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You scored as Drama nerd.

Drama Nerd: 75%
Punk Rebel: 56%
Geek: 50%
Loner: 50%
Stoner: 50%
Prep/Jock/Cheerleader: 44%
Ghetto Gangsta: 31%

What’s Your High School Stereotype?
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COMMENTS
– Not much to talk about today. Last night was uneventful… didn’t leave work until 6:15… visited with the neighbor… fell asleep before midnight… and today it’s bone numbingly cold.

STATE OF THE DAY
California.

WORD OF THE DAY
Shard.

I read Nickel and Dimed (the book has its own website) about a month ago as an economic perspective for my novel Urbàntasm. Here are my impressions of the book.

Nickel and Times is Barbara’s attempt to integrate herself into life among low-income wage-slaves, or as she puts it with a bit more dignity, the “working poor.”

COMMENTS
– So much to talk about… so much.
WEEKEND
– For some reason, even though the highs were high and the lows were low (emotionally speaking) this
weekend seemed to last a week. On Friday I went over to Jessica’s for a laid back evening of
Monk and tuna cassarole.

COMMENTS
– Things have been uneventful lately. Maybe it’s time to make something happen.
– Make something happen.
– Last night I’d been planning on going out to a gallery opening in the South Loop with Sam and Sky, but I felt crappy all day, and opted for a quiet night in instead (see why things have been uneventful?).

I often criticize the Flint Jounral’s day-to-day operations, but defend their occasional moment of brilliance.

This editorial on the recent Supreme Court decision to ban the death penalty for minors is a moment of brilliance.

I spent some time this morning reviwing the Catechism entries on the Eucharist, and while I don’t feel nearly equal to the complexity and history of the argument, I’ll take a stab at it anyway.

I was raised Unitarian, and while I feel Catholic through and through, there’s a spark of contrariness and inclusiveness that’s been pulled along with me.

From Cosmo Doogood’s Urban Almanac:

MARCH is American Red Cross Month, Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, Ethics Month, Help Someone See Month, Honor Society Month, Humorists are Artists Month, Mirth Month, Irish-American Heritage Month, International Listening Month, Mental Retardation Awareness Month, Music in Our Schools Month, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Month, Collision Awareness Month, Eye Doctor Month, Frozen Food Month, Kidney Month, Prepare Your Home to be Sold Month, Talk with Your Teen About Sex Month, National Umbrella Month, Women’s History Month, Optimism Month, Play-the-Recorder Month, Poison Prevention Month, Youth Art Month

The Almanac is an inspiration in many posts here.

COMMENTS
– I’m feeling sick enough now that I woke up at two in the morning with trouble breathing, and right now I’m dizzy. It’s pretty superficial stuff, but I realize that I’ve now spent a full month with a continuous cold of sorts.

Look… I’m an American in body, mind, and spirit. But like most Americans, the flavor of this wine is highly influenced by where it’s aged (the midwest) and from which roots it’s drawn (Irish roots). Without going into a convoluted explanation of my Irish-German-Swedish-English-and-maybe-Jewish background by way of Ellis Island, Pittsburgh, and Flint, I’m from a small but complicated group of people, working-class but financially stable and with cultural aspirations.