Shut up Miley Cyrus and your whole family too.

It's funny that she's not sorry and apologizing for stupid photos she takes of herself (every damn week), but after taking some really beautiful photos with famed photographer Annie Leibovitz she comes out of no where to apologize for being "duped" by Vanity Fair when she and her family all saw the photos first AND approved them. No one would be talking about the photos or caring about them if she hadn't made a big deal of apologizing.

So... nice publicity stunt Miley. DUMB. You and your family are DUMB.

She's not a victim here - except that she should have been grounded by her family weeks ago for pictures she HERSELF took. So... Shut up Miley, Shut up Miley's Family.

Today I had a Spanish exam and believe I got 100% on it - so YAYYYYY. Also, less than 30 more days of Spanish and I never have to study it again - WOOOOOOO.

I just joined Jillian Michaels weight loss program through Facebook. Immediately I received the instructions "Do any cardio today, 30-60 minutes". And it was funny how my brain instantly reacted: "Oh, okay, Cardio! Today I do 30-60 minutes of cardio! YES Jillian!" It was as if she was right here kicking my butt.

So we'll see how this goes. The next 30 days are not going to be easy as I finish school, but I'll do what I can until school is over. THEN I'll kick butt.

Plus: School is almost over - YAYYYYYYY!!!!

Rest in Peace, Steve Sremac. I hope more than anything that your wife will also find peace in the times to come.

To the rest of you: I will be writing about this later and asking a favor of you all. I hope some of you can help with my request.

What the heck is wrong with the teachers in Tampa, Florida???
I can't even stomach the thought of ... ugh... Spike's 17 year old friends... *barf*...
much less a 14 year old!!!

And I don't really get why we as a society would not be outraged about an adult female teacher having sex with a 14 year old student, because things would certainly be different if these were men having sex with female students.

I'm starving.

So ends the update of the day.

TMZ now says Brit's new shrink just called for another trip to the hospital for another nice quiet rest. They say there was no suicide attempt.

Good. A hospital stay is better than her crying in the street.

I don't know why I'm so fascinated with her... I think there's just a part of me that does understand her, a little.

I need to go to bed.

Britney...

TMZ is reporting that there are lots of cops and helicopters at Britney's house again (midnight now) and X17 is reporting that she's attempted suicide - but X17 is usually full of crap.
As much fun as she's given me this last year though, I hope it didn't come to this - and then again, that's what this is all leading to, right? even if she didn't tonight, that's what everyone is waiting for.

Well, I'm not waiting for that, I love the Crazy, but I don't love the mentally ill and I hate that she makes no attempt to get her kids back. So I'm always torn about her, between hating her and feeling sorry for her. But every day I succumb and pull up TMZ to get the morning Britney news and then X17 to get the crap news. And sometimes I take a second and look at the many pictures X17 puts up (in the name of "helping Britney") and just stop and think, "That's a real girl there, that's a really sad girl who knows she has no friends."

Last night I saw the film of her crying in the street and I could hear a female photog saying in what sounded like a very concerned voice,"Britney, do you need to talk to somebody?" And it was so sad because she so obviously does and she so obviously needs someone, but how do you find that friend when you're Britney and have created this world yourself, this world that won't let you get help for yourself. I'm not talking about getting mental help, I'm talking about finding someone she can trust, a real friend.

So I hope she's okay. I want my Crazy Britney back who I can laugh at. Crazy Britney at least seemed happy. I don't like worrying about a fellow mother, and even though she never had the skills, she is a fellow mother.

Heath Ledger has died.
I just find this so terribly sad.
Who didn't fall in love with him after seeing 10 Things I Hate About You?
And yet Amy Winehouse, though unbelievable talented, is still out and alive and smoking crack.
The world is a terribly sad place sometimes.

This storm is a little out of hand, in my opinion. It's no hurricane Katrina by any means, but this time it's not just Californians whining because our windshields are wet. This is some major craziness - and sirens non-stop outside. My lawn is a gigantic puddle, which is pretty amazing because we live in the foothills, on a slope. It shouldn't be possible for our grass to be submerged!

