Animal Cruelty

Not going to say much except check out Caring Consumers

This is a list of manufacturers that refuse to perform tests on animals.

irritating like a grain of sand in an oyster’s craw

Just a few things that I’ve noticed that get into my cerebellum and eat away at my sanity

1. Movies that are extra long for no good reason. This has bothered me for quite some time, I noticed it around 2002-03. Movies went from an average of 90 minutes to about 200. No kidding. Nowadays I go to a movie and blank out around the 100th minute. It seems like directors are competing for the longest movie, especially when it comes to the whole “uncut and uncensored” thing. Isn’t that the point of Rated R movies? Somethings just need to be left out. For example take Kill Bill, this was a decent movie (if I ignore how the first person to die was the black woman, how the white woman was somehow better at martial arts than the ninjas, and so on) but the fight scene with the Crazy 88 was just extremely too long. Due to its incredibly long scenes this movie makes a good backdrop for studying. Why? I can concentrate on writing for about 15 minutes at a time and still not miss anything important because a scene would be about 20 minutes of the same thing. What I am really trying to say is that a lot of directors are using time instead of great story telling. If your story is soundly written, you don’t need a lot of time, unless that is just the nature of the story.
2. The blatant racism of the media pundits. I happened to watch the news a few weeks ago where they seriously discussed whether Barack Obama gave Hillary Clinton the finger. Wow. What kind of slow news day was that? Where was Brittney? At least she actually does something crazy shit that can be discussed, whereas this was complete speculation. The pundits never do stuff like this with the other candidates. Or how about how they actually discussed his dietary eating habits. Umm I could care less about what this man eats!!!
3. Stupid people. I don’t even have to explain this one.
4. How people don’t realize that suburban sprawl has a direct correlation to the amount of gas you use. If you didn’t live so far away from your job the ridiculous gas prices really wouldn’t bother you.
5. On that same note, how public transit is not a viable alternative to driving in 90% of the cities that need them. For example, I live in Gainesville, Fl, my car does not run. Normally that doesn’t bother me, except that all the buses I need stop running at 7pm during the summer, and I can’t effing afford cab fare.
6. The lack of shade in Florida. On paper walking in some cities is a viable alternative to driving, yet when it is 80 some odd degrees at 9:00am and the sun is already in the high noon position, you are turned off from walking unless there is shade around.
7. Cab drivers
8. When I procrastinate
9. When I can’t find the remote
10. my fucking biological clock! i can’t turn it off and its so annoying
11. making an ass of myself and not being able to rectify the situation, but continuing to try and only making the situation worse

Now I’m not going to be all down and negative today. There are some things that make me inexplicably happy.

1. Nice long walks in the shade.
2. Great music. Billie Holliday, Anita Baker, B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix are just some examples
3. Great food.
4. Great company.
5. Drinking and karaoke. I looove to make an ass out of myself
6. The beach
7. A great tan sans tan lines
8. Flowers. My favorites are tulips, sunflowers, and daisies
9. Massages
10. Children’s laughter
11. Meeting Gator Grads in the most unlikely places
12. Bruce Willis. His movie parts, his voice, his body. woo that is one white guy who could get it
13. Men with raspy voices, husky builds, who are tall. wow Hell let’s just put men down.
14. Sin City and movies like it
15. children’s cartoons the stupider the better i.e. spongebob squarepants

That’s all for now. I’m actually supposed to be doing some work.

So let me know what are some of your dislikes/likes.

i love these things

copied this from a friend and i felt like doing it…i don’t really know the protocol (do you have to be tagged to do one) but i don’t care

here goes

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?

1. Open your music library.
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that’s playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool…just type it in, man!

(Full disclosure: I did skip songs I haven’t actually listened to before. Um.)

