Non-job, Non-readers, non-Junk, & motorcyclists

[skreidle]

Well, that's a nice surprise--in addition to the two or three emails I've gotten from VAemploy.com reminding me to file weekly, I just got a phone call from a woman making sure I'd gotten my PIN, as I hadn't filed yet, and informing me that they'd received my separation info from RDR and that I was eligible for two weeks already.

I also replied to the email from the Telos/Xacta woman before going to sleep last night--expressing a tentative interest in a "physical security at the Pentagon" position. Still not in my field, but if it's all I can get at the moment..

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In really sad news from reabhecc, Half of US shuns literature.

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I realized that my email program's Junk folder had gotten mis-sorted, resulting in me missing several pieces of non-Junk, which I summarily saved.

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I have a riding club! I sent in an application to join the Southern Cruisers Riding Club, Fairfax chapter last week sometime, and got a reply today. Checking the site and forum, it seems like a good, friendly bunch of people. :)

Comments

[xanthamarioff.livejournal.com]

There are actually people who don't read books? Not even one, in a whole year? How do they manage to do it? I can't imagine... It's -very- rare for me to go more than a month without reading a book through. In a good month, I go through at least five or six. Then again, my own parents used to not read for fun, and even now they're only sporadic at it.

Still, the notion that over half the population just doesn't read... I don't want to believe it.

[bluekitsune.livejournal.com]

psst... wrong sister. ;)

[weeping-angel.livejournal.com]

I worked in a (couple of) bookstores. This is unsuprising. Most of the teenagers that came in were looking for clif notes. When I suggested they "read the actual book, the responces varied from blank stares to outright hostility toward the idea. go figure. Most people would rather have their entertainment spoon-fed to them.

I heard a statistic once that it's like 5% of america that keeps the bookstores open. It always made me angry, that so many people are openly hostile to the idea of reading.