Is it just me, or do overly optimistic teenagers make you want to throw up?
I sometimes hate being an almost 24-year-old college sophomore.

 And like some act of the universe giving me the bird, my iPod gave up on it's life because it had nothing better to do.
So now I'm locked away from my private little jam sessions for god only knows.
If you value you're life, you can A) get me a new one or B) don't talk to me about it.

 Yesterday was fantastic for the most part.  I drank about 70% of a bottle of Argentinean red table wine I got at Fresh and Easy for four bucks.  I sipped it down all day and got to a pretty decent buzz at about 8-9 PM.  I even got a little baking bug and made butter crescents. I would have really preferred for them to have had come out that nice and fluffy.  Instead, it resulted in 12 perfectly browned, medium rare dinner roles on the shapes of cow's heads.   Oh well.

At about ten, I went down stairs to check on something.  At the foot of the stairs, we have a baby gate to keep the dogs from coming up into the bed rooms.  Well, the baby gate is also held together with razor blades and screws.  I stepped down really close to it, and took about a square inch of skin off the bottom of my right foot.  It bled like crazy for 20 minutes; the wine had thinned me out a little bit and the gravity wasn't helping much, either.  Now I have a sock only on my rich foot to hold onto the bandaide while I walk around with a pimp limp.

I hope today goes a little bit better.  I'm going to wear my ugly shoes to work because I just don't want to cause more harm to my foot.
And this is basically all I have for you 15 minutes after I wake up.

 Okay, so after a massive uproar in the bad makeup thing, lets just clarify the situation.
Have you ever walked down the street and saw a guy laying on the sidewalk and just thought to yourself one of two things.  The first is "Aww, poor guy down on his luck" and the other being "Fucking loser; get a job, you bum."  It doesn't distract from the obvious thing people tend to overlook the situation and just come to some conclusion before examining what's going on in reality.  This little tidbit of awareness is what we anthro people like to call Ethnocentrism.  It basically means that your values and thought outweigh and are FAR more important than those you see as 'beneath you'.

The reason is because I let out the slur of 'Tranny' and people got butt hurt over it.  Have any of these cattle even met a transvestite?  All the trannies/drag queens I've met have a resilient sense of humor that only comes from the fact that they are fully aware of their individuality; that awareness is a time when you just have to laugh at yourself to get by.  But to dog on someone because they use the word is kinds of pathetic, considering you're a woman and/or have no real tranny freinds.  You know, the tranny friends I have that ALSO make tranny jokes.  I think it's because these nimrods assume that I'm referring to transsexuals and not transvestites.   They both start with trans and it's a simple mistake to make, but to just jump on someone because you just assume what their referring too is a blatant inability to think outside the box and use the instinct to logic and reason.
Humanity and higher though fail, clearly.

Now, all of you know I'm dating a Turk.  It's pretty upsetting to me to know that the Turkish population in Europe is being referred to as the illegal latino migration into the United States. "They took our Jobs!" etc. I, myself, find this deeply offensive and a rude assumption because there's really no similarity.  But do I go out of my way to be a shit about it to them?  No.  Why?  because I'm not really sure what they know in comparison to what I know.  If I relay that information that I date a Turkish Guy, and I have a slight problem with having his culture being related to a totally different kind of domestic issue they don't seem to understand to begin with.  It's the whole Nigga vs. Nigger argument all over again, and it pisses me off that some things just don't seem to clear themselves up.  People just choose to get more pissed off at the surface issue immediately instead of using their brain to come to a more realistic, and probably true, conclusion. 

 It's the things I should pay attention to that I'm not that upset me.


I'm just....very upset with myself right now.

BLAST FROM THE PAST!!!  OMG!!
I used to have the whole play set of these things when I was a kid.  I think I still have the Stegosaurus somewhere in a box.  But dear god does this take me WAY back.  Like 15 years ago back.

 

 UNLV is hurting bad.  If anyone doesn't know, in the United States, the state of nevada is 49 out of 50 when it comes to ranking how lousy the school system are.  The things we learn are at par, and in some cases, above it.  But the thing is that our money loving, woman raping, absent minded governor is flushing the money away from the universities to god knows where.
Because of these cuts, the university isn't just listing to one side; UNLV had a massive hull breach, so all hands abandon ship.  UNLV is making budget cuts and tuition increases to the point that when I graduate with my worthless degree that's costed me twice as much to obtain than at a private college, I wont be able to even find a decent enough job that'll settle for my credentials to pay off the loans that I used to fund my education at this sub-par university I'm stuck going to.  Behold, I give you the University of Never Leaving Vegas.  You graduate from UNLV, and the only places that'll hire you are in Las Vegas.  It's like a self sustaining organism that never seems to satiate. 

Mom was wondering when I would finish my associates and then see if I should try anywhere else.  That'd work if I shat silver dollars, or had some support network where ever i planted my roots.  I'm also half tempted to just do a fuckitall and drop all my lively needs and run away to Europe.
When i was a little kid, i always wondered why adults drank alcohol and did drugs.  Now that I'm here, I totally understand why.

