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Survive by the Sword Chapter Five
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Survive by the Sword Chapter Four
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Survive by the Sword Chapter Three
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Star Trek Voyager Season Three Rewritten
Star Trek: Voyager came at a very pivotal time in pop culture. The first two Treks and DS9 respectively only had your basic media coverage to spread the word. Magazines, news reels, Trek conventions full of devoted followers who probably knew more...
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Do-Gooders Destroying Our Freedom? A Response.
It was for me to use a phrase like "Do-Gooder". I feel like a much less intelligent mafia boss, or the wife of Harvey Keitel's character in Sister Act. "Hey, honey, there's do gooders on TV. We should send them money." Or, "I'll show dem two bit...
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6 Conversational Behaviors that Are Really Annoying
One of the staples of Asperger's syndrome is that we are supposed to have difficulties with social interaction. We take things too literally, or we have trouble reading common social cues. Or, more the point, that we have a hard time following the...
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Frozen Assets, Season One, Episode One.
The sudden echo of the shrill ring of the phone in this small space is the Achilles’ heel in an otherwise overachieving sandman. I rolled over and grabbed the Iphone from the nightstand, pressing the receive button before I spoke. “Who the...
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3 Film and TV Concepts That Would Be Better With One Minor Change
TV has probably been around for almost a quarter of a century. Movies have been around for a little longer than that. The technology changes, the standards rise or fall, and wherever you go the idea of what is and what isn’t acceptable is...
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Public Internet Access: South Burlington Community Library
540 Dorset Street South Burlington, VT 05403 (802) 652-7080 A typical road in Vermont, Dorset Street is a stretcher. And if you're walking you will come to appreciate sidewalks as this is one of the "safer" roads in this part of South...
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Public Internet Access: The Davis Center
The campus University of Vermont is located in Burlington, Vermont. Phone Number: (802) 656–INFO The Dudley H. Davis center is located to the far right of the campus and is one of the most recent and readily noticeable buildings on the campus....
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Public Internet Access: Fletcher Free Library
The Fletcher Free Library is located at: 235 College Street Burlington, Vermont 05401 Phone Number: 802-863-3403 Burlington, Vermont was where I lived for almost three years. Until I bought my now deceased laptop (RIP) the Fletcher Free...
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Public Internet Access: The Bennington Free Library
The Bennington Free Library is located at: 101 Silver Street Bennington, VT 05201 Phone Number: 802-442-9051 Welcome to Bennington, Vermont, the town I was born in. As hard as it was for me to grow up there, the library was always a place...
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Public Internet Access: The Salem Public Library
The Salem Public Library is located at: 370 Essex Street Salem, Massechusetts Phone Number: 978-744-0860 The library is located two blocks from the First Church of Salem. On November 1st, 2010, an episode of Lifetime's Fairy Job Mother was...
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Public Internet Etiquette
Am I missing any? Nope, I think I nailed all of the euphamisms and nicknames we've given the world's favorite communication tool. Though I'm sure there are more in languages and dialects that I can't speak, or will not live long enough to speak,...
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Workplace Survival Guide: Training Cashiers in the event of an Armed Robbery
Since people have been known to take things horribly out of context, let me clear something up: This is not encouraging people to take up robbery as a means to support themselves. Although robbers sometimes do have what could be considered...
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Your Workplace Survival Guide: Working The Night Shift
It’s funny how of all of the workplace related manuals and instruction books I’ve come across; I just haven’t seen one that tackles that precarious subject of the third shift. And I don’t understand why. Not telling someone how to...
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5 Reasons Why the End of Kate and Leopold Is in Fact Pretty Depressing
Kate and Leopold holds a special place in my heart. It’s a unique love story that’s well written, with a great cast of actors right down to the doorman, who only has one line. Director James Manigold (director of 3:10 to Yuma) is one of...
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Shows That Never Made It Past Season Two: #5 Animorphs
If you grew up in the 90's, you were likely reading Goosebumps and The Babysitter's Club. I, on the other hand, was reading Animorphs. A science fiction series about five kids engaged in a guerilla battle with an alien invasion force known as the...
