"if you don't vote you can't complain - which is to say, vote and shut up."

happy election day!

hi friends, this is my article for wednesday's issue of the Saint (aq newspaper ( Read more... )

i've been writing a lot in my lj lately cause i've been reading some people's blogs and it makes me want to spew my own word vomit all over the internet ( Read more... )

i like being proven wrong about people. i've become a misanthrope who categorizes people, mostly cause of my old retail job. but at the café yesterday, i had almost all sweet, sweet customers who were so nice to me. and when people who you write off as just being a dumb jock, or a ditz, or whatever, turn out to be really sweet, nice, intelligent, ( Read more... )

if some dude you don't know sent you a youtube message offering to buy you a nice new camera, would you accept????????????????? or would you assume he was just an internet perv and ignore him? or would you send him cryptic messages to test the waters and figure out if he was legit? my, uh, friend has this problem. yeah. she wanted me to ask you ( Read more... )

i have been thinking about my life choices lately. i kind of wish i had majored in english. i wish i had kept up more with violin after high school. i wish i had left GR after high school. i wish i had studied spanish instead of french (it's hard to admit that one - to be honest a factor in my studying french was because everyone said i should ( Read more... )

talking politics with most people lately has become really frustrating and polarized. you are either "liberal" (democrat, obama supporter) or a conservative (which to most people i associate with seems to automatically equate with that person being pure evil). today my coworker isaac (who is a perfectly wonderful person and had lots of constructive ( Read more... )

today an old man got snippy/sarcastic with me because the latte i made him was in a to-go cup (we ran out of clean glasses.) i am so so sick of degrading customer service jobs and people thinking they can treat me like poop because i'm behind a counter in a uniform. even though it's nice to be working for a locally owned business now, i still would ( Read more... )

i feel good ( Read more... )

ok i'm not so excited about school anymore ( Read more... )