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August 21st, 2009
06:26 pm
Jason and I are laying around at the hotel, trying to decide if we'd like to go in the ocean.
"What time is it?"
"Six-twenty."
"The oven says it's six-twenty-one."
"You know that oven lies."
"What are you talking about?"
"That oven is a holocaust denier."
"So? It made me food."
"Oh, you're disgusting."
"What has the clock ever done for me?"
"That clock gave $1000 to the Shoah Foundation last year!"
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August 4th, 2009
07:40 am
I'm sick this morning. I'm not deathly ill, but I'm sick. My throat is sore, my lungs won't let me get a good deep breath without sending me into a coughing fit, and my body is tired and aching. Slipping off all my clothes and sliding between my cool sheets a few moments ago was the most wonderful feeling. My bedside table is very comforting, its contents saying, "You should get some rest." A mug of tea, my glasses and hair tie sitting side by side having been relieved of their duties, my cell phone close enough that I can call anyone I need.
And why have I decided that now is the moment to follow up on my not-terribly-recent pledge to write more often? I couldn't say for sure. It's probably to do with the fact that I spent a long time yesterday writing about Jason on scraps of paper during lunch and other breaks from work. Writing is fun when no one's making you do it.
God, there's so much to talk about and I'm sure I won't get to it soon. My boyfriend, my brother's engagement, my efforts to return to school, the trips I'm taking, and my best friend. Several of those things have areas of overlap. For now, though, I really should try to sleep.
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June 16th, 2009
09:59 pm
I'm getting in the shower. I'm exfoliating thoroughly. I'm drying off. I'm trying an at-home spray tan for Mom's wedding. High risk, high reward.
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07:25 am
Even though he represents a tobacco state, Brad Miller voted "Yes" on the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. He is so awesome.
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June 10th, 2009
08:09 pm
I hate updating. I hate how when you call a friend you haven't talked to in a while you have to spend thirty minutes just catching up. It's like getting a new therapist. Nooooo thank you!
Here's what you should know:
I got that job, and it's good.
I live with my BFF, and she's great.
I got a boyfriend around my birthday, and he's wonderful.
My mother is getting married in nine days, and I'm thrilled.
Rather than trying to talk about everything that's happened to me over the last nine months, I'd rather just let anyone who's reading work it out through context clues. Cheers.
Last night I went to Jason's apartment, where we watched the Twin Peaks pilot which made so super-intrigued for the rest of it. We baked some stuff in the oven, we play-fought like couples tend to do, and then we made out and whatever for a while. It was raining, and we decided to take a walk and get soaked. We had just reached the parking lot when there was a flash as bright as a camera, a pop like a firecracker, and an immediate clap of thunder so loud that several car alarms went off across the complex. I was like, "Oh my God, are we going to die? Let's go anyway!" I really enjoyed looking up and seeing his neighbors out on their little balconies, watching the rain, then watching us. We were completely soaked within just a minute or two, and stripping off my clothes in the kitchen afterward felt like taking off my snow clothes in the laundry room as a kid.
This morning I got to work early. When I left yesterday, I was about an hour behind where I should have been at that point in the week, and I knew I'd have to make it up over the next few days. Not only did I get to work an hour early, I left ninety minutes late. Even if I take a full hour's lunch, even if I get there as late as I'm allowed, I'm still going to be leaving work tomorrow by four. So, you know, awesome!
Tonight is the first night of So You Think You Can Dance? and I am somewhat stoked (I'll be watching it as soon as I finish up this post). Never one to waste an opportunity for terrible but delicious food, I celebrated tonight's premiere with a crispy oven pizza. This crop of dancers hasn't exactly got me on the edge of my seat, but I'm hopeful. I can't remember most of them. I remember Janette, Asuka (Oscar), Chbeeb, the Haitian, Brandon, and Tony the Italian. Oh! And the blonde girl from Colorado who seems sort of trashy but has great control of her hands. While it's always fun to see them partner up and get going with good choreography, we shouldn't get too carried away. Remember, we've still got Mary Murphy.
Mary, Mary, Mary... Dear lord, where did you come from and how can we send you back? The screaming. Always the screaming. The insane blouses. The metaphors that never make any fucking sense. It is the dearest dream of my heart that medical science will someday eradicate the Hot Tamale Train. I loathe the Hot Tamale Train.
Mary Murphy, you have done enough. Have you no sense of decency, madam? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
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September 12th, 2008
12:05 pm
CNN's top online headline right now:
yIKEs, it's coming!
...Seriously?
Yesterday the headline included the words "certain death". But that's no reason to get some mileage out of a great pun, I guess.
