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Yesterday was pretty exhausting. I was up unnecessarily late studying for my intl gov test, and then I had to try and stay awake through so many classes and then I went straight to work and ended up staying until 9, just because I'm such a nice person. Which is why I'm bitching about it now, obviously.

I feel the need to share this...I had a dream that the Queen of England had Twitter and that she was using it to manipulate everyone. Not so much for governmental purposes but just for some cruel fun. I guess I was the daughter of someone who was elected president, and I was really bummed that we had to sit in our own little section at the inauguration ceremonies because I wanted to go chill with the queen, who was there for some reason. She kept doing this thing where she would get in a car on one side and then move over to the other side, and then when whoever she was riding with came around on the other side and couldn't get in because she was there, she would totally laugh at them.

illusory_thrill and I have been discussing the obvious romance that exists between John Locke and the fabulous Benjamin Linus. So far we (mostly I, as I think she fears their love) have decided upon the following details:

1. They will get together in the final episode, a la Ross and Rachel (with all the same dialogue and everything).


2. They will, naturally, get pregnant on that fateful night.


3. They do butterfly kisses in the shower. (lmao how much do you guys hate me right now?)


4. They have a pet octopus. Right now I like the name Judy. Or Gladys.


5. They can only watch Oprah together, never apart.


6. They have several hurdles to overcome. John always hogs the blankets when they're asleep (asshole!), and Ben cries during sex.


7. They will get engaged after a year of officially being together. Ben will be playing the cello as he proposes (preferably in the form of a song).

Okay so, yeah, I don't ship them for reals, but there's definitely some connection there, so I really enjoy contemplating it and venturing into the absurd. IT'S FUN AND FABULOUS. :D

I just want to say how I love that I totally have NO issues with enjoying Michael when I kind of freaked out with Andre and started calling him Andre to deal with my denial. Michael might be slightly less creepy, and I guess Andre may have prepared me for future male fangirling to some extent. Whatever. I just love it. I feel like sometimes I get more ridiculous with certain fandoms, like I look at my fandom list and Michael is the last person on it and I just don't think I ever would have believed it a few months ago, never mind in 6th grade when I started fangirling in the first place. I think it's pretty awesome because I love changing and being flexible to new opportunities and everything, and this clearly demonstrates that. I used to be this shy little Julie Andrews fangirl who needed to be comforted by The Sound of Music or whatever and now I'm obsessed with someone completely out of my comfort zone (especially in gender) who plays a slightly crazy/brilliant person who enjoys living on an island in the middle of fucking nowhere, and plays mind games and manipulates everyone towards some kind of screwy utopian society. How awesome of an evolution is that, seriously?

This has been a wonderful time, but now I should probably go to bed because I have more school and then work tomorrow. But Saturday = freedom and all kinds of Lost-viewing. Or, you know, more homework. Either way, it'll probably end up being Lost-viewing rather than homework anyway.

I think the people who do commentaries for CNN are morons. Democrat, Republican, Moderate, whatever.

An excerpt from Jack Cafferty's list of things he thinks Obama discovered in his first week:

You can't overturn President Bush's executive order banning abortion funding for charitable groups overseas without incurring the wrath of anti-abortion groups in this country.

I'm sorry, does he think Obama is lacking a brain and/or common knowledge about politics? Wait, okay, so after overturning an executive order passed by someone against abortions, he pissed off people who are against abortions? SERIOUSLY? OH MY GOD. THAT IS CRAZY AND UNEXPECTED.

The stimulus package is not going to be a walk in the park either.

Fixing the biggest recession in 26 years is not going to be easy. Huh. Thank you for alerting me to this fact.

There's also Campbell Brown, who only comments about the most obvious news in the world (although when the bigger issue is too hard for her to understand, she focuses on something stupid and insignificant instead). I kid you not, one of her commentaries was called "Idea of selling Senate seat is delusional." Another commentary on November 20th was called "Big Three must show a plan."

I almost want to go into journalism just so I can slap these people in the face someday. Thankfully there are even more idiots writing for television, so there will still be plenty of future opportunities to do good via slapping sprees.

I love how she wears a dress cut above her knees to the National Prayer Service. She would do that. Man, I hope there are gonna be some crazy people bitching about her for the next 4 years. I am SO excited for when that happens. Bring it on, CUZ WE IN THE WHITE HOUSE NOW.

lmao, so, I made a community.

