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It has been 9 days since last I wrote. I am sorry.
All I've really done in that time is go to Gatlinburg for Spring Break with Matt, Jacob, Peter, Juli, Angela, David, and Greg. It was fun. I drank a lot of Jim Beam; we played boardgames and laughed a lot; Angela, David, Greg and I went to the aquarium and saw a lot of fish (I touched sting rays); Matt, Jacob, Peter, and I hiked Chimney Tops; and much fun was had by all.
Now I am back in Tuscaloosa, back to my school and yoga and friends. 's nice. The weather is flipping awesome here, too, around 75 all week. This is probably the last comfortable week in Alabama until September...
Fun things from the news:
--Spiders love to snuggle, apparently. This one family of spiders engages in social activity consisting of touching, tickling, caressing, etc. People wonder why I hate to kill them, and here's your answer: They have those 8 creepy legs just to hug you with!
--Native Americans in Oklahoma balk at English-only bill. How ironic, since, as the article points out, the name "Oklahoma" comes from Choctaw words...Any way, what it all boils down to is this: the push to make English the official and only accepted language in the US is fueled by racism and xenophobia, and besides being entirely implausible, just makes Americans look like assholes. Elementary school children in Europe speak more languages than most Americans. It's really not that hard to learn a few words of Spanish, smile at people who look different from you, and stop being a total cock.
--Cyndi Lauper, Erasure headline gay-themed tour. I'm not usually one for "gay-themed" anything, because it usually entails hairless, tanned, bleached-blonde monsters lying about their age and snorting cock and coke in equal measures. But Cyndi Lauper, Debby Harry, Erasure, The Dresden Dolls, and Margaret Cho? I so want to be there.
--World's smallest horse has tall order; namely, she's going to travel about the country visiting sick children and raising money for cancer research, or something. That's well and good; the main thing that piqued my interest about this story is that said horse is 17 flippin' inches tall. That's tiny. Look:
Hahahahahahahahahaha best ever. I want a freakin' tiny-ass horse...
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