The Fabulously Uninteresting Life of a Depressed Stoner Chick

GIMPing out

2007-03-30T00:19:48Z

The ~~frustration~~ joy of new software fills me with anger and satisfaction. Anger at my own lack of knowledge regarding any kind of image software, and satisfaction that I can figure it out if I just keep poking at the fucking thing. Witness my first great triumph! (It is a custom splash screen* for The GIMP software I used to make it!) Now I get to go home and figure out how to install the damn program on my Apple G4. Fun.
Tip o' the hat to the amazing blog mistress of Faux Real for giving me the final kick in the ass I needed to devote enough time and energy to actually learning an image editor thingy. She's great, go read her . . . please?

UPDATE - I got it installed , WOO7
*splash screen - the image or whatever that is displayed while a program is opening. Go wikipedia.

in which I go into far too much detail for some people....

2007-03-23T21:36:09Z

DISCLAIMER - In no way shape or form am I saying condoms are bad. They are one of the best prevention techniques for pregnancy and std's. Condoms as a category are an awesome thing that my life would surely suxors without.

Latex condoms. Wonderful devices that I highly promote the use of, but I also secretly hate. I love the wonderful pregnancy and std protection they provide, and my only complaints are aesthetic in nature. The smell, taste and feel are all kind of disgusting to me, but I most certainly would never disregard using one, even though I'm on my birth control again. So I set out in search of a condom that doesn't have the other icky qualities, and at the pharmacy counter of my local Rainbow(~~food library~~ grocery store) i found these. Thought what the fuck, let's give it a try as both my partner (formerly HGAW) and I are STD free. Fucking sweet i tell you. A little different as they are made of natural membrane, so there is no resevior tip (remember to leave some space for the spermies gentlemen) but they don't leave any smells and it feels fucking great! He agreed enthusiastically when I asked if we should keep purchasing them, so we went to Rainbow to pick up more and...they were out. So we went to Walgreens, where the same condoms which cost 6.99/12 at rainbow cost 39.99/12.
w..t...f..
Everywhere else I have looked they are at least 2-3 times the price of latex condoms, so needless to say, I'm fucking going to Rainbow for all my condom needs.

Taxes....Because I'm not poor enough!

2007-03-19T20:04:34Z

How did I go from getting a significant refund last year (which I SORELY needed, it was how I kept my shitbox car running godamnit!) to owing them money? I didn't change my filing status, I made probably LESS than I did last year but according to the dry run (I have to work my way up to actual completion) of doing my taxes I owe the federal government about 400-500 bucks. I have never owed money before, I'm fucking 21, have no assets to speak of and make BARELY enough money to live on. Shit I made maybe 18,000 this year, MAYBE!! Actually when I looked at it, me and my roomates will all owe money, my boyfriend who made 16,000 this year, apparently owes like 600 dollars.

Thats real fucking good.

I'm wondering if Bri will be owing them an even 1000 because shit, she made probably about 7000. Obviously since she didn't make very much, she doesn't really need any of it.
So either the federal government has decided to openly fuck the poor in the ass with the largest dildo I've ever seen, or how you do taxes has fucking changed drastically.

Of course I could always have made a mistake....please let me have made a mistake....otherwise....

I am so fucked.

UPDATE:
K so I'm not that fucked. I just fucked up, totally forgot one of the essential steps of doing taxes. I was saddened at my own stupidity for a moment, then I decided to never again attempt taxes while slightly intoxicated. BAD idea. Stop laughing damnit!

homosexuality = DoublePlusBad

2007-03-12T20:17:59Z

Recently an excellent article came to my attention throught the amazing Feministe blog. This series about an "ex-gay" ministries seminar attended by a gay man. It's a series that is still being updated, and so far it is one of the best I've read in regards to "infiltrating enemy territory for recognisance", otherwise known as checking out the other side's viewpoint. He handles the heavy material matter well with an even look at both the psuedo-science and rhetoric being spewed by those who are putting on the seminar, as well as the anguish, confusion and pain that those who attend these seminars experience.

He discusses the language that is used by groups like Focus on the Family and Exodus to promote their agenda. Like any involved field of study (no matter how reputable) they have developed a vocabulary to define their world view. They define any kind of gay interaction as being pathological, and the only way out of that pathology is through Jesus. People are not gay, only their actions. It's a delicate line of Newspeak, almost the definition of blackwhite. It is also insidious and can be terribly damaging to people.

