like a mutated virus that's gone airborne...

i'm spreading out AGAIN - Muahahahah! Cyberfolk beware once more - I have found yet another spot to drop the word....

:)

http://www.livejournal.com/~laughinglioness

I think. LOL nothin there for now...lord only knows what will be. eek. guess i don't sit still even on the web eh?

Hey - wtf is up with the dude that tried to commit suicide on the railroad tracks in Cali but ended up killing 11 instead - and no, he was not one of the 11. Ugh. I think you _know_ my thoughts on this subject. On that note - G'night!

peaceful...

hmmmm - that's a new one. LOL Must be the time away from the Deathstar has been good for my karma. ROFL Darth - whadya think?

on being colored...

ha - nice happy controversial title for such an inanetopic as this. positively delish...

a quick explanation (Lucy! You got some 'splainin' to do!!!):
i was not bored - i never get bored - there's too much stuff to do and people to see, or vice versa. but i guess boredom inasmuch as i wanted to do mindless things? hmmmm.

Personality Color Quiz by Quizilla

Personally, I kinda like the one for blue better though...



Know anyone like that? Heheh. Of course I would have spelled intentions right though. ROFL Case in point.

my only comment on the coronation...

is that Rehnquist is Darth Vader with that voice of his. And the analogies grow thicker...LOL

Off to repot plants for the President's office - they've been in intensive care now for the past 2 days and are doing drastically better. I'm thinking their caretakers have been feeding them a steady diet of coffee and forgetting to water them! *sigh* Admin types. What're ya gonna do?

From The Mouths of Sheep

What you say can be reinterpreted (like the fortune cookie – add ‘in bed’): “I have a partner and we go Mondays starting ….hopefully April…and going together is good because that gets you swingin’….I miss my baby Brad though because he used to go with us also…”

That is nearly verbatim...from our local icon of Middle America (KS)...talking about golf. Hmm.

Middle Earth...and Bush is Saruman..._not_ Sauron as some would have you believe...remember, for any puppet there must be a puppetmaster, or a troupe of masters. Obey your...master.

Malignant Egophrenia...

The Madness of George W. Bush by Paul Levy

Words Have Consequences...

Yes, George. They do. It's true. Congrats. You want a medal? Maybe a glowing endorsement in the history books? You're forgetting one of life's other lessons - "sorry" after the fact don't always cut it. "Regret" doesn't change anything for the millions of people affected by your policies. And maybe more importantly - $40 million and "I'm glad to celebrate" somehow seem to nullify any and all attempts to admit mistakes. So if you've got something on your mind - don't feel the need to censor...bring it on, dude! We're not listening either way.

Speaking of not listening - can anyone explain to me why steroid regulation is suddenly top 5 issue of the month?

Flip flops...

Ok let me rescind my earlier hope for peace with KS - it's gonna be a rrough road. Sigh. Oh well. One can hope - right? Back to cynicism with a vengeance.

$20 flip flops - she wants me to validate her experience of purchasing flip flops for $20. Because she doesn't have any black ones for the Feb Florida trip...*groan* What does one say to such nonsense?

But I must say a colleague here put it perfectly, "K represents Middle America...she is the very embodiment of it". And therefore, she shouldn't annoy me anymore because one really can't fight with a force that vast...and yet.

Harry Pothead, the Cold-Blooded Prince?

A few brief comments on an otherwise inane issue:

• it was a costume party, Harry...not much of a disguise...

• re: your nanny's apology on ur behalf - it was not the outfit's fault. Sorry kid, this doesn't qualify for a "wardrobe malfunction" get-away-with-it free pass.

• most stories covering it indicate that the timing really stinks - but then again what does that mean? was there a better time to do this?

• William, next time - tell ur kid brother to leave his Nazi paraphernalia in the dress-up trunk.

Keep Walking...

Soooo - all you lovely people who might be hoping for a catfight....sorry. KS and I seem to have found a happy place to coexist in. LOL And we'll be getting married next month. ROFL She's def _not_ my type, just in case you left your sarcas-a-meter at home tonight. In all seriousness though, things are going smoothly for the New Year so far - at least as far as my coworker/subordinate/officemate situation is going. The scale was banned from the room and with it the giggly females randomly stopping by to chat and check their weight - at least they dont' stop by but once now - for the daily power walk. No more turning body image issues into a social event at least not around me...Still chatty Kathy on the phone (and no her name is not Kathy) but I just put on my music and ignore her except the one time I did ask her to take her convo elsewhere "bc I shouldn't really have to overhear such personal things..."...translation, i don't give a speck of uranium what the latest update is on how much you don't get along with ur rich soon-to-be family entrepreneur meat n potatoes kinda guy of a husband...

anyway - one not so good thing about my job - the building makes me sick...and i found out that's what it is bc apparently it makes a bunch of other folks sick too. but no one has tried to do anything about it i guess...we shall see. it's a poor ventilation issue and most important of all i think - gives me the same unresolvable tiredness and nasty headaches that i got from the deathstar! hmmm. oh well. gonna insist on seeing an allergist (mold allergy? got the immunologic history for it in my genes)... stay tuned for more.

