I haven't been on (e:strip) in so long, everythings different. CooL!

I've gotten into humor essayists over the past couple of years. It started out with what I thought was a kinky gay sex book called Naked by David Sedaris. I picked up a few random authors along the way like David Rakoff who wrote Fraud, but they aren't as good as Sedaris. In December I stumbled onto Laurie Notaro who is hilarious. She has three books out; I'm half way through the second one.

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I miss school. Work is boring. Really boring. I get paid to sit around. Its not fun, its not cool. I got a membership to the YMCA Southtowns so I can swim on my lunch hour and run after work. I decided to train for a triathlon so my efforts aren't in vain.

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I have HIPAA coming out of my ass. I can practically recite the entire legislation from memory standing on my head. I have patients asking me "important, serious questions" about their information daily. There must be something up about it because there is a huge renewed interest in it. Blah. I really want to tell people the truth which is the only thing HIPPA does is create massive games of phone tag.
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Anyway. peace out

Terrorists used planes as mobile missiles three years ago. Ok. Now we have to wait and wade through a ridiculous system which isn't really that much more effective than the old way.

Isn't it all stupid? I mean c'mon we have thousands of people using train systems and no one gets frisked board subway systems, or buses, or renting motor boats or, even scarier, U-Hauls and those big yellow Rider trucks.

What idiot would attempt to use a plane to unleash terror on the US again?

If we are going to clog an already teetering airport transportation system up so the dumb fucks that believe Bush feel the world is safer, than we need to totally fuck everyone over and make sure you can't even sneeze without an FBI agent riding your ass.

blah.

HAHAHA! If that picture is of you and Katie Perryman, that is so cool. She used to work at BN on NF BLVD.

wow. cool!

ugh. I've gotten into the habit of scouring USA Today, Buffalo News, NY Times and the Wallstreet Journal every morning. The Wall Street Journal is by far my favorite. USA Today is the easiest to read. NY Times has pretty good articles. The Buffalo News sucks.

Blah. I wish we had UK papers imported here. I'd like to get into reading those and see what the daily media thinks of the US. I've noticed that the papers used to ride Clinton and Bush appears to get a light smearing.

Now that doesn't seem very fair does it?!

After years of being tethered to AIM I am ready to take the plunge and disconnect myself.

I still have my cell phone and email, but AIM appears to do more harm then good. I have felt like I am dodging people when I am online; I leave my away message up and get anxious when I get IMs and just ignore them.

My away messages serve no purpose other than stupid message to people I should just call on the telephone to begin with.

I took iChat off of the dock, out of the status menu. I deleted my AOL program as well as AIM.

I hope I can stick this out. :oP