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I know, technically it is a crude, hideous robot. Shut up.
So, I am in Birmingham. I am working at Joe Muggs again because it is a fun place (and I got a raise) and it is work I can do on auto-pilot. Two hours of tutoring and two hours of sitting in class and I am ready to shoot myself. Nine hours of smiling widely and telling people "Hello!" and "Thank you!" and "Have a good day!" with some mopping thrown in and I feel pretty damn chipper. I don't know how that works. Oh, wait, yes I do. It's because I've found people who whole-heartedly play the "Your mom!" game. I won last night with "Your mom sounds like Grover eating a candy bar!"
But yeah, in Birmingham for almost two days now. I've seen loads of people I haven't seen in months, and it's awesome. I've met some new people who should prove to be fun. The only problem is housing has proved somewhat shaky...But I think I've found a solution (I love you Shawna and JuJu!)...
Erm, yeah...I am serving as Ickna's assistant on a shoot today. This should be fun...I need to learn more about the technical bits and bobs of Fotomacherei.
Last night at work I heard some douchebag say to another that he had somehow found and read the last Harry Potter book online, and that Harry died. I'm pretty sure he was lying, but if someone did leak the end of HP VII, I would probably kill them by tearing their throat out with my teeth. You probably think I am kidding.
I really like this blog about ugly mailboxes.
--Can the religious left sway the '08 race? It infuriates me that they're actually bringing religion into it. That sort of garbage should be left to idiots and Republicans, those too stupid to realize that religion deserves no place in public discourse. We don't need passages from the Bible to let us know that the conditions that cause and exacerbate poverty are bad and we should change them, we need a sense of fairness and compassion. The Bible does not contain passages about raising the minimum wage or protecting the environment; it's a collection of completely irrelevant and oft-mistranslated texts that has little to no bearing on today's world. I can't wait to move to a country where more people feel that way...
--Here's another story that makes me hate religion; Thirteenth Century text hides words of Archimedes. Some stupid-ass monk scraped the writings of Archimedes off this parchment to write fucking useless prayers on it. We lost the understanding (or at least the beginnings of understanding) of how the world works because yammering into the ether in the hopes that someone is listening is apparently more productive.
Basically, what I am getting at is this: religion is a crutch and an appalling hindrance to human evolution.
Any way, enough bitching...Polynesians were in America before Columbus, tigers are going to be extinct before I have children, Chernobyl might be a wildlife refuge, the cops are not your friends, and dammit, I really want to go to Arkansas and find diamonds.
Once again, Married to the Sea finds a way to make sense of the world using humor and hatefulness...
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