Date:	2009-07-09 10:46
Subject:
Security:	Public
Mood:	geeky
Music:	patrick watching his cranky geeks podcast

I have had a headache for the last two days...sigh. I made progress with the bills and utilities and things yesterday, so that everything will be turned off or on as appropriate. Today teh plan is to do laundry and in the process find things i can pack away and also to find the coat i am to wear this weekend.

In other news, we are planning on heading over to baltimore for shore leave, which is a semi local convention for sci fi stuff. I think some folks from stargate atlantis will be there.

also, has anyone noticed that scifi has changed their name to syfy...idiots. that is so dumb.

nayways...yah

Date:	2009-06-25 14:09
Subject:
Security:	Public
Mood:	exhausted
Music:	lovely silence

So after pulling my hair out trying to get resumes copied and instructions on how to travel by bus, and actually traveling by bus and being hot and tired and thirsty and in pain...Interview accomplished. Now I have the informational one at the heinz center...then...i don't know. i am free as far as i know after that. Right now I am letting the left over chinese food, lime jello and peach/mango juice settle before running of to drive down town...need a shower!

Date:	2009-06-24 18:25
Subject:
Security:	Public
Mood:	sleepy
Music:	Jim Leher news hour

Have a house now that i am renting...Need a job...

Date:	2009-06-23 12:18
Subject:
Security:	Public
Mood:	anxious
Music:	birdies

I hate job searching, i really do. I hate putting myself out there and having to call people and stuff. I am not good on the phone like that. Sigh, I wish it all would just come to me and I would be happy. What? you want ME to do that job? OK! But no, you have to talk with people and schmoose and wear annoying clothes. sigh and double sigh...

going to sign the lease on wednesday...eep!

Date:	2009-06-21 21:19
Subject:
Security:	Public
Mood:	devious
Music:	silence

I applied to 5 jobs today. So that makes a total of like...10, 11? something like that. I bet they all say no, too. The only problem with job searching is you apply and forget you have applied and then they finally get back to you like a month later. SIGH! I wanna know right now whether I am to be employed or not!! *stamps foot on floor and pouts*

In other news, I have a meeting with the jewish archives archivist on thursday, so that is good. I am looking forward to getting to see how things are run, and hey, if i don't get in to this program at pitt i will apply for curratorial degrees or something. we'll see

i have decided i like the show royal pains, it amuses me. I like the physicians associate character, she is interesting.

Date:	2009-06-18 15:35
Subject:	anything?
Security:	Public
Mood:	restless
Music:	birdies outside

Hello all,long time no post. Well, I am shamelessly trying to find work and housing here in Pittsburgh so if anyone knows of a full time position that might help to pay rent or of a place that allows dags to pay rent at, let me know! Also, Andrea, check your facebook, I left a message for you on there and am just too lazy to repeat it here.

Sigh,
in other news I either have a huge cavity or I chipped my tooth and my dental and regular insurance expires the 1st of july. and my car has no break fluid for some reason.
jobs? houses? money? food?

Meh

Date:	2009-02-09 21:20
Subject:	GRE
Security:	Public
Mood:	numb
Music:	patrick's podcasts

is scoring a 1270 on a practice GRE good? is it on the same scale as the SAT? cause i think that might actually be the score i got on my second go of SAT....hmmm, one more computer practice tomorrow then the big scary day on wed. eeep

Date:	2009-02-08 12:48
Subject:
Security:	Public
Mood:	depressed
Music:	tool academy

What does it mean when people who you think are friends only want to see you once a month because it is convenient for them and get angry and pissy at you for being sick when you do not want to go to a live performance and have coughing fits. I don't know, maybe it is me or maybe it is them or maybe both. i just feel like since i live farther away i am not convenient to be friends with. who knows, i just never seem to have luck with friends. i am always the convenient one. sigh....

Date:	2009-02-01 22:18
Subject:
Security:	Public
Mood:	ecstatic
Music:	trophy ceremony

Hell yeah!!! go Steelers!!!!

p.s. my throat hurts from yelling for 4 hours straight

Date:	2009-01-18 22:33
Subject:
Security:	Public
Mood:	ecstatic
Music:	iron chef: milk

YAY!!! Pittsburgh's goin' to the superbowl!!!! you go black and gold!


hope that dude from the other team is ok...jeeze that was a hard hit..

