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8/17/2001 01:51:00 PM
We ain't.. Go.. Ing.. Nowhere...

Adam was teaching at a reading camp-type thing over the summer and the kids there had to come up with a jingle, soooo they used the Puff Daddy (P. Diddy) song but changed the words so instead of "Bad Boy" they said "4th Grade".

"We ain't going nowhere, we can't be stopped. We're 4th grade for life!"

If you see any of these kids, please do not try to stop them. They are indeed 4th grade for life, and I found that out the hard way.

Party at my place. My OLD place that is!

Tonight's the party at Kevin/Gleen/Allen's and it should be a real hoot/holler/hamdinger. THere will be a keg, there will be the Wayne's World Dice Game ('This is the world's worst dice game ever...NOT!') and there will be plenty of me. I'm bringing a camera, stay tuned for my exclusive scoop! Speaking of cameras, I've got some hott pictures that I've taken recently that I need to put up for your viewing pleasure. I can promise at least 3 of Kevin in various stages of undress, and quite a few of other people wearing Kevin's Glasses.You'll have a kevgasm, and it's lucky we're on the internet because that's illegal in most states.

State to State

I'm looking looking looking for work now, trying to find a job so that I won't slide back into debt after rising gloriously like a phoenix only a couple weeks ago. OK, technically I'm not out of debt yet, but once that paycheck hits, I'm back in effect! ANyways there's a job opening requiring only an Electrical Engineering degree which involves 95% travel. It's one of those things that I sortof feel like I shouldn't pass up because I want to get a chance to travel and see new xxxciting places but realistically I would miss my friends (and Erica!) here in DC. It's a rough choice (if it even looks viable, I don't know yet) but if it was a 3-6 month contract or something it might look good. There's a recruiter who contacted me yesterday who was very gung-ho trying to get me to send my resume as soon as possible and when I said I wanted to revamp it he was like "You should be happy! I'm trying to get this done for you as soon as possible. THat's why they call me 'Eager Kleeger' (his last name)" and all I could do was stifle a laugh and agree to send it to him when I got home last night. I'm glad to have someone that dedicated on my side, but I do worry that his zeal might have me working before I've even had a chance to be unemployed. I guess I just wasn't made for working life. Time to initiate back-up plan... Anybody want to buy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Comics?

8/15/2001 10:49:00 PM
Get Laid-off This Summer

Today I got called into a meeting to talk about how I'm not going to be working much longer. It was discussed as though it was old news, and sortof it was, but not really. I had been expecting that I'd be hanging out at that job until the end of September until yesterday when the Agency I got the job through called saying that they got a call from my boss that the lady I had been filling in for was coming back early. So, in the end it's fine by me, but it means that I need to go into power-job-search mode so that I won't go back into debt all over again. Our huge electric bill seems far more devastating when you're not getting a Hot-Monetary-Injection every week. I will be fine though, and in the end I'll probably find a job closer to home and more in my field. Who can resist me? You can't, you're reading this.

Unemployment All-over-again

As much as it's going to be rough on me to not have a job when I haven't really got a lot of money saved up, I can't deny that I'm really happy when I think of being unemployed again.

To quote Owen Wilson in Shanghai Noon, "I'm invincible!".

To quote the guy behind me in the theater where I saw Shanghai Noon, "Ha Ha, He said he's invisible!".

8/14/2001 09:21:00 AM
The Engineer Box Set: Special Edition

I'm workin' it up, (as opposed to bloggin' it up, although technically I'm doing both, or maybe technically I'm only bloggin' it up right now, but I think you understand what I was really getting at) and while at work I'm perusing the Monster.com listnings and seeing that there is one new job matching my search criteria, and that job is "Engineer IV". How could I possibly go for a job where they don't even have the creativity to come upw tih a catchy tag-line for the position? If it was "Engineer IV: Bloodlust" or "Engineer IV: The Fifth Derivative", or "Engineer IV: Lost in Silver Spring, Maryland", or "Engineer IV: Nocturnal Calculations", or "Engineer IV: Keep on Engineerin'", or "Engineer IV: Sodom", then maybe I'd be impressed, but it's just not the case. For that reason (and my lack of 10 years of experience with low/high power distribution systems) they aren't getting my resume.

Milo takes the EIT Exam

It's actually funny I should mention engineering, because I just got some of my review materials for the "Engineer in Training" Examination, which is the Precursor to the "Professional Engineer" Exam, which is the one that makes it OK for you to practice public acts of engineering. Right now, if I were to attempt to engineer anything I'd be a rogue, an outlaw, a vigilante of the arcane arts, which might explain why I'm not actually engineering anything. Sorry me, IU'd love to actually use my degree, but I'd hate to break the law. Fact of the matter is I can engineer all I want, but I can't build public building or engineer a new design for a park or a government run homeless shelter or the like. I can build guidance systems for ballistic missles (and space doo-doo pistols) until I'm blue in the face though, don't worry. Anyways, my point is that I'm looking at the review materials and feeling both scared and excited. I'm legitimately excited about all of these Math Problems because it's been so long since I've worked with them and I feel like it's a call-to-arms, or some sort of rebirth. A second lease on life, or something like that. Mostly it's just a chance to try to prove to myself that I didn't waste ALL of my time in college and to test how much I've retained. I want to be graded and quantized, I want a standardized numerical sum which my whole existence can boil down to. I want to be stereotyped, I want to be classified! Anyhow, I'm stoked, I get to do hard Math Problems again. Huzzah!

Admire my self-restraint.

OK I've held out long enough, here's the funny/easy ones:

Engineer IV: The New Batch
Engineer IV: Engineer Harder
Engineer IV: The Clone Wars
Engineer IV: Back in the Habit
Engineer IV: The one where Richard Pryor is the bad guy and makes a huge device modelled after the Camel on the Camel cigarettes' box
Engineer IV: The Undiscovered Country
Engineer IV: A Sex Odyssey
Engineer IV: Pocket Protected
Engineer IV: Math on Crack
Engineer IV: The Legend Continues
Engineer IV: Straight to Video
Engineer IV: Engineers Gone Wild!
Engineer IV: Citizens on Patrol
Engineer IV: No Equations Barred
Engineer IV: Integral Encounters
Engineer IV: Bring tha Random Noise Interference
Engineer IV: The Mummy Returns

and of course...
Engineer IV: Electrical Engineer Boogaloo

8/14/2001 09:21:00 AM
Congratulations: Me

I want to take this opportunity to commend myself for the previous drunken blog which I have only a faint recollection of producing.I put myself out there, for the people.

Condolences: Paul Feldman

I want to let everyone know that my friend Paul is an amazing guy who deserves the best this world has to offer. The whole Joel's Blog Family (me) thinks you're awesome.

8/12/2001 03:19:00 AM
Man oh Man, you just wouldn't understand...

OK after a lot of drinking and talking with Adam I've come to realize that I'm pretty well sloshed at this point but that's usually a predescesor to an email and not a deterrantt, but what are you goning to do? Honestly. I don't know, but I'm going to try my dammndest to write something coherent, so here we go. Tonight I drank some wine and wine has always been a weird drink for me because it has an aire off "uppity airistocracy" to it, but it can get you top a point where you stop thinking aboutwhat you're typing and you end up with puke in your hair and no friends, but at least you feel ritzy, right? well the point is that I drank agood bit tonight and now I'm writing on the computer and erica is passed out and while I had a good time talking to ericaII still have to figure out if I want to wake her up and risk making her hurl or if I want to leave here as she lays and risk feeling irresponsible. THe last thing I waant to do is jostle her so it may be that leaving her lay is the right answer but it feels like a trickk question.

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