rah rah sis boom bah

i'm taking a lesson from melissa who posted what she was thankful about. that was really nice. i think i'll do that too.

just so you know, this is in no particular order

my family
my friends
mike
snickers
baconface III
chicago
indiana
school
money for school
music
being a girl
joan jett
amelie
funny things
living inside
my (tentative) sanity
kathleen hanna
singing in the car
baths
boyfriends who wash dishes
being the most commentedest blog. ever.
sister band
books (well not all books)
4-track and imic (enabling me to make my own cds which are really awesome)
the falcon

and, since this is pretty much my personality, here's a list of things i'm NOT thankful for

W
war
bunnies dying for fur
having hair that's somewhere in between tom cruise and dustin hoffman in rainman (submitted for your approval)
homeless people
people who don't give homeless people money even though those people obviously have lots of money
people who don't understand how lucky they are to not be homeless
sexism racism homophobism xenophobism etc you get it


happy thanksgiving!

attention, please

i'm not blogging
i'm not commenting
i'm not even using the internet anymore

because
no one ever comments besides me
i comment
no one replies
i post
no one replies
i set up a kwanzaa party planning headquarters
only liz joins

later when you're all crying yourselves to sleep because you miss my internet presence so intensely, just remember you brought this on yourselves.

i can still be reached by phone or through normal human interaction.

*end scene*

i just took a personality test online.

http://www.personality-project.org

here are some results:


Extraversion:

"Your average score on extraversion was 3.8, which is considered average. It is in approximately the 38th percentile for females over the age of 21.

Your score on Extraversion is average, indicating you are neither a subdued loner nor a jovial chatterbox. You enjoy time with others but also time alone."

okay, fair enough. seems right.

Agreeableness:

"Your average score on agreeableness was 4.9, which is considered high. It is in approximately the 90th percentile for females over the age of 21.

Your high level of Agreeableness indicates a strong interest in others' needs and well-being. You are pleasant, sympathetic, and cooperative."

okay. sure. uh huh.

Conscientiousness:

"Your average score on conscientiousness was 2.9, which is considered low. It is in approximately the 4th percentile for females over the age of 21.

Your score on Conscientiousness is low, indicating you like to live for the moment and do what feels good now. Your work tends to be careless and disorganized."

this is news to me. this is where you guys come in...is this true? i always thought i was a conscientious kid.hmm

Emotional Stability (un-PC name: "Neuroticism")

"Your average score on emotional stability was 1.8, which is considered low. It is in approximately the 1st percentile for females over the age of 21.

Your score on Emotional Stability is low indicating that you are easily upset, even by what most people consider the normal demands of living. People consider you to be sensitive and emotional."

oooookay. I can't really deny that, as much as I'd like to.

Openness to experience:

"Your average score on openness was 5.1, which is considered high. It is in approximately the 86th percentile for females over the age of 21.

Your score on Openness to Experience is high, indicating you enjoy novelty, variety, and change. You are curious, imaginative, and creative."

okay.

so yeah do you guys think this is an accurate description of me? please take the personality test (Big Five personality test) and put the results on your blog so that we can all comment about you.

thx
r

Even though i put that my ideal breakfast is miso soup, green tea, and rice, I still got this:

You Should Date A Swede! You're a romantic, albeit an understated and practical one. It's more about a steady partnership for you, not unrestrained falling Your Swede will give you the unwavering love you crave While making up some mean pancakes and meatballs on the side! Which Foreign Guy Should You Date? Take This Quiz :-) Find the Love of Your Life (and More Love Quizzes) at Your New Romance.

bienvenido, sr. gonzales

so so so

bush wants to appoint "al gonzales" as attorney general. i know it might sound cool, since he's hispanic and we're all for diversity (woo!) but read a bit about him:

"Gonzales has been at the forefront of developing White House policy about detaining terror suspects for extended periods without access to lawyers or courts. He wrote the February 2002 memo that allowed Bush to claim the right to waive international treaties and anti-torture rules when it comes to prisoners of war who do not serve other countries. Human rights groups criticized the memo, which they said gave way for abuses like that in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal."

