Clips: Uwe Boll Pushing Lowtax's Face In - Kotaku
Holy crap.
2006-09-26
2006-09-20
Through the sugar storm
The job hunt, day 1.
Went down to the HEB warehouse, put in an app, had an interview. Had to talk about working at Sonic and Domino's, which was weird. She put me through to the next round of interviews; I get to go back Friday at 9 (am). So that's cool, definitely a good sign. Went to Wal-Mart next - the retail center, not the warehouse - and (NOTE: If you get really irrated whenever I dare mention Mindy in my blog, skip the rest of this paragraph. Hell, I might end up talking about Chelsea at some point, so you'll probably just want to skip this entire post. Just to be safe. I wouldn't want to give anyone a headache.) sat at their little application station in the layaway center and filled out an application there as well. That was fun. Meh. Mindy walked by as I was sitting there, said hi to me. We talked a little bit. She had her baby, a healthy boy, named Travis II, after his father. Also, she now has the child's name tatooed on her right wrist, on the inner side.
Yeah, kinda weird. Definitely not the girl I dated for a year and a half. It's weird to see her all grown up, living her own life.
Wow, that last sentence verges on incredibly patronizing, or something, not sure what. It's really the only way I can think to put it, though. I certainly don't consider myself "all grown up, living my own life" just yet, which might help lessen the impact of that sentence.
Anyway.
I'm not sure where else I can really apply before I start falling back on fallbacks, stuff like CRI and TNI and [shudder] Sonic. I might end up there if I can't find anything else, though I really don't want to. I highly doubt things would come to that. Rose gave up on moving back down here and that whole thing, so I'm not even going to look for something in Austin. Besides, I think that would get too weird eventually. Or maybe not. I don't know, and won't have to find out now.
Moving on.
Still treading lightly in the Chelsea situation. Well... it's not like there's really a "Chelsea situation", just trying to figure out how to contact her. I sent her a message already, but I'm not sure it went out - there's no copy of it in my sent folder, and I was having a lot of errors during that time (Tried sending something to Megan as well, it never went out). The problem is that if the first one did go through, I'll seem overbearing, which is something I really, really don't want to do. We'll see how it goes.
Amber G -- Sugar Storm
Went down to the HEB warehouse, put in an app, had an interview. Had to talk about working at Sonic and Domino's, which was weird. She put me through to the next round of interviews; I get to go back Friday at 9 (am). So that's cool, definitely a good sign. Went to Wal-Mart next - the retail center, not the warehouse - and (NOTE: If you get really irrated whenever I dare mention Mindy in my blog, skip the rest of this paragraph. Hell, I might end up talking about Chelsea at some point, so you'll probably just want to skip this entire post. Just to be safe. I wouldn't want to give anyone a headache.) sat at their little application station in the layaway center and filled out an application there as well. That was fun. Meh. Mindy walked by as I was sitting there, said hi to me. We talked a little bit. She had her baby, a healthy boy, named Travis II, after his father. Also, she now has the child's name tatooed on her right wrist, on the inner side.
Yeah, kinda weird. Definitely not the girl I dated for a year and a half. It's weird to see her all grown up, living her own life.
Wow, that last sentence verges on incredibly patronizing, or something, not sure what. It's really the only way I can think to put it, though. I certainly don't consider myself "all grown up, living my own life" just yet, which might help lessen the impact of that sentence.
Anyway.
I'm not sure where else I can really apply before I start falling back on fallbacks, stuff like CRI and TNI and [shudder] Sonic. I might end up there if I can't find anything else, though I really don't want to. I highly doubt things would come to that. Rose gave up on moving back down here and that whole thing, so I'm not even going to look for something in Austin. Besides, I think that would get too weird eventually. Or maybe not. I don't know, and won't have to find out now.
Moving on.
Still treading lightly in the Chelsea situation. Well... it's not like there's really a "Chelsea situation", just trying to figure out how to contact her. I sent her a message already, but I'm not sure it went out - there's no copy of it in my sent folder, and I was having a lot of errors during that time (Tried sending something to Megan as well, it never went out). The problem is that if the first one did go through, I'll seem overbearing, which is something I really, really don't want to do. We'll see how it goes.
Amber G -- Sugar Storm
2006-09-17
No lack of sunshine, baby, I got you
Warning: This is going to be a rambling post in which I explore my views and opinions on a lot of things, though a politcal dicussion prompted this post, so there will probably be an emphasis in that area. If you don't want to read any of that, you can probably skip this post and not really miss anything.
That being said...
I feel free speech is a fundamental aspect of a non-tyrannical government. Not an absoulte - yelling 'Fire!' in a crowded theater, for instance, isn't something I support, but just about everything else - hateful speech, swearing, racial slurs, the worst of it. Certainly, there are times (or, in some cases, all the time) when it's inappropriate, rude, ignorant, what have you, but not illegal. Not somethng the government should monitor and hold against you.
