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What a piece of crap.


In other news, I got too close to Georgey Doll the Special Needs Pit Bull* yesterday and he rammed his head into my face. I now have a sore nose, a bruised cheek and a fantastic black eye. But watching that movie still hurt more


*Georgey was a Hurricane Katrina rescuee and profoundly dislikes thunderstorms and people trying to pull or lead him anywhere. He also has skin problems and is allergic to everything. He's really quite sweet unless he thinks you're trying to get him to move, or if you get too close when he's freaked out by thunderstorms.

( Target never lets me down! )

In the absence of anything productive to do with my days, and to celebrate graduation, I have chosen to spend my time in the wisest and most worthwhile manner possible. This means, of course, having a Star Trek movie marathon with my sister.

Now the only thing to decide is which is better: McCoy channeling Spock in Star Trek III or Spock attempting to use profanity in Star Trek IV?

Oh my God, it is so hot outside. I haven't been in St. Louis in the summer since 2007. How do you people live like this??

also: I'm back!! Yay!

This is fascinating, I had no idea the corruption was this bad. (In 1994, fishermen protested the government's ban on major commercial fisheries in the islands' marine reserve, threatening to kill giant tortoises and release invasive species on the islands unless the fisheries were reopened, and it worked! They lifted the ban, and also found 80 dead tortoises on Isabela.:( )

Also, the IUCN Shark Specialist Group should totally hire me to run around being their number one fan and keeping their website updated. Even more damning than the empty tabs and lack of any newsletters since 2004 is the fact that it took me this long to actually find their website, and this is what I do with my spare time. Cause I'm a dork.

But also the Galapagos should hire me to fix all the problems they have in actually protecting the stupid place.:(

Why is it that I feel like writing about the decline of shark populations in the Galapagos is a total cliche and a cop-out, and yet I can't find a single academic paper on it? It might be nice to have one real reference, and not quite so many citations from the Sea Shepherd website...:(

Also, ( Star Trek personality quiz )

Only 25% Sulu? You'd think the fencing thing would be weighted more heavily...

What an awesome effing movie.

Sorry, Hugh Jackman, it's not that I didn't like your movie (I did, questionable comic book science notwithstanding) but this one blew Wolverine right out of the water.

ALSO!

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	M - Th 11p / 10c
Where's the Chief?
thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Economic Crisis Political Humor

MUSTARD NO KETCHUP! WE CHOSE RIGHT AMERICA!

I HAVE DEFEATED ITUNES!

NOW I AM THE MASTER!

Just try putting my songs in the wrong order now, itunes! I know your secrets and will defeat you again!

( Wolverine Art Appreciation Month )

What does it say about me that I like the Peanuts/C&H one best? Only that I have impeccable taste, I'm sure. Though I do really like the Klimt and Wyeth ones, and the van Gogh's great of course.:D

(if you haven't given up on Lost yet)

The creator of iharthdarth is making Lost comics featuring Ben.

They are mixed in with other posts about Lost here.

Today I got:

a hug
a homemade chocolate chip cookie
112% on my law midterm (!)
chocolates from Hawaii
my subject for my marine ecology paper approved
pizza for lunch
pad thai for dinner

Now I'm watching Iron Man and sending emails.

I hope everyone else had a good day too.:)

1) Hugh Jackman is awesome
2) I loved Sean Penn's speech.

I haven't seen Slumdog Millionaire, and have nothing against it personally, but I was a bit sick of hearing about it (and Benjamin Button) by the end of the night. I'm also disappointed, but not surprised, by the complete lack of love for superhero movies, apart from Heath Ledger's obligatory win. (I really think Ramin Djawadi should have been nominated for the Iron Man score, and really? Making Brad Pitt look old took more talent than the makeup for Hellboy II and beat Dark Knight and Iron Man for visual effects? But hey, what do I know...)

Hugh Jackman is apparently and hilariously obsessed with West Side Story, though, so I guess it all works out.;)

Your meeting agenda lies. I watched the hour-long broadcast of agenda item 23a on Cal-Span and I can tell you that you did not approve a coastal development permit for that cell phone utility pole in Venice. Don't you go telling me it was approved with conditions. I know the truth.

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

* I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
* What I create will be just for you.
* It'll be done this year.
* You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry. I may draw or paint something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure! I may or may not ask your opinion on sizes, colors, allergies, etc. I have no desire for a gift from you in return.
* I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

Personally I'm more likely to color you a picture than write you a poem, but who knows?


Respondents must re-post this on their own journals.

There are many many things that have gone on in the month+ since I last updated, but the most important is possibly this:

http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/12/15/first-x-men-origins-wolverine-trailer-what-do-you-think/

I'll try to update you on the rest of my life in bullet points of 10 words or less.

- Christmas: new camera, shark adoption, skiing, family, zoo.
- Group project: meetings, writing, Environmental Defense Fund trying to steal my research.
- School: reading, trying to learn, 8am classes, sleep deprivation.
- Fencing: tournament, losing 5-4 (almost!), fantastic bruises, NEW SHOES!
- Electronics: phone smashed, laptop cord caught fire, both replaced.
- Spring break: Panama, awesome friends, whale sharks!!!
- Politics: still can't quite believe it yet.

I think those are most of the major points. Please feel free to ask for elaboration.

I was still in high school when President Bush took office.

My sister, now a sophomore in college and with strong political opinions of her own, was not yet eleven years old.

It's been a long, frustrating eight years. We've seen the office of President of the United States turn into, literally, a joke, and one that I have laughed at many times. We've seen lives lost pointlessly. We've seen reason ridiculed. We've seen our effects on climate change denied and ignored.

I cannot tell you how much I am looking forward to having a president who can speak, who can think, who can and will consider opinions other than his own. Someone who will not be afraid to examine his own actions and be willing to admit it and to change them if they turn out to be mistaken. Eight years of running on truthiness is too long.

I am disappointed that Missouri looks like it's going to go to McCain, by a few thousand votes. I am more disappointed that Proposition 8 is, as of now, winning in California (52% to 48%). But I also know that ten years ago, I would have been sorely tested by the idea of gay marriage. I may not have chosen to amend the state constitution to ban it, but I certainly wouldn't have been the ardent supporter of gay rights that I am now.

I am thinking of two quotes from Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU.

One of these quotes is from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

The other is from Romero himself, describing homophobia and mere "tolerance" of, without true equality for, gay people as "the last socially-acceptable prejudice."

I wish we could have made this prejudice unacceptable in California this year. It looks like it may not happen. But I know we will get there someday. People can change - I did. It just takes time.

For now, we have a president who is intelligent, progressive and honest. We've made history already.

For now, I've got the theme song from Enterprise running through my head.



It's been a long road.

I'm looking forward to the next four years.

From cionaudha, I am only answering questions I feel like answering.

( meme )

So I was just talking to a friend and found out that she supports Prop 8 (eliminating same-sex marriage in CA). She's all for equal rights but thinks marriage should be defined as man/woman because "it's in the Bible." I tried to help her see the other side but was so taken aback by the fact that anyone in my super liberal school actually disagreed with me on this that I'm not sure I was as convincing as I could have been.

We did both agree that it would be best if the term "marriage" were taken out of the law completely, so that if people wanted to get married in a religious sense they could do so, but secular governmental unions conferring rights would be completely separate. I didn't bring up the fact that many gay people are religious too, and "marriage" to them means more than just hospital visiting rights and so forth, just as it does for her and her fiance. That's not what the California constitution should be about.

And then I spent my afternoon class looking suspiciously at everyone and wondering who else shares her view, and came home and gave more money to the No on Prop 8 group.

and now I'm going to go stab people*.



*fencing class, not murder spree

but only because there was some sort of oceans benefit party on a ship leaving from LA, and CHEKOV was there, and I didn't hear about it until it was too late.:(

Anyway...

Tennant may stay with Who if he gets a raise and a theatrical movie

Patrick Stewart to appear on Who, along with the return of some familiar faces

to which I say,

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!