Local Government...

New topic: What should the DNC look like in the coming years?

http://www.alternet.org/story/20878/

Thats an excerpted interview with Howard Dean - some lessons from the battlefield as it were.

On a related note, local public radio here did a story about how MA voters turned out anywhere from 5% to 12% more than 4 years ago for this last "election". But there are more elections to come, which 'may have more of an impact on people's daily lives', to paraphrase the commentary.

I now have more of an ear for my mom's occasional rant n rave session, and have started to notice some things about small town living that just might cause one like myself to turn to more local politics as nexus for change. Things like real estate taxes skyrocketing (4-5k a year as a for instance), same story with the water bill (charging for air is not an 'if' but a 'when' in my opinion), etc etc. And if you feel like your blood pressure is too low, or you've caught the Pleasantville flu and believe your spot of green is the greenest in the state, tune in to public access tv and watch the local town meeting. Or better yet, pay a visit in person (stay tuned, I plan to do this and will report in detail - oughta be fun. y'all know how good i am about keeping my opinions to myself). The meetings I have had the pleasure of watching on tv, would be damned funny if it weren’t for the fact that it’s my tax dollars they’re throwing away.

Case in point: golf course. The town spent millions of dollars we don’t have to build a golf course – someone’s hair brained idea that we could draw in $ with it….umm, ok. That mighta worked actually – if it weren’t for the fact that a) there’s already a golf course in the town – granted owned by the college but open to the public as well and b) we have a sizable population…of older folks! We do not have a sizable population in total…small town means just that. One post office. Two fire stations manned by volunteers. A huge college smack dab in the middle which brings with it a quaint, overpriced shopping commons. And the remnants of a thriving paper industry. Essentially two very small towns in one: the college folks and their families and then the rest of the town. And not a whole lot of demand for golf to justify two courses. But…as the saying goes – the chickens have come home. And they demand to be fed.

But it’s late – so I’ll have to tell ya about the ineptitudes of the school department next. Ouch. No wonder I wanted to be a student forever – the real world sucks! LOL

Heart of Ice

Talk amongst yourselves: What would qualify one to have a heart of ice?

Bonus q: Ok what about a heart of "kick ass"?

Double Vision

If you think ur seeing double - maybe my bug is contagious! LOL that, or the darn thing lied to me when it said it couldn't post the first version of that last post...

move along - nothing to read here....

Feeling a bit under the weather today and y'day...so not much is really grabbing me to write right at the mo...One of those feeling icky kinda things that is so vague it's driving me nutty. Kinda really tired and sluggish and stuff but not exactly sick. Maybe comign down with somehting or maybe the alien child I carry has finally decided to consume it's host from within? I dunno. Like I said, majorly out of it today. So for now, y'all gonna hafta amuse yerselves, y'hear? :D

Feeling a bit under the weather but in a vague ill-defined kinda way that makes me nutty. LOL Not exactly sick. But not exactly well either. Kinda really tired around 2pm and sluggish and whole bunch of other random icky symptoms. Figuring I am either coming down with something or the alien child I carry has decided to consume it's host from within? I dunno. LOL Told you I feel out of it.

So for now - y'all gonna hafta amuse yerselves...y'hear? :D

Happy New Year 2005!

Well I couldn't very well make my first post of the new year one that was either somber or more cliched like this one, now could I? LOL

Anyway - hope everyone is doing well! And more to the point, let's hope for really good things to come this year...

Yay presents! More later...

Aftermath

So you remember my experience on the 25th of Dec. where my town and surrounding areas gave the appearance of either people prepping for Armageddon or it had already happened and somehow I missed the boat? Well today going out was similar in one respect - all the trees on the side of the road - like so many amputated limbs jutting out from every other house or more. And odd sight sans context. Even with context and yet without affiliation perhaps, it is still a sight that makes me think I was right. Judgement day did come - only somehow the chosen ones managed to negotiate for their lives - at the expense of a few spruces and firs. Or maybe there was some kind of synchronized battle in all of these houses. But if that was the case, surely a few trees must have won? Maybe they just don't feel the need to display the spoils?