Introspectivness and ego ahead

I have to admit, I'm a bit proud of myself.
This time last year, I had no idea if I was going to actually graduate college, watched cartoons until one in the morning, was a DDR master and had no idea what a 401K was.

Now I know what a 401K is.

I'm still shocked and proud that I went from lazy college student to bonafide adult in one year. As I predicted, 2008 was the "Year of Amber."

I almost feel a bit confused right now though. On one hand, I go to work, have a real job, with real responsibilities, take care of my own car, my own cat, my own plants, wear professional-type clothing. Mentally, however, I still feel like a 17 year old with ratty jeans who listens to Fall Out Boy and I think part of me will always feel like that. At least, I hope so. There's something so droll sounding about being an adult and growing up. There's the belief that means you've become boring.

I don't ever ever ever want to be boring.

Here's to 2009 being The "Year of Amber, Part Deuce."

decisions, decisions.

After much deliberation, I have decided that Batman is indeed my favorite superhero.

Spiderman is whiny and was simply unlucky in how he became a superhero. Superman is an alien and The Hulk could stand to attend an anger management class or two.
Batman, however, has no actual superpowers. He's just badass and rich enough to impose that badassery on the criminal race. The same with Iron Man. No actual superpowers, just money, balls and a conscience.

I like Batman and Iron Man because they're human. They weren't blessed enough to be from another planet or dumb enough to get bitten by a spider. They have engineering talent and a wish to see the bad guys put away.
Human and relate-able.

I'm Batman

strange times, my friend.

I feel like we're in some weird time-warp.
Gas is where it was 2 years ago, we have a non-white president and Chinese Democracy is finally coming out.

Question: Do you think we are entering onto an era of post-race America?
White groups like Italians, Jews and the Irish have moved from the margins into the mainstream and now African-Americans are starting to-with the arrival of one in the highest position an American can achieve. Do you think we'll have to have an Hispanic in a high office before we can move into a post-race society?

Speaking of the cons of citizen journalism:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=atekONWyM7As&refer=us
"CNN's Citizen Journalism Goes `Awry' With False Report on Jobs"


Also: new laptop has a webcam.

hahaha

Magic Beans
Magic beans for sale
Two for a nickel
They'll grant you a fish, a candle, a pickle
Magic beans for sale
Four for a dime
Perhaps you've been wanting a thumbtack, a lime
Magic beans for sale
Seven for a quarter
They'd get you across the United States border
Magic beans for free
There's no use, alas
All they do is give you gas

Another List

List of characters on Lost who have interesting real-life name sakes. *Most of this taken from wikipedia.

1) Kate Austen= Katherine Austen-(1629-ca.1683) was a British diarist and poet best known for Book M, her manuscript collection of meditations, journal entries, and verse.

2)Jack Shepard= there's a few. There's an illustratist named Jack Shepard and also a Jack Shepard running for senate in Minnesota. But there's also baseball player Jack Shepard. He was born on May 13, 1932, in Clovis, California. Shepard was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues on June 19, 1953, with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He died in 1994.

3)Boone Carlyle= Thomas Boone Carlyle,philosopher, mathematician, and historian,Carlyle (1795-1881) celebrated the power of the individual. He believed that to understand history, all one needed to do was study great men. "The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love," he wrote.

4)Michael Dawson= Michael Dawson, one of the nation's leading experts on race and politics. Currently works at the University of Chicago. Wrote Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies and Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics.

5)Mr. Eko= Eko is the Yoruba name for the city of Lagos (which is in Lagos State, the old Capital of Nigeria). His name is a symbol of the city. In Yoruba, Eko is symbolic of home, thus his name, Mr. Eko, resonates only with Nigerians who understand its true meaning.

6)James "Sawyer" Ford= James Ford was a mafia don in the 1800's around Illinois and Kentucky. He was considered an outlaw-fitting for Sawyer.

7)Walt Lloyd aka WAAAAAAAAAAAAALT= Walter Lloyd, wrote The Story of Protestant Dissent and English Unitarianism in 1899 in London.

8)John Locke= John Locke, (b. 1632, d. 1704), an Oxford scholar, medical researcher and physician, political operative, economist and idealogue for a revolutionary movement, a British Empiricist.

9) Jeremy Bentham aka John's alias when he's in the coffin= Jeremy Bentham, (1748 - 1832), English utilitarian philosopher and social reformer. In Bentham's theory, an action conforming to the principle of utility is right or at least not wrong; it ought to be done, or at least it is not the case that it ought not be done.

10) Charlie Pace- no name-sake, but there's a Web site for Driveshaft that's actually kind of cool. www.driveshaftband.com

11) Desmond David Hume= David Hume, (1711-1776), Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. Also said that he “caused the scales to fall” from Jeremy Bentham's eyes. Interesting.

12)Danielle Rousseau French Lady= Rousseau, (1712-1778), was a major philosopher, literary figure, and composer of the Enlightenment whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of liberal, conservative and socialist theory.

That's all for now.

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