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this

man you guys - have you seriously heard that rebecca black song?? she’s right though - it’s friday.

i’m getting out of the office early today - i’ve had to put in a couple of early mornings filling in for the MLS coordinator. this means hours of mundane photoshopping and mindless, repetitive data entry. could be worse though, this office could be the coldest office i’ve ever been in - oh wait…

i was out of work for a couple of (hang on - i got a call on 201) years. being back in the M-F/9-5 makes the weekend so so sweet. this time last year i was starting my capstone project for networking, and now i’m really fortunate to be in the field i went to school for, although i don’t do much programming for cisco equipment. school is stressful in a different way than work is - with my job i can pretty much leave the stress behind at 5p on weekdays, and all day sat/sun. school has a persistent gnawing sensation that there’s always a deadline looming somewhere in the future, and sometimes it eats your weekends.

so yea - this weekend is going to be good.

thanks, Jesus for helping amy and me work out the tension in the M-F.

hatchet man

i just unfollowed over 100 people.

i am sick of the way that my brain is being shaped by my choices in what internet media i consume.

tumblr is a sickness.

i have been on tumblr for about two years now, and what started as a fantastic microblogging outlet for my own creativity, thoughts and opinions has deteriorated into an endless scroll of disparate media.

if you’ve read this far, you’re in the minority.

what i’m finding to be so troubling is that tumblr hasn’t increased my creativity, sensitivity, intelligence or awareness; quite the opposite, it has made me apathetic. 

a pig in a cage on antibiotics.

my brain can’t handle a post about the horrors of children being sold into sexual slavery followed by a cute meme involving photoshop and a celebrity to an interesting video on workflow to a picture of a girl running in a field with a pithy quote to a song by an artist i’ve never heard of to a discussion on jQuery frameworks to a link from the new york times to a chat between you and your friend talking about cheeseburgers to a story of a wrecked marriage being healed by Jesus to a picture of your personal vacation heaven to freeze frames of your favorite movie and animated gifs and stupid opinions with 27 layers of blockquotes, peppered with OMGs LOLs and poor grammar and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and fucking on…

the common denominator 

this DOES NOT make for a wonder-filled internet browsing experience; it makes me stupid. it makes me care less about really important things and more about stupid shit. 

i should have put this at the top.

SERIOUSLY don’t follow me or stop following me. i’m probably going to block most of you anyways. if you post any nudity [block], if you post nothing but unoriginal content [block], if you can’t spell or use proper grammar [block], if you post more than 5-10 times a day [block], if you spout off about what’s wrong with everybody else without any personal introspection [block], if you’re just a self-obsessed, immature, uneducated asshole [block], if you think i’m wrong s-t-o-p f-o-l-l-o-w-i-n-g m-e.

if you’re still here.

why?