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Today is the Florida primary. Not sure if Mom is gonna vote, but I'm sure she's voting Republican.

In other news out of that state, about ten people were killed in a massive auto accident near Gainesville.

STORMING THE HEAVENS WITH PRAYERS

And if not that, at least the DC/Maryland governments.

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Case in point:

Last night the guy at Starbucks in Adams Morgan was rubbing all kinds of weird brown stuff all over his head. In public. Eeeewww.

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Had five free days at the Ritz Carlton Health Club. It's so nice to be at a place where people talk and dress nicely and are polite to each other.

SATURDAY NIGHT VIDEOS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cX3oGd4UL8&feature=channel_video_title

http://www.youtube.com/netnewyork#p/u/4/aRXsEcCsE3c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEloATV1uY4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysIzX_iDUKs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JciWeSxmv4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-p5JGMZGEk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVS3WNt7yRU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70D6kpvH8wQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cj82LzjGao&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkIbHHTJOlU&feature=related

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS

Today is his feast day: http://dariasockey.blogspot.com/2012/01/chill-out-and-cheer-up-with-st-thomas.html

Our vice principal said he had some asinine ideas about women.

FLASHBACKS

Holy shit! Multiple emergency vehicles in Adams Morgan, most of them in front of Mac's.

Also, I was walking down M St in Georgetown and a window pane exploded. If I had been there about five or ten seconds earlier the shards might have fallen on top of me. Fortunately I was wearing a hat and coat.

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The Maryland Pet Expo is this weekend: http://www.pigloo.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4106

WEEK FOUR

Dow down, weather more pleasant but windy at the end of the week. Gas prices as high as $4.49/gallon at the Exxon/Mobil station at 23rd and M Sts. Have been using my free health club passes to schvitz every day.

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Pray for Immaculata University: http://immaculata.edu

ST. POLYCARP

Today is his feast day. His name does not mean "many carp." He is the patron of earache sufferers: http://catholicexchange.com/2012/01/26/96964

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Happy Australia Day! For some reason I have a lot of Twitter followers in Australia and Denver.

MARY ON HARRY

See http://youngandcatholic.net/2012/01/whats-your-problem-with-harry-potter

REALLY, MARYLAND?

Four fucking pieces of mail in one day? Never heard of e-mail? Or consolidating your snail mail?

ST. PAUL

No, not the city. Today is the feast of his conversion: http://www.jesus-passion.com/conversion_of_saint_paul1.htm

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Just watched a TV spot for ITT Tech. The guy says "me and my brother." Don't they teach them English there?

Almost as bad as Montgomery College's sucky radio spots.

ST. FRANCIS DE SALES

Today his his feast day: http://catholicexchange.com/2012/01/24/96962

Never met a Salesianum graduate I didn't like.

Also, Facebook is eating my fucking posts.

THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS

It's over.

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Mom goofed. Grandpap's 112th birthday would have been today, not yesterday.

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My grandfather would have been 112 years old today.

THERE'S AN APP FOR THAT

But not sure how I like this one: http://www.creators.com/opinion/connie-schultz/what-to-say-when-not-if-we-die.html

SUPERBOWL XLVI

The New England Patriots will face the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI. Not sure whom I'm gonna root for.

ST VINCENT

Today is his feast day.

In addition to the tortures below they flogged him, rubbed lard and salt into his wounds, bound him into a red hot iron chair and threw his body into the sea:

http://catholicexchange.com/2012/01/22/96960

They also named a school after him. My late uncle taught there.

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Joe Paterno died today. The great tragedy was seeing evil yet not speaking out against it. This is a point I drive home with my tarot clients.

SATURDAY NIGHT VIDEOS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMBmcQY8gtw&feature=channel_video_title

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhxwmGpUxaY&feature=channel_video_title

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwJTvIYyEs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t_H_DBHmGQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr2siqaAY78

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eapKOEpuJ4A

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57363397-503544/newt-gingrich-wins-south-carolina-primary-cbs-news-projects

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAsf_Erx8_Y&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h82vI_DlETw&feature=related

PATERNO DYING

CBS radio reports Joe Paterno is in serious condition. Family and friends are at his side.

GINGRICH TAKES SOUTH CAROLINA

Newt Gingrich is the surprise winner of the South Carolina primary.

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Today is the feast of St. Agnes. She had her head cut off:

http://thewindowshowsitall.blogspot.com/2010/01/st-agnes-feast-dayjanuary-21.html

WEEK THREE

Dow up, weather started out bitterly cold, got warmer, then ended with snow. They say gas prices will go up soon. Got a free health club pass, will try to sauna.

A CHEERFUL SCENE

On a cold, grey day like this it's fun to fantasize that I'm starring in an Ingmar Bergman film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzz9WuUdfQM&feature=related

ST. SEBASTIAN

Today is his feast day. He was shot full of arrows, lived, and was then clubbed to death: http://catholicexchange.com/2012/01/20/96958

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I find it amusing when people address me as "dude" or "buddy." Especially other women.

PRIMARY COLLARS

Rick Perry says he's quitting his presidential campaign. He didn't like pigs much anyway: http://www.zootoo.com/petnews/primary-collars-pets-get-political-1922

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Waste of a perfectly good meatloaf: http://www.cakefarts.com/meatloaf

I was apparently very sheltered. I didn't realize there was cake farting, too.

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Wikipedia went offline for 24 hours to protest SOPA/PIPA. As Louisa May Alcott put it, I managed to exist.