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Shows That Never Made it Past Season Two: #6 Highlander: The Raven
The 90's in North America saw two major themes beginning to take root. The first theme was the phenomenon of spin-offs. Star Treks Deep Space Nine and Voyager came out in the 90's. Law and Order and CSI were experimenting with how many different...
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Nate Sean's Tarot School: The Hierophant
Number: 5 Class: Major Arcana A religious leader like a Pope or a Bishop. With the exception of decks that are exclusively femininist in nature, the figure is usually a man and like the Emperor, he may be sitting in a kind of throne. ...
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Shows That Never Made it Past Season Two. #7: War of the Worlds the Series
There's no denying that television has shaped our culture since it's inception. Like the Internet, almost everyone has a favorite TV show or two that they love. And like the Chuck Norris List, Literal Music Videos, and early MST3K style fanfictions,...
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Rifftrax: The Spirit of MST3K Lives On
Mystery Science 3000 is the show that everyone can relate to. For almost twelve years Joel, Mike and the bots sat with us through horrible movies and educational shorts, tearing them apart with a commentary that was more effective at curing...
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Tarot School Class Two: The Magician
The Magus/Magician Number: 1 Class: Major Arcana Characteristics: This card is most typically depicted as a person in a workshop or a classroom. There may be a cauldron, or a knife, or any numer of tools related to a trade or craft and it may...
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Tarot School Class One: The Fool
Number: 0 Class Major Arcana Characteristics: In many decks the Fool is represented by a single person standing at the beginning of a path. Typically they are looking out towards the distance, or they are all ready walking along. In the Dragon...
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Online TV: The Road to Fame and Fortune
For twenty years, the Internet has provided the savvy user with new avenues of income. Businesses could sell things over the computer; people could run mail-order companies out of their own homes. And web page designers could make a small...
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Where I Was
There are two wishes I would take back in a heartbeat if I could. One of them is the wish that I could have a "I remember where I was" moment. To this day there are very few events in my life that still feel like claws gouging at my heart...
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Tru Blood: A dream come true for a Healthier Energy Drink?
Ever since True Blood: Season One came out on DVD fans have wondered two things: Will I see anyone's boobs and will they come out with a Tru:Blood energy drink? Tru: Blood - for those of you who still like the idea of your vampires sparkling...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ The Blind Side
Hell has frozen over. I finally bought a new movie. But just any new movie, but a new movie with Sandra Bullock as the lead actress. For those of you who have followed my DVD review series, you may have noticed that most of the movies on...
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Nate's Guide to Vampires: Origins
I recently came to the conclusion that vampires are going to be money in the bank. With Eclipse on the way and Breaking Dawn no doubt a few months behind that one, the top search topic an all engines is no doubt going to be filled with vampire...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ Tristan + Isolde
Before Lancelot and Guinivere, before Romeo and Juliet and before Moonlight and Annapolis there was *Cue flaming sign effect, fwoosh* Tristan and Isolde. Tristan and Isolde tells the story of, not too surprisingly, a man named Tristan from...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ Edward Scissorhands
Ah, I love a Tax Free day. In Vermont there's one day out of every year where select stores (major retailers for the most part but there's a few small business that cater to the idea) waive sales tax. Of course if you want to go shopping and...
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A Visit From Chelsea Clinton Becomes the Perfect Metaphor
Sometime before the election, I was living in Burlington and currently an employee of the Rite Aid Pharmacy. One afternoon we had a slew of customers rushing to buy disposable cameras and/or get film developed. Much to my surprise, it...
