Amalgamations of El Jefe

f@#$ this for a lark
What a horrendous week.. Really filthy. I've been sick, my car failed inspection, I need a new computer, and I have a sneaking dread suspicion that my land lord wants to kick me out...
First of all let me say that I think turn signals are cool and all, but I think they belong in the same general strata of automotive significance as review mirrors, digital clocks, and designer steering wheel grips. They're a freaking incumberence! A crutch! Now because my left turn signal doesn't work I'm forced to fork over $300. Thanks very much North Carolina inspection laws. Another instance of Republicans punishing the poor little blighter. Honestly! I'm tempted to just forgoe the whole thing and hope I don't get ticketed. I'm going to take special pleasure this year in insisting the state refund my $2 tax refund.. bastards.
If that weren't enough, I found out the other day that one of my professors is all gung-ho about using some video application that I feel with a sinking certainty will torpedo my poor little dell. I can't really blame the professor since supposedly we were supposed to buy flashy new laptops for this joint, but it still burns me. I've been keystrokes away from ordering a new dell several times this summer, but I just can't stomach taking on more debt. So I think I'll just drop, the first class bored the crap out of me anyways.
Finally, my landlord has been pursuing me to have dinner with he and his wife for a week and a half. There nice people and we get along fine, but we don't socialize. I've had dinner with them once in our 13 month relationship and that was fine. We've already had to cancel a few times and I'm wondering why he's so dogged about treating yours truly to happy hour and a meal. Needless to say that if I lose my diggs I would be screwed to the wall...
It hurts to breath deep....

Why I love the BBC
Apparently the Italian congress has been recalled to deal with a pending football strike. This story is hilarious, what the hell is wrong with these people?! I'd like to highlight what I thought were the cogent points..

The decision to expand the league was taken by the Italian football federation (FIGC) on Wednesday, after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi issued a decree giving it powers to override the courts...
Mr Berlusconi, who is also the president of the current European Champions AC Milan, interrupted his holidays in Sardinia for an emergency cabinet meeting on Tuesday saying that getting the country's football in order was a priority. His decree was designed to prevent the court actions over relegation, and a separate dispute over television fees, from delaying the start of the football season. The decree applies not only to the FIGC but also to the other ruling bodies of Italian sport.

Is it me or did he just fundamentally challenge the balance of power in Italy just so he wouldn't have to delay game night? No wonder he and Bush get along so famously!

My Quasi-Office
My new little office is very odd. Its more of a cubby hole really. Technically I have four walls, but one of them is glass and I have no door. I've also just noticed that 2.5 of my walls don't reach the ceiling (I guess this thing was an afterthought). The only cool thing about it is the acoustics. If I'm standing in my doorway I can hear my tunes. Take one small step out of the office though, and the tunes fade almost completely. This is very key because as you know, in any office situation there are really two factors that will determine whether or not your sitting arrangement is acceptable. Acoustics and the hunched-back factor. Unfortunately my cubby fails the hunched-back test with flying colors. My glass wall gives anyone walking by a free show, and my back is to the glass wall/doorway. I've already had one co-worker sneak up on me and proclaim "blogger" in a sing-song voice... I find that distressing and its clearly a feng-shuai violation. Someone's probably watching me write this right now....

Huzzah!.... huzzah?..doh
Well today is payday, and my HR lady just handed me a check. When I greedily unwrapped it though, I found to my chagrin that they had undershot my agreed paygrade by two dollars. That may be peanuts to some but not to a poor grad student like yours truly. I immediately corrected her on this point, at which point she left to go check her "notes". I feel sick. I'm sure I've just descended to the circle of hell reserved for crumbums who chisel non-profits. I walked by her office just after that and I could swear that she shot me sort of look. Some sort of "why don't you go back to that insurance company you dirty shyster?" look. I may have been imagining that last bit, but I'm pretty sure she was thinking something along those lines. Later on, a co-worker and I were throwing out some of the old shit they have laying around here when he remarked "Well, I guess we just earned our $-- for the day". I grunted my assent and immediately felt like git. $-- was much less than what I had demanded from these poor hippies. In fact if you'd like to bring out your calculaters it was exactly 40% less... (Patrick's been stewing) I don't know if he was guessing what I made or if he really makes $--, but I didn't really enjoy hearing it.

HR lady just got back to me saying that the aggreement was indeed what I thought, but before she did so I was just about to go looking for the initial job ad to make sure I wasn't dreaming this up. I was that close to deciding I was delusional. Aiya! Why do these things happen to me? This happened before at Hathaway where I worked for my father.. (i.e descended to the circle of hell reserved for those who chisel their father's company) I must look like a sucker or something.