He described a large portion of the people there being family members and friends of lesbians and gays. I imagine many of them were there to learn to how to help change those who they love, or at least get an idea if their own idle prejudices are well-founded (I'm not comfortable with that, so it must be bad or at least unnatural and unhealthy). That was what shook me, is that these are not hate-filled homophobic asshats (for the most part, there were exceptions I'm sure) these were vulnerable people looking for answers to very real and difficult questions. What they got was nothing more than well- planned doublespeak, anecdotal 'evidence'*, and religious salesmanship.

*I don't remember what blog it was from, or what commentor said it, but the multiple of anecdotes does not equal fact.

isolation in close company

2007-02-20T18:38:05Z

don't be angry
don't allow emotion to show
be the mediator
give everyone your everything
lose yourself in supporting everyone else
badly.
feel comfort in your failure
at the loss of what you love
and your own inept attempt to give solace
Babbling words and incoherant thoughts
hidden beneath the choppy surface
rising panic lulled to sleep with sticky clouds
fractured vison, skewed input
what is real?

w...t...f...?

2007-02-19T22:57:57Z

This is fucking absurd, but I don't think they have enough vulgar and detracting statements out there to describe the blatent stupidity that this is.
Did you know that the earth revolves around the sun? Along with all other 9 8 planets and .

I know, fucking revolutionary right? I totally didn't steal the idea from this guy. Nope. Not at all.

Sigh. Seriously people, it's been 493 fucking years since this theory was published. Almost 5 fucking centuries! We have been to SPACE for fuck's sake, how do you think we did that? This isn't an idle guess they decided to just go with, there was research - centuries of it! - and . . . they are totally not listening. Fuck.
This is why we don't allow unintelligent design in to the classroom. These people don't even know what the fuck a scientific theory is, so they ~~aren't~~ shouldn't be allowed to spout ricockulous bullshit and call it science. Sometimes I swear, these people will look at something and if it's too complicated for them to understand, or it doesn't fit into their nice little box, then they assume it must be false. I suppose it's hard to have the idea that we are tiny insignificant little animals that developed through millions of years of trial and error shoved in your face with all it's "evidence", when you've been thinking you're the sky daddy's super special little buddy, created in his very own image and sent here to do his bidding. The truth is a disillusioning bitch huh?
Hat tip

where in I am chewed up and spit out by the corporate meat grinder...

2007-02-16T15:30:02Z

So I'm officially down to one job. Super! Fucking! Awesome! Not my 'real' job (the one that provides me with the Almighty Health Insurance and a decent hourly wage) but my job that gives me money for the things I could technically live without: food, ganja, gas for my car, is no longer. Working at Shinders was fun, most of my co-workers were great, the job was easy, a decent discount on many things that I enjoy (although the HGAW, who is now my Hot Boyfriend still works there so you know...), and it paid okay for retail. I also really needed that fucking money. Currently teh best friend/roomate is in her own financial pinch, and Shinders is Hot Boyfriend's only source of income so I have about 2 weeks to get a new 2nd job. Can you feel the excitement oozing throught the moniter yet? Teh reason for the removal of the rug from beneath my feet? The company is slowly dying/resurrecting, no one is quite sure which yet. They closed one store 6-8 months ago, then another store last weekend and three of the employees from there are going to where I used to work, so...I'm let go. Apparently they will be closing the downtown St Paul location and trying to get out of leases to close at least one more.
I'm not too upset about losing that particular job, I needed the money, and the comic discount. I am still left feeling chewed up because there was no warning to this. There was a company meeting (all 120 some of the employees, also a waste of time because what they told us then has now come to be a load of bullshit) in January where they stated we would know well in advance of any store closings, and they would do our best to prepare us. Or not. Everyone (and I mean EVERYONE outside of corporate that includes the manager of the store that was closed) was told two days before they shut it down. Or so I've heard, store gossip being what it is, but personally I wouldn't doubt it. Gah, it's all kinds of fucked up business practice. I'm glad the Hot Boyfriend has decided to look for a different job. Hopefully it will be before they send out a fax telling everyone their store is closing.

and a little more of my soul was just crushed...

