Brilliant!

Kudos to Kellie for doing this first. 

I think it fabulous that my alias is the place I want to sail to to die when I turn 50. I so want to see this movie, and now I am really sad that I can't go to the free screening. Balls.

Over-my head

Did you ever think about the words "overview" and "oversight" and their relation to each other? 

"Sight" and "View" have congruous meanings, so one would assume that by simply adding the compound prefix "over", you would also have compound words with similar meanings. However, when combined with "over", these two words become opposing ideas. "Overview" becomes the idea of seeing the whole picture, whereas "Oversight" implies that one has missed the picture.

Odd. 

I love language; so tricksy. 

I'm gonna kill you all kinds of dead

I watched one of the trailers for The Spirit right now and it looks interesting. I know nothing of the story line, but the movie definitely looks comic-booky (?!). Anyway, that one line made me smile. Its now in my rainy day catalogue of phrases. One day I will need to say "I'm gonna kill you all kinds of dead". Probably around when I'll need "No one's gonna take me alive". Both of which to be followed with "I am weary from battle". You need to be prepared. I was a brownie for 6 months; I know these things. 

Poem of the...whatever

While doing my poetry midterm I stumbled across this little beauty:

Ugly men on TV were talking about global warming.
One in particular looked like the spawn of rocks.
I wrote a letter to the various Harvards and MITs,

Dear Serious Sirs,

R & D the sexy mask ASAP if you want us hot
for the idea of giving up the living rooms
of our cars. Carbon dioxide this, albedo that:
where's the hubba hubba? And why only dudes?
My mother's not a man and she knows
to turn off the stove, you should see my wife
in a bikini when she says, "This eclipse
brought to you by coal." Everyday, TV
injects our eyes with pretty,
and then you come along selling apocalypse
and give us the Nebbish Kings of Doom.
Where is it written the mugs of scientists
have to be Golden Mean challenged? Packaging.
Don't stare at pictures of but read McLuhan.
The first impression when dispensing depression
shouldn't be ouch, now should it? If ugly's
all people have to live for, they won't stop driving
from the bedroom to the den. Beauty. It's all around us
except, you know, when you guys show up.

My wife said this was cruel and that she never
wears a bikini while discussing diffraction.
We were planting azaleas on our roses at the time,
doing our part to move the carbon load from the air
to our gardens. We'd already converted our skin
to solar panels, our breathing to wheezing.
You shouldn't call people with advanced degrees ugly,
she said, their feelings were raised in a lab.
It was a beautiful day. The desert
was still some decades west of us, and Canadians,
realizing hockey was at risk, had shot their pick-ups
and even the Zambonis. We can walk, they said,
we have the tools, which made Americans
look for our legs. We found them in the backs
of our closets. It was weird at first, using the body
to get the body around. Then someone mentioned
that you can hum, you can think while doing this,
and the air sounds better since, and now,
when we say, "I was just thinking," it's almost true.
~~~~~~~~

By Bob Hicok

FIRE!!!

So, clearly there is a fire. Well, there is actually two at the moment. I live somewhere between the two. Smokey! So far the air quality is not horrendous like back in 2003, but I am uber sensitive to scent, so I have my excedrin handy.  

I went visit my parents in Sylmar after work to make sure they were all okay. Free food was consumed. As I was leaving I noticed the fire looked worse than it was when I got there so I called my aunt, who had gotten evacuated earlier in the day, to make sure all was well. Apparently, they were at dinner and had no idea, so investigated and found out that there was no way of getting to their house. So, now they are back at my grandma's house for the night. Yikes. 

I am 50/50 on whether or not I want school to be closed tomorrow. I don't want to have to do my homework, but I also want to have the midterm review before Thursday's tests. I am getting up at 5 am to find out what the verdict is.

Magic Castle is coming up soon!!!! 

By the way, this is totally hilarious! Good learning tool as well.

Today...sucked ass

So as per my title, today sucked ass. Majorly. I woke up just as sick as yesterday, but at least I had managed to sleep through the night. I got really bored at home so I decided to go to the mall and try to find a handbag for my new outfit. I went to Macy's cause, really, I didn't want to spend actual money and I have a credit card there. After going through literally all the handbags there I found one on clearance that I thought would work with the dress. I also found some jewelry on sale and I could see myself either wearing or putting in the christmas grab bag. So I purchased these two items and decided to go to Victoria's Secret to buy more shampoo and see if they had some makeup I could use. Right before going to the register I put my Macy's bag and VS shopping bag down to sample some lotion. Then I went to pay for my shit and as soon as the lady took my shopping bag I realized my Macy's bag was not with it. I was literally 5 feet away from where I set it down and I went over to the shelf and my fucking bag was gone. The cashier asked her associates if they could look around for my bag, but if they did it was a lame search. So, some fucking mexican motherfucker stole my Macy's bag. Cause it was literally wall-to-wall mexican chicks and one of them stole my bag. I'm pissed cause I really didn't want to spend actual money on a purse and now I know Macy's doesn't have one and I'll have to go somewhere else. ARGH!!!! Stupid cheap motherfuckers! Buy your own shit! Just because you're fucking poor does not mean you should be taking other people's purchases. I was pissed. 

So, on top of being sick, on my rag, and having to close tonight, I got my shit stolen. I hate the valley. I hate today. 

After that I just went into work even though I was two hours early. Work wasn't so bad today, but I really wasn't in a tolerant mood with the employees and wasn't putting up with laziness. On the plus side, I miraculously had time to make a cupcake endcap and its so cute! It makes me smile. Oh, I also bought myself a romance novel on break cause I so deserve it. 

Now I am watching Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York on Sci-Fi and it has the worst graphics in the world. Its great. Apparently it erupted in some house's basement and when the guy opened the door all these horribly created flames shoots out and some magma rolls out. Then they have "footage" of the house burning and its actual footage of some other house burning cause it totally doesn't look like the same house or type of film. Its awesomely lame. 

I am waiting for the Nyquil to kick in. Then its off to dreamland where people who steal my shit get shanked. 

Sick and tired, but owner of a new pair of shoes

So while shopping for an outfit for Magic Castle, I was confronted with my normal shopping difficulties. My boobs are too big for everything. This makes me curious.

Everyone is getting their boobs enhanced, so why haven't designers jumped on the gravy train? It frustrates me to no end that they think that someone who needs a larger size, could not possibly need a larger bodice. WTF? Anyway, I did find a dress FINALLY with the help of my wifey. Its cute, but no one is allowed to look at me from a profile cause the shape it weird. I did also get to buy these FABULOUS shoes! Yay for hot footwear!

Now I need to buy a purse, jewelry and figure out the makeup situation. 

Oh, and I am sick. I loaded up on pharmaceuticals last night and have been chugging orange juice all morning. Hopefully this helps me not be sick for the Happiest Place on Earth.