i make plans to break plans

Back to the fox. I'm convinced it's my spirit animal.



My first elementary school (Meadowview, I think) had a fox as their mascot. Then my elementary/high school had a fox as it's mascot (Fort Sumner Foxes and Vixens). Now I live in the Fox River Valley. Also, I loved the animated movie "The Little Fox" as a little kid (I don't know if it was ever even released to video).

So I bring back the fox background.

It's a sign.

Also:

Sarah drunk = sex pollen.

Seriously, it's a problem. I need my boyfriend around at times like these. Of course, he would disapprove of the slash I am currently reading.

Why did no one tell me The Academy Is are playing the DuPage County Fair? I am a little ashamed I didn't already know this already.

Also, according to my darling boyfriend, our friends Jake and Kerry were serious when they said they wanted to start a band. So apparently I will someday soon be the lead singer of some unnamed band. But I am making a list of band names. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. I am also making an unofficial setlist, seeing as how I have no idea what kind of music we will actually be playing.

One more thing: why does livejournal (and myspace) insist that "didn't" isn't a word? Actually, it insists that I also spelled "isn't" wrong. What the hell, spellcheck? Haven't you heard of contractions?

I bought:

Four martini glasses
A decorative box
A hardcover book
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' Greatest Hits
"Save the World, Lose the Girl" by Midtown
Soap dish (which is actually an ashtray)

...for $11.51.

Also, the last two posts (crossposted to thrifthorror) are courtesy of the Geneva, IL Goodwill. Great stuff.

Things I will miss about Chicago when I move to St. Charles on Saturday:

- First Aid Comics (owner, James Nurss is a great comic-guy to have)
- the Borders two blocks from my apartment
- the autographed pictures of Obama plastered all over the local Walgreens
- my friends
- the University of Chicago campus
- downtown in general
- Chicago Transit Authority (I'm not even being sarcastic. Having access to anywhere in Chicago at almost any time is worth the fart smell.)
- thinking I'll actually go to Belmont sometime, even though I never do
- thinking I'll actually go to Angels & Kings
- concerts
- crazy and or homeless people doing crazy things (wheelchair fight on the #6, guy sitting on sidewalk saying to me "What's up, Jesus?")
- the Point
- Star of Siam
- Edwardo's on 57th
- a grocery store across the street from my apartment
- my new hot neighbor who my boyfriend doesn't need to worry about because she's a girl
- city pride
- being able to claim references in Fall Out Boy songs

I recorded "America's Suitehearts" for the Fall Out Boy karaoke contest on myspace. I need at least 100 plays to qualify for the contest. *hint, hint*

Russell Tice, former National Security Agency analyst, just revealed on Keith Olbermann that the government had access to all Americans' communications--and monitored all communications.

He says that he was ordered to look at certain organizations in order to determine which ones were no threat and didn't need to be looked at further. However, it eventually became apparent to him that the "discard pile" of organizations was actually the "save pile". Some of these targeted organizations, according to him, were news organizations, reporters, and journalists.

The United States spied on our journalists. And everyone else.

As all of you know, wiretaps fall under the category of a search, and therefore require a court-ordered warrant in order to conduct. That is, in recent years, unless the government can make a clear, direct link to terrorist activities. Obviously, most of us are innocent of terrorism...so....

So 1984.

Bishop Gene Robinson, first openly gay bishop of the Anglican Church is on Rachel Maddow right now.

It just made me think of the fact that the Catholic Church doesn't shun homosexuality--just as long as you have sex with little boys.

P.S. Cheers to Bishop Robinson for giving the prayer at the pre-inauguration whatever-it-is on Sunday.
P.P.S. Pastor Rick Warren isn't giving interviews until after the inauguration. "His prayer will speak for itself". Translation: he's a fraud. He compared homosexuality to incest and pedophelia in an interview, then in his own vlog he denied believing that. Wow. You do realize that many of the things you say are recorded, right? On tv?

I'm drunk. I wanted to hurry and write this so I can take advantage of my drunkiosity.

This, I should mention, is the first time I have ever been drunk.

I know that wine is supposed to help with cramps, so I drank some. However, after drinking my glass of really disgusting wine that Kaile and I picked up at Binny's, I noticed that the glass I was drinking from was quite large. You see, I have absolutely no concept for measurements. Added to the fact that I never, ever drink, this means I am now thoroughly drunk.

So, I've already drunk dialed my mother and Kaile while watching Keith Olbermann (the one thing that protects my dignity), saying that:

The alleged would-be 20th 9-11 hi-jacker, who is held (I think) at Guantanamo Bay, cannot be prosecuted, according to the woman in charge of prosecution at the Pentagon, because we tortured him. Yes, we subjected him to sleep deprivation and cold to the point that it was "life-threatening" and, at one point, his heart rate fell to 35 beats per minute. So this means his confession cannot be trusted. So, either we have been holding an innocent person for years (which is bad) or we have been holding a guilty person for years but now cannot prosecute him and thus deny justice to all of the people who have suffered as a result of 9-11 (which is also bad).
Also, President Bush has admitted--in a televised interview--that he had a say in the torture of this suspect. When this person was captured, he brought in lawyers to advise him as to whether or not certain acts of torture were in fact torture or not. He (obviously) picked particularly radical lawyers to advise him, and people in the know say that he cannot hide behind his bad legal advice. It is spelled out clearly that torture isn't allowed in the Geneva Convention, so Bush can't pretend he didn't know what was done was wrong. So that means we could see Bush and Cheney and many others in court. This is both unbelievable and awesome to me.

In conclusion, this blog was reallllllly hard to write in my current state.
I am a passionate drunk.

edit:// Detainee mentioned in first paragraph of rant is not the same detainee mentioned in second paragraph of rant. My bad.

Merry Christmas to all of my livejournal comrades. I hope it has been a good one.

Because I now have an excuse to create my long dreamed of shitty photoshop picture of Rod Blagojevich looking like Sean Astin. Enjoy.

I'm friends with this guy, Mark (aka panasonicyouth), on buzznet. He lives in California and participated in the Reverse Prop 8 rally in LA. Well, he and a friend of his got in a bit of a mess. By "mess", I mean, they got assaulted by the police before getting arrested. Seriously. There's even a video.

Sad, sad, sad.

The Decemberists played a show last night at the University of Chicago, and during the last song Colin Meloy saw someone recording on her digital camera and seized it as an opportunity to create a PSA on voting. The fun begins at 4:55.

( 16 Military Wives/PSA )
edit// I can see my boyfriend and myself in the audience. Kick ass.

The first thing I want to say is that Sarah Palin definitely exceeded my expectations. Of course, I'm sure you've all seen and heard her say the same things I have, so that's not saying much. I'm not exactly endorsing her here.

Despite actually being coherent, she still didn't answer a lot of questions and took huge detours around them. For instance, her hesitance to answer the health care plan question was downright amusing. And as for McCain's "plan" for Iraq, well, she didn't even offer one. You can't just allude to something that apparently does not exist. People might ask you to explain, and then you're screwed.

I think my favorite remark, though, was Sarah Palin's, "John McCain, who knows how to win a war..." She does know that we lost in Vietnam, right? And I'm pretty sure that's the war McCain fought in. Oh, and I loved her persistent, almost rebellious use of the word 'nucular'. It was almost cute, like a little kid saying 'pasgetti'.