2007-01-09T22:00:07Z

It's wonderful to discover that one of the men your father revere's make's such well-thought out statements as

"In "A Christian Manifesto," he warned against wrapping Christianity in the American flag, but added, "None of this, however, changes the fact that the United States was founded upon a Christian consensus, nor that we today should bring Judeo-Christian principles into play in regard to government." Schaeffer was one of the first evangelical leaders to get deeply involved in the fight against abortion, and he advocated civil disobedience and the possible use of force to stop it. "It is time we consciously realize that when any office commands what is contrary to God's Law it abrogates its authority," he wrote."

Just....fuck. I hoped and hoped that my dad might be a little more realistic then my mother about political things. Like understanding that freedom of religion means freedom of ANY religion, not just the freedom to practice some bland flavor of X-tianity.

Other great points from these people include:

"Charles Colson accepts one hundred people annually into his yearlong "worldview training" courses, which include meetings in Washington, D.C., online seminars, "mentoring," and several hours of homework each week. "The program will be heavily weighted towards how to think," Colson's Web site says. It's intended for those who work in churches, media, law, government, and education, and who can thus teach others to think the same way."

And here I thought I knew how to think! Guess not, or maybe I just don't kow how to think the 'right' (ha ha terrible pun) way. Seems as if the course is intended to ~~brainwash~~ help you learn to think the godly way. For instance apparently these people know god's opinions on everything!

"The documents outline a complete political program, with a "biblically correct" position on issues like taxes (God favors a flat rate), public schools (generally frowned upon), and the media and the arts ("We deny that any pornography and other blasphemy are permissible as art or 'free speech'")."

But isn't speaking for god kind of blasphemous? Guess it's okay if it's done for furthering the interests of the religious right.

Another gem statement here;

"Only Christianity offers a comprehensive worldview that covers all areas of life and thought, every aspect of creation. Only Christianity offers a way to live in response to the realities that we find in this world. Only Christianity."

Please explain these
70,000 Year old Human Rituals
Mini Solar System Could Reveal Hidden Dimensions

I'm sure they would probably have issue's with these people seeing as how I doubt they think in the pre-approved way. Especially considering they probably follow (Le GASP!) Evolution! The theory that's full of holes (says the sieve to the bucket ).

So many trolls...

2007-01-05T22:57:07Z

Ahh trolls, one of biggest annoyances of being a blogger. (not that their present here) Reading comments can be like watching an online tennis match. An excellent example from Pandagon. I think Amanda probably gets some of the worst trolls I've seen. Most of them seeming to be wingnuts with too much time on their hands trying to piss off teh "moonbats". Or they are Dawn Eden the queen of the chastity department of wingnuttery, she's here to tell you that snagging that husband you've always dreamed of is as easy as withholding sex till the ring is permanantly affixed to your finger. (or as hard considering she had a few relapses herself).
Back to the trolls. Agood one can piss you off without quite knowing why. There is just something about their statement that is angering. If you have ever felt you needed to understand the nasty buggers somehow, and have some of the devices they use to piss us off then please read this.

strange feelings in the computer age...

2006-12-27T23:01:22Z

I feel like sharing -
-Sometimes I feel 10 years behind everyone else in computer terms. Shit I'm just now discovering the world of MOO's! But meh I can handle it. Most of the time.
-I've felt nauseous on and off the past two days.
-I can't decide whether to be worried about being knocked up or the possibility of infertility...
-I'm still not back on my medication.

Thank you for your time and goodnight.

finally...

2006-12-26T23:00:12Z

Christmas is over...huge fucking sigh of relief, now I can go back to saving up that $450 in back rent that I owe. I enjoy buying presents for people, but I really didn't have the money this year. But I did all right kept the total under $300 for everything.
Now what did I get? Well, so far I must say teh best present was the