Last night the wind blew in our double front doors, busting the lock that secures the second door, and nothing will keep it closed now. We have the front doors now barricaded with:
2 Dining room chairs
1 HP Printer in the box
1 Basket of Laundry
1 Big heavy piece of wood

So far, they are staying closed now. But I'm not sure how we're supposed to get in or out of our house. The power went out last night but has been up today so far.

I am NOT driving to Aptos today. Heh. No way no how.

The cats are not happy either. "The HELL I'm going outside. You want me to do what? YOU go pee outside."

It does not make me happy to know that Scott is working out in this mess. I hope he stays safe and I hope he doesn't get sick.

Mexico in five days!

We just had a terribly big earthquake, and 20 minutes later I'm STILL shaking, but now that my heart is starting to slow I feel like I'm about to cry. That was huge. Nothing broke - but it was a rolling one (30 seconds long!) it just seemed like it went on forever. It was NOT fun. Californians are pretty blase about earthquakes so I sat in my chair waiting for it to end (the cats hightailed it out of here PRONTO) but eventually I tried to make it to the doorway because I wasn't sure WHAT was going to happen. MANNNNN. I hope there's no aftershocks tonight... I'm just not up for it.

update: AND all the phone lines are down. House phone and cell phones... :-(

You can take off somewhere else ANY time now.

Banks

Waddaya know, they did not charge me the extra five fees either. They only left one on, which is fine, I'll accept that fee.

In answer to some of your comments:

1. Yes, Edward Jones keeps most of my money. I just keep a year's worth of funds in the Wells Fargo savings.
2. I have a Starbucks Visa and a mileage Visa. I use them for most everything and pay them off every month and get points or miles for each. Occassionally I use the debit card instead though... usually always for the small things like lunch in the cafeteria, but I happened to use it for school shopping this time.
3. I do have online banking, I just had not checked it over the weekend and honestly I wasn't worried about it. Wells Fargo has the equivalent of one year salary in my savings and I ASSumed that I had overdraft protection. So I didn't think it mattered if I accidentally went under on the weekend.

So no, I'm not going to change banks over what is now only one $34 fee. Even if they had kept all the fees I wouldn't have changed - when they switched me to this new account it was a NIGHTMARE for one month as I individually switched over every single thing that automatically comes out of my bank. It's not worth it. But thanks for all your advice!

And I still hate them.

Hot Starbucks on a Hot Day

Wouldn't you know it, Starbucks turned their air conditioner off! Because it got too hot! It's so warm here they even took out all their salads and cheeses because they would spoil.

I hate summer. Bring on the winter.

Fresh out of rehab, Lindsay Lohan was arrested last night for chasing a car down the freeway while D-R-U-N-K aaaaaaaaaand forgetting to take the cocaine out of her pocket before they arrived at the police station.

This has to be the best year for "Celebrity It Girls Going DOOOWN" evah!

Britney goes crazy, Paris goes to jail, and Nicole and Lindsay will be doing time before the year is out. Not only do I love the drama, but I love that my teenage daughter and others are finally seeing the consequences of their lifestyle.

Have fun Lindsay.

The house is again in the 90s inside. The cats and I are dieing. Well, Phoebe and I are here wilting away, Lord only knows where Pischina-kitty took off to. I even tried to turn the air conditioner on - yes, we have one but it only cools down the five foot square area right in front of it. Since it's only me home, there was no one to fight with over that little area. But it kept tripping the circuit. So whatever.

Oh yeah, this is the time of year I get to hate Catie and her air conditioning.

So tonight we're going to go to the movies when Spike gets off work. Buffy is at her air conditioned dad's house right now, so we'll pick her up at 8pm, then off to the air conditioned theater to see Live Free or Die Hard, or whatever it's called. I don't really care what it's called or who's in it, I just want to be cool.

These are the days when the news that Mexico is going to be extremely hot when we're there doesn't scare me at all. Oh, it's going to be 125 degrees in Mexico but I'll be living on an air conditioned ship for 8 days? Yeah, I'm so scared.

