World's Dirtiest Job

Many people have seen the cable show Dirty Jobs. If you haven't you should watch it sometime, Mike Rowe works what are considered the dirtiest jobs and films it for all to see.

Mike Rowe is also known as the narrator on the famous Deadliest Catch series, which then spawned the Dirty Jobs show.

But none of those may qualify as Mike Rowe's dirtiest job ever.

Instead, head over to YouTube and you can find numerous clips, some wildly hilarious (search for the catsack one, or the Noah's ark one) clips of Mike Rowe in his former job as an on-air QVC salesman.

6 Classes, 1 Quarter

Outside of my internships and an independent study class I need to finish in the next two weeks, I have 6 courses remaining in Seminary.

The plan is to take 1 of them as a September intensive and 5 of them in the fall quarter.

Registration re-opened today and I got into all of the classes I need. Here is to hoping that my sanity can get through 6 more in 4 months.

Draft Time

Thursday starts Fantasy Football season with my first draft of the year.

Sorry Jenny (kinda).

Trying for Cheap

I was trying my best today to spend as little as possible.

I re-read a novel I owned during the last couple of days (The Chosen by Chaim Potok) and decided I would enjoy reading a couple more novels before school started again.

I don't read novels often, but find I care less about owning novels than other books. For those of you who don't know, I don't borrow books well. I feel the need to mark books up and store them on my own shelves, so I own most books I have ever read or might need in the future.

That being said, I don't mark novels much, so I don't mind not owning them.

I decided that I wanted 1 of 3 options in the next book I would read: The Promise by Chaim Potok (sequel to The Chosen), any of the Steven Lawhead books that began a series (he mainly writes in trilogies) or The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

I even set out for the library, finding none of the three there. They had The Chosen, but not its sequel, a Steven Lawhead book that was part two of a trilogy, and no Brothers Karamazov.

So I drove to another library. Again no luck. However, on the way home I spotted a Barnes and Noble, which of course carried all I would desire and purchased both The Promise and The Brothers Karamazov.

I now have 1000 pages I need to read in the next week, and am assured that the 700 super-fine print pages of The Brothers Karamazov will make it the longest novel I have ever read.

Odd Bedtime Reading

Someone decided they wanted to read the dictionary, so they did.

They then put out a list of their favorite words that they learned while reading it.

Here are 3 from the list I found useful.

•Acnestis. "On an animal, the point of the back that lies between the shoulders and the lower back, which cannot be reached to be scratched.

•Petrichor. "The pleasant loamy smell of rain on the ground, especially after a long dry spell.

•Scrouge. "To inconvenience or discomfort a person by pressing against him or her or by standing too close.