Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

From the Walmart preteen section

2007-12-15T21:49:51Z

Via http://www.feministing.com/

Leading in Iowa...

2007-12-12T01:11:11Z

"And we ought to declare that we will be free of energy consumption in this country within a decade, bold as that is."

-- Mike Huckabee, Republican presidential candidate, 10 Dec. 2007

No time to go to the grocery store

2007-12-10T01:15:37Z

I'm eating a can of chickpeas for dinner right now.

arpil @ 2007-10-15T11:25:00

2007-10-15T15:36:11Z

I was reading a blog post about a anti-gay hate group coming to Seattle, and these were the google ads along the side:

Gay Marriage
Stand up for your beliefs! Lions for Lambs in theatres 11/9 - youtube.com/lionsforlambs

Gay Marriage
Should gay marriage be legal? Weigh in on this important issue - pollingpoint.com

Homophobic song lyrics
Should they be banned? Join the debate now - frictiontv.com

I was sort of chuckling to myself about how google's logarithm had kind of missed its audience, when I saw the final, and most awesome, ad:

Gay Adoption
Save 10% off your first order - any size discount code GUJH546 - familiesjoinedbylove.com

This led me down a rich path of speculation - are gay parents, made desperate by the failures of the conventional adoption system, resorting to buying babies from the internet? And buying them by the pound, as the "any size discount code" would seem to indicate?

UNACCEPTABLE

2007-08-09T03:00:08Z

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1674488/

For real, yo

2007-06-02T08:01:21Z

I don't think I'm going to graduate. All because I didn't read a single sentence on a piece of paper I received more than a year ago.

So tired.

2007-05-10T13:45:18Z

Just realized that for the last hour I've been typing "national gas" instead of "natural gas."

arpil @ 2007-05-05T08:50:00

2007-05-05T12:53:30Z

Once again, with no classes to attend and no job to go to, I have allowed my sleep schedule to get so screwed up that it's now 6 AM, getting light outside, and it's just occurred to me that I should be getting to sleep.

Good night, world. I'll see you tomorrow afternoon.

arpil @ 2007-04-23T13:25:00

2007-04-23T20:27:29Z

I want to know what my housing assignment for next year is SO BADLY and Sarah Cardwell hasn't emailed me it yet. No fair, everybody else already knows, the lottery already happened, and I'm in the dark. Can't they post this shit somewhere or something? I'm in such suspense.

The Truax

2007-04-09T06:23:11Z

The wood flooring industry defends itself against the hateful propaganda of Dr. Seuss:

https://www.nofma.org/Portals/0/Publications/TRUAX.pdf

I don't know when.

2007-03-03T09:03:35Z

I don't know why.

And I certainly don't know how.

But someone shaved my arm.

Just the underside.

And I just now realized.

Looks like it's about a week old.

Could I possibly have done it to myself by accident? I don't really think so.

That means that A) Camaron woke up in the night while I was staying with her and shaved my arm while I was sleeping.

B) Someone snuck up on me while I was passed out in the library and shaved my arm without anyone else noticing or objecting.

or

C) Someone broke into my room at night with the express purpose of carrying out this strange and mysterious prank.

Which option is the creepiest? I don't really know.

But I do know that the underside of my right arm is COVERED IN STUBBLE

WHAT THE HELL

I've been called Rachel 4 times in the last week

2007-02-12T11:08:57Z

Do I look like a Rachel?

arpil @ 2006-12-02T14:13:00

2006-12-02T21:13:41Z

lost.eu/b26f

arpil @ 2006-11-17T19:33:00

2006-11-18T02:33:42Z

Campus police used excessive force on an Iranian student in the UCLA library because he didn't have his ID.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5g7zlJx9u2E
http://www.dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?id=38960
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/10325914/detail.html

One thing I didn't see reported on was the fact that he screamed "I have a serious condition" while they were tasing him. A heart condition? No one mentioned it.

Help!

2006-11-06T04:15:50Z

Words longer than two syllables have lost all meaning for me!

This is a Problem!

Paper due in...46 minutes and counting!

Oh Dear!

arpil @ 2006-11-03T01:47:00

2006-11-03T08:47:22Z

I just found $300 in the back pocket of my purse.
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Then I realized it was prop money left over from The Easiest Way.
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I hope you can all comprehend the kind of emotional torment I just went through.

quote of the week

2006-09-07T05:07:24Z

"When you’re in fringe politics, you tend to attract a lot of, I don’t know, misﬁts, people with problems, and they latch onto the movement as a source of strength,” he explains.

Snyder agrees. “A lot of people get into racism for the wrong reasons,” she says.

http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_4207

Logic

2006-08-10T21:20:40Z

Item One: Melissa, my roommate, is crazy.

Leads to ----> Item Two: Loss of my apartment.

---->Storage of all my worldly possessions in the back of my car.

---->Robbing of my car by hoodlums.

---->Loss of my laptop ac adaptor.

---->Purchase of ac adaptor from ebay (faulty).

---->Destruction of laptop internal power supply.

---->Loss of computer?

---->Sabatoge of academic career.

---->Sabatoge of future career success.

---->Poverty. Debt.

---->Homelessness. Hunger. Drug addiction. Death.

In conclusion: MELISSA MATTELICH YOU RUINED MY LIFE I HATE YOU SO SO MUCH DIE DIE DIE

My roommate threatened to kill me. I am now homeless.

2006-08-01T18:58:55Z

I should make a sign and go stand on Broadway with all the other bums.

Guess who got into a car accident

2006-07-13T23:05:18Z

The guy I hit with my car ha ha ha ha ah

Motherhood

2006-05-22T18:19:27Z

Today I was stuch in traffic behind a minivan with a license plate frame that read "Proud to be...Kyle and Jessie's mom." After I read that, I couln't stop staring at this woman. I stayed behind her for miles, trying to catch a glimpse of her face and wondering if she ever had dreams, or wishes, or aspirations. And what they had been. And when she had given them up. And why.

I found the whole experience so disturbing that I think my uterus shriveled up and died a little right then and there.

a low point in my social existence

2006-05-05T08:30:38Z

I only realized it was Cinco de Mayo because the banner on yahoo has little maracas around it. And the "O" is wearing a sombrero.

oh man I hope I get to meet David Bowie

2006-05-03T21:56:01Z

From the website of the organization I'm interning with this summer:

"It’s extremely important during these times of upheaval in the music industry that there be organizations purely devoted to the nurturing of new artists. Northwest Programs for the Arts and its Northwest Music Fund are up there at the top. Good for them and good for the artists."
—David Bowie

arpil @ 2006-05-03T00:27:00

2006-05-03T04:39:18Z

So apparently the April that someone wanted to punch in the face was not, in fact, me. At first, my reaction was, "oh no, maybe this school isn't as bad as I thought and I didn't need to leave for a year after all." But then I remembered that I spent last weekend crawling around on the floor of the Sleaze Ball muttering, "I don't even know where I am right now" in front of half the school. And I really need to get out of town until everyone either forgets about that or graduates. So my plan's still good.

In other news, no more cock in the library

2006-04-28T04:05:28Z

So we are officially no longer allowed to do the following things in the library:

sleep
eat
deface property
be naked

Fortunately, I'll be spending the rest of President Myers' term in office at a school with much more nudity-friendly policies, and by the time I get back here, we'll have the Coming Out Dance again. Because really, what the hell is the point of college if you can't be naked?