Was I hot? Yes, I was hot.

John McCain. April 24, 1974 (from wikipedia)

Son of a Mill worker!

Did I know John Edwards? Maybe he really did back the little man and wasn't just a slow-fast-talking lawyer. I just don't know anymore. I guess its still an upHill battle from here.

oh, and Ina Jaffy.

how to approach fridays work uprising:

6-10: Top NPR Names (extended mix)

6. Tavis Smiley
7. Audy Cornish
8. Lakshmi Singh
9. Tie: Nina Totenberg and Carl Castle
10. Diane Fin-Lacin'

Be alarmed. Be very alarmed

Okay, I can't find it now, but there was a picture of Henry Paulson, chairperson of the stock market or whatever, in his little blue stock market penny before the Dow opened this morning crying. no joke.

I don't really know what it means when rich people are afraid to bet their money, but I can be certain that they didn't get rich being stupid. Its scary. I can only paint a picture as bleak as the opening scene of this movie or this movie in the future ahead.

I am known for my pennysaving so I think I will be okay for a while. I will continue to exist off bags of .50 split pea soup for each of the coming recession weeks. Maybe I will adopt some of the habits that my dear gram, who lived through the Depression, (rest her soul), practiced:

• stuffing one kleenex in my wristwatch to use ALL day (possibly month) long.
• if I should receive any presents, I will open them with the hypervigilance of a U.S. bomb detection person/dog as a means to retain that paper for blankets, clothing, and sandwich wraps.
• keep my CB on all day instead of tv as it calls on less electrical force.
  

However, making ends meet to pay my bills will be more difficult. Enrollment at the not-so-local community college has plummeted too -- snatching away BOTH of my supplemental income classes along with my life enrichment class.

Hillary sent me an email the other day (she always sends me emails), asking me how the economy effects me. I figured my story didn't pull the kind of heartstrings the way someone who makes their own shoes does so I deleted it, but let me put the question to you, dear reader. How does the weakening economy effect you?

don't be alarmed

I have chose to make a few more updates to the look and feel of officewizard. It's all part of the revival. These changes include:

• editing the title but not the url (so that I don't get countless blogrollees banging down my inbox in frustration!).
  
• Some minor color tweaking based upon Martha's hot new color selections for 2008. (again, don't worry, I maintained the white background so you can still print out each post on your Okidata® Dot Matrix printer without cursing my name for using up all the waxy ink.)
  

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"The Stephenville Empire-Tribune says at least 40 people have reported sightings of the object, which reportedly appeared in the sky just after 6 p.m. on Jan. 8."- USA Today


WHERE ARE THE iPHONES (photos)????

update: a coworker directed my attention to this video of a bird in a sock.

I preferred the image in my head.

Top 5 NPR names

In keeping with the audio factor, these have not been spellchecked:

1. David Folkenflick (the only last name I might ever care to adopt besides my own awesome one)
2. Quinn Klinefelter
3. Aniban Basu (I happen to know how this one's spelled since he spoke at my employment)
4. Sylvia Pagoli
5. Ira Flato

resolutionary

Looking back, 2007 will go down in history for me as the year I got a $20 Old Navy 50% lambs wool sweater absolutely free.

Looking ahead, I see a lot of potential for this year of biological alarm clock snooze. I'll be celebrating my teaching anniversary this spring, and with that, fistsfuls of praise and presents from students leading me to believe I may be good at it, despite all the procrastination it brings out in me. I've upped my teaching capacity and I will be auditing one class that promises to enrich my life.

Although 2008 includes pursuing teaching tip with more umpheres, I ruled out my original plan-- grad school, offering wider teaching opportunity, but insignificant to cost, dollarbility. (see officewizard finance 2.0)

A teaching colleague sent me this yahooyed list of jobs with major growth, citing number seven as a way to encourage students about their future/choices. Looks like BabyBoomer ButtWiper Assistant is the wave of the future, kids. Heck performance doesn't look too shabby either.

On a smaller scale, I am going to accomplish the things on my google to do list I have been staring at the longest (everyday for six months). That means you, Rent Anil's Ghost and Tori Amos from Enoch Pratt Library and you too new dentist and try to sew Civil War Inspired legwarmers.