Ssssshhh, Judge Judy just started.

In other "real" news, the American Bald Eagle is off the endangered species list. YAYYY! I remember when I lived in Alaska as a kid there was a bald eagle who lived by our house, and every time we let our little maltese outside we had to check first for the eagle. He would swoop our poor little dog and try to grab her if the eagle was outside! Regardless, I always loved the bald eagle, and I'm glad it is no longer endangered.

The Bully Cycle

edited to add even more below.

So I'm watching the news today and all the Paris Hilton/Larry King recapping, and once again I really am disappointed in our media coverage - although I don't think Paris even qualifies as "news", but if you're going to report, do your research and report accurately.

It seems that everyone feels that the big bad bully (Paris) has been pulled off her pedestal, so now it's okay for US to be the bullies. Isn't that how it works? We're all better than Paris now because we didn't go to jail, so to make us feel even better about ourselves we're going to keep kicking her just to prove a point.

First of all, Larry King conducted a stupid interview.
Larry: "Do you have your license back?"
Paris: "Yes, it is fully reinstated."
Larry: "So you won't be driving anymore, right?"
Paris: "I, uh, what?"

Why would she not drive? She has a license, fully reinstated. Apparently Paris needs to become Saint Paris in order for Larry to forgive her. He tried to push her into saying she won't ever drink again. Give me a break, let's all please act like adults here and acknowledge that we never saw Paris slumped over in her car with her mouth hanging open (Lindsay!) or bashing a car with an umbrella after shaving her head (Britney!) or driving the wrong way on the highway (Nicole!). She did drink and drive, that is inexcusable, but she did her time, and she did more time than most people do for that crime. She may prove me wrong but I don't think she's going to do that again, and she has the resources to pay for other options. She doesn't have to join the Amish, she doesn't have to wear high buttoned up collars, she doesn't have to adopt seven orphans from third world countries to change her ways.

Today on the news they slammed her for not having the details already set for how she's going to give charitably. SHE JUST GOT OUT OF JAIL for gawd's sake. How is she going to set up a charitable foundation in 48 hours?? She DID mention the causes she wanted to help, and she DID say she was willing to work with MADD. But there was no mention of that on the news.

She was slammed for not being able to instantly name her favorite Bible passage after Larry King asked the question completely out of left field. I have read the Bible and I'm afraid if I was put on the spot to answer that question I'd probably say "The story of Noah's Ark" which would sound pretty dumb, eh?

Believe me, I hate that I am defending Paris Hilton. I shut down our televisions for two years partly because I was so disgusted with "The Simple Life". But we can't all just jump on the lynching wagon here, that doesn't make us better than her. If you haven't given up drinking, can't name your favorite Bible passage, don't have a charitable foundation in your name and/or spend quite a lot of visible time donating your time and money, and haven't spend 23 days in jail then you cannot keep stomping Paris Hilton into the ground unless she shows that her lesson has not been learned. She did her time, she says she wants to do good in this world now, and I think we should all leave her alone and let her get on with her life.

Another reporter this morning AGAIN claimed that Paris has no job and does "nothing". Except that Paris listed out the things she does and she is correct: She has made movies, written a best-selling book, had her own jewelry line, stars in a very successful television show. That doesn't mean she is talented or that she succeeded in all her ventures, but that doesn't mean she doesn't work. If you're going to hold yourself to such high standards as we are calling for Paris then I hope all of us are president of the companies we work for. I know I am not.

Lindsay, Brittney, Paris and Nicole, I have ranted and railed against each of these girls at various times in the years I have been writing. And until Brittney went wacko I probably hated Paris more than any of them. I absolutely loved that she was sent to jail, twice, and I spent time gleefully laughing at her. But she did it, she completed her time, she completed 90% more time than the average person does for that crime, and she is coming out of jail stating that she is going to make changes that the average person does NOT make. It is time to step back and see what she is going to do (good or bad), it is NOT time to put her on an even higher, saintly pedestal and wait for her to fall off, and it is WAY past time for the media to start reporting accurately instead of like little spoiled brats.