Ibanez RG120 which Nic gave me he got me the guitar used and bought a bunch of stuff for it - a case, picks, polishing cloth and the like. I've had it for a week or two actually, because he couldn't/didn't want to keep it a secret. My first electric guitar! I didn't know what to say when he said that he's gotten me one (although he'd been threatening since about a week after he moved in) I vacillated between anger at him spending $200 in one blow leaving him well short of what he needed to get him through till the next paycheck, and freaking out in uber-happiness at the fact that I now have my very own electric guitar, which I have wanted since I was about 8. I went with the happiness as it's his money (and now my guitar!).
The familial events went well, on the 24th we went to my cousins house, the next morning we were up bright and early to drive out to Wilmer for his dad's side of the families christmas, came back played some video games then napped until it was time to go to my sister's. My sister's house was fine, we for some reason ate enchiladas, tacos and steak but hey, whatever it was tasty. Everything went well until I opened the non-christmas book from my mother.
This . The whole point of the book seems to be ‘how to get married’. Because I REALLY want to get married. RIGHT NOW. Can’t you tell? I believe the first words out of my mouth were (after i flipped it over) "oh, and it's written by a man!" I have no idea what to make of this present. Nic and Bri really don't want me to read it (at least when they are home) because they know it will incite long rants and I will probably throw the book more than once. I've already almost thrown the book just from looking at the damn table of contents. Among the repetitive chapter names (each one starts with Be Honest - You're Not That Into Him Either But...)was the lovely little statement Bla bla bla -But You Thought You Could Have Sex Like A Man.So I am left with a conundrum, read the fucking thing and probably end up writing many angry blog entries enumerating it's many failings, or stick it under the bookshelf (Nic's CD/DVD shelf actually) so it doesn't wobble (the empty cigarette pack is getting tacky). I will probably not be able to stop myself from reading it, so I can at least give my mom a reason -nicely worded- as to why it's misogynistic crap that she probably shouldn't buy for me, as it inspires rage in me and makes my roommates sad.

What was she trying to tell me with this? Get married? Dump my boyfriend? Well neither of those is going to be happening any time soon. I've told her that I won't be getting married until I can marry whoever I want regardless of gender. I don't understand her insistence that "one day you will want to settle down and live in a house with just you and your husband and have babies."
Meh.
I told her in response well ma, don't be too disappointed if I end up living with Bri, cohabiting with my partner, keep 5 kitties and have A baby.

short GOP - sex=teh DEATH

2006-12-13T20:12:30Z

Are you between the ages of 19-29 and aren't married? Well then the government is here to let you know they've got a plan for you! No sex (unless your married of course)! Eh?....Eh, eh? Not gonna go for it are you? Not with such wonderful convincing statements like these?

"For condoms to be used correctly, over 10 specific difficult steps must be followed every time. This tends to minimize the romance and spontaneity of the sex act. (Choosing the Best, p. 25)."

10 steps? Really? Let's see here, I'm gonna try to break it down as much as possible
How to use a condom
1) Open little foil package
2) Remove condom
3) Throw foil package and little torn off bit to the side
4) Figure out which is the topside
5) Roll down over erect penis
6) ENJOY!!
So the most we got was 6...and none of them could be categorized as difficult, trying maybe (ever have an issue with getting it open? Yeah me too) but not exactly difficult. And then of course there are these kick ass condoms, which I am hoping catch on here as they are currently only available in Africa (i think anyway).

"Women need affection while men need sexual fulfillment; women need conversation while men need recreation companionship; women need honest and openness while men need physical attractiveness; women need financial support while men need admiration, and women need family commitment while men need domestic support" (WAIT Training, p. 199).

Where to start? How about the fact that this is educational materials with some pretty amazing grammar, 'recreation companionship'? 'women need honest'? Great proofreading skills on whoever designed that material. Every statement is a broad, misogynistic generalization of both men and women that equates us with television stereotypes. Women don't want sex only love, have an inherent NEED to talk and require ca$h and babies, STAT! Men just want sex, an active buddy who also happens to be totally HAWT and tells him how manly and super amazing he is while doing his laundry. Good to know. Please remember this isn't some fundie pamphlet either, these are actual materials they are using to teach abstinence-only ed in schools and now apparently to us slutty 20-somethings.
Now we come to the all important question of why? Why do we need to be teaching abstinence to a group that over 90% has had sex before, likely more than once!

"Government data released last month show that 998,262 births in 2004 were to unmarried women 19-29, the ages with the most births to unmarried women."