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A Victory For All of Us: Or My Tribute to Andrea Fay Friedman
You can Google her name and find about a dozen articles about recent events. Wikipedia even made mention of the incident which will no doubt go into the history books right after Janet Jackson's “Wardrobe Malfunction”. So I won't take the easy...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ The Ex (Unrated)
New father and recently unemployed Tom Reilly (Zach Braff) makes the move from New York to Ohio to take his father-in-law up on a job offer. Also working at the “Sunburst” advertising company is his wife's ex, Chip, a paralyzed man played...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ Legally Blonde 2
After conquering Harvard and making waves at her job in Boston's top law firm, Elle Woods is now planning the wedding of a lifetime to Emmet Richmond on the home plate of Fenway Park: the heartthrob from the first film played by Luke Wilson,...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ Family Guy Volume 1
This is where it all began. This is where creator Seth Macfarlane started what would become a cultural icon in the early twenty-first century. Although the original concept of Family Guy, which began as two animated films entitled The Life of...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ Pinky and the Brain
Pinky: Gee Nate, what are we going to do tonight? Nate: The same thing we do every night Pinky. Try to make money off of my hubs. They're Pinky and NateSean Yes Pinky and NateSean One's a single gay dude The other's hand...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ Animaniacs
It's time for Animaniacs And we're zany to the max In the tradition of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and of course the much more recent vintage Tiny Toons comes Animaniacs. Following the exploits of Yakko and Wacko, the “Warner Brothers”...
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The Other Side of the Counter ~ It's No Good
A: Take the suggestion? B: Stare at the cashier and the Service Desk clerk who gave it to you like a gormless twit? If you chose "A" then congratulations. You are a functional human being. A woman comes through my line. About two customers back...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ Buffy The Vampire Slayer (The Movie)
Before Joss Whedon ever envisioned a seven season show along with a spin-off series, comic books, merchandising and scores of fans with a borderline cult mentality, he was just a regular writer with a brilliant idea: What if that beautiful...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ Chuck Season One
It's time for something a little different. This time I have not watched season 1 of a series I own currently, but of something my roommate bought fairly recently. Now I'd seen one episode of this show as it was on TV at a Junior's Pizza Place...
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Video Evidence For The Vermont Spirit Detective Agency
I went on my first investigation with the Vermont Spirit Detective Agency in April of 2009. But before I came along they were all ready well established as a paranormal group for the North Eastern Kingdom. On June 12, 2008, Matt and Gloria our...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ Twilight
Bella Swan is the new girl in the small town of Forks, Washington. At first it seems she traded the warm paradise of Phoenix, Arizona for a cold and dreary backwater town on the back end of the US until she meets Edward Cullen. When the...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ Legally Blonde
When sorority president and fashion design major Elle Woods is dumped by her boyfriend before he goes off to law school, Elle decides that the only way to win him over is to matriculate to Harvard Law. But when it turns out that Werner sees...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ Godzilla (1998)
With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound He pulls High tension wires down Helpless People on Subway Trains Scream, Bug-Eyed as he looks in on them He Picks up a Bus and he Throws it Back Down As he wades through the...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ K-PAX
“I would like to begin by asking if you know why you are here.” “Of course, you think I'm crazy.” “I prefer the term ill. Do you believe you are ill?” “A little homesick perhaps.” “Where is home?” “K-PAX.” ...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ Kingdom of Heaven
Following the tragic suicide of his wife and seeking to relieve her place in Heaven, Balion follows his father, Godfrey of Ibelin to Jerusalem. When his father is killed along the way, Balion must take up the mantel of Baron and protect his...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ True Blood The Complete First Season
Two years after vampires finally “came out of the coffin” the fictional Louisiana town of Bon Temps has it's very first vampire citizen in former Southern Confederate soldier Bill Compton. Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress at Sam Merlotte's...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ The Love that Dare Not Speak It's Name
A century from now when grave robbers stumble upon the unmarked tomb that signals the scraggly plot of land behind the nearest Taco Bell that I could afford to have my rotting corpse buried near, they will find two unique things in my coffin. Well,...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ Kill Bill Volume 2
After scratching off two names on her list, The Bride is now on her way to finish off Budd (Michael Madsen) and Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) AKA Sidewinder and California Mountain Snake before moving on to the final showdown her biggest quarry....
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ Kill Bill Volume 1
Uma Thurman is The Bride AKA, Black Mamba. A former assassin cut down during a wedding rehearsal by the father of her baby and the title character, Bill-played by the late, great, and sadly missed David Carradine. Four years later, after...
