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nathan

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people. -OSC

About Me

Now I know that I can't make you stay,
But where's your heart?
But where's your heart?
But where's your...

Now I know there's nothing I can say,
To change that part,
To change that part,
To change....

Work for a big bad oil company... living in louisiana is pretty interesting during hurricane season....

And in late breaking news..... I'm pretty much in the process of not being married anymore. I'm sorry to any friends who happen to read this and feel they should have found out about this in a more personal manner.... you're absolutely right. But its been a tough thing to talk about, so its not something I've actively tried to bring up with many people.....

My Interests

Wine, Ultimate, Disc Golf, Fishing, being mediocre at various PS2 games

Music:

Tool, Sountrack from Rent, Breaking Benjamin, My Chemical Romance, Nirvana, Pearl Jam (although after the first 5 albums they really tanked) Led Zepellin, Aerosmith, Chris Ledoux, Brad Paisley, Scofflaws, Eminem, N.W.A., George Strait, Merle Haggard, and I'll kick anyone who ever says anything bad about Johnny Cash.

Movies:

Usual Suspects, O Brother! Where Art Thou?, Emperor's New Groove, Snatch, Caddyshack, Friday, American Beauty, Office Space, Dodgeball, The Rock.

Television:

Family Guy, Mythbusters, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Poker, Numb3rs, Drawn Together, Football.

Books:

Catcher in the Rye, Dark Tower Series, The Stand, What Every American Should Know About the Rest of the World, 1984, Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, The Ender's Game Series, Fahrenheit 451, anything by Terry Pratchett, and Salem's Lot will always have a spot on my list because of how badly is scared the crap out of me in seventh grade.

Heroes:

Heroes? What? What a silly question.

My Blog

good point... i can relate

Read an interesting quote from a psychologist out in LA...  "When people get married young, they often feel like the other person will complete them, and they have trouble moving past that Hollyw...
Posted by nathan on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 07:32:00 PST

scary

In all honesty, some times my job really scares me. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17196205/
Posted by nathan on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:12:00 PST

happiness sandwich

Ok, so I am going to attempt a new blog style which i will call a happiness sandwich.  Perhaps you are familiar with the management technique referred to as a compliment sandwich.  Perhaps t...
Posted by nathan on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:07:00 PST

ok, wtf

ok, ridiculous.  this is a follow up to my last post.  i'm drunk and watching the office.  so they advertise, for sale now, dwight bobblehead on nbc.com.  so i got all excited. and...
Posted by nathan on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:19:00 PST

divorce and stuff

ok, so while divorce is terrbile, you reach a point in the whole thing where you are actually excited for it to be over.  its weird, because its something you never wanted in the first place, but...
Posted by nathan on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:04:00 PST

guitar hero

Ok, so i know i posted a while ago about having enjoyed DDR and Karaoke Revolution when I played them back in cincy over christmas... however, i just bought guitar hero 2, and it is freaking phenomena...
Posted by nathan on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:15:00 PST

beer again

ok, so more than beer.  started with a bottle of wine, then some beer, right now a screwdriver. this is not healthy, i acknowledge that.  i actually started drinking before noon.  howe...
Posted by nathan on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:45:00 PST

poker money

So i won 88 bucks playing poker tonight (i think this was my second ever poker game for money).  anyways, since i feel like its totally free money, i kinda feel like i gotta go blow it on sometin...
Posted by nathan on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:55:00 PST

a few things

Alright, thing one is that beer is good.  So maybe you should take the rest of this with a grain of salt given the preface.  But this has the potential to be a totally random collection of t...
Posted by nathan on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:46:00 PST

SEC - hands down best conference in football

A'ight.  I dunno how many of you watched the game, but as far as I'm concerned, the national championship just added even more ammo onto the heap of evidence which says that the SEC is THE domina...
Posted by nathan on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:04:00 PST