Jud asks, appropriately, “what happened to the cheery Chris?”
Well, Jud, I’ve got a job that I hate but can’t quit. In my second job, I’m spending my weekends busting my ass to get lectures done that my undergraduates yawn through. I’ve got a sick kid and sick partner and have been cleaning up far too [...]
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But he did give a damn about steel
It’s obvious, you hate me, you think I’m worthless. It’s obvious.
Since we’re all friends around here – unless you’ve been culled, in which case go away – I’m going to ask you, my gentle readers, for some advice.
Many of you know that I work two jobs. Nearly a year ago, a couple of months after our arrival in Australia, I took a part time job [...]
They holler out, “Beat me Daddy, eight to the bar”
There are lots of things about being a father that hurt my heart. Not the least is watching Boy Z try to navigate the Scylla and Charybdis that are human social interactions. I know he’s only 19 months old and at this age, he isn’t really going to establish meaningful relationships with his peers.
In fact, [...]
If you’re small and on a search I’ve got a feeder for you to perch on
Day 1 of voluntary underemployment.
Number of cigarettes smoked: Remarkably, zero.
Number of times threatening son with bodily harm: Seventy hundred
General mental state: Huh?
I know I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again – you ladies (and gentlemen, pardon me) who spend more time at home with kids than at work have got [...]
Fear the hearts of men are failing
I don’t know much about global economics. Actually, I don’t know much about much, to be honest. I know a little bit about the genetics of maize and the U.S. Civil War and 20th century Southern literature, but none of those things pay the rent these days.
I’m off track already. Australia seems to have been [...]
The thing is, Bob, it’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care.
Quick, for five points, name that film.
If you knew the answer from the title of this post, then I’ll bet you know what kind of week I’ve had.
Because I know people who have lost their jobs because of things they’ve said on their blogs, I’m going to leave out the specifics. That may be a [...]
Falling out the window, tripping on a wrinkle
Dr. O’C and I have to find a new place to live. Our lease is up and we’ve decided to rent for a little while longer in the hopes that the remarkably stable Australian housing market bottoms out like it has every where else in the world. It’s always a pain in the ass to [...]
I have a habit I have been trying to lose
I smoked cigarettes for most of my adult life. I started messing around with them in my teens and at some point I got hooked. I never intended to become a smoker the first time I lit up a Benson & Hedges Menthol King, but then I never intended to do a lot of things [...]
Wish in one hand…
…shit in the other.
See which one fills up first.
I love that expression, I’ve always claimed that I heard it a lot growing up in north Florida, but I’m pretty sure that I actually read it first in a Harry Crews novel. Dr. O’C loves it as well. Just ask her. As apparently does Green Day.
But [...]
It’s power man, power man, driving me insane
A few years ago I became well acquainted with the concept of powerlessness. I’m fully aware and have come to terms with the fact that I have no control over other people, places or things. It’s liberating in some ways, I’m responsible for my own behavior and that’s about it. As long as I don’t [...]
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