Tunneling

Two in a day? Yeah!
1) I finally forced myself to chill. I made popcorn with butter and Ray’s Rad Chilies. Next time, more sauce.
2) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Aaaaw Yeah.
3) Penguins? AAAW YEAH! (though I might have missed is, Sherlock is giving me fuckity movie listings at the moment.
4) Sherlock is one of my favorite OSX gadgets. I should have used it yesterday when we were trying to figure out if John’s flight had landed.
5) I booked my trip to Austin. Who’s psyched? Heather’s psyched! Who got a good deal? Heather got a good deal!
6) The problem with having a shitty system of keeping addresses and contacts is that when you are planning a party you are sure to forget somebody. My most reliable method is to just read my email address book for names. You know what I use for my address book? Amazon.com! It really only works for the people you have sent gifts to using amazon, and you can never really remember if the addresses are current or not. I have a palm pilon somewhere, I don’t really use it anymore. Maybe I should.
7) Reading “Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguro. Good so far. Sad too.
8) The kinkos websire sucks. Hard. It’s a shitty site that won’t give me the information I want. I recognize that most people are printing up earning reports or some boring shit like that. I want post cards. Show me one thing that isn’t spiral bound please.
9) dear you, come to my party, help me make desserts. You know who you are. Little desserts, I know you can do it.
I say ‘bed’ you say ‘time’
BED…

FIRE

COME TO MY HOUSEWARMING!
Today, Jessi and I went over the invitation design over lunch. The design incorporates the doogles, t-rex, a house and the color pink. I am making my excel spreadsheet with names and addresses and these will be merged into word for address labels because I *RULE*!
Wait..who rules? I RULE!
Last night there was a poop disaster. That’s all I’ll say about that.
I’m like a breathing hiking boot advertisement. Go now, buy a pair of Asolos, you will not regret this purchase!
I’ve been waking up in the middle of the night a lot lately. What a pain.
Anybody out there upgrade to OSX Tiger? Any thoughts? I’m thinking about it. Also need to upgrade the RAM on my powerbook as I intended to when I bought it and it just never happened. I am confused, however as one place tells me my computer has only one memory slot but my computer tells me it has 2, one filled the other empty. I’m easily confused.
There is no ‘P’ in hamster (or my ool for that matter). It is not spelled hampster. Ironic, coming from me the typo queen, still though.
The only things on my mind are camping and my party! Want to come to my party? Give me your address, I’ll send you an invite!

The Gold Standard

So let’s talk about my feet. I have been wearing my hiking boots so i can break them in before my camping trip but there seems to be no breaking in necessary, these are th most comfortable boots ever made. It’s about 95 degrees here. It’s hot. You would think that in this heat my feet would get all gross and ooogly in the sweat. You would think this wouldn’t you? Well, you thought wrong!You really did. The magic of Gore-Tex! Holy crap! My sock are completely dry. Not just mostly dry, not damp, but completely dry. All of the sweat my feet generate gets instantly wicked away. I don’t know where it goes, I suspect it gets sent to the place where your missing socks are living. When you get your socks back they will reek of my feet. Good for you.
I want to go on a trip. I was on the phone with David….
me: do you want to go to new york with me? david: do you want to go to bali with me? me: YES!
I hope we go. The rest of my summer is tight with crazy busy stuff going on but I have vacation time, money and a passport. David, let’s go to Bali (or Argentina, I want to go there). or New York!
I want to go to New York because my coworker Jen Z left for NYC today and before she left I told her places to go. The funny thing is I would pull up a Google map of wherever I was talking about and be all like “okay 33 carmine st is between bleeker and varick and 7th, after you have lunch go in this direction for record shops, then in this spot is where all the cheese shops and spice shops are….okay, go to the macy’s at herald square. go to the southwest corner and face south, you’ll be looking into koreatown, you’ll see a silver awning, go there for the best korean food ever!”. She thought I was crazy. I am. But also I have a good memory for stuff like that! Now I want to go there and eat the best korean food ever and go purse shopping on canal street and ride the subway!
Tonight I am going to drink beer. Lots of beer.

