Random update

Passed the CSET and the CBEST (holla!), making friends, reading, test baking for Hannah AND Isa & Terry, bought some nice vegan lotion because my eczema is going fucking nuts, drinking a lot of tea, running (and looking pretty fine because of it), hair is long enough that I have to brush it now, made amazing pizza yesterday, starting to be fed up with my job but not enough to look for something better, feeding a sourdough starter, going to Napa tomorrow night for dinner, actually being social and staying up late, applied to UC Berkeley but don't think I'll get in, knitted a green shawl, had the shifters on my bike replaced and am very pleased, wish I could sell my car but also don't, turning 24 in less than three weeks and am not excited about it.

Quote I liked

"It seems we are often willing to go to far greater lengths to avoid what makes us uncomfortable than to do what is responsible. The putting aside of superficial self-interest is implicit in any decision for the benefit of others."

(From an article about the use of slave labor in cacao farming,..can apply to many other things, no?)

Harrumph

Really unhappy with everything right now. Pretty sure I failed the CSET. Feeling like my life is purposeless and a waste of time.

Dunno what's wrong with me.

Peter Camejo died

And it sucks. He was awesome, and I voted for him twice.

I need a lot of sleep, cause I have a lot of dreams.

Who IS this dorkus?


Passed Pt 1 (of 3) of the CSET. And only didn't pass the 2nd by like 9 pts...and I didn't even study for that sucka mofo at all. I only have to retake the 2nd part and pass the third. I'm feeling it right now. I can do this.

Tim Wise is amazing

This is How Fascism Comes: Reflections on the Cost of Silence

Be a woman. Don't vote for McCain.

Life begins at rape...ask Mayor Sarah Palin

"Under Palin’s Administration, “Life Begins at Rape” for women unable to pay for their forensic evidence gathering. Justice is served to women who can afford it and denied for those who can’t. I live in Alaska-the wealthiest of the 50 states! Forcing rape victims to pay for their own forensic rape kits is something one would expect to find in a fundamentalist country overseas. I have outrage fatigue. I can’t decide which facet of this policy is more upsetting. Is it the denial of justice for the poor? Is it the punishment of women who had been raped? Is it the political policies of a woman so entrenched in the “Pro-Life” movement she would deny justice to a victim? This is not a “Pro-Life” policy. This is a “Pro-Rapist” policy, and forced pregnancy policy."

Economic bailout

So...I know fuckall about economics, but the way I see it...if we, the taxpayers, don't bail out the banks and insurance companies, the economy and the job market and the stock market, etc etc, are fucked...and if we do, the economy and the job market and the stock market, etc etc, are STILL fucked, AND we're paying for some asshole CEO driving a BMW who owns an umbrella stand made of Martha Stewart's vagina (thanks, Lewis Black) to have his company be made there there it's all better now.

Fuck it. Don't help them. Help the average American out instead of these jerks.

Good article.

Another great article

The Wife John McCain Callously Left Behind

Wow. That guy has no credibility AT ALL.

"But Ross Perot, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel – even by the standards of modern politics.

‘McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory,’ he said.

‘After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history.’"

This Is Your Nation on White Privilege

Amazing piece by Tim Wise. Read!!