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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>salvatore's estrip.org Blog</title><link>https://estrip.org</link><description><![CDATA[salvatore's estrip.org journal]]></description><language>en-us</language><skipHours/><skipDays/><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><generator>Paul Visco's surebert framework RSS creator</generator><item><title>The King and I (Or Me.  Yeah Me.)</title><link>https://estrip.org/articles/read/salvatore/33839/The_King_and_I_Or_Me_Yeah_Me_.html</link><description><![CDATA[I&#039;m the King.  I listen to Achtung Baby! because that&#039;s how it goes down.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2006 23:42:42 -0400</pubDate><guid>https://estrip.org/articles/read/salvatore/33839/The_King_and_I_Or_Me_Yeah_Me_.html</guid></item><item><title>Le Divorce</title><link>https://estrip.org/articles/read/salvatore/33838/Le_Divorce.html</link><description><![CDATA[I can&#039;t believe the summer is gone, september is almost gone too.  I do enjoy the fall but I don&#039;t think I&#039;m alone in saying that the cold weather is not one of the most fun things in the world for me.  I look forward to Pumpkin Picking and halloween and thanksgiving and the turkey trot among other things.  Recording, playing open mics, the John Lennon tribute show at Nietsche&#039;s.  Christmas and sledding most especially, but I dunno, it feels like sometimes life is moving too fast and I&#039;m not doing enough of what makes me feel good, like I&#039;m just letting it slip by and it seems like most other people I&#039;m around feel the same way.  I&#039;m thankful to be alive and not to constantly be suffereing but someone I talked to said that there is a difference between living and surviving.  I&#039;d like to do both.  I&#039;m not some thrill seeker but I do want to surprise myself now and again.  I don&#039;t want to look back and see certain years blending together, i&#039;d rather each year had some routine to it but also a lot of new changes, not necessarily bad ones.  SO much can and does change in a yearbut is the change profound or just dstraction?  Maybe it &#039;s just being too close to it now or trying to figure it all out whil eit&#039;s happening that bothers me from time to time but it feels real to me so what more can i say? :)<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:06:59 -0400</pubDate><guid>https://estrip.org/articles/read/salvatore/33838/Le_Divorce.html</guid></item><item><title>ME!</title><link>https://estrip.org/articles/read/salvatore/33837/ME_.html</link><description><![CDATA[My birthday is tommorow, so everybody better act like it&#039;s a big deal and regail me with all sorts of gifts of spice and gold.  I also like treasure, toy trucks, and pez dispensers.  BOOK IT!  I&#039;m Ashton Kutcher, I&#039;m awesome!<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:11:07 -0400</pubDate><guid>https://estrip.org/articles/read/salvatore/33837/ME_.html</guid></item><item><title>Laurel Canyon</title><link>https://estrip.org/articles/read/salvatore/33836/Laurel_Canyon.html</link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever seen Laurel Canyon?  It&#039;s good.  It&#039;s about Christian Bale and Kate Beckinsale who are a doctor in his first year of residency and a med student working on her dissertation, respectively, in Laurel Canyon in L.A.  They&#039;re staying with Christian Bale&#039;s mom, Frances McDormand, who is a record producer who&#039;s in a relationship with the lead singer of the band she&#039;s producing.  So they all stay together under one big roof in this big house in the hills and it&#039;s all very interesting as the son resents the mom and her non-traditional lifestyle and the mom doesn&#039;t know what to make of her uptight son, and the girlfriend starts to find out that maybe she&#039;s spent more time in school than actually participating in life and the movie&#039;s not very pretentious or melodramatic, but i do think that it takes itself seriously and it&#039;s about an hour and a half and it&#039;s totally worth renting.  So there you have it.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:45:13 -0400</pubDate><guid>https://estrip.org/articles/read/salvatore/33836/Laurel_Canyon.html</guid></item><item><title>You live on Robin Hood lane?</title><link>https://estrip.org/articles/read/salvatore/33835/You_live_on_Robin_Hood_lane_.html</link><description><![CDATA[So today I didn&#039;t go back to my second job at the dry cleaners.  Yesterday I made a pricing mistake at the register and the lady who co-owns it flipped out: &quot;I can&#039;t keep telling you how to do this!  It&#039;s part of your job!  Now i&#039;ve gotta do this and that and this and that and this and that...&quot; and I just stopped listening.  I mean I felt bad that I made a mistake but this lady has got no social skills or anything.  The way she deals with customers pisses me off.  She&#039;s so cold to them.  Someone will ask her how she is and she won&#039;t even respond with an answer, &quot;Pick up or drop off?&quot;.  Really pisses me off.  So back to her being all pissed at me, so she said &quot;This is part of your job!&quot; and in my head I was like &quot;Nah, y&#039;know what, not anymore&quot;.  It sorta felt like that scene in &quot;American Beauty&quot; where Ricky Fitts and Lester Burnham are outside smoking weed and Ricky&#039;s boss comes out to tell him to get back to work. <br />
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Boss: &quot;I&#039;m not paying you to stand around and goof off&quot; and Ricky:&quot;Okay, then don&#039;t pay me.&quot;  <br />
Boss: &quot;What&quot;?<br />
Ricky:&quot;I said you don&#039;t have to pay me, now leave me alone&quot;<br />
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My whole thing wasn&#039;t as cool as that, but whatever.  I just decided not to come back in.  I don&#039;t need anything like that waying on my sense of well being.  I didn&#039;t need a second job, it was just me trying to get some extra cash, but I&#039;m not out to make myself feel bad in the meantime.  O well.  I guess this is my yelling post.  It&#039;s cool.<br />
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