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

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!?!

my main point of comfort has been falling back on the "LOL U LIVE IN MN VOTE FOR ALL THE MCCAIN U WANT DUDE" aspect of the electoral college, but i am still nervous.

i have not actually been saying these things aloud. i am very agreeable to the political views of people trying to give me money, at least temporarily.

i am very agreeable to the political views of people trying to give me money, at least temporarily.

^^^ best way to not lose business, obv!

I should also point out that John looks like a stereotypical Republican, and was once thanked for his service in the Marines based on his bumper sticker.

All told, I'd be astonished if MN went to the R column this year - especially after the past 8 years. We haven't voted for an R since Nixon.

SUSA poll of MN has us 49 Obama, 46 McCain; meanwhile every other poll gives O much better margins here.

So..... ?????

As a totally not-related aside, I really don't feel like going to class tonight.

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

this!!!

still cant vote :(

That sucks, sunny. On the other hand, you won't be confronted with a bunch of things that you have no idea how to vote on. (See - bright side to everything!)

(Seriously, I always get to the judges and odd county positions and have no idea where to go with them. I should check more into local politics. SIGH.)

i always vote against local ballot initiates except for schools and transit. my mom gets mad

OK my mom's just been on the phone. She's voting McCain because he has 'earned the job' and is a 'good senator'. Obama is far too inexperienced and obv controlled by the Chicago machine; she argues it's not a race thing but I argue back that she's making him be twice as good for the same job as a man she likes because 'he didn't have to choose the life he led, he didn't have to work'. Note: this is the rich white guy version of that Chris Rock sketch about men going for kudos for meeting basic responsibilities. I say this is the first sign of the Generation Gap since she didn't trust people over 30, and it's an institutionalized race thing on her part.

Then: OMG. She says she's heard O's kids aren't allowed birthday or Christmas presents (from 6-16, neither was she; her parents went Jehovah's Witness) and What Does That Mean? I had not heard this about their kids and doubt it is true, obv. She'd kick the ass of the person who criticized her own dad BTW (he got around it by getting big-ticket family presents) so I said so. Next gambit: are you not concerned with some of the friends he has? I'm all, please dude, I went to Sarah Lawrence - I recall you paid for some of that - so you paid for me to get to know the kids of Black Panthers and Communists, none of whom thought their parents were wrong, exactly. Mom: 'gotta go, customer..."

I have not heard that about Obama's kids either. I saw him trick-or-treating with one of them this weekend! (well, not like with my own eyes but on the news.)

i always vote against local ballot initiates except for schools and transit.

wha? I voted yes on all of them this time.

sometimes they are very important! like when i was still registered in sc and there was one to abolish tax on 'luxury items' like boats and cars over a certain $amount (high). because that makes sense. let rich people skip out on taxes for their 4th car...

My mom spent a full five minutes whining about those TorT photos because they added grist to the 'puritanical parent' meme; she had no candy bag therefore that's on the ban list too. Says the woman who without fail made me give 50 per cent of mine to UNICEF. DUDE WELCOME TO THE LIFE OF A KID WITH SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION.