Blah, tired. But I'm glad I did the stuff I did on the weekend!

Friday night I went to the gym on my own, on the downside it was a little lonely and there was no one to chat with, but on the upside I was able to keep really focussed and/or drift off inot my own world. Then _audhula_, cows_might_fly and clappamungus came over and watched Press Gang with me. I think we're just into the third season now.

Saturday I went to a pro-choice rally, which was fun, and interesting. I don't think I'm a socialist, but I find myself on the same side of the fence as them quite often these days. I picket up a copy of a radical feminist magazine, which I'm sure I'll get around to reading soon.

Afterwards I had lunch and hung out in the city with greenpea33 who came to the rally with me, and mc_shamo rocked up.

At about 4pm I said goodbye to mc_shamo who was goingt o check out our theatre space at Trades Hall. I headed off to Port Melbourne, met up with impostinator and went to her place via an awesome organic/health shop of serious awesome, where I spent far too much money on tea and chocolate. I'm glad I don't live as near it as impostinator does, I'd be permanently broke! However, I'm glad it's near her place so I can pop in whenever I'm around :-)

We had dinner with impostinator's dad and mc_shamo at a cosy little Japanese place. Tempura, yuuum!

Sunday was a bit of a scramble. Puck wet our bed (again... sigh) so I fished my sleep on the couch. Seamus had a shower as Puck had been on his side of the bed. I woke up when he went out to meet his dad, and I spent the morning dealing with laundry, trying to get as much of it done as possible (particularley the bedding, since thanks to Puck we'd completely run out) and doing housework until Andrea came over with some props for Lysistrata. These props are long, red, latex and, well, alright yes, they're strap-ons. They look hilarious! If she ever reads this, Andrea, you did a fantastic job making them!

mc_shamo sister kindly drove us to the city and we got to go into the Arts Centre and rehearse. Omniprop in the Arts Centre! Wow! We did our first full run of the play. I hate first full runs of plays, but that's ok, because everybody hates them, they have to be done!

After rehearsal I was meant to meet up with my parents but they piked, so I convinced vivienne_aster that a trip to the gym would be a good thing to do with our Sunday night (mind you, I really had to twist Kate's arm on that one...) and came home afterwards pleasantly exhausted, flopped on the couch, complained loudly and often to mc_shamo about my sore throat and cuddled up to him to watch Midsomer Murders before bed.

About the sore throat, my body is under strict orders not to sucumb to sickness this week, next week there is a strong chance I'll be unemployed, at least for a few days, so it can get sick all it wants then.

All my close friends are gone.

There's no activism here aside from standing in front of the Federal Building at the Peace Vigil every Friday night. Whoop Dee Fucking Doo.

I'm shite at making new friends in town since most the people I peripherally know are not political.

I'm really lonely right now and it's probably compounded by the fact that I just left HUGE ACTIVIST THING.

School hasn't started and I can't wait until it does (wow) because at least I'll be busy.

I am planning on going camping for about a week (YAY!) but I'm also really nervous about camping by myself, which is ridiculous, but fucked up things *do* happen to women alone in the woods (or anywhere really) even though I'm safer there then anywhere else. Fucking men.

Hello fandom! I am very behind and so have no idea what's going on except I have gathered that Pete's outfit was ugly at the VMAs and that everyone is more or less pro-the new FOB single.

I have been busy and also tired. The amount of reading is INSANE and I tend to fall back into my favorite avoidance mechanism, which is sleeping too much. I also watched the first season of The Riches this week and enjoyed it. I long suspected that it would be difficult to go wrong with the combination of Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver and it was nice that it lived up to expectations.

School is going well, and I do not yet feel like all of my time is being monopolized. I anticipate this ending very soon.

This weekend the presence of my New Orleans friends gave me an excuse to be touristy and we went to the National Gallery and the Library of Congress (I saw a Gutenberg Bible and made high-pitched, squealing sounds) and sat in the sculpture garden at the Smithsonian (wherever it is; I still don't know where anything is) listening to live Jazz and drinking a pitcher of Sangria. This city is beautiful, and it's . . . easy, in ways New Orleans was not, couldn't be. I don't know; it's a weird feeling, admitting that. But it was nice to have New Orleans friends and attitudes here. Of course you get drunk at noon before you go to the Library of Congress! Especially if you're all bibliophiles. Won't you appreciate the books more that way? New Orleans logic, I have missed you.

Via: Daily Kos, whose got a LIST of media people and Obama adviser emails in the comments if you want to drop 'em a line and ask them if they are paying attention and have plans to combat this shit.


Listen. You REALLY NEED TO

Greg Palast, Guardian Reporter, is apparently going around with Robert Kennedy Jr. and found THIS

In swing-state Colorado, the Republican Secretary of State conducted the biggest purge of voters in history, dumping a fifth of all registrations. Guess their color.

In swing-state Florida, the state is refusing to accept about 85,000 new registrations from voter drives – overwhelming Black voters.

In swing state New Mexico, HALF of the Democrats of Mora, a dirt poor and overwhelmingly Hispanic county, found their registrations disappeared this year, courtesy of a Republican voting contractor.

In swing states Ohio and Nevada, new federal law is knocking out tens of thousands of voters who lost their homes to foreclosure.

My investigations partner spoke directly to Barack Obama about it. (When your partner is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., candidates take your phone call.) The cool, cool Senator Obama told Kennedy he was “concerned” about the integrity of the vote in the Southwest in particular.

He’s concerned. I’m sweating.

It’s time SOMEBODY raised the alarm about these missing voters; not to save Obama’s candidacy – journalists should stay the heck away from partisan endorsements - but raise the alarm to save our sick democracy.If you want to help?

EDIT: Cadged from the comments: You a law student or lawyer? Got some time on your hands?

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Suggestions for voting

Sunday, September 7th: THINK STRATEGICALLY

If you have the means and the desire, vote absentee or, if your state has it, vote early and make your election day about getting others to the polls. As I live in a safe state I'm going somewhere else... either New Mexico or Colorado or Nevada, depending on how the polls shake out. My plan is to buy a plane ticket, rent a prius and drive people to their polling site. If you live in a battleground state, best to do your work close to home, because nothing is more effective that interfacing with people that you know.

Monday, September 8th: MAKE SURE YOU'RE REGISTERED AND ON THE ROLLS

Take a moment away from the DKOS or whatever else you're doing to avoid actual work and contact your local secretary of state office by phone or via website and make sure you're registered and eligible to vote.

It may be a long annoying, hold-music-laden phone call (or a few hundred clicks), but that beats being told you can't vote or having to vote provisionally (much more on that later).MORE

Argh! Today (well, technically yesterday) was filled with waiting to do homework then do homework and commute, and the rest of this week is the same. I am disgruntled.

Dude, the VMAs were tonight? I am so out of the loop. Also, it takes precisely one hour and ten minutes for me to walk to my new apartment from the far end of campus. I have tested this timing several times. Busing sucks and they're cutting back on busing even MOAR this fall, what the hell.

I swear a lot more than I used to. First I was just swearing more in text, then it was just interjections when I was alone and like, stubbing my toe or something, and now it's coming out as verbal garble everywhere. In front of people! Whoops.

Sorry about not replying to comments lately, I am trying to be less faily in the respect in fits and starts.

At this point I have so much music I can't keep track of it all or even listen to it all when I first download it. Which is why I'm only now hearing this song and laughing my ass off: Outkast - Vibrate

Summary: I need cake so much more this week. But I won't get it. Because we ran out of cake. Also, I laugh at Outkast, but only because they tell the truth, I hate roses in my perfume most of the time too. Even BPAL perfume.

What has Kelly been up to?

• 14:26 Brady injured already? Good thing Moss could make ME look like a competent QB. #
• 14:30 Way to go Roscoe! Just saw the video of the return 4 a TD. Let's go Buffalo! #
• 14:54 Yikes! There's a 4 or 5 car chain accident on 16 where it crosses 28 in Medford. #
• 22:30 Tragedy strikes! I actually had to do work today :-P #

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I found a really pretty old book that was terribly boring (letters from one dry dead man to another), so I promptly recycled it into a book. I thought gold tissue paper would go well with the red cover, so it looks kind of Gryffindor, but I think it works. I made all of the paper for the pages, and I really like the look, although my stitching still leaves something to be desired.

