than the Year They Picked HitlerBono, Melinda, and Bill..."

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Parliamentary elections this week in Iraq...

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MTN buys LibertisMTN, the company that put a cell phone tower on one of the hills near Bumwalukani in Uganda, is growing...Not to get on my soapbox, but try to picture the scene. You're looking at the stars from a home at the top of a slippery slope in a rural village in the middle of Africa, and you can call the United States and tell your friend good afternoon. Keep in mind the village has no

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The West Sending Beaten Up Computers to Africa: Not Helping So Much "Either way, at least half of the used equipment that arrives in Lagos by the ton is unusable and ends up in landfills, a Seattle-based nonprofit discovered recently after sending a team to survey the situation. The Basel Action Network (BAN) found that much of the junked equipment is adding to the considerable hazardous waste

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Started Dr. Jeffrey Sach's work The End of Poverty. I've only read his acknowledgements and Bono's foreward. Some tidbits:"The world is held together, however precariously, by the vision, leadership, and struggle of its leaders who are committed to a world of justice, equality, and rule of law." (Sachs)"[Statistic about 15,000 Africans who die each day of treatable diseases] makes a fool of the

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I recently subscribed to a Google Alert on news about Africa. Since I signed up (about a week ago,) 95% of the stories have been about South Africa, and this when there was a major earthquake centered in the Congo with reverberations as far as Nairobi, Kenya. I'm no longer curious as to why trying to learn about different countries in Africa is such a trying task. Memories of trying to find a

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Some headlines about the ongoing battle to offend our friends and neighbors...Interest Groups in a Tizzy about White House Holiday Card Not Mentioning JesusFord Bows to Pressure from Homophobes

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Medicins Sans Frontieres brings up the quiet but important detail that HIV drugs are most helpful when actually taken in recommended doses. This is based on a recent study conducted in Lagos, Nigeria, where such drugs were given out free of cost:"...Nigeria and other African countries needed to provide comprehensive care free of charge so patients avoid getting into a cycle of incomplete

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shake it kiddos...

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let's see. it's been quite a long time, but i am back. looking for that fulfillment that only spouting off on the internet can provide.so let's talk about this article in the post today. just because september 11th was in the year 2001, and just because countless government resources have been utilized in investigating that day and coming up with wise recommendations on how to prevent another

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take me to the water... i went to uganda a few weeks ago. i got back a week from yesterday and i went to sleep at 7:30 pm for a week to combat my jetlag. however, i find myself still in a daze. am i still tired? is it because when i travel i am ridiculously picky where food is concerned and therefore eat next to nothing, and my body is struggling to regain precious brain cells lost during two

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someone walked in with the news about paul johnson being beheaded in saudi arabia the other day and said, "this just proves that they're evil." i asked who they was. "our enemies." i asked what that meant. "we have to kill them all." i asked how you can do that. "we can just make the middle east into a sea." ah, of course. i forgot. we can kill them all. when confronted with evil individuals,

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so yesterday morning a few coworkers and i packed up materials in the conference room at work and had the condi hearings on. i can't decide if she's the sacrificial lamb or not. i don't fault the bush administration too much for 9/11 happening. i do fault them for giving a few million in aid to the taliban in august of 2001, but that's a different story. one thing that bugged me about the way

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it's one of those days at work when i can feel myself wondering where my life is going. i have a good job, and i like the people i work with, and i feel fairly useful. but inescapably, i know that this is not what i am meant to be doing, and that the longer i stay here, the more comfortable i get in plotting out my daily life in minutes and hours of filing and phone calls and meetings. there are

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Bush, the Untouchable (not in the caste system kind of way, in the mafia kind of way) well, thanks to my good friend kim's internet connection, i have an opportunity to blog without interruption (read: changing the surface window to avoid various senior individuals at work from seeing my activities) and so i've got a few things to say. i've taken to reading the washington post and circling

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who's your daddy [from the fec website] DEAN FIRST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DECLARED ELIGIBLE FOR PRIMARY MATCHING FUNDS IN 2004 RACE WASHINGTON – Howard Dean today became the first 2004 presidential candidate to be declared eligible by the Federal Election Commission to receive federal matching funds. Dean is seeking the Democratic nomination for president in 2004. To become eligible for

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a toast to the candidate for hitting seven million. a toast to the ordinary americans who contributed enough money to make the people's candidate viable. a toast to what i hope is a sign of the year to come: US, the people, taking our country back.

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forget about it

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tonight: dean fundraiser.

