getting gas in GA is a bitch right now

UGH, I didnt top off my tank when I knew there was going to be a gas shortage in GA. Thanks Hurricane Ike! Thanks to you scaredies in TX who couldnt toughen up through the storm and keep the oil flowing! Thanks a lot! You know, I didnt want to contribute to the gas shortage problem and panic and top off my tank. But now where am I? I seriously cannot find gas anywhere. There are lines to get into gas stations.

Good thing I'm going to Italy tomorrow. I'll pawn my car off on my parents and give them 80 bucks to fill up my car and get my oil changed. I dont have time for this ish. Maybe when I get back, Perdue will have brought the unhealthy gas to GA by then.

(Gov. Sonny Perdue has asked the Federal Gvt to let us use the dangerous, environment unfriendly gas until the oil refineries in TX pump up again. So I'd like to thank Gov. Perdue for this. And thank the Federal Gvt. And thank the Earth for letting us pollute her some more.)

:D

china, please let me have my way with you

After hearing stories about milk killing babies in china, i hereby offer my services as an anal biatch to go to China and turn around their quality control processes.

we will look back and see what went wrong with their process in the past. we will fix or eliminate those issues. if those issues cannot be fixed, then we will not let that company make milk anymore. we will then set up quality control measures and enough sampling and testing to monitor the new and improved process. then, china can sell melamine free milk once again.

(seriously, I would LOVE to get my hands on QC processes on incoming goods from china. would absolutely LOVE IT.)

did you know rasberries are like bugles??

they fit on the tips of your fingers!! thats amazing.

also, carrots (if you use your imagination a lot) can be like potato chips .... bc they are crunchy.

these are what i tell myself while eating healthier foods until i get used to eating healthy again. this morning, i passed by the mcdonalds and burger king and actually was not craving it. i just did not want to eat greasy food. so that is such a good sign. i feel like i am over the addictive attraction of fast food now.

i'm watching frontline: the medicated child. ugh. these kids are diagnosed as bipolar or add and automatically given three different medications. to stop things like lack of impulse control, rapid mood swings, irritability, etc ... (like what kid has never had a temper tantrum or impulse control problems??). and then it seems as if they are just given more and more medicine to cancel out the effects of the original medicines.

i'm sure bipolar and add are definitely overdiagnosed. (especially after reading complication by atul gawande ... he is a surgeon and the book describes how residents turn into surgeons. atul gawande says that if you've seen a patient with one problem, just by human nature you will use that past experience and diagnose future patients with that same problem ... )

I know I will never like this movie.

The Love Guru

I cant kid myself. I just know its full of unfunny Adam Sandler types of funny. Just instead of Adam Sandler, you have Mike Meyers doing it.

The New York Times has confirmed my suspicions:

The Love Guru is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again.

Ebert, do you have something to say about this??

What is it with Mike Myers and penis jokes? . . . He supplements this subject with countless other awful moments involving defecation and the deafening passing of gas. Oh, and elephant sex.

I'm all about a good fart joke now and then. But Im sure this movie would run it into the ground. Anyways Ebert, would you like to add anything else?

Myers has made some funny movies, but this film could have been written on toilet walls by callow adolescents.

I'll stick with my horrible 80's movies, thanks.
When life was a simpler time of girl on girl hate and the hot guy driving a camaro and wearing a letter jacket.

who to vote for and other questions i've been asked recently

who are you voting for?

i actually dont know. i might go third party this year. i just want the usa to go back into its litte shell. hide its light for now bc i frankly think the rest of the world is tired of seeing it. what politician can get rid of mtv and allow cookie monster to eat all the cookies he wants? Cookies are a sometimes food? Puh-lease. get out of here with that.

when are you getting married?

i actually dont know. i might go third sex this year. maybe i should marry someone who is neither a man nor a woman. but maybe an alien. or a vampire or zombie. it happens in books. with vampires anyways. (twilight, anyone?) who has married an alien or a zombie? if you end up marrying one, the zombie thing tends to happen post-marriage. the last person to marry an alien i think was dan akroyd? something about this kid's stepmother was an alien? and the alien was darryl hannah? yeah, i will marry darryl hannah.

blog I passed by.

I love me a blog about tv!

