Piercings and Depressing Mix CD's

I think people who have piercings and the culture that they simulate are hypocrites.

Usually, people get extra piercings to make a point that they are different, or are making a statement to go against "something." The fact that a large number of people do create an alternative culture to be different makes them hypocrites. If you are so different, why are they're so many others who commit to an alternative culture? "I'm different, just like everybody else."

So, really people with piercings are just as judgmental and just as "similiar" as people who wear polo shirts, ties, or don't have piercings. These preppies are just assimulating into a different culture, albeit mainstream... and usually they admit to submitting to a culture, which really makes them less hypocritical than the people who claim not to be.

The next time you make a mix CD, consider the following:
1) Do I have a song on this mix that isn't in a meter slower than 4/4 time?
2) Do I have a song on this mix performed by a person struggling with or singing about substance abuse?
3) Do I have a song on this mix titled "Funeral"?
4) Do I have a song on this mix with a metaphor about death or winter, or rain?
5) Do I have a song on this mix that was on the soundtrack to any film, television show, or newscast montage about 9/11? If not, COULD it be?
6) Do I have a song on this mix performed by a person who committed suicide via a self-inflicted sword wound? (This is key)

If you answered "yes" to two or more of these questions, your mix cd is depressing and you should consider:

1) looking for other songs by the same artist; the artist might not be depressing, maybe just that particular song is.
2) looking for songs performed by Barry Manilow or Neil Diamond
3) looking for songs you could listen to whilst running or skipping
4) looking for a song you could dance around to in your underwear and maybe a funny hat
5) dividing the depressing songs up amongst cds
6) looking for a song performed by an African male, white English female (not male, that's trouble) or white Australian female

I'm in love

Well, I'd never thought I'd be one of those people. One of those crazy obsessed googley people in love... with their dog.

But I am.

I'm obsessed with my new dog and also I'm crazy. Perhaps even certifiably insane.
Danny (my boyfriend) and I bought a dog. What I mean by this is that Danny paid for it and Yeats lives with me... both temporary aspects of the dog deal.

His name is Yeats and he is very cute. We named him after William Butler Yeats, the infamous and famous Irish writer and poet. And I think maybe he might be my writing muse as he gets me up at 7 and forces me to write. But mostly, I just go back to bed.

Yeats is a mini-poochon, or bich-poo if you will, a hybrid of a mini poodle and a bichon. He's evidently hypoallergenic, but I've had to take allergy pills everyday since we've had him. At least he doesn't shed and I figure I'll get over it.
Anyways, he's about 11 weeks now, and only 4 1/2 lbs. He won't grow past 8 1/2 lbs. Thus being mini.

We got him last Sunday, so we've had him for about a week. His hobbies include: chewing on stuff, pooping in the house after a trip outside to go to the bathroom, and doing cute stuff like hopping on his two hind legs.

Look! Yeats made a friend!

He also likes pooping in the snow:

Yeats met Santa and hated the guy. I don't blame him. He looks kind of shady.

Here's Yeats and a guy I used to know... in their matching hoodies.

Discover Card Woes

I'll ignore the most obvious issue I have with my one credit card from Discover: the balance. That is a subject for an entirely different rant and blame my outstanding balance on my job I had for three years... a job, that as each year came and went, my salary and benefits got lower and worse. Conversely, my rent increased. And also, my dad died. I had to cxomfort myself alot with material things. It's not my fault. So there you have it.

I'll also ignore for the moment the ridiculous issue of the Miles system of my Discover card. At first I thought I'd get miles not only for spending, but for paying it off, or just for making payments... as an incentive for decreasing your balance. But of course not! Of course they don't want you to pay of your bill! Stupid Mandy, they want you to keep increasing your balance with off the charts interests rates. So, after spending about 1,000 in the last couple months, includying my flight to Ireland and various other things, I've gained about 200 measely points.
I really want a coach purse, but I am still about 800 pts away. So here's what I've decided to do. In addition to concentrating on paying off my balance. And yes, I am doing a fine job of paying them off, ever so slowly, with my student refund check. I know, it's ironic. But I took out the same amount of money this year in loans, even though my courses are paid for so I can pay off my credit cards. The interest rates are lower for student loans and it looks better for your credit history. So I'm going to start using my credit card more to earn points then just making large payments to cover my charges and additional payoff monthly. I know this sounds like a trap, and what gets alot of people into credit card messes. But not me. I swear. I swear to you all. I'm going to stick it to the man!