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i finished two books yesterday. isabel allende's "the house of the spirits" and dershowitz's "supreme injustice." i was so disturbed after completing both of these works that i ended up in my kitchen doing dishes, trying to scrub away my concern. it didn't work and i had trouble sleeping last night. we went to see isabel speak last week at a book signing. someone asked her some question about

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i mean, i knew working in an office had some elements of this, but: (from an email, received five minutes ago) "Hi everyone, In April I resigned as Birthday Cake Host, after almost two years. No one on the EBAC Committee wished to fill the position, which has traditionally been an EBAC responsibility. (Janet, as EBAC rep, had previously done the honors for many years before.) They are at an

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you go to my head and i feel you spinning round in my brain... [my coworker just spit out her nicorette: "i'd rather have the cigarette taste in my mouth than this; you can't even blow bubbles with it"] last night, at a bar with some friends, celebrating a 21st of a random person who i had never met before, i was pretty tired, and so i found myself staring at one of the televisions there, cnn

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to give you an idea of how my life has changed over the last few months, i was watching this fantastic movie called "waking life" the other day, and i noticed that one of the producers is someone named palmer west. and i thought, "palmer west---that's a school of chiropractic." then i killed myself...[for those of you who actually know me, you know that i work at the american chiropractic

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haven't done this in a while. go to kara's website.

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COMPLETED JACKED and i'm proud to be an american, where at least i know [fill in the blank] (should the blank be) my government detains preteens in totalitarian states without so much as a fake trial? i'm outraged. even if the kids know things, they are kids for crying out loud. there needs to be some semblance of sanity here. the ends do not justify the means. See below. Can you believe this?

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talk about writer's block.

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well my loves, it has been one of those days. frankly, i should be asleep right now. it would be much more responsible. it does seem the world is truly going to hell, doesn't it? some sort of SARS disease making its rounds, war, hijackings, threats of terrorist attacks, geraldo getting in trouble. geraldo getting in trouble is the only thing reported recently that has made me feel like perhaps

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on iraq 2. please see: this post . I. THE BEGINNING: THE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES can everyone agree on an operating principle? human life is worthy of being preserved. no one wants nuclear war. no one looks forward to it. i believe it is the threat of the destruction of our species that makes foreign policy discussions so necessary. in this world, one state actor, whoever they may be, can

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position on iraq forthcoming.

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LIFESAVERS FOR SALE: 4 for $5 [on location, in fairfax, va, approximately 20 minutes from washington, d.c., sans traffic] i'm sitting next to a heavy cardboard box and a giant tub of pretzels. i'm eating gummi savers that were on sale. you know what i did when i saw that bags of lifesavers were on sale? first, i considered the humor. second, i bought them because i figured candy could keep your

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i tried to make this longer, but then my hand was on fire: sexual stereotypes for women in this society are very confusing. you're supposed to be virginal and not have had that many partners, but you're supposed to be free and open with your sexuality and fairly experienced. aggressive even. you're supposed to be capable of handling the one night stand without commitment, but you're also

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quote of the day: [from a conversation about the new orange alert level] "i don't need this terror in my life" -kara

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a song (by an unknown author) forwarded to me by a friend: [read it all the way through, trust me, it's worth it] Sung to the tune of 'If You're Happy and You Know It..." If you cannot find Osama, bomb Iraq. If the markets are a drama, bomb Iraq. If the terrorists are frisky, Pakistan is looking shifty, North Korea is too risky, Bomb Iraq. If we have no allies with us, bomb Iraq. If we

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...let's give credit where credit is due. colin powell, we praise you. the ever patient attempts to balance the saber-rattling of the administration you represent while integrating principles of multilateralism make you the only sane voice from the current u.s. administration. you aren't perfect, but you're definitely the best thing we've got going. someone who can make me feel hopeful that maybe

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i need a drink: "Of course the Palestinian Authority is the epicenter of world terrorism" ask who wrote this just ask you wanna know? david frum, g.w. bush biographer and former w. speechwriter .....frum also happens to be, according to anthony lewis in the new york review of books, the author of the "axis of evil" phrase..... clearly, a man extremely well versed in the middle east, the p.a.,

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the war with iraq and the possible outcomes okay, go here. let this diagram explain all the possible scenarios that take me an hour of rambling to even touch upon. so johnny and i are talking today about the diagram, and then considering the history of colonialization, and struggling to come up with a country that was BETTER OFF after an outside force intervened. we're brainstorming about this,