Date:	2009-01-06 19:47
Subject:	microsoft can suck my ass
Security:	Public
Mood:	cold
Music:	andrew zimern eating some big worm and wearing bright orange

Why, why, why must i be forced to be a windows drone in order to pay an electric bill? for the past week i have been trying to pay my power bill online like i have been for two years now. well get to the second to last page where you approve everything you have typed and then say yes, you will pay the online fee. Usually, one you hit the yes, the authorize button lights up so you can push and move on with your life. however, this has not been happening in the last week. Everytime i went on to pay, the authorize wouldn't light up. I thought it was just a problem with the site or the the network or something, but after trying a few times over the week i finally called the company that runs the payment thing for the power company. I got told that the company that runs the site was just told that nothing could be authorized on any web server other than internet explorer. What the hell? I told the woman it ha worked just fine for my firefox using ass for two years now and she said that this has just happened. And i ask why? Because goodness knows it is not for security reasons, if it was, than they would be happy to accept everything BUT internet explorer. Hello, where do you think most of the computer viruses live? Sigh, so it is obvious that microsoft has bullied another company into only using their glitchy crappy web server. assholes!!

Date:	2008-11-10 10:47
Subject:
Security:	Public
Mood:	angry
Music:	History Channel

I am disgusted by the American People.

As the majority of the people of this country just elected a president who promised change, I mistakenly thought that meant progressive change, not backsliding down this hill of injustice. It seems that while, as a nation, we celebrate the election of the first black president, we are also taking the rights away from a group of people for no other reason than it is against the religion of some other people.

How is it anyone's business who marries whom and who has children? Because apparently many Americans have decided that it is their responsibility to determine just that. They say that just because you may love someone who has the same body parts as you, you will not be allowed to marry or adopt children.

Now, I remember my history class in high school. And, this situation seems eerily familiar. The government imposing laws against marriage and adoption because of religious and cultural prejudices. It was not that long ago in American history when a black person and a white person could not get married or adopt children in this country. It was not so long ago that black men where lynched for nothing more that dating a white woman; that black people where beaten and spit on in back allies for doing nothing but existing.

The Civil Rights Movement did great things for the rights of black people in America. The nation rose up against injustice and spoke in one voice for equal rights. It was finally decided that these laws were not constitutional and there was no reason, except individual prejudices, for whites and blacks to not live however they saw fit.

Now we are 50 years beyond the marches and boycotts and sit-ins. We have elected a black man to be the next commander and chief of this country. Somewhere, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is smiling down on this nation. But while we have overcome the injustices of the past, we create new ones for the future. Why is it an inspiring and serious thing to read Uncle Tom's Cabin or watch films of people being blasted by fire hoses, when a movie ultimately about the murder of a young man who loved another man is made into a joke?

The example here is Broke Back Mountain. It has been made fun of over and over but I have not heard very much about the ending of the movie. People have made the plot of the movie a running joke about men loving men and how awkward that is in society. However, that is where the publicity ends for the movie. Very few discussions of the film have involved the ending, where one of the characters is brutally murdered for being nothing more than different. How is the message of this movie, then, any different in overall concept than How to Kill a Mockingbird? While the plots are different, the main thesis of both films are about people being persecuted for being considered abominations in the eyes of popular society.

So we come again to the recent election and the dichotomy of electing a president in a culmination of progressive civil rights and many states electing to take rights away from gays and lesbians. Again, as with the laws fought by the Civil Rights Movement, we have enacted laws that are generated because of personal prejudices and religious fanaticism. Recent commercials supporting these unconstitutional laws claimed that allowing two people of the same sex to get married would mean that children would have to learn about it in schools. I can recall no time when marriage of any kind was really brought up when I was in school. Why should this be any different.

But marriage is not the only issue these new laws address. They have also, in some states, banned same sex adoption. At least one state going so far as removing children already placed in homes to be put in foster homes for the time being. This is basically the same issue as in the film Losing Isiah with Halle Berry. While the recent controversy is not a race issue, the point is the same. In the movie, the natural mother of Isaiah is denied the right to raise the child because the court believes the child will have a better future with white parents. While the children in question here are not connected biologically to their same sex parents, they are naturally linked to their parents. The new laws take these children away from so called "unfit" parents to be placed with parents who are deemed better. Parents who will provide the proper future for these children.

