3.31.2005
Had a wonderful dream last night that I moved to Vermont to become a left-wing politico (but not a vegan--too pasty) and found my crunchy-granola fuzzy Vermontian professor of some sort of obscure artsy stuff. We even bred fine bouncing twins that we carried around in matching baby bjorn carriers. Awww, I love hormones.
3.29.2005
Disappoint in lack of self-control and need for instant gratification.
I broke down and bought Keane. Only because program failure was preventing my illegal acts (so none committed so there.) I'm such a pop-oholic, especially if the songs are short, sweet, and oh so slightly whiny (but not in an annoying Simple Plan-ish way). And I love the lead singer's voice and the piano accompaniment. Not quite Thom Yorke, but also not quite Chris Martin.
My spree must stop. I don't need Disco Inferno--my ass does not need goading to be shaken. I don't even like Candy Shop--yeah, he wishes. Thus, I will NOT buy "Fity" Cent.
But anyone up for a trip to Boston to see my favoritest-ever soon-to-be-babydaddy-of-my-geeky-children? And the rest of his band too? May 8th!!
I broke down and bought Keane. Only because program failure was preventing my illegal acts (so none committed so there.) I'm such a pop-oholic, especially if the songs are short, sweet, and oh so slightly whiny (but not in an annoying Simple Plan-ish way). And I love the lead singer's voice and the piano accompaniment. Not quite Thom Yorke, but also not quite Chris Martin.
My spree must stop. I don't need Disco Inferno--my ass does not need goading to be shaken. I don't even like Candy Shop--yeah, he wishes. Thus, I will NOT buy "Fity" Cent.
But anyone up for a trip to Boston to see my favoritest-ever soon-to-be-babydaddy-of-my-geeky-children? And the rest of his band too? May 8th!!
3.28.2005
This is late, but this is for Munkeigh (even though she hates this stuff).
What is the total amount of music files on your computer?
7.07 GB and counting, that's not even 5 days worth or half of my CD collection.
What is the last CD you bought?
John Legend and Mars Volta, although I really wanted 50 cent and Keane but I just couldn't do it.
What was the last song you listened to before reading this message?
A Woman's Worth by Alicia Keys
Write down five songs you often listen to, or that mean a lot to you.
Argh. Fine, no ranking. And these don't necessarily remind me of people but times. I disgust myself with the squishiness of this list.
-Yesterday - Beatles
-Lovesong - The Cure
-Julula - Fighting Gravity
-Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce
-Song for a Winter's Night - Sarah McLachlan
Who are you going to pass this stick to and why?
Melanie, it astounds me how much she knows about music. Even though I disagree with the Ben Folds.
What is the total amount of music files on your computer?
7.07 GB and counting, that's not even 5 days worth or half of my CD collection.
What is the last CD you bought?
John Legend and Mars Volta, although I really wanted 50 cent and Keane but I just couldn't do it.
What was the last song you listened to before reading this message?
A Woman's Worth by Alicia Keys
Write down five songs you often listen to, or that mean a lot to you.
Argh. Fine, no ranking. And these don't necessarily remind me of people but times. I disgust myself with the squishiness of this list.
-Yesterday - Beatles
-Lovesong - The Cure
-Julula - Fighting Gravity
-Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce
-Song for a Winter's Night - Sarah McLachlan
Who are you going to pass this stick to and why?
Melanie, it astounds me how much she knows about music. Even though I disagree with the Ben Folds.
Attack of the Giant Microbes
Why do I find these so cute? Maybe it's because I have been housing this for about 2 weeks. And the Black Death is so nice and fuzzy.
Ah, I've got to give these out to young children as presents. Fluffy, instructive, and humorous! The flesh-eating virus has a fork and knife too. Hee hee!
Why do I find these so cute? Maybe it's because I have been housing this for about 2 weeks. And the Black Death is so nice and fuzzy.
Ah, I've got to give these out to young children as presents. Fluffy, instructive, and humorous! The flesh-eating virus has a fork and knife too. Hee hee!
3.25.2005
About freakin time. But Weezer is upsetting me right now.
1) My boys are going to be putting out much delayed album #5 in May 10th. "Make Believe"--very gay name, but I have trust in Rivers.
2) Their first single is Beverly Hills and the video was supposedly filmed at the Playboy Mansion. Ack. Why, Rivers, why?! Oh, wait, I guess you really are a man. Despite being wee and geeky. Here's the audio but not the video of plasticky bouncing. Will air on MTV2 next Tuesday.