Opening Credits: “Gotham City (Remix) R. Kelley (really, hm I thought it would have been something more substantial)

Waking Up: “Lovely” -Boyz II Men (I guess so, it’s kind of slow though)

First Day At School: “Kiss Me On My Neck (Hesi)” – Erykah Badu (uptempo I could see that)

Falling In Love: “My Love (feat. T.I.)” – Justin Timberlake

Losing Virginity: “Play the Game’” – Queen (i wish)

Fight Song: ” Oh No” – B. G. (I don’t think so…not fighty enough)

Breaking Up: “Leave Get Out” – Jo Jo (although I’ve never been in a “relationship”)

Prom: “Freaky Girl” – Kenfolks (underground group, not hardly I went stag)

Life: “Get Right Church” – Rev. James Cleaveland (Hah, considering I don’t do church, maybe god is trying to tell me something)

Mental Breakdown: “Wildflower” – Ghostface Killah (this song is too slow for the one I had, something fast paced would have fitted mine)

Driving: “A message to you” -Yolanda Adams (yeah no this is waaay too slow to drive too)

Flashback: “White Girls” – Juvenile (windows media is just fucking with me now)

Getting Back Together: “Friend of Mine Remix” – Kelly Price ft. Mr. Big (yeah that’s about right)

Wedding: “Life” – Sade
Birth of Child: “What up Gangsta” – 50 Cent (hell yeah, that would be pimp if my child’s birth was like this song)

Final Battle: “Transfomer” – Gnarls Barkley (very apropos)

Death Scene: “Chick with tha braids” – Mario (windows media is laughing at me)

Funeral Song: “Knocks me off my feet” – Donnell Jones (huh, “i don’t wanna bore you with my troubles” of my death hahaha)

End Credits: “Didn’t want me” – Old Drunker (underground rapper, this is soooo appropiate. the same people who didn’t want anything to do with you are all up in your mix when you are on top…yeah that’s about right)

These things are usually more appropiate, but I guess not tonight.

cuz that’s just how i do

I feel like Peter from Office Space, which is an excellent, extremely accurate, and hilarious movie (check it out sometime). Quick synopsis for those who have never seen this movie (have you been living under a rock?): Peter’s life sucks, his bosses (he has 8 of them) constantly ride his ass, his girlfriend is a cheating bitch, he pretty much has no life outside of work, and he is miserable. Well about 20 minutes into the movie Peter has an epiphany and changes his whole life, starting with work. Namely he just stops showing up, which is what I did today, I didn’t call or email or anything. I just turned my alarm clock off, rolled back over and went to sleep. I don’t even feel the slightest bit upset about it.

I should but I don’t.

Maybe this is the start of some grand new journey for me, and my life will change for the better like Peter’s. Maybe I’ll be like the phoenix and rise again out of my ashes…I don’t know. But I do know that I need things to change around here, and like fast.

I may be spiraling out of controll

1. I keep playing with my money, so now I’m short for July’s rent…and I kinda don’t care about how I am going to rectify that situation
2. I haven’t revised my thesis at all and it’s due in 13 days. July makes 3 months that I had to work on it, umm I just don’t give a fuck.
3. All of a sudden now that everybody else is free, they want me to be free too and they get mad at me when I refuse to hang out with them (I do it mainly to be an asshole). So I’m supposed to drop everything now that you have time for me? Umm no, sorry it doesn’t work like that.

I cannot wait until I leave Gainesville in a month and a half. I get to start all over. A lot of people might (or might not) be surprised and hurt when they never hear from me again, but those are the breaks. That is a completely narcissistic comment, but that’s who I am. Love me or leave me. I do this every time I make a new change in my life, I start from scratch and leave the things in my past in the past.

I think the new iteration of me will be an asshole. I’ve always wanted to do whatever and say whatever I felt like. No matter who was hurt. Yeah I think I like that.

100,000 miles

I been gone for a minute/but I’m back with the jumpoff/goons in the club/case something jumps off… Lil’ Kim “The Jump Off”

I know, I know I disappeared for like forever. But I had good reason. A. my mom got married last weekend and I went home for the week to help out. And I just did not have it in me to update anything. B. I really don’t have anything new to report. Oh I have stuff to talk about, but if I do I run the risk of sounding like a broken record. I hate that. And C. really who could care less.

I am only going to explain the title of my post and that will be it for today.

A journey of 100,000 miles starts with one step. I cannot remember where I heard this, or who said it, but it perfectly explains how I feel about my thesis revisions. My revisions are due to my chair July 3rd for her final approval. After her approval, it has to be submitted to the graduate school July 16th. I have been allotted two, almost three months to revise my thesis. This is an insurmountable task for me. The pages are completely marked up and are completely daunting. If I cannot finish, I give up. <shrugs shoulders> I feel like I don’t care but deep down I really do. I am trying to remind myself that this is a completely doable task, with this quote. It’s not working.