Two things...
1. I am no longer unemployed. I will no longer be filling my days with naps and endless hours chatting on the internet and posting to totally useless message boards. Damn. I found a job with Gwinnett County Public Schools, in the Human Resources Department. Apparently the job entitles handling the classified applications that come through and I remember the boss lady saying something about fingerprints, but anywho, the point is, I am now gainfully employed. Upon hearing this bit of news, I promptly headed to the mall and probably kept several shops in business for at least a couple of more weeks. I went a little overboard, and will be make several returns. Apparently, 450 people sent in their resumes for the position and out of those 450, 16 were chosen for a first interview, and then the top candidates from that bunch was brought back in for a second interview, so needless to say, someone was smiling down upon me on those interviews because I came out of them feeling like I had just rambled my way through the meeting not making one bit of sense. But all's well that end's well. I start Monday. I feel like I'm going back to school after a summer vacation. I'm just glad to be doing something useful with my time. And I feel accomplished because I got this job all on my own, without my dad's help. So that's always a nice boost for the ego.

2. As most of you know, I like reading people's away messages. I may not have talked to the person for months and months, but I will still take the time to read an away message. Some people can get really creative with them, and it will make me laugh, others will make me glad that I no longer associate with certain people. And it has recently come to my attention how stupid people are when they air their dirty laundry through their away messages. And don't get me wrong, in my younger and carefree days, I used to do it as well. But I've realized just how passive-aggressive that it can be, and how it doesn't accomplish anything except to piss the other person off even more. It's like they expect the person to read the away message and be so hurt by it. "OH NO! Not the away message! I'm done for now!" Are you kidding me? To me, people who do this just want attention, they want someone to message them and say, what's wrong. And quite honestly, that's just plain stupid. My all time favorites have been the ones that try to convey how after a certain situation, people now know who their real friends are and all the others can go to hell. I really don't know why this subject matter has me all riled up, but it just does.