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2005 20 October :: 7.42am
Last night, I was watching Lost and there was a frost advisory warning that popped up and proceeded to scroll the counties that were affected across the screen. This wasn't neccessary because they had a lutle picture of the counties in west Michigan and the ones with the warning were colored blue.
Anyway, they were showing some flashback from the Korean chick so of course they were speaking Korean. With subtitles. And the warning only came up when they were talking, with the subtitles at the bottom.
So, for a while, you had no idea what was going on.
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Angel_Bob
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2005 19 October :: 8.27pm
Free Tibet... I'll take it!
Look who's back, back again...
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The Dalai Lama is going to speak at Stanford in November. Oh, how I wish one day that I might be able to see Tenzin Gyatso! Either way, you can watch his lectures at Stanford live(!) on their site. So it's a nice alternative.
There's a Free Tibet group in Michigan called TIBETmichigan. Starting on Sunday, October 23, they will show Tibet-related films every Sunday until January 29. You need to RVSP [re(accent?)spondez s'il vous plai(with-a-hat)t] to attend but it would be an awesome thing to go to. It's on Monroe Center, too so it's not too far away. You know what? I will go. If anyone wants to come with, call me. Here is their calendar and here is the event.
I love you all.
P.S. French is the most beautiful language. Songs in French are the most beautiful songs. This is not open for debate.
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2005 19 October :: 7.27pm
my computer's motherboard died again today. it died at the end of april, and it took sony 3 weeks to repair it. right now i'm using the "family" computer in the basement (aka sue's space). and of course, sony only has a 1-year warranty on its products, and i bought the computer last august. i'm sure i'll have to pay a nice sum to get it "fixed," just so that it will break again in 5 months, and i can shell out more money to a bunch of CEO fuckers.
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2005 19 October :: 6.30pm
This is the cutest thing. Ever.
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2005 18 October :: 4.20pm
Girls are bitches.
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2005 18 October :: 2.14pm
So last week, because of budget cuts, three people at work were laid off. And I mean people, not student workers, people who had worked there for 5 - 30 years.
There were two people laid off in the Registrar's and Advising office, where I work. One was the receptionist, Michele, with whom I worked and loved to death. She'd been working there for four years. Her daughter works on the floor above us. One advisor was laid off, I didn't know her very well. Across the hall, in the Registrar's office, the person who handled all the graduation stuff was laid off.
They said they chose to lay off the people whose jobs could be taken over by others.
So it was really sad on Thursday, when they told everyone what happened. Since both offices are run entirely by women, everyone was crying. Even today, people were still upset. And they had reason to be. They are all very close, throwing parties for birthdays and parties for holidays.
So that's what's been happening. It's been upsetting because everyone feels guilty that they still have a job. Especially the student workers.
I love you all.
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2005 16 October :: 12.58pm
my sister was telling me the other day that like a year and a half ago she felt restless with life and started praying for god to give her a kick in the ass..you know, something to move her on the next phase of her life. Just like that, she got pregnant with the most beautiful little girl i have ever seen.
yeah. thats what i need. not to get pregnant though.
i just feel like im doing nothing.
well its not really a feeling i guess, more like the truth.
anyway.
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2005 15 October :: 4.25pm
Why should you go to Aquinas?
This next week, all week, we have no school. That's right, a week-long fall break.
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2005 12 October :: 11.39pm
bush - letting the cables sleep
if you have a chance, watch this music video. i've always loved it. the song itself is beautiful, and i guess the ending just gets me. Read more..
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2005 12 October :: 9.07pm
"what man can make, man can unmake."
- frederick douglass
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2005 12 October :: 8.00pm
Happy anniversary, sirrah!
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cowboy67
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2005 11 October :: 3.46pm
to add to yesterday's rant...
why the hell are we celebrating some fucking merchant who accidentally stumbled upon some land and ignorantly thought it was full of riches, and only cared about it so that he could get some monetary gain out of the deal? what did he do for you or me? besides, of course, start up a cycle of social and civil inequality that's led to the genocide of almost all of the native people who lived here and the enslavement of countless others who were kidnapped from their native land and forced against their will to labor for rich white bastards?
why don't we celebrate a real hero instead? where is harriet tubman day? what in the hell is wrong with this country? why the hell aren't more people fuming about it?
sheep, follow your leader.
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2005 10 October :: 11.28pm
columbus day? fuck columbus.
this is what columbus had to say about the native people he encountered when he "discovered" (and thank GOD for that... imagine what the poor brutes of the americas would have done to this place if not for columbus!) what is now haiti:
"they would make fine servants... with fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want."
