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Tonight’s horoscope (from My Yahoo):

Other people’s feelings are not your responsibility. Don’t let their well-being become your life project. Focus on yourself, and to reestablish a healthy structure for your life.

I decided to import my most recent Greymatter entries from fiveandtwenty.com into my journal. I also imported my older Blogger entries from my other website, but I had to go through and do a lot of editing, removing references to my prior workplace and taking email addresses out so spam robots won’t find them. It’s quite a chore. Unfrotunately, there’s still about five months of posts that I’m missing.

As some of you know, I am contemplating moving far away from here. Maybe to the Baltimore area, maybe Washington, maybe Seattle.

So I took CNN’s Best Place To Live quiz which takes your preferences and matches you up with the most appropriate US location. It’s completely personalized and your detailed results, a listing of thirty cities, are unique for you.

So I took the quiz and it told me I should pack up all of my things and move…

… to New York. To quote my friend Charlie, “AAAAAAAUUUUGGGHHH!”

Yahoo is going to start charging for their POP and forwarding email services. This means that people who used Netscape Mail our Outlook Express or a similar program to check their Yahoo mail (like I do) will no longer be able to do that without paying. Apparently, checking your mail over the Yahoo Mail website will still be free.

The development of the Modern Hebrew Language (based on an ancient language that had been out of use for hundreds of years) destroyed the tradition of the Yiddish language. That’s almost as bad as the French government’s attempts to regulate their language.

Would it be fair if someone got paid five times as much as you to do the same job and to do it much worse? Well this guy gets paid maybe five times more than me to do simple tasks. (Check third to last paragrpah.)

To be fair, while my salary will undoubtedly go up, his will only go down… and he can’t actually DO anything with his money.

It’s been several months now that I’ve gone without fast food. I’m in the mood for something really bad for me from McDonald’s (or Mickey D’s as the kids call it these days).

In other news, my horoscope for the day is pretty uplifting:

When nighttime electrical lighting was new, it was the poor who burned common candles. When electricity became easily accessible and practically free, candles at dinner became a sign of luxury.

This New York Times article is an optimistic view about how new economy and technology are shaping the music industry, just like it has for the last 120 years.

Rejection Massively Reduces I.Q.

A new British study shows that rejection can dramatically reduce a person’s analytical reasoning and increase a person’s level of aggression.

The way I see it, when it comes to kids, two options to counteract this would be to eliminate as much as possible the chance of rejection or to find a way to teach kids to understand rejection and how to deal with it. Since rejection exists in adult life, it shouldn’t be taken out of children’s experience; they should be taught how to handle it without aggression.

The thing is, this study does not mention children at all. It does not go into detail about the ages of the subjects and only goes so far to say that they are “students.”

So, I saw Lewis Black at the Stress Factory in New Brunswick last night (see previous post). Josh was also there.

The opening acts weren’t too bad, actually. But Lewis was very funny; I haven’t laughed that much in a long time. It was a very, very nice feeling.

Earlier today I went apartment shopping. It seems like this is a ritual I go through every few months. Yet, I keep coming to the same conclusion, which is:

I CAN’T AFFORD TO LIVE HERE (by myself)

So apart of randomly choosing someone to live with off the internet (we have discovered this is not favorable), I really don’t have much of an option of staying in New Jersey. But I have to stay in New Jersey because I can’t afford to leave. Argh.

The job I get at the company where I’m temping will probably be some sort of administrative assistant type thing, which may not be enough to pay the bills with my outrageous car insurance… I just would like to have a job like Josh where I can use my brain and get paid well for my skills.