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Journal Em Emalb's Journal: Who is Em 47

Journal by Em Emalb

Here. All out in the open....ala Sam and Some Woman. Does this make me a Johnny come lately?

I live in Atlanta. I'm 28, going on 29 in a couple months.

I like a lot of different types of music. Currently I am listening to Outkast's first CD (yeah, so what?), Linkin Park, 3EB, Carlos Santana, Metallica Ride the Lightning, (take a look to the sky...just before you die. It's the last time you will! drums rock on that song, I like the way it seems to progress) and several others. I have in my collection everything from Gwar to Led Zeppelin to Mark Chestnut to Tupac. Yeah. It's like that. Got a problem?

I did a 5 year stint in the Marine Corps. While I know the military isn't for everyone, it should be. (Well, barring health reasons) I think that Conscientious Objectors should be kicked out of the military--I guess a General discharge would work) immediately upon the revelation of them being a CO. It wasn't always a good time, but the memories are mostly good.

I love movies. I hate watching formulaic crap. I love toilet humor. I love slap stick. Most Monty Python humor isn't all that funny. Mike Meyers is trying too hard. Jim Carrey was, but seems to better now.

I love to make people laugh. I'd rather be funny than sexy.

I get hit on by large women. Don't know why.

I'm a nice guy. But if I don't know you, I don't trust you.

I'm too old to be worried about what someone I don't know thinks about me. I still occassionally do it anyway.

I am in love. Never had been before, all the other stuff was intense like.

I got a kick out of Sam making a page out of my quotes. It was a great compliment, and I need to return the favor.

I think George and I would butt heads IRL, but we'd be friends.

I'd like to kick it one day with Mekkab. I got a feeling that dude is straight up the way he is off the net too.

Ah hell, I'd like to hang out with all of yas. But I doubt I ever will. I don't want to ruin the way it is, ya know?

I'm an asshole.

I'm very very tired of asshole drivers, fast food order takers, waiting in lines, and watching older people get taken advantage of by their kids.

I love the ocean more than the mountains. But I'll take a good river over the ocean any day.

I have great hand-eye and foot-eye coordination.

I don't really give two shits about linux, freeware, the hacker community, or this website. I'm here because I was bored and found the journals. I started to write in a journal and have managed to keep it going. You guys and gals are the reason I am still here.

If no one read and responded, I'd be gone in a week.

I'm getting fat and lazy. I've put on prolly 20 lbs of gut in the past year.

I hate to run, but am extremely good at. My personal best for a 3 mile run is 16:20. That's legit, too. I once ran 9 miles in 56 minutes too. That was unofficial, but I stand by it. I've run 25 miles before. Sucked, and I developed shin splints from it. Ah well. I'm the white boy the brothers picked to play pick up basketball with.

I am not a musician. I do pick up lyrics extremely quickly though. I sing pretty well, but you'll never hear me. I was the lead in a musical in middle school.

I live below my means. I hope I always will.

I like things. I have a lot of crap, but I want more.

I don't give a damn about politics. I figure at the national level each and everyone of the bastards don't have my interests in mind because I don't give them enough money.

I am pro-choice. Not anti-abortion, just don't think it's my place to tell a woman what to do with her kid.

I'm pro-gun. I only have 1 in my house. It stays in the bed room, and I'll blast your ass to the stone age. Guns don't kill people, I kill people. (Assuming they are trying to break into my house)

I'm not politically correct in nature, but I play the game well.

If we are all lost in the woods together, I'm going to end up leading us out. I don't plan it that way, it just happens. Don't know exactly what that means though.

Anything else you wanna know?

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  • The worst is wehn you are trying to be sexy and it comes out funny.
  • What, exactly, where you doing late last night with the squirrels? News travels fast in the rodent circles.
  • Mekkab, aftering only talking to him for about 10 minutes IRL, I can say he is all that and then some. A good egg, that one.

    • ya know, every time I see your sig it makes me wonder.

      What would it be like to swim in Em? ;)

      Weird mood today folks. Try the veal. I'll be here til thursday.
      • uhm. ahhhhh, hmmmmm. Lesse...
        Swimming in Em. I guess that would entail being bathed in golden lager, whilst holding a shotgun and a roast beef sandwich, shouting "I'm the king of Hotlanta!" and wearing a cap that says "Marines keep your sorry ass free, so give me a dollar. I'll pay you back."

        "Swimming in Em" is not to be taken literally...
        If it were, I'd being having nightmares right about now (I guess that makes them "daymares"? Horses in the day?)
      • ya know, every time I see your sig it makes me wonder.

        LOL! That's okay... everytime I quote a message I wrap it in <em></em> tags... and it always makes me think "wow, how cool would it be to have a HTML tag named after me!"

  • I don't give a damn about politics. I figure at the national level each and everyone of the bastards don't have my interests in mind because I don't give them enough money.
    The people who do give the bastards enough money, are delighted that the current arrangement results in you not giving a damn.
  • Are you a picky eater or you like it all?
    • I am not a picky eater per se.

      I love Mexican, Italian, good ole American, and have tried tons of different foods.

