You can't rush fashion, especially while wearing stirrup pants!
CNN election results say New York is awesome.
You can't rush fashion, especially while wearing stirrup pants!CNN election results say New York is awesome. |
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| Jun. 11th, 2010 @ 11:31 pm Bienvenue, bienvenidos, benvenuti! | |||
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Hi! I have owned this journal for a long time, and I like to do my introductions here! Also I keep a list of comment counts in this post. Cause there's always heated competitions and stuff. This journal is mostly public. Stuff that is Real Life tends to get locked unless I want my mom to see it. (Hi, Mom!) So yeah I update this post whenever I feel like it. The last time it was updated was 12/30/08. Before that it was 11/09/07, so last year. I think I'll be more timely from now on, but I had some computer trouble sporadically last year. So um, enjoy. And check back to see if you're on the rankings. Because it takes 25 comments total to be on my list -- I have nearly 300 different commenters. (I'm sure some of them are multiple journals that I've missed merging together, but I'm lazy.) Join my minions! ( rankings are under here. last performed on 12/30/08. ) | |||
| Jul. 15th, 2009 @ 11:23 pm Things that are too numerous for twitter | |||
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estoy:
(Which I may have broken down and gotten) cheerfulescucha: The Nanny (And it wasn't my fault either. Someone made it for me) Ok so assaulting my keyboard with the fleur-de-lis stamp I've owned for years but continually misplaced was a cool idea in theory, but stamping the enter key has led to half my other keys are now covered in ink. Whoops. At least the ones along the top are cool? NCIS Marathon: No one told me about this til there were four episodes left. ALso, who is Nikki? She was a random agent in one of the episodes, but IMDB says she was only on for three. Don't tell me she has a sad ending :( KATE GOT SHOT AND DIED. UNFORTUNATELY THIS WAS NOT LOST, AND IN FACT WAS NCIS, AND THEREFORE THE WRONG KATE. Ari's kind of a douche. But I think we knew that. I work with a girl named Katelyn, and it's so hard for me to not say her name Kate Lynn. I BLAME YOU, ARI HASWARI. Ok, Nick at Night can't show Malcolm in the Middle. COME ON. I remember Nick at Night showing OLD shows like I Dream of Jeannie. WHy do stations not play these shows anymore? :( I can't wait to get paid on Friday. I am so ordering a pizza. I haven't had money for the last two weeks and I have been eating nothing but rice-based dishes. I just want cheese and pepperoni and omg I need pizza. Finally, I did make a delicious rice-based dish this evening: I threw a can of black beans, diced tomatoes, and rice along with various spices to make a nice dish. DELISH. | |||
| Jul. 13th, 2009 @ 11:06 pm YOU CAN'T RUSH FASHION.... | |||
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Last night I worked from 6pm to 3am doing the new floorset. Well, really I processed freight and everyone else set up the store. When I emerged from the back room, there was a wall for LEGGINGS. Entirely devoted to leggings. AND GUESS, oh GUESS, dear readers what one type of leggings were labelled along the wall. Go on, guess. I'll wait. Yeah. Luckily they haven't come in yet. Otherwise I might have to light them on fire. Unlike my home store, which nearly caught on fire. My roommates both worked tonight and told me how they had to evacuate the mall after a power outage to their side of the mall. So! Latest on Honduras. (Yes, I'm still posting about that. You all can play tl;dr). Because Chávez and Zelaya are BFF, Chávez cut off oil supplies from Venezuela to Honduras in a classic move. Zelaya, in turn decided his move would be to give an ultimatum. A vague ultimatum. And finally, teachers returned to work after ending their strike. Teachers struck originally to support Zelaya. Apparently Zelaya has a fetish for these hats:  | |||
| Jul. 9th, 2009 @ 11:26 pm It's time for your Honduras round up! | |||
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This time with more satire! Top Ten Reasons the US Isn't Getting Its Panties in a Twist Over Honduras 4,6,7, and 8 are the best. Basically, this story has dropped off radar, so I'm doing my best to keep everyone updated. The General who arrested Zelaya said that he had a hard time doing it, but it was necessary to save democracy. Like Maricela and I said at the beginning, it seems like this whole thing needed to be done but it would have been so much easier if they hadn't shipped Zelaya off to Costa Rica. Zelaya's supporters are going on strike. He seems to have union support, especially with educators. Now I love me some unions (as does the Pope) [really, I just wanted an excuse to post the Pope link])  Ok, come on Zelaya, could you look any more like a villain if you tried? (thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} lightfromlight for the pope link!) | |||
