A Postmodern Desi

Went to bed, crashed out whilst reading. Had a plethora of dreams in which there was no sex involved, just packing and some other crap that I cannot remember.  My dreams lately have been vivid but I can barely remember them upon awakening. And the longer that I stay awake, the less likely I can remember.  They are vivid in that upon waking, I tend to feel like I am still part of the dream. It's that few seconds of consciousness that throws me for a loop.

Yesterday I caught the front of the Business section of the local paper and the top story dealt with local GoodWill Industries plans to go "green." According to GoodWill, only 30% of donations were resold while the remainder was put into a landfill.  Plans are currently underway to take the remaining donations and start recycling them via their own recycling facility, which I think is a good thing. But damn.

30%.

This boggled my mind, as you can perhaps understand, because I donate a lot of clothing and items to Goodwill, stuff that tends to border on brand-new. Knowing that not all of my prior treasures makes into the stores to help a worthwhile cause and too boot is being landfilled, pisses me off.

I've been Craig's Listing and FreeCycling like a maniac, but that gets to be a bit tedious.  For the Misc School/Office Supplies, I had over 35 responses. I've been emailing people like crazy because it seems that those who claim to "want it" keep flaking out on me. Same thing with the dresser and bookcase I put up on Craig's List -- a ton of responses but apparently, no one answers their damn phone or email on Sundays. What the hell is up with that?

Can't spend the rest of my day on the internets. Inventory tonight and I have to be to work at 6p. *I* would love to go to Mezze and read the New York Times while eating a lovely brunch but instead, I must go pack.

But tomorrow I am treating myself by picking up more Green & Blacks chocolate bars from Harvest Health. Especially the Dark Chocolate & Cherry ones, oh holy $deity, organic orgasm.

I just walked out of church in the middle of the service because there was a child dedication for an infant and I suddenly found that I couldn't handle it at all.

This is all part of the process. I know that. But you know what? The process SUCKS.

I do, at least, have awesome friends at church. One of whom followed me out of the service and one of whom just happened to be walking bythe portico at the right moment. Thank heavens for awesome friends, because right now I don't have a whole lot else to hold on to.

This really, really bites.

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For anyone involved, really. I've never been a big fan of Yahoo!, but I like Flickr lots. However, this assessment of what Icahn (who?) is trying to do is dead-on methinks. I guess we'll find out how easily beguiled the rest of Yahoo's shareholders are.

Having voted Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell (D-CO) into office the term he chose to "turncoat" and become "(R-CO)", reading stuff like this both pleases me, and makes me wonder how many senators and reps might be considering a switch between now and their next run for office?

In the end, though, I fear that the "We-They" mentality of our country has allowed the two parties to make it all about themselves (as organizations) and not about the country at large.

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Having conversations about big, fat cocks and past sexual experiences at 2am is NOT doing me any good.

Now I'm all riled up.

DAMMIT.

Jon used to indulge me by spinning these wonderfully complex tales of hot one night stands between us while we were in bed. Who needed Penthouse Forums when you had a natural born storyteller, laying gloriously naked with a raging hard-on next to you?

Now my mind is pretending it is a sideshow and certain aspects of lovemaking with him keep flipping through my damn brain. We never really did finish celebrating "Steak and Blow Job Day." 

Boys are dumb.
I'm riled up with no place to go, because I'm too damn tired to keep myself entertained to masturbate and the sex toys are all packed away.

My life fucking sucks.

The new Wired magazine is out and no, it's not the one about Steve Carell. The new issue discusses how everything we think we know about environmentalism is actually wrong -- in that no matter how much organics, recycling, etc that we do, what we really need to do is concentrate more on our carbon footprint over anything else.

One of the examples they gave was buying organic milk (which I dutifully buy).

[I'm paraphrasing here as I didn't buy the damn magazine!]

Apparently, organic cows give 8% less milk per cow than non-organic Heifers. This means it takes 25 organic cows to produce the same amount of milk as 23 non-organic ones. But at the same time, organic cows produce more greenhouse gases than non-organic cows.

There was more but I only browsed through the magazine today over reading it. Dammit. Now I will have to buy it.

And I'm out of fucking chocolate, MY WORLD IS A MESS!

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PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail
in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.





-----Email Message-----
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 9:01 AM
Subject: re: "you don't know this, but..."

It’s funny. When you think of someone saving a life, you think of them doing some great heroic act. When really, sometimes it’s just being there for someone, so they don’t do something incredibly tragic.









-----Original Message-----
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 2:19 AM

When i saw that someone else had a countdown going I almost fell over backwards. My countdown is at 370 days until i get to run away . . . I can't wait.














