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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
10:00 am	NYC In NYC till possibly Thursday night with 'net access.  (Comment on this)
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
1:15 am	Old Drop, but Previously Unnoted Oh yeah.  At some point in time, I decided I didn't have the time to even scroll-by the pretty pictures of the Men in Kilts Community.  (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
7:14 pm	Random Reading I've found a magazine called Frank 151 that reminds me of Vice magazine, but with less articles and more picture articles.  Got it from a sports sneaker store called At the Buzzer that's right next door to the Punk store, Horror Business, in Allston.  Issue is labeled as chapter 36.  I've also read some Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen free comic book meant to lure you in to the movie.  (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
12:56 am	Dead High Yearbook Sometime during my first 5 weeks at JobCorps, I read Dead High Yearbook and don't remember the author.  Basically a set of stories drawn by different artists where students at a high school died bizarre, supernatural deaths and end-up gathered in an office where a yearbook of their post-death photos is being compiled.  My room mate got it from the library and it got the interest of several people who saw me with it.  (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 14th, 2009
2:51 am	ID These Raps Some years ago I heard a rap on WHRB which had a refrain along the lines of Wave your hands in the air like you just don't care, because you don't and lyrics about a car crashing and the MC's body smashing through the front window.  Unfortunately there was no playlist for the show online and my Google-fu couldn't procure title or artist.  My Google-fu also couldn't find a rap I heard on WERS from the 80s which had the MC describe a tale of "because you learned about sex at the discotheque" and getting a girl pregnant.  Since they can't afford to raise a kid, the rap concludes with him being the one to go to a trash can to "close the lid and forget about what you just did."  Anyone know the people who did these tracks?  (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, June 5th, 2009
11:09 pm	Scanner-Boston Anyone Boston-ish with a scanner I could borrow?  I'll need to send an image to myself to forward later to the right person to take an ad out in the Convergence program (assuming I can get it in on time.)  It's a 5"X8" black and white image that I need to send actual size at at least 300 DPI.  Thanks.  (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 30th, 2009
7:48 pm	Writer's Block: Multilingual How many languages do you speak? Submitted By 40alatariel View other answers One fluently.  I'm typing in it.  I can labor a bit in Spanish.  (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, May 29th, 2009
8:22 pm	Death of a Student This could have been inserted to the previous entry, but I felt it should be posted separately.  Tuesday was the first of culinary class for me and the first day started with the news that one of our classmates had committed suicide over the weekend.  So this week has been partially devoted to seeing my classmates (and instructor) write good-bye messages on a chef's coat and a memorial pear tree have messages written on pieces of paper that were hung on it.  (Comment on this)
8:20 pm	JobCorps Life One day one of the students from the group I came in with came-up to me and told me she passed her second drug test. (In the initial few weeks, we all had to take a piss test and anyone who failed it were restricted to staying on-center for 45 days. We were all told failing the test a second time would get us termed.) Unlike a different student who she claimed had HIGHER test results than the last time. So if what she claimed is true, I've had two students from my group get termed. Meanwhile, the A+, Computer Repair, teacher was fired. Supposedly they already have a new teacher lined-up, but haven't gotten him into the classroom yet. When he is in there, he'll have to clear the students who have completed out-of-there and then take the four people ahead of me on the waiting list. Also, instead of letting me continue work-based learning (everyone has to complete a certain number of hours before they leave to things like maintaining this place), I've been placed in my second-choice vocation of culinary. The shortest time anyone's completed the culinary program is 9 months. I'm wondering how to beat that so I can try to pull-off being a chef and have various computer certifications by the time I leave the program. Unfortunately I've heard the Shriver Center has a waiting list that won't be free till August so I can't just ask to be transferred to their center and do their computer training program. After I get various things settled locally, I just might do research about the JobCorps programs in other regions of the country and ask if I can transfer if the wait here takes months instead of weeks. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
5:40 pm	Oscar and Felix The R.A. wanted to know if I wanted to move-in with some girl I don't know on the basis that she gets higher room scores than my current room mate and my scores are higher than my room mate.  No.  Except if my room mates scores don't improve, we're going to be forced to be separated.  (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 25th, 2009
12:08 pm	Reading List Comics: Snake Pit 2007 by Ben Snakepit Nothing Nice to Say by Mitch Clem (I've misplaced my copy right after I read it, but at least it was misplaced after and not during reading.)  Not Comics: Mahabharata of Vyasa, Volume 9.  (I actually finished this before the 20th so I was just in under 13 months of devotion to read the entire story.)  (Comment on this)
10:34 am	Saturday-Birthday Edition I went to Hooter's for the first time in my life with my honorary, secondary, dysfunctional mother in Saugus.  The waitresses had me stand-up on a chair while they chanted a Happy Birthday chant.  A different table had a birthday on the other side of the restaurant and did a different chant for the two men standing on the chairs.  Then the waitresses came over to my table and said they thought I could do better than the other table.  So I was back-up on the chair and blowing my whistle.  Apparently the other table didn't want to try to outdo me.  Damnit.  After I spent time texting people about my birthday while the friend-of-the-family played a game on the computer with her son, we went-out for ice cream.  The Shake and Twist on Revere Beach had a mango ice cream so I bought myself a kiddie-size cone.  Before we went to Hooter's, I did pick-up a bottle of Kamora at Kappy's which I took with me to Harvard Square after I got some milk.  The Pit had a few random Yo's and break dancers that had a crowd gathered around them so I went to the River to see if anyone else was out.  Didn't get to say hi to one guy I recognized and his dog Rainy (who's probably more popular than him, but that's because she is such a relaxed dog.)  Did sit-down with a group that had one female I know and shared the drink with anyone that wanted some.  A guy who says he's from Logan (because he likes saying Logan better than East Boston) said a friend of his was having a party in Allston (Boston).  I'm the only one who bothered to follow.  Turns-out the host was Hutch, the guy behind the bostonpunk.org site that I check for show listings once-a-week.  I didn't want to get stranded in Boston overnight and needed to get some sleep since I did promise the Boston Babydolls (local burlesque troupe) that I would help them clean a garage of theirs the next day, so I stayed for only a few hours to 11-ish.  Guy-from-Logan tried to get me to smoke-it-up more than once in the night even though I've already explained getting federal financial aid for college is still a future concern and I would be the honest person to say yes to the question, have you ever tried an illicit substance?  So I didn't bother to say good-bye to him.  I still managed to catch my last bus connection at 12:30 instead of having to walk the final 3.something miles or take a cab.  (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
7:26 pm	The Delinquent There was a friend of mine who didn't have ID and the friend whose name was on her storage locker was going through bankruptcy so I ended-up being the one with their name on the unit. This wouldn't be such a problem if it wasn't for her attitude. There was a day in which I received an e-mail from the company saying the fee was due on 5/8 and I contacted her and she said she'd mail it priority the next day after I had given her the address, unit number, and fee information. Then last week I received an e-mail saying the unit was post-due. I txted her with the address, unit number, fee amount, and the message that I should not be dealing with this and that I will not bail-out her stuff. I called our older, wiser-in-the-ways-of-the-world, friend T-- to tell him what happened. He called her to indirectly hint about the need to send the bill and then called me back. Apparently she didn't know where the post office was in Portland, OR. So I wait till the next day to call her so I won't immediately rip her head-off. Unfortunately I accidentally called during a school test and she says she'll call me back later. The next day I called her and apparently she forgot to call me back when she was at the library. It's Thursday and she tells me she's been busy and is going to take a day off of school to catch-up with everything tomorrow. She didn't have the previous friend (the one whose name was on the unit) to be on her case this time and was going to send the money the next day and asked me to call the next day as long as I didn't ask her about the unit. I never said yes or no to that last one. The next day I returned from Job Corps for the weekend and take care of seeing the ex before he had to go home. Then I went to visit T-- and tell him about the latest developments in the delinquent's and myself's life. I call her and she asks how I am and I say some response and ask her if she sent the money and then she tries to insist on some standard conversation question and I give a brief answer and ask her if she sent the money. She says, remember what we talked about yesterday?, and