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Nate's DVD Collection: Mystery Science Theater 3000 Volume 3
There is a special level of hell for people who talk in the theater, Shepard Book of Firefly Mystery Science Theater 3000 (known on-line as MST3K)is one of those shows that anyone can relate to. If you've ever made a comment at...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ Dog The Bounty Hunter, (Series) The Best of Seasons 1, 2, and 3 and The Wedding Special
This A&E reality show follows Duane “Dog” Chapman and family as they go after bail jumpers, wife beaters, drug dealers and the worse criminals the states of Hawaii and Colorado can throw at them. Misleading informants, impossible...
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Nate's DVD Collection Forever Knight Season One
In 1989 a television movie entitled Nick Knight was released on CBS starring Rick Springfield as Nicholas Knight and John Kapelos as detective Don Schanke. Later in 1992 the location moved from Los Angeles to Toronto, Canada and Rick...
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Nate's DVD Collection Ghost Hunters Season Three: Parts One and Two
“If you call TAPS to investigate claims of paranormal activity and we take your case, we won't charge you a dime.” Grant Wilson, co-founder of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS) and the co-host of Ghost Hunters sets the tone for Season...
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Nate's DVD Collection Ghost Hunters Season 4 Parts One and Two
The TAPS team is invited to investigate Wright-Patterson Airforce Base in Ohio, then it's off to Gettysburg and into areas where no investigator has ever set foot. The TAPS team is more solid now with none of the bumps and fumbles that set the...
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Nate's DVD Collection: Ghost Hunters, Season 2: Parts One and Two
Jason, Grant and the TAPS team are back for another season of seeking out full-bodied apparitions, electric voice phenomenon, and evidence of the paranormal in people's homes, businesses and famous historical sites. This time they've...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ Highlander: The Raven
In the later half of the 90's, shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and La Femme Nikita were becoming money in the bank as strong female leads were being demanded. Adrian Paul, of Highlander wanted to branch away from a show about immortal...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ Family Guy: Star Wars Two Disc Set
It's Star Wars, Family Guy style. After several seasons of Star Wars cutaways and gags, the people who hold the reigns on Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane were concerned that George Lucas would eventually sue 20th Century Fox if he didn't...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ Stargate SG-1: Season 1
Stargate SG-1 was based on the hit movie starring Kurt Russel and David Spader. Taking over for Russel's character is MacGyver veteran Richard Dean Anderson and David Spader's Daniel Jackson is handed over to Michael Shanks. Also in the cast are...
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Nate's DVD Collection ~ Ghost Hunters Season 1
Ghost Hunters is the hit Sci-Fi reality show that follows the Rhode Island based paranormal research group, The Atlantic Paranormal Society, or TAPS. Season 1 is a three disc set, which includes twenty-two episodes that introduce us to...
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Web Comics: The Road to Fame and Fortune
Go to any forum of your choosing and post this topic in the general discussions section: Your Favorite Web comic. Almost everyone who replies will either have a favorite web comic or an opinion about web comics. Some may post links. Others...
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Nate's Workplace Survival Guide Quitting and Terminations
Getting fired from a job is never easy, especially in (say it with me now) this bad economy. You have to deal with the uncertainty of finding another job. The stigma that comes with how you explain this termination. The loss of income as you...
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Vampyrs Anonymous Chapter Eight
“You believed that?” “I believe Balki is telling me the truth,” Barnard said. “Certainly no business owner wants the pall of death hanging over their heads, even if it was ruled a suicide. But I also believe that he was...
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Roommate Survival
As the oldest of six it's hard to imagine a length of time where I did not share a living space with someone. I grew up with my brothers, I lived with my mother when she went solo, I went to college and Job Corps and I've rented rooms just...
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Chess Club Stories: Saying Good-Bye and Promising to Return
“Wow, I didn't think you'd be back!” Billy said as he entered the room. It was two weeks later. Billy got suspended the previous week so I didn't get to see him, but I was glad that I at least got to see him now on my last weekend before going...
