Well hey there creeper.
I just can't stand it. Look at that dinosaur she's hiding behind.
Any suggestions on a good country to live in just in case this hot mess gets anywhere close to 1000 Pennsylvania Ave?

Please go to the polls and vote for Obama. I don't know if I can afford to live in another country...plus I really want to go to film school here.

We Need November ASAP

We need November to get here soon. I'm supersaturated with information about Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and of course Grandpa McCain.

It's becoming OB NOX IOUS.
I mean I love making fun of every last one of them. Especially good ole SP. But I recently sat down with myself and asked, "self? What are we going to do if this old bastard and his VP hot mess actually win this?"
I know it's a question that non of us want to truly consider (well non of us over here on the left) but there comes a time where you have to really line up your ducks and hope that no Alaskan crazy bitch hunters come along and shoot them down.

I have a lot to do right now, so that's all I'm going to say about it...I'll probably follow up later :)

Peanut Butter

I'm working on a small project for fun.
I'm making my roommates help me make a mock-umentory about Mildred Rutherford.
We are such dorks. I love it.

Mildred Rutherford is this woman from the late 19th century. She was one of the major contributors to the UDC and felt it her life long duty to make sure the South was portrayed in a truly romanticized way. She was a crazy bitch. I love it.

She was born after the civil war, but was ALL ABOUT IT.

She died in the early 20th century...but I think even though she stood for like 99% of things I don't believe in...I like that they never got the old broad down. She stuck to her cause...which is way more than a lot of people can say. I respect that.

I'm looking forward to this, and I'm going to work on writing the script.

It's just remarkable how dorky I am. I mean we learned about this woman in 2 of my Women's History courses. I just can't shake the classes.
I learned SO much, and these people were really affecting me the whole time, I just didn't know they were there! I guess they're just going to keep me going, and I'll look for the women of the past to give me inspiration and stories for the future.

Thanks Dr. Case...you've created monsters.

Well I'm gonna go check out the Bonny Hunt show and get some writing DID.

Naptime Central

Once again it is naptime.
I want to finish my book My Story: Ingrid Bergman, but if I finish it I have to find a new book that is up to par...a difficult task.

This brings me to my writing.
Finding books.

You know when you read a good book because you can't wait to get back to it, you put yourself in the plot, you sacrifice those 3 hours of VMA's to get smarter instead and you also know that it's not going to last long.

I love this book. Her story is incredibly moving, inspiring and entertaining. I've just gone through her whole life with her and now things are coming to an end.
It's the definition of bittersweet.

Other books that have taken me on this rollercoaster of emotion:

The Glass Castle
1000 Splendid Suns
The Kite Runner
The Bell Jar
Coming of Age in Mississippi
Memory Keeper's Daughter
The Secret Life of Bees
Of Mice and Men
Water for Elephants
Tis Herself
Are You There Vodka? It's Me Chelsea

these are just some of the books that come to mind.
I've even been reading 2 other books whilst I read MS, but it has yet to slow me down.


I guess I'll just really have to look.
Any suggestions?

Now I'll go do the deed...finish my last chapter. :)

MVA's....Marketing Vacant-minded Adolescents

SO-
I just sat in the corner of the room and felt myself getting dumber and dumber. My roommates congregated in the living room to view this year's MTV Video Music Awards. Aka-- the longest commercial of the year. Yes the super bowl and American Idol are probably very close in ranking...but currently I'm not heated about them.

This supersaturated media acceptance is enough to make your brain explode. Why do we feel that praising people for mediocre flashy marketing is what every American teen should enjoy?

I want to crawl in a hole to regain parts of my soul that have been lost.

I don't care about Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton or any of these "stars." What are they doing?

I think we need to rethink everything. Not just the climate or abortion or gay rights...no no no. We need to strip everything down and see what the hell it is we stand for?

I don't even want to turn on my tv. I mean there are shows out there that are intellegent. I just feel like the rest of them muck everything up and destroy television as a whole.

Shows I'd suggest people watch:
(I'll start with my favorites and then go to things that others may like)

30 Rock
The Office
Weeds
SNL
Meet The Press
ANYTHING ON Turner Classic Movies or PBS
AMC
The Weather Channel
Shark Week
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
Chelsea Lately
The Soup (PS these two E! shows depend on the dumbasses on reality television...so it's kinda a catch 22.)
The New Adventures of Old Christine
Law and Order (Pick one)
Desperate Houswives
Ugly Betty

I don't think the 24 hour news stations are okay...it's too much
VH1 is now prostitution central
I just can't take it anymore.
I think I'll just watch movies and a select group of shows and turn this shit off...
I'll focus on Reading, writing and whatever the fuck else.

Also kids should play with blocks and be outside....video games are not babysitters.

The Graduate or Notorious?

Today I am caught in quite a conundrum-- follow this, if you will.

