At Dairy Queen

Me: *looking at back of the Coffee News* Here's a list of places it's available. ... Hey, we don't have it at Borders anymore! At least, I don't think we do.
Brothery: You don't know? Isn't it your job to know? You should go to work today and tell them that you were reading the list of places to get the Coffee News on your day off, and that you realized you didn't know if it was at Borders... and that you were so ashamed, you want to give back some of your pay.

These Dreams, Part 2

Tonight I had a dream (nightmare?) about some Satanic ritual. There was a poster depicting it. The poster was completely red, and it involved some demonic-looking guy with a VERY TINY demonic-looking guy on top of his head, reaching down and pulling out the bigger guy's eye. Then using it for something. (...)

Then at some point later Diva and I were in Big Lots!, and they had pocketbooks shaped like other things... they also had wallets shaped like glasses cases... and then there was one wallet with glasses on the outside which we THOUGHT was a fake glasses case, but when you opened it it had glasses inside... so it was a real glasses case designed to look like a fake one.

WHY WOULD I HAVE TO DREAM SOMETHING SO UNNECESSARILY COMPLICATED

Working Class Hero

I'm writing a novel. All I'll say is it's about the Undead. If I ever try to get published, this is not the first thing I'm submitting. If I am to be a writer I am finishing this, polishing it, and saving it for a rainy day because it is fucking GOLD.

I'm also finally learning how to play my button accordion properly and studying accordion repair.

Because writers AND accordion repairists (<--- not a word) are notorious for getting rich quick.

I'm So Scatterbrained

Me: C:\New Folder\New Text Document? What the Hell did I create this for? *clicks*
Text Document: "TMI Friday's/TMI Miami

Unnecessary Mysteries - Dairy Queen's 'Foots Long' Hotdog
(also ask for a fork; get a fork and knife! fork is wrapped; knife is not)"
Me: ...Wtf?

New lava lamp:





:D

Back to the Sandbox

"One can no more find love with cool composure and a set purpose than one can find poetic inspiration with those ingredients. To love, one must begin by understanding what a woman is, what protection and respect she is owed. To the man who is imbued with the holiness of reciprocal commitments, the equality of the sexes before God, and the injustices of the social order and of vulgar opinion on this matter, love can reveal itself in all its grandeur and beauty; but to him who is permeated with the common misconceptions on the inferiority of women, on the difference between her duties and ours with respect to fidelity, to him who seeks emotion rather than an ideal, love will not reveal itself. And for this reason, love, this feeling that God created for everyone, is known only to a few."

(another George Sand quote from Horace)

Free Will

My father does not believe women possess this; I suspect because neither his mother nor my mother ever taught him the meaning of respect. He claims to respect women, but he shows that he does not with his actions. When he sees a woman who appears strong, that is attractive to him... because he wants to control someone, and of course it's no fun without a challenge!

Anytime I do something he does not like, not once does he ask: "Why did you choose to do that?"

Always: "Who made you do that? Who have you been talking to? Who's been controlling your behavior?"

If free will is scientifically impossible, that's an entirely different argument.

If free will is scientifically possible, THEN I POSSESS IT.

AND I DO WHAT I WANT.

Damn it.

The Weakest Links

from Spaced:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=45FBaEdZfgA
You can't shoot straight, you big-titted bitch!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NZqgAu4Ttng
omg he has espn

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ysg_FoWOue8
Do you speak English?

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accordion videos:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=phArtt5Et78
I want a bandoneon.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4gjecwPc_lU
Accordions at weddings are awesome.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ccY5IcwWyV8
Dueling ban...doneons?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=D7-c0bl4ZqM
Yammy, you never told me your brother adapts songs from Chrono Trigger for accordion!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vrCMK26QIJg
Beautiful song.