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Surviving the Streets Third Time's the Charm
In this tough economy we all have to consider the kinds of sacrifices we're willing to make. Like shopping for clothes at a thrift store instead of a major retailer, or buying a cheaper brand of coffee over your usual Maxwell House. ...
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Nate's Workplace Survival Guide: Dishonesty in the Work Place and You
Is dishonesty in the work place ever acceptable? Are little white lies as bad as blatant ones? Does telling the truth always get you where you need to go or have there been times when keeping your mouth shut and letting something slide was the best...
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Nate's Work Place Survival Guide: Jerks and Morons in Management
When you're at the bottom of the totem pole you answer to many people. Even the owner of a store can't be there every day so you may have a direct supervisor or an assistant manager running things while you're away. We've been over the concept of...
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Nate's Work Place Survival Guide Coworkers and Ants
You may recall the last article in which I compared coworkers and bosses to a colony of ants. This is the most appropriate comparison I can come up with because like many of the coworkers and bosses I've had in my life, I absolutely hate ants....
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Nate's Work Place Survival Guide: Above and Beyond Or The Bare Minimum?
In most jobs going above and beyond is not only a good thing, it's generally required if you want to get anywhere. But what if you have more than one job? What if the job you've currently landed is just a stop gap? A bread and butter...
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The Session
Alice went up and down the hallways clicking off lights just as I was getting ready for my six o’clock appointment. Although the rest of the clinic closed at half past five, this particular client was only privy to me in the seasonably early...
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Nate's Work Place Survival Guide Who is Who and Which is Which?
Unless you land a job as the only secretary of a private investigator or some other proprietor, you will have coworkers. The hierarchy of each place you work is as different from one another as a hive of bees from a colony of ants. But the...
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Nate's Workplace Survival Guide: 90 Days Guaranteed Or You're Gone
The ninety day trial period is a time wrought with dread. At least if you're actually concerned with keeping your job. For others it's a “seasonal” position. (We'll go over this and other ways to pad your application and resume without...
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Nate's Work Place Survival Guide: The Intro and The Interview
I know what you're thinking. Why should I read yet another cut-and-paste how-to guide on how to get and keep a job? What makes this one different from millionth xeroxed copy of a hand out that was written in 1987 for a group of recovering drug...
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Two Types of Gay Person I Can't Stand
There are basically two types of closet homosexual that I can't stand. And this is not to say that I condemn a person for his life choices. I do however have a problem when those life choices lead to condemning someone or harming them...
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The Other Side of the Counter: The Check/Debit Card remix
Do you ever get the feeling that you're expected to be responsible for something that every other employee said whether you were there or not? "But the other girl who was working here told me this." I don't care, I'm not the "other" girl, nor...
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Vampyrs Anonymous Chapter Seven
6:30 AM, that morning Barnard was not an advocate of using alcohol to solve a man's problems, but in this case alcohol did solve the problem of how to keep James from resisting as he helped him settle in for the night. A vampire's...
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Vampyrs Anonymous Chapter Six
Guitar strings. A soft, classical melody, clean and clear like from a CD player or a computer. There was no voice, just the instruments. The darkness was comforting and the music helped James disconnect the pain as a firm but gentle hand...
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Pet Peeves of a Tarot Reader Part Four
Let me first start off by explaining that I do not work at a shop that specializes in tarot readings. What I do is, according to the standards of Church Street Marketplace, a performance. Because there is no actual product to sell. Because of...
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Pet Peeves of a Tarot Reader Part Three
I love kids. Don't get me wrong. But I make it really clear to teenagers that I can't do readings for them unless they're 18 or over, or have an adult guardian present who can give them permission. It's a no brainer, I don't want to get sued or...
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Vampyrs Anonymous Chapter Five
South Street station was a zoo even minutes before closing. The kiosks and restaurants were closed for business by now but there were still travelers from the trains on their way outside and catching cabs or limos. People talked on their...
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The Last Time We Spoke
The last thing you say to someone could be the last you say...
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Watch Where You Go
Watch Where you Go By Nathanielle Sean Crawford Considering it had been freezing on and off during the last few weeks, the warm spring breeze was a somewhat pleasant change. Still, the bees and the mosquitoes and the host of other biting...
