Living in a sandwich
Current mood: irritated

Brownstone living is not all it's cracked up to be. Sure, the building is nice, a bit of old charm with modern conveniences, but walls are thin. I can't stand my upstairs neighbors. Of all the places I've lived in so far in 3 of the 5 burroughs this apartment is by far the loudest! And inconveniently it's the only one I've ever signed a lease for. It's all the upstairs neighbors fault, I think they're dragging around a coffin with a 300 lb man in it. Or perhaps they own the wardrobe from The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe and they can't decide on which wall it looks best. Perhaps I'm on some new reality show where the protagonist (me) is slowly driven mad by loud music till 1am, neighbors stumbling home at 3am, and general stomping & dragging sounds from above.

And if you, my neighbors, are reading this. Please, I beg you, stop being so inconsiderate... be a good neighbor or I will not have the cup o' sugar available when you dearly need it.

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I'm so pissed at littleradio.com
Current mood: pissed off
Category: Music

SO, I've been waiting patiently to RSVP for little radio's free day parties for sxsw. I've gone to their website religiously waiting for them to change the, "check back to RSVP," to, "RSVP now!."

GRRR!!!!!! They were launching a new website and changed everything over without me knowing that's where I had to go to RSVP! and NOW all 600 spaces have been taken. SO PISSED. But there are people being raped, mutilated, and killed in Darfur... so what do I really have to complain about?

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I Love me some C-SPAN
Current mood: amused

I'm watching Tony Blair during "Prime Minister's Questions" and it's AWESOME. Members of Parliament stand up and ask Tony a question, individually, and he stands up and answers. Sounds boring but it's SO not. When members disagree with questions or answers they respond with boos, when Blair delivers a cheeky response, they revert to middle school with bemoans of AWWW Ohhhh... as to say, "Oh no he didn't!?" And of course if they support what he says there's a solid, "HERE HERE!"

It's so funny to see such polite (stuck-up?), uptight, stoic people get so rowdy.

It's like a conversational dance off!

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Expediated travel for the rich
Current mood: gloomy
Category: Travel and Places

This is scary and no sir, I don't like it:

http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2007/01/16/security_fast_l.php

We're just chipping away at the divide between the haves and have nots. I know that airborne travel is a luxury and nearly everyone in the world cannot afford it, but really... This is ridiculous.

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Children of Men and a Top 10
Current mood: cynical
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

I Just arrived home from a night at the movies -- well, movie, since I only saw one. Children of Men.

Now, I love sci-fi of all kinds but I especially enjoy near-future science fiction. No, I'm not saying I think it's likely humankind will soon loose the ability to pro-create (see the film). But, films placed in "worlds" so similar to ours make their impact much stronger. Am I making any sense? It's late and I'm rambling.

Top 10 things to do when there are no more children
AKA
When you and humanity have nothing to live for:

1. destroy the earth, pollute, and use all natural resources

2. buy an island and move away from everyone else because people will go insane and it'll be ugly

3. empty out your savings and buy that jet you've always wanted

4. give ridiculous incentives to anyone studying genetics at a doctoral level

5. get involved in extreme sports

6. sell your hasbro stock

7. poor $$ into S.E.T.I. to contact alien life for inter-breeding experiments

8. funnel property taxes to "assisted suicide clinics"

9. become enlightened

10. try not to think about it

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OMG. SNOW.

I'm here on the couch, lounging, like I do every morning. Researching things like...

Why the hell Apple chose only one provider for the iphone and why wasn't it mine?!

Walk-in clinics because my ankle is killing me.

and

"Children of Men." Shh... Don't tell me anything... I'm seeing it tomorrow.

AND THEN I LOOK OUT OF THE WINDOW AND IT'S SNOWING.

That's it. I just looked out again and it's stopped. But I saw it and it was white.

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Bundle me up Bundle me down
Current mood: sick
Category: Life

So... It's New York, it's cold, I got it. But come on people! I'm from Texas and in 58 degree weather I find it perfectly acceptable, even preferable, to walk out of the house with shorts, flip-flops, and a light sweater. There is no need to have a sweater, long coat, gloves, and a scarf! You're going to run out of clothes for when it really does get cold. And hey, it's NYC, where are you storing all this unnecesssary clothing?

All this being said, I'm sick. Maybe they do know something I don't.

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lessons I've learned in 5 days
Current mood: irritated

Never, EVER, board a plane with a hangover.

If you have to opportunity to meet Betty Boop tell her to shut up, grab her breast, and run away.

Put souvernirs in suitcase and never take them out until you get back home. Sorry Raquel and Mustafa.

Always fill your tank when returning a rental car or face paying $5/gallon! Fuck you Budget Rent-A-Car!

Go by yourself to a themepark. You can go straight to the front on many rides.

Be careful at the World Showcase in Epcot. Moving too fast from one country to the next on top of drinking german beer, margaritas, and sake causes confusion and the desire for crepes.

Look very busy when a single foreign man is around. If he appraoches you; be a bitch.

Have breakfast with Goofy but don't eat the food.

Ride the HULK 3 times and Spiderman 4 times.

Pretend you're a child when appropriate.

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pro and cons of heels... really there's only one
Current mood: amused

No more dinner parties before hitting Sidekicks.

I'll inevitably be sitting around with full bellied friends and wondering what we're going to do after eating all the creme brule. Then someone comes up with the brilliant idea of Sidekicks. At this point I draw their attention south of my ankles. I'm wearing pointy shoes that could impale a small child or perhaps a ferret and you want me to navigate stairs?? I do it, and I allow Aaron to lead me to the dance floor and gracelessly fall on my ass, not once, twice, but at least THREE times! OR I'll just be standing and my heel will break and I'll topple backwards and play pool barefooted the rest of the night.

One of these nights, Sidekicks, you will not be just the place I end up but the place I dress appropriately for in jeans, sneakers, and a tank top just like every other red-blooded lesbian!


p.s. The only reason to wear heels at Sidekicks is for a balancing act that somehow allows darts to pierce bullseye's directly. Seriously.

Currently listening : You Are The Quarry (Jewel Case) By Morrissey Release date: 18 May, 2004

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Sudanese, Ignorance, and Confusion
Current mood: pissed off

It's early in the morning, I'm half awake at work, and I keep thinking about the Sudanese people both victim and perpetrator. I'm not even sure if I really know what's going on over there. I know truth is contingent on the observer but I'm reading and hearing too many conflicting reports. If even one woman or child is raped, killed, or beaten it is an atrocity but when multiple people and governments keep referring to the situation as genocide why is nothing being done?

Not only are the killings going on but the malnutirion is rampant. Andrew Natsios, head of USAID, told UN officials: 'We estimate right now, if we get relief in we'll lose a third of a million people and, if we don't, the death rates could be dramatically higher, approaching a million people.' The best outcome is to loose a third of a million people?! That's the fucking BEST outcome... they'll be lucky if it's only a third of a million people!

Then I read this: "While none of the aid workers and officials interviewed by The Observer denied there was a crisis in Darfur - or that killings, rape and a large-scale displacement of population had taken place - many were puzzled that it had become the focus of such hyperbolic warnings when there were crises of similar magnitude in both northern Uganda and eastern Congo." What is the media telling me? Why are events not being covered and why can't I get to the intrinsic truth of matters? I feel horrible that I don't know what's going on in the Congo and Uganda and now must scour the internet for information.

 I'm fucking spoiled. I can't imagine not knowing where my next meal was coming from or worse... having my daughter raped then killed in front of my eyes to then be raped myself left to die. To not die after something like that would be the last injustice.

And don't even get me started on China, Oil, Sundanese Government involvement, sanctions and how ethnicity plays into the whole mess.

Currently listening : Riot on an Empty Street By Kings of Convenience Release date: 27 July, 2004

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