| Gackt |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|04:07 pm] |
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I just got a random e-mail full of Japanese stuff I could not understand except the words "GACKT" "XMAS" and "LIVE." Curious, I put it through Google translate, and I was able to figure out that there's some contest. The thing is, you need to be male and at least 20 years old. The place is somewhere in Tokyo. Only winners will learn the actual location.
I'm convinced. Gackt is pulling a Lestat. Vampire celebrity. He's looking for the next young pretty thing and bestow unto him the Dark Gift. I mean, people are gonna get suspicious seeing Gackt all famous, and never aging. He needs an heir. Or a companion. I don't know. But he's gonna be turning the "winner" into another vampire. |
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| Oh. My. God. |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|04:04 pm] |
Just fucking wow. I'll admit that I've never considered this issue, because I've never heard anyone speak about it. I literally had my hands clasped over my mouth, which was hanging wide open, reading this:
From a remove of two years, Amy now sees the sex that resulted in her pregnancy as rape: something that may have qualified her for an on-base (though self-funded) abortion. However, at the time, because the rape wasn’t brutally violent, and because she had seen fellow servicewomen be ostracized for “crying rape” in the past, she imagined nothing but trouble would come of making a complaint.
Instead, using herbal abortifacient supplements ordered online Amy self-aborted. Unable to find a coat hanger she used her sanitized rifle cleaning rod and a laundry pin to manually dislodge the fetus while lying on a towel on the bathroom floor. It was a procedure she attempted twice, each time hemorrhaging profusely. Amy lost so much blood on the first attempt that her skin blanched and her ears rang. She continued working for five weeks, despite increasing sickness, until she realized she was still pregnant.
The military doesn't deserve these women. The fact that they ~allow~ women to serve only to treat them like they're subhuman while they risk their lives is disgusting. It's criminal, and I will never get over the fact that we live in a world where male members of congress can sit in their cushy chairs back home and prevent women from exercising bodily autonomy and receiving the healthcare they are legally and ethically entitled to because of their own fucked-up misogynistic "religious beliefs" while those women are fighting the government's war.
Oh, and I've been listening to healthcare discussion all day and getting to hear about even more of our lovely congresspeople - our lovely right-wing "get government out of my life" congresspeople who are supposedly against ~government takeover of healthcare~ - trying to put even more anti-woman bullshit in our reform bills. Fuckers. |
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| Drink from me and live forever |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|01:34 pm] |
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I have a confession.
I might be warming up to Lady Gaga.
I justly accept your disappointment.
On a totally unrelated note... "Vulgar act of giving birth" ...As described by Gabrielle. If only more people could see it that way. Society has brainwashed women to thinking that having babies is so cute and nice and just a really wonderful thing. But I'll bet a lot of these women don't even think about crapping on the delivery table in front of everyone. Yeah, how d'ya like them apples? Childbirth, to me, is not some "beautiful miracle." It is as Gabrielle said. Vulgar, but a necessary, natural inclination for the continuation of the species.
The biggest thing that's bothering me about The Vampire Lestat is how Lestat states that he will not feed on an innocent. Only evil men. This contradicts so much Louis described in Interview. I know they each have different perspectives, and Louis probably skewed some information and go things wrong, but you can't deny the fact that many of the people Lestat fed on were young and beautiful. Especially the two boys from when Claudia attempted to kill him. I doubt Louis would have changed THAT MUCH in his story, to say that Claudia brought two poisoned boys when actually they were scraggly cutthroats. I'm thinking maybe this not-feeding-on-the-innocent thing is perhaps a new revelation of Lestat's after awakening, yeah?
Also, de Lenfant is a terrible last name. Gawd. I'd kill myself too, if I had to live with that name for an eternity.
I've had the urge lately to write just little short stories and stuff about Lorne and Wesley, and before I could swear I had the inspiration, just not the time. But now... It's odd. I dunno what to write. I'm thinking of maybe doing stories based off songs that remind me of them. Maybe I'll do that. |
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| Finals week! |
[Dec. 14th, 2009|11:25 am] |
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One down, four to go! I think I'm dreading the two days I have to work more than finals. The only one I'm kinda concerned about is astronomy, and that's cumulative, AKA impossible to study for, so bleh =/
I feel really good about the one I did today for my philosophy and law class. I've been fluctuating throughout the semester how much I like the professor, and I left on a very good note. First of all, his exams are like... 20 multiple choice questions, and we only answer ten. Then we had 10 essay questions and only had to answer 2. Yeah. AWESOME. Plus, before he handed out the final, he asked the question...
What is the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything?
And I was like... OMG FORTY TWO.