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Vampyrs Anonymous Chapter Four
“So, I saw you making friends with the Outsider.” Felicity laughed. She coiled up the cord for the microphone before stuffing into the case. Eve's Garden closed half an hour ago and Eve, the owner, told them to take their time packing...
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Customer Service From the Other Side of the Counter Part Four
The electronics department at J Mart got slammed last night. Not a bad thing when there's nothing to do but I was also working on a planogram that needed to be finished. How long are you going to stand at the counter before you realize I don't...
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Inverted Swords, Eight of Pentacles and Love in Relationships: Sample Tarot Readings From the Tarot Forum
All right. (I have edited out their screennames for privacy.) Note that I am using the Robin Wood Deck. Focusing on your energy I shuffled the cards and have drawn three. The Past Card focuses on the earliest influences over the situation. For...
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The Other Side of The Counter Coirkers and Their Ways
There are two kinds of new employee I love. The kind that listens to my pearls of wisdom as, although I have not been there as long as Erma and have in fact, only one year and a half under my belt, I do know just a little bit more about the...
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VampyrsAnonChapterThree
1929 Manhattan, New York Books flew out of the satchel as it hit the ground. James sucked in his breath and threw his arms out before his face slammed into the concrete. He rolled himself into a ball as Billy and his friends started...
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Chess Club Stories Part One
In 2001 I went to Lyndon State college for a year. During winter break I had the opportunity to visit the old middle school where I attended the seventh and eighth grades. When I was a student it was hell. I had some difficulties that led to me...
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Burlington, Vermont Insomnia Theater
I worked at Rite Aid in Burlington, Vermont for nearly two and a half years. During the last six or seven months we had the weekly inventory truck on Tuesday night. In order to prepare for Tuesday night I would stay awake on Monday and sleep...
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Vampyrs Anonymous Chapter Two Rewrite
James showed his ID to the bouncer at the door and took a glance around the bar. It was well lit and the atmosphere vibrant but comfortable. The walls were painted in earthy green tones with brown support beams that gave the pub an Old World,...
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What Not To Do After Donating or Giving Blood
First hand experience for you first time blood donors.
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VampAnonTheRewrite
At first the rain was soothing as it came down in sheets with claps of thunder acting underscoring the rhythm as it shook frosted glass windows of the old factory. But around six-thirty the rain began to taper off going from soothing to...
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Generations Day Care Part Ten: A Sad Ending
One of the hardest lessons a kid learns at his first job is that nine times out of ten, the people signing your paycheck don't give a rat's ass about what you want. Such was the case with the Summer Youth Employment Program, who signed the paychecks...
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Generations Day Care Part Eight: The Etch-a-Sketch Castle
I remember the names of each child. They all had their unique personalities and I respected and admired them all. Although the boys got a lot of benefit from my presence I like to believe I made as strong of an impression on the girls. Girls need...
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Generations Day Care Part Six: The Field Trip
Every Thursday we went on a field trip. Lunch at McDonald's, free movies at the theater, and when you live in Bennington, Vermont no summer camp or school year would be complete without a trip to the Bennington Battle Monument. At the time we had...
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Generations Day Care Part Five The Balance
It was another Wednesday and we had just gotten out of the pool. By now the kids were mostly use to me and the rec center routine was much smoother. But we had a new boy and his temper was anything but routine or smooth. "You two guys go wait...
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Generations Day Care: Gifts and Reflections
The Summer Youth Employment Program was coming to an end in less than two weeks. With the school year also looming in the distance Catamount Elementary needed to have the cafeteria cleared out and ready before the summer ended. So the Generations...
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Generations Day Care Part Seven: Trust
The best gift any adult can give a teenager is trust. Even more valued than praise, when an adult trusts a kid enough to let him do a job that you might not let a sixteen year-old do you give him the sense that he is truly ready for the adult world....
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Video Tarot Readings
When you make the desicion to try to make a living from your tarot readings it's important to use every resource at your disposal. Today's technology and the availability of such websites as Youtube and tarotforum.net allows the average joe to...