      I do not eat any Asian cuisine.

      I was basically forced to eat Asian food for 6 months straight and just won't do it anymore. Although a good Japanese Steak house sounds good occasionally.

      Anyhow, that's pretty much it.

      Are there any other individual foods I refuse to eat? Yep. I don't eat liver or giblets or any of the actual organs of animals.

      How about you?
      • I like it all. I never had a birthday party at my house on my birthday. Why? Cause my mom always made my favorite dish for dinner on my birthday. Liver and onions (still love it if its made right).

        I'm looking forward to Christmas Eve for our annual "Feast of the Seven Fish" where we have a tomato based squid soup, and anchovie pasta (which I wrote the recipe in an old JE of mine).

        I love all kinda foods. Had "Pickled Pigs Feet" as a kid, can eat almost anything, and will ALWAYS try something at leas
      • I can't get enough Asian cuisine. Quel surprise! If it's not Asian, then the food seems to be unhealthy. I'll still eat it. As for the unusual stuff like chicken feet, I tend to stay away from them, except for chicken feet. That's about the most exotic food that I can imagine eating.

        I try not to be picky eater.

        I'd love to do a journal entry like you just did, but I don't think that there will be anything new. I think that the regular readers already know mostly everything about me.
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  • Not some girly little 9mm or anything like that, right?
    • AR-15.

      Well, it's the only gun in my house. Not mine, though.
    • actually, yeah, a girly gun.

      9mm. I used to have a .357Mag. I was afraid if someone ever did get in the house and I had to defend myself I'd end up killing the neighbors across the street. Plus, Jen can't handle a large gun. She's 5'1" and 105lbs with rocks in her pockets.

      But yeah, a girly gun. Still kills people dead, ya know?
      • She can't handle .45 ACP? Like maybe a Colt Defender or a Llama or something (I'm assuming the problem is she has small hands and thus literaly can not hold a hand-cannon).
        • I'm sure she could grip a bigger one, but the smallness feels better to her....it was available, and relatively cheap. It's a Sig .380. I forget the model number and all that.

          Nice little gun.

          Just about right for her. And it gets the job done. Plus, I figure if someone is near where I'd be firing at them, I probably won't miss the chest area, ya know?
      • That's what I have the 12 gauge for.

        Wake me up in the middle of the night, don't give me time for my coffee and half-asleep I can still hit with that thing.

        Another thing is the sound of racking a round in the chamber is enough to make anyone piss their pants and leave, therefore not requiring any messy cleanup or effects on my conscience.

        I guess you wouldn't want the wife shooting that thing though.
        • Yikes, better hope he wakes you up before he ever gets into the bedroom, cause that is *not* exactly a quick-draw kind of gun. If you see him the same second he sees you (ie you don't hear him or know he's there until he's in the room with you), I have to imagine that he could be across the room and on top of you before you have a chance to dig the thing out and point it at him... even if it's under your pillow, loaded (which I'm sure it isn't. Ok, I hope it isn't...) Maybe that's why every 12-gauge owner
          • My dad owns an alarm company and he set me up with a really nice house warming gift. You should have seen me last year when the wind blew the door open at 4 am. The alarm starts buzzing, I had that thing ready and I was in front of my daughter's room in seconds.
            • Yup, that'll work. Probably less false positives than a dog too, depending on where your motion sensors are placed. Cripes, how is it possible that anyone ever has the balls to break into a house in the USA? Seems to me that the distinct possibility of getting a belly full of lead would be a bit of a deterrent ... isn't that the way it's supposed to work?

              Maybe they're hoping they'll live to sue you! Yeah, that's it! More guns == more shootings == more lawsuits . If you shoot 'em, they (or their next-
  • What gives you the impression we wouldn't get along IRL?

    • No, I guess it was a little confusing.

      I was saying we are both strong willed individuals, and would butt heads from time to time.

      I also said we be friends, but I think I said it in a round-about way.

      We'd be friends dude, no worries.
  • I like a lot of different types of music. Currently I am listening to Outkast's first CD (yeah, so what?), Linkin Park, 3EB, Carlos Santana, Metallica Ride the Lightning,
    Same here. I listen to all sorts of things. I love 3EB and Outkast and Linkin' Park.

    I did a 5 year stint in the Marine Corps. While I know the military isn't for everyone, it should be.
    I wouldn't last, I have a problem with authority, except when I submit myself. If I joined up, it wouldn't be an issue. If it were m

  • While I know the military isn't for everyone, it should be. (Well, barring health reasons)

    Could you explain why you feel so?
    Why don't you share some of your experiences..

    or have you answered that in your previous journals?
    • I'm actually torn on the matter.

      I think being in the military is a good thing, since it requires you to be accountable, dependent upon others to be accountable and I personally think instills a sense of pride in yourself you otherwise wouldn't get.

      At the same time, if you have everyone serving mandatory time, they'd resent it. And then you'd get a slacker Army.

