My Journey

It hit 115 today. The heat is killing me. As I get older the less tolerance I have for the excessive heat. I drove in my air conditioned car for a few hours. Thank goodness for that.
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Returned to work on Monday. My boss brought me back with more pay and more hours, but the catch is I'm now a contractor, not an employee. Whatever. I wasn't getting benefits anyways as an employee. Plus I can work my own hours and from home.
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Trump is still an embarrassing Putin puppet. The Republicans are still spineless little worms. So nothing new on that front. 

I wanted to sketch Paul Ryan, but I didn't feel like doing anything. The heat just sucks the life outta me. 

 

Couldn't have said it better myself. In the US the traditional divide has always (well mostly been) Republican vs Democrat. Now it's Republican vs Americans. Current day Republicans are spineless traitors to the American people. How much longer will these fools stay silent?!

Since I was hired as a temp employee, I have a cap on the amount of hours I can work. This coming Thursday I will run out of hours for this fiscal year. The good news is they want me to come back after July 1st, which is the start of the new fiscal year. So basically I'll be out of work for one month. 

Honestly, I'm sorta looking forward to the month long break. I desperately NEED IT! I'm so burn-out on life. I need a break. Sure things will be tight financially, but I think it'll be ok. 

Even though they want me back, frankly, I don't want to go back. I need a job that will pay me what I'm worth. I was hired as an intern, with intern level pay, but with mid to senior level responsibility. While the rest of the interns did light filing, answering phones and the occasional light image edits, I was tasked with creating a new department website from scratch. All the while coordinating with three dysfunctional departments who do not share information. Not to mention, the heavy design tasks outside of webdesign work. 

And the kicker is, I'm not even a web designer! LOL

Sigh.

The problem is, I don't know what I want to do, or where I want to work. I guess it's time for me to stop making excuses and just apply to jobs that are interesting to me and see where it takes me. Hopefully one of them can give me break and hire me :)

At the time, his angry and desperate tone so much reflected mine. Five months ago things looked bleak. It looked like no one in Congress and especially in the media were willing to question and stand up to Trump. 

 

Keep this up you orange monster, your impeachment will be here sooner rather than later.

 Since when is telling the truth a cause for celebration? In the Trump era, the truth is like a rare unicorn--it's not seen everyday, but when it surfaces it's a sight to behold. That unicorn is Sally Yates. She told the truth and defended it like a champion.

Like always, Keith Olbermann summarizes the Sally Yates and Michael Flynn fiasco quite nicely.

Har har har! We're so proud of ourselves. We took the first step to cut essential healthcare for millions of people. Cancer? Congenital birth defects? Sexual assault victims? Sorry you're all outta luck! No pre-existing health conditions allowed! For the rest of you don't ever get sick because you won't be covered for anything. Either that or get a job with health coverage, I mean every employer that ever existed offers great health coverage and it's not like great paying jobs are finite or anything. If you think about it, it's really your fault for being such losers and poor sacks of shit! Be rich like us--problem solved!

These rules don't apply to us, we are covered under the old ObamaCare rules that includes coverage for pre-existing health conditions, because we are special and better than you.

America, no hard feelings! Yeah, ok you and your loved ones will may die, but look it's for the best. Us one percenters are struggling too you know. I mean the tax breaks from this bill will help fund essentials like a new yacht, a few new gold toilets and maybe a totally sick (pun intended) Aston Martin with diamond encrusted wheels. See, waay more important than human lives.

In closing, we worship the powerful and almighty god of money, greed and corruption. In other words we don't give a fuckin shit about you or your sick babies, unless of course they can be used for our political gain. The religious right are such morons they buy into simplistic terms like "pro-life" without realizing they are anything but...

Anyways enjoy your life! And remember...don't get sick! Or ELSE!

All the best,

Your House Republicans and Friends 

Not a cat person, but this was too cute to ignore

My mom thought it would be nice/appropriate to send my uncle a condolence card regarding the passing of his daughter (my cousin). Each of us will write a message and sign it.

I'm awful at writing/expressing condolences. I don't want to say too much to the point where it gets weird and painful, but I don't want to say too little where it looks like I don't care. Eventually I give up and search google for helpful messages. I don't copy them outright, but they certainly help to formulate my own message.

Anyways while searching for helpful messages I found this site that will sell you a CD full of condolence/sympathy messages for $24.99. Great idea except the writing is horrible! I would never pay a cent for any of these. Here are some of my favorites: