| why does sarah palin scare me so much? |
[17 Sep 2008|08:50pm] |
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i've been trying to figure this out lately and i think it mostly has to do with ms. barracuda being both a woman and someone who so staunchly opposes both abortion and comprehensive sex education or universal health care. to me, if you support anti-abortion legislation shouldn't you also support educating people on preventing pregnancies? and shouldn't you also support health care for the mother and child both during pregnancy and after the child is born? it's as if the mccain/palin camp believes that all pregnancies must be carried to term (and they aren't going to educate you on how not to become pregnant, so if your parents didn't do it, you're screwed), and then once the child is born there is no guaranteed health care, or affordable daycare, or early childhood education programs to care for and help nurture the child. i just don't think you can force women to have babies and then not provide them with adequate help to raise them. it's all well and good to tell people "just don't have sex!" but that's obviously not going to happen. and with no sex education in place in schools unintended pregnancies will continue to happen. (my sex education amounted to some coach/health teacher telling me not to have sex because i might get an std and then i'd never be able to get a hardon again - you know because i have a penis and all.) i'm sorry if i'm rambling on, but it's just been on my mind lately and seems that the most logical way to reduce the number of abortions is to educate people on safe sex (safety dance, anyone?) rather than scare them with "don't have sex until you're married because if you get preggers we're gonna make you have it, and then you're gonna have to work 3 jobs to make ends meet and feed your kid, and there's no guarantee the dad will stick around to help, aanndd we're not going to have any decent daycare programs or early childhood education programs, so the cycle of poverty shall continue!!!" so i'm rambling, sue me.
i found this in a catholic pro-choice magazine i was reading in planned parenthood earlier this week:
(i could go on and on about this too, but i think this ad sums up my personal philosophy about men telling women what they can and cannot do with their bodies.)
i found this on someone else's lj and i'm totally reposting it here:
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| wasting time online (or am i?) |
[02 Sep 2008|11:09pm] |
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oh cruel fate, why must i find $650 tickets to munich online... i'm supposed to be saving money to move, not sitting here on my computer planning my next big european vacation. but(!) if i plan the trip for 2010 rather than next year, maybe i could spend the trip scoping out places to live in berlin. yes, and then i could spend the next year and a half learning german, reading up on being an expat, and making sure my cosmetology license would transfer.
why do i feel as if i'm hatching some big diabolical plan? i just want to live in europe, dammit.
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| goodbye to teeth # 1, 16, 17, and 32 |
[18 Feb 2008|02:44pm] |
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so on friday i got my wisdom teeth pulled (finally!), which was a relief as they had been angrily causing a series of gum infections inside my precious mouth. so for the last 4 days i've been doing nothing but sitting around in my pajamas, reading, watching inane shows on tv, and enjoying my vicodin-induced stupor. i never realized how important solid foods were to my diet until i could no longer have them. last night, myron was eating a bean and cheese burrito and i almost killed him for it until i realized that there's no way in hell i could do anything with it other than look at it if i were to actually, you know, take his life for a bite of that sweet, sweet south-of-the-border goodness. instead, i cried into my applesauce.
today, i'm feeling much better except for the stitches in the back of my mouth which restrict me from opening it more than half an inch or so. also, every time i attempt to laugh, which oddly enough i keep getting cases of the giggles (from all the drugs i'm on?), it feels like my mouth is being ripped in two.
kelly's awesome lose-weight-fast diet:
friday -
breakfast/lunch - slimfast shake
dinner - mashed potatoes and a little bit of ice cream
saturday -
breakfast - applesauce
lunch - sleep through it
dinner - applesauce!
sunday
breakfast - applesauce (then take too much medication and throw it all up!)
lunch - 3 tiny bites of lentil soup and some yogurt
dinner - a few itty bitty bites of macaroni and cheese, part of a muffin, some more yogurt
monday -
breakfast - slimfast shake, part of a soyburger patty (give the rest to the dog)
and voila! 5 pounds lighter!
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| another hair-tastic day at nuvani |
[28 Sep 2007|09:54pm] |
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this morning, the mother of the girl whose hair i cut came in for a haircut, and she specifically requested that i do the cut because she liked her daughter's hair so much. hot diggity damn!
oh, and today is national "hug a vegetarian" day, so where's all my hugz, bitches???
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| i'm an official hurr-stylist! |
[26 Sep 2007|06:30pm] |
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today i did my first haircut on an actual client! she didn't cry when i was finished AND she tipped me $3 (our haircuts are only $7, so that's almost a 50% tip).
i've been practicing all kinds of haircuts on my mannequins and on other students for some time now, so when i was finally asked to work on a paying client, i was quite excited. i asked her what she wanted to do with her hair and she told me she wanted long layers. i think to myself, cool, i can totally do that. then i proceed to take her hair down as it was flipped up into one of those half-ponytails that all the cool kids wear these days. her then hair cascades down... ALL THE WAY TO HER WAIST. uh-oh is my immediate reaction. i've never cut on hair this long before. so i got my instructor to show me how to hold it, and once i got the hang of it, i felt pretty confident. she ended up liking all the layers in her hair, and i must say it looked really nice on her. go kelly.
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[21 May 2007|03:30am] |
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damn, i haven't posted in almost a year. eh.
brief list of recent good thangs:
1) i'm now the proud holder of a bachelor's degree. woot!
2) in about 2 weeks i will be in germany.
3) i heard the new smashing pumpkins single and it is very rock n roll.
4) einstein's is not slammed with bitchy customers for hours on end.
5) i have the strongest urge to start playing my guitar again (probably due to hearing said sp single).
6) the drag doc i made this semester is now up on youtube.
7) ... i wanted to list 10 things but can only think of six. lame.
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| partyyy! |
[19 Jul 2006|07:56pm] |
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party at my place on friday. byob.
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[01 Jul 2006|11:00pm] |
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because i absolutely adore making lists:
top 10 names for the new kitty:
Govinda
Rasputin
Cézanne
Tad
Tao
Siva - pronounced "shiva"
Raj
Z’ev – wolf (Hebrew)
Loki - norwegian god of evil and mischief
Buster (after buster keaton)
what do you guys think?
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| party tomorrow!!! |
[25 May 2006|07:23pm] |
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myron's 22nd b-day party is tomorrow (friday, may 26). attendance is MANDATORY and clothing optional. (on second thought, i'd better not see any naked butts running around my house tomorrow or else i'll be pissed.)
BYOB, bitches.
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[11 May 2006|04:02pm] |
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sigur ros that's playing in my head |
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in six hours - I WILL BE DONE WITH SCHOOL until the end of august anyway. wish me luck!
oh yeah, 20 days til san fran, stavo.
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[10 May 2006|05:13pm] |
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whew. done with my holocaust paper. kinda iffy though on how it will turn out. ewww. and it was FOUR MINUTES LATE!!! part of me is worried about that and part of me is worried that i worry way too much about things that probably don't really matter. four minutes, kelly, not half an hour. ok, i think i'm officially through freaking out.
... maybe not.
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[28 Apr 2006|09:22am] |
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my eyeball hurts and i think my appendix is about to burst. seriously. i've had a sharp pain in the lower right half of my abdomen for 4 days now. ka-BOOM!
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[15 Apr 2006|02:42am] |
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still drunk... somebody should really make me get off of livejournal. it's really a wonder i can still type. ok, i'm gonna go. bye.
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[15 Apr 2006|02:14am] |
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i'm soooo drunk. wheeeee!
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| party at kelly's house!!! |
[13 Apr 2006|10:56pm] |
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me tomorrow! |
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lovertits - peaches |
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there's gonna be a bitchin party tomorrow night (4/14) at my place. be there or be square. byob bitches.
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[05 Apr 2006|02:53pm] |
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so bored. so DAMN bored. seriously, somebody make me get offline and study. pleez.
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[30 Mar 2006|01:32am] |
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i'm sleepy, bitch! |
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one homework assignment down, one to go. then sleep. sweet, sweet sleep.
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