It was awesome.
I noticed, and maybe it's just me and I'm crazy, but Alec Baldwin kinda looks like my dad. Just random thought throwing out there. Idk!
Friday night - karaoke at Finnegan's in Dyer. COME WITH ME, GUYS! |
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| God damn it. |
[Dec. 13th, 2009|08:40 pm] |
What the fucking fffuuuuck is going on with this Islamophobic bullshit in Europe lately? Banning minarets in Switzerland? A mosque getting desecrated by neo-Nazis in France?
Let me repeat this: neo-Nazis in France.
Seriously, fuck the world. |
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| Question time. |
[Dec. 13th, 2009|03:06 pm] |
So did anybody formerly (or currently) read a lot of Harry/Draco fic? I'm trying to remember the name of something I read a long time ago. It was a really popular story, probably novel-length, in which Harry and Draco were somehow magically dependent on each other or something (I believe they were inseparable), and I seem to recall that a significant part of it took place in the hospital wing.
I don't know why, but it's really been bugging me. |
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| The more you know~ |
[Dec. 12th, 2009|12:20 am] |
Okay, since it's the holidays now and I've started seeing those red buckets around again, I just want to point out that the Salvation Army is a heavily evangelical organization that refuses to hire homosexuals and threatened to close all soup kitchens in New York City when the city government proposed legislation that would require all organizations doing business with it to provide equal benefits to unmarried domestic partners. They're not a charity; they're people who provide aid with ulterior motives. So please, save up your change and buy a toy for a poor child or give to one of the many upstanding charities out there that display real, unconditional compassion for people in need. |
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| A conundrum. |
[Dec. 9th, 2009|12:21 am] |
Better performance: Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain or Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight?
There is no right answer. |
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| In Soviet Mordor, Boromir simply walks into YOU. |
[Dec. 8th, 2009|09:03 pm] |
Official GRE scores came back. 720/800 verbal (98th percentile), 770/800 quantitative (87th percentile), 5.5/6 analytical writing (92nd percentile). I wonder if I could've gotten a six on that last bit if I'd had time to edit; as it was I wrote until time ran out on both essays. The whole percentile thing in that case is strange to me since it goes in half point increments so there aren't a whole lot of possible scores, but okay. And man, that fucking verbal section. English is one of my biggest strengths and it still kicked my ass. There was at least one word on there I don't think I'd ever heard before. In the end, I guess I'm happy. But I'll still do better next time; if I study a little, I'm sure I can break 1500 and really improve that quantitative score. 87th is the lowest percentile I've ever gotten on a standardized test. Disappointment. ._.
Today I found out that Figwit is in Flight of the Conchords. My mind was blown. |
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| New hat |
[Dec. 6th, 2009|06:53 pm] |
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My winter hat finally arrived!
It's perty cunning, dontcha think? |
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| Cool story, bro. |
[Dec. 4th, 2009|05:31 pm] |
I got a flat tire on my way home from Target today. So I pulled into an abandoned parking lot and decided to change it myself. I've never changed a tire on the PT Cruiser, so I had to find the jack, then figure out how to get the donut down from under the car (my old car had a compartment in the trunk for it), and then I spent like fifteen minutes and a phone call with my dad trying to figure out where the jack was supposed to go for the rear tires. The illustration didn't look anything like the actual car, and the symbol indicating the jack position was entirely absent. Eventually I had to guess, but I did guess right. And the entire time I'm sitting there thinking that soon some guy is going to stop and help me, because that's what always happens when you're a woman with a flat. But I managed to get the tire off (omg the bolts were on there so tight it was so hard ;_;) before anyone did.
As far as I can tell, one of four things has occurred:
1) Chivalry is dead (okay!)
2) Sexism is over and women can be trusted to change their own tires now (yay!)
3) I do not look young and attractive enough all bundled up to warrant attention (okay!)
4) People in this town are just not that friendly (boo!)
Eventually when I was almost done a girl and her mom stopped to help me, and then her dad pulled up because they'd seen me having trouble getting the nuts loose and called him to help, and he put the donut on and made sure it was tight enough, the last bit of which would've been pretty difficult for me and potentially very bad. So I was grateful for that. I went to get the tire patched since there was a screw stuck in it, and I had to wait an hour and a half, and when they were done the guy came out and told me there'd been two screws and a nail in it. I could feel the blood drain out of my face because I thought that was going to mean I'd have to pay more or buy a new tire. And then he laughed and charged me fifteen bucks so that was a huge relief.
So that was shitty but I'm also kind of happy that I got to change the tire mostly on my own, so I can do it faster next time and more easily in much worse conditions. |
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