I'm not saying that's our right as Americans, but our right as sentinent creatures.
I also firmly believe in giving everyone the right to vote. HOWEVER, I don't think everyone necessarily should vote. I think only people that have some knowledge of the issues at hand should vote. I'm not saying that there should be some kind of test to make sure they possess this knowledge or anything, just that the phrase "Everyone should vote. Period." is not something I agree with. It's not really something that you can really enforce, nor should they, just an idealogical standpoint. I get really annoyed hearing people "I'm voting for X because he's cute" or "I'm voting for X because I like his name". Should they lose the right to do so? No. Is it irresponsible and counter to the point of democracy? Yes.
Anyway.
My mom has a frustrating habit of jumping to conclusions, then hanging onto them in spite of any new evidence that may come to light. It saddens me. One of the (few) things I really like about myself is my perceived logica... logicalness? logicality? Something like that. I'm usually pretty good about listening to the facts, factoring in potential bias, holding rational discussions, and forming logically sound opinions. I fall prey to the heat of the moment, as everyone does, but I think I've really worked on realizing when I'm doing it, and just walking away.
My mother is a staunch supporter of Bush. Not a supporter of the Republican party, or the right-wing establishment, or the current administration, but of George W. Bush Jr. Fine. Why?
This came up during lunch today. I mentioned to Bambi that Clinton - yes, Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States - is going to be on the Daily Show tomorrow evening. Greg made a comment that he'd be in friendly waters, that they'd been going after Bush pretty hard. I responded that, well, the guy makes it so easy. That's when Mom started to provide input as well. She really, really supports Bush. That's not what frustrates me so much. I mean, I certainly disagree with her on that one, but it's her right. What really frustrates me about it is that she doesn't back it up with anything, doesn't respond to criticisms of her position at all. Even when presented with actual evidence directly contrary to her position or conclusion, she brushes it aside or ignores it. It's really frustrating.
I loathe the right-wing establishment. I don't necessarily diasgree with all of their views - blanket agreement with a party drives me nuts. But a lot of the tactics used - Coulter, O'Reilly, Hannity, they drive me nuts. I disagree with most - not all, most - of their viewpoints, but that's not the issue - the issue is the lying, distorting, misquoting, and selective editing.
Edit: That wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be, a lot shorter too. Having a Naxx raid in the middle of it probably didn't help.
Faith Hill -- I Got My Baby
That being said...
I feel free speech is a fundamental aspect of a non-tyrannical government. Not an absoulte - yelling 'Fire!' in a crowded theater, for instance, isn't something I support, but just about everything else - hateful speech, swearing, racial slurs, the worst of it. Certainly, there are times (or, in some cases, all the time) when it's inappropriate, rude, ignorant, what have you, but not illegal. Not somethng the government should monitor and hold against you.
I'm not saying that's our right as Americans, but our right as sentinent creatures.
I also firmly believe in giving everyone the right to vote. HOWEVER, I don't think everyone necessarily should vote. I think only people that have some knowledge of the issues at hand should vote. I'm not saying that there should be some kind of test to make sure they possess this knowledge or anything, just that the phrase "Everyone should vote. Period." is not something I agree with. It's not really something that you can really enforce, nor should they, just an idealogical standpoint. I get really annoyed hearing people "I'm voting for X because he's cute" or "I'm voting for X because I like his name". Should they lose the right to do so? No. Is it irresponsible and counter to the point of democracy? Yes.
Anyway.
My mom has a frustrating habit of jumping to conclusions, then hanging onto them in spite of any new evidence that may come to light. It saddens me. One of the (few) things I really like about myself is my perceived logica... logicalness? logicality? Something like that. I'm usually pretty good about listening to the facts, factoring in potential bias, holding rational discussions, and forming logically sound opinions. I fall prey to the heat of the moment, as everyone does, but I think I've really worked on realizing when I'm doing it, and just walking away.
My mother is a staunch supporter of Bush. Not a supporter of the Republican party, or the right-wing establishment, or the current administration, but of George W. Bush Jr. Fine. Why?
This came up during lunch today. I mentioned to Bambi that Clinton - yes, Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States - is going to be on the Daily Show tomorrow evening. Greg made a comment that he'd be in friendly waters, that they'd been going after Bush pretty hard. I responded that, well, the guy makes it so easy. That's when Mom started to provide input as well. She really, really supports Bush. That's not what frustrates me so much. I mean, I certainly disagree with her on that one, but it's her right. What really frustrates me about it is that she doesn't back it up with anything, doesn't respond to criticisms of her position at all. Even when presented with actual evidence directly contrary to her position or conclusion, she brushes it aside or ignores it. It's really frustrating.
