naked in the rain

Ok it is late and granted I have had a couple drinks, but I just want to call out the kind of people that have been continually eroding my faith in humanity.

Like "Momofgreatkids" who left a comment in response to this story about Ike survivors:

"The children's toys, baby pictures and Hampton's stethoscope sat in a foul slurry on the floor." When you evacuate, you are supposed to take irreplaceables with you. Not leave them. And the guy that left his livilhood (musical equipment)? What are these people thinking? I'm a survivor of Betsy, Camille, Andrew, Katrina and other storms . . and took irreplaceables with me. Hurricanes give AMPLE NOTICE of their arrival. It just takes time, discipline and a lot of HARD WORK to leave. You don't just walk out, say "Oh, well - the government will replace this for me". UGH!

This is pretty much the general tone of any tard posting on Ike stories on the chron.com website, and its been getting to me more and more. This one is not a perfect example of what I mean, it's just the latest. But the general sentiment is "god these people are so stupid for staying, they were in an evacuation zone wtf they should be held responsible" or, like similar responses to Katrina, "you life in a hurricane-prone zone wtf were you thinking its your fault for living there." Fuck you.

Yeah some people live there, because inevitably millions of people in this country live in natural disaster-prone areas. Its unavoidable. Gonna kick everyone out of Cali cos it has a high probability of earthquakes? Everyone out of the midwest because there's a fuckton of tornadoes? And yeah some people stayed when mandatory evacuations were ordered. BECAUSE NOT EVERYONE HAS THE CAPACITY TO LEAVE. That requires money for gas, hotels, meals,etc, for an indefinite amount of time. Evacuating is a PRIVILEGE. If the city of Houston had placed me in a mandatory evacuation zone last week, on my own I would not have been able to afford leaving. I have family who would have helped me out, but not everyone has that option.

I am hoping that no one who reads this actually blames any hurricane victims for what happened to them (i.e. Republicans). I just need somewhere to vent my frustration at the callousness that the internet affords certain fuckheads.

Prostituting the negative

Jesus christ you guys, did you know there's actually a difference between Holland and the Netherlands? I always thought the two were interchangeable but apparently I am a dumb fuck, or something. Holland is just a province in the country of the Netherlands. But Holland happens to contain Amsterdam, Den Haag, and Rotterdam which is where everyone visits so its equated with the Netherlands.

ANCARO IMPARO. Fuckin a.

heavy boots are caught up in the crowd

Uh oh... A new study is saying that flip flops are bad for feet. They cause you to walk differently and can eventually lead to assorted problems like tendonitis. That is unfortunate, because I live in flip flops and can't imagine ever wearing anything else. They're the only shoes that I can walk in all day and my feet never get sore.

Luckily the researchers were from Auburn, so I will discount their findings entirely.

a little afternoon delight

Probably a little more than you ever wanted to learn.



This is why the internet was invented.

hi i'm a douche and i approve this douchey message

Ermmm, wtf? Here's a clip of McCain on SNL that I saw tonight:



Seriously... I don't know what to make of it. Why was he on SNL at all? It's just a campaign ad thinly THINLY veiled in humor... maybe SNL has always offered itself as a platform to political candidates, the show is 13 years older than I am so what do I know. And besides that, everyone knows SNL isn't that funny to begin with, but even with that standard in mind it's pretty bad humor. He's uhh, making fun of how shitty his state is? Or what a bad job he's done as a senator? Cos I don't think highways and post offices fall under pork barrel expenditures. And I know he made a lot of fun of his age in the skit, so we're supposed to think actually he's not that old, but everytime I see him it makes me realize all over again how fucking old he is. He's FUCKING OLD.

Also, earlier in the show they had Fred Armisen in blackface to play Barack Obama. Complete with big fake ears. I mean, I guess they had to cos the only other black male on the cast right now is Kenan Thompson. Uhh... yeah.

houston we have a problem

Lesson for the day: Don't get into your car with a vague destination in mind without, in fact, knowing where that destination is. Otherwise you will end up an hour later outside the loop and missing a quarter tank of gas, on the phone with your dad yelling about how much of a retard you are, in fact, are.

This isn't the most amazing Ancaro Imparo fix, I admit. So here's a little more to go with the lesson: The famed Heights neighborhood is not, as you might think, a neighborhood. I was under the impression that it was a few quaint little streets, like the Village, but it's more the larger part of north Houston (NoHo, if you insist on being a douchebag). Basically the space between Memorial Parkway and 610? Which is apparently a rather large area.

Furthermore, the Heights (or at least the section I finally stumbled upon, West 19th between Heights Blvd and Shepherd) is not a cute little collection of affordable vintage-tastic shops. It is right in line with the overpriced designer crap at the Village. Perhaps one day I will be able to afford an 80$ tank top, but today is not that day. Nor is that day anywhere in the near future, so in this area at least this little brokeass Houston gal will be sticking to what she has already learned (Taxi Taxi!). And maybe that is the real lesson to get out of all of this.

no, you're not rid of me

I know some people have a hard time excepting the realities of gender-based wage inequality and think that it's from another time and place. That's not a true story.

The true story is that it is alive and vibrant. A recent study shows that on average, recent male college grads earn 21.09$ while recent female college grads earn 18.17$. For those of you into numbers, that's a difference of 2.92$, and that's for, let me emphasize, recent college graduates. A group that you would think would face a relatively equal field. And in fact wage inequality is so inherent that the article doesn't even address it - the article is actually about how recent college grads salaries and benefits have gone down since 2001 and makes no mention of the wage discrepancy.

Ta da! You are still learning!

Morrissey says the joke isn't funny anymore

Ok, it's way past time for me to say this: APRIL FOOL'S!

I am not failing out of school. I'm definitely coming back to Rice last semester and I haven't sunk into fuck-all apathy. I'm busier than ever but I'm actually doing better than ever, which is how it seems to go. So no worries.

The post was the result of coming home after a long day and catching up on all my blogs and emails which contained a ton of April Fool's jokes and then realizing that it was 11.45pm and I had yet to pull one myself. Lea and I brainstormed, I wrote it, and she sent it to a couple people in a concerned email. Neither of us really thought that anyone at all would believe it.

But uhh, everyone did. My roommate, my best friends, and even my brother... all swallowed it pretty much hook line and sinker. So while I don't know how to feel that everyone could so easily believe that it was true, I do want to apologize for causing anyone undue worry. I should have written earlier that it was fake, but it slipped my mind. And thanks for the genuine concern from everyone, its really good to know that were something like that to actually happen I would have a safety net of friends to immediately rally around me.

xoxo,
gossip girl

Helter Skelter

So this blog is supposed to be about learning. But as the few people that read this might have noticed, I don't really post much anymore. This is because, frankly, I am not learning. Somewhere along the line I just totally lost the motivation for school, and so I've stopped going. I'm guessing I've failed most of my classes by now, because they all have attendance policies and I've missed the last several weeks. Who knows how many assignments I've missed. But I just can't bring myself to care anymore. I'm not sure what I'll do or where I'll be next year. I haven't been officially notified but there's no doubt that I'm on academic suspension. I don't think I want to be in the rat race of Rice anymore anyway. I've reached a state of total fuck-all apathy.

I'm posting this here because I know pretty much only my close friends read this and I don't want to have the same awkward and painful conversation over and over, and with our small group of friends I know the gossip will spread eventually so I thought I'd clarify before it gets out of hand. So now you know.