RT @mzlondon “Hand soap ad says the pump on my hand soap harbours germs. Yes, but after I press it, I wash my hands. With soap. I fail to see the problem.”
RT @wilw “That’s weird. They spelled bullshit wrong. http://twitpic.com/2f6c7a“ aaaarrrrrrrrgggghh X[ too much to do tomorrow and not nearly enough time!!!! #
RT @timminchin "Dear Australia. If you make that science-denying budgy-smuggling dimwitted homophobic goose PM, I'll leave the country. Again. #ausvotes"
RT @dvbs_microviews "saddened by the ridiculous backlash @timminchin has faced for being open about his (sensible) politics. Fuck you twitter."
RT @simonowens "Stewart says if Muslims can't build a Mosque near Ground Zero, then Catholics can't build a church near a playground http://bit.ly/9RXvGm"
thank frak for bettween.com othwise i'd never keep up with @timminchin's conversations. load of ignorant bollocking the man's received today #
damn, can't finish twittering, must go to work :[ ohhey!! i've got a job and now get to go to work! :] #
home now, finally finished reading @timminchin’s tweets and tweets @ him. what a shitstorm O_O props to Tim 4 being so v smart and awesome. #
RT @kezzumz “I want to make a cake, but pretty much the only food we have in is jam. I could make a jam cake, which is essentially a pile of jam. Nom?”
oh hello 1:00 in the morning, fancy meeting you here… #
Thursday
RT @Danatkinson “Apparently in my parents day, to pass at A-level you had an hour to write a novel, cure a disease & learn the violin whilst being whipped.”
my downstairs neighbor just dumped a bucket of soapy water out in front of the apartments. WTF. you don’t have a tub? #iliveintheghetto X[ #
(via @Wilw) another massive privacy hole from Facebook and turns it on by default. Here's how to turn it off: http://bit.ly/9kuCKL #GTFOFB#
RT @rebeccablood "IMO Facebook isn't blackhat, but they are profoundly amoral. 'This could be a goldmine! Let's just roll it out and see how people react.' "
.@CraigyFerg an amalgam of the names "Craig" and "Spock" is "Crock". O_O coincidence? i think not. #
Dear @CraigyFerg, please end all your interviews with awkward pauses, they’re funny and i like laughing. thanks #
RT @bobbyllew “Listening to This Week in Google as I walk. Very worrying developments. Google doing just a bit of evil.”
good night my beautiful twitter, i have plans for you in the morning… #
Friday
RT @JessicaDwyer “Muslimcenter debate = all red headed xstians being told no church/worship cause a nearly red head guy raised xstian bombed OK city. Sense?”
going to do a podcast for Fangirl Magazine on Sunday :D *excited Ren is excited!* #
RT via @JessicaDwyer “@isensmith <—sherlock virgin” troof :D #
RT @daydee “@NathanFillion – Amazing how jealous the Portland peeps are that you are going to Eugene!”
RT @JessicaDwyer “There is nothing in this town to do unless as I told @nathanfillion you want to get diabetes or drunk. Woohoo Eugene.”
god bless you @CraigyFerg and your awkward pauses X] hilarious #
sleeping has become annoyingly like recharging my cellphone. it’s frustrating that i have to do it everyday as it interrupts the flow of productivity. i understand that if i didn’t charge the phone, or for that matter my brain, they would eventually become completely un-usable. i just don’t like that for 4-7 hours i have reduced use of either. the only difference between charging the phone and sleep is that i quite like sleep and i’m pretty sure the phone has no opinion either way. but recently i have so many projects on and so much to do i wish i could just buy a backup brain, keep it charged and swap it out when the other one runs down.
as it stands, i can’t even do that with my phone. o_O
Reading online about Reid’s objections to the proposed Mosque at ground zero (btw, i wish they’d come up with a new name for that site, this isn’t a sci-fi novel, it’s New York City) the article mentioned some representatives think you are out of touch with the views of Americans. I wanted to tell you that, as an American, I was so incredibly pleased to hear you stand up for their right to build one there. Fear of Muslims and anything Islamic will only serve to increase domestic tensions which will play out in unforeseen but undoubtedly bad ways abroad. but you know this. We can’t afford to let generalizations of a whole people-group persist as it will just eat away at the foundations of our coexistence. That is why I think a Mosque in that place is a good idea. It would be hard to ignore and will make people look at it and the people in it and think about them. instead of just passively ignoring, making it easier to hang onto the preexisting stereotypes.
I won’t spout that Muslims are “good and kind people” because that’s just a generalization of another kind. They are a massive people group with the same variations of belief structure, sociopolitical opinions, regional perspectives and priorities as any other massive people group. Just as i found it frustrating to try to describe all Americans in one sweeping explanation to people i met overseas, it’s equally unfair to assume all Muslims have one defining description.
but i digress.
I hope you will take my message as evidence that not all Americans side with the ignorant and scared. and if you can’t take my vote of support in this note as an indication of those that feel the same but just haven’t written, then know that at least I, a 27 year old white lower-middle class female, thinks that if they want to build a Mosque near ground zero, let them. And thanks for feeling the same, please continue to stand up against ignorance and fear.
