Should I feel like more of a woman after spending the evening nursing my daughter while watching The Vagina Monologues and doing kegels?

I love how the newscaster warns viewers to usher children and sensitive people out of the room before airing a video that didn't even show anything all that gruesome. They blurred out the killing of the turkeys anyway.

What I don't understand is that if it is so terrible then why do so many people support it? If something is so horrific that we cannot even show it on the evening news, is it really something we should be spending our money to support? Do people really need to be protected from the fact that animals suffer when they are kept in confined spaced, pumped with antibiotics, and slaughtered so we can carry on a stupid tradition? Are people so dense that they believe turkeys just magically appear on the table for holiday meals? Why are you protecting our children from knowing the truth? Are you afraid they might now want to eat the poor birdie?

This year I will be enjoying three thanksgiving dinners, on three different nights, all without a turkey and I won't feel like I have been cheated at all. I have so many things to be thankful for this year and one thing that makes me happy is knowing that no animals suffered in order for me to enjoy my dinner.

For some reason the news channel staff could not pick a single phrase to describe the scene in the above video. I have never seen so many phrases for one story. I would be super thankful if you all told me your favorite line from the newscast.

Poll #1301310 And now we all play newsroom!
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Which line best describes this bizzare scene with Gov. Palin?

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I've had a couple of weird dreams recently, last night I dreamt of a zombie apocalypse with super zombies... that were slow moving but regened and were super strong.

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so i decided, randomly that i would check out how LJ is doing, considering i haven't logged on in like, ages. i miss it in a way, but somehow i don't think i'd be able to get back into writing in it. i guess i'll do a bit of an update, anyways though.

-me and mike ended things a few weeks ago. it was extremely hard, and still is hard, but it had to be done. i wasn't happy. there was too much arguing, fighting, bickering. it wasn't the same. things changed. he was the first boy i ever really loved, and i don't regret any of it. he's still my best friend, and he always will be.

-school is stressful. i'm making up credits i didn't earn when i was really sick in grade 9 and 10 so while everyone is off at college i'm stuck in this limbo of high school courses online. i have to apply for college soon and i'm kind of nervous. i don't know what i'm going to do, but probably something like graphic design or media arts. maybe small business entreprise. i also love the idea of esthetician/make up artist. my original idea of vet tech is still probably the #1 thing i would want to do if i could, but the hours are long and there are tons of overnight shifts in the co-op program and i know i wouldn't last it..

-other than that, things are kind of boring. i've been sicker lately, like i usually get around this time of year, which has got me kinda down. but i'm trying my best to stay positive and hopefully i won't have any unexpected ER visits this winter. overall though, i'm doing better now then i was last year at this time, so i'm happy about that.

Not much else i can say right now..can't say i'll be writing again any time soon..but maybe...we'll see!

hope all is well with everyone. i miss reading everyone's journals..probably more than writing in my own. haha.

is so goth she's black. Lol!

don't tell me you're offended by my words suburbanite
if they were bullets then trust me, you'd die tonight
if they're not powdering your face and making you look well
you're brickwalling your ears telling me to go to hell

where's the cake? i think you took it
when we looked at the sky, and said you, "compare me to it"
you are nowhere near as vast, but twice as empty
you're a revolving satellite mocking the stars in envy
you, like the moon, can't shine without the sun
you don't approve until you get the approval of everyone

how many people must see you cry?
how many people must lend their time
before your aches for loving attention can be soothed?
just remember how important your importance is to you
and i'm sure that you can feel for you...

so good night
good night suburbanite
hope the mirror is more polite

Here is Dagny BEFORE we gave her a bath. She looks suspicious but I know she could not know what was coming. Here she is ( AFTER )

what are your favorite children's books? anything from baby to young adult.

Is it wrong that I amuse myself by reading about the peoples of Siberia?

I want to become a shaman so that I can turn into a bird and fly away...

People are so goddamn ignorant sometimes.

I got kicked out of my dorm for being suicidal. Why? Because disciplinary action has to be taken for the "offense" of wanting to hurt yourself. Why? Because hurting yourself is automatically lumped in with wanting to hurt other people. Seriously. In the handbook it's literally stated as "hurt yourself/hurt others". With a goddamn slash!

I'm offended. Very offended. I almost kill myself, and you kick me out of my dorm for that? You're punishing me for a neurochemical condition that's a danger ONLY TO MYSELF?!?!?! All my psychiatrists and therapists know I have no intention or risk of hurting anyone except myself. That's been established for a LONG time. NEVER have I EVER hurt, or threatened to hurt, anyone else. Only myself (because I probably deserve it, but now is not the time for whining).

Suicide=/=homicide. Seriously. NOT ONLY is this ridiculous, they didn't even have the courtesy to send me a letter. I found out secondhand and had no idea what was even going on until I asked the RA from my floor and checked in the residence handbook. I have to go to a judicial-type hearing with the Res Life people and maybe even appear before the fucking school administration! AND they haven't answered any of my mom's calls. That's just uncalled for. SHE pays the bills, and has every right to be told definitively what's going on.


