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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
spacebabie
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11:46a
It's been way too damn long since I had Popeye's. I forgot how their mashed potatoes and gravy had a tasty and spicy kick to it that's much better than KFC.
Nearly had a panic attack this morning because a freaking wasp landed on my arm. Then it went into my hair, and then onto the hand of the nice man who tried to get it out of my hair and then on the ground where I tried to stomp and grind the little bastard three times before it flew away. Evil bastard.
Back to the chicken. *Makes Homer Simpson sounds* Hmmmmm ahhhhh.
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(1 comment | comment on this) Friday, November 6th, 2009
spacebabie
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6:56p
Yeouch
Bad papercut today.
I got a magazine in the mail. It came in a clear wrapping with some stiff thick paper advertisment. Well as I ripped into the wrapping my finger slid right into the edge of the thick paper. Mofo papercut bled a lot as well.
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(comment on this) Thursday, November 5th, 2009
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gregx
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4:59p
Landmark Supreme Court Cases
This got e-mailed me to me. It's totally ripped from "America The Book", but it's hilarious, so I'll re-post it.
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Established the principle of "judicial review" - that the Supreme Court has the power to declare laws unconstitutional. Before that, the Court only had the power to check laws for spelling and punctuation.
Dred Scott (1856)
The Court finds that Dred Scott, a fugitive slave, is not a person but property, and therefore is entitled neither to file suit in a federal court nor to remain free in the North. Not the verdict Scott was hoping for. Historians agree the Court battle sapped him and when he went back to being a slave, his heart just wasn't in it.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
The Court upholds segregation and the constitutionality of the "separate but equal" doctrine. The ruling was intended to keep Plessy, a notorious womanizer, away from Ferguson, whose wife was quite comely. However, in one of the wackiest mishaps in judicial history, it was used to keep an entire race of people down for half a century.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
Again with the black people. Only this time, there's a twist: The Court overturned the Plessy ruling, declaring the establishment of separate public schools for black and white students inherently unequal. This landmark verdict paved the way for integration, the Civil Rights Movement and the Beastie Boys.
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
The Court rules suspects must be informed of their legal rights upon arrest. The resulting "Miranda Warning" safeguards defendants from abuse and self-incrimination. It also requires the two police officers handling a suspect's interrogation to adopt diametrically opposed attitudes toward that suspect, with one taking a more benevolent approach while the other, perhaps a loose cannon with nothing left to live for, takes a more malevolent tack.
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Abortion lovers rejoice! The Court rules that the right to privacy protects a woman's decision to have an abortion and the fetus is not a person with constitutional rights, thus ending all debate on this once-controversial issue.
Godzilla v. Megalon (1973)
In a rare foray into international law, the Court agreed to settle a dispute between two giant monsters rampaging through the Japanese countryside. In a 7-2 decision, the Court found Megalon's emission of lightning from his horn-like appendage did not constitute a violation of Godzilla's civil rights. Frustrated by the decision, Godzilla and attorney Melvin Belli destroyed Tokyo.
Roe v. Brown (1978)
Due to public demand, the winnders of Roe v. Wade and Brown v. Board of Education go head-to-head in an elimination match televised on ABC's Wide World of Sports. The right to have an abortion was upheld 8-1 over the right to desegregated public institutions. Chief Justice Warren Burger later called his participation in this event "the most regrettable incident in my entire career."
Bush v. Gore (2000)
The Court votes 5-4 to stop the recount in the disputed Florida election, effectively handing George W. Bush the presidency. In a remarkable coincidence, each justice's decision aligns exactly with his or her party affiliation - an accidental synchronicity a lonely, unemployed Al Gore muses on each and every night as he cries himself to sleep.
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1:58p
Is it me or should they have had the premiere of the new V tonight instead of on Tuesday?
We're watching the first season of Trueblood on Netflix. Jason Stackhouse is such a slut and a himbo.
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(comment on this) Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
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gregx
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12:42p
Since I think Karine and Patrick are interested.
From 4Kids.tv:
"We're excited to announce that the world premier of the "Turtles Forever" movie will take place on SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 at 10 a.m. on The CW4Kids TV. "Turtles Forever" will air on TV ONE TIME ONLY! Check your local listings.
The classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from the 1980’s are back with a new adventure set in the present day with the Turtles of the 21st Century! Experience more TMNT action than ever before.*
Keep checking the TMNT blog for new TMNT "Turtles Forever" details as we get closer to the "Turtles Forever" movie world premier! PLUS 4Kids.tv will be doing lots of fun "Turtles Forever" activities, Papercraft, exclusive trailers, and MUCH MORE!"
Trailer should go live Friday. There is a Bebop paper toy available now and there will be DAILY blog updates leading up to the premier starting later today.
Cheers
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11:29a
Pretty Good B-day.
I got several new Xanth Books from my parents plus a small decorative pillow that says. "Let' get this straight. My grandchild is a cat?" Cat would be a possible nickname for Kaitlin. My parents also set me my old baby cup and silverware and my baby book.
I came home from work and had a couple of birthday cupcakes Will got me along with a bowl of Bluebell blueberry cheesecake ice cream.
We also watched the new V.
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12:37a
i worked today. first day at brookstone as a lowly associate. and i hated it.
how many times have i been asked this?