Unplanned pregnancy, (which they mean as anyone who has a baby and isn't married). According to the government, if you are an unmarried person under 29 the best way to prevent pregnancy is abstinence. Which is true, just not realistic. Do we really need to be telling adults lies to intimidate them into not having sex? Because I don't think that will work. Does our government really need to be in on our sex lives anyway? Now for the real kicker, because really we all knew how the BushCo government felt about fucking (if you're anything other than a married strictly heterosexual couple), they will be spreading this misinformation with $50 million.
I know, I'm excited too.
Hat tip to Mark Morford and Travels with Floyd as well as Feministe for the great video

the future...(wa na na)

2006-12-13T17:33:18Z

I've pretty much accepted that I wasted my time, money and effort going to Bryman (they have now changed it to Everest!) and forking out 12,000. I'm NOT going to be doing massage for the rest of my life (or probably in the near future).
So. Now I need to figure out what I want to do, because I really don't make enough money as a receptionist at a car place, and as much as I love my retail job...it's still a fucking retail job. I'd like some fulfillment when I go to work, I'd like to feel that I'm doing something worthwhile.
I think I would like to be an art teacher. It would be awesome to help kids learn what art can do for them, that it can give you a healthy outlet for emotions, and help you learn more about your own feelings. I would probably want to work at a school for "troubled" children/teenagers. Of course there's no money in teaching...but I think I would love it anyway.
Any thoughts?

p.s. the song I'm listening to was totally random by the way, (and eerily appropriate) i love iTunes party shuffle mode.

Another failed attempt at poetic brilliance

2006-12-11T21:53:52Z

one word uttered
and I fall
the clouds come, rushing through the clear sky
bringing the storm of emotion
waves rush high and recede
the eb and flow of my psyche

at times I see it and prepare
bunker down in the cellar of my mind
holding tight to my thin bars of sanity
hoping not to be swept away

others i see nothing and the wave crests over me
drowning me in feeling
crushing with the weight of depression

and the x-mas rage sets in...

2006-11-29T21:27:06Z

There's just something about all those fucking carols, garish decorations and people spouting "merry christmas" out of one side of their mouth then getting all pissed off you don't have that THING they want that inspires a special kind of rage in me. At my retail job when the manager is there, we are required to listen to the local radio station that plays 24/7 x-mas tunes during the holidays. This understandable makes me want to stab people in the face, usually when we get to the third time in as many hours of one of Bruce Springsteen's x-mas covers, or perhaps it's the 50th time of hearing Jingle Bell Rocks that inspires me to become stabby. It's hard to tell at this point.
I used to love x-mas as a kid (who doesn't?) now I dread this time of year.

Sigh

Only 25 days left till this fucking "holiday" is over.

minnesota weather

2006-11-28T16:50:10Z

It's raining in November in Minnesota. This morning it was thunder-storming, super sweet! Of course tomorrow it is supposed to drop to something terrible like 25 degrees and it will hold steady around there. We got by so long without teh terrible cold but now it has finally come. I love the rain, and I just may go for a walk today to enjoy what is to me, probably the last truly beautiful day of the fall. There's nothing like a cup of coffee and a cigarette on a rainy day.

I know it's men's health but still...

2006-11-19T06:31:43Z

I know, I know what can I expect, it's men'shealth.com but jeebuz

Can't Tell the Players Without a Scorecard
"So much subliminal information is conveyed in those first seconds of contact," says Carol Kauffman, Ph.D., a relationship therapist and psychology instructor at Harvard medical school. Okay, so you're on the clock. Make every second count. Below are 10 ways - in rough chronological order - a woman judges your fitness to be her proverbial daddy.

The first statement, quite true, the eye contact, body language, tone of voice, not to mention what is said initially effect every relationship. I thought this was true for both sexes and pretty much everyone in general (it's certainly how my cat's interact anyway). Apparently only women take this information into affect and it's only so they can find someone to replace their father! Excellent, I'm, excited now I know how to date like a real woman! Do i really need to mention the creepy overtones of that statement or trying to lend credibility to their statements by using a quick-quote from a doctor? Okay good.

Can He Talk About Himself and Listen to Me?
She'll carry 80 percent of the conversation load. Just make sure your 20 percent is about something.

Nice straw-woman. Very nice.

Does He Have the Potential to be a Good Father?
"For long-term potential, she considers whether you have the values she wants in a man," says Jean Koehler, Ph.D., president of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists. If she can't see tykes on your knee, she's wasting her time. How you interact with your own family can be a strong indicator here.

I believe this was the one that inspired rage. It's not outlandish to say they may look at certain things you do for possible long term relationship sometimes, but the automatic assumption that all women everywhere (or at least straight women as we shall presume that a periodical such as Men's Health is not catering to lesbians) are looking for a man to inseminate them, well I feel insulted how about you ladies? I know I enjoy being told I am nothing but a baby hungry relationship seeker.