| Jul. 9th, 2009 @ 10:40 pm Lyrics game results! | |||
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tryaswemight came out on top, answering 9 correctly.eco49rvra came in second, getting 8 right. and there was a tie for third: ifeverangelsbe and the_epic got 4 apiece.wavesandmoon - 3shiori_hime & sheesusnat - 2 yaaurens & stlawgal05 - 1SO here are the answers under the cut, for the ones that weren't answered. ( how many did you guys actually know? ) So what should my next lyrics game be? I used to do this all the time, and I kinda miss doing it. So today I was waiting for my bus at too early o'clock. Well, my transfer point, really cause I'd already been on one bus. So I'm waiting and this guy comes over and he asks me what I'm reading. I show him the cover, and he gets all interested. Then he sees my feet. I wear sandals until it snows. Him: Can I touch your feet? Me: HELL NO. Him: Awww, why not? Me: ....... | |||
| Jul. 8th, 2009 @ 12:30 am This is a multipurpose post -- lyrics, Honduras, and RL. | |||
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estoy:
I was gone all weekend and it turns out that Zelaya tried to fly back to Honduras and this was VETOED. calmescucha: Panic at the Disco - Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off | Powered I also subscribe to Chilean news on my Google News feed. One of the articles I read yesterday covered what this article explains. Chile is considering recalling its Honduran ambassador. The OAS doesn't seem to like this coup much. So uh, reading more I find that when Zelaya DID try to return, he was fired upon, and someone got killed in the resulting firefight. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got the two sides to agree to a mediator -- Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, who incidentally is a) a Nobel Prize winner b) the president of the country Zelaya ended up in. And finally, in a random note: the US is set to play Honduras in soccer. Real life was really annoying today -- I actually lost my temper at work today. The phone rang at the store, and I answered it as I usually do: "Thank you for Calling my place of employment, where you can do something; this is Amanda, how may I help you?" The woman replies, "this is So and So from Such and Such Mastercard. You owe us a delinquent payment of over 1000 dollars." "Excuse me, you've got the wrong person." "No, this is your work number." "Yeah, I got that, but I'm not who you're looking for." "You're Amanda S-, right?" "No." "What's your last name?" Here is where I made my fatal mistake. "I don't believe I have to give you that information, as I do not do business with you." "Look, Amanda, I know you work there -- we've spoken to M- already before. You need to stop lying to us." "I am not the Amanda you are looking for, and I am not giving you my last name!" And I hung up on her. Fucking listen, lady -- god forbid there be two people named Amanda that work at a place. OR three, like at my other store. ( lyrics! ) | |||
| Jul. 6th, 2009 @ 12:34 am sooooooooo tired | |||
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Ottawa was amazing as always. It broke my heart to leave again, and as usual I resolved to move there someday. I do mean it, when I resolve that, but it's so complicated moving internationally. calmJulie & Aidan's wedding was wonderful. I had such a lovely time, and they looked SO happy to be married. It reminded me a lot of Mark & Christine's wedding -- the bride and the groom wanted so much to be married and it was contagious. Pictures will be up on facebook shortly -- I'm just downloading them off of the camera now. When I got home facebook wasn't working for me, and then K & A told me that it hadn't been working oh, since Thursday when I left. Hmm. As per lightfromlight's advice I reset the modem/router, and voila, Facebook access again.Anyway, I must get ready for tomorrow -- I start my first day over at Colonie Center Mall. I'm nervous, excited, and I kinda feel like the new kid in school. We'll see how it goes. | |||
| Jul. 2nd, 2009 @ 03:26 am I haven't forgotten about Honduras | |||
