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I've contemplated leaving my job, mainly for more money. Although, I love my hours and the fact that I have a three day weekend every weekend and there's so much change going on right now at work that my future is looking both bright and dreadful. Who knows what the future holds? A part of me wants to wait and see what happens another part is to take on opportunities as they present themselves, even though nothing worth mentioning has happened yet.

My new year's resolution this year was to make sure that I try to spend more time with friends and make more time with new ones. I believe I have accomplished such so far at least. It'll be 10 years since my freshman year of college and I haven't really spent a lot of time with my the ole college buds. I feel like we've grown apart, with the exception of two of my friends who even though I don't see them everyday or talk to them everyday I feel very close to despite the circumstances. Relationships happen, unions happen, reproduction occurs and priorities change. Shit happens and that's life for some.

I'm looking forward to Cali, some hot desert weather will do me some good and some Laurabells and gamblin' time. God I need to not spend money for the next 3 days.

I've finally compiled my top ten films of '06 in no particular order.

Little Miss Sunshine
Volver
Children of Men
The Descent
The Departed
Pan's Labyrinth
Half Nelson
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
Fast Food Nation
Jesus Camp

Honorable Mention:

Devil Wears Prada
Hard Candy
Marie Antoinette
Short Bus
Inside Man
Notes on a Scandal

I love films, I could literally spend a weekend watching films (which we do all the time). What was the last great film I saw? Honestly, the last one would have to be The Constant Gardener, there's so much depth and so much hidden beneath all the consipiracies and the cover-up which the film is generally about, but about passion, about the desire to survive, to protect and to expose human injustice.

 Fast Food Nation had a similar affect as well. Mass produced goods, made cheaply, bought cheaply and hired cheaply and sold to millions to make millions at the expense of people wanting to pursue the american dream.

What character in a book can you connect with or relate to the most? 
Submitted by Eating A Book.

I've always connected more with female characters (hello fag) than with male characters, however, there's this book called the perks of being a wallflower by Stephen Chbosky where the main character is alas male and who I connected with and identified with completely.  

Wallflower

I read that books years ago when it came out, I don't remember if it was recommended to me or not. It isn't Shakespeare or Bronte, it's just a well-written character study of a boy on the brink of manhood, discovering himself, his voice or lack thereof and living amidst all the pitfalls, pains, ups and downs of being a teenager. I think what I related to the character mostly was his "voice" and I mean that I could hear myself saying those very words or thinking those very thoughts and feeling those very feelings at that time. It's kinda scary when you read something or watch something that you relate to immensely and you feel that same awkward sense you felt at that time.

I also enjoy Margaret Atwood very much and I think to some extent we all could relate to the plights of her characters. I think we all, male or female, have been victimized/assaulted/abused/imprisoned to some degree.   

This definitely has incited my taste for reading again, I don't make enought time for that instead of staring at the tv/computer screen. We went to Borders after some horrid Indian Food (I think my stomach is still making me pay for that) and I picked up the book of Courtney Love's collection of diaries that she's kept since she was 7 years old. Hopefully, that'll satisfy my literary needs for now, well I use the term literary lightly. But man, I really missed that crazy 'ol coked-up bitch.