what i did on my summer vacation

By Todd Stadler · Tuesday, September 4, 2001 5:59pm

I haven't been writing a lot lately, and I'm not entirely sure why.

Maybe it's that I recently found out that the parents of my beloved girlfriend learned of the location of this website. Mind you, it's not exactly hard to find this site, as much as I, uh, tried to hide it and all. It's just that I don't expect anyone, er, adult-like to read it.

I mean, to my knowledge my parents never do. At least, they never call me up and say, "Todd, we read your recently posted liberal claptrap on that thing you call a web site. Please take it down and apologize to your father and I for not being a Republican."

Or maybe I haven't been writing much because nothing's been happening.

Which is a lie. After all, I'm moving to a new house in downtown Portland in two weeks. I just don't have any funny packing stories.

I've also been taking job-finding classes at Intel's Career Resource Center. While I'm sure that much of what I've learned will help me find a new job, it's hard to get past the strange rah-rah psychology that this center embodies. One guy told me that it was "a scientific fact" that thoughts are actual things that can affect the physical world around us. The same guy also would have me believe that "language" is a verb, as in "we'll help you to language that better." Right.

So I compensate for this lack of journal fodder by creating a journal entry by force, writing about how little to write about. And voila, I have something to write about. How about that.