John’s Crawlspace

I am such a baby when it comes to eyes - When I see people touching their eyes, it grosses me out a lot. That being said, the world’s first eyeball tattoo is quite possible the most horrifying thing I’ve ever seen… Ever. This, on the other hand, is just confusing.

Think your life sucks? Try living with Aquagenic Urticaria, a rare skin condition which is more or less a water allergy. For this girl, that means no swimming, no showers - you’re even allergic to sweat. This is a very rare condition (fewer than 30 cases are known worldwide). Any contact with water results in a painful, itchy rash, and the girl claims that there have been “many occasions where I’ve been so itchy, I’ve made myself bleed from scratching.” So god hooked her up pretty good. I remember meeting a kid in college who had some sort of sunlight allergy, and I thought that was a shitty deal, but now I’m actually not sure which one would be worse. Either way, it’s stuff like this that helps me realize that things could always be a whole lot worse.

The Ku Klux Klan has endorsed Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States of America. Speaking from his Kentucky office in Dawson Springs, the Imperial Wizard exclaimed that anything or anyone is better than having that “crazy ass bitch” (Hillary) as President. Didn’t see that one coming.

Some people would argue that Christian Bale saved the Batman movies when he starred in Batman Begins. Can he do the same thing for the Terminator movies? Bale will be playing John Connor in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, which is set for release in May of 2009. So that should be interesting.

If Comcast is your ISP and you use torrents, you’re probably pretty fed up at this point. They have been throttling traffic for a while now, making it next to impossible for some people to use BitTorrent… And ’seeding’ is a nightmare. This shouldn’t come as news to a lot of you, but I know it made me feel a little better when I read that there is now a class action lawsuit against the bastards.

So I’m having a bit of a dilemna here. I started a graphic design job last Monday (the 18th). I like it there so far, and I feel that if I continue to work there, I’ll develop a body of work that’ll look good in my portfolio (it’s kind of hurting right now) and I’ll gain some valuable experience. The job environment is pretty casual too, I feel like I could roll in half an hour late and it wouldn’t be a big deal. And there are always tons of different clients in and out of there, so there are great networking possibilities. The crappy part about this job is that I work as an independent contractor, so I don’t get benefits (no insurance or 401k). Also, since I’m paid as an independent contractor, they cut me a check every week and then at the end of the year I have to file my own taxes, which I know absolutely nothing about. About a week after I started at this job, I was contacted by another company that I had interviewed with. This was regarding an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) position. I have experience in both fields, but I think I’d enjoy doing graphic design more than SEO… But this SEO position is offering me more money, as well as benefits. So over the course of the past few days I’ve changed my mind about 600 times, and I’m losing sleep over it. I know it’s not the end of the world, but I’m having a really hard time deciding. I even went so far as to write down all the pros and cons, but it didn’t help. I almost wish someone would just make the decision for me, because I’m really not leaning one way or the other. Anyway, on that note, I’m gonna try and get to sleep… I’m pretty beat, and I bet it shows in the wording of this post. I will do my best to get another Ghana post up within the next couple days.

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