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Job Search Blues

It is quite frustrating looking for a permanent job at home. I know that I have had my fill of being in Boston. I really appreciate the experience but I would very much like to move on. The thing is as I continue my job search, it seems like I’m almost qualified for a lot of jobs out there but not quite. Either the qualifications want a certain number of years of experience or a certain skill. And I know in my heart that if I don’t have the skill, I could quickly pick the skill up if given the chance but the days of employers taking chances on potential are over. I guess I just have to keep my head up…..

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How to be a small town slut This is hilarious!!! Oh entirely too funny to be ignored. This Raymi chick has a blog that’s kind of interesting/sad but this article(if that’s what you want to call it) is good stuff.

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And Damn if he didn’t respond to my thank you letter back to him. What a generally nice fellow!!

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[Listening to: Love's a Game - Marques Houston - MH (03:59)]

Now this is what sports reporters should be about. A little background first: the Lakers played the Cavaliers last night. The Lakers pulled out a victory. I notice an article on the internet entitled ‘Lame Lakers Limp past Cavs’. Lame because Kobe got hurt leaving us with only one of our big four on the floor. It’s also important to notice that the article was written for the Akron Beacon Journal. So I read the article and it seemed to me to be putting Lebron in a light that wasn’t necessarily the case being as I saw the entire game. So after reading the article and the stats that LeBron was attributed, I shot the following email off to the author of the article:

I just read you Lame Lakers Limp article. I noticed you didn’t mention LeBron’s six turnovers since you mentioned his seven assists???


Now I’ll be the first to admit that I was looking to pick a fight, well maybe not a fight but a heated argument with this sportswriter just because I find most sportswriters to be Sports Republicans. But I was dead wrong. First, he actually responded to the email which surprised me beyond comprehension. There have been so many times where I have sent an email to an address on the internet trying to start a discussion and this is only the second time I have ever had a response. Secondly, though, his response was not at all what I expected:

Xavier,

I agree it was a lame article. I filed it 37 seconds
after the game ended due to time zone and deadline
issues. I also didn’t mention that he went 0-5 from
the field in the fourth quarter or that the team shot
25 percent as well.

I appreciate your thoroughness.

B******** W***********
Akron Beacon Journal


I am keeping his name confidential since he didn’t exactly agree to me posting this email. But I thought was exceptionally cool of him to respond and to be so non-defensive. Kudos to B******** W********.

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I get so tired of the term gangsta rapper? Are John Wayne or Slyvester Stallone or Vin Diesel gangsta actors? Because they sure do glorify violence in most of their films. Or does the term ‘gangsta’ only refer to those we wish to see in a negative light? Gangs of New York, ScarFace, the Godfather Trilogy are all considered great movies but if you do a song about it you’re a gangsta….get off it….

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[Listening to: Flashback - Kelis - Tasty (03:26)]

Kelis has a very sexy thing about her……

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[Listening to: Make It Clap [Remix] - Busta Rhymes; Sean Paul; Spliff Star - Reggae Gold 2003 Disc 1 (04:03)]

I absolutely cannot stand when people chew with their mouth open. That is so freaking disgusting and annoying. Smack Smack Smack. And inevitably people who do this will proceed to make some juicy oral noise long after they’ve swallowed such as sucking teeth or just constantly making the juicy sound. UGH! I don’t even say ugh vocally so if I’m typing it you know I must be serious!!

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I am pleased with myself. Yes, I am.

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I have lost my digital camera. I think it was stolen but in either case I don’t have it. I think somebody got me at the bar when my bag was sitting under my coat. I don’t think it was anyone that works at the bar because I know everyone there. This just sucks. And to top off the negative degree wind chill of the weekend, I awoke to Monday morning snow. Boston is not the place for a born and bred southerner like myself!!!

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I could really go for some good food right now. I am so tired o eating out that I am seriously contemplating not eating anything until a good meal comes and kicks me in the ass. I really really hope the Patriots lose tonite….I have trouble seeing the smug faces of all these fans in Boston because they finally have a team that seems like it may have a shot at greatness.

I am a little depressed that I have not had any leads for jobs in Atlanta. I thought that after the holidays my phone may start ringing a little more but that has not been the case at all. Instead, I’m nearing completion of the work that I was contracted for here in Boston (that’s not to say there won’t be more for me to do but you get what I’m saying), I’m freezing my scrotum skin off, and I’m more homesick than an 11 year old boy at NeverLand…..

I’m gonna go watch some football. That always relaxes me a little bit!!

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