misery

The always fired up Firecracker Mom gave me a You Make My Day blog award. She says, “Jamie is a funny, witty girl. I love reading her blog.”

Marc Sheppard has a piece up over at American Thinker where he chastises The Prophet Al Gore over his political opportunism in the wake of the Myanmar disaster.

It won’t make you whole. Katie Allison Granju reports on the correlation between happiness and one’s form of political government:

Since getting kinda-sorta sacked (I really will explain later, but I'm trying to avoid getting semi-dooced, so sorry for being vague), this glorious perspective has descended upon me. It was already coming, honestly, but I was in denial for a while about it.

When I participate

Metro PD has been keeping me busy. Yesterday I responded to a call from Lt. Swisher over at 5th and Church and ended up keeping the person with me all day until I was able to get him tucked away into what can only be considered an emergency "transitional shelter," although I suspect the folks running this shelter don't quite see it that way.

How can you maximize your misery? It's easy, it's available in all areas of life and everyday you will have new ways to take part. Are you excited to find out  what it is?

~~Constantly Compare Yourself to Others~~

I wouldn't want to have to run a shelter if my life depended on it. Some of the clientèle are often very difficult to please, some are mentally ill, some may be hiding from heinous acts, others may care nothing for their personal hygiene, still others may be trying to eke out their own living peddling crap to the residents. Add to this the despair, gloom, sadness and frustration so many of the Homeless suffer from as a direct result of their situations and you have one helluva volatile mix