The government has no right to remove children from their homes or deny unions of two people who love each other. the argument against marriage has been the sanctity of that word. What sanctity? With a divorce rate of at least 50 percent, straight marriages are not sanctifying anything. Why not let two people who are honestly committed to each other be equal in the eyes of the law as two drunks who go to Vegas on a whim? Why not let two people raise a child whom they will love and be thankful for when many children of straight couples get neglected and abused?

Love is love no matter who is giving and receiving that love. The government has no place in regulating that. They had no business in the 60's and the same is true now. Nor should it even be an issue up for election by the people. Under the constitution, all citizens of this country have the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That includes marriage and raising children.

I am disgusted by the American people for celebrating the progress of one minority while making light of, and furthering the plight of another. Those people that have voted for these unconstitutional laws ought to be ashamed of themselves. And, if as the Bible says, we are all G-d's children, then those people who ave voted for these laws are only hurting themselves and the future.

hi all! happy belated 4th of july to everyone! hurray...

i am still looking for a new job while being annoyed with teh current one. patrick will be taking classes starting in august to become A+ certified! yay! i am excited for him. today was cool. i went with the ladies to th folk life festival on the national mall. mmmm i ate some yummy bhutan food and brought home a free puzzle from the nasa section. then we all went out to see wall-e which is awesome!!! soooo cute! i loved it, awwwww. my leg is itchy. nayways...not much else to report really. i just figured i would update since i managed on not updating for a really long time before.

oh daisy got a new bone tongiht and all she has been doing is running around trying to hide it in various places. awwwwww

Date:	2008-04-27 10:36
Subject:
Security:	Public
Mood:	amused
Music:	tv

well hi

i was in pittsburgh last weekend for passover sedars gallore! weeeee. and this whole week i ahve been attempting to keep passover kosher and whatever. it is hard when work throws an icrecream social for everyone. but whatevs. i am planning on chowing down some mac and cheese from boston market tomorrow night! hell yes.

patrick is at work today so i get to spend all day with a sleepy dog. which is fine. cuz otherwise she is trying to figure out ways to burry her treats in the laundry. lordy, she is nuts. she needs her rabies shot this week so i am trying to schedule a time when we both can take her in. she will not be happy with us as she hates the vet, but oh well.

we had the first thunderstorm of the year last night! yay! i love thunderstorms. i used to stand on the porch at home when i was little and watch the storms from there. you could see all the power and beauty and smell the wet earth and it was a very surreal and humbling experience every time. also i like to hear the rain as i am falling asleep. it is very calming.

let's see, anything else.....no, i don't think there is anything else right now..

Date:	2008-04-18 21:15
Subject:	An Occassion to Write
Security:	Public
Mood:	sad
Music:	jimmi hendrix-monteray pop festival

Hello everyone, i know my sister has been at me to update. and i know prolly you all have stopped reading my journal here. truthfully, i ahven't read anyone elses in forever. sorry, i just haven't felt like getting on here and doing so.

In any case, i felt that i should post now as i guess i need a place to put my feelings and such. well, a very dear and beloved teacher of mine from highschool passed away on wednesday. i did not find out til tonight when i was invited to join a memory group for him on facebook. i was and still am pretty upset about it. he was an awesome person and teacher and i really respected him for all teh love and energy he put in to the students and the school.

he was a huge part of my life for three years as were teh musicals he directed and his english classes and drama classes. lord he was schenley. my highschool. sigh. i found out tongiht, i cried and looked at pictures and i said the mourners kaddish for him. he was like a real mr holland's opus online with theatre and english not orchestras. without teh deaf son. he is missed by thousands of students and friends and family i think.

nayways, that said, have a good passover all those jews out there, no cheating now.

