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Must Be The Money!

When you have a job, just getting out of bed and going to your place of employment counts as “doing something productive with your life”- even if you spend the entire day sending all calls to voicemail and reading XKCD.  When someone asks what you did today, you get to say “oh, you know, work.”

When you don’t have a job, people will ask you what you did today and because they know you are not actually employed you have to struggle to show your work and it seems saying “I read XKCD for 3 hrs, stared out the window and thought about awesome rap parodies that should exist if they don’t already” no longer counts as leading a productive existence.

Reason 1 why being employed is better than not being employed, you actually have to do less to shut people up. 

POTUS Sounds Like a Disease

I find it sad that we feel the need to latch onto out of context soundbites and blow them into deeply felt creeds or indications of a person’s character or full beliefs.  Yes, Mitt Romney said “I’m not concerned about the very poor,” but why do we need this mangled half-quote to fight him?  If you don’t like the guy, why not just fight against his plans, the principles he professes, the actual real things he has done?  Probably for the same reason I’m not giving you a list of those things, because we’re all too lazy.  That would take far more time than I have this morning to compile.  It’s depressing that apparently it would take far more time than news reporters, whose actual job it is to compile these facts, seem to have either. 

Anyway, none of this is said in support of Romney, or to say that he is not out of touch with the very poor.  In fact, my guess is that he is, because as someone who makes about 99.9% less than Romeny, who rents an apartment, who doesn’t own a car because they’re too expensive and who actually saved a paper towel the other day because “I didn’t get it too dirty and it’s totally still good,” I myself feel pretty out of touch with the very poor.

Oh well, why fight it… Romney also keeps saying ”ass” (in the full quotes, “ass” may have been said within the word “class” but ignore that, Mitt’s got a dirty dirty mouth!).

Are You There Tumblr, It’s Me, Maura

I was trying to think of someone I know who does not HATE their job.  I couldn’t think of many/any…

Someone out there, SOMEONE must be at least comfortably ok with their work, right?Please, please give me hope that you don’t have to be completely miserable every single day…

Don’t Worry- I Hate Myself So Hard

I’m sure it was really cute when whoever started saying that he/she loved something “so hard,” but I think we have reached the tipping point, and I’m afraid it is no longer cute and quirky that you’re being willfully ungrammatical and now it’s just annoying and borderline idiotic and I am starting to doubt that many current users of this phraseology even know that it isn’t structurally correct.

I bet today’s he’s more Sir Mix-a-little

Every time I hear someone slowly draw out the words “Oh.  My.  God.”  I always finish it my head with “Becky, look at her butt!”

Culture Wars Should Refer to Rival Yogurt Companies

First they came with Sarah Palin and I laughed because pit bulls with lipstick are hilarious.  Then they came with Michelle Bachman and I laughed because “awwwww, she thinks she’s people!”  Then they came with Rick Santorum and I laughed, because I know how to google.  But then.  Then Rick Santorum almost tied in Iowa and I stopped laughing.  I’m scared.  I WANNA LAUGH AGAIN!!

 I was in the church scene, a row behind Linda Fiorentino, but I think you have to have the special widescreen version to see me anymore.  I coulda been a STAR!

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