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RL got in the way of my Honduras updates -- yesterday I had to work and then I kinda just mindlessly surfed the internet to get over how sad I am bout leaving that store. Today  awakeshiori_hime was in town, and it's the last time I will see her for a while since she's moving to Japan later this month.My money sitch is gonna run me tight. Love it. Maricela wrote this on Facebook a couple of days ago: ( this is all in Spanish, if someone cares to translate, go ahead ) New developments include: attempts to bring Zelaya back to the country, pressure from the OAS on Honduras to restore Zelaya, threatening expulsion. The new President, Micheletti, is willing to negotiate on this, but Zeleya is going to face impeachment proceedings should he return. It seems like Micheletti is holding out an olive branch to Zeleya. If Zeleya returns, don't expect to see him be President much longer. | |||
| Jul. 1st, 2009 @ 10:06 pm Guess the lyrics! | |||
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estoy:
In honour of Canada day, I decided to have a guess the lyrics of Canadian musicians post! comments are screened and will be unscreened when i get back from guess where.... cheerfulescucha: Great Big Sea - Graceful & Charming (Sweet Forget Me Not) | Powered by Last.fm ( who is the most canadian ) | |||
| Jun. 30th, 2009 @ 01:25 am More on Honduras | |||
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estoy:
Maricela gave me little bit more today. calmescucha: some history channel stuff First off, while she is fully in support of Zeleya's removal, she feels that moving him to Costa Rica was not the right call. After reading a bit more, I agree as well. Calling it a coup is more plausible if you remove the leader from the country. Arresting him and calling for impeachment hearings would have led to less condemnation and possibly fewer protestors. Here's a good article discussing the US take on it. To sum up, basically the US is treading lightly. While they condemn the tactics of taking down Zeleya, they're not insisting upon his reinstatement. Which is in line with policies of previous administrations. Maricela also wanted me to post this video: . I don't agree with what Krauthammer is saying here, mainly because he uses a Hitler comparison, and I feel that it is a little overblown in this situation. He kind of throws out all the "scary" left wing names -- Chavez, Ortega. It's like a who's who of Latin American leftists. Zeleya is asking the UN for help in getting himself reinstated. It seems apparent that no one likes how this was done, like Maricela said, but no one has a problem with the reasoning behind it. The American government, the OAS (Organization of American States), and leaders worldwide seem to be avoiding talking about the reasons behind the arrest. I will probably keep posting about this every day except when I go to Canada this weekend, because I think it's an important news story that I don't want to see get lost. ------------------------ In non-Honduras news, I finish my last day at my store tomorrow. After I come back from Canada, I'll be in Colonie Center for the summer and most of the fall. It'll be a+++ good times. I'm gonna miss the hell out of my girls though shiori_hime will be here tomorrow and Wednesday. She leaves me for Japan on July 25 -- she's going to be a JET! I know there was something else I wanted to talk about, but I can't remember it now. Oh well! | |||
| Jun. 28th, 2009 @ 08:20 pm Honduras Coup | |||
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As a Latin American historian, I kinda find this Honduras coup fascinating. One of my friends on Facebook, born and raised in Honduras, wrote as her status about 20 minutes ago: Basically, she says (if I'm translating this correctly -- feel free to correct me!) basically, thi wasn't really a bad thing to get rid of this guy. In her current status update, she says to google La Masacre en los Horcones. (this is the only English source that was easily readable I could find, which should tell you something about how much Americans care or know about Honduras). What's interesting about this, for the tl;dr crowd is that this massacre took place on the land owned by Mel Zelaya, who is the father of today's deposed president -- Manuel Zelaya. As befitting a friend of Chávez, Zelaya is of course claiming the US is involved in this coup. Were this a year ago, I'd probably agree. If this was the 1980s, you betcha. But thankfully Henry Kissenger is nowhere near this White House. For now, Roberto Micheletti is the interim president of Honduras. Micheletti was the leader of Congress. To sum up: Honduras underwent a coup d'état because Zeleya, the President wanted to overturn the law that bars him from running for President again. The same thing happened in Venezuela a couple of years ago but Hugo Chávez overcame it. Zeleya is currently in Costa Rica, since the military arrested him at his house and threw him on a plane to get him out of the country. Edit: Maricela, my friend whose status messages are quoted above, posted the following in English: To all my friends in the international community, I ASK FOR YOUR SUPPORT...We, the people of Honduras are voicing our opinions so that the world can understand that we are standing up for our democracy through the destitution of a person who has abused our nation's constitutions in many different ways, we oppose Zelaya's restitution and ask that you also help us voice our opinions and send positive thoughts our way This link also explains in a bit more detail just what Zeleya has done in Honduras, which makes it less of a coup and more of an impeachment. Additional Edit: Twitter on Honduras. | |||
