New slang when you notice the stripes, the dirt in your fries.
I can tell that I'm about to get my period because things that shouldn't even matter to me are pissing me off to no end. Really, I should just stay away from society in general when I feel like this because I have to bite my tongue a lot to prevent myself from saying things that I may or may not regret in the morning. Alas, this is one of the rare nights when my parents aren't home and thus I am not obligated to be at their beck and call, so I actually have an opportunity to catch up on the internet and update my iPod.
Speaking of iPods, House is finally available on iTunes! It took them fucking long enough. Now, I no longer have to be beholden to some network executive's idea of how TV should be scheduled. Every show that I enjoy is available for download. Which is excellent, because although I get strange looks when I read books while waiting for programs to run, no one has ever looked twice when I'm watching TV on my iPod.
On an unrelated note, it seems that everywhere I turn someone is bitching about something going on in this country. Gas prices are too high. The housing market has gone to hell. George W. Bush and his cronies are ruining everything. The war in Iraq has gone on too long. Electricity costs too much. Wal-Mart is brainwashing their employees and locking them in a dungeon at night. The education system isn't working. There aren't enough jobs. Everyone in government is corrupt. THE END IS NEIGH! And those are just a few of the many, many complaints I've heard this week. Yet, not a single complainer has offered a solution to any of these things nor have they mentioned doing anything proactive to make their point known to someone who can actually do something about it. Unfortunately, we are not a true democracy. We are a representative democracy. This means that bitching to your friends/family/co-workers/random people who read your blog/people passing you on the way to the train station is not going to do anything to make anything better. Sorry, but that's just not the way it works. You want change? Well, you have to get off your ass and do something about it. No, not everyone can lead a march on the Capitol steps, but almost everyone can write a letter or call their representatives at the State and Federal level. Yeah, and maybe you'll get blown off, but at least you tried instead of just bitching and moaning about it. I've written three out of the four Presidents that have held office in my lifetime. Granted, only one of them ever wrote me back (you guess which one). Still, I believe that unless you vote in every election (yes, even those local ones for the school board), you don't have the right to complain about anything (well, unless you don't have the right to vote for some reason or another, which can't be helped for the most part). You're not participating in democracy, so why should you get to bemoan the outcome?
Also, I have spent the last couple of days looking up ice cream flavors for a client in various databases. Therefore, I have been craving ice cream like crazy. This is probably why I ended up having B&J's Chunky Monkey for dinner. Mmm, nutritious and delicious!
Speaking of iPods, House is finally available on iTunes! It took them fucking long enough. Now, I no longer have to be beholden to some network executive's idea of how TV should be scheduled. Every show that I enjoy is available for download. Which is excellent, because although I get strange looks when I read books while waiting for programs to run, no one has ever looked twice when I'm watching TV on my iPod.
On an unrelated note, it seems that everywhere I turn someone is bitching about something going on in this country. Gas prices are too high. The housing market has gone to hell. George W. Bush and his cronies are ruining everything. The war in Iraq has gone on too long. Electricity costs too much. Wal-Mart is brainwashing their employees and locking them in a dungeon at night. The education system isn't working. There aren't enough jobs. Everyone in government is corrupt. THE END IS NEIGH! And those are just a few of the many, many complaints I've heard this week. Yet, not a single complainer has offered a solution to any of these things nor have they mentioned doing anything proactive to make their point known to someone who can actually do something about it. Unfortunately, we are not a true democracy. We are a representative democracy. This means that bitching to your friends/family/co-workers/random people who read your blog/people passing you on the way to the train station is not going to do anything to make anything better. Sorry, but that's just not the way it works. You want change? Well, you have to get off your ass and do something about it. No, not everyone can lead a march on the Capitol steps, but almost everyone can write a letter or call their representatives at the State and Federal level. Yeah, and maybe you'll get blown off, but at least you tried instead of just bitching and moaning about it. I've written three out of the four Presidents that have held office in my lifetime. Granted, only one of them ever wrote me back (you guess which one). Still, I believe that unless you vote in every election (yes, even those local ones for the school board), you don't have the right to complain about anything (well, unless you don't have the right to vote for some reason or another, which can't be helped for the most part). You're not participating in democracy, so why should you get to bemoan the outcome?
Also, I have spent the last couple of days looking up ice cream flavors for a client in various databases. Therefore, I have been craving ice cream like crazy. This is probably why I ended up having B&J's Chunky Monkey for dinner. Mmm, nutritious and delicious!