Jo on July 22nd, 2008

I wake up thinking about these things …
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them!
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
If someone calls you a bitch - does that make you one?
No.
If someone calls you [...]

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Jo on August 7th, 2007

The house lights are flashing.  The crowd is sitting on the edge of their seats, some holding up home-made signs for their favorite.  Others drunk from the excitement alone stare wide-eyed at the stage set before them.
The announcer comes to the middle of the ring in Hooter’s type clothing, see through at best, announcing the next fight. 
The [...]

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Jo on January 2nd, 2007

I heard about this survey while getting ready for work this morning and found it on Yahoo! by accident.
You don’t really think I’d be hunting down career advise — gasp — at work do you?
Anyway — the title is interesting, as are the results.   But then again, anyone that has worked in a hostile or [...]

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