It's really hard to be an aspiring anthropologist and listen to people still bashing Darwin after all this time.  Well, not just anyone, but the religious wingnuts who just go with the one fact of perfect design and run with it without taking any efforts to inform themselves.    Not in any part of Darwin's The Origins of Species, did he say the phrase, or even hint to, that there in fact was no god.  Not a single part.  Which just goes to prove that people are more willing to just get pissed off about something instead of taking the time to amply inform themselves.
Darwin was a Clergyman in his later years, was a devout christian and loved god and the gospel.  He wasn't set out to crumble the church and it's established power of thought, he just wanting to bring light to something that intrigued him.  He bravely set out in a bold new direction to understand who we are and what it means to be human.

 My grandmother got a lovely surprise today.  She's almost in the hole by over 1,400 bucks because someone washed her checks!  Thank god the bank covered their end by admitting there was a massive error by approving checks that were designated for companies.  So there's a warrant out for this person, but it's fucking scary!  My grandmother is 76-years-old.  This has to be the most ruthless thing anyone could do, to ruin an old woman's life; a life fueled social security, retirement funds, and inheritance.  Yeah, like she could work at her age and condition. 

People just fucking disgust me.  These are the same shit heads who ruin children's lives by running amuck with their identity.  These people shouldn't be treated like criminals, they should be treated as murderers and embezzlers.  They shouldn't be getting 3-5 with parole in 18 months.  They should be getting 15-30 with parole in 5 years.  No more slaps on the hands for Identity thieves; they don't just rob you, they ruin you.

Humanity, yes, will one day die off, like any other creature that has ruled it's spot at the "top" of the food chain in ones designated environment.
The thing is that if any other species evolves to become superior like we are, they will one day meet the same end.  So on and so forth, until the end of time.  The creatures at the top fight their way there.  Soon enough, they'll become too large and strong to the point their ecosystem can no longer support their needs.  The creature will starve to death and the cycle will constantly repeat itself.  It is evolutionary and it is going to happen to us.
I don't think there will be any learning either.  The remains of our culture would have long deteriorated and been lost to the sands of time until the future societies dig our remans up.  Sound like dinosaurs?  Even then, their society might have a different way of communicating or interpreting data, so there's really no clue what, if anything, they will actually learn from us.  Kind of like how do we even know if Dinosaurs were warm blooded?

 

 Is it just me, or has the fine line between religion and pure insanity gone a blur once more?
In light of pat Robertson's statements, there lays just the slightest bit of nonsense.  There's many lines in biblical scripture that speak of every act of slavery a sin.  Wasn't it Moses himself who freed his people from slavery, therefore setting an unprecedented moral analog to all monotheists who follow Judeo-Christian lineage have respect for all fellow men?  So explain to me then, how come the black Hatians are in the wrong, and the French overlords who enslaved them are right?  How do you sign a deal with the devil to actually end the reign of hypocrisy? 
I have only one thing to say, Mr. Robertson: Your logic has no actual logic.  None at all.  To think that a nation with 80% poverty rates and a strong rate of 97% of the nation being very prominent Catholics, could actually have any reason to call upon the devil to improve the conditions above a despot state.  Well, naturally devil worship was the first thing to my mind too!  How silly.
I think abolishing the reign of their overlords in France in 1803 should be something that every free, democratic nations should be very proud of.  A constant struggle of the Haitians and the uprising of the slaves to create the first independent nation in the latin and Caribbean should be admired.  Haiti was the first nation in the new world to abolish slavery AND have the blacks maintaining most of the power ever.  To me, that's an act of God, not the devil.  And doesn't this sound very much like the rise of the Holy Roman Empire when the shackles of the ancient ways were shattered and the "Gold Age" of Christianity begun?  
I think, rather, instead of defining the situation as divine punishment, I would consider it an act of volcanology that just hit the wrong place at the wrong time.  Haiti has had it's problems trying to formulate itself to be more progressive and stable, but that's nothing to do with god, but everything to do with the fact that some places function better than others.  Sometimes what works isn't the answer.
If Robertson is the true Christian he so boldly proclaims to be, he should try harder to pray for the survival of the trapped and lost.  He should be down helping doctors; giving away a portion of his massive worth to give food, water and medicine for people who are dying from simple infections.  I don't have much to give, but the check for ten dollars and a candle I light for the lost and dead would be far more respected than the cold shoulder and evil words that man has spoken.
Namaste, my friends in Haiti.  May god be with you all.

These are times when it's not about money, popularity, religion or selfish desire.  Arbitrary things are so simple and worthless that you really feel ashamed about being so internally involved; ignoring the fact there's a whole world outside your front door.
We are given one chance at life.  One.  The Native Chief Seattle once said "Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it.  Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
Love you fellow man.  Give without expecting a return.  Be thankful for what you have, instead of desiring about what you don't.  Live without consequence.  
Because one day, this could be your city...

 SO since I've been wanting to start a few small communities, I didn't want to just jump in full throttle to an idea that I wouldn't know how to manage.  So when the opportunity came up to help out lazydaisies with moderating the Cooking_Club, I couldn't resist.  I think it'll be loads of fun as well as a great learning experience for me.  I can't wait!

 "If you have no problems living in San Diego, then I'd have no issues hiring you to work at my Apple Store.  I mean, I just love your personality and your honesty."


Thanks, but I kinda don't wanna get fired on my first day for treason.  I did consider, but what grounds do I really have to move to a places that 15 times as expensive to live in?  Not to mention, my life!

Traveled 6,800 miles, spent about $1,500, endured a car crash, layovers in London and lots of faith jumps.  
It was worth every little thing.  
I love him.