Off! the Top of My Head

Tuesday, September 9, 2003

Good morning kids, it's that time for your monthly dose of confessional stylings by yours truly. It has been a long month and it has taken a short time to get there. It's almost September as I sit and write this and I'm struck with an odd sense of time disruption. Mainly because it seems like last week I was sitting on my friend Ron's couch swimming in a sea of despair and depression. (Rather stereotypically poetic, eh?) Anywho, it has taken me about five re-writes to get to this article so bare with me. So, this topically enhanced treatment of the month speaks on a general frustration of the masses. Work, or for some, the lack there of, and how it can suck the life from your very soul! (Sorry, last tragic poet line, I promise)

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