Yesterday was the first day of school for most; not for me. It was my first, first day NOT having school.
It was definitely bittersweet. Mixed emotions of laziness, happiness, sadness, and an aimless future with infinite possibilities--let's just say I was slightly overwhelmed.
I would say my greatest lesson of the day, if you want to call it that, was that if a 2 year old doesn't take a nap, it's ROUGH.

My recent en devour of nannying has made me realize that I need a few things in my life
#1. As much as I love playing all day (which I honestly do), I don't understand how stay-at-homers can NOT talk to a peer or adult during their day. I feel like I go home from just 6 hours of non-grownup time and language comes out of my mouth like word vomit. Diarreah of the mouth.
#2. I CAN read more than one book for entertainment and intellectual stimulation. If I read everything in front of me, I can still absorb as much as possible before I continue on to grad school...Thank GOD!
#3. I see why and why not to have children. It makes my life more complicated just thinking about it. I mean I realize I have a whole hell of a lot of things I selfishly want to accomplish before making another person with whom I will spend a good two decades. But whoever invented the idea knew how to hook people: A) They made sex appealing. B) They make the end result cute enough to invest in at least until they can talk, and by then you're in over your head anyway so you mine as well stick with it.

I did learn a lot more yesterday I'm sure. These are some of my more prominent points.

Yesterday made me realize how much I want to go back to school. I'm not ready for this to be my life. I have to constantly be learning, and I am learning...and I do love my job.
It's probably the best place to be in though...I mean I love spending time with the little one, but I also realize that if I did this for more than this "in-between" time, I would possibly play turtle in traffic.

That sounds harsh.

Okay, I'd probably just be discontented. But I'm writing, I had to give you a real idea.

One MAJOR accomplishment from yesterday would be-- tada!
I taught her to say "hot mess" when she sees Sarah Palin. Proud. Proud. Proud.

Now I must go work on two papers. I want to write about my favorite movie for an application, but I cannot decide between Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious and Mike Nichol's The Graduate.

I'll just pick the better of the two papers, or maybe I'll find which one is TRULY my favorite?!

What the Palin?

So VP nominee Sarah Palin is dealing with quite a weekend. I doubt anyone could really compare their labor day with her.

She got the Nomination...woopideedoo. I mean I'm SO for women's rights it's almost a crime. The only thing is...Sarah Palin isn't for women's rights, she just has a vagina. That vagina has produced quite some conflict for good ole SP. Her eldest daughter, Bristol, is knocked up. That's right. Not only is she prego, BUT she's MARRYING THE DUDE WHO WAS THE POTENT HOOK UP!

I mean keep your baby, I don't care. I'm pro-choice, so make the choice, but marrying someone because you most likely got cold in Alaska, had a few too many boone's farm wine coolers and got yourself in a anti-choice situation? How does Sarah Palin feel about divorce? That would be the next question from this voter.

I like that women are making a scene in this election. I mean not only are women getting down and dirty, changing history, getting some power, but they're also bringing reproduction to the fore front.

I think someone needs to sit down with Palin and have her head examined. You're doing too much. I mean in the 1950's, the era in which Ms. Palin belongs (due to her beliefs), they'd give her a stiff drink, some sleeping pills and call it a day. They'd say, "Mrs., you need to chill out, you're destroying your children with your job...take these pills." We've come a long way, thanks Sarah.

I feel badly for Bristol. Bristol, if you wanna hang out, hit me up. Obviously she just wanted to keep warm or get some sweet Alaskan ass. She didn't want to have to be a poster for her mother and John McCain's(don't think I forgot grandpa) campaign. My guess is this girl has no f-ing clue what is going on. She probably had the sweet sex-ed that I was presented in Catholic school...take that back, subtract the Catholic, add non-denominational conservative sexual education.
She probably sees babies as little baby dolls and then giant scary pictures of Jesus...adds those together, plus sees a wedding as a kick ass graduation party, and is like, "yeah, it all makes sense."
Bristol, that's not what they mean by going all out senior year. Good luck.

Marrying someone because you get knocked up, wow, that's a real step forward for women.

I wish there were more women in these powerful positions who were women we can all look up too. I guess you have to just keep trying.

I think Nancy Pelosi does it right, and yeah I'm partial. This is my blog I can be a lefty if I want.
Hillary would have had experience...
I just feel like we're looking at these candidates on the surface and not getting down and dirty.

Don't vote for Obama because you think you're a racist if you don't.
Don't vote for yourself because "it's just not worth it"
Don't think that you're doing women as a whole a favor by voting for someone because they have female anatomy.

Find agendas in which you believe. Get behind them.

PS
Always keep in mind how old John McCain is.
Keep in mind Sarah Palin already has a lot on her plate right now.
Keep in mind that Michelle Obama can kick anyone's ass.

Maybe that's the trick. A high power fight. FIST fight.

Michelle Obama takes on either Cindy McCain or Sarah Palin. No guns. No knives. Just fists.

That's how we should solve it. Or they could talk, but I really think it would be an HBO worthy fight. (Not cinamax, you pervs).