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11:59 am
In the words of my friend John Russell, everything is a war zone.
Don't miss the embossed leather cover.
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September 11th, 2008
09:51 pm
Normally, watching a Republican muff a question on national television fills my little heart with glee. This time around, though, the interview is to introduce Sarah Palin to the public. Because she wants to be a 72-year-old heartbeat away from the Oval Office. Charlie Gibson just broke her, man. She was like the kid who tries to give her oral report but never finished the book. If she falls apart like this under the strain of a TV interview I would hate to see what happens when Iran announces it is to nuke Israel.
GIBSON: Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?
PALIN: In what respect, Charlie?
GIBSON: The Bush -- well, what do you -- what do you interpret it to be?
PALIN: His world view?
GIBSON: No, the Bush doctrine, enunciated September 2002, before the Iraq war.
PALIN: I believe that what President Bush has attempted to do is rid this world of Islamic extremism, terrorists who are hell bent on destroying our nation. There have been blunders along the way, though. There have been mistakes made. And with new leadership, and that's the beauty of American elections, of course, and democracy, is with new leadership comes opportunity to do things better.
GIBSON: The Bush doctrine, as I understand it, is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense, that we have the right to a preemptive strike against any other country that we think is going to attack us. Do you agree with that?
My God. It's like watching Miss South Carolina. The answer she gave was so insufficient that he had to explain the question and ask it again. Watching this interview, I found Sarah Palin to have a frightening lack of real understanding when it comes to foreign policy. He asked a very specific, very direct question - do we have the right to invade Pakistan? - and she just gave him waffle. He cut her off, saying that he was getting "lost in a blizzard of words", and tried to ask AGAIN. Charlie Gibson didn't cut her even a little bit of slack in this interview, and a good thing too. She's not interviewing to be CFO here. She wants to be the Vice President, just like they talk about in the Constitution.
The question that she did answer well was about whether she thinks Iraq is a holy war. And the fact that she can be so effusive and eloquent when talking about God and not when talking about Pakistan has me very worried. If you haven't watched Matt Damon talk about how afraid and angry her nomination makes him, you should check it out on YouTube. It's my feelings exactly.
She also uses the words nuculer and hisself. But maybe I'm just getting petty.
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September 2nd, 2008
01:51 am
I have now been single for an entire year. The last time I could say that was... well, I'm not sure. It was either in seventh grade or it was never. I'm leaning towards never.*
The experience has been enjoyable. Besides just being "good", it's also been good for me, which is different. Having a year to myself has meant a lot of time for reflection.
I know a ton more bands than I did before, and I like them because I like them (not because my boyfriend does).
I'm way more aware of what's going on in the world.
I'm more assertive.
I have learned what kind of people I like and don't.
I have figured out what type of person I'd like to be with, which qualities I feel are important.
I have written a ton of songs for guitar, and they're better than what I was writing before.
I have a much better handle on my sexuality.
I am more independent and have come to cherish solitude rather than fear it.
I've discovered that dating isn't even worth it unless you're really excited about the person.
I've learned by living it that being single is better than wishing you were.
I've been in love three times in the seven years since I left high school, and they've each been different from one another. The people have been very different, but so have my feelings for them. One of the songs I've written this year is about those three. It's about the way that they came into my life and how I couldn't have predicted it, about learning from everything and everyone. From one I learned the importance of self-reliance and autonomy. From another, the beauty of trust (even when it is difficult). From the third, how to be at peace with the way things are rather than wishing for them to change.
*the clock starts from when i got my first boyfriend.
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August 29th, 2008
11:02 am
Happy Birthday, Senator McCain! May you enjoy your 72nd birthday and eat a delicious cake (but please don't waste your wish on something that won't come true, like becoming president).
And with birthday greetings out of the way...
Palin! He picked Palin!
This was my first Friday morning off at the new job, and I was enjoying it. I was lying in bed, listening to NPR, drifting back to sleep every once in a while and then waking up to listen some more. I was barely awake when I heard Diane Rehm say that McCain had picked "Governor Palin" as his running mate.
Something clicked. Palin, I was pretty sure, was the governor of Alaska. The young governor. The cute governor. The WOMAN governor.
I was pretty sure, not totally sure, but it was enough to get me out of my comfy bed, dressed, and to the computer in a minute flat. I checked CNN and found out I was right. "Oh, man! McCain picked that woman from Alaska!" My dad, working from home today on the computer next to mind, gave me this quizzical look and said he hadn't heard of her. "I know," I said, "Only the real political nerds have. Don't worry, you still have a chance at a normal life." My hands are shaking a little as I write this because I am some kind of freak.