| Jun. 24th, 2009 @ 12:53 am MULLIGAN! | |||
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State Senate continues to be a bunch of big babies. You know, I'm one of the biggest NYS apologists you'll find, but goddamn, they're trying my patience. We need to just up and start over. Empty the Senate, run new elections, and not allow any of these jackoffs to run again. I'm sorry, but this whole thing is ridiculous. And of course it is the city senators fucking everything up. Every day I hear someone else say how much they want to leave New York, or how much they hate it here. And sometimes I feel the same way. I love New York. I love how diverse a state it is, and I think there is a lot of potential in New York. Especially after the elections last year shook everything up in the Assembly and the Senate. But to cause such gridlock and make the state the laughingstock of the states, well good lord. Even I can't find a way to support that. In other news, my life is a giant mess right now, and I just want to curl into my bed and never get out of it again. I have 9 days left before I transfer to the other store. ALso, Canada, which always makes me feel better. I also would like a mulligan on today. Again, NCIS is super addictive. I pop in a disk to watch ONE episode and I end up watching the entire disk. This is a bad idea if you start it at 2am. Tonight I'm going to watch just one episode but that's because the season finale of Life after People is on at 2am. It aired at 10, but I had to work and didn't get home til 10:30. I missed having cable. | |||
| Jun. 21st, 2009 @ 12:05 am Let's let Ehjay's inner feminist out of her box, ok? | |||
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Bacardi ads decide that the best way to sell their booze is to insult women. It's absolutely reprehensible and completely inappropriate to advertise their products in this way. I can't believe that anyone in good conscience could release this advertisement in all seriousness, or hell even dream it up in the first place. This is complete and utter bullshit. I'd expound more but I think I'd end up seeing red and getting incomprehensible as I go, but GODDAMN. Between this and the Andrew Jackson special with an apologist for Jackson's behaviour toward Native Americans my rage is getting quite the workout. | |||
| Jun. 19th, 2009 @ 07:37 pm Two depressing things. Sorry! | |||
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First, via ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} ohnotheydidnt (I read it so you don't have to): Legendary journalist Walter Cronkite is seriously ill. This is really sad, because he really was one of the last good journalists out there. I really stopped paying attention to national news when Peter Jennings died and there hasn't been anyone who has really filled that void left by those two.Second, via rhapsody_98: Indian health care needs unmet. This is a heartbreaking article showing how the US Government once again fails those people they've been marginalizing and destroying since even before the country's inception.Ok, enough with the depressing. Tell me one good thing that has happened to you either today or this week. | |||
| Jun. 18th, 2009 @ 08:08 pm I read ONTD so you don't have to. | |||
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Ok, so remember when Chris Daughtry was offered a job as Fuel's lead singer? Well, for those of you who watched AI-7, Carly Smithson was a very talented singer who lost to well, a hippie. And of course DCook, but I don't mind that. Anyway, Ms Smithson is now the lead singer of The Fallen, which is basically Evanescence minus Amy Lee. Since she's crazy and drove everyone out of the band. So now I'm really excited for this band, because Carly is really really talented, and she seems like a good fit. And in unrelated news, a Brooksville FL is now requiring its city workers to wear deodorant and underwear. ....How do people not wear these things? Especially in FLORIDA? In other, other unrelated news, I submitted this story to Consumerist. Airlines suck balls. | |||
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