edited to add:
Speaking of spoiled brats, The Today Show really earned that title today. They lost their coveted "first interview" with her so they conducted a horrendous interview this morning bashing her. The female reporter had obviously not even seen the interview as she contradicted what happened several times so she could just report what The Today Show wanted you to hear (the bashing of Paris). Her interviewee, from TV Guide, made comments like "Paris spent a lot of time complaining about the food." Well that's because stupid Larry King spent a lot of time asking her about the food. This is a Larry King defect, not a Paris Hilton defect. "Her written notes were pathetic." Well, yes, they were. Paris is stupid and uneducated, she wasn't taking university classes in jail, and her drawings were borderline mentally or emotionally retarded. Does that mean she's a bad, unforgivable person? No. "There was no point of contrition." Blatantly untrue. She absolutely said she was wrong to drink and drive, she said she hopes others learn their lesson from her and was happy to say that she received letters from people stating so, she said she would work with MADD, and she said she had a lot of lessons to teach her future daughter. "...and she complained that she was treated unfairly." She did say this, and she is also correct. The fact is, normal people serve 10% of their sentence for the crime she committed. I think it took the 23 days for her to learn her lesson, but the fact is that she was treated more harshly than the average person. It is also a fact that she did NOT complain, but said that things happen for a reason, that she learned a lesson and hoped to teach others from it.

The fact is, she did not act like a spoiled brat on Larry King. It is the media who are acting spoiled and holier than thou. US Magazine, you're fooling nobody with your "100% Paris Free" issue. You didn't score the first interview but you'll be back to reporting on her just as soon as you can.

I don't care if she drives, I don't care if she parties or drinks while she parties. It would just be nice to see her put some good into this world that has treated her so kindly up til now. That's how you live a good life, by giving as much good as is given to you. There should be no person in this world bashing Paris unless they are holding themselves to just as high a standard.

edited also to add: Yes, She flat out lied when she said she never used drugs before, as the pictures of her smoking pot and openly carrying pot in her purse have been all over the internet for forever. This is where Larry King should have stepped in and called her on it. In the end, I don't really care what Paris does... I just would like the media to start reporting stuff accurately. Larry did a shit job yesterday, and the rest of the media did a shit job of reporting on it today. So let that be the end of any Paris update from me for quite a long while. Whew!

I am happy for Paris, that she is home now. I look forward to seeing what she's going to do next.
As a firm Paris/Lindsay/Britney hater, I actually think Paris may now turn her life around. We'll see.

(But you know I look forward to all the news!!)

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA.....

My silly silly silly little wanna-be-big-time city...

It seems that the police have a lot of problems at 2am when the bars close here. Drunken, rowdy crowds don't wanna go home and the police are tired of fighting with them.

The solution?

They just passed a new ordinance allowing the bars to stay open until 3am.

Yep. That'll solve the problem. (am I the only one who doesn't get the logic here???)

Also... it's a good nice lesson for Paris' parents.

Paris Hilton

Heee.

So she's back in jail, and I almost feel sorry for her - no really, I do. Not that I'm not laughing (because I am, oh I really really am), but I feel for her. I mean - who actually gets sent back to jail? I've never even heard of that ever happening.

This is my opinion - if she had served the whole thing to begin with, she could have come out of it smelling like the sweetest rose ever and it would have been an even bigger boon to her "career". But she wouldn't have learned a damn thing. By being let out early she pretty much thumbed her nose at us all, and I think she probably would have taken a big hit - although she still would have been worshipped by the teenage population. But I don't think she would have learned a damn thing. But now... Now I think she is actually learning a lesson.

I don't think she needs to serve 45 days, it's widely reported that us regular people would have been let out early too. Honestly I'd be happy if she just spent another ten days. I mean, if she can't hack 3 days, ten more days is going to be a lifetime. Heh. and Heee.