"[the arawaks] are so naive and so free with their possessions that no one who has not witnessed them would believe it. when you ask for something they have, they never say no. to the contrary, they offer to share with anyone..."
yeah, what a novel idea. fucking europeans.
gold-hungry columbus & co. ordered that all people aged 14 and older collect gold for them to bring back to spain. however, this task was impossible: there was no gold on the island except for dust found in streams. when the arawaks showed up without gold, the spaniards cut off their hands and let them bleed to death.
by 1650, none of the original arawaks or their descendents were left on haiti. they were all killed off either by murder, mutilation, or suicide.
and we have a national holiday for this man. what does that say about our country?
fuck columbus.
and fuck every other rich white man who has raped and murdered millions of people around the world in the name of capitalism.
*information and quotes taken from a people's history of the united states by howard zinn
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2005 9 October :: 10.30pm
:: Mood: blank
Blah blah some old speech blah crap blah
Being a woman sux0rz.
Being hormonal sux0rz.
Thinking with your amygdala sux0rz.
I love you all. I hope you're doing okay. I know I'm not home a lot because of school and stuff but I still have my cell phone. So if you want to talk about anything ever (I don't care if you want to tell me how hard you gave it to those hookers last night, tell me ALL about it) call me. Tell me what's going on. Tell me how much you miss your dog (which I swear was NOT BLACK, Kelly). I don't care what you want to tell me. If you want to talk: I'm here.
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2005 6 October :: 6.02am
I think that doing our French project last year (the second fairy tale, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, not the first) had to be one of the best times in my entire life.
And up until three seconds ago when Nicole reminded me of it, (Je suis un ninja comme Jackie Chan, WAH-TAH!) I had totally forgotten.
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2005 2 October :: 1.52am
Hello.
I guess I should tell you about school, now that I have time.
College is the best thing that I have ever encountered. (Next to Nick, of course but normally I don't call meeting Nick an "encounter".) All of my professors are nice (even though my I&E prof channeled Mr. Watson yesterday), none of my classes are lectures and I haven't slacked off as much as usually. School is so much fun. My friends are awesome to just hang out with, all the clubs I'm involved in are either on topics I really care about or things I'm really interested in and the girls outnumber the guys 4 to 1.
My French professor is also the Spanish prof. She speaks French for the entire hour. At first, I was really afraid of that class but as it got going, I realized that we aren't learning anything. Then Shayne and Nicole told me that Mrs. Dudka is pregnant and on bed rest again so they aren't learning a thing either.
My English class (I&E) is okay. It's really a waste of time but since I didn't take the AP test and it's required...I'm trapped there. The prof, Dr. Dawson, is a hippie.
My PE/Health requirement (Nutrition, Exercise and Stress) is just that, a requirement. I'm trying to get it out of the way so I can be happy an unhealthy for the rest of my life. The prof also teaches the pilates and yoga classes at Aquinas so of course we had to do those things. Pilates smurfing sucks.
My math class is alright. I hate math. I hate algebra. My prof is pretty awesome and nice. She also explains things very nicely. I understand most of everything. Mostly because I've learned it all before and it's pretty much remembering. I hate factoring.
At Aquinas, freshmen are required to take this Intro to Information Literacy class that teaches you how to use the library and research things for papers. It's actually kind of interesting and fun but I'm a dork. The professor is the co-director of the library and, for some reason, loves me to death.
My web page design class is great. It's all done in Frontpage so even if I didn't know how to insert pictures, I could find out in less than a minute. The professor wrote the first college textbook on HTML and is pretty "hip". He grows all of his own fruits and vegetables, his house is run on his own generator, he loves spelunking and he cannot remember any HTML. He loves cars and music too. Pretty cool.
My friends are awesome. I met my friend Jeremy at orientation. We usually eat lunch together. Sometimes his sister, Elysia, comes along. She's a junior and transferred from Saginaw Valley State University. They're from Caro, some small town on the other side of the state. Shayne used to eat with us but now he's too cool. He's in my I&E class though so it's okay. I see my friend Emily once in a while. She's in my French class and in both SAC and the radio station club. She rocks. And she's beautiful.
Life's going pretty alright too. I got a job on campus at the registrar's office. I only get about 10 hours a week so I was thinking of maybe getting a weekend job too. We'll see. The only sucky part is that we work during all breaks. Which means that I don't know if I can go see Katie anymore.