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Generations Day Care Part Four: Hurt Feelings and Bandages
There was never a dull moment at Generations summer camp. One of the oddest feelings was going back to my old elementary school, Catamount. Since we were located in the cafeteria I couldn't help but remember the lunches I had here and the people I...
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Generations Day Care Part Three: UNO and Legos
At the end of each day at the summer camp, Sarah would go back to the main office bringing the cooler full of snacks with her and taking care of paperwork and other important loose ends before she went home for the day. Amanda and I stayed with...
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Generations Day Care Part Two: The First Day
Sarah was my supervisor and Amanda was an assistant like me. The very first day of my summer job, we were going to the rec center to go swimming. My main responsibility was to go into the men's locker room with the boys, a place the women obviously...
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Generations Day Care Chapter One: My Feelings
Chapter One of a ten part series.
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Vampyrs Anonymous Chapter Two
CHAPTER TWO James took a cautionary glance around the street as he left the alley. No one had seen him exit or leave. Without thinking James found himself entering Eve’s Garden. He showed his ID to the bouncer at the door and took a look...
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Vampyrs Anonymous Chapter One
At first the rain was soothing. With claps of thunder periodically underscoring the rhythm as it beat against the frosted glass windows. But around six-thirty the rain started to taper off, going from soothing to extremely annoying as water from the...
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Drake's Sword Part Six
City 5 was a lot different from the ground, especially when you had the freedom to go anywhere. Drake had no problem keeping the Town Center in sight, since it was one of the five tallest buildings he had seen so far. The others were two or three...
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Drake's Sword Part Five
“I swear that stuff smells worse than a sewage drain in its purist form,” Drake complained. It was a few hours later, and Drake, Sherry, Trinity and Raymond were sitting at a table in Cafeteria Three. Lab assistants, orderlies and people...
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Drake's Sword Part Four
Meet Trinity
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Drake's Sword Part Three
“Come on.” Sherry motioned for Raymond and Drake to go ahead of her while she sprayed the ground a few times before spraying the bridge step by step. The Cheron Bridge was a flat wooden walkway with metal guardrails on the side. It was...
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Drake's Sword Part Two
Drake is forced to make a tough decision when they run into Sherry, a girl from the city.
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Drake's Sword Part One
Exiled from Earth, tough talking New Yorker Drake and a school boy from England are forced to make a break for what they hope is a safe haven.
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My Perspective: Forced Friendship
One of my biggest pet peeves growing up was people assuming I needed their help. If I was sitting at lunch alone, well meaning (and I use the term loosely) teachers would ask me if I wanted them to introduce me to other students. ...
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If You Ever Doubt
If you ever doubt that your guardians are watching over you...
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Pet Peeves of a Tarot Reader
More specifically it was a dream that I was at my table on Church Street doing tarot readings. Once upon a time if you were to walk down Church Street you can see my large easel holding the sign "The Tarot Club" with me sitting in a metal...
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Paranormal Investigation 101
Tips on various aspects of paranormal investigation.
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Customer Service From the Other Side of the Counter Part Two
To those of you who say that customer service is failing in this country...do you ever stop and think that the person on the other side of the counter is human too? The following is a small series of stories from my own years in retail dealing with difficult customers. Don't like it? Guess...
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Customer Service From the Other Side of the Counter
So, you think people who work in customer service are their to lick your behinds? You say customer service is on the decline but you never take into account how you treat people behind the counter, do you? Here are some tales of my own customer service experiences. You may agree. You may...
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Personal Miracles
Big grandiose miracles make the papers every day and are at the very best subject to a lot of speculation and skepticsm. This hub is dedicated to those personal miracles that happen in our own lives that affirm our beliefs. It doesn't matter if other people believe in them or not, they happened...
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The Rest of Us: Paranormal Investigators Who Aren't on TV
When people think of paranormal investigation usually Ghost Hunters or Paranormal State come to mind. But what about those of us whose fame in the media is confined to the local news? These are chronicles of my own paranormal investigations with the Vermont Spirit Detective Agency.