But don't you wonder if she may be a tiny little bit mentally retarded? Seriously? I mean - she acts like she is 19, and you might feel sorry for her going to jail for 45 days if she was 19... but she's not. She's TWENTY SIX FREAKING YEARS OLD. She isn't in prison, she's in jail. It's not even a Singapore jail, it's freaking County. Get over it. In that respect, I don't feel sorry for her. I mean... sit back and read a book for gawd's sake. I only feel a little bit for her because most people don't get let out and then sent right back - and you or I would be devasted if that happened to us too, whether we deserved it or not.

However I think certain other Hollywood "It" Girls had better be careful. (Lindsay! and Nicole!) Because the public tide is turning and people are getting tired of their misbehavior going without punishment.

Now I'm going to go back to laughing at her.

Phoebe update: She has been napping all morning, but now she's up and eating more food.

So Sunday morning and all financial sites are working now.
To be clear, I was not getting "page unavailable", I was getting the actual site with "online access temporarily unavailable" for every single financial site I visited. Everything else worked, just not sites pertaining to money.
Wells Fargo
Washington Mutual
Chase Visa
Another Visa site
SBC Pacbell (to pay a bill)
My financial advisor online site
All completely unrelated, all down and assets unavailable.

But anyway, they are all back up now. All my money is still there. So that's good.

So....
I went to pay my phone bill and that site is temporarily unavailable...
So I checked my financial account where all my stocks and bonds are held... temporarily unavailable.

Someone tell me this is not odd. At least six totally different financial sites "temporarily unavailable" at the same time.

Maybe we should have all kept our money under the mattress.

Very very very odd

So...
I tried to see if a check had cashed through my online banking, and it said the website is temporarily down.
So I went to the credit card site to see if the payment was posted yet. Online access is temporarily down.
So... I went to another card's site to check my balance... and online access is temporarily down.

Hopefully this isn't the Prologue to Handmaid's Tale come to life.

The worries of an English major, heh.

Also,

HAHA Paris.

So I was driving home today and lots of police cars were whizzing past with their sirens blasting, and they just kept on passing me heading in the direction of my house. I thought of calling Buffy to make sure that she and her friend, who had stayed home for 15 minutes alone, had not done something like blow the house to smithereens while I was gone, but decided that probably it wasn't my house they were going to.

And I got closer to my neighborhood and I could see where all the cops had stopped, right in the street around the shopping center where our Starbucks is. There were about 15 cop cars all blocking the northbound lane, and two fire engines and an ambulance and I could see a white car. There were cops in the street everywhere so we all had to drive extra slow past the accident. So I see the white car, which doesn't really look smashed, and some really upset looking people sitting on a curb talking to some cops, but I couldn't see any other car...

And then I saw the blanket

In the street

The yellow tarb just lieing in the street with an upturned hand sticking out one side.

It was pretty obvious that someone had run across that freakin road (speed limit 40mph) in the dark, and gotten hit by the white car. I looked in the parking lot and saw about twenty teens in a crowd looking FREAKED, and adult bystanders everywhere, also looking freaked, and I saw the yellow blanket, and got sick to my stomach and reached for my cell phone.

Buffy and her friend were indeed at my house, and I knew Spike was far far away - but that's our shopping center, that's where I spend a great deal of my life studying at Starbucks, that's where the kids hang out at McDonalds, that's where Scott and I eat at two different restaurants, that's our drug store and our bank and our bakery. That's where all the kids hang out. There was a good chance it was someone we knew, and I didn't like the size of the teenage crowd - I just kept thinking please please please don't let it be a kid.

After getting home and telling Buffy what happened I had to drive right past it again to drive her friend home, and after Buffy asked, decided to run to Starbucks really quickly to get something. Buffy really wanted to see what happened so I gave her 30 seconds to get her fill. I didn't want her to think it was appropriate to stare at things like that, but I didn't think it would hurt her to get a dose of life's reality - something Buffy just does not have.

She came back and said she heard it was a lady from the retirement care center across the street. One of the residents had come to identify the body, and was crying that she had told the lady not to cross there.

Why an old lady would decide to cross San Felipe Road in the dark, much less EVER, when there's a lighted intersection 50 feet further down, I will never understand.

