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[04 Nov 2008|06:14pm] |
yippieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee i got a phone call from rachael garrison, the coordinator for AustraLearn, saying i was accepted to study abroad at the university of otago this spring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
holy fuck excited! i started bouncing up and down in the car when i heard the message :D
now to sign up for classes and apply for housing shit and buy plane tickets and prepare to move across the fucking world... oh god
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[28 Sep 2008|02:31am] |
dearest hot topic,
your teal tiger striped MEN's skinny jeans are completely not kosher. i would appreciate if you would burn them and never sell them again.
thanks lots,
me.
ps in my defense, i was only looking for hoodies. their pants selections have always been atrocious.
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[20 Sep 2008|01:43am] |
Eve Ensler, the American playwright, performer, feminist and activist best
known for "The Vagina Monologues", wrote the following about Sarah Palin:
Drill, Drill, Drill
I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a
member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned
and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for
Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact
that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or
touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice.
Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.
I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life
trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It
is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was
all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on
the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.
But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to
Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the
earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our
minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.
I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous
choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the
fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may
never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would
have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my
lifetime I have seen the clownis h, the inept, the bizarre be elected to
the presidency with regularity.
Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In
her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or
evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the
arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of
cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar
bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here
to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot
and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be
taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, "It was a task
from God."
Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who
are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right
to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not.
She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I
imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that
makes.
Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has
tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with
people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity
and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next
president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse
populations on the earth.
Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She
has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of
wolves from the air.
Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But
when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared
in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is
the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything
America has ever tried to be.
I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in
our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of
the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies
to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will
determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or
whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It
will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest
our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and
destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or
whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether
America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism
and aggression.
If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to
get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin
spoke at the RNC, "Drill Drill Drill." I think of teeth when I think of
drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I
think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the
brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.
Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of
the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and
peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?
Eve Ensler
September 5, 2008
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[24 Jul 2008|03:57pm] |
so far this summer/end of last school year i think i've read more books than i ever have in this amount of time. this may not sound like a lot to someone who usually reads a lot, but i never used to, and now i love it. here's my list, for my own personal satisfaction:
what i've read since about.. march or april?:
the lovely bones by alice sebold
twilight by stephanie meyer
the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime by mark haddon
maus I by art spiegelman
maus II by art spiegelman
dress your family in corduroy and denim by david sedaris
magical thinking by augusten burroughs
a long way down by nick hornby
started reading but never finished:
the almost moon by alice sebold
new moon by stephanie meyer
welcome to the monkey house by kurt vonnegut
currently reading: holidays on ice by david sedaris
recently bought or have on hand to read afterwards:
the known world by edward p. jones
possible side effects by augusten burroughs
fluke by christopher moore
island of the sequined love nun by christopher moore
you suck by christopher moore
so far, of all of these books, my favorite has been magical thinking. augusten burroughs is such a fucking funny person and like i told someone else, he's a no-shit kind of guy. i really enjoy his writing style. actually, all of the books i've read have been fantastic. i really really really love both maus books, but i don't think that after those i could read any other kind of graphic novel. i don't know.
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[10 Mar 2008|07:05pm] |
many things.
1. this is OUTFUCKINGRAGEOUS!. this is the Oklahoma State Rep from Oklahoma City, Sally Kern making a complete ASS out of herself. apparently she also refused to apologize, surprise surprise. sometimes i wonder....
2. if you live in oregon NEVER GO TO ZOOMCARE. or at least don't go to the doctor i went to. he was a CREEP and a half, and didn't tell me shit. waste of time and money. he creepy shook my hand and told me to check back with him, as well as sounded like he didn't know what the fuck was going on. he also had to go back and print my record again cause "my brain doesnt work and i dont remember if i printed it or not so im gonna do it again". yeah, makes me feel real good. fuckin' OHSU here i come.
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[25 Dec 2007|02:11pm] |
holy SHIT i woke up and it was snowing buckets and it hasn't stopped since. and its STICKING. wow this is amazing.
hello view from my room. trees are covered, blackberry bushes are covered, grass is covered, streets are covered. and theres no signs of it stopping any time soon. :D :D :D :D :D i don't even care that its christmas (well, a little) but its motherfucking SNOWING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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[17 Sep 2007|04:19pm] |
so i just went and talked with brian about being my advisor. we talked for a while about how i want to do research, and he said sooner rather than later i should define what i mean by 'wanting to do research'. he also told me about some program called REU, which is research experience for undergraduates. it's a program that combines with NSF, the national science foundation, and could provide me with an opportunity to do psychology research during the summer at a research university. the best part is you get a stipend (one in colorado gives $3600 for 9 weeks of work), paid travel expenses, paid room and board on campus, and some amount of funding to be used towards the research. HOLY SHIT I WANT. so once the programs for next summer are up, around the beginning of next semester, i'm going to go back and meet with brian to talk about the things i could do. or even see if there are research/internship opportunities here at lc, however it's all fucked cause 2 profs left this year, one is on maternity leave, and one is on sabbatical, so it's probably more likely that i'll do something at another university. STILL! that might fuck with my plans to be in portland this summer, but how amazing would it be to get my hands dirty doing something i potentially want to do as my career? i mean, really. such good things have happened in the last few days, despite strep. fuck you strep! yay research and yay amazing advisor!
and yay motherfucking tattoo!
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[16 Sep 2007|10:49pm] |
i have.. such a strong desire to cover my body in tattoos of artwork by mark ryden. i swear to god. everything about him and his drawings and paintings make me want to die in ecstasy. i love them so much. so i think i'm going to crack down on my search for an amazing tattoo artist and book me a fucking appointment. i mean business.
www.markryden.com
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[12 Aug 2007|01:36am] |
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THE 311/MATISYAHU CONCERT IS THE NIGHT I HAVE TO DRIVE TO PORTLAND SO I CAN TAKE A GODDAMN SPANISH PLACEMENT EXAM THE NEXT DAY. SONNNNNNN OF A HUGE FUCKING BITCH I AM SADDDDDD and mad. :'((((
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[19 Jun 2007|11:43pm] |
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NOW i'm officially out-the-womb 19 years old. go me!!
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[22 May 2007|06:34pm] |
i bought a dress today. this is very exciting, because i haven't bought a dress, nor have i worn one (save for my sister's wedding when i was a bridesmaid) since i was.... what, like 5?
anywho, ( picature timeeeCollapse )
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| it's a girl!!!!!!!! |
[16 May 2007|04:58pm] |
today my big sis gave birth to a little baby girl, zoe rose macmillan. 4lbs 12oz of love! i can't wait to meet her
i can't believe it, i'm an aunt!
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ooh.. i want a porsche..
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i would just like to say publically that i'm very proud of my dearest broham for everything that's happened in the last 2 weeks. i love you bro, keep up the good work and keep taking it one day at a time. ♥
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i had fun tongiht. lots and lots of fun. i love being around the people i love for extended periods of time but i really hate saying goodbye. it sucks a lot. not knwoing when i'll see everyone again. :( i mean i know i'll see them but its still not the same. for 6 years ig ot to see them every day at school, no matter what. now it's like.. maybe we'll be on break at the same time so maybe we'll see each other then. i dont know. :( oh well, still a good night. love you all ♥
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