Time to stumble off in a slightly drunk rage to bed.
Read the rest, it's um, pleasant

geek update!

2006-11-10T22:51:47Z

The first trailer for Spiderman 3 is officially available on the 'net. Watch it, Marvel(teehee) at it, LOVE it. I am excited as should you be. Of course it's all just torture and titillation as the movie won't actually be out till next summer but...c'mon how can you not want to see this?
I'm so going to a midnight Thursday show when this comes out.

A feast for the eyes and brain

2006-11-10T22:41:46Z

Sorry about the short posts and the super-extended long wait for the Reviews and just in general the laziness of me in regards to my blog. It's been a hectic few weeks what with my relationship with Shervie ending, moving in teh new roomie and getting all the paperwork figured out. So I'm hoping for a few quite weeks where I can catch up on blogging and net hopping in general. Now onto the fun stuff,
Election Day -
How about you?
I live in Hennepin County, Minneapolis MN so my vote actually went for quite a few winners!
1st the HORRIBLE DEVASTATING TERRIBLE win of Tim Pawlenty. Bah and Humbug to that bastard, although I was edgy and kind of uncomfortable voting for Hatch (he and his staff had some snaffu's and gaffe's the last few weeks of the election that were...interesting) he would have been a sight better than Pawlenty who would apparently support the president even if he had a 0% approval rating. But on the good side of things, MN helped contribute to regaining Congress for the Dems. Amy Klobuchar took the Senate spot. I liked her except for her views on gay marriage, but she wouldn't have supported a bill against it federally or locally so at least she's not hateful. We rocked the house with only 3 Republicans getting seats and 6 Dems making it into office including Keith Ellison for my district (5) who is the first Muslim to be in congress. So the election went as well as we could hope for, excepting the governor's race. Outside of my home state I am uber excited to hear that Santorum(the ~~senator~~ not the sex act leftovers) has failed! Hat Tip to Feministe for teh awesome pic
Just for clarity that IS Santorum's little girl crying. I am a horrible person for laughing at her. But I laugh anyway and with great joy...MUAHAHAHA!!!

playing at adulthood

2006-11-08T04:47:59Z

Childhood as we all know lies to us. The beliefs and dreams that are held dearest then, grow faint and disheartening as we age. In particular the fantasies of adulthood that are believed in as children become further and further from the truth. The security that we have so much faith in that we do not question (those of us who are lucky enough to be afforded illusions anyway) 'that you are eternal, that you are immortal, and that someday you will be THIS person and won't that just rock?'

seperation anxiety

2006-11-06T06:34:48Z

the glass wall that seperates us grow murky at times
I peer through wondering where you are
Don't leave me now,
after all this time

new years post

2006-11-01T02:04:25Z

With the new year comes change. My life has become something completely different than last year. (sigh) I have changed. The cycle of the year continues pulling us all inexorably on behind it.

mortality

2006-10-16T15:58:47Z

An unrealized consequence of growing up is the sudden understanding that your parent's are not invincible. We think we know, and that we accept it. Until the fact hits you in the face with the real here and now proof that one day they will no longer be around.

My roomate/best friend's mother is in the hospital. We may have had our differences but I hope to the Goddess above that she pulls through.

depression

2006-10-11T18:09:28Z

really fucking sucks. I listen to sad music at work mixed with metal and emo.
My current most listened to songs,
H.I.M. - Wicked Game
Arch Enemy - Heart of Darkness
Cradle of Filth - Ghost in the Fog
Killswitch Engage - This Fire Burns
In Flames - Come Clarity
A Perfect Circle - Judith (Renholder Remix)

and more by the same artists

Know teh fear, it comes!

2006-10-06T21:15:14Z

The fundies are coming the fundies are coming! I often feel like riding through the streets Paul Revere style and screaming that at the top of my lungs. They are slow, and they are sneaky, but they are coming for us. If you are

not christian(or not the right kind whatever that may be)
gay
bisexual
a woman
a minority
an immigrant (here legally or not)
jewish
muslim
liberal
etc...

It seems to get worse every year. The crazy team just keeps getting crazier, and our ability to keep them out get's weaker and weaker. I'm just waiting for them to come to my door with pitchforks and torches to burn me, my roomates and our demon kitties(because the more familiars the stronger the witch!) at the stake.

I wonder what they think of the part in the constitution which seperates church and state...