I'm blind! My glasses broke while I tried to clean them... they are an old frame so this was to be expected sooner or later. And it's not like my eyes haven't gotten worse, so it is time for an eye exam and new glasses anyway. Right now the frame is being held together by a rubber band and the lens doesn't fit right at all. *sigh* This sucks because I'm suppose to go to training in the morning but instead I will be going to an eye doctor with no appointment and hope to goodness that I can get an exam and that they will have my prescription so that I won't have to miss work too.
Me, me, me, me…
I’m not the most interesting person in the world. Wake up in the morning, wash up, get dressed, make lunch, go to work, kill a part of my soul on the job, go home, and then sleep. Rinse, dry, repeat. Very boring if you ask me. Still it’s odd that I talk about myself and use the word “I” a lot… how can I be so damn boring and expect people to want to hear about my life?! Anyway here’s my little experiment… to use the word “I” a little less each day. To talk about you, him, and they… to talk about ideas and experiences that aren’t necessarily my own.
“I” count = III
I talked to my dad today and when we were saying our goodbyes he said that he loved me. I don't remember the last time he said that to me. We might be having lunch soon. :)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic nomination for president, according to CNN estimates, making him the first African-American in U.S. history to lead a major-party ticket.
Obama picked up a slew of superdelegate endorsements on Tuesday. Those endorsements, combined with the delegates he's projected to receive from South Dakota's primary, will put him past the 2,118 threshold, according to CNN estimates.
Obama will claim victory during a speech in St. Paul, Minnesota, according to prepared remarks released by his campaign.
"Tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another -- a journey that will bring a new and better day to America," he's expected to say.
"Tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States." (more)
This makes me so excited! Remembering when the campaigns for the nomination began I (and I'm sure most of Americans) had my doubts. Here is a black man, who has a very non-American name, who voted against what was popular, who went through many unnecessary and hateful smear campaigns, who no one really thought could make it in the beginning. Here he is Mr. Barack Obama close to taking the democratic nomination. Wow!
After deleting my xanga, my myspace, my facebook, and seriously neglecting my livejournal I have found a small void in my life. I spend a lot of my time reading the news and studying things at random and wanted an outlet but didn't want to make yet another xanga, myspace, or facebook because it wouldn't reach the right audience. Then I realized, duh, I have a vox blog!
Yeah, so it's been a long while... I've been busy lately with a new full-time job, saving up for a car and college tuition, and trying to get everything together to apply to colleges I haven't had as much time as I did in the past. But since this is the only place I really come to to read people's online personal journals you'll probably also see a lot more posts from me. No promises since I'm not as addicted to the internet as I was in the past...
He sounds a little rough in the beginning of the first video but definitely makes up for it in the end.
Damn, that cover of Billie Jean was good. I am so joining that groupie.
(CNN) -- Berkeley, the famously liberal college town in California, has taken aim at Marine recruiters, saying they are "not welcome in our city."
Republican lawmakers in Washington fired back this week, threatening to take back more than $2 million of federal funding to the city as well as money designated for the University of California-Berkeley, the campus that became a haven of protests during the Vietnam War.
The battle erupted after the Berkeley City Council approved a measure last week urging the Marine recruiters to leave their downtown office.
"If recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders," the item says.
It goes on to say the council applauds residents and organizations that "volunteer to impede, passively or actively, by nonviolent means, the work of any military recruiting office located in the City of Berkeley." (read more)
I say good for them. All this time I thought protesting in America was dead. At least some people are gathering and speaking up for something they believe in.
CALCUTTA: A HINDU-MUSLIM love affair. A rich, well-connected patriarch. A high-handed police inquiry. And finally, a dead man on the railroad tracks.
For over a month, Calcutta has been gripped by the story of Rizwanur Rahman and Priyanka Todi: he a young, striving Muslim, she a fabulously wealthy Hindu, both daring to marry despite her family's archresistance and, in the end, paying a terrible price. On a Friday in September, barely a month into their marriage, the body of Rahman, 29, turned up on the railroad tracks, his head mangled almost beyond recognition; whether it was murder or suicide remains in dispute. Todi, 23, shut herself off from the media glare and has said nothing publicly since.
At the center of their short-lived union stood the city police. Over the course of the eight days they lived together in Rahman's family home, police interrogated the couple no fewer than three times, apparently at the request of Todi's family. The police chief at the time, Prasun Mukherjee, justified his officers' intervention by saying, at a news conference, that he found resistance to the marriage by the bride's family "natural." The family, he added, according to local press reports, "reacted because Rizwanur's social and financial status did not match theirs."
The police swiftly labeled Rahman's death a suicide — a verdict his family just as swiftly rejected. (read more)
This is so sad. When I read this it immediatly made me think of the stoning of a Kurdish Yazidi girl (she had fallen in love with a Muslim boy to the dismay of her family) last Spring in Iraq. Why are families be so selfish? It makes no sense why this man or any other person cannot love and be with whomever they choose regardless of wealth, religion, race, and so on.
Britney Spear's video for "Gimme More" can be described in one word - trash. It looks like someone took a cheap camcorder to the strip club (hopefully, that is what she was going for.) It's a bad porno that leaves you with blue balls.
First off, Britney doesn't seem to know what to do with the pole. Most of her "dance" is lazy spins and dips. Where's the teasing and tricks?! The only redeeming thing about the video is the decent pop song (perfect for the club.)
I've ranted about this before but now there is a trailer out for A
Shot at Love with Tila Tequila which debuts next week on October 9th. (Watch it) It's a whole lot of awful. I am all for bisexuals gaining more visibility because lord knows we need it, but goddammit Tila Tequila!
Here's a friendly tip for you, Tila: only a straight woman would say "I'm a bisexual" (the way my mom used to say "he's a gay"). Actual bisexual women say "I'm bisexual" (if they adopt that label at all), not "I'm a bisexual." But then, you did write on your MySpace profile about the show, "will I be straight or lesbian in the end????" — as if being bisexual meant you were deciding which of two dinner entrees to order off a menu ("Will I order steak or sushi in the end????") — so I don't know why I'm surprised that this whole bisexual concept seems a little foreign to you.
