Pilot's Log

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of August 22, 2013

You've been pretty wild and uncontained lately, and that's OK. I've loved seeing how much permission you've given yourself to ramble free, experiment with the improbable, and risk being a fool. I suspect that history will judge a majority of your recent explorations as tonic. But now, Sagittarius, the tenor of the time is shifting. To continue being in alignment with your highest good, I believe you will have to rein in your wanderlust and start attending to the care and cultivation of your power spot. Can you find a way to enjoy taking on more responsibility?

If it paid, I might. I'm so good at waiting I didn't notice it was a whole MONTH since I applied at a job prospect and hadn't heard back. I don't know what I'm going to do about that.

Today, my mother set up a MySpace account for herself, and she expects me to help her with it.

She's already got a Blogspot account that she only posts to when I nag her about it. It's not like she gives herself plenty of time for social networking. Over the Internet, anyway.

FP

PS: Producers Are Money-Grubbing Scum.

Hey.

Well, the job interview went nowhere--as expected. You see, to sell insurance in Tennessee (and probably every state) you need to get a license from the state, which costs around $300 in examination fees and whatnot...assuming the applicant passes the test. I don't have $300 to "invest", and so my "no" vote was assured. Nothing against the company...I'm sure the insurance office manager was perplexed when I mentioned that I had never even gave much thought to insurance as a consumer, let alone a seller. (I don't handle that kind of business in my household and frankly I'm scared for my own lack of consumer savvy. I've applied myself in other arenas and while it hasn't exactly sustained me, I had hoped for better.)

I guess I'll surf Monster.com again tomorrow and see what appears.

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I don't drink, don't smoke and stay away from drugs for one main--and very personal--reason...I watched a friend get drunk once when I was a teenager and I didn't like what I saw at all. I think about this incident every time I hear in the news about a teenager who went to a party and came back home in a body bag--either through binge drinking or drunk driving accidents or outright violence. If we don't take responsibility for ourselves right away, we throw ourselves into the hands of evil and destroy ourselves--whether we realize it or not.

As for parents who let their kids drink, I think they should be held to account for not exercizing their authority. I don't advocate jail time, but things like restitution, group counseling, compulsory community service should be handed down to them. It is logical for our society to take action on this issue because anything that harms our pool of youth will eventually harm us as a nation.

(And if you use this argument on abortion, I argue back that unwed fathers in our society should also be held to account...too many of them ruin the lives of women through unwanted pregnancies and this is also a grave problem. I support a woman's right to choose simply because there are far worse things I can think of happening to our society if this right is taken away.)

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These days I try not to think about politics. I've tried to be apolitical but unfortunately the times do not support such an attitude. The more I think about politics the worse my thoughts get. Maybe I'll write more about this later...I'm just using this paragraph as a space marker.

FP