Not One of My Better Entries...

I forgot to mention this yesterday, but WTF on the Pope front. If you haven't heard/read, there is a lot of dissent in the Anglican community over the Anglicans allowing women and openly gay clergy. Soooo the Catholics have decided to allow the Anglicans who don't want gays and women in high places to join Catholic priesthood while keeping some of their Anglican-ness, INCLUDING their ability to be married!! W.T.F. I honestly never thought they'd allow married priests, and certainly not so soon. But way to fuck it up by doing it because they want to welcome (more) sexists and homophobes. Lame lame SUPER lame! Here's an article from the Huffington Post.

ANYWAY, last night I had a LOT of trouble sleeping, which usually isn't the case for me. But it SUPER sucks when it just won't happen and you're calculating the hours of sleep you have left and what you can get out of the next day so you can have a snooze.... fine. In the past. BUUUT in addition to that, I've had two successive dreams about tarantulas.

The first one was that my friend Amanda was coming out of a door to tell me a story and she mentioned that she had a tarantula. I freaked out and told her not to come out, but she did anyway and put the spider in my hand. I freaked out and threw the spider into a room. But before I could close the door, the spider SHOT back and me and was freaking out and crawling frantically all over my body. I screamed at Amanda and kept trying to get the tarantula off, but she smiled and kept telling me the story.

THEN, during my nap today, I dreamt about my "step brothers" and either another sister by my father or Indigo as a baby. Really hard to say. While this dream was pretty complex, at the end of the dream, I went into Cole's bedroom and he had a tarantula loose in there. I freaked out, obviously, but I also remembered my Amanda dream IN this dream. In the dream I wanted to call Amanda to tell her that my Amanda-tarantula dream was a premonition for the current encounter with a tarantula.

I THINK I'm a little stressed... and I THINK I know why....

(L.A. L.A. L.A. L.A. L.A. L.A. L.A. L.A. L.A.)

Yesterday I found an application on my laptop called FRONT ROW, which... may do other things, but what captured me was it's ability to show me movie trailers! Oh HELL yes! I'm not going to list all the movies I want to see because I'm pretty sure I was using this application for like... an hour last night. But ... be prepared for when I can't resist anymore. Also, perhaps you should look into this application. Seriously... I almost died.

Actually, there is one that I must mention. Apparently they've decided to make what seems to be another For Richer or Poorer, but with Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker as the leads (as opposed to Kirstie Alley and Tim Allen). It's called Did You Hear About the Morgans? and it takes place in Wyoming instead of Amish country. LAME!

PUMPED about Toy Story 3 though...

LASTLY, one of my previous anthro professors comes into the hillel pretty regularly and today I told her that I am officially an anthro minor. COINCIDENTALLY, for the first time, she attempted to give me a tip. Shameless.

All Riled Up

Now that the world (U.S.) is inundated with crazies, it's almost difficult to be enraged... because it'd take too long. When Barack Obama makes his joint congress speech correcting the lies that have been getting press despite the originators complete lack of authority on the subject, and then Sarah Palin goes on facebook the next day and writes that she still believes in death panels, how can you get upset? I mean, it's upsetting... but it's SOOO absurd that you can't argue with it. What would you say? "Based on what? BASED ON WHAT do you believe in death panels?!!! Based on nothing at all!! Based on your feelings? Did God tell you, you irresponsible, self-serving fucker!?" I'm just saying that you can't argue with crazies and it only serves to raise your blood pressure if you think about it too much.

But sometimes it all adds up. You hear about Palin. Kirk Cameron is crazily, but charismatically, handing out copies of Darwin's On the Origin of Species with a 50 page forward about how God actually made everything. Obama being pressured and backing down from the health care changes we NEEEEED!! (lest my generation be flooded from global warming, burned from the lack of ozone, dying of teflon cancer and all sleeping together in a huddled mass because we went bankrupt trying to get chemo)!

But, and I don't know why THIS sent me over the edge, but it did... I can't BELIEVE parents took their kids out of school because they didn't want them to hear the President speak. What the FUCK!?! I just want to know why I've been pressured into feeling like IIII have no patriotism because I think some countries have more ideal priorities when THIS bullshit happens! You don't do that! You don't train your children to be stubborn. To not listen to people. To think that the President's ideas are so dangerous that you get taken out of SCHOOL?! Fostering that kind of distrust! If I had kids I wouldn't even THINK of not letting them listen to Bush... especially because it's not like he would tell them to join the army... just like Obama's not going to tell them about health care. Those issues are controversial. He's just telling them to work hard and wash their hands!! I mean, especially when I think of how much those repubs seem to enjoy the idea of social standing and respect (to put them in a box)... you RESPECT your President... the way you respect an adult. We VOTED for him and too bad if you don't like it because maybe next time we'll vote for your guy.

Bill Maher posed what I think is a very interesting question. After we were attacked, democrats and republicans joined together because we were worried for our country together. We accepted, for a while, George Bush's plans. We trusted him. If we got attacked again, would republicans rally around Obama? I think the answer is no.

I HOPE these crazies are just getting disproportionate media coverage because crazy people are interesting. I HOPE that's the case. Although then we'll have to address the extreme irresponsibility of the media.

Damnit!