( Notebook )

I've also been making soap like a fiend all summer, but only managed to snap pictures of one of my latest batches, a lavender soap with chunks of honey oatmeal soap on top. It was the first time testing out the mold and chunks-on-top style, and I really like it. Plus, it smells ever so soothing. I made another batch like this one that was supposed to be a vanilla lavender scent, but the vanilla didn't come through as well.

Looking at these pictures, the bars seem a little mottled. They don't look like that in real life. ::ponders::

( Soap )

A week and a half into lawskool, and I've read about some shining¹ examples of human dumbassitude. I think maybe the theme of my legal education is going to be, "Who the fuck thought that was a good idea?"

Tonight's brilliant proposition was, "Let's load up 20,000 gallons of an incredibly hazardous liquid² onto a tank car in Louisiana and send that shit to Illinois!...Oh, whoops, about 5,000 gallons leaked out when it hit Chicago. Our bad.³"









¹Not really
²Flammable at temperatures above 30° Fahrenheit, highly toxic, and possibly carcinogenic
³But when we get sued, we're going to claim that we weren't negligent, nor was transporting that quantity of toxic, flammable liquid about 900 miles by railroad dangerous.

This weekend I finally was reunited with one of my best friends from middle school. He was so important to me, and I can barely even believe he's back in my life. Things are going great for him -- he's got a boyfriend of over a year and his stepfather is finally off his back for the first time since he's entered Kyle's family life. Kyle's grown up so much; he seems so happy, and I'm so proud of him.

My best friend Taylor, our mutual friend Paul and I drove half an hour out of the city to see him, but it was so worth it. It had been six months since either of them have seen him at all, and almost two years for me.



( I missed you, Kyle. )

God, I'm so happy I'm in touch with him again.

Taste in men -Placebo


You don't care about us- Placebo



Every me and Every you- Placebo

• 00:45 Caffeine took me up and then down. Been bored for the past hour or so. Going to bed. At 1 am on a Sat. Amazing. In a good way. #
• 00:45 I have LITERARY THEORY to read tomorrow. #
• 12:43 Slept almost twelve hours ??? #
• 23:43 Done all my work for my 1st class of the week, which is Mon evening. So I've got all of Mon to do reading for my two classes Tues afternoon #

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• 16:48 the truth lies in between #
• 22:33 bounce #

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the fuck are you suppose to do when your head is a rage ball of no sense, and you're tethered closer to expectations and requirements to not be you
and is there even anything happening, or is your hate just a concept concretized to fill the void also spun from thought

is there anything there at all
the silent kid is looking down the barrel
fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

there's no sense here
there's nothing
BUT IT WON'T GO AWAY



I have my fingertips at the world
I need a way, away, fuck

a misanthrope is just a self hating solipsist
fuck it fuck it fuck it

I am in Rome, and will be for the next four months. For some reason, Italian internetz are not pleased with Yahoo, and refuse to load it. I'm switching over to Google mail for the time-being, but I'm sorry if I miss comments/don't respond to an email or something.

Oh, and those of you on my real!life filter (comment if you'd like to be added/removed), there should be pictures at some point.

EDIT: And now Google is refusing to load. My mailbox is cursed. Grr.

EDIT2: I downloaded Firefox and it works perfectly. Apparently it is only Safari that is cursed. I've always preferred Firefox anyway.

• 01:28 oh man. big fun with vicky... but now it's time for bed #
• 19:01 Back from (pi)kea, reconstructing the living room. #
• 20:09 Bleh.. how can we be assembling furniture without any beer? #
• 23:30 Ok. We started with Star Wars: A New Hope -- now most of the furniture is done, and we're about 15 minutes into JEDI. #

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A novel political defense:

The Obama campaign talks a lot about new ideas and expanding the political map, but in the swing state of Pennsylvania, which the campaign has focused on almost exclusively since the Democratic convention, old-school issues still rise to the fore.

The latest example came Friday during a small political event at SCHOTT North America Inc., a glass factory in Duryea, Pa., where even a hand-picked crowd threw Barack Obama a curve ball.