the matter

yeah, okay so I’m trying to not expend so much energy on being angry at humanity. Craziness exists at every level from the genocidal maniac running a country all the way down to the sociopathic freak that won’t leave you alone. To get angry is not productive.
So what is the evolutionary reasoning behind getting eyelashes in your eyes? I understand why we need them in the first place, that function is clear, but why are we also set up to get them in our eyes? Seriously, if I was living on the savannah i’m pretty sure that getting an eyelash in my eye would be the shittiest of defenses against a pissed off hyena attack. It’s not like you are suddenly camoflauged when that pokey little hair monster starts drilling into your iris, and it causes the exact OPPOSITE of enhanced vision. When you lay there on the ground, fetal, grabbing at your eye, tears mingling with the dust to cake your head with mud a lion is not going to take pity on you, grab you by the scruff of the next and drag you back to her den. Mostly she will just eat you.
Evolution made a major fuck up on my face (ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, I know).
Come to my party! My housewarming party! Invites to go out soon! Jessi and I are working on designing them. Custom invites to go out to you people so you can stop acting like you won’t get a custom engraved invite!
Today I wore my hiking boots to work to break them in. I was all worried that my feet would hurt and I would hate my life but these are the most comfortable boots I’ve ever worn. I love them so much. This is one less thing to worry about on the trip!
Surdyks is having their wine sale so I’ll be able to pick up wine for cheap, maybe even 2 mixed cases. Nice.
Okay, so here is my cranky radio issue…
During the day I listen to KQED on iTunes. KQED is the northern california NPR station and they have excellent issue based discussions all day long. They are experiencing some sort of technical difficulty and they won�t come through. The LA NPR station is playing music you’ve never heard of and would rather not hear and the NYC station is interviewing eclectic jazz musicians and playing their music. I don�t want to listen to inarticulate jazz musicians ramble on about their music then have to listen to each song. I don�t want to have to hear �I wrote this song in 1957 after blues great Teddy �no one you have ever heard of ever� Muddyson stepped on a rusty beer bottle cap and got tetanus and died because he was too blues musician-y to get insurance.�
This is irritating me
Lots of times, when I am reading the writings of stupid people I picture them as Beaker talking and going all “meeh meeh meeh meeh” in a voice slightly more whiney than Beaker’s.
The doogles need new collars. I’m trying to find a balance between the really cool ones ($40) and the really ugly ones (cheap). Every time I look at them and pick out the ones I like they end up being too expensive for a dog collar. My dogs deserve good collars, but not GOOD collars, ya know.
David’s doing the triathlon on Saturday, good wishes to him (and his dad and sisters and brother in law who are also all participating in the race).
hotcha my chili-bots, I’ll be the ruination of this hemisphere yet.

Who are you

Who are you people who can orchestrate genocide? Who are you? What is in your head and your hearts and your hands that you are blind to the humanity in every pair of eyes that looks at you? EVERY PAIR OF EYES, not just the eyes of your countrymen or your family or your friends. There is humanity in every pair of eyes that looks at you.
Who are you that you would do this? This is not a crime of passion, this is not one person losing it. This is meticulous and planned and executed all with precision. Who are you people who pulled the triggers? Who are you people who complacently pulled the trigger time and time again? Did you ever question what was happening? Did you ever say “I do not like muslims but I see their humanity in their eyes”?
What kind of person orchestrates a genocide? I don’t understand. I don’t want to understand. I don’t even want to understand genocide or where it comes from. I don’t want to believe that one group of humans would do this to another.
I don’t want to lose my faith in humanity. Ever. I rarely lock my front door. Quite often I leave my purse unsecured. These things are foolish and people point them out to me but I have no worries. If someone wants to steal from me then I hope that what they take helps them. I see no group of bad people, only individual circumstances. I have faith in humanity.
But it is slipping.
Who are you people on this earth with the rest of us that would take life so viciously based on the most specious of reasoning? Who the fuck are you and what is wrong with you?
I have lost faith, however, in the United Nations. Just one year, ONE YEAR after the Rwandan tragedy the U.N. did the same thing in Srebrenica.
Today Kofi Annan called this a great shame. No, Kofi, the great shame is Darfur. The great shame is that as you stand there and apologize to the widows and the mothers and the daughters and the sister, as you speak these words they are hollow ringing with the echo of your inaction in Darfur.
I’m a foolish girl, in my heart I believe that these acts are individual acts, that they are the acts of a visual minority. I believe that if you sampled the hearts and heads and hands of the majority of people on this earth you would not find this atrocity. I’m foolish, i’ll always believe that people if not inherently good are at least inherently neutral.
And every time I cry on the way to work as I listen to these reports and every time I give money because I am helpless and unskilled in any better way to help, I wonder if I am wrong.