A HASIDIC TALE

See http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/404895/jewish/The-Rabbi-and-the-Cow.htm

WHAT A CONCEPT!

www.rosaryworkout.com

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Temperatures have been down into the 30's this week. A bartender felt sorry for me walking around bare-legged so she says she's going to buy me some wooly tights.

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Today is Martin Luther King Day. If there is ever a day named after me I give people license to observe (or not observe) it however the fuck they like, as long as it's legal.

MAYBE THIS WILL KEEP ASSHOLES FROM STEALING MY FOOD:

See http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/gear/e72e

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January is National Thyroid Awareness Month: http://www.thyroidawarenessmonth.com

SATURDAY NIGHT VIDEOS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnRr1UwXZzA&feature=channel_video_title

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkIeHM2cm7A&feature=channel_video_title

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SljHO-b4YEs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIDPtL5qT9A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaFhB1fu31k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX4rM-tliuU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xSOuLky3n0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2wuhN-zYik

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-0GU4BzoKo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMs5BrFnR4k&feature=related

DO YOU KNOW THIS GOAT?

See http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/01/goat-found-wandering-in-linthicum-71410.html

I WILL PROBABLY NEVER FEEL THE SAME WAY ABOUT STARBUCKS BATHROOMS AGAIN

See http://abcnews.go.com/Health/sperm-donation-hot-spots-coffee-shops-hotel-rooms/story?id=15343381

NEED A RESUME DONE?:

See www.nightanddayresume.com

DC BEEKEEPING

I did not know people kept bees in DC. They scare me. The bees and the people: http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2011/12/january-beekeeping-class-filled.html

ST. BARBARA

Today is her feast day: http://catholicexchange.com/2012/01/14/96952

You can buy Santeria candles at Target in Columbia Heights.

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"Don't cuss like that. It ain't fuckin' nice."

I learned that at the Catholic girls' school I went to.

WEEK TWO

Dow down but still over 12 thousand, gas as low as $3.23/gallon at the Free State station on Rockville Pike. Weather pleasant earlier this weekend but a lot colder, blusterier now -- every time I try to enjoy it I get sick again.

ANOTHER UNHAPPY ANNNIVERSARY

30 years ago today an Air Florida plane hit the 14th St. Bridge. I was interning at DC 101 then. Three people were also killed on the Orange Line Metro. I was on the Orange Line when it happened, but going in the other direction.

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Friday the 13th falls three times this year.

UNHAPPY ANNIVERSARY

The Haitian earthquake was two years ago. One my students was there -- he said it sounded as though a bomb had gone off. One of my Brazilian students said Haiti was the saddest place he'd ever seen.

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Texting a married co-worker while reading an e-mail from a gay classmate. Almost as bad as L's sister hanging around with priests.

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Useful little animal, the cat. Ranks right up there with the sheep: http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/funny-pictures-your-cat-is-a-household-appliance.jpg

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How romantic "On the other side of a downward spiral. My love for you went viral:" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrWI-9GTHKM

Train

I HAD A DREAM

I tried to adopt a talking hamster and it said "what's the use?" "It won't work out. You'll forget about me. You won't take care of me."

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Relapse.

"PROGRESS, NOT PERFECTION"

Watched "Save Me" this weekend. Found it much more uplifting than "The Notebook." I try to tell myself I am making progress.

SATURDAY NIGHT VIDEOS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE1buGu7c3g&feature=channel_video_title

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJd6Mo5EULk&feature=channel_video_title

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laU6PfdgW44

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q_NYulGppY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysIzX_iDUKs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ7KMH4gq_A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr2siqaAY78

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLoM0wbFUjk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btie2bCbjpI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1g0RuiTfXU&feature=related

THE NOTEBOOK

Watched "The Notebook" with James Garner and Gena Rowlands. His body is going, her brain is going. A real downer. If nothing else, it gives me incentive to stay healthy. Six or seven years later would it have been called "the tablet?"

TODAY IS THE FEAST OF ST. RAYMOND OF PENAFORT

See http://catholicexchange.com/2012/01/07/96945

It is also Jim Bohannon's birthday.

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Please pray to St. Anthony or any Deity/intercessor of your choice , that I find my keys :(

WEEK ONE

Dow down, gas prices at $3.29/gallon at two stations on Lee Highway in Arlingotn and Rockville Pike. Weather srarted nice, got bitterly cold, nicer now. Bulking up on vitamins, immune boosters, antioxidants etc.

I FEEL LIKE THE CAT THAT SWALLOWED THE CANARY

Re-worked my resume, sent it to a resume service in New Hampshire.

R.I.P.

One of the British pig people lost a very beautiful pig, Mariella.

As trite as it sounds, it makes me more grateful for happy, healthy people and pigs.

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Today is the feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord: http://in-formatio.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Epiphany.jpg

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"Nefarious Times We Live In"

A quote from Woody Allen

ESTAMOS A MITAD DE SEMANA

Spanish word/phrase-a-day calendar from Mom. T said "you really seem to like page-a-day calendars."

She is right. You could buy me a bottle cap page-a-day calendar and I would be happy.

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600-Pound Butter Cow Sculpture Wins Iowa Caucus:

See http://www.theonion.com/articles/600pound-butter-cow-sculpture-wins-iowa-caucus,26941

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The coldest day all season. The media is making it into armageddon and the Occupy DC people are asking for blankets. Dumbasses.

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“Let’s pick a random year in the future to fuck with people’s heads.” - The Mayans

Brian Christopher Drury

MY NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION:

To be more conscientious.

I LOVE, I LOVE MY CALENDAR PIGS

Two of them appear in the 2012 Pets of Alexandria Calendar: http://awla.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=specialevents_contestcalendar

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Happy New Year!