Day Thirty-One

Nauru Awareness Day! Nauru is a tiny island all alone in the middle of the Pacific. Today let them know they're not completely forgotten by sending the President a friendly postcard at Office of the President, c/o Ministry of Works, Yaren, Nauru.

Dear Mr. President,

Greetings to you in Nauru from the United States! I am writing to you to pass on the information that I am aware of your existence, and today I am celebrating that awareness. I look forward to celebrating your 41st Independence Day on January 31. I plan taking the day off work.

Sincerely,
Jami

Day Fourteen

A day of compliments. Flatter someone today and see if it does indeed get you anywhere.

"Gee, that sure is a splendid mustache comb."

"Your dress makes me want to puke...in a good way!"

"You certainly are as sweet as something that is tremendously sweet."

Day Eleven

Today, introduce yourself to someone you know but never speak to.

The transcript of this conversation between me and a woman from the office next door, as it occured in the copy room in the afternoon.

Me: Hello, I'm Jami.
Her: Hi.
Me: Making copies, huh?
Her: Yes.
Me: How's that working out for you?
Her: What?
Me: The copies.
Her: What about it?
Me: It never stops.
Her: What?
Me: Work. What if it did?
Her: Well, I suppose that would be pretty bad...(starting to back away)
Me: As bad as madcow?
Her: What are you talking about?
Me: Work. Madcow disease.
Her: Okay, I'm going to leave.
Me: But you didn't answer my question.
Her: What was that?
Me: How's that working out for you?
Her: What!?
Me: The copies.
Her: Fine. (Turns and walks away)
Me: Glad to hear it.

behold THE LIST!

* I’m 24 years old and my birthday is on December 19th.
* I share the same birthday as Alyssa Milano, Jennifer Beals, and Jake Gyllenhaal.
* I can get pretty bitter over how my birthday gets lost in the holiday season.
* I’m the youngest child with a older sister and an older brother.
* Being the youngest has warped my persona. I’m extremely spoiled and I always get what I want!
* I love to create art. Sadly I haven’t figured out how to that passion it properly to make money.
* My dream job would be to be the owner of a dessert shop. I’d spend my downtime sampling the inventory and painting.
* I still haven’t decided what I want to do with my life.
* At one point I wanted to be an teacher. One semester of student teaching and observing the third grade made me realize I would never survive in an enviroment made to stifle kid’s imaginations.
* During my younger, “I Like school” days, I wanted to do something with math. I interned with an accountant for a few months after school. I realized I could never do that!
* If I could live in any time period, I would travel back to the late ’50s, early ’60s and live a Beatnik, Tiki-cultured existence.
* I’ve gone by many nicknames in my life: James, Jame, J, Shoe-ie, Piglet, AJ (just to name a few).
* In order to set myself apart from the crowd, I intentionally go against "the grain".
* For some reason people have a hard time with my name. After they see it, they seem to want to insist I wrote/said it wrong. They continue the conversation calling me Jammie (as in pajamas).
* I have an unhealthy obsession with baseball.
* I have an even more unhealthy obsession with baseball players.
* Even though on the most basic terms, I am a Christian I find that I have no where near the same principles as other people that use the same label. That fact scares me. I really don’t know what book these people are reading sometimes.
* My Music taste is pretty ecletic. I’ve asked my friends to describe what I listen to and they classify it as, “Wacky Crap”. Take from that what you will.
* This List is only a brief smattering of facts, and I’m actually happy that I can’t break down every aspect of my life into bullet points!

"Darth Vader" spared jail in Jedi church attacks

In a recent story from MSNBC, a man calling him self "Darth Vader" attacks a "church" of Jedis.
Here are a few of my favorite lines from the story:

"A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of a group calling itself the Jedi church."

"He also whacked Jones' 18-year-old cousin, Michael Jones — known as Master Mormi Hehol — bruising his thigh in the March 25 incident, prosecutors said."

"Unfortunately for Hughes, his March attack was recorded on a video camera that the cousins had set up to film themselves in a light saber battle."

"Hughes claimed he couldn't remember the incident, having drunk the better part of a 2 1/2-gallon box of wine beforehand."

Read the full story here.

i knew there was something not quite right about him....

and i do!...