I was glad it wasn't a kid, I was glad it wasn't someone my kids knew. I'm glad it's not someone who works at the shopping center, who I might know. I'm really really sorry for the lady and her family, and I probably feel even worse for the poor girls who hit her with their car. I fill sick to my stomache all day long if I hit a bird or small animal in my car, I can't imagine hitting and killing an actual person.

So that's what happened today. I didn't go to Cinequest because I needed to do my Archaeology paper (on Otzi, the frozen man from the Italian alps - exciting, no?) and we'll be there all weekend.

For gosh sakes everyone drive safely and DON'T CROSS A FAST ROAD IN THE DARK.

We interrupt Cinequest posts to announce that this stupid crashing of the stock market is pissing me THE FUCK OFF. I don't like seeing my money disappear like that!

We return now to Movies Movies Movies.

This is insane.
OJ is an Idiot with a Capital I.

Britney filed for Divorce!

That news is enough to make me log in here and post. Hallelujah!!

Also... this is my last 12 hours of being 39! WOOOOT!!!

Response to Comments:
Yeah, in theory, $300 for an exam, glasses and contacts is not bad.
But:
My $300 was for 2 exams, glasses, NO contacts, and I already had glasses but just can't find them. So really it was a stupid $300 to spend because if I hadn't lost my glasses I wouldn't have had to pay anything.

In reality, I know this isn't a bad price, but it's always easier if everything you have to pay for is spread out a bit more and not all lumped into one month of bill paying. The good news is I get paid next week and we'll be back on top. So no worries! ...well, only for a few days anyway, haha.

I fucking HATE the fourth of July.

And THAT is why Christina wins.

What is WRONG with this "woman"!!!

I think this picture is actually from the last pregnancy but I'm not sure and really, IT DOESN'T MATTER.
What matters is that it even HAPPENED.

And yes, those are her panties peeking out from her... unzipped... shorts... as she lights... her cigarette...

Honestly, I think Britney gets a slightly bum rap for her lacking parenting skills, I mean she kind of gets harped on for things that are NOT that big of a deal, but on the other hand she also makes a lot of CLEAR mistakes, but anyway, we do have to understand that papparrazzi is papparrazzi, and the entertainment media needs things to report, and I certainly wouldn't want them following ME around when I had little babies...

However.

Get a clue, Britney.

This has nothing to do with your parenting skills, and yet, it does question your lack of sanity. As if your marriage didn't already, and then the kid, and then the SECOND kid... but now you're going out to eat, in what appears to be a nice restaurant, wearing basically only your underwear??? I mean, sure, I see a pair of jeans there, and what I guess is supposed to be a... shirt... but basically you're in your underwear.

Stop complaining about the papparrazzi, is all I'm saying. You make it too easy. Even if I had had papparrazzi following me around everywhere, I guarantee you they would never, ever, ever catch me in public wearing only my underwear.

And you know, even with a baby on one hip I could still brush my hair.

Or they're upset about the exhibit showing Spears in a natural childbirth position when she reportedly underwent a Cesarean section.

What about the fact that this is NOT a natural childbirth position that I ever heard of, and that I don't know of any women who have given birth on a bear skin rug, and that it doesn't even remotely resemble Britney Spears...

...and that it really just looks like she's ready to take it in the behind?

I personally hate Britney Spears, but if I were her, I would be PISSED right now.

Wow, there is HUGE thunder outside, and lightning, and the lights at work even went off for a few seconds.

Happy First Day of Spring, eh?

God, SHUT UP Annie Proulx.

In this article the Pulitzer Prize-Winner actually changes the name of the film Crash to Trash (wow, that took imagination!), and refers to the Academy voters as "heffalumps". She also blasts them for giving best actor to Philip Seymour Hoffman. It appears she's livid because Brokeback Mountain didn't win every single award it was nominated for.

Get over it, Ms.Proulx. Brokeback Mountain was a good movie, it was a GREAT movie, but the best movie of all time in the entire universe it was NOT. Complain about losing while showing solid evidence if you like, but why would an award winning WRITER choose to complain with a childish tantrum? Shame on you.

... at 2930 Aborn Square in San Jose, California

is STILL TAKING MONEY FROM MY ACCOUNT.

