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I'm not sure if yall know that I am graduating in December.  Finally after six years in college I am getting out.  I have a hard time being excited.  I am more scared of the future.  I started looking for jobs at the beginning of this month.  So far I have heard back from a handful of jobs each one telling me that either I am not in the running for the position or to try back about a month before I am looking to start.  The problem is that I really don't know where I am going to live.  Harrisonburg has a few tech jobs locally but I really don't want to stay here and I don't think I have a good shot of getting a good job here.  I didn't get the best grades in college so it makes me question my ability to get the job of my dreams.  I need to find something, I can go anywhere.

What other names did your parents consider for you?

My parents considered naming me Charles Henry after my mothers father.  I like that name a lot, it is a common enough name but at the same time it stands out on its own.  Instead my parents named me after my father, so I have the name Christopher Marcus Golding Jr.  I am not a huge fan of the name because of how common the name Chris or Christopher is, I am always agitated when someone calls out Chris, because 99% of the time they aren't calling me they are calling another of the millions of other Chris(es) out there.  When it comes to naming my own son one day I always thought I would continue the name and have a Christopher Marcus Golding III, which I think has a good sound to it, but I don't think I want to give another the same aggravation I have.  Maybe my son will be Charles Henry, it sounds rather classy.

I am doing one thing that should defiantly help out my writing skills over the summer, I am taking a course on Technology and Writing where we are looking at the effects on Technology on literacy and society.  So far the course has been quite interesting; we have discussed virtual communities and did a a small write up on Second Life.  I detest Second Life and will write about my personal thoughts on it another time. 

Though the class we are going to write three mini-research papers.  I think I'm going to do the three on Vox, so far since we have talked about social communities I feel that Vox is a good place to look at.  In all Vox is a budding virtual community/social network and I see it eventually growing to be something big.  Its unique ability to allow groups to view certain posts, to communicate with groups all through a single interface, and to share media allows Vox to be extremely flexible and to cater to the needs of many different groups.  I will try to continue to update my progress of my research paper as I continue to work on it.

So today I was reading a post on a Software Developers blog.  The post was regarding college graduates seeking jobs.  I felt that this would be a good topic for me to read since I am currently in that process.  One of the recommendations he recommended was to work on improving your writing skills.  I have always thought that my writing skills were pretty good.  I may not be the most eloquent writer but I feel like I'm not that bad, but it wouldn't hurt to improve my writing skills.  One thing that the gentleman had recommended was that you write a blog.  Well I have this blog but really do not use it.  I have a few posts recently but nothing meaningful.  So my current goal is to get back onto blogging and write at least one thing everyday.  I know I've said that I was going to do this a couple of times so far but I haven't followed up with it.  I am going to do my best.

This dog, is dog, a dog, good dog, way dog, to dog, keep dog, an dog, idiot dog, busy dog, for dog, 20 dog, seconds dog!

Now read without the word dog.

You wanna hear a dirty joke?

A boy in a white shirt fell in the mud.

You wanna hear a dirtier joke?

He got back up and fell back down.

You wanna hear a clean joke?

He took a bath with Bubbles.

You wanna hear the dirtest joke so far?

Bubbles is the girl next door.

A man and his ever-nagging wife went on vacation to Jerusalem. While they were there, the wife passed away. The undertaker told the husband, "You can have her shipped home for $5,000, or you can bury her here, in the Holy Land, for $150." The man thought about it and told him he would just have her shipped home.

The undertaker asked, "Why would you spend $5,000 to ship your wife home, when it would be wonderful to be buried here and you would spend only $150?"

The man replied, "Long ago a man died here, was buried here, and three days later he rose from the dead. I just can’t take that chance."

JMU parking is a fucking bitch! I hate it!  Last week a friend of mine at work asked me to cover an hour and a half of her shift so she could go up to DC for a job interview.  I of course said yes, so this morning I got up extra early for the shift and even made sure I had plenty of time to get here and find a parking space, I thought 45 minutes to get a parking space was going to be more than enough.  I got to the parking deck and didn't find one, I drove up and down the deck for over an hour and a half and didn't find a single freaking spot.  Well thats not all true, I actually had two spots taken from me by other people, when I was waiting, I had the opportunity to steal spots from two others.  I'm just not cut throat enough to get a spot apparently.  I ended up going and parking in a meter spot with a 30 minute max time on the meter.  THIS ISN"T GOING TO FUCKING WORK! So here I am at work, after an extremely annoying morning, I'm going to get written up for being late!  This is what happens when I try to help someone.

Who taught you how to cook?
Submitted by Donna.

I guess my mom was my inspiration to cook, I more or less just picked up things from watching her cook over the years living at home.  I get tips every once in a while but overall I feel much of my cooking was self taught, through allot of experimentation.