I point-out I never said yes to that and she tells me to call her when I'm ready to talk about something other than the storage unit and hangs-up on me. I txt her saying that I don't like being fucked with and I am taking this as being fucked with and that T-- is giving me the advice to close the unit if she doesn't pay on-time. Her txt back said “u need 2 chill”. T-- suggests I don't txt back because she'd expect that. Make her think a bit. The next day I get a voice mail message from her. “hey I just wanted to let you know I've already mailed out it should be there within a couple days and. . .tom has nothing to do with the-uh stuff in my storage bin, and. . .even the storage bin, would take a month to cancel my stuff so. I really don't know why you're like, jumping to such crazy conclusions. . . .and , I dunno, call me back when you actually want to talk about like, stuff.” (Sunday or Monday) I've sent her the txt saying “I do not appreciate accounts in my name being paid late. Just because you are ok with paying late does not mean I am ok with them being paid late. As long as I get attitude from you when I check to see if you have paid, I will view you as fucking with me. Now that I have clearly delineated what it is that I have issue, I will view any remarks that do not address the issues as avoidance and willfully not listening.” Haven't heard from her since. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
4:18 pm	Saturday is my birthday.  I am going to have to get Kamora and milk.  (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 10th, 2009
3:38 am	Pants Haven Yay, one of the JobCorps students has a friend who works for Diva's in Northhampton, MA.  On Tuesdays you can attend the Goth night Haven.  She's said that sometime we'll have to arrange a night so we can go.   One day a student thought I was wearing leather Tripp pants when I was wearing my nylon Bullhead pants.  Told them to guess where I got my pants and a guy said, if you say Hot Topic, I'm walking-out of here.  Told him no, I got them at a Goodwill, and paid only $4.99.  On another day, a different student initially thought they were Caffeine pants.  The pants were complimented on both days.  Yay.  (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
12:45 pm	Tuesday: The class was searched for a missing bag and the student whose bag was missing was termed for possession of marijuana in her dorm room. When her room mate approached her at the front gate, the room mate was told to stay away and got decked when she still approached.  Wednesday: Simara claimed someone could use the cafeteria knife to kill someone and Charlie disagreed so Simara handed the knife to me and asked me if someone could kill with it. I said you could, eventually, if you knocked them out first and kept going at it, but it wouldn't be the best tool. Charlie said I was talking like a serial killer and had to redraw both myself and Simara's attention to the fact that I used the term tool and not weapon. Thursday: Lunch we marked Men's History Month. I would object to a men's history month on the basis that they do get represented in history books, but if we can compartmentalize women's history, we can give men the same treatment. There was the once-a-month dance in the recreation hall's gym. It was mostly the expected rap and reggae and rnb urban, but the dance gave the music a social context so I could dance to it. I am now known for how I do the stinky leg. There has been conciliatory activities from the center this weekend. Last night was a dance that was supposed to be 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. The reality was that the bulk of the music became 90s and later with the 90s to mean late 90s. At one point I asked the DJ to throw some more 80s and 90s into the mix and he said, this is 90s. I clarified with I mean more early to mid 90s, but I don't know if he heard me. The closing rap was the Biz Markie rap “Just a Friend.” I got down on my knees and fell to the floor in mourning on how, he's more than just a friend, during the refrain and walked-out of the gym while still wailing, he's more than just a friend. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
9:55 am	Swine Flu-JobCorps Update You know what's frustrating?  Hearing a guy say that's he's been calling his friends at other JobCorps and hearing that places like the Hartford center let their students go home for the weekend.  (Comment on this)
Friday, May 1st, 2009
6:33 pm	Swine Flu The Department of Labor has told my JobCorps center to keep all residential students on center for the weekend as a precaution to prevent swine flu from being brought-in.  Fortunately I have reading in my locker I need to finish.  (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, April 26th, 2009
11:11 am	Maaco Wednesday night Maaco died.  She was my ex's Manx cat.  (Comment on this)
Saturday, April 25th, 2009
1:45 am	Six-Toed Paternal Relation My mother had been leaving me phone messages this week that my father was in the hospital for surgery for an infected toe.  When I got home, she told me he's lost four toes on the left foot. Haven't re-met the guy yet since he's still hospitalized.  (2 Comments |Comment on this)