Happy Birthday to Me

So today is my 1st blogging birthday. It was a year ago today that he showed up on the blogging radar. Things have gone through a few changes since then. We have laughed and cried, pondered and postulated. I have blogged from across the country and across the world, and will continue to do so. As long as I can make light of life I will continue my shameless mockery of the mundane.

The new site is so very close to completion. I just need a flash piece and a programmer. We are all very excited I know. I'm working with the great folks at Kinetics, and October Blue, as well as Sinclair Technologies to get things going.

j.

Just J. and Nickname Gang

(Nicknames)
I was at a party the other night with the, (black flag XS t-shirt, studded belt, black and white check converse sneaker, we love piercing and tatoos and any band that begins with the word THE, swoopy hair with some spike and bleach,I just want to be different like everyone else kids) and I noticed alot of them had "cool" nick names.

T-bone, No-lips, Roswell, Asian Kim, etc... I developed a formula for how to discover the origin of these names without actually asking, and sounding "lame". It breaks down like this, "1 time when we were high(or drunk)" + RN (real name) did, looked like, or ate SR (something rediculous) = cool nick name. Lets try it 1 + (joe smith) sat on the couch and stared at the fan while it spun around = joe spin and stare 1+ (sarah doe) hit a deer while driving drunk = sarah doe (ha ha ha cough)

Oh, and in case you were wondering, I managed to walk away with out attaining a new identity. I am still just,

j.

Shoot for the moon (part 2)

the worst thing that can happen is you miss and hit a star...

Ok the entire last post was an accident it's not what I intended to write about at all. Which on some level probably proves my point. Not that I can remember what my point was, so i'll have to develop a new point.

(Monday at the mall)
So this weekend was christmas weekend right? Three Holdiays in a row Christmas eve, DEC. 25th and Australian BOX day.
First of Christmas Eve alwas kind of confused me. I don't a birthdays eve. There is no pre-party party. New Years Eve I get, the new day starts at midnight we get the celebration done and overwith by 1 0r 2 am and we call it over. It's verry efficient.

But christmas eve. is this whole pre-holiday rigamaroo with Father Christmas impregnating Marry and Jesus and a manger and sheep and a reindeer and wise men bringing gifts on a slay with a red nose an a little boy who never gets any older and won't stop beating his drumb. And then the children sleep and Mice Stir, and morning comes.

And santas elves aparantly got sick of wooden trains so they made plastic gift cards...to the Gap.
So then we bow our heads and thank Jesus for what Santa brought us and the day is done. Except for the fact that its now some rediculously early hour of 8 o' clock kind or earlier and there entire day left to celibrate. To bad you spent so much time celebrating last night, now your faced with a decision you can either call in and ask for those holiday hours, spend time with the family, or go to church.

Unless your church is CFC at which point going to church on sunday, which Christmas is on Every 7 years or so is not an option. Heaven forbid we celebrate the birth of our savior in Church, what kind blaphemous herecy is that. We had a Christmas eve service with candles and drummer boys. and Darlene sang "Mary did you know?" I think mary knows! There is nothing left to celebrate, we had candles. Christmas on Sunday, what were th0se calendar makers thinking whats next. I say no chritian holidays on sunday any more. I hear easter falls on a sunday this year to, we should brobably just have an Easter's eve service instead, with candles.

But now the weekend has come and gone and its now Monday which aparantly a national holiday. Hurray for "return all the crap you don't like and use your gift card" day. Thank you to the U.S. gov. A day of full malls, frustrated shopers, and screaming children, it's a drunk guy in a santa suit and a midget (little person) away from being every other day this season. But there are great deals and the american express card just cycled over so your good to go.

j.

Shoot for the moon (part one)

the worst thing that can happen is you miss and hit a star.

Ambitious
Dreamer
Highly Creative
Dissorder

ADHD

Recently I heard a speech Adult ADHD and became convinced I was showing strong symptomes and had been for some time. Then I began looking at the statistics, "20-25 percent of children are diagnosed with some form of ADD". This doesn't sound like a disease it sounds like a personality type.

Remeber when it was uncooth to be left handed and children were forced to conform to a right-handed world. I still catch and pitch with the same hand because finding a left handed glove was neerly impossible until much later in life. It seems the "right brained" children are being forced to conform to a "left brained" society that doesn't know how to deal with them.

These are broad brush stroke statments and should be takenn as such. I am sure there are some actual chemical imbalances in those diagnosed with ADD. But how many are diagnosed with a disease that is not much more than a personality.

Hopefully we will develop a way to educate these individuals that doesn't include drugs. A way that encourages them to thrive in who they are while still attaining the necessary education requirments. As someone who has a very difficult time concentrating, even on things I love like music and writing, I appreciate the efforts science has made to help people like me. I just would like to see the education system develop programs that utalize the positive effects of ADD type diseases.