That's right, ANOTHER $96 has come out of my account, and when I just called them...

Gloria, the office manager, hung up on me.

So I now have a case # with the Better Business Bureau. Fuckers.

Good lord, what happened in San Jose while I was in Aptos last night???

Aptos is nice, quiet, a little rainy here and there...

I drive into San Jose and am greeted by a freeway COVERED WITH PINE TREES (Highway 17 at Hamilton) like driving over a carpet of Christmas Trees and branches - CRAZY. Then I get into San Jose and every road has trees lying in the middle of it, branches, trees, debris, trees in yards, a huge tree at Red Lobster all uprooted with half their landscaping, fences down... I 've never seen anything like it.

Good job Mother Nature, you lived up to your reputation this time. ;-)

Meanwhile, I'm glad we don't own our backyard fence, heh. Plus, it fell into the neighbor's side.

I just gave blood for the first time ever in my whole life and you know what? You should too.

Well, it's going to be a good looking child, you can probably bet on that.

I find it odd and a bit hypocritical that companies who hired Kate Moss to pose in photos and ads where she appears to be some kind of spaced out crackwhore are now "shocked" and "saddened" to "find out" that she may actually BE a crackwhore.

It's okay to LOOK like one, and it's okay to use images of a crackwhore to sell millions of dollars of your product, it's just not okay to be caught actually snorting the stuff up your nose.

And don't think that I'm a Kate Moss fan, because I am NOT. I just am having a difficult time figuring out what these companies think they're accomplishing by firing her, or do they just think they're fooling us?

Scientists crack the DNA code of rice.

Yeah I know, I could hardly stay sitting down myself I was so excited.

So Spain and Canada have both approved Gay Marriage this week.

Who wants to bet the good ole U.S. of A. will be the very last place on earth to give their approval?

Okay today's the day.
4pm is the Memorial Service.

Happy Earth Day!!!
Do something good for the Earth today!

I just hope that after all this Terri-Schiavo-feeding-tube-mess that more people will make it crystal clear what they want done if they are ever in that position. Write it down, sign it. Otherwise the government is going to decide for you. Or someone else is going to make the wrong decision for you.

About this particular case - I don't know if I agree with removing a feeding tube. Machines that keep the body alive are one thing, but starving a person... I'm not sure. And that's why this case is so sad, and it's too bad that no one knew for sure what Terri wanted.

Scribble your wishes down on a paper, sign it and put it in your jewelry box - tell everyone where it is. Then you'll be safe if it happens to you. No, that's not a legal document, but it's better than nothing.

I'm going to bed now.

This is one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen on Amazon.com.

Flybar Model 1200

"Elevation potential of over 5 feet" ---- WHAT????

According to CNN, Julia Roberts gave birth Sunday morning and named her twins:

Hazel Patricia Moder and Phinnaeus Walter Moder

Those must have been some reeeeeeeeeeally good drugs.

Okay, THIS is why those fucking machines should not be used in elections!!!!!
There is something to be said for technology and progress, but in times like these, in circumstances like this, a nice PAPER TRAIL would be nice. I don't know why we need to know the results in such a rush anyway, we can certainly cool our heals and wait for two weeks in order to get, say... oh I don't know... an ACCURATE COUNT????

edit: I'm not complaining just because I'm not happy about the results, I just want ACCURATE results. No matter what or who wins. I would like to know that those numbers were correct.

Congratulations,
We're now the Fools of the World.

It's bad enough that we have to live through another four years of Bush, but did BigBoss *have* to do a Happy Jig for me this morning, while singing "Happy Days are Here Again"???

Okay, so I was planning to do the exact same thing to him if Kerry won.

Whatever.

I really wasn't happy with Kerry anyway, I really wasn't happy with him at all. But he wasn't Bush. Another four years. Lovely. I suppose the country will finally be ready for change after that.

Right?

I have nothing else to say

I was up pretty late last night so I was expecting to wake up this morning and hear the dreaded news that Bush had won.
I was certainly NOT expecting to hear they were still counting Ohio votes.