Ok, so I'm ignoring that, too. Right. I forgot
So here's where we get to the main topic of my rant. Discover's communication skills are retarded. Prior to moving, I did a responsible job of informing all of my change of address. This included many of my accounts for school, work, etc. I tried to change it on Discover online, and did in fact. I also went out of my way to send in the mail a check payment with the change of address, even though I usually just make my payment online. But it still didn't go through. It turns out that the office where your payment goes doesn't handle address changes. So why have it on the back of the bill payment receipt? What a bunch of idiots.

So, finally I signed up for paperless statements online, since I already do online bill pay, in addition to changing my address online. That way, I figured that even if they still had my address wrong, it didn't matter. Sounds like a good idea, right? Well, this past month, I did indeed get a paperless statement via email. But here's what I also got: a change of address verification, another change of address verification to warn against fraud (thanks), and a verification of sign up for paperless statement... ALL IN THE MAIL!!!! I got a paperless verification statement in the mail!!!!!!!!!! IRONIC, maybe? Yes, indeed.

But at least they got my address right!

Miami Convicts

It's almost not entertaining to comment. It's almost too easy, but for many years, Miami has been called out as being the dirty convicts that they are. The ridiculousness of the melee, as they are calling it, also known as a brawl was made even more fantastic by the commentary of a former and current convict who was commentating the game for Comcast. Evidently he said that the FIU players deserved it and said he wanted to join in. That's nice.

Michael Irvine said if he was 18, he would've made the same decision but that he was even more embarrased by the adult commentary. Guess what? Being 18 isn't an excuse. You're an adult when you're 18 and you know better. Quit enabling children so they don't turn into dirty convicts that go to University of Miami and play football as a means of carrying out extensions of gang violence.

Oh, and I just saw the news that the president has proclaimed that none of the action on the field will end in a school suspension because it wasn't that bad. I guess though if your players don't attend class anyways, you can't suspend them from going.

Someone commented to me tonight that if the team I cheered for conducted themselves "in defense" I'd support them. I doubt it. I doubt that the team I support would be in such a disgraceful fight. And if they did, I would be sick with embarrasment.

In closing, Miami is full of dirty, stupid, ignorant animals that I wish Hurricane Rita would've tossed out to sea.

GO IRISH!

20 Things that Make Me Nervous

1. Bananas
2. Failure, the thought of failure
3. graduating
4. Not getting a job
5. the woman I work for, who gives me no reason to think she doesn't like me.
6. authority
7. pregnancy
8. infertility
9. crosswalks
10. math
11. eating
12. gaining weight
13. not eating
14. running out of wine
15. cleaning
16. not cleaning
17. grocery shopping
18. terrorism
19. tapered-leg jeans
20. traffic.

Shattered Childhood.

Finding out the truth about Santa Claus when I was twelve was one thing... but discovering that Screech made a sex tape?

God help us.

God help us all.

http://www.tmz.com/2006/09/27/screech-sex-tape-preview/

We're the smarterest!

Now, I know this is a bit like when my high school, Wheaton South would be playing Wheaton North and we'd be crushing them... so North would start chanting "ACT! ACT!" because they had higher ACT scores and thought it would be a way of competing with our better athletics... and obviously, no one really cared about intelligence, but here it is anyways...
(yes, I am aware that that was some awful English)



Graduation rates of the Top 25 football players:

1. Ohio State
55
2. Auburn
63
3. Southern Cal
55
4. West Virginia
60
5. Florida
45
6. Michigan
71
7. Texas
40
8. Louisville
53
9. LSU
49
10. Georgia
41
11. Virginia Tech
74
12. Notre Dame
95
13. Iowa
64
14. Oregon
59
15. Tennessee
58
16. Oklahoma
52
17. Texas Christian
78
18. Clemson
77
19. Florida State
52
20. California
44
21. Nebraska
88
22. Boise State
65
23. Rutgers
58
24. Georgia Tech
55
25. Missouri
53