A woman in the crowd told Obama she had “heard a rumor” that he might be planning some sort of gun ban upon being elected president. Obama trotted out his standard policy stance, that he had a deep respect for the “traditions of gun ownership” but favored measures in big cities to keep guns out of the hands of “gang bangers and drug dealers’’ in big cities “who already have them and are shooting people.”

“If you’ve got a gun in your house, I’m not taking it,’’ Obama said. But the Illinois senator could still see skeptics in the crowd, particularly on the faces of several men at the back of the room.

So he tried again. “Even if I want to take them away, I don’t have the votes in Congress,’’ he said. “This can’t be the reason not to vote for me. Can everyone hear me in the back? I see a couple of sportsmen back there. I’m not going to take away your guns.’’

Ignoring the incoherence there, which might be a result of the way it was written up by the WSJ blogger...we now have the "I might like to do bad things to you - not really sayin' - but my opponents will stop me anyway so ignore all that" defense. I suppose, depending on your point of view of what constitutes a bad thing, McCain could trot this one out on everything from privatizing social security to oil drilling to his Supreme Court picks.

"Even if I wanted to be a right-wing nutbag - and I'm not saying - I couldn't because you people refuse to quit electing Commies to Congress! So vote for me anyway, what fucking difference could it possibly make?"

Actually, I kid, but... yeah. Good argument for divided government, anyway.

UPDATE: By the way, the problem with Obama's use of this defense in particular is that Second Amendment rights don't just hang by a large number of votes in Congress, but by one in the Supreme Court. Any justice Obama is likely to appoint will be sufficient to terminate the Second Amendment forever. If McCain were just a little less shitty, I'd vote for him on that issue alone. It sure as hell is a reason not to vote for Obama, just as mot pro-choicers will find abortion to be a legitimate and sufficient reason not to vote for McCain. One more Supreme Court vote and Roe is gone. I happen to not view that as a bad thing. I'm pro-choice, but also a federalist and a fan of good court decisions. But I'm all but unique.

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callin first thing in the mornin!

11 days 4 hours 25 minutes


also, TOTALLY started today. which is super exciting since that means i won't have to worry about that on vacation. tmi, i know. but. im pretty happy about it. i cant really just .. guess at when i'm gonna. extremely irregular. no pattern at all. only thing i know is that when i have pms-ish symptoms, i'm not gonna start soon. its always like, 2 or 3 weeks or more after. no clue what the deal is with that. so. anyway. yay!

No anxiety about not getting enough sleep.

(AAAHHHHHHHHHH)

No developing sleep disorders just because I now read a lot about sleep disorders.

NO FURTHER SLEEPWALKING, YOUR HONOR.

Feel as if the damage is irreparable. No one has the resources to help me. All of u kno a part of it. No one knos all of it. And its bad enough to make me too scared to try and fix it. And theres nowhere to run away too. I kno ur all sick of this and im sorry. I wish i hadnt let it get this bad. But thats what i do. I push too hard thinking it wont break... And this time it did.

Short take on True Blood: eh. I suppose if I'm bored and it's on HBO On-Demand, I'll watch it, but it's definitely not worth giving up a Sunday night for.

Entourage, on the other hand, appears to be back, and Ari in particular. For the win!

Tomorrow, I get my HD Mad Men On-Demand and I will be pleased. Also, today I started my long road back to fitness. Jesus, my Pilates teacher is evil. She decided to try Pilates on the fitness balls today.

I am so out of shape, due to two weeks off from anything more strenuous than strolling around Montreal, and the two weeks before that being half-assed due to life and injury. It was awful, and I still think caution is the watchword, which means a metric fuckton of fitness via elliptical trainer instead of the treadmill, and some bike. Plus the weights.

I must learn to be more form-conscious with the weights. Office life has given me sunlight deprivation and aggravated my poor posture; I have to take care of me here.

Anyway, I am actually kind of tired and going to take advantage of that. Wish me luck on my return to work.

We knew that stupid screen was gonna get in into trouble!

Al Gore.

Niles from "Frasier".

Jon Stewart. Still love him, but no longer with that teenage glee.


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