mom placation was ironing by which mens perrypops in a womansuit is the new child mystericating teats that can taint baconated digestive broads plastercasting gnostically from the great gospel wwjh

my first halloween:
rented 'waiting for guffman', bought donuts and these amazing pseudo cookies made from ghiradelli choc/macadamias/honey. planned to ignore trick-or-treaters (we live in the kind of neighbourhood where they're likely to pull out a gun if you say 'sorry, no candy') but no one came knocking!

a good night all round.

and now we're going to spend all day at the alternative press expo.

Hey, that sounds like a fun first Halloween!

RR, I have not forgotten about sending you something from MN; I am just buried (and, let's face it, I'm also kind of lame). Hope you're having fun at your expo.

I am going to see a movie this afternoon, in a theater. CRAZY BEHAVIOR

Send her a NUT GOODIE.

RR, way better than mine where I ended up hiding on the floor of our bedroom with all the lights off because I ran out of candy and didn't know what to do

HAHAHA

that is the kind of thing i would do!!!!

alternative press expo was a huge success: we got A TON of signatures for all these books jordan has, plus i got these two handpainted 'vintage' (i.e. used) handbags. the dude picks up cheap bags from thrift stores and hand paints crazy monsters and shit onto them. i will post pics later!

my new handbags, featuring ORIGINAL ART

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3041/2993516219_9e2974ec56.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2091/2993516101_e9016b1350.jpg

those are awesome!

i know!! i love them so much!! they were $20 each, but i couldn't decide which one i wanted so the artist's girlfriend said she'd sell them two for $30 to me!!

bargain!

Fun!

I went out and saw The Changeling. Pretty dark movie, pretty good, kind of long-ish.

i went to princeton to see some family friends' daughter's senior recital. it made me so nostalgic and kind of sad that i dont' sing anymore, but i am trying not to dwell on it because i've devoted so much time, money and effort into my current career path.

I miss a lot of things I used to do. But tza, at least you're doing something related to the stuff that you're nostalgic for!

Also I must express my undying love for falling back. That extra hour always makes me feel like there are 6 extra hours in the day somehow...

I can NEVER sleep on fall back night. I think i get too excited about the extra hour sleep and completely screw it up. I finally drifted off to a tivoed ANTM cycle 11 at 6 something this morning.

Wow, that's terrible. Although I guess it would be even worse on spring forward night...

Hello all, in Zurich today.

bastard

yeah, well, i'm doing LAUNDRY! jealous?! yeah, i bet you are! take THAT, zurich!

I am working through some reviews and plotting a risotto for dinner.

And just wishing, you know, that time would SPEED UP.

why???

Maybe to get this election over and done with? I would like to fast forward to actually voting and then fast forward from there to see election returns, thanks. (Or, if nothing else, I could just skip class tomorrow night, I would be good with that.)

xp Zurich! ENVYING

i would like to ff to being done with school

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we went back to the alternative press expo today and i got this t-shirt:
http://www.spacepancake.com/images/shirts/stupiddreams_300.gif

and i got this one yesterday:
http://zerofriends.com/store/index.php?main_page=popup_image&pID=198

whoops:

http://zerofriends.com/store/index.php?main_page=popup_image&pID=198

xpost that is GREAT. Stupid, stupid dreams indeed.

I would like to ff through at least the rest of this class.

Also putting in a bid for parents with critical thinking skillz.

I am also suffering a terrible case of the munchies and cannot figure out what the heck to eat that sounds remotely good. Argh.

i just ate an entire container of pistachio-choc-toffee from trader joe's. beat that!

i will never get to sleep tonight.

oooh we went to an indie press party tonight (briefly), i felt v v out of place amongst all these east bay hipsters.

omg that toffee sounds good.

I am eating some ramen noodles. Hundreds of empty calories, delicious empty calories!

But yeah, the toffee sounds better. I admit it!

I had fun with Trick-or-Treaters for the first time. We sat out on the porch, drinking and chatting with kids. We tried in vain to find some streaming Halloween music and ended up settling on Hip Hop Nation.

So many kids were showing Obama love it was crazy. He is a rock star. We get a lot of ghetto costumes. Kids in normal clothes with a couple of eyeliner marks on their face approximating whiskers or evil eyebrows. One kid came up saying "Merry Christmas!" haha. We actually had candy left over. Which is bad.

Maybe to get this election over and done with?

Exactly.

yeah i feel like getting through work/class today and tomorrow is going to be hell!

also i had trouble falling asleep last night because i was thinking about it.

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r277/Krogenar/iichan20080514041853.jpg

I can't decide if my favorite element in that is the unicorn or the roses, but I'm leaning toward the roses, tbh.

so did anyone listen to the Franken/Coleman/Barkley debate last night? just wondering if one of them stabbed the other one in the neck.

I think everyone survived intact or we would have heard about it.

I was busy debating my Dad, who is genuinely afraid of Obama, and also convinced (based on his customers' comments) that McCain will win tomorrow.

I would have rather been at the Franken/Coleman/Barkley debate. It would have been a lot less painful.

It sucks that your dad has teh fear, but am sure his customers are only seeking reification from someone with their own views. Kind of like we do here.

Switzerland = pretty to look at but otherwise overrated.

Lucerne is fucking awesome IMO

Why on Earth is your dad genuinely afraid of Obama?

Shd I run up to him and go "BOO!" next time I'm in town?

Dan, he's totally bought into the OMG OBAMA IS A TERRORIST MUSLIM SOCIALIST WHO WAS MAYBE NOT BORN IN THIS COUNTRY thing. I tried to pick some of it apart with, you know, actual FACTS last night, but it's kind of hopeless. I've always kind of known he was a racist, but it was just an entirely disheartening conversation. (Sidenote: he also loves Palin and thinks she will be the first woman president. UH.)

suzy - you're exactly right about what he is doing with his customers; I did not bother to try to explain selection bias to him because at some point what the heck is the point.

Dan, don't bother to run up and say "BOO" to him unless you are not only Black, but also willing to pretend to be a Muslim. That seems like kind of a hard part to play. (Not dogging on your acting skills here... actually I would be thoroughly entertained to see you stop a conversation with him and say, "uh-oh, it's time for me to face Mecca and say some prayers. Back in five!")

I'm honestly to the point where I feel sorry for my Dad more than angry with him. He acknowledges that he's getting his info from only right wing sources, but it's like he's afraid even to think outside that box. It's really kind of unnerving.

due to the conversations i have had with customers in the store, i am only barely guardedly optimistic about tomorrow, so it isn't just your dad hearing what he wants to hear.

maybe it's just that the sort of people who talk to people in stores are all republicans for some odd personality reason, but i'm getting about 75% McCain/Palin from the people around here o_O

Thankfully, for sanity reasons, everyone I work with (minus one person who isn't pushy or obnoxious) is pro-Obama as is most of my entire city. And my family.

But I am still only guardedly optimistic. The past two elections really did me in.

I am always only guardedly optimistic, because I'm naturally not an optimist. But yeah, the last two elections did not help.

Still have to give slightly more credence to pollsters than to what anyone randomly hears in one spot. For example, if you took my nursing program, I think you'd get a 24/2 Obama/McCain split (and one of the two Republicans was wavering). But for all I know mostly liberals are attracted to nursing programs that are set up for people who have already graduated from college!?!