committment

i realize my job problems have to do with commitment: i can't make one. i'm always thinking there is something out there bigger and better if i just wait. how do i stop this?

Job Search

finding jobs that don't want to make you want to become a job-head-hunting terrorist make me want to live a life of simplicity on a remote island in fiji with the rest of my homies.

my roommate says i should write down all the stuff i've done so far so here it is:

1. dell - didn't want to work on the weekends and late at night. i care more about beings social than being a successful seller of consumer computers.

2. suntrust selling credit cards to trucking companys - nuff said.

3. i went to a job fair and was 'perfect' for several telemarketer jobs

4. countless spam emails where i could make 100,000 a year working 2 hours a day

5. sony music - redesigning their website, cool, but i never heard from them

6. dell education - selling computers to schools which i have done for the past 3 years - heard nothing

7. vandy - working in international office - did this for 3 years, took in resume to office, didn't get an interview

8. nashville city and private schools - bachelor and masters in education and have presented at international conferences - hand delivered my resume to the schools - didn't get one interview

9. theres like 10 more that i just sent a resume to and never heard from.

I say all of this b/c I know there's got to be something cool out there for me. I just can't figure it out. Good thing God's in control. I'm going nuts.

Sweet Southern Comfort

I'm finally back in the US now for good (at least thats what my mom thinks). Over the next couple of entries, I'm going to be outlining the differences I see in my life now compared to what my life was just 6 months ago when I was living in Vienna.

So if anyone actually reads this thing, they'll probably have something to read once a week.

Helping those less fortunate

Rick Warren makes some good points about assisting those in need in his article: http://www.purposedrivenlife.com/absolutenm3/templates/articles.aspx?articleid=2173

Equation

One of my many jobs at Vienna Christian School is a mentor to a young, emerging intellectual, Thomas Gardner. Today, after his wife birthed him his second offspring, he sent me the quote of the day, "As the number of fees in a given area decreases, there is an equivalent drop in the amount of drama within that area."

You see, my work here is DONE.

A time to clean?

Solomon claimed that there was a time for everything. However, I think this really smart dude was wrong. I don't know if there is ever a good time to clean. My mother would disagree with me. Recently, she got frustrated with me after I told her that it had been 6 months since I washed me sheets. I told her she watches Oprah too much and then burped so she passed the phone off to my dad. She then sent me these articles (dust mites and another one to prove her point b/c everything on the internet is true). After I told this story several hundred times in the lunchroom to the fees at school and got the desired "sick, you are disgusting, you are never going to get married" reaction, I washed my sheets. Then, on Monday, two days after departing with my millions or billions of dust mite friends, I come down with a stomach infection. See Mom, those dust mites were keeping me healthy.

The two pictures to the left represent the remains of my humble abode. Soon and very soon, there will have to be a cleaning. The gummy bears will have to come down from the ceiling, the dust balls will be vacuumed, the posters on the walls taken down, the beer coasters boxed up, and the beer caps made into a badass lap.


I'll miss you classy apartment

An Unconvenient Truth?

POWER: GORE MANSION USES 20X AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD; CONSUMPTION INCREASE AFTER 'TRUTH'

Mon Feb 26 2007 17:16:14 ET The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization committed to achieving a freer, more prosperous Tennessee through free market policy solutions, issued a press release late Monday:Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy. Gore’s mansion, [20-room, eight-bathroom] located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES). In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average. Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359. Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006. Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year. “As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk to walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson.In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.

For Further Information, Contact: Nicole Williams, (615) 383-6431 editor@tennesseepolicy.org