Actually I suppose you might say I'm more of a hooker with a heart of gold
(I wouldn't)

If a bear craps in the woods....
Well it turns out that since I moved to the new hosting scheme no one came with me. In other words I was effectively talking to myself, which is something I enjoy anyways... Maybe I'll start a new secret Blog! Maybe I have already!

OH and by the way thanks to Blogger for not simultaneously publishing my blog in two spots... That would have been far too convenient

Just got back from Charlotte. I was there visiting Nicci, my sister, Rhett, her husband, and my nephew Wyatt (how would one employ commas in that sentence?). A chance to eat well, clear my head, and ponder my responsibilities. In other words I ate at a fabulous Italian restaurant, played with my nephew, and wallowed in the pit of guilt, anxiety, and image-doubt that exists perpetually in the nether regions of my brain. long drives and sleepless nights you know... Anyways, at the end of every worry/anxiety session of course is my old favorite... the ever present Master's thesis, that ole jag... On this subject I know three things a) I should have gotten an MBA b) If I quit now I don't have to write a thesis and finally c)if I write this one in the same manner in which I wrote my collegiate honor's thesis, I won't come out the other end with all my gauges pointing in the same direction. I think I'll do something nutty and piss red for a while...

But don't worry too much about me... I counter this with brash self-confidence and my own special brand of mocking determinism.

On a lighter note, while in the lovely vale of Wingate, I read an interesting article about General Wesley Clark. He may run for president. Exciting isn't it? As you can see, the whole thing is a tad complicated, the General hasn't even declared his candidacy yet, but I get the feeling he will. Perhaps he's just waiting for the country to reach the right level of feverish desperation. The only thing that matters is that I think that if the General ran for office that he would have the best chance out of anyone to end the Curse of Bush. So I guess I'll throw my support behind him...... huzzah for us.

A thesis that hasn't been writen and a candidate who hasn't even declared... Life continues to please me with its humorous overtones.

I did get some laundry done tho....

I'm on the move
Once again El Jefe has cast off the bonds of social conformity! This blog has moved here. Please change your links comrades.

Bill Murray Shrine?
For those of you who may wonder whether this violatile and direction-less website is about to become some weird fan shrine, fear not. Bill Murray is cool, but what's cooler is his performance in Rushmore. So I guess you can say that while I don't know jack about Bill, I've memorized nearly every word Herman Blume's ever uttered. That strikes me as just the right mix. "Were you in the shit?"... "Yeah, I was in the shit"

What up Mofo's
Here we are, my second to last day at the ole' burrito factory. I hate it here, but most of all I hate the shysters [An unethical, unscrupulous practitioner, especially of law] who run the place... They suck. Today I spent most of the day surfing blogs and generally goofing off. During my travels I became re-aquinted with Wil Wheaton which was fun. I downloaded this cool image from his site...



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La RevoluciÒN!
I el Jefe have seized this blog in the name of the people! I am tired of the low brow bullshit that one finds on the web! I decided to take this website so we can class this joint up... but mostly because it sucked. I will issue Communiques from time to time, but the only thing I gaurantee on this website is the irregularity of my posts......

P.S. YOU SUCK! , yeah! eat it... it's my blog now baby!

Screw this
I've become impatient with my blog. I feel that my posting has become increasingly stilted/intentional which I hate. Part of the problem is that this site has lost its anonymity and now I'm worried people will read it. Imagine waking up in the morning and wondering how you can be interesting that day. No thanks. This shit is all ego driven, Fuck that. You see??!!! I just felt a pang of guilt because I know my mother reads this damn site. Well I'm not deleting it!! Screw this!

I think I'll write my next blog in unintelligible high school spanish under the pseudonym el jefe

Episcopalians on cutting edge
Well, well. In a landmark event, the Episcopalian church (American Anglic Church) has elected a gay Episcopalian. When asked to describe his relationship with his partner Mark (Trudeau should totally run with this), he said his relationship was sacramental and a reflection of God's love. Very interesting. As an Episcopalian myself I'll be interested to see how this effects the church. There is already a lot of strife in the ranks with lots of churchs already breaking ranks to join a diocese in Africa. More later

Where's my Posse?
I just got finished reading this very interesting and not a little unsettling article on the modern face of American fund-raising. Has the US become a democracy of elites? The Washington Post certainly don't paint these left-coaster's in a very complimentary light. Natural pique at outside-of-the-belt politicos? I don't think so, I mean they honestly don't seem that bright or interested in what's best for our country. Definitely a new take on Sycophancy.
Perhaps thats a little harsh, but they're definitely riding a power-high...