I didn't know anything about her. I wrote her off as a long-shot, "what-if" kind of choice, like Colin Powell for the Dem ticket. Doing any real research on her seemed like a waste of time. But just looking at her Wikipedia page, which I trust to be about 95% accurate (especially considering how many people are reading and editing it this morning), I know that McCain is going to have to do quite a spin job explaining why he picked someone with far less of a relevant work background than Barack Obama (whom he has blasted for a lack of experience).
Anyway. It looks like she was on the Wasilla city council for four years, and in that time she cared for the needs of all the 5,500 people in Wasilla. In 1996 she became the mayor. She was Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from 2003 to 2004, but resigned in protest when her complaints of ethics violations were ignored. She failed to win a majority but still became the governor of Alaska, which has a population smaller than the city of Charlotte, in December of 2006.
In 1984 she finished second in the Miss Alaska pageant, which is probably best because video footage of her in the Miss America pageant would really undercut her ambitions to be a serious leader. Also, and maybe this is neither here nor there, she named her sons Track and Trig. Dude, seriously, that is Hollywood-caliber craziness right there. That is in the big leagues.
And... that's it! I cannot wait to see how McCain deals with this. My guess is that he trumpets her as big on ethics, serious about cutting wasteful spending ('cause no one hates talking about hating pork like Mac), and with experience in energy. To me her record is fine, but certainly not impressive enough to get her a slot as VP. It seems like a cheap trick to woo Hillary Clinton supporters, and if that's the case then it is awfully insulting to their intelligence. What, Senator, you couldn't get Olympia Snowe?
Let's not forget that the VP could become president if something awful happens. And with McCain being 72, even a healthy 72, that's not out of the question. I do NOT want Sarah Palin to be president. She's an anti-choice supply-sider who can't wait to drill in ANWR. Jesus - the importance of winning this election just got kicked up a whole huge notch.
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August 27th, 2008
08:42 pm
I just watched the video of today's roll call vote being suspended. In essence, Barack Obama was made the nominee by one woman - Hillary Clinton. It was her movement to suspend the role call and nominate by acclamation that made it official. It was, no lie, a beautiful moment.
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August 19th, 2008
08:49 pm
Being Pac-Man would be terrifying. Unless someone else were Pac-Man, and then it would be hilarious.
Enjoy.
Things don't get easier for Pac-Man at work. The ghosts have no problem making attacks on him in front of other people.
Please enjoy.
It's not like the ghosts have it any easier. Pac-Man is trying to murder them too.
Again, enjoy.
Pac-Man's troubles are obvious to everyone around him, especially people on the streets of Manhattan.
Enjoy this too.
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August 18th, 2008
10:36 pm
I'm tired of hearing about how ungracious Barack Obama is supposed to be toward Hillary Clinton.
First it was ungracious of him not to award her the delegates she won in Florida and Michigan (because let's just all forget that the whole debacle was the DNC's doing). Then it was ungracious of him not to immediately pick her as his running mate. Now it's apparently a snub that he's not helping her pay off her campaign debt. I mean, what? Obama didn't make her borrow millions of dollars from her own accounts, and he didn't ask her to stay in the race when the numbers were against her. Bill Richardson is still in debt too, but you don't hear Richardson's people coming around to ask for debt retirement assistance.
I feel like the time has come for disappointed Hillary supporters to quit acting like he somehow betrayed her by winning more votes. It's not like they were ever running as partners before he decided to cut her out of the deal. Obama has a general election fight ahead of him, and it's going to be hard enough without having half the party accuse him of being a cad.
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Also, I don't understand how casting a vote for Clinton at the convention is closure. That's like saying, "Yeah, even though Karen and I broke up years ago and she's totally moved on and I haven't, I'm think I'm going to show up at the wedding to tell her I'm still in love with her. You know, just to honor what we used to have. Just for closure."
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August 9th, 2008
12:18 am
I'm still going around singing that "On The Rise" song from Dr Horrible. There is something I really love about it, and there's something I love about NPH's voice. Anyway.
So, it turns out that The National Enquirer has broken yet another big story. They broke the news about Jesse Jackson's illegitimate child and they broke the story of Edwards' affair. I'm really hoping it doesn't do anything to damage the work he's put in on combating American poverty. His wife Elizabeth released a statement today, and I think it sums up wonderfully the reason that the press should quit thinking that they need to report on everything that's ever happened, regardless of its impact on the lives of everyday people. I'm also really inspired by her apparent ability to forgive and the depth of love for her husband that allows for it. She seems to be speaking from a place of strength and commitment rather than out of a need to be a successful political wife.