I guess musicians will be musicians.
1) My boys are going to be putting out much delayed album #5 in May 10th. "Make Believe"--very gay name, but I have trust in Rivers.
2) Their first single is Beverly Hills and the video was supposedly filmed at the Playboy Mansion. Ack. Why, Rivers, why?! Oh, wait, I guess you really are a man. Despite being wee and geeky. Here's the audio but not the video of plasticky bouncing. Will air on MTV2 next Tuesday.
I guess musicians will be musicians.
3.24.2005
I got into too many arguments over this, but my bleeding heart Sierra Club loving self just had to push it one more time:
ANWR is not the solution. Our esteemed Village Idiot doesn't understand that our problem is oil dependency, not the lack of oil supply.
How's this: put our efforts into creating alternative fueled or more efficient cars. Heck, forget about that non-existent global warming and just go for the political clout of not having to rely on the middle east for our livelihood.
If Americans make bad choices and want to buy monster trucks, make it very economically difficult (OK, more than now) for them. Let them complain about the prices, the taxes, the gas, until they realize it's in their personal interest not to have these trucks and SUVs.
But, as usual, Arianna Huffington says it so much better:
Right on, sister.
Next blog will be on something non-political, I swear...
ANWR is not the solution. Our esteemed Village Idiot doesn't understand that our problem is oil dependency, not the lack of oil supply.
How's this: put our efforts into creating alternative fueled or more efficient cars. Heck, forget about that non-existent global warming and just go for the political clout of not having to rely on the middle east for our livelihood.
If Americans make bad choices and want to buy monster trucks, make it very economically difficult (OK, more than now) for them. Let them complain about the prices, the taxes, the gas, until they realize it's in their personal interest not to have these trucks and SUVs.
But, as usual, Arianna Huffington says it so much better:
Exhibit A is the president's bizarre and long-standing obsession with drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which just got Senate approval last week. I mean, how retro can you get? Instead of pushing to increase fuel-efficiency standards that could save millions of barrels of oil each day and calling for a national commitment to invest in renewable sources of energy, he's after one more fix of dinosaur byproducts from one of the world's last pristine places.
Which might be understandable if making an Exxon Mobil theme park out of the refuge would reduce our dependence on foreign oil. But it won't. At best, there's only enough oil there to satisfy U.S. demand for about six months. And it won't be available for at least a decade -- which is the only forward-looking aspect to Bush's ANWR dream.
Right on, sister.
Next blog will be on something non-political, I swear...
3.22.2005
Don't you hate it when you start laughing about something and you can't stop giggling whenever you think about it?
Don't you hate relying on cold medicine to get you through the day (and night and day)?
These things aren't related at all. No sir.
hee hee...freakish roadside monuments of the hand of god...ho ha
Really, I can't explain it, or I might have an intervention on my hands.
Don't you hate relying on cold medicine to get you through the day (and night and day)?
These things aren't related at all. No sir.
hee hee...freakish roadside monuments of the hand of god...ho ha
Really, I can't explain it, or I might have an intervention on my hands.
3.21.2005
3.18.2005
I am fucking appalled.
It seems that after a California court ruled that a ban on gay marriage violated the state constitution that the idiot right decided to write a manifesto envisioning a utopia for the "natural family."
I would like to remind people that "marriage" is a legal concept. You can be joined in the eyes of god, you can love someone and stay with them forever until you die, you can breed willy nilly to your uterus's fulfillment. But this is not the marriage that "natural families" are worried to lose. They don't want to lose their privileged status to the state--legally and economically they are better off. And the state has chosen to promote this kind of lifestyle as it is more stable and easily controlled. It's understandable that tradition is hard to change and the elite are reluctant to give up their privileges.
But what the fuck!!??
First of all, the miracle of one woman, one man, and multitudes of children, with the mother staying at home and the father running a small tax-favorable business being paid a wage (by whom?) was normal and reasonable back in the frontier times. It was a hard, confining, purely sustenance lifestyle. It is totally backward and not feasible in today's world. What state can support this kind of life without a strong economy and massive oversight? When did the right start to spout communism?
The worst part of this (and the part I'm most offended by) is the effect of this "vision" on the rest of society that doesn't fit into this mold. There's a taste of coercion to this concept and the stamp of life failure if you don't become part of this "natural family." You are motivated for the wrong reasons to marry and breed early and fast, without any personal development--especially for women. There will be no need for women's rights, education, and concern over welfare. For those not married, you are worthless or at least a lower status in society. Isn't it a good thing that we've progressed from this mindset toward individual rights and personal happiness?