Rediscovering Feminism

"The best, the most devoted, the most loyal of men is always ready," she said, "to suspect the woman who has given herself to him. He will insult her, if not by his actions, at least by his thoughts. In our society, man has assumed over us a right that is strictly material; so all of our fidelity, and often all of our love, is summarized for him by one fact. For us, who only command moral power, we place more weight on moral proofs than on appearances. Even when we're jealous, we're capable of denying the evidence of our eyes; and when you utter a vow, we abide by your word as though it were infallible. But is our word any less sacred? Why have you made your honor and ours so different? You would tremble with anger if a man told you that you were lying. And yet you live on distrust, and you surround us with precautions that prove you suspect us. For a man, who should be reassured forever by years of chastity and sincerity, just one unusual circumstance, one mysterious word, a gesture, a door open or shut, can destroy all his trust in an instant."

from the novel Horace by George Sand

What's brilliant about George Sand's feminism is she often wrote books from the point of view of men; in the case of Indiana, a man who actually had significant resentment towards women. So it's like of you were a chauvinist, you'd pick up this book that sounded cool that was by a guy named George. You'd start reading and... hey, he's insulting women! I'm a chauvinist; that's totally awesome.

And by the end of the book...

OMG OH NO I'M A FEMINIST HOW DID THAT HAPPEN WTF

Grrr

I had a dream last night that angered me. Zatham, you will probably like the part about angels.

I was part of a team of "good guys" who fought evil somehow. There were regular people on the team, and angels; I was not an angel. A lot of the angels were my now dead aunts and uncles, but oddly my mom who died only last year was not in the dream at all. The angels had "angel powers", and if they died, they didn't really die; they just lost the "angel powers" and reverted back into a normal person, but their appearance changed. Once they reverted back into a regular person, they would really die if they died (...), or they could try and find a miniature angel statue with "angel powers" within, to suck new "angel powers" from. (...)

What pissed me off was that my second boyfriend was the leader of our team. Sometimes we weren't sure if he was a good guy or not because he was enigmatic and mysterious and no one could get close to him. The only people who had tried were me, and one of the angel women, and he had somehow exiled both of us so we were trying to fight for the team from the outside. She wasn't one of my aunts though.

GrrGRJGRRGRG!!!

House: The Live Version

My dad is taking Vicodin now (yes, it's prescription). Will he next proclaim Socrates to have been an undiagnosed schizophrenic? Actually knowing my dad, he will say it's Einstein instead.

I got a lava lamp today. Picture coming soon.

Simon Pegg

He is so sexy it is physically painful.



Correction: my previous ATHF quote was erroneous.

Master Shake: Oh my God, Frylock, WHAT?! Why's everything gotta be a federal case with you? ... Yeah, you heard what I said! I said it!

Note shirt with skull.

Adventures of Today

Nameless Little Boy: *runs up to Yammy and Me with a sparkler*
Yammy: No! No! Get that thing away from me! *moves*
Nameless Little Boy: *puts sparkler closer to Me* See? She's not scared. *continues following Yammy*
Me: When you run, they chase you.
Yammy: They're like dogs; I know.

--

Me: *expresses my attraction to bald men*
Yammy: *makes vomiting noise* ... Wait a minute. [Nameless Man We Both Know Who Everyone But Me Finds Attractive] is bald!
Me: [Nameless Man We Both Know Who Everyone But Me Finds Attractive] shaves his head. That's different from being naturally bald.

Crying

I think it's taken me until the month I'll be turning 20 to actually realize that there's nothing wrong with crying.

I always heard people say it, but somehow it never sunk in.

Maybe it's because my dad always tried to make me feel worse for crying as a child... whenever I would cry, I would start thinking about how I was crying... and feel like it was a way of giving up... and just keep on feeling worse and worse from the point I started crying. It was always a downward spiral.

But at some point that changed, because now I actually feel better after crying. I don't even remember exactly when the change took place; I just know that it had to have been sometime relatively recently.

Did I say the word "crying" enough times in this post? Crying. Crying.

Crying.

:D

I just discovered...

...A truth that may shock you.

Listerine burns less when you've just come out of the bath/shower.

It's true! It's a fact.

Songs I've Transposed for Accordion

So far:
Greensleeves
Mr. Frump in the Iron Lung by Weird Al
When I'm Sixty-Four by the Beatles
Time Is On My Side by the Rolling Stones

Forgotten/in progress:
I Love Rocky Road by Weird Al
The Check's in the Mail by Weird Al
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Smoke on the Water
Franz Liszt's La Campanella
The Easy Winners by Scott Joplin
The Entertainer by Scott Joplin
Chopin's Funeral March, Opus 35

Edit: Any requests?