When i was 21 i met and moved in with a guy after knowing him for just a couple of months.  of course, back then i had a big post-graduation gift from granny that gave me a cushion... but then a few months later, after feeling rejected by my ex and abandoned by my family i moved 2400 miles away to Seattle.  it was the perfect place to grieve i ( Read more... )

i sit at work, alone, 7:40 am, because my boss is on holiday in Nicaragua for 5 weeks.  this is week 2... so there are a few more to go where i'm the only person here as classes start up in the AM.  even though the official heat wave we're about to endure hasn't started yet, it's already becoming bothersome.  the office has been toasty the past two ( Read more... )

 i probably shouldn't be posting anything because i'm half drunk, and i'm not in a very good mood.  in short, for the first time i actually organized an event amongst my friends, everyone left earlier than ever, one after the other, like it was a good time to escape before the wormhole collapsed and everyone was trapped.  i'm a little peeved ( Read more... )

Michael Jackson died today, as you all know.  i probably wouldn't have gone out to 80s night if not for this event.  it seemed... appropriate.  some of you have misgivings about the man because of his dealings with children.  i won't judge.  he also did a lot of good for children, like Ryan White.  i think he meant well, even if he did things he ( Read more... )

hello facebook, er... wait... livejournal.  did i call you facebook?  i'm sorry it just slipped out... no really, i'm just out of it this morning.  no... don't be angry... okay... alright fine.  you want to know the truth?  i haven't been spending as much time with you because, well... i've been with facebook.  i'm sorry, i was waiting for the ( Read more... )

and so it begins... the first judicial nominee.  what a perfect moment.  the Republicans just had a defection from their ranks.  their spin on that is so thick it could body wax the entire caucus.  so let's not beat around the bush.  Sonia Sotomayor is the perfect first choice for David Souter's seat on the US Supreme Court.  not only will she be ( Read more... )

there's a commercial going around with Sarah McLachlan singing whilst pictures of lonely, sad looking animals go by.  most of the time i turn it off because it's simply too powerful for me and makes me feel bad for hours.  another thing about it that bothers me is that it's Sarah McLachlan.  i don't really listen to her music anymore, because every ( Read more... )

"Ethnic Packaging - The Republicans are like a company selling a beverage no one likes and instead of reformulating decide to change the package color and logo. So in 2008, they decided that being a woman was the right package to sell their neo-con product. After the Obama win, they quickly updated their market research and concluded that America ( Read more... )

TPM Reader BH on Bobby Jindal's trainwreck speech:

"Unfortunately for Jindal (and the country), Republicans used that same argument for decades while the intrusiveness of our government and the country's deficits continued to grow at unprecedented rates. His party used the same arguments while they happily used the government to transfer obscene ( Read more... )

hello Livejournal.  hast thou forgotten me after such a long period of abandonment?  do you sometimes, late at night staring at the ceiling, long for the old days of emo, self-absorbed ramblings?  i can probably dish something out in short order ( Read more... )