brrrrrrrr

well, it's not even really that cold yet, but my apartment is like an ice box. i am freezing in here. my room is the warmest place in the apartment only if i turn on the wall heater. the heater in the living space is behind a bookcase. even scully won't leave me alone. she is sleeping next to me, on me and around me. not just in bed either. her newest is directly next to me on the couch or on my lap. it's sort of annoying. however, she is warm and i can appreciate that. it's just that scully is a tad unpredictable. she gets very upset over moving or touching. i have to keep an eye out for my digits.
palin won't leave is alone. can't she just go back to alaska? she claims to want the media to leave her alone - perhaps she should stop calling the media to her office and stop saying stupid shit. the worst part about ted stevens - convicted felon! - is that we could very well have senator sarah palin. excuse me, i just threw up in my mouth. palin can not be the new face of the republican party. it would be suicide for them. we'll see.
[my girlfriend, rachel maddow, was just on tv in her pj bottoms. hot.]
warning: pms alert! my pms has gotten so bad over the last few months. many new symptoms. nausea, headache, no appetite, all over body aches and my personal favorite, pins and needles in my back. what? i don't even want to have a shirt on. it's the weirdest thing. it is extremely uncomfortable and i will be making an appointment for the doctor tomorrow. i've had these symptoms now for 3 days and it's just not right. i had very similar symptoms last month and i have to assume that it will probably happen again next month. you know, if men had pms there would have been a "cure" centuries ago. PMS SUCKS!
hey, we elected barack obama the 44th president of the united stated. good job! i'm still over the moon about it. i hope you are too. peace. hope. change.

computers fairyland cage matches

carlos is going to try and work on my computer again! i have faith he can fix it.
while i was at ikea this weekend i saw this vw wagon with this fairyland bumper sticker and i got giddy inside! i had to take a picture. my parents used to take me and kris all the time to fairyland in oakland. i know there's a few of you out there who remember fairyland - the plastic keys? awesome!
don't forget to tivo or watch biden and palin go at it in a cage match tonight. it should be fun to watch biden try not to openly berate or humiliate palin and for palin not to come off like a total idiot. i mean, if you can't tell katie couric which publications you get your information from, you know you're in trouble. don't worry, people, she has her "sources."
hey, don't forget to register to vote. IF YOU'VE MOVED YOU MUST RE-REGISTER!
NOVEMBER 4, 2008
VOTE FOR CHANGE

eve ensler ... swiped from ro's blog

"I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears. ** I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.?? ** But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war. ** I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity. ** Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, "It was a task from God."?? ** Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not.?? ** She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.?? ** Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.?? ** Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.?? ** Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.?? ** I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, "Drill Drill Drill." I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.??Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?" -eve ensler