If Res Life is going to be like this, fuck it, I want an apartment next semester.

I'm thinking of trying to utilize this as a way to publish my, err, "sociological research" I've been doing on scene kids.

Hell, it's worth a shot. Rejection letters are no big deal.

My camera seems to have potentially bitten the proverbial dust. I think it might have gotten wet or something. o.o This sucks, because I won't get a new one until Christmas (unless I buy it myself, which I might, depending on the price). NOW how am I supposed to take stupid MySpace pictures?! Bah.

I made a ton of jewelry lately; I want to put some of it up on eBay, but noooooo, my camera had to become incapacitated. I'm getting much better at making the aforementioned jewelry. I made this really pretty lapis and pearl necklace with a matching bracelet and matching earrings. That one I want to keep, but some of the pretty shell stuff I made, I'm not sure I'm really going to wear, so I'd rather sell them. I wish I had pictures. :-( I'm proud of my work.

Otherwise, recently got suicidal, went to the hospital (ftr, mental hospitals suck; it's like being in jail, lol), got better, read a shitload of books on cognitive linguistics, and decided it was a little, err, over my head. Too abstract. Too... mathy... -.- ... So we meet again, Math.


Speaking of learnings, I'm into space-related stuff lately. I've always been into cosmology and radio astronomy, but now I'm on a space travel and solar system kick. That brings me to the third phrase in the title of this blog.
The first extrasolar planets to be found orbited an unexpected object: a pulsar star. I won't get into what pulsars are or whatever, but they were not really expected to have planets. Three rocky, Earthlike planets (NOT in the sense of water and life! Only in the sense of being rocky, not gaseous!) were detected around the pulsar PSR B1257+12 Worst name EVAR! Why couldn't it have been a star with a pretty name, like Vega or Altair or Sirius (in which case one of the planets would probably hsave been named Harry Potter or some such nonsense, eliciting from me a vigorous *headdesk*). But no, the *headdesk* was a response to what the public wanted to call these exciting, awe-inspiring new findings of science. National Public Radio (aka NPR) held a competition for names for them (which annoyed the astronomers, who like to be completely sure something really exists before even thinking about naming it). The winners were: are you ready?: Larry, Curly, and Moe.
DAMN YOU, POPULAR CULTURE!!! WHAT the HELL?! What is wrong with people? And this is NPR!!! Elitist public radio for elitist pseudo-intellectuals such as myself!!

Just imagine the cover of Nature or Scientific American: "INTELLIGENT LIFE DISCOVERED ON PLANET LARRY". Now does THAT sound impressive to you, a testament to the power of science and empiricism, and to the human search for knowledge? NO. It's silly. Silly names do not belong on important things!


That is all. Good day to you, gentlemen.

... and ladies.

if these ceilings were vaulted i could have grown so much taller
if the books i read weren't so lengthy my brain'd be much smaller
if the hare beat the tortoise that would be okay
because i'm not the best at keeping a steady pace
i barely get half way down the curving road
before i run out of breath or something big gets in my way...

i once had a gold fish i kept in a fishbowl
i changed the water once monthly, fed him once daily
he was a good fish but when he grew old
i felt bad he never even outgrew his fishbowl

i once had a hypostomus plecostomus whose name was artemus
with him i tried my best to not make the same mistake twice
so when he reached the right age i took him outside
to live in a big pond with mud dogs, lots of algae and some friendly bullfrogs

then i went off to college, saw europe, and jumped out of perfectly good airplanes
i did lots of different things so many times that eventually they all seemed the same
so i went back home to see if my old road still curved 'round the bend the same way

i found that it did but its expanse didn't tire me, it passed by quicker than happy hours at a party
i went fishing one night when i thought the fish might bite because in the sky- stars looked so starry
it turns out that i was right- very first cast i got a strike- caught a whale of a sharky who said his name was arty

if these walls were more solid i would never have broken through
if the books i read were thin as my wallet my thoughts would be tragically acute
i hear the hare didn't beat the tortoise but that's okay
because the hare's poised to finally get there someday
i barely get half way down the curving road
before i take a deep breath and prepare to conquer what's in my way...

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I have removed a few people from my friends list because I felt as though it needed to be siphoned. Removal is likely due to one of the following reasons:

1) There has been little or no interaction between us.
2) There seems to be little or no connection between us.

I mean no offense. If you believe I've made a mistake for whatever reason, feel free to let me know.

Otherwise, please kindly remove me from your friends list.

he wishes for things that he doesn't earn
and to know things that he'll never learn
he's missing the point
he's missing the point

he turns his back when the light is over yonder
he accepts word of mouth he refuses to ponder
he's missing the point
he's shutting the door
he's opening his mouth just to say
"i don't care anymore"

someone pulled the lever
that lets him endeavor
the backs of his eyelids
and cast unto him what the world is not

someone pull back the curtain
although the sunlight may hurt him
he must see his own folly
and the ridicule in thinking his life is for not

he doesn't believe
but he'll make believe
these colors and shapes
mean nothing
they blur in his mind
the hues they bleed through the lines
an excuse for an exit strategy
what is he thinking?

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