If the right are offended by gays (and incredibly stupid to boot), then fine. Let their vision of the world implode. But they have no right to restrain others from being happy when it hurts no one but their sensibilities. They should not claim higher status and economic benefits because they are codependent and fertile. It is selfish, prideful, immoral, and downright un-Christian.
See you at the Rapture--I'll be holding onto the steering wheel while you cry about being left behind.
It seems that after a California court ruled that a ban on gay marriage violated the state constitution that the idiot right decided to write a manifesto envisioning a utopia for the "natural family."
I would like to remind people that "marriage" is a legal concept. You can be joined in the eyes of god, you can love someone and stay with them forever until you die, you can breed willy nilly to your uterus's fulfillment. But this is not the marriage that "natural families" are worried to lose. They don't want to lose their privileged status to the state--legally and economically they are better off. And the state has chosen to promote this kind of lifestyle as it is more stable and easily controlled. It's understandable that tradition is hard to change and the elite are reluctant to give up their privileges.
But what the fuck!!??
The authors envision a state designed to protect the "integrity" of the home -- autonomous family units composed exclusively of one woman, one man, and as many children as possible. As incentive for the mother to stay home and fulfill her "aptness for motherhood," fathers would be paid a "family wage." "Home economies" would replace the "control of big government and vast corporations," whose demands have eroded the sovereignty of marriage-based families. The tax code would be amended to favor large families and small businesses.
First of all, the miracle of one woman, one man, and multitudes of children, with the mother staying at home and the father running a small tax-favorable business being paid a wage (by whom?) was normal and reasonable back in the frontier times. It was a hard, confining, purely sustenance lifestyle. It is totally backward and not feasible in today's world. What state can support this kind of life without a strong economy and massive oversight? When did the right start to spout communism?
The worst part of this (and the part I'm most offended by) is the effect of this "vision" on the rest of society that doesn't fit into this mold. There's a taste of coercion to this concept and the stamp of life failure if you don't become part of this "natural family." You are motivated for the wrong reasons to marry and breed early and fast, without any personal development--especially for women. There will be no need for women's rights, education, and concern over welfare. For those not married, you are worthless or at least a lower status in society. Isn't it a good thing that we've progressed from this mindset toward individual rights and personal happiness?
If the right are offended by gays (and incredibly stupid to boot), then fine. Let their vision of the world implode. But they have no right to restrain others from being happy when it hurts no one but their sensibilities. They should not claim higher status and economic benefits because they are codependent and fertile. It is selfish, prideful, immoral, and downright un-Christian.
See you at the Rapture--I'll be holding onto the steering wheel while you cry about being left behind.
My pursuit of yet another extraneous degree has some merit. I feel that I'm exposed to things I normally could care less about. I saw in the washington post today that George Kennan (otherwise known as "X") had died at age 101. But for my recent classes in Cold War strategy and policy, I never would have been so affected by his death or realize that he wasn't the war-monger that many paint him to be as the "father of the cold war strategy." Sure it led to a massive arms race, but as usual, I think it was the administration of the policy and not the ideas themselves that caused that. His ideas still apply today:
Uh, Vietnam...uh, Iraq...too bad they didn't listen to him.
A touchstone of his worldview was the conviction that the United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the world are neither in its interests nor within the scope of its resources.
Uh, Vietnam...uh, Iraq...too bad they didn't listen to him.
3.15.2005
Blatantly stolen from Welfare Queen--the ultimate source for entertaining net quizzes--Belief-o-Matic! Ever wonder why you wonder as you wander? Now you can find out. Look at me, I'm the religious left:
1. Neo-Pagan (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (93%)
3. Mahayana Buddhism (88%)
4. Liberal Quakers (88%)
5. New Age (85%)
6. Reform Judaism (80%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (71%)
8. Secular Humanism (67%)
9. Sikhism (67%)
10. Theravada Buddhism (66%)
11. Jainism (64%)
12. Taoism (63%)
13. Hinduism (63%)
14. New Thought (61%)
15. Bahá'í Faith (59%)
16. Scientology (54%)
17. Orthodox Judaism (48%)
18. Orthodox Quaker (44%)
19. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (41%)
20. Islam (38%)
21. Nontheist (38%)
22. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (25%)
23. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (23%)
24. Seventh Day Adventist (20%)
25. Eastern Orthodox (16%)
26. Roman Catholic (16%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (10%)
There goes me ever claiming that I was Catholic. I think the schooling made recognizing the wrongness of it easier. Time to check out that Unitarian church (and all the cute gay men), because I think you can be a witch (pagan) on your own. Blessed be.
