Blog of Josh Hall

Dear Propel Pittsburgh Applicant:               I would like to thank you for your interest in the Propel Pittsburgh Commission. Your application materials and resume were reviewed and at this time we are unable to select you as a commissioned member of the Propel Pittsburgh Commission.  We received over 450 applications from excellent candidates and […]

they’re horribly expensive, all they have is crap in them, and at least with the machines at work, it’s all old food.  I bought a nestle crunch bar yesterday because it had a "win a million dollars" game going on, and i felt lucky.  Seriously, i usually go for the nutrigrain bar, but i honestly […]

this has really been worrying me as of late.  I’m getting stupid.  As in, disconnected from a common sense or awareness that is normally expected of me, by (at least) me.  Here’s a few examples: 1.  Rachel and I wanted to see a movie.  Two theatres offered the movie we wanted to see at 7:15pm, […]

i was reading the lord of the flies this weekend, and came upon a sentence that struck me as awkward as it started out.  "Here there were waves that beat against the sandy shore."  Awkward, because of the first three words.  Here.  There.  Were.  3 words, that look aesthetically the same, but phonetically are completely different.  […]

I can’t remember the last time i had a shamrock shake.  or anything from mcdonald’s for that fact.  call it nostalgia, call it curiousity, call it whatever, the fact remains, i want an effing shamrock shake, and i’m not getting satisfaction.  Every year when mcdonald’s offers the shake, i hear someone talk about it, and […]

I used “Meaningness” in a sentence yesterday, and the other person questioned the existence of that word. I faltered, thought about it, and we came to the conclusion that it was not a word, and that i should have just used “meaning.” Post-conversation thoughts made me think of why I used that word. I swear […]