This is from foxnews.com, too, so you know it's credible!

basically, i just wanna say a great big F. U. to gb for appointing a racially diverse yet ideologically stiflingly narrow group of people to his cabinet. so that instead of saying, hey, al gonzales is a dick, look at all this stupid shit he's done, everyone is saying Hoooooorrraaayyyyyyy for hispanics!!!!! al gonzales will be the first hispanic to be appointed as attorney general. same thing with condi. I don't feel like the women's struggle is benefiting one doggone bit from her appointments. wow she is the first black woman to blahblah, i dont care. she's still just a mouthpiece from the conservative right.

you know i'm sick of rich old white men running this country. and i'm getting sick of them appointing asians, hispanics, women, blacks, etc., to do their bidding.

it's much harder for us to criticize a hispanic attorney general (no one wants to look racist) than it is to criticize ashcroft.

well i say screw that!! don't let PC-ness scare you away. call a dick a dick.

al gonzales, you're a dick. i don't care if you're white, brown, purple, green or pink. i'm an equal opportunity opposer to human rights violators.

don't support nalgene

i hate nalgene bottles. people carry these around college campuses like they are some sort of status symbols, tiny SUVs that can attach and swing off the bottom of your backpack. If you have a nalgene bottle, you should destroy it immediately.

especially since they make cages for "storing" lab animals.

click here for proof

everyone who commented to fulfill my dreams of making this blog the most commentedest blog. ever. is going to get a special prize mailed to them. so those people need to send their addresses to me at r p i n g @ u c h i c a g o . e d u
and those people include
liz
melissa
ky
mike
anonymous
so send it. except for ky and mike, you don't need to send it because i know your addresses. okay. well i don't know what to say.

"if you ever talk to my kid like that again, i'm knocking you out."

does anyone know what movie that's from?

update update update

i don't really feel like updating but melissa bullied me into it. so instead of updating, i'm going to ask a question and you all can answer it in the comments section (i'm trying to break melissa's record of 49 comments).

the question is:

uhm

*cough*

uhhhh

if you could have dinner with anyone, living or dead, who would you choose?
if your house was on fire and you could only take one thing what would it be?
and of course if you were stranded on a desert island which three things would you want to have with you?


i'll go first:
1. amelie
2. my dvd of amelie
3. snickers mike amelie

your turn!
tear it up!
i am seriously using these lame hypothetical questions to outcomment melissa.
go~!!!

how is this happening? seriously?

who voted for this bush character? and why? the popular vote? how in the hell.....

i'm thinking about leaving the country because this makes me uncomfortable. i'm moving to italy. ciao.

so i just was looking at liz's blog and i found an old comment she had posted about using an online translator to translate something, well let me quote her:

"Just for illustration's sake, I am going to show you how the phrase, "It's powdered sugar. It's delicious." degenerates on this translation site:

English to German: Es hat Zucker gepulvert. Es ist köstlich.

Then copy/psting that back into the thing, German to English: It has sugar gepulvert. It is precious."

-Liz

and so i decided to do that because well i got DSL so now i have to be online because i can.

"I like to pet rabbits. I don't want to eat any more ice cream."
becomes
"I like to cherish rabbits. I do not want to eat any more crme ice."
----via the french language.

"If you don't get the hell out of my face, I'm going to slap you really hard."
becomes
"If you do not receive the Hlle from my face, which I will really strongly strike you."
----thank you, german.

"I really hope George Bush loses this election because he is a total lunatic."
becomes
"I really hope that George Bush loses this election perch lunatic a total."
----oooo-kay, italian.

"I would like to return this blouse. I need a size "awesome"; "radical girl" was a little too big. "
becomes
"I would like to return this blouse. I need a size "awesome"; "the radical girl" was little one too much great one."
----portuguese, not that interesting.

and finally moreover and however
"Cancel my subscription, 'cause I don't need your issues."
becomes
"Suscripcin cancels my, ' cause that I do not need its editions."
----courtesy of spanish.

well here we are. watching and waiting. do do do.

i just got dsl and i just setted it up all by myself and it's really fast and i really like it so far.

i'm going to post some photos on my photoblog...i'll let you know when they're up there. maybe i'll go back to the regular photoblog...it's much cooler, huh? but kinda time consuming.

holy moly there are voting lines in philadelphia that are like a mile long. it looks like they're waiting to get on a ride at disney world.

today when i was voting, the guy telling everyone what to do wanted us to get in snakey like line inside the building instead of being in a straight line going out the door. so he said, we're gonna make this like disney world. make a line like a snake. now i know you all have been to disneyworld, everyone's been to disney world. blahblah. don't you think that's a weird thing to assume? that everyone has been to disneyworld, especially everyone standing in line waiting to vote on a tuesday afternoon on the south side? i thought it was bizarre.

oh god bushie has something to say to us now. that's weird. i bet he's going to admit that he's an alien from jupiter and he's just been doing an experiment on us and he's going to turn time back to 2000 and erase our memories and we get this whole time back. or maybe he wants to admit what we all know--that he has presenile dementia. or maybe he just wants to talk some shit.

everyone should check out my sisters photo essay.