      Not sure what else you wanted to know about my time in, but I'll share if you get a little more specific.
  • That's quite a varied conglomeration of facts.
  • I'm a conscientious objector. I believe in military service but i believe the US has it wrong with its current empire wishes. I agree with you about guns and pro-choice. I can't eat many kinds of foods. I suspect that you and i might not be friends in real life- you might find me to be a stubborn prude, and i might find you to be coarse and equally stubborn. But we'd probably both be civil, and so we'd be acquaintances occasionally able to have an actual conversation.

    i'm curious to know about your hopes

    • you might find me to be a stubborn prude
      Why would you say that? I assumed that from what little I know of you, that you are the exact opposite.
      • *cool*

        No, i'm really terribly polite, and tend to (quite literally) look the other way when something bothers me. I shy away from coarse jokes and crude language. I don't know how to flirt except when i'm at my absolute most comfortable, and i don't look at the movie screen when people kiss in a scene.

        I'm not repressed, just... reserved. *sigh* anyway i've gotten a lot of flack for being strait-laced, in spite of the fact that i consider other people's preferences to be their own business and not mine.

        • Wow...

          I would never have gathered this from looking @ your picture. Your pose seemed to be very sensual/sexy, which seems to be very opposite of what I understand prudish to mean.

          Regarding politeness, & such things, I'm glad to hear that. I just hate it so much when people are impolite. That turns me off of a lot of tv shows & even people in real life. Everytime I see impoliteness, I just tense up, & physically feel upset. I should make sure that I don't become too sensitive.

          I remember when I
          • ...so why would i watch on a film? I just don't understand that. It has nothing to do with how i was raised, although i wish that it did. I'm just private about some things.

            I'm comfortable with the photo, and i was comfortable at the time. It was taken at a friend's house, when he was going to cut up the dress to cover a book. It looked better on me than on him, so i got to keep it.

            Dress doesn't dictate who's what, i figure. Behaviour does that.

            By the way, if you wait till you're married to think abou

            • May I ask you a question? Well actually two: 1) Do people drive you nuts, trying to "help" you to supposedly loosen up, assuming that your reactions are based on fear, not choice? 2) Are you ok once you're in a situation, even if it was one that perhaps you would have never instigated yourself? Or are you constantly conscious of the circumstances and seek to escape at the earliest possible opportunity? Thanks for (hopefully) humoring me... (-: Pixie
              • 1. Yes, once in a while, but usually, i'm serene enough that they don't bother. If my response seems too irrational, i'm usually emphatic enough about it ("i'll wat here, thank you,") that they simply accept it and we move on.

                2. Sometimes, sometimes not. And i'm not sure i have any better answer than that. I didn't choose to need a root canal, but i chose to go. I don't choose to need to work, but i choose to go. Since i walked through the door at both places (sol looks wryly at the bandage on her arm whe

                • I think it does answer, although obliquely.

                  I started this line of questioning with the full intent to plead with you not to call yourself prudish. Certainly from an online perspective (which is my only experience of you, of course) , I don't think it applies to you AT ALL. I find you to be open-minded, non-judgemental, and possessing a great sense of humor, all things that conflict with my idea of a prude.

                  But I suppose that in the same way that the dress does nothing but indicate one of the many 'looks'
    • My hopes and ideals.

      Hmmm...got a few centuries?

      Uh. Well, this is gonna sound practiced and canned, but it's true. I want this world to be a better place because I was in it. I want to make a mark in a good way on this place.

      And because of the above, I guess it makes me idealistic. Who knows. I'd like to think I am (contrary to what you might read here) pretty level-headed. Not too much gets me flying off the handle, but when it does, I am quick to let people know where I stand.

      What do I want to be
      • What do you want to be? What do you want to become? what do you find worthwhile in other people?

        I want to be whole the way a singing bowl is whole, the way a bell is whole. Lots of space in my soul for the song. I want to laugh more. i want to be PUBLISHED, i want my piles of prose and poetry to be known before i die, so if anybody wants to know what the heck i was talking about, they can ask me. I don't think i'll come up with world peace or even local enlightenment, but i think i have a good shot at be

  • 1. Sports Wars.

    NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS. Rank them in order of preference and state your teams.

    2. Trilogy/Quadrilogy Wars.

    Star Wars, Alien, Indiana Jones, The Godfather, The Matrix, The Lord Of The Rings, American Pie, Lethal Weapon, Rambo, Jay And Silent Bob. Again, rank them in order of preference and state any that you particularly love.

    3. Presidential Wars.

    Josiah Bartlet or George W. Bush. Pick one and tell us why.

    4. Don't-Be-Fooled-By-The-Rocks-That-I've-Got Wars.

    J-Lo or J-Ho. Which is she to yo
    • MLB, NFL, College Basketball, NHL, NBA, MLS. Can't stand soccer, or footie, or futbol. It's fun to play, about as exciting as looking at drying paint to watch.

      Star Wars, Alien, Indiana Jones, The Godfather, The Matrix, The Lord Of The Rings, American Pie, Lethal Weapon, Rambo, Jay And Silent Bob

      Hmmm....Indiana Jones, Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Lethal Weapon, American Pie, J&SB, Rambo, God Father, Alien.

      Presidential Wars: Neither? But if I have to pick....GW. Mainly because we know w

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