On another note, I’m not a big fan of these teen dramas. But they all feel compelled to prove themselves “not your mother’s teen show” by beginning with something extreme that will have everybody talking. About ten minutes into this episode, we were treated to the scene of a guy being startled when he was clearly being given a blow job in his car. But this isn’t even shocking anymore; I think that gambit has been used many times, actually. I just saw a BBC-America show, Skins, in which a high schooler was fellated under the table by his girlfriend during a study session in the first episode. Yawn! Call me when someone’s shtupping a yak.

90210 or The Anorexia Fun Time Hour

if i get anymore zen im going to burst into a ball of energy and light, you see?

Okay so I was meditating last night. It's been awhile since I've done so. I cant say I went real "deep" into it.

In yoga teacher training, we were taught to almost put our emotions and thoughts aside and to feel what our body tells us. And last night I noticed this extreme energy underneath my arms along the sides of my waist. Like I had wings.

Like I could fly.

another comment about dogs

I like how dogs see you get up to walk somewhere, and then they start walking in front of you so they can lead you to their food dish or leash or something but then you dont follow them.

stupid dogs.

Dog Sitting in Decatur and DragonCon

I went to DragonCon this weekend. Seeing how I only had a few bucks in my checking account, it probably wasnt the most prudent decision but it was definitely the most fun! I got to see Monica's true dorkdom come out. How can she help if she knows the complete Stargate saga? If she owns Dune out her butt? If she introduced me to Eureka? Can you fight something that has a grip on your soul like that? Nay. I added the Stargate to my qway on Netflix, so we'll see if I turn into the same type of dork. With my chemistry-ness and bookish-ness, I dont need to add sci fi to my repertories. But how can I not watch Stargate after seeing the Megapanel???!!

The only other class I went to was the Eureka class. Eureka seems to be a sci fi show about these science people living near each other. They didnt talk too much about the premise of the show so thats all I really gleaned about the show. But they did talk about how accurate they tried to keep the science. For example, I think some dude in their show was out in space without any protection on. And in Eureka, the guy made it back safely with some blood shot eyes and problems with his tendons and junk. But other movies would have you believe the person would freeze. BUT THERE IS NO AIR (IE, MEDIUM) IN SPACE FOR YOU TO FEEL IT. "They" would also have you believe your lungs would collapse but, in actuality, eventually the pressure difference would 'move' the air out of your lungs but they wouldnt collapse so fast or anything. See? I'm putting "they" in quotes. Does that make me a conspiracy theorist? Aw jeez. I am one of them arent I? Anyways, Eureka got a lot of "flack" for that scene but the eureka people actually did it more in line with science than other movies have.

While Monica went to listen on how to kill a character in sci fi fiction (in some writer's thing), Joe and I went to Alternative Sexualities. But it was just some butch women talking about how Dumbledore was gay. Uh, lame. I can go to Midtown or gmail to talk to D and Wes and have interactions with gay ppl. I wanted to hear about Furries or something. Not about homosexuality in Harry Potter. SNORE. So we left the class and just took pictures of weird people in the Marriot and Hyatt. Oh, and earlier I had went to this Pinup Art Vargas girl thing ... This Guy spoke. He seemed really chill and open. The model he brought along is going to be in Van Wilder 3. I think she's some Christian girl who turns into a slut (in the movie ... I cant make any claims on her in real life). Joe and I ran into him later and he was nice and chatty. I wish I was a photog so I could have learned more stuff from him, but I am not and did not.

And all during this funness, I am dog sitting in Decatur and the dogs are nice but a handful at the same time. Right now as Im typing this, Stella (from Hella) is sitting at my feet and breathing her hot doggy breath into the legs of my lounging pants. She's awesome. Except when its 6 am in the morning and she gets all the dogs barking simultaneously to let her out so she can continue barking and wake the neighbors. Stanley is the older dog. He's pretty chill and I like that. I let him in from outside but he started drinking water while his butt was outside and I had to move his rear to shut the dear; he growled and didnt like that. The second time he partitioned himself halfway in and halfway out the door, I pushed him in and he went along with it. I think that makes us friends, no? Bone is Heather's dog. I didnt like the little bugger upon first meeting him. But once he looked up at me and his ears propped up, I was putty in his little doggy paws. And he sleeps with me. Unfortunately for Stella, he's smaller so gets away with being barky because he's a lot quieter.

MIght post pictures of DragonCon people.
Also, went to Holly's lingerie party! Might post pictures of that too!