Quicker way to read everyone's blog posts

Hey I wanted to tell ya'll about a place you can go to read everyone's posts and keep up with what's newly posted. http://www.google.com/reader

It's neat - all the blogs you are following show up (you might need a google id to get on and see it) but one page comes up showing all the blogs you're following. Then you can scroll through and read everyone's posts that you haven't read.

Saves time, it's efficient and you can keep up with who you want to comment on. I haven't figured out how to get in and make comments from the Reader. But then it might just be a "reader" and not a place to make comments.

Thought I'd share that little tidbit :) Happy blogging

My Rant about Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs

I'm not sure what to say about this book and I have to do a presentation on it! For me, it seems like Klosterman is really young and goes on tangents about topics that really aren't of interest to me personally. It's hard to get excited about things that I don't like - like television shows. I have two shows I like to watch. That's it. I'm not a big TV fan. Anyway, he goes on and on about this MTV show (which I'd never heard of - sorry I'm aging myself with this post!!) and he knows all the characters from every season and what gets me the most about him? He uses these on-screen personalities to typecast his own friends and acquaintances he meets. As though they aren't written lines to say and things to do that create reality drama....for pete's sake is the viewing public so dense they think this stuff is "reality" - puhleeez!!! Reality is dull and boring. If you had a web cam on me all day, you'd die of boredom. I think that's the case for most people because our lives just aren't that dramatic. It is when the drama occurs that we get stressed out and wish to go back to being dull again. Am I wrong?

And I suppose it's just difficult reading him after a spending a semester with 19th century writers. I love Dickens and the Bronte sisters and Austin and all of those writers who really told a story well. I mean Klosterman isn't on par with any of my fave authors of that century nor the last. And I'm reading some good authors right now for my memoirs class that just blow me away - Russell Baker is a wonderful writer and so is James McBride and they are current century authors!

I have to finish this book over the weekend and come up with something for a presentation. Ah me!! Ok, so I shall get off my pity pot and try to find something of value. I think I'll read Lee Gutkind's book "The Art of Creative Nonfiction" and perhaps find some art in what Klosterman is doing. I just need to figure out what I'm going to say when I get in front of ya'll next week!! YIKES!!!

Laughing

Some of your posts are hilarious and make me laugh out loud. Very healthy in this day of dire news being doled out across the airwaves. I love to laugh. I hate how I look when I laugh but c'est la vie! I haven't laughed very much this week. My job is on the line. Literally I could be out of work by the end of this week. It wouldn't be the end of the world but it would be pretty stressful getting out there and finding something else. I've been with my company for eight years and have had some really good experiences and gotten sorta comfy in what I do. So this week has been tough. My manager of four years was layed off, then my good buddy who has been my source of technical knowledge for the last six years was also layed off, and then my husband comes home saying his job isn't safe either...aaaack! I just want to scream: WHAT IS GOING ON WITH OUR COUNTRY!! Is is the bad news feeding the bad news? Has the 24-hour cable news networks finally spun us into this downward spiral of negative information? Who knows? I'm just tired of the negativity! I think it's time to skip the news and just watch American Idol. Oh - it's on now! Bye