1. Neo-Pagan (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (93%)
3. Mahayana Buddhism (88%)
4. Liberal Quakers (88%)
5. New Age (85%)
6. Reform Judaism (80%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (71%)
8. Secular Humanism (67%)
9. Sikhism (67%)
10. Theravada Buddhism (66%)
11. Jainism (64%)
12. Taoism (63%)
13. Hinduism (63%)
14. New Thought (61%)
15. Bahá'í Faith (59%)
16. Scientology (54%)
17. Orthodox Judaism (48%)
18. Orthodox Quaker (44%)
19. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (41%)
20. Islam (38%)
21. Nontheist (38%)
22. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (25%)
23. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (23%)
24. Seventh Day Adventist (20%)
25. Eastern Orthodox (16%)
26. Roman Catholic (16%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (10%)
There goes me ever claiming that I was Catholic. I think the schooling made recognizing the wrongness of it easier. Time to check out that Unitarian church (and all the cute gay men), because I think you can be a witch (pagan) on your own. Blessed be.
Being the terrible government major (and good psychology major) that I am, I always wondered if your average American could pass the US citizenship test. So, I took a tour of a few sites that offered examples of the citizenship test and I now know that the average American couldn't pass it worth a darn, not even the easy questions like who's the current Vice President (RoboDick) and where does the President reside (1600 Pennsylvania Ave, big white house--even terrorists know that). But I admit, some of these questions were tough and I wonder if you all knew the answers (give me some snarky comments). Try these without googling:
BTW, included in the citizenship test and interview are questions that would keep some natural-born Americans from becoming Americans. But these are our god-given rights, non?:
Right, most of them voted for our current President
Dang Greenpeace and PETA
Oops, Mellie wait for your birthday present.
Ha, ladies is pimps, too.
1) How many Senators are there and how long is their term in office?
2) How many Representative are there and how long is their term?
3) How many times can a Senator or Representative be re-elected?
4) Who elects the President?
5) Name all the requirements for being the President. Hint: intelligence and eloquence are not included.
6) How many amendments does the US Constitution have?
7) What are the first 10 amendments called?
8) Excluding the 1st amendment, name 4 other rights within the first 10 amendments.
BTW, included in the citizenship test and interview are questions that would keep some natural-born Americans from becoming Americans. But these are our god-given rights, non?:
Have you ever been a habitual drunkard?
Right, most of them voted for our current President
Have you ever been a member of a communist, socialist, totalitarian group or terrorist organization?
Dang Greenpeace and PETA
Have you ever advocated overthrow of any government by force or violence?
Oops, Mellie wait for your birthday present.
Have you ever been a prostitute or "procured anyone for prostitution"
Ha, ladies is pimps, too.
3.11.2005
Now I know there are many things in this world that are dangerous when eaten undercooked (which led to many people's unusually high aversion to prepare chicken, the non-vegetarian ones that is), but I never in my life would have thought that gooey sweet cassava balls would lead to the death of many schoolchildren. Poor kiddies. But there's food poisoning and there's cyanide poisoning.
Well, I always said Asian vegetables tasted more "interesting" but yikes. I've been eating detoxified cyanide throughout my life. I am quickly becoming a picky eater.
Cassava is a starchy, tuberous root that is a low-cost source of carbohydrates in humid, tropical areas; it is also the source of tapioca.
Cassava contains amino acid-derived cyanogenic glucosides--some more than others--and must be thoroughly cooked to remove toxic levels.
Eaten raw, the human digestive system will convert part of it into cyanide. Two cassava roots contain enough to be fatal.
Well, I always said Asian vegetables tasted more "interesting" but yikes. I've been eating detoxified cyanide throughout my life. I am quickly becoming a picky eater.
3.10.2005
Felt like being silly today, so I give you the everchanging, never boring web quiz (thank you Welfare Queen):
I'm two in fact.
And, an alphabet meme just because (thanks Heathen):
A - Accent: East coast valley/southern...sorry, I'm Asian, it happens.
B - Breast size: 36B.
C - Chore you hate: Cleaning bathrooms. Someday I'll have a husband and children to do it for me. Right.