I don't believe that infidelity means that you don't love your partner, and I don't think that it has to destroy a marriage. If you and your partner are able to address what happened and move on, then it shouldn't be anyone else's business.
( Elizabeth Edwards' statement is behind the cut. )
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July 27th, 2008
10:39 pm
Barack Obama is such a nice guy.
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July 10th, 2008
06:07 pm - Quarstion.
I applied for a job. I had an interview that I think went very well. The company's career website now says they are no longer accepting resumes for that particular position. Is that a good thing?
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01:29 pm
Karl Rove is refusing to comply with a subpoena to testify before the House Judiciary. Because he is awful. Natch.
His attorney says that he is "constitutionally immune from compelled congressional testimony." How can that be? Is he talking about the 5th amendment, or does he think that executive privilege is explicitly mentioned in the Constitution? If Clinton's people could be compelled to testify in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Bush's people should surely be in the same boat. That was an administration pulling strings and lying in order to cover up an extramarital affair. This is an administration playing fast and loose with the DOJ in order to have a judicial system who might be that much friendlier to a President with a reputation for taking action that is likely to be challenged in court. While Clinton's aides were definitely disappointing, Bush's aides have been APPALLING.
As of this writing, the title over Rove's portrait on Wikipedia is "Karl Fuckhead Bullshit Liar Rove".
It has a caption of "Arrest This Man For War Crimes Before Humanity!"
The article begins, "He Who Shall Not Be Named (born December 25, 1950)..."
Ugh. Terrible.
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July 4th, 2008
11:55 am
Perez Hilton got serious about getting in shape a few months back. He posted a video about how he'd started losing weight by having his meals delivered (while acknowledging that not everyone can afford to do so) and working with a trainer (and, like, ditto on the affordability), but saying that everyone could probably eat a little better and work a little harder. He pledged to work as hard as he could on a leaner, meaner body and - as a way to make himself stick to it - to go shirtless in Malibu on July 4th. While he wasn't able to get to the beach, he did post a video of himself this morning in which he hopped around, screamed a little nervous scream, and threw off his bathrobe to reveal his torso.
You know what? He didn't have a six-pack. He didn't even have much of a waistline. But, in comparison to what he looked like three months ago, he looked amazing. I can see the edges of his abdominal muscles now, where a few months ago there was just a round, smooth, fleshy belly. I can see where his ribcage tapers in just under his chest. He looks so much healthier now, and he seems much happier with himself. More than his appearance, even, I think that his following through on his commitment is what's put him in such a good frame of mind.
Blah blah blah I'm going to work so much harder yadda yadda yadda so inspired. Point is, you need goals and commitments. So, October 30th, I'll be posting swimsuit photos here. Yes, here. On the internet. That gives me almost four months as opposed to the three that Perez gave himself, but he had a trainer and I've still got to stay out of the gym until my surgeon says it's OK.
Happy 4th, y'all!
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June 30th, 2008
04:57 pm
I am having such fun with WikiScanner this afternoon. That's the site that lets you see who has edited Wikipedia and what changes they made. My favorite so far is in the article about Heath Ledger. Of course a lot of silly girls have gone and added bits like, "Shelly is his girlfriend!" or have amended the article to say that he is secretly gay. But here's my favorite part.
Original:
He is a supporter of the West Coast Eagles Football Club in the Australian Football League.
1st Edit:
He is a supporter of the West Coast Eagles Football Club in the Australian Football League.
Heath later reported about Brokeback Mountain and said, "I am in love with jake and gay."
2nd Edit:
He is a supporter of the West Coast Eagles Football Club in the Australian Football League.
Heath later reported about Brokeback Mountain and said, "I am in love with Jake and i am gay."
Because I mean, come on people! Let's at least quote the man accurately!
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June 27th, 2008
11:29 am
I was definitely too bitter in my last entry. While living with parents is definitely not the most desirable living arrangement for a stubborn 25-year-old woman, my father and stepmother have both loosened up and calmed down and become much more fun. Being able to talk - just talk, like people who know each other well - has made it much more palatable. Also, I can drive now, and that's done wonders for my state of mind even if I never take the car out.
The last two nights I have dreamed of eating horrible things and then woken up with a stomachache. Two nights ago I dreamed that I padded into the bathroom, picked up the entire bar of Safeguard antibacterial soap, and stuffed it into my mouth. It took forever to chew that thing down to manageable bits. Last night it was chalk. The chalk was easier to chew, especially because the outside melted a bit in my mouth, but it made my bones feel like they were being flash-frozen and shattered. Ugh.
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