running tally

my days

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:50:59 -0400

my day without jezebel is better and i read more stuff that’s sourced, verified, newsy whatever. i don’t get angry. haha sometimes i miss the fashion coverage but i can solve that problem myself with style.com. i am going to keep up my jezebel boycott.

it's been a month

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:27:14 -0400

my month has been crazy.

that is almost all-

who forgets to put their phone number on resumes!? i need someone to hand me a great job HAND ME ONE so i can stop going through this horrible process. all the jobs i applied for are basically NILLED.

the blues

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:42:17 -0400

i am in a bummer. i am downcast.

what is wrong with me? i am fine and happy and whatever. my life is nice. i guess i am a little stressed out. i really am hating my job lately and my apartment is in shambles. i feel so busy all the time but i also feel like i am not doing anything. i want to get over this rut or whatever. so this week i am going to be very productive, fix my apartment, cuddle my cats and try to see a lot of friends. hopefully i will forget my blues.

i think darcy and i look really cute in this.

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:14:00 -0400

i think darcy and i look really cute in this.

boston!

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:13:01 -0400

we’re going to boston.

we’re buying furniture next week.

i have a credit card

the curtains are covering our windows.

I FEEL GROWN UP

a little.

olympix

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:06:33 -0400

i was watching men’s swimming yesterday and i don’t even like or care about swimming but i was of course rapt and excited and i cheered when the american men beat the french men in the 4X100 freestyle. mostly because the french were talking smack and got olympic ring tattoos. i was offended by both of those things.

katz

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:02:45 -0400

i wish i could be hanging out with my cats right now. hermione mews at the bathroom door as soon as i get out of the shower and ilet her in. this morning i pet her for a little while but now i just want to go home and cuddle her!

thirst

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:13:30 -0400

i can’t stop being thirsty! i’ve already had two huge cups of water today! a liquid needs to be invented that will quench thirst but with small amounts.

jealousy

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:58:42 -0400

i get really jealous of people with jobs they love. i am so sick of people yelled at and belittled constantly- not just by customers. i kind of wish i could write for a living, even though when i was younger i was all “i don’t want to get paid for my brain children” but that was when i wrote shitty poetry and was like, a sophmore in high school. good im not like that anymore, someone pay me to write things.

i applied for a job

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:12:31 -0400

i would love to get this job.

weird

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:53:08 -0400

i just realized something- that people expect you tbe all knowledgable about curren events and stuff and other things- like whats going on in the world around you but you don’t have enough to find any of that stuff out, usually. i have it now but it is the first time i have. weird. now i know all sorts of things i never did before, like legislatoring people and other stuff. i never used to have the time to do that stuff.

sigh

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:07:47 -0400

i keep deep sighing and it sucks that i’m doing that.

hang ups

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:25:10 -0400

i wish robots would stop calling me! i am not diabetic, i do not own a car and i am not in debt. picking up the phone to a robot is a waste of time and it makes me pissy.

this weekend

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:26:20 -0400

this weekend i am going to buffalo and intend to dance saturday night away. i really want to wear a short dress and shake my a at some rihanna.

being broke

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:05:05 -0400

when you’re broke life is not as good. i get paid this week, finally. i miss not being worried about money all the time.

i got a call!

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:36:59 -0400

for a different job. hallelujah.

today i guess is historic for some reason

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:10:35 -0400

today is historic i guess because obama won the dem nom. i am tired but smiling today because i guess it is good news- and also because i am in a good mood from music. i wonder how this happened? no on thought this would happen.

my feet are cold because they are wet from the rain and the ac is on. old 90s jams are playing on the dumb radio and that is fine. i am compulsive today. i hope i can afford things someday soon.

D-E-D DEAD

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:16:09 -0400

Lately I have felt uninspired and tired. My brain seems unwilling to be creative or to enact any ideas it already has. So I am going to try hard to find a way to recapture that.

i just don’t know. ...

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:37:41 -0500

i just don’t know. anythingbesideshowtodecoratemyapartment.

"i can't even add 2 and 2"

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:33:17 -0500

today the washington post provided me with yet another gem. “We Scream, We Swoon. How Dumb Can We Get?” used a skinny political premise to achieve a degradation of women the magnitude of which i’m sure hasn’t been seen in print since 1921. There is the slight chance that this article is satire. i hope it is, though i doubt it, based on the detailed political anecdotes and disdainful tone. would you believe that women are attending political rallies enthusiastically?

high school is a microcosm of male-female comparisons and relations, mostly because everyone goes through so it is relatable, and also because high school is rife with stereotypes. but i know i was not the only girl in advanced english. there were only three boys in it, though. nor was i the only girl on the honor roll. there was actually, if you can even believe it, a TEAMful of girls on my soccer team. there were a bunch of teams! enough girls played soccer for literally a whole league to be formed! they also played lacrosse! and basketball! these sports all had female leagues too! just for girls!

I tried looking through this piece of idiotic rambling for the best quotes, but copy-pasting the entire article seems to be the best option. i have already e-mailed it to a few of my friends. in the interest of space…

the author, Charlotte Allen, claims:

“I am perfectly willing to admit that I myself am a classic case of female mental deficiencies. I can’t add 2 and 2 (well, I can, but then what?). I don’t even know how many pairs of shoes I own.”

Allen, by way of explaining why women like Barack Obama, proceeds to embarass herself completely. first of all, who in the world would publicly claim to be unable to add 2 and 2 together? i think an idiot without self awareness would do it. maybe a three year old? she continues on to cite insiginificant studies to prop up her claim that women like Obama because, well, they’re women. and being a woman, of course, has its drawbacks, which include being dumber than men, worse drivers than men, having smaller brains, and not being able to spin an object in our brains to see it in 3-D. she tries to balance her article and make it objective by injecting little bits of female-deprecating humor, like the botox shots she claims is all women are interested in. women get in more accidents but they kill less people! women have better memories! women have superior verbal skills! Not only does she present her claims that men are superior to women without citing her sources or providing objective evidence, she does the same for the qualities she inadvertently credits to women.

did i mention she calls hillary clinton stupid? she does. did i mention she says:
“So I don’t understand why more women don’t relax, enjoy the innate abilities most of us possess (as well as the ones fewer of us possess) and revel in the things most important to life at which nearly all of us excel: tenderness toward children and men and the weak and the ability to make a house a home. (Even I, who inherited my interior-decorating skills from my Bronx Irish paternal grandmother, whose idea of upgrading the living-room sofa was to throw a blanket over it, can make a house a home.) Then we could shriek and swoon and gossip and read chick lit to our hearts’ content and not mind the fact that way down deep, we are … kind of dim.”

i am pissed she called me dim. hell, i am pissed she called my SISTER dim. my mom’s not dim. i am mad she relegates me to the role she assumes i will fill best- a wife and mother who is completely devoted to my husband’s and child’s well-being. i guess my final point, the thing that bothers me the most about this so-called article, is that everyone, sex aside, is different from everyone else. allen does not seem to think this is important. allen doesn’t seem to think it is important that women are recovering from CENTURIES worth of oppression. they have a lot of lost time! it doesn’t matter to this “woman” (i put the word in quotes because she seems to reject the idea of empowerment and gender-equality and thus i can’t call her a woman with a straight face) that females are making progress. everyone has faults and no one is perfect. you know what- maybe i am just not smart enough to understand charlotte allen. this article could be well thought out and too intricate for my delicate girl-mind. but then again she is a woman so i am probably giving her too much credit.