-----Email Message-----
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 3:33 AM
Subject: Fwd: "She doesn't know" secret

He doesn't know that I know he knows we're getting married.



-----Email Message-----
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 5:14 AM
Subject: you learn with every goodbye

with every goodbye i feel relieved. my life begins again. i learned to love goodbyes.




Florida PostSecret Exhibit



Over 400 postcards are now on display at the Brevard Art Museum.
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Here are some exhibit comments from when the exhibit was in Canada.

I flew from Calgary to see if my secret was here. It is. . .
I'm still shaking.

Weird - and an unsuitable display for this museum.

I've been here twice already. It's disgustingly comforting to know that people share my shocking secrets.

I held my breath for most of the time in the exhibit to keep from crying. I cried in the bathroom.

I parked in the no parking zone to come see PostSecret.

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I just handed cjsmith my first draft of my paper on the solar neutrino problem. It's about 3/4 finished, and is missing the most interesting part - the solution! - since I don't actually understand it yet.

I'm expecting it will take about 2 minutes of reading before she looks at me and goes "WTF? None of this makes any sense" and I'll have to do a major rewrite. But that's why I'm doing it 4 weeks early.

Edit: Actually it took about 90 seconds.

Edit2: I clearly needed a new icon.

Alex narrated a little piece of Mary Sue self-insertion fanfic this morning, complete with dialogue markers. It began like this:

"Hi, I'm Alex," I said. "I'm a new friend in Miss Frizzle's class."

As tends to be the case with Mary Sues, there wasn't much of a plot. When you're a student in Ms. Frizzle's class, and Ms. Frizzle is your teacher, apparently all you need to do to enjoy the story is to revel in the coolness of the situation. But there was a suggestion of a hint of a plot in this bit, which was my favorite part:

[...] "Wait!" said the children. "Didn't you go to Leo's party?"

"No," said Miss Frizzle. "I went to Alex's party, and she gave me a present."

"Wow!" said the children. "Wow!"

I think Alex has a long career ahead of her on fanfiction.net.

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Who gets those nice offshore breezes faster, and allows us to cool down quicker.

Today has been hot, but nowhere near as bad as a few days ago. Boo is much happier, and has left the bedroom for the longest period since the heat started on Thursday. She is curled up near my feet here in the dining room whilst I write a paper. She hasn't gotten any Couch Time with me yet, but as the evening continues to cool, I'm sure she will.

Am writing an easier paper now... it's still lame and ambiguous, but I'm at peace with that, and in a bit over an hour and a half have written five pages. I only have about three or four more points before I hit the point where I wanted to stop for today, so I feel pretty good.

The rest of the schedule:

Sunday:
Take the damned day off.

Monday:
write up cheat sheet for Stats final.
Stats final: 2:45 until I finish (scheduled to end at 4:45, but the prof said it won't take nearly that long)
any left over time, work on paper.

Tuesday:
Finish up this paper, the final for my Core class.
Core final: 5:15 until around 7:30.
If cool enough, bake cookies to take to final.
Drink.

Wednesday through the weekend:
Rest
Relax
Play video games
enjoy having time to do NOTHING

Tuesday:
Start finding a j-o-b for summer
start cracking on proposal

I cannot wait for Wednesday.

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Weddings make me cry.

"May 16, 2008
Marriage Equality Comes to California
By George Takei

Our California dream is reality. Brad Altman and I can now marry. We are overjoyed! At long last, the barrier to full marriage rights for same-sex couples has been torn down. We are equal with all citizens of our state!"

Lots more goodness at the link.

Update 3:12 pm: Yes, we (and coyote3502) were right, it's a broken spring for the serpentine belt tensioner.

~$250.

We can manage that.

deyo did manage to fix his own car.

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*sigh*

deyo can't fix my car. We're going to have it towed to Lim's. If he can't, I think it might be done for. It's got such a nice CD player, too. :(

I was hoping we could keep it going until we could afford a used Prius or Subaru Forester. I'm thinking we might have to buy an interim cheap used car.

*grumble*

Stop whining about the weather. You people KNOW it gets hot there during the summer.


pffffft. :-P

• 14:46 Whole day got sucked away through the interwebs... #
• 14:55 Semms like plotting to me #
• 15:00 Methinks I must load a Twitter client on here. Last twit was a response. *sigh* #
• 15:14 Going to see Prince Caspian tonight. Yay! #
• 17:04 @alesiamarkstein - sounds like plotting to me. Hope the nap was refreshing. #
• 08:55 Off to the Brimfield antique fair. Don't know if I'm looking for anything specific. Just enjoy the wander-look. Nice day for it. #
• 09:46 There are windmills in Holland! Holland, MA that is. Bizzarre how seriously they take after their namesake. Heh. #

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