D - Dad's name: Armando
E - Essential make-up item: Does lip balm count?
F - Favorite perfume: Dolce & Gabbana light blue or sicily
G - Gold or silver: White gold
H - Hometown: Virginia Beach, VA. Hence the accent.
I - Insomnia: Only when I take cold medicine.
J - Job title: Senior defense analyst.
K - Kids: Not now, but hopefully someday. See item C.
L - Living arrangements: It's like I never moved from Williamsburg. Townhouse next to the ubiquitous golf course. I have a lot of senior neighbors.
M - Mum's birthplace: Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines. But she's Chinese.
N - Number of apples you've eaten: On average per year? Probably 12. I like oranges better.
O - Overnight hospital stays: 1 for tonsilectomy.
P - Phobia: Needles and sticky hands. Hey, phobias are irrational.
R - Religious affiliation: Agnostic. Make me believe.
S - Siblings: Two. Thank god.
T - Time you wake up: 6:30-7am. Naturally-8am.
U - Unnatural hair colors you've worn: Blue. It's blue now. At least I've never had blond stripes.
V - Vegetables you refuse to eat: Okra (slimy), cucumbers (tasteless), green onions (overpowering), and ampalaya (nasty as hell).
W - Worst habit: Procrastination.
X - X-rays: Teeth.
Y - Yummy foods you make: Desserts.
Z - Zodiac sign: Aries. And a Dragon. I don't eat men alive I swear.
I'm two in fact.
You Are the Very Gay Bert and Ernie! |
 Two grown puppets living together, sleeping in the same room? They've even got coordinating striped shirts! |
And, an alphabet meme just because (thanks Heathen):
A - Accent: East coast valley/southern...sorry, I'm Asian, it happens.
B - Breast size: 36B.
C - Chore you hate: Cleaning bathrooms. Someday I'll have a husband and children to do it for me. Right.
D - Dad's name: Armando
E - Essential make-up item: Does lip balm count?
F - Favorite perfume: Dolce & Gabbana light blue or sicily
G - Gold or silver: White gold
H - Hometown: Virginia Beach, VA. Hence the accent.
I - Insomnia: Only when I take cold medicine.
J - Job title: Senior defense analyst.
K - Kids: Not now, but hopefully someday. See item C.
L - Living arrangements: It's like I never moved from Williamsburg. Townhouse next to the ubiquitous golf course. I have a lot of senior neighbors.
M - Mum's birthplace: Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines. But she's Chinese.
N - Number of apples you've eaten: On average per year? Probably 12. I like oranges better.
O - Overnight hospital stays: 1 for tonsilectomy.
P - Phobia: Needles and sticky hands. Hey, phobias are irrational.
R - Religious affiliation: Agnostic. Make me believe.
S - Siblings: Two. Thank god.
T - Time you wake up: 6:30-7am. Naturally-8am.
U - Unnatural hair colors you've worn: Blue. It's blue now. At least I've never had blond stripes.
V - Vegetables you refuse to eat: Okra (slimy), cucumbers (tasteless), green onions (overpowering), and ampalaya (nasty as hell).
W - Worst habit: Procrastination.
X - X-rays: Teeth.
Y - Yummy foods you make: Desserts.
Z - Zodiac sign: Aries. And a Dragon. I don't eat men alive I swear.
3.09.2005
I've decided that I'm too impatient to click my mouse twice when I can click it just once to feed my obsessive need to read about people I don't actually hang out with (ah, the power of the internet--socializing, bah humbug)...so I bring you Spanish Sheep and Hello Kitty Fan. Yes, they are both men. What can I say, they're interesting in a sick and twisted way. It's like being a psychologist, without those frivolous medical degrees, ethics, and compassion. I also read People magazine, so sue me. Thank you Munkeigh for bringing them into my life.
I really need another hobby.
I really need another hobby.
3.08.2005
Word of the day: Schadenfreude
Feeling a lot better now that the plague has passed my hometown and moved onto greater populated metropolises--sic them politicians, yee ha! Always feels good to level some hurt on others (I'm joking...but not really). For example, felt good to take money from sad, poker obsessed, uber-competitive, angry teachers. (Sorry...OK, I'm not. OK, I only partly am. Mostly about the ones that shout "Playstation Poker! $19.99" Shut up and pay me already!)
And it feels good to inflict this on you all--the fashion fugly. I really hate the word fugly, but the site's quite snarky in a funny way, especially for those of us who agree the Britney Spears is the queen of fug. If anyone can comment on bad fashion incorporating Buffy the Vampire Slayer (but not about the Buffster), you've got to love it.
Feeling a lot better now that the plague has passed my hometown and moved onto greater populated metropolises--sic them politicians, yee ha! Always feels good to level some hurt on others (I'm joking...but not really). For example, felt good to take money from sad, poker obsessed, uber-competitive, angry teachers. (Sorry...OK, I'm not. OK, I only partly am. Mostly about the ones that shout "Playstation Poker! $19.99" Shut up and pay me already!)
And it feels good to inflict this on you all--the fashion fugly. I really hate the word fugly, but the site's quite snarky in a funny way, especially for those of us who agree the Britney Spears is the queen of fug. If anyone can comment on bad fashion incorporating Buffy the Vampire Slayer (but not about the Buffster), you've got to love it.
3.02.2005
Am crazy bag lady thanks to dayquil habit.
Or at least frantically dug into trash in public.
Yesterday, in one of my recent drug-induced highs, I cleaned out my house--threw away all junk papers, magazines, etc. This doesn't sound like a big deal, but if you knew the level of packrat that I live in (black belt), it's about a four feet of trash bin. Felt cleansed, felt revived, then came the oh-shit moment. You see, one good thing about being a packrat and keeping everything is that you have an adaptive system of organization--the pile method--but once the piles have been rearranged (or tossed), you can't find a damn thing. As I found out tonight.
Had a flashback of holding in my hand my recent (and expensive) car registration with attached license plate stickers, without that nice other memory of where I had put it. After searching through every little bit of paper in the house, twice over, for the last hour, realized I must have thrown it out in my manic state. Dodging the watchful eyes of my too-long-retired neighbors, I pulled up my trashcan away from the curb, tried to gracefully lower myself in (the bag I needed was of course at the bottom), quickly hoisted myself and bag out, ran into the house, opened wretched hefty, and voila.
Next up--selling the neighbors' grandkids for crack.
Or at least frantically dug into trash in public.
Yesterday, in one of my recent drug-induced highs, I cleaned out my house--threw away all junk papers, magazines, etc. This doesn't sound like a big deal, but if you knew the level of packrat that I live in (black belt), it's about a four feet of trash bin. Felt cleansed, felt revived, then came the oh-shit moment. You see, one good thing about being a packrat and keeping everything is that you have an adaptive system of organization--the pile method--but once the piles have been rearranged (or tossed), you can't find a damn thing. As I found out tonight.
Had a flashback of holding in my hand my recent (and expensive) car registration with attached license plate stickers, without that nice other memory of where I had put it. After searching through every little bit of paper in the house, twice over, for the last hour, realized I must have thrown it out in my manic state. Dodging the watchful eyes of my too-long-retired neighbors, I pulled up my trashcan away from the curb, tried to gracefully lower myself in (the bag I needed was of course at the bottom), quickly hoisted myself and bag out, ran into the house, opened wretched hefty, and voila.
Next up--selling the neighbors' grandkids for crack.
Dreaming of San Diego, the life of a beach bum philosopher, and the ability to breathe again. I hate being sick. It imposes lumpishness, which is only fun when it's your choice.
Listened to Tori's new album on repeat today at work, in an attempt to distract myself from this waste of my life (verifying data. woohoo!!). The result--I'm calm, but not so much impressed. Tori's getting long-winded and kinda boring. And I'm getting really sick of the word "parasol"...never knew there was such an annoying word. There are a few really good songs (Sweet the Sting, Original Sinsuality, and Hootchie Woman) but generally, there's too much of a floaty soft rock vibe, not in a fun trancey Radiohead way, and not enough variety to sound to break it up. I blame lack of editing and laziness. If you cut the album by about 4 songs--especially the ones that sound just like songs on Scarlet's Walk--it'd be 100% better.
Listened to Tori's new album on repeat today at work, in an attempt to distract myself from this waste of my life (verifying data. woohoo!!). The result--I'm calm, but not so much impressed. Tori's getting long-winded and kinda boring. And I'm getting really sick of the word "parasol"...never knew there was such an annoying word. There are a few really good songs (Sweet the Sting, Original Sinsuality, and Hootchie Woman) but generally, there's too much of a floaty soft rock vibe, not in a fun trancey Radiohead way, and not enough variety to sound to break it up. I blame lack of editing and laziness. If you cut the album by about 4 songs--especially the ones that sound just like songs on Scarlet's Walk--it'd be 100% better.