… and that’s exactly it. no one has any damn thing at stake. 65% of the people in this country actually support this fucking war. unbelievable. and yeah sure, i’m sure it’s easy to support some war when all you have to do is sit there in a fucking office, sip coffee, and wait for the gas prices to come dropping down for your precious vehicle. if these 65% actually had to go over there and start shooting missiles at random iraqi targets… would they really still be so excited to start a war?

*sigh*

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wow, i really cant believe how fast people can build stuff these days. i looked outside my kitchen door yesterday and in just *one* day, our landlord had built all of the steps for our new stairs. so fast!! they’ve already got his much done: click!

heh, this is the small board across the kitchen door that saves us from falling to our doom: click!

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i got my employee review the other day, and it was a huge disapointment. in the past, all of my reviews here have gone really well. seriously, they couldnt say enough good things about me and all the comments were very positive about how well i accomplish all my stuff etc. for pretty much all the sections i would score a “1″ which was “goes above and beyond expectations". so, it was a total shock to me when yesterday my review was filled completely w/ all 3’s (acceptable performance, average). wtf? according to my boss, i do the tasks i get assigned well, but dont show enough initiative and he gets the feeling that i “dont care how well the company does". dont show enough initiative?? dude, i am sooo busy at work, have so much crap to do, so many random assignments etc get pushed on me…. i dont have any damn time to show initiative. i need to be trying to plan *more* projects for myself?? sheeeez.

so anyways it all really sucks. part of me thinks that the review may have turned out like that because i have a different boss writing it now. maybe he’s not the kind of guy that writes glowing reviews? or maybe i’m really doing way worse now than i’ve done in the past. *sigh*.

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i woke up this morning and the stairs were missing. yes, missing. a couple months ago we had a party and a large section of the side of the stairs broke off. we’ve been begging our landlord to do something about it for a long time now, and it looks like finally he did. but the thing is… we kind of expected him to fix the stairs, not *remove* them!! and if he did remove them, we would have thought he might at least warn us. so now, when we open the kitchen door, there’s nothing there except for a 3 story drop, with only a small plank of wood nailed against the doorway to protect us from certain death.

it’s so weird to have a whole staircase just be missing like that.

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