Thursday, June 11, 2009
To work or not to work
Today I received a job offer. The pay is about $17.50 an hour, much less than I’ve been making for the last 5 years. It’s a seasonal summer job helping to create travel websites, with a chance of it being permanent depending on workload, upon which they would increase the pay. They didn’t say how much of an increase, but I can’t imagine it doubling like it needs to to be even close to my previous pay level.
My dilemma is this… do I take the job knowing it’s going to be temporary, or do I decline it so that I can still collect unemployment? On the one hand I’ll be working 40 hours a week to earn $700 a week. while on the other hand I can get up to $410 a week for doing nothing at all. Should I take the job?
My responsible side tells me not to freeload off an already over-burdened state unless I have to. And I would earn more money with the job anyway. My lazy side tells me that tons of people get to be paid for doing nothing, don’t I deserve it too? Wasn’t that why I was so thrilled to get laid off?
I think I’ll decide tomorrow. I’ve got another job interview tomorrow, so after I see how that goes, I’ll decide. If my chances of getting a better paying job are immediate, then I won’t take this one. But if tomorrow’s prospect is crappy, then I think I’ll go for this job. I don’t think I can bring myself to not take a job solely because I’ll no longer be able to freeload off the state. So I guess my dilemma isn’t whether to work or not to work, it’s whether to work now or work later.
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Office Hijinks
Monday, June 08, 2009
Male-directed all-girl porn is the worst
So we’re living at my honey’s brother’s house for the time being. He’s out of town for a few days, so we were just hanging out at the house, watching his DirecTV. We were flipping through some channels trying to figure out which ones he does get (it’s so annoying how we have to skip past sooo many blank “Channel not purchased” channels), when we encountered a naughty channel. I forget which one it was, but the show that was being broadcast was called “Chocolate All Girl Orgy”. Being lesbians, of course we had to pause and watch the girl-on-girl action for awhile.
It was SO not directed by a woman. Everything looked exactly like how it would be performed if it were standard hetero porn. Even the clit-tonguing looked really uncomfortable with overly exaggerated tongue-wagging. There were girls with strap-ons pumping half-heartedly, which I can accept because some people like that. But the biggest, most ridiculous piece of porno fakery was when some of the girls started sucking on the strap-ons as if they were real dicks. Excuse me? Exactly who is getting what kind of pleasure out of this? The male viewers watching it I suppose. But that seriously ruined what little realism the film might have had.
I know 99% of porn is made for men, but for me this was just over the top ludicrous. I want to see stuff that is at least plausible. To me, Space Nuts was more plausible than this stuff. Male directors need to stick with boy-girl porn and leave the all-girl stuff alone.
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The TV ate my brain
Monday, June 01, 2009
Black thumbs
I was talking to some friends and we got to talking about plants. There are numerous plants that grow easily with minimal effort on our parts. You just water them and they thrive. Some even grown in water so you never have to worry about over-watering. Yet there are some instances where even the easiest plants to grow will wilt and die under the care of certain people.
Instead of a green thumb, these people have black thumbs. I know of two people like this, and the interesting thing is, few people like them. They have very self-absorbed or self-serving personalities. It makes me wonder about the negative energy these people project, and how it affects things around them. Are plants particularly susceptible to the energy we project? These black thumbed people I know aren’t stupid or neglectful. I’ve shared a house with one of them before, and she definitely wasn’t neglectful of home details, however annoying she might have been. Yet the plants she touched would die in a matter of weeks.
It may just be a coincidence that these unlikeable people are bad with plants. But how do you kill a plant that only needs water when you are watering it regularly? Maybe I’m just being silly, but I think a person’s negative energy does affect things around them. Or instead of projecting negative energy, perhaps they suck energy from around them. Since these people are selfish by nature, it would make sense that they take energy away from others. Do I sound like a hippie now?
