| Random poll time. |
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| 09:07am 12/07/2002 |
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If you could have any job in the world, what would it be and what's stopping you from doing it?
Me, I'd be on Broadway in a musical. What's stopping me? Well, my voice, while pretty and able to carry a tune, doesn't have -quite- the range needed (I'm an alto or mezzo. I can't hit the high notes to save my life.) And I'm not that good a dancer. Top it off with the worst case of stage fright imaginable, and I'm not even cut out to be a Broadway gypsy. |
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| Post 4th of July thoughts...(a rambling rant) |
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| 10:13am 06/07/2002 |
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Last year, I was Little Miss Patriotism on the 4th.
This year...I couldn't have cared less.
I've had so much patriotism shoved down my throat the past three months or so. Before about February, I didn't mind the patriotism at all. Lately, it just seems...contrived.
And religious. Finally, a bill goes up for debate about taking "under God" out of the Pledge, and it's being squashed. "We are a Christian nation under God", quote your Senate majority leader Tom Daschle. I think the Jewish, atheist, Islam, Hindu, and Buddhist faiths might have something to say about that.
Then, there's George Bush. Has the man done ANYTHING except fight the terrorists and the Axis of Evil? If he gets reelected, I'm moving to the Cayman Islands.
I've also rethought my position on the war: I hate it.
If we find bin Laden, what will we do with him?
Will some hotshot Marine kill him and make a martyr out of him?
Will he be granted an international trial and serve life in a Swiss prison?
Will either way assuage the American bloodlust?
Why do we did we draw a line in the sand with our little "If you're not for us, you're against us" line? What difference would it make if the government of every country in the world supported us? As seen in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Colombia, Zimbabwe, and many other countries, governments do not control the people well, if at all.
Shai told me this morning about a tribal council in Pakistan punishing a teenage boy for having an affair with a girl of a higher chaste - they had his older sister gang raped.
You know, some days I wake up wondering how half the world can look themselves in the mirror every day.
Then, I realize they probably can't afford one. |
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| It's soda! |
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| 01:43am 14/06/2002 |
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mood:  annoyed
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SODA! Do all you people out there in the South and West here me? It's soda, not pop! |
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| Update of sorts... |
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| 12:07am 07/06/2002 |
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I had the oddest dream about maps. Basically, I was looking through an atlas. Whoo. That was my dream. Aren't I interesting?
I'm in love with the Miss Saigon soundtrack (I also cried over the synapsis of the musical). |
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| Did you ever notice... |
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| 02:24am 05/06/2002 |
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mood:  blah
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How the longer you have to wait for something, the more you notice how many other people have it? |
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| Mental image de jour |
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| 04:22am 01/06/2002 |
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[4:18] * Severus^Snape starts dancing and stripping. 'Too sexy for my robe... too sexy for my robe...' |
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| 02:50am 26/05/2002 |
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Scarlett O'Hara was such a bitch.
God, I love her. |
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| I've just become aware of a gender gap I didn't know existed. |
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| 04:06pm 25/05/2002 |
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mood:  groggy
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At least, I think I can call it a gender gap.
A few weeks ago, Allen Iverson, star player for the Philadelphia 76ers [basketball team, for those that don't know], held a press conference. He was wearing his usual ghetto fab, and his language was appalling.
Not just the run-of-the-mill ebonics, he was making absolutely no sense.
I wish I was exaggerating. Here's an example.
In response to a question about why he felt he didn't need to practice with rest of the team, he said ""Don't talk to me about practice. This be practice. Not a game. Not a game. Practice! I play the games. This was practice, yo. Practice."
Today, I caught an interview with Lisa Leslie, the WNBA MVP last year. An interesting coincidence, as Allen Iverson was last year's MVP.
Iverson comes off like a street thug. His language puts ebonics to shame, he dresses ghetto fab, he puts out anti-women rap albums, he's been in jail....
Leslie, on the other hand, is well-dressed, poised, and articulate.
Huge difference.
I'd love to get a hold of their college transcripts. Iverson left Georgetown after two years. Leslie graduated from the University of Southern California. A less prestiguous school, but it certainly did its job. |
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| Building a baby library... |
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| 12:31am 23/05/2002 |
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I got the idea when I still had half my income tax rebate left after buying this semester's books. I hadn't planned on having such a large rebate, so I thought, what the heck.
The books I have so far:
Where the Wild Things Are
the Dumpy books by Julie Andrews
In the Night Kitchen
Cars and Trucks and Things That Go by Richard Scarry
Pie Rats Ahoy by Richard Scarry
Goodnight Moon
the complete works of Beatrix Potter
The Runaway Bunny
The Little Mouse, the Big Hungry Bear, and the Red Ripe Strawberry
Things on the list:
Anything by A. A. Milne
Corduroy
the Paddington books
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Absolutely, Positively Alexander: The Complete Stories by Judith Viorst
The Velveteen Rabbit
Tikki Tikki Tembo
The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant
The Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
The Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
I'm not sure if I want to get any Dr. Seuss books. If I do, I'll probably either get If I Ran the Zoo or the Lorax. I think I've put the Gashlycrumb Tinies on hold.
I'd LOVE to get everyone's opinions and suggestions. I'm new at this. |
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| *giggle* |
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| 12:19am 22/05/2002 |
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[12:15] * TapWriting hungers. What can I eat?
[12:16] Fionny: There's a newbie in the #subcafe...
[12:16] TapWriting: Naw, they're too chewy.
[12:17] Fionny: This one comes with a side of missing punctuation and broken shift key...
[12:17] * TapWriting looks at Gerg. You eat it. You're bigger. :)
[12:19] `Gerg: Tap: You know how sensitive my stomach is to newbies... I like something that has had time to mature. |
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| Wow, hey, I'm still breathing. |
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| 08:07pm 13/05/2002 |
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Lessee, things I've done since I've been apparently kidnapped by my life:
Finished the semester. (I passed.)
Read Hunt for the Red October. (I highly recommend it.)
Made a few life altering decisions.
Found out it's a boy.
Rediscovered how much I love Broadway music.
And now, as Seth's an official college grad...I'm working on fixing up the house a bit. |
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| Sorry for the absence. |
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| 12:17am 13/04/2002 |
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mood:  ecstatic
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But I just bought a new computer.
And as OS X is unlike anything I'm used to, it's taking up time to figure it out. |
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| Let me be the first to get hysterical. |
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| 12:01pm 05/04/2002 |
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"Astronomers said there is a 1-in-300 chance that the half-mile-wide rock will strike Earth on March 16, 2880."
*puts on a homemade t-shirt proclaiming "The End is Coming"*
AGGGHHH! Humanity could be wiped out in 878 years! We all must drop everything and become astronomers, in hopes of saving our great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren! My God, man, don't you realize we're all doomed? Hurry! Run, run! |
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| On why I love Karen from Will & Grace... |
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| 08:19am 05/04/2002 |
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mood:  silly
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She makes political incorrectness an artform.
"You fell out of the gay tree and hit every little gay branch on the way down....you landed on a gay man, and you did him." |
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