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troublemakers: (DEFINITIONS) 1. right-wing columnists focusing on the socialist roots of some anti-war rally organizers, resulting in people across the nation rolling their eyes at any and all anti-war protests, undermining the legitimate concerns of people who do not think a war with iraq right now is such a good idea. 2. idiot protesters protesting anything and everything without any real

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from today's New York Times article "To Some in Europe, the Major Problem Is Bush the Cowboy" By David Sanger: "While Vice President Dick Cheney has argued that a show of military might will begin to change the map of the Middle East, German and French officials say it will more likely lead to a radicalization of the Arab world, a fractured Iraq and a prolonged struggle with Washington over who

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oh, the hullaboo psst...president bush...we don't want this war. (you know that, don't you...but you let it slide)

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it is the nature of violating civil rights itself that is wrong, without regard to whose rights are being violated, and for what reason a memory i have from november 2002 acquiantance: so what are you doing here? me: i'm handing out this flier so people can get information and possibly do something about stopping torture. acquaintance: you're really not saying anything, you know. of course

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CAN BLOGGING SAVE US? The forth estate, right now, is pitiful. The mainstream media is not doing its job of 1) accurately reporting the news 2) giving serious, reasoned, critical analysis of policy. Every policy decision is swept under the proverbial carpet, the media quickly moving onto the next big thing without engaging with the ramifications of policies. As a result, the American public is

jaimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09065436297744310539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3992822.post-873728542003-01-13T16:57:00.000-05:002003-01-13T16:57:12.230-05:00

let's talk about what transpired while kara and i were innocently eating lunch at a local friendly's yesterday. this family, consisting of mom, dad and a little girl of about six or seven, sits down at a table adjacent to us and within ten minutes there is a virtual eruption of emotion and raised voices. turns out the father is on a hunger strike against the impending war in iraq, and the mother

jaimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09065436297744310539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3992822.post-871805782003-01-09T15:24:00.000-05:002003-01-09T15:28:11.000-05:00

to look life in the face---to know it for what it is---to love it for what it is---it is the right of every human being this line from the trailer for the movie "the hours" is running through my head. so much so that i went to the website for the film itself to get its exact wording, and happily discovered that my beloved david hare, the man whose words in via dolorosa echo through my mind, is

jaimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09065436297744310539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3992822.post-868952902003-01-03T17:40:00.000-05:002003-01-13T18:54:59.000-05:00

allright, so if you've read my absolutely insane post from 1/1, you know i'm writing about martin kramer's _ivory towers on sand_ for my graduate essays. you also know that my writing suffers when i'm going crazy about the act of writing pieces that really have to be amazing. so anyway, i was flipping my lid as usual about what i was going to do about the nyu joint MA journalism/near eastern

jaimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09065436297744310539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3992822.post-868043992003-01-01T19:45:00.000-05:002003-01-01T23:51:44.000-05:00

allright. perhaps that was god's intervention. a blog just disappeared. i just wrote this huge thing chock full of neuroses, mainly dealing with anxiety about graduate school and spending a lot of words simply saying that i was going to start writing about martin kramer's _ivory towers on sand: the failure of middle eastern studies in america_. the intended goal of this exercise is to formulate a

jaimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09065436297744310539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3992822.post-866843242002-12-29T23:56:00.000-05:002002-12-29T23:56:25.256-05:00

so for anyone who reads this self-absorbed masterpiece regularly---as if these people exist---, there is an update on my sending in my post to the academic listserv. the moderator wrote me back, giving me excellent advice and also gently telling me to maybe tone down the ol' passion. yeah, i keep getting told that, in all different situations. so noted. this is why georgetown needs to accept me,

jaimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09065436297744310539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3992822.post-862627392002-12-19T04:19:00.000-05:002003-01-13T19:07:23.000-05:00

lately, i have found myself mentally arguing more than ever with the individuals on my h-diplo listserv. most of the time people on there are debating about the middle east or issues related to the region. as i read certain lines, sometimes a little part of my brain screams out that this is something which necessitates a reponse. as a creature of habit, i typically allow things to either go

jaimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09065436297744310539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3992822.post-859066472002-12-12T14:16:00.000-05:002002-12-12T14:16:50.180-05:00

courtesy of liz, in reference to my first substitute teaching position this friday. Jaime's class Mock political/media Spelling Test for 12/12/02: "Ok kids, take out your crayola's and a sheet of paper, it's time for a spelling test!" "Number your papers 1 thru 10." (shuffling, scuffling, talking) "Ok kids, settle down.." "class. Class. CLASS! QUIET!! billy. Billy. BILLY! STOP PINCHING

jaimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09065436297744310539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3992822.post-858037762002-12-10T17:17:00.000-05:002002-12-10T17:21:51.000-05:00

i have five essays i need to be writing for graduate schools. but i am too spattered, too all-over-the-board. the good news is i think i got one of the five done last night; the bad news is that since then i have been reading the latest issue of the economist and alan dershowitz's book _supreme injustice: how the high court hijacked election 2000_ and sleeping. i have started writing here because

jaimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09065436297744310539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3992822.post-856704752002-12-08T01:46:00.000-05:002002-12-10T17:23:30.000-05:00

and at 7:59 pm eastern time i was sitting, highly anticipatory as our fearless leader would say, eyes peeled and ready to experience hbo's "live from baghdad." i need to see it again; but it's worth a watch. most anything is worth a watch though, so i'll tell you here what you really should make an effort to see: the first five minutes. scene of middle easterners in a movie theater, watching the

jaimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09065436297744310539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3992822.post-854699712002-12-04T01:52:00.000-05:002002-12-10T17:27:09.000-05:00

on iraq. one thing is missing from what i have seen of the talking heads and what i have read, and this is a serious discussion of the impact of such an event on regional stability and what exactly happens after said invasion. let's look at the example of the recent war with afghanistan. yes, this could be considered "an effective" carpet-bombing campaign that seemed to rid us of some demons,

jaimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09065436297744310539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3992822.post-854413752002-12-03T15:13:00.000-05:002002-12-06T12:00:09.000-05:00

at the request of two people i am acquainted with, i am to read the following pieces: Barry Rubin's "The Real Roots of Arab Anti-Americanism" in the Nov/Dec 02 Foreign Affairs and Amos Elon's "Israelis and Palestinians: What Went Wrong" in 19 December 2002 New York Review of Books. since both parties seem to want commentary on my part, i figure, why not throw it all up here? let's start with

jaimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09065436297744310539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3992822.post-854368922002-12-03T13:38:00.000-05:002002-12-03T14:13:47.000-05:00

and onto a topic that apparently cannot be delayed. my controversial usage of these things: _. you may have noticed that instead of underlining names of books, i make them _this_. why? because i like it better. however, the topic must be discussed. finding myself having to defend this controversial usage in conversations with genius friends, i offer the following reasons. _ is much more

jaimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09065436297744310539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3992822.post-854354052002-12-03T13:05:00.000-05:002002-12-03T13:05:24.853-05:00

well it is morning, but almost afternoon. pay no mind to the time that the blogger assigns each of my posts; they are apparently wrong. the last one was off by three hours. i will fix this one day. note that there are no promises of speediness and such. i am due to scurry off to the lovely campus that is george mason university to communicate with some professors and give them long overdue

jaimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09065436297744310539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3992822.post-854211222002-12-03T02:03:00.000-05:002002-12-03T02:09:06.000-05:00

enter the danger of becoming a blog addict. at least i am writing, i say to myself. not that i am writing what i need to be writing, my superego points out. what shall we write about now, the ego asks the super and the id. [plato's concept of three parts to the human being.] [always in threes.] they say that the brilliant are only truly brilliant by virtue of their ability to convey their

jaimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09065436297744310539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3992822.post-854176472002-12-03T00:27:00.000-05:002002-12-03T00:27:22.640-05:00

yesterday, i was standing at the airline counter, waiting to check in, holding my email printout and my driver's license, my luggage grazing my leg. there were two, count em, TWO workers holding down the fort. let me delineate the responsibilities of these two workers: Handle All Customers, ie, for three flights. by handle i mean: check them in at the counter, check id's and tickets at the actual

jaimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09065436297744310539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3992822.post-854157012002-12-02T23:40:00.000-05:002002-12-02T23:40:34.056-05:00

all right kids, so i'm not quite so sure i enjoy my "template", as it were, but who really cares. the only people will be reading this will be my friends anyway, i'm sure. so let's start over. it's time for my own self-absorbed blog. let us give credit where credit is due. credit to joseph for introducing this forum into our lives, credit to johnny for the following comment: "your shit should

jaimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09065436297744310539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3992822.post-854150102002-12-02T23:25:00.000-05:002002-12-02T23:25:21.810-05:00

can we reflect on how i just wrote a big long post and it couldn't be posted because some goddamn window couldn't be displayed? here is the story of my life, right here.

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