General

There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.

Out of town for a week and Prince Avenue has been repaved. Heard they did it all at night too, nice. Way to go ACC, nice smooth roads are always an improvement. How about fixing Baxter now?

And I am loving the light up street signs that have been popping up around town, anyone know the details behind those? I saw them installing them on Prince awhile ago, but just now noticing that have been turning them on. Are they replacing all Athens street signs?

I know Athens is cutting edge and all but hasn't the Bearded Hipster thing played itself out? Come on lemmings, think up something original!

http://www.athensvent.com/node/270

Way retarded name to begin with. I have a been a few times to check it out and some of the posts about it are so true! I really hated the place and never going back! Thanks bad entertainment and snotty too cool for school employees! Did I forget to mention the prices to walk in the door and after paying that, the drink prices?! wtf

Anyone have anything good to say about it? Just curious.

If one more thing crashes on me, I swear to G-d I will destroy everything in a five mile radius FIRE, FIRE IS THE CLEANSER AND THE STREETS WILL RUN RED WITH MY VICIOUS SLAUGHTER ***DO NOT TALK TO ME, GO AWAY!***

When did it become okay to reach out a grab a stranger? Now I totally understand that my arms are heavily tattooed but here is a little known fact about tattoos, the tattooed area feels just like normal, non-tattooed flesh there is no reason for you to feel it.

I like my tattoos, I like when people compliment me on them. I do not like people grabbing at me, yanking my arm closer so they can get a better look.

It would also be nice if people stopped accosting me while I work so that they can try and make my justify my tattoos. Yes I did think long and hard before I was tattooed. No, I don't think that I'll be regretting them when I'm 80. Also, it does not matter what my Mom/Dad/Grandparents/Great Aunt Carol thinks about my decision to get tattooed.

Also, guys asking a girl if you can see her other tattoos is not a good pick up line ever. Keep your idiot advances to the downtown area where women drinking heavily is in your favor. I don't show up to my crappy job everyday just so you have someone to creep out.

I suppose this problem is not just in Athens, but everywhere: people who send or forward multiple copies or random personal stuff to listservs. I especially hate it when it's done by coworkers. I know there are specific listservs that cater to this kind of telenovela-type thing, but when you're on a serious, work listserv:

A) If you got a (generally meaningless) email about so-and-so retiring from your supervisor, chances are that your supervisor sent a copy to everyone; so please do not forward it again. I especially hate these double-forwarders when they add their own little personal note [ so sad!!! :( ]. The email was sent to everyone for general knowledge, not sent directly to you because you're special and we wanted to hear your thoughts before passing it along.

B) Some random celebrity died... You really liked them when you were a wild teen.... ...... Okay. Why did you email that to the listserv? I don't care about the celebrity and I don't care that you care about the celebrity. Why would you think we care??

I can't think of anymore, but I know there are more offenders out there... Just give me a few minutes, I'm sure another one will pop up in my inbox momentarily. Grrr.

It's like email and Twitter mated and spawned Facebook's annoying younger cousin: RLC Random Listserv Crap

The Grit servers are rude, college kids can't drive, and downtown smells like skunked beer and puke on Sunday mornings, but Athens is still the greatest place on Earth.

Downtown Athens has been especially stinky the last few mornings. I've actually had to change my route to work to avoid it.

Nothing like the smell of piss and vomit in the morning.

What the hell's happening with all the property crimes in Athens? I shouldn't have to worry about my house getting broken into for having a nice television (that I worked and budgeted months for, as responsible adults do), or some piece of garbage breaking into my car to steal my spare change. Don't blame it on the economy either - good people persist in doing good things regardless of circumstance. Those that commit crimes like this are a pathetic bunch that should have been aborted way back when.

Let's take this rant even further - we really need to revive the practice of amputating hands for theft. Don't give me any crap about it being "cruel" because it's not; if the law's on the books and well known, as far as I'm concerned, committing the crime is your way of publicly saying "I've got an amputation fetish, please give me a stump." And "unusual?" I can't see how it is, since it's been a part of many codes and cultures throughout history. Shoot, I'm going to write my congressman with this A-plus idea. Who's with me?