You know you want to join. YOU KNOW IT.

In other news, I am sick and most likely have a thousand things to read for school. I guess I was kind of asking for it.

I don't even know what to say. This is just...one of the happiest nights of my life. The possibilities are endless.

I don't think I've really posted about this election since John Edwards dropped out. And I don't know why that is, because it's pretty much all I think about. That, and food. And SNL. But, you know, it's up there.

I'm totally nuts for Barack Obama. Even though he was my third choice, I still think he's brilliant, passionate, and extraordinarily qualified. Last spring I was really worried that he was too much like Jimmy Carter, but only now do I realize he isn't. Jimmy Carter got so wound up in trying to do what he promised that he didn't think through the logic when he made half his decisions in office. He was so enthusiastic about foreign relations that he frequently diverted focus from what was going on in his own country. He's done some wonderful things since then, but I don't think the White House was the right place for him. Barack Obama, on the other hand, is nothing like that. His platform doesn't involve insulting everyone working in Washington D.C. and then wondering why they refuse to work with him when he's elected. I think Obama knows what he's doing. I think he's fiercely intelligent and willing to work his ass off to get things done.

I've been thinking about what it would be like if I had kids and they asked me about this election. (This really rides on the possibility that they end up being huge geeks, but really, what are the chances of me raising a normal child?) All I can think of is how embarrassed and ashamed I'm going to be when I have to tell them that I didn't do shit for this election. Every day, I got excited about the possibility of going to New Hampshire over the weekend or taking an evening shift and calling voters. And I didn't do anything. Because I'm afraid to put effort into everything if there's no guarantee that it will turn out my way. I didn't want to get let down. I was afraid about how it would make me feel. Because I am, in fact, that fucking selfish. Today I'm going to vote for the first time, trying to feel like I've done something incredible but knowing I could have done so much more. I can only hope that this realization will make me slightly less of an asshole the next time around.

Today I'm also voting on whether to decriminalize marijuana in Massachusetts, so I think this icon is particularly appropriate. I'm also going to be a big fucking communist and vote to keep our income tax. It's a pretty exciting day for me.

I feel obligated to post more often, but I don't really have anything to say.

I'm stressed out in like a million different ways...I have this really unnecessary history paper due on Wednesday (and I completely forgot I have to work tomorrow). It only has to be 3-5 pages long, which I'm pretty sure I could do in 20 minutes, but she's apparently grading it strictly to teach us a lesson or something. So, for precautionary purposes, I have like 30 articles saved from JSTOR and have to make index cards of all of them tonight.

I'm getting really nervous about the campaign so I'm hoping to go to NH on Saturday and presumably freeze my ass off while probably not meeting any undecided voters. It'll help with the guilt, I guess.

I feel like shit because I was kind of an asshole to my mom tonight...she was giving me all this shit about how I should be working more to pay for school next year, even though I'm already so busy that I don't have time to study for the SATs, which was kind of going to be my way towards a potential scholarship opportunity. I just hate talking about college with her because it always leaves me kind of hopeless and pissed off. And then I usually react by finding some bitchy, manipulative way to pin it all on her and slam a bunch of doors in the process, which is what I did tonight.

Oh man guys, remember Pierre Escargot on All That? Kenan's french rapper on SNL made me think of him for some reason...god, I miss the 90's. Remember Bill Clinton? Those were the days. I'm so happy I wasn't alive during the Reagan era...and I'll have you know, I would totally do a huge rant about Ronald Reagan right now if I didn't have so many other things to do. Let me just say that he was a moron who allowed his idiotic, childish fantasies to affect his decision making (to negative results). And also, he didn't really help the economy that much, so...you know. Burn.

catch22girl mentioned this 2 weeks ago, therefore causing my own addiction, but as of now she's like my only friend on there, so I think it's pretty clear that I need to try to persuade other people to join.

So, Plurk. For everything too ridiculous for Facebook but too pointless for a LJ post. For me, everything I want to say falls under such a category. So pleeeease join? And use my link so I can get special smiley faces for recruiting people. :D

( SNL! As it happens )
lmfao, lissie_pissie just asked who hosted the first SNL with Tina and I accidentally said it was Fred Phelps. Worst SNL host ever, clearly.