Nick and I are doing great. We keep running into these crappy things (that I bring up because it's my job to over think everything.) but we get right through them. We keep talking about getting married eventually or living together next year. I hope it happens eventually. It'd be nice. Nick's a really nice guy and I hope he sticks around for a while longer. We're coming up on sixteen months. It's awesome!
On Wednesday, I got up the courage to drive myself to school. Ever since then, I've been driving everywhere. I love it and I never thought I would.
Anyway. Life is awesome. School is awesome. Yeah, I'm stressed and worried about a bajillion things but I'm having fun and growing up. That's all I wanted. Hopefully I can start going to church again. I keep wanting to but I make a thousand excuses every single time.
I love you all. I hope everything's going great for all of you. I miss you, Kelly, come home sometime. The rest of you all need to come home too.
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2005 28 September :: 5.20pm
sanity
september 28 29 30
october 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
november 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
december 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
my whole life has been waiting and probably always will be, unless i luck out and get hit by a car first.
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angel_bob
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2005 28 September :: 1.52am
To Nick, in response:
I love you too, babycakes.
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cowboy67
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2005 28 September :: 12.21am
no more maybes
your baby's got rabies
sitting on a ball
in the middle of the andes
yeah, i'm a freak (of nature)
yeah, i'm a freak
if only i could be as cool as you
as cool as you
body and soul
i'm a freak
i'm a freak
body and soul
i'm a freak
try to be different
well, get a different disease
seems it's in fashion
to need the cold sore cream
i don't really know
how to put on a 'cool' show
as boring as they come
just tell me where to go
if only i could be as cool as you
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2005 27 September :: 4.59pm
Chickened out on driving. Will most definitely drive tomorrow though.
Love you all. Thanks for the support.
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Angel_Bob
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2005 26 September :: 10.19pm
:: Mood: stressed
I drive myself to school tomorrow.
I've never driven by myself before.
I'm scared.
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2005 26 September :: 9.28pm
a message from moveon.org
Last week, congressional Republicans responded to hurricane Katrina by proposing to cut nearly a trillion dollars from vital national services, like health care for the poor and elderly, student loans, Amtrak, and eliminating the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (again!). [1] Republican leaders in Congress are now gauging the public’s response to see if they can get away with their plan. We need to show them the answer is no.
The cost of rebuilding the Gulf Coast, while huge, is far less than what President Bush has given away in tax cuts to just the wealthiest 1% [2]. National crises like Hurricanes Rita and Katrina are times for all Americans to stick together and put in our fair share.
So today we're launching an urgent petition to Congress to fully rebuild the Gulf Coast and pay for it by ending Bush’s tax cuts for the very wealthy, not by slashing vital services that Americans need. If we can gather a quarter million signatures this week, we can show that this destructive plan just won’t fly.
Please sign today.
this is the proposal made by the Republican Study Committee, if you want to see for yourself:
these people are insane.
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2005 25 September :: 8.06pm
What words get bleeped out on the radio? I'm looking for songs to play tomorrow and I'm wondering if I can play songs with "damn" or "bastard" in them.
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2005 25 September :: 5.50pm
Uber-Christian people creep me out.
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2005 24 September :: 5.58pm
I have a car!
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2005 21 September :: 7.58pm
you are lazy if you think discrimination and hate are natural, innate aspects of "human nature." you are lazy if you think there will always be rich people and there will always be poor people, and there's no way around it. you are lazy if you think right now is all that matters in the course of history, and past wrongdoings by your government are excusable because you weren't around when it happened. you are lazy if you don't want social justice for all people, whether you understand them or not. you are lazy if you think there is nothing you can do about anything. you are lazy and nothing else if you don't think change is possible.
change is imperative, my friends, and YOU are the ones in charge.
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2005 21 September :: 1.31pm
Nintendo revolution
Don't know if any of you all have seen this (or care) but I think it's totally awesome.
It's shaped like a remote and the analog stick just plugs into it on its own cord extention. It looks very interesting. And, especially, fun to use and play.
I love you all.
P.S. Here is a close-up. Kinda sexy.
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cowboy67
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2005 20 September :: 7.24pm
wait a few seconds, then press play
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2005 20 September :: 6.02pm
Haircut
I am so bipolar. This morning I hated my haircut but now, I love it.
PIC-A-TOURS!
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That is my haircut. For now, I like it. It's cute. My janitor friend, Jose, said it made me look older and taller. My French teacher said it was very flattering and everyone else said: "I love your haircut."
But, seriously, who would admit that they hated it? Or that it was ugly?
Anyway.
I love you all.
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