...and have been called to action by one of my favorite bloggers, I am posting this letter by congresswoman Louise Slaughter on the rape of Jamie Leigh Jones. So here's the letter:

Dear Friends,

I need your help.

Two years ago, 20 year old Jamie Leigh Jones was drugged, assaulted, and viciously gang raped on the job by her fellow ( Read more... )

Happy Belated New Year everyone!

And now for the sweetest video I've ever seen:

I will be leaving for home next Friday, the 21st.  My college gives me Christmas and the whole month of January off , which is really nice, especially since my high school used give me only a week.

So what would I like for Christmas?

1.) I Am America and So Can You- Stephen Colbert (anyone read this already?  What did you think?)

2.) Best of the ( Read more... )

Yes! I am alive! WOOT!

Wow, I can't believe my last entry was from August 2006. *shame* :-*| *says in Winky voice* I is a bad journal mommy. I has no excuse. I is shameful. My profound apologies to my friends, those who were worried, feared I had perished or forgot I ever existed.

At least I can say I have not been neglecting my duties as a ( Read more... )

Hi all ( Read more... )

1.) I graduated from high school yesterday!!! The ceremony was held in the auditorium of a local state college because our school gym was too small. I got my diploma and afterwards my family and I went to the Four Seasons (a really fancy restaurant in the city). It is hard to believe that I'm actually a high school graduate. It is I'm finally ( Read more... )

Your Linguistic Profile::50% General American English35% Yankee10% Dixie0% Midwestern0% Upper Midwestern
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Yes, I know that adds up to 95. Don't ask.

Not much is new really, since the last time I wrote. My cast is off, I'm going to physical therapy and school is pretty much over. I don't have to go to class anymore because my school has the seniors go on internships for the last two months of school. My internship is at a publishing company in my town. It publishes websites and newsletters ( Read more... )

the Comic

(47% dark, 38% spontaneous, 42% vulgar)

your humor style:
VULGAR | COMPLEX | LIGHT

Yours is the most versatile and also the most popular kind of humor. You'll crack a joke about just about anything, but you're not mean-spirited or intimidating, so you can get away with it--even when, for example, you bust on Mexicans.

You appreciate a ( Read more... )

You make a wand and try to use it ( Read more... )