listening to: Tom asleep on my shoulder

stolen from estokes' LJ...

GEORGE W. BUSH RESUME
The White House, USA

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
*I attacked and took over two countries.
*I spent the U.S. surplus and bankrupted the Treasury.
*I shattered the record for biggest annual deficit in history.
*I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
*I set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
*I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
*I am the first president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.
*In my first year in office I set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.
*After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, I presided over the worst ? security failure in US history.
*I set the record for most campaign fund raising trips by any president in US history.
*In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.
*I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any other president in US history.
*I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
*I appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.
*I set the record for the fewest press conferences of any president since the advent of TV.
*I signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any other president in US history.
*I presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
*I presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
*I cut health care benefits for war veterans.
*I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.
*I dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.
*I've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in US history.
*Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (The 'poorest' multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her).
*I am the first president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.
*I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud in any market in any country in the history of the world.
*I am the first president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
*I have created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
*I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any other president in US history.
*I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the Human Rights Commission.
*I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the Elections Monitoring Board.
*I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.
*I rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
*I withdrew from the World Court of Law.
*I refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
*I am the first president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors access during the 2002 US elections.
*I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
*The biggest lifetime contributor to my campaign, who is also one of my best friends, presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation). I spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.
*I am the first president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied,saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)
*I am the first US president to establish a secret shadow government.
*I took the world's sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).
*I am the first US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
*I am the first US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than by their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
*I changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
*I set the all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling their huge investments in corporations bidding for gov't contracts.
*I have removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history. ? In a little over two years I have created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided that the US has been since the civil war.
*I entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.

RECORDS AND REFERENCES:
*I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available).
*I was AWOL from the National Guard and deserted the military during a time of war. I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.
*All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my father's library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
*All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view..
*All minutes of meetings of any public corporation for which I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
*Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.

PERSONAL REFERENCES:
*For personal references, please speak to my dad or uncle James Baker (They can be reached in their offices at the Carlyle Group where they are helping to divide up the spoils of the US-Iraq war and plan for the next one.)

listening to: the rain outside

Nothing beats snuggling with your boyfriend (in this case, Tom, 'cause he's loveable) under a warm blanket on a cold day, and falling asleep while watching a special on Nefertitti.

Except maybe snuggling under a warm blanket with Tom on a cold day and drinking hot chocolate. :P

I have been so insanely happy and content the past 2 months, but these last couple of days have been absolutely amazing. He makes me so happy, without even trying, it blows my mind. I can quite honestly say that aside from some particularly memorable creative bursts in the past, these are literally the best and happiest days of my life.

P.S. Ignore the post before this, it's an old one from last year and I don't know why it's shown up. A bug in the Blogger system, I'm thinking.

listening to: 'Fallen Angel' (live) by Trio Nocturna

I've realized that the only reason I want a laptop is so I can sit on the couch while I do my stuffs. Which is retarded. Because that's $2500 for a comfy seat, really. My comp now kicks the ass of any laptop... I've got a 1900mhz processor and 612 megs of ram, etc. The only things I'm not happy with are my hard drive (13 gigs is SO not enough for XP, Photoshop 6 and Painter 7... it's scary. A 3 layer pic will chug my comp like sludge), and my monitor. Granted I got my monitor for free (thanks Heather for getting it, and thanks CRHS for throwing away perfectly good computer equipment). But I'm getting a bit cramped with 14". SO this is my new and improved plan. I'm going to take $200 (prolly the money I get for Christmas or I'll save it up or something) and get a 60 or 80 gig drive. That's step 1. Step 2 - I'm going to get a nice, comfy armchair from Albrecht's or Salvation Army or somesuch. Step 3 - Place comfy armchair in front of comp and put no so comfy kitchen chair in the kitchen. Step 4 - Enjoy. >:P

fuck.

I just got off the phone with Mom. She can't understand how bad it is at work.I mean, fuck. Louise fucking told Chris and I that we could get trained up. Now we find out today that they're hiring someone in, off the street with no experience to be a day supervisor. We're both pretty much doing supervisor jobs right now (well, Chris is. I've asked to be trained on paperwork and deposits, I guess I know now why she's been putting it off).

There's no future for us there. Just day in, day out, no chance of getting a better position. And although Louise is great to talk to and stuff, out of work, she's not so great at managing. Why else would everyone be miserable? We weren't with Ross as our manager. (Except Pauline, but who cares). We're getting minimum wage for ass breaking work, not seeing each other or friends at all. I've got hardly any time to myself to do anything. No chance of going to school like I want to, I won't be able to get the time off to do it. I have to work Christmas Day. Open. Me, working 6 days a week, 11 hour shifts, when the part time people are off of school for 2 weeks and could do it. Apparently I'm the ONLY one that can do it. In fact, I get 2 days off in the next month. I get Christmas Day, and I get Boxing Day. Big fucking deal. Christmas Day will be spent with my family for presents, breakfast and dinner. The supper will be spent with Chris's family. Lots of relaxation there. I get one fucking day off. Watch, I'll have to work that too. Forget New Years. Can't spend that with Chris or my friends. Have to work. We had the 18th signed off since August for The Two Towers. Evening for Chris, morning of the 19th for me. Since we both started working there (months before Louise came), we had it signed off. She bitched and moaned about it, complaining about how hard it'd be to fill the shifts, etc. Then made us thank her for being able to get it off for us.

...

Now I just got off the phone with Cala from The Art Institute Online. Where I really, really wanted to take Graphic Design from, but it would cost me over $100,000 Canadian. Fucking exchange rates. ::cries:: Which pretty much kills any chance for school. If I'd had the money to go there, I wouldn't need a job. But I do. And it has to be Subway or Robin's. Big difference. Robin's in the smoker's Tim Hortons, and another shitty place to work. I can't afford school, can't have a student loan and go to school without a job, or we lose the apartment. Not to mention that school would be $10 a day for cab rides, if I went to Holland College. Can't do the course at Sessions.Edu. Need a job for that, and to get enough hours to pay for it, I wouldn't have the time for the course. Not that I'd get it off anyhow.

Can't even change jobs in Stratford. I'd switch to Sobey's and work in the photo lab, but I severely doubt they're hiring full-time, and even if they were, it would still be $10 a day to get there, because I can't walk 2 blocks length on the Trans Canada in the winter. I can barely do it for Subway (although part of the problem there is me being so depressed I actually had to hold myself back today from walking out in front of a tractor as it sped by. That's how much I hate things.) I'm going to be stuck at this fucking job forever. I'd get a better job if I could go to school, but that won't happen because Subway won't let it. And I can't afford to live here if I do tell Subway to screw off, which means Chris is out on the street too (so is Henri).

FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!!

If the next few years, or even year, of my life are going to be Subway, I don't want it. I don't want that life. This year has slipped out of my hands. The whole of 2002, and very little of it is memorable. That's not how I want to live. I want each day to mean something, not wish that it would end. Great life, this. Living in a nice apartment on PEI, which I love, no job worth having, no way to get education for a better job. Cna't move back home, Laura and Chris are there and expecting the baby in a few months.

SO WHAT THE FUCK DO I DO? Waste my life or die? Those are about the only options I have. Not that anyone here will answer. No one that reads this shit cares enough to answer or talk to me about it. Screaming at the top of my lungs to a black void that doesn't care if I stop breathing.