Random Person: don't you miss working?
Me: no
Random: really? i'd go crazy.
Me: i keep myself occupied.
really? i hate fucking working. at least when i'm not working, i can find things i like to do to kill time, instead of doing things i hate doing.
what kind of things do i hate doing?
being nice to people when i don't feel like it. strangers and working associates. pretending to care about something i don't. knowing i can do the managers job and doing the minimal of low man on totem pole and worse... not getting paid what i'm worth.
i really totally need an independant source of moneys than a shitty retail job. going back to school and getting a teaching job would still be nice if i could make that opportunity happen. think i might also still end up trying to shape up and judicial marshall or maybe even become a correctional officer. the latter i was signed up to test for years ago, and didn't end up going because i knew i wouldn't be able to do the agility/running. it was a mile and a half in 11 1/2 minutes. well thats been cut down drastically to something like 2-300 meters in so many minutes.
no matter, unless i go into business for myself at some point, i'm going to hate my daily life. i *need* to do something, whether its write or sell those godforsaken bears or something.
pah and "feh", why couldn't i just stay fake optimistic with this shitty retail job? pretend to like it and all that. i'm fucking sick of wasting my own time toiling for other peoples shitty needs.
seriously, that mantra i used to chant of "this is all that there is to this job". if i just analyze slightly below the surface of it... unless your doing what you wanna do with your life, your wasting your time... your life... your getting a little closer day by day, minute by minute, to the actual moment of your death by doing something you dislike or hate.
"Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero", no one really does that do they? a few lucky people in actuality.
i've experienced one technically 5 and a half hour day, and i already know that i'm in a very wrong place in my life. maybe this is why i needed a year and a half off from work. i need to settle my shit immediately thats holding me in place, and get the fuck on with my life.
so all in all... a very enlightening day at work. ^_^ I work Friday night next.
~le poof~
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(1 comment | comment on this) Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
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2:01p
Bachue: Did...Did part of the toilet seat just break off?
Me: ...Yes. Yes it did.
Both: *stare*
Bachue: Wooden toilet seats are stupid anyway.
Me: *Takes replacement toilet seat out from under the sink and fumbles through how to replace it*
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Me: There we go. That was easier than I expected. I mean, other than getting the bolts loose 'cause they were all rusted on.
Bachue: They weren't rusted on.
Me: They were *totally* rusted on.
Bachue: The knuts were plastic.
Me: ... Well they certainly *felt* like they were rusted on.
Bachue: It was funny the way the actual seat broke into three parts in the middle of it...
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(4 comments | comment on this) Monday, November 2nd, 2009
gregx
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11:29p
New Venture Bros
"Perchance To Dean"
Hank, along with his friend, Dermott, start breaking all of the Venture Compound Rules in a bid to get his father's attention. But Dr. Venture is focused completely on Dean, who is taking his first steps in joining the family business as a Super Scientist. But someone else wants Dr. Venture's attention, too: A shadowy figure from Dr. Venture's past who is out to steal Dean's future.
http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a250aae24b4b0ea0124b5b4c2d1002f
I loved "The Shining and "The Silence of the Lambs" jokes.
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8:40p
so my parents'--really only my mother's house at this point, to be fair--is filled...FILLED with all sorts of knick knacks and junk and food/craft supplies.
some of it is actually quite usuable (there are three vacuum cleaners, two televisions...), or of some value. even the stuff sitting outside in a pile waiting for my dad to further sprain his back by loading it in the giant pick-up and driving it out to the landfill in dundalk.
being smart and maybe a little bit too ahead of the curve, i listed some of the stuff on craigslist. i figured somebody gets some free shit that we certainly don't need, and my family doesn't have to spend money simply just to throw it out.
mother caught me cleaning up some of the stuff, specifically a 75 dollar animal cage that's been sitting out there for about 3-4 years and asked "what the hell are you doing?" I of course not trying to repeat a bad habit, told the truth. I then received a fairly emotionally abusive lecture on how I don't care about other people's property and that I'm wholly selfish. That I am possessed with a sense of extreme entitlement and that I think that i'm allowed to help myself to anything i want, without any concern for the consequences.
maybe that's true. however considering all of my current possessions barely fill a laundry basket, whereas my mother has claimed the entirety of the house space as as hers, leaving my father's things to weather outside underneath the back porch and leaving him only a worn couch to sleep on; i am not inclined to really agree.
to be honest. i just don't fucking care about ownership, period. or stuff. it's just stuff, and i have spent my whole life on the receiving end of people so childishly concerned with protecting and controlling their possessions, that in order to coddle their fears i've had to maintain a lifestyle substandard to their own. obviously, this does not really encourage or allow understanding of why i should ever respect ownership. i'm certainly not about to change now.
yeah, i don't really care about your shit, but i don't really care about mine either. it's all ours--it's not like we can take it with us when we die. that seems ever more a possibility, either as a consequence of not having access to material resources or the process of accessing them.
i really shouldn't have let my bike go. and i really don't want to get back into the habit of rolling out to privileged neighborhoods and committing burglaries like i did when i was 16--17. i mean, back then, i knew since i was white and dressed a little nicer than most people i'd never get caught. but i'm certainly not that clever or prone to feed on the ignorance of others. especially not after this summer.
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