Date:	2007-10-26 18:19
Subject:
Security:	Public
Mood:	tired
Music:	antm

hi guys!!! i have been commanded to update, so here i am...

well, i have basically been going to work and watching tv. very exciting i know, nayways. the kids are dc kids, but crazy as usually. i have the bruises to show for it. hooray!

in more entertaining news the halloween party is tomorrow. i just spent the last hour or so making tuna noodle casserole for it. yay real food! maggie is gonna make spinach dip and other people are gonna make stuff. i dunno what. but it will be good. i will be dressed as a medieval queen, courtesy of target. yay for pre-packaged costumes. i didn't have the eart to make maggie and meg my costume this year. so just next year when we have decided to go as the sanderson sisters from hocus pocus. i will be sarah jessica parker. amuck, amuck, amuck!!

we have a doggie...i don't know when i updated last, so i will say it again. we got daisy and she is crazy as well. she has a penchant for peeing on the floor and a few times pooing. yay animals! she is cute though and sooooo happy when we get home. she has huge floppy ears that are soft and often wet after she takes takes a drink of water.

i am just looking forward to nov. 9th when i get to leave work early and go home, then somewhere cool with patrick for a few days!! yay vacation. it will be our 2 year anniversary. g-d i need the time away from work and relaxing. mmmm time away from the norm.

uh....anything else people want to know about? i can't think of anything. let me know if there is anything else you all want to know about, weeeeeeeee

Date:	2007-08-07 21:40
Subject:
Security:	Public
Mood:	contemplative
Music:	tv: eureka

THE INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Leave me a comment saying anything random--like your favorite kind of sandwich or something you remember from long ago or something you bet I didn't know. Something random. Whatever you like.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. It will go on and on and on and that is what makes it a meme!







jessica's questions to me

1. What is the first object directly to your left at eye level?
tv
2. What did you eat for dinner?
hot dog and french fries
3. what socks do you have on?
none...bare feet
4. what color are your sheets?
blue
5. who's babysitting your dog?
leeann

Date:	2007-07-29 09:54
Subject:
Security:	Public
Mood:	happy
Music:	e news

hi everyone! wow, haven't been on in a while. this month has been summer school with the kids so i have been kinda tired and working and stuff. also i have the second job as a tutor. so yah. awww, this ucoming week is going to be the last week of summer school and then i have to say goodbye to the rugrats. sigh, they are annoying, but i will miss them. i wory about their futures. i hope they can find schools that are able to help them and not just shove them aside.

today is my birthday! and i started it off by opening the card that my sister and meghaan sent me, which was awesome! hehehehe, it was a kitty card that sang the meow mix song when i opened. made me laugh out loud. also, yay for teh petco card guys! thanx!

i really have nothing planned cept for seeing the simpsons movie and eating out with friends tonight. yep!

i saw no reservations friday night, it was so cute. i saw teh original mostly martha, which was awesome! so this was a nice american version. the original was still better, but this was a good movie, go see it!

the dog is sleeping on the beanbag all sprawled like. hehehe...she snores too, silly thing.

nayways..gonna watch stupid tv for a while, yay no brain usage.

Date:	2007-07-08 23:09
Subject:
Security:	Public
Mood:	tired
Music:	andy's music

HI YALL!! if anyone still reads this anymore...er, anyway

been a rather long time. i have just been busy with work and more work and trying to cope with work related items some more....plus i'm lazy

school has been good except for the fact that mine is no longer to be so i had to get relocated to one of our affiliate schools in dc. this won't start til the end of august though. but it will be a major pain in my butt to commute into teh city every day, it is only about 20 miles but it will take more than an hour. yay traffic and dc driving!

i am also now working as a tutor in this after school supplimental education program. it is kinda weird and i don't know if i like it, but i needed something to help pay the bills this summer and whatnot. the good thing about moving my job to the city is i get a raise...yay!

other big news....we got a dog, her name is daisy. she is a beagle/basset hound mix. she is very loving and affectionite, but has a but of seperation anxiety which we are now working on. she isn't destrucive but she does bark and the first time it happened she peed in the house a lot. wbut we have found that if we put her in the bathroom with toys and her bed and a treat and her food bowl and some items that smell like us and a radio on it will help in the long run. this way she has a safe place for when we are gone. also it is far away from the door so you can't hear teh barking in the hallway..we are in an appartment comples, after all.

she i cute and slowly the cat is getting used to her...although twice noe daisy has been walking by and the cat hisses loudly and scares the dog who could care less if the cat was tehre or not.

in other news, see sicko, it will make you hate maerica more just alike all good michael moore films.