Whatever.

Kerry lost, Dudes.

But at least California did our part.

I think I'm going to puke. What is wrong with people???

No weeks of waiting, and a better ending please

Well it was four long years ago that I started my first blog. I tried to find archives of that first one but apparently they've gotten lost somewhere in the many changes I've made. The reason I remember the beginning so well is because I know the first posts I made were during election night during the Bush/Gore race. I almost started biting my nails again that evening.

Let's please have a different ending to this one.

A very excellent editorial on the bible and gay marriage.
From Nicholas D. Kristoff, in the New York Times.
You do have to sign up for an account with NYT to view it so I don't know if you'll be able to view the link, but they do have a privacy thing-a-ma-jig, and the article is really very good, so please just go get a user name and read the editorial all the way through.

My next essay in Critical Thinking will be 750 words about the Abu Ghraib prison.

And may I please say that since magazines and newspapers did not print most of those pictures, and me without TV, I have managed to miss most of them and had no idea they were so bad.

We should be ashamed of ourselves. The line between Us and Them has more than blurred in this case. It makes me sick that I have to write an essay using those pictures.

I tried to post this as a comment in Sabby's blog, but I cannot, so anyway I am posting it here.

"I don't remember the mail EVER closing down for something not a national holiday. And this is NOT a national holiday. I was also expecting mail, and I am pissed off that I didn't get it. So I guess nothing can stop the mail, not wind nor rain nor snow nor hail, unless Ronald Reagan dies. If this was a regular thing to happen when a president dies that would be a different story, but it's not, and Ronald Reagan was NOT the greatest president of the century, and really, this is all just ridiculous. I wish the election would hurry up and get here already."

Do not try arguing with me about Reagan's greatness, I'm 37 years old and I remember him quite well. You will not change my mind. The main point is, the mail is the mail. It needs to be delivered. And I am STILL pissed off that it wasn't.

Okay, right, um.... This is just stupid.
Paris, we all know you've kissed more trolls than that and we've all seen you having sex right here on our family computers, why are we supposed to care that you kissed Carmen Electra?

J-Lo marries Marc Anthony

Oh J.Lo!!! After this next divorce can you just go get a therapist and learn to be happy without a man??

Oh, SHUT UP, OJ. Just Shut. Up.

It has been about 94 all week and we are unable to move or even communicate by computer.

Actually, the computer is so hot it just asked me for a margarita.

I refused to give him one. But I have some Yellowtail Shiraz in the fridge and I'm going to open it right now.

Scott is at air-conditioned StarBucks, he'll be here soon.

I'll need to put a bowl of ice cubes next to the bed, heee.

And now folks, from his own website, the Man who Wants to Be President.

I have to somehow forget that image before election day.

From Kim's site I found this, you can see who your neighbors supported in the presidential campaign. I'm not even sure I like that you can find this out...

I was quite surprised to see that most of my neighbors supported Howard Dean, and a lot of Gephardt too. I put in Scott's address and it was all Kucinich-Kucinich-Kucinich, heh. But that's Santa Cruz for you.

Court opens door to searches without warrants.

I find that just unbelievable.

link via my friend Kate.

Gay Marriages have arrived, where is the Apocolypse???

Very funny article.

Here's another way to help prevent the Federal Marriage Amendment. The ACLU is sending faxes to lawmakers on behalf of their constituents. You can have one sent here.

Thanks much to K-Lo for this link. Go save our Constitution from idiocy here.

49ers Suck Anyway

Jeff Garcia leaving the 49ers...

hahahaha.....

I hate them so much. I like Jeff okay, but my mother in law loved telling EVERYONE WHO WOULD LISTEN that she knew him and his parents, and I think this is hilarious. She is probably fuming mad right now.

You have to know my mother in law, but trust me, this is great, hee.

Wow. That's just... Wow.
I wouldn't have that guy in my house, that's all.

"The Spirit rover went for its longest trip yet on the surface of Mars, traveling just over 88 feet."
I know I should be amazed at this development, ...but 88 feet?
Sorry, Not amazed.

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