RT @NathanFillion "Use front of eye RT @alissadale Out of the corner of my eye, your Twitter pic looks like George Clooney. This confuses my brain to no end."
you ever have a day so frustratingly unproductive and dissatisfying that you don’t want to sleep since you’d lose the chance to do something, anything, useful and thereby salvage something from the day?
that’s my day. now it’s 12:49am and i’m listening to BBC world news on OPB. my legs are tired from sitting at my desk so long. i have a nice bed waiting for me and a nice book, Why Does E=mc2? And Why Should We Care?, to read in said bed. but i can’t go to it or the day will be over and i will be left with a definitive sense of missed opportunity. and it’s the bad kind of missed opportunity, not the kind missed due to circumstances out of my control, but missed due to the inadequacy of my own attempts to seize that opportunity.
alright internet, i have soaked in the tub and am now dirt and dust free :] i have several hundred tweets to read. lets do this!!! #
RT @teebalicious “Why I <3 @levarburton: with Reading Rainbow, he taught me literacy. With Roots, he taught me dignity. With ST:TNG he taught me ingenuity.”
what happened to @jackofkent ??? i go camping for four days and suddenly all his tweets are gone and he’s away till Sept? what gives o_O #
sweet, i’m now twitter current, only took an hour ;] now for Angry(Feet) forum, here i come feeters!! #
@FrumiousMe holycrap!!! i just saw your tumblr pic of the new tattoo and i’m just speachless! it looks so incredibly awesome i need 2 tweets
@FrumiousMe your tattoo artist did such a great job making that desging into the best possible tattoo, i’m just chuffed to bits!! :D :D
@FrumiousMe it’s incredible, do you mind if i use your picture to blog about it?
Monday
they said anyone who’s seen Inception and watches this will get chills. i didn’t believe them. i was wrong http://youtu.be/UVkQ0C4qDvM#
Wish i was near enough to give a hug :( thinking good thoughts for you #
Flipping heck yeah!!! Good things are good. Happy Ren is happy :D #
RT @ProfBrianCox: RT @Bubblejet: Love makes the World go round. Love and Conservation of Angular Momentum. #
Really Windows Vista? You want me to tell you whether its safe to run Windows Update? Wtf. #
evidence of Ren’s complex tastes: loves Eminem and Dominic Monaghan http://youtu.be/uelHwf8o7_U also, awesome music videos are always win #
so tired X[ can't stop working. i'll sleep when i'm dead. which will likely be in another hour or so. #
Friday
RT @bengoldacre "WHERE IS THE OFFICE CLIPBOARD NOW? WHERE IS IT? ANSWER ME OR I WILL KILL EVERYONE"
Saturday
RT @ProfBrianCox "@jackofkent What on earth is happening to you? :)" seconded o_O #
@kezzumz god i love you British you just crack me up X]
If only i could curve space a bit. The day is too short and i need more time… #
RT @timminchin “Sex pesto: a bloke called Basil who won’t leave you alone.”
RT @mzlondon “Moths: if you like light so much, why are you nocturnal? If you were out during the day you could chill out and be less frantically flappy.”
what do you do on a sultry sunday evening when it’s still 90 at 9pm and everyone in the neighborhood has taken to the streets and doorsteps as they can’t bare to boil inside four walls and baking in the open seems preferable? well, i’ve got the front door wide open, the box fan on high, and Esperanza Spalding singing Fall In at full volume. seems appropriate :]
so much fun happened this week, felt like writing several times but been a bit busy:
got fired. saw it coming. not a banker o_O
got some attention from Mr. Minchin in the form of a youtube comment and an email. both nice but still can’t get his yea or nay on the shirt designs sent a month ago.
got an @mention from ProfBrianCox. had minor physics fan freakout (luf him).
got a haircut. so cute it hurts ;] id show you pictures but yahoo has locked me out of my flickr account and i have to make a whole new one now X[
saw Inception twice. mind completely blown. best cinema experience since the first LoTR premier.
Finished the FanGirl Magazine website. well... not finished, but it's live. now to get what regular readers J's got on livejournal to swap to the website, we'll be golden.
what else.... bought a cute table for $10. ... missed Comic Con. again. ... binged on chocolate a bit. regretting that. ... resisted other temptation successfully. have a hankering to write something about it, but will have to wait. feeling alright. kind of scared shitless about being unemployed again, but staying remarkably positive which can only help in the job search.
i’ve got shit to say! and stuff to do! and people to chat up! and blogs to read! and websites to build! and merchandise to design! and stores to setup! and flats to decorate (well just one)! and family to spend time with and tell them i love them and make sure they know it by my actions and not just my words! and…ya lots of stuff so STOP BOTHERING ME*
*NB: this last comment, and on the whole, the very title of this blog, are not directed at you. you are welcome to bother me. but distractions from the above list such as laziness, apathy, confusion, forgetfulness, stubbornness, selfishness, stupidity, and general wankitude are NOT allowed to bother me.