I loathe the right-wing establishment. I don't necessarily diasgree with all of their views - blanket agreement with a party drives me nuts. But a lot of the tactics used - Coulter, O'Reilly, Hannity, they drive me nuts. I disagree with most - not all, most - of their viewpoints, but that's not the issue - the issue is the lying, distorting, misquoting, and selective editing.
Edit: That wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be, a lot shorter too. Having a Naxx raid in the middle of it probably didn't help.
Faith Hill -- I Got My Baby
2006-09-15
I'll take you to the candy shop
Man, I just had this crazy dream. I should preface it by saying I haven't heard the song "Candy Shop" by 50 Cent. Well, I've heard about a 15 second clip and accompanying video, but nothing beyond that short snippet.
So, in my dream, I was watching the music video for that song. Except it wasn't the *real* music video for that song, of which I've only had a short glimpse. It was some random stuff, kinda weird. In the video, 50 Cent was attempting to get into the "candy shop", which was nothing more than a dark building. What lay within fell outside the scope of the video. However, the main complication to acheving his easy-sounding goal was that (here's where it gets weird) there were a bunch of jackalopes guarding the building. Yes, jackalopes. Maybe it's weirder that I've never - well, maybe once? - dreamt about jackalopes? So yeah. There may have also been some flora taking a more active role in the building's defense as well, ala the Ents in LotR. Basically, he just circled the building the entire video; there wasn't any open conflict. It was a dark night, not very much moonlight, which really altered the mood to borderline-scary. He was never able to gain access to the building; at the end, he just kind of wussed out and walked away. One of the jackalopes turned to the other and made a comment about being sad that another person had opted not to come "play with them." I'm not sure if it was an ironic comment, like they were looking foward to forcibly guarding their charge, or an innocent, literal one, that they there misunderstood and just seeking company.
Either way, kinda weird.
50 Cent ft. Olivia -- Candy Shop
So, in my dream, I was watching the music video for that song. Except it wasn't the *real* music video for that song, of which I've only had a short glimpse. It was some random stuff, kinda weird. In the video, 50 Cent was attempting to get into the "candy shop", which was nothing more than a dark building. What lay within fell outside the scope of the video. However, the main complication to acheving his easy-sounding goal was that (here's where it gets weird) there were a bunch of jackalopes guarding the building. Yes, jackalopes. Maybe it's weirder that I've never - well, maybe once? - dreamt about jackalopes? So yeah. There may have also been some flora taking a more active role in the building's defense as well, ala the Ents in LotR. Basically, he just circled the building the entire video; there wasn't any open conflict. It was a dark night, not very much moonlight, which really altered the mood to borderline-scary. He was never able to gain access to the building; at the end, he just kind of wussed out and walked away. One of the jackalopes turned to the other and made a comment about being sad that another person had opted not to come "play with them." I'm not sure if it was an ironic comment, like they were looking foward to forcibly guarding their charge, or an innocent, literal one, that they there misunderstood and just seeking company.
Either way, kinda weird.
50 Cent ft. Olivia -- Candy Shop
2006-09-13
Get out of my brain because you drive me insane
Wow, almost an entire month with no new posts whatsoever, not even a half-hearted "I'm still around, just haven't felt like posting lately." blurb. I think that's a new record for me, not including the like six months immediately after I signed up for a blog on Zara's urging, but never used it.
I'm about to do an update on what's been going on lately. (Hint: Not much). I'm going to the HEB Warehouse tomorrow, they've got an add in the paper right now. Their starting pay is 11.65, which is pretty good, and they've got decent benefits. Now, I'll just have to see what kind of hours they're offering. Also have my third appointment in North Austin (ARGH) tomorrow at 1:30. I have that drive. I just hope that it being this early, and on a Thursday that's *not* the day before Labor Day Weekend will help me not have to deal with traffic as much as I've had to the past two appointments. At least this one is my last one. We'll see what kind of effects it'll have on me, if it'll actually help.
Things with Lilie are the same as always, same as they've been for the majority of the last year or so.
Oh, and Chelsea moved back to San Marcos.
More tomorrow, when I know more.
Michelle Shaprow -- If I Lost You
I'm about to do an update on what's been going on lately. (Hint: Not much). I'm going to the HEB Warehouse tomorrow, they've got an add in the paper right now. Their starting pay is 11.65, which is pretty good, and they've got decent benefits. Now, I'll just have to see what kind of hours they're offering. Also have my third appointment in North Austin (ARGH) tomorrow at 1:30. I have that drive. I just hope that it being this early, and on a Thursday that's *not* the day before Labor Day Weekend will help me not have to deal with traffic as much as I've had to the past two appointments. At least this one is my last one. We'll see what kind of effects it'll have on me, if it'll actually help.
Things with Lilie are the same as always, same as they've been for the majority of the last year or so.
Oh, and Chelsea moved back to San Marcos.
More tomorrow, when I know more.
Michelle Shaprow -- If I Lost You
