I just checked my Netflix queue, and this copy of The Thing has been sitting on my DVD player, unwatched, since Christmas Eve, 2013.
You see, as a child, my mom and step-dad had a laissez faire attitude about TV watching. And with my friend, Premium Cable, I watched a number of movies that were inappropriate for my age. I still have nightmares from watching The Thing, Poltergeist, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Oh, Mommy Dearest also traumatized me. Continue reading
Oh, business meetings, how we loathe thee. Here we sit, cursed with the meeting being lead by someone who doesn’t know how to lead meetings. Who cannot stick to the agenda. Whose agenda is terrible to start with. Who cannot control the grand-standers and blow-hards, the completely-off-topic-ers. Who cannot keep a clock. Continue reading
On Oscar day, here’s a film QOTD posed by Baby Bear: Continue reading
You never know when or where the mood might strike!
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In college, I was a student government dork. I was active in residence hall leadership, then moved on to campus-wide elections and activism. I passed out flyers, I registered people to vote, I campaigned door-to-door. Eventually, I found myself in a position where the next logical step was to run for student body president.
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We all have them. Some keep them better than others. Some people have the magical ability to pull them out of others for all the world to see. Secrets.
Some secrets are more private than others. And that’s okay. Everyone needs to keep some things just to themselves. Some secrets are huge hidden things that have a life of their own. Some things become secrets just because you don’t think they’re important enough to mention to anyone. Continue reading
Have you ever experienced that moment? Did you ever lock eyes with someone in a crowded room and just…know? Have you ever sat in a classroom when someone walked through the door and you sat up a bit straighter, hoping against hope they’d come sit next to you, and they did? Have you ever been introduced to someone at a party and, when you went to shake hands, it was electric? Continue reading
Are you read to get a bit silly? What video or song best describes you or another CTer? Oh, the possibilities. Continue reading
We’ve all suffered through them. The girl who never put down her cell phone. The guy who repeatedly hit on other people while he was supposed to be out with you. The blind date your sister/brother/mother/hairdresser/dealer set you up on. But there is usually one that stands, head and shoulders, above all others. Our own personal Worst First Date. Continue reading
Up until last Sunday, I only had one athletic achievement. It was 2003. I was at my buddy Dan’s bachelor party, a weekend in Lake Tahoe. We spent an afternoon on the beach, playing football. Being entirely unathletic, no one covered me, ever. Continue reading
