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awesome

I called and got in the queue for inauguration tickets. I'm going regardless although being on the white house lawn would fucking rock my life.

Lou and I want to go early so we can sneak off to the Shakespeare Museum (NERD ALERT!) and I've got some people up at Howard that I'd love to see. I feel as though this potential road trip might turn into something big.




also, I am protesting Prop 8 on saturday. Hopefully fighting injustice will help take my mind of being fucked over at work. Pictures to follow.

I seriously adore C Furg. We need to be bffs.

stolen from rofl_iron because it should be posted everywhere

Drill, Drill, Drill
by Eve Ensler

Posted September 8, 2008 | 01:18 PM (EST)

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 clownish, 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?

1) Copy this list into your own blog, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Pass it on!

( The Vegetarian Hundred )


haha I think I win that list.


( The Vegan Hundred )

Whoever made that list has definition issues and needs to look up the word vegan.
It was still fun though.
Plus tomorrow is the Harvard fruit market! I am going to see if I can get some green tomatoes for fryin. Maybe even some acorn/butternut squash or pumpkin. Hello autumn foods!

I finally finished week one today. a bit over one week but there were setbacks.
mostly rain, sinus sickness and finding a dying crow on day 2. that really turned me off the whole idea of running for a few days. And resulted in me making cupcakes to cheer myself up. It was bad times.


I'm trying not to be my usual realistic (read: cynical) self but I don't see this getting easier and I don't see myself improving without outside assistance.

Meaning, I don't think I will get better at running by just running.
So now I am going to add some yoga and possibly some Carmen into the mix.
It's been a while since I've busted out my striptease moves and I miss it.

If my wife were to visit tomorrow, I wouldn't be able to go dancing because I am so out of the fitness loop. That depresses the shit out of me. So I think by adding some other workouts into this running plan, things might perk up. And hopefully my new set work schedule kicks into effect next week and I will have plenty of time to do it.

I am going to look at my life as soccer camp from now until November. I have to get up at a certain time and check off a list of things before the day is out, no matter what. Or I'm fired. From my life.

No one wants that. Even I'm not that jaded yet.

I heard two ladies at the Biscuit talking about how absurd she is. It made me proud. They were talking about how worried they were because no one is calling Palin out on her bullshit and people are just letting the ignorance run rampant.





IAWTC!!! I fucking love him.

day one of C25K = done!


it was hard, but not as hard as I thought it would be. I didn't even feel it really until my last minute of running. I'm sure day 2 will be hell and day 3 will be worse.

However, I'm sure by week 3 that I won't even notice anymore.

I am going to keep a log just so I can look back on my progress. and because it holds me accountable for actually getting off my ass and running. I need more energy and just better health all around. Running seems to do the trick. My end date is election day, in exactly 8 weeks. New president, new healthy running habit and (hopefully) a better bill of health as well.

now you may be asking yourself, did this nutcracker WAKE UP for a 6am run?!
if you know me, you know I didn't.

I couldn't sleep so I just stayed up all night. 6am is an ideal run time though. so now I might have to wake up for them. either that or do a midnight run. we'll have to see.

now let's see how well this run fairs after an 8 hour shift of retail hell. :o\

maybe I didn't think this through....

Comment and I'll give you a letter. Then you post in your journal with a list of 10 things you love that start with that letter!

olivejz28 gave me "L"

• letters
  
• London
  
• learning
  
• lemonade
  
• languages
  
• LOST (the only show worth watching)
  
• literature
  
• libraries
  
• laughing
  
• love

there could have been a longer list.
Lunacy almost made the cut but damn if lemonade doesn't just quench my thirst!

i am too tired to be poetic
i don't like my job but i love my job because i need it
a vicious circle of not wanting to go to work but not wanting out of a pay check

i hate the waiting game
waiting for the nanny lady to call
waiting for the biscuit's decision
waiting for my schedule
waiting for alex to pick up the phone
waiting for autumn
waiting for sleep
waiting to live

ugh
it's going to be a labor weekend indeed

I am on the biggest 90's music kick ever.
fucking AWESOME!


90's music had such fabulosity. It was basically all one-hit wonders and some regular faces. There was VARIETY on the radio. ahh the good ol' days.

What I've been listening to:

• Will Smith
  
• Third Eye Blind
  
• early Matchbox 20
  
• Dishwall - Counting Blue Cars
  
• Blindmelon - no rain
  
• The Verve Pipe - freshmen (classic!)
  
• Goo Goo Dolls - iris
  
• Tal Bachman - she's so high
  
• New Radicals - you get what you give
  
• Supergrass - alright
  
• Spice Girls
  
• Blessid Union Of Souls - Hey Leonardo
  
• Sister Hazel
  
• early BnL
  
• Smashmouth
  
• Blues Traveler
  
• Harvbey Danger - flagpole sitta
  
• Fatboy Slim
  
• Sugar Ray
  
• Semisonic - closing time/fnt
  
• Beastie Boys
  
• Shawn Colvin - Sunny Came Home
  
• Lauren Hill
  
• Wheatus - teenage dirtbag

Good times had by all. Carlton approves:

I just had one of the most epic nights ever.
totes epic.
it can be summed up as follows:


Auto Response from JenniferBsays: I'm fucking Matt Damon.
"Louis": you're fucking matt damon
"Louis": (... she's fucking matt damon)

My first full day here
typing from one of Harvard's many computer labs on a hacked computer (someone else's login) while they graduate out on the lawn.



I am in love with this place already.

Makin' Music with John Mayer on FunnyOrDie.com



I love that he's exploiting his own douche-baggery to be more douchy, thus un-douching himself.

Driving home from work last night, thinking about the dude. wondering how he was and what he was up to, if the full moon was as bright for him as it was for me.

this morning I awake to an email "The Dude has written on your facebook wall"
mini panic. did I write him something last night? did I say something in my sleepy stupor?

no. he just thought of me and wanted to return my message from a month ago. Just to check in.
kismet. connection. everything's not lost.


dreams of brothers and heads in laps last night. stories about girlfriends and music and childhood. I need to check in with Patrick.




Two interviews in Boston already. Nanny agency with a Harvard contract. The children of the nations best professors in my capable hands. He's to being employed!

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back and beyond exhausted
found a roommate but still no room
fuck Realtors.


but Alex is now in my top 5.
and Lou wants to be first on the list to visit

interviews went well. the vibe was perfect.
I will be making it work
up hill all the way
just like old times



in 5 days I give my 2 weeks
i'd be excited, but i'm just too damn tired