Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in barb :)'s LiveJournal:

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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
6:47 pm	Severely moody. (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
7:53 pm	My keyboard lights up. I have nothing else to say, really. Oh wait - Blue Shield is bullshit. They cover nothing. I mean nothing. Checkups, blood work, ER visits (though it's been a while since I had to go to the ER... since I quit drinking, actually) prescriptions... N O T H I N G And I'm still paying them $1101 every what, four months? Not cool. And if I went solo, what do you think the odds are I'd actually get something they would've covered? I think pretty good. Current Mood: angry (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, May 18th, 2009
8:29 pm	Haha I'm 29. I seem to remember making fun of 29 year olds when I first moved here. Current Mood: 29 Current Music: It's very quiet... birthday blues, maybe? (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 10th, 2009
8:16 pm	I'm about to be 29... in 8 days My parents bought me a new laptop - MacBook, aluminum blah blah lots of memory big hard drive I don't care - the keyboard lights up! I went to JPL's Open House last weekend, and had no idea I was such a space nerd. Let me clarify - I understood none of it, but I was really interested. Wilder understood all of it, including ion propulsion. While the guy was explaining it, he asked intelligent questions while I collected the Discovery Adventure Cards. I do, however understand the Spitzer telescope and the differences between it and the Hubble... sorta. I've gone a little nerd in this post. I can't help it. My keyboard lights up! Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: The Simpsons (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
8:25 pm	And the food just arrived So I'm on this other murder trial - well, it's pre-trial at this point. The boyfriend disappeared shortly after his girlfriend disappeared, only to be arrested in Minneapolis after his girlfriend was found in a trashcan in Arcadia buried under kitty litter. *sighs* I promised the (my) boyfriend this case wouldn't be like the last one, where I see the dead girl in mirrors, pools of water, nightmares etc. I hope I can keep that promise. And that I can eat the food that he just bought all of us. Ironically, I have to get kitty litter or I'm going to be very sorry when I get home. Current Mood: moody Current Music: not listening (Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
9:06 pm	So I'm covering this murder trial, and I see the dead girl everywhere. I see her in my dreams, in the mirror, in the puddles on the ground. I'm handling it - I must be, because I keep going back. I'm handling it because somebody has to. Current Mood: restless Current Music: an old laptop serving me well (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
3:16 am	It’s late. It’s too late to be doing what I’m doing, because I have to get up early and there’s no point to it either. I hate the “What If” game, do you? I hate it beecause there are so many things I would take back if I could, my unique personality + character be damned. I don’t think either of those things are all that great anyway. People ask me why I’m so unfriendly toward myself, and I am always amused and frightened by the question. If I told you, then you wouldn’t like me either, I think to myself. And I need you, so maybe we can just forget I said anything. Current Mood: sad Current Music: Nobody's Fault But My Own - Beck (Comment on this)
Monday, December 8th, 2008
2:53 am	Job posting "Writer Needed" on craigslist... "Pay commiserate with experience" Yeah, you do. You needed one yesterday. Current Mood: stressed out Current Music: everbody's sleeping but me (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 6th, 2008
11:41 am	Volleyball is the one where the ball can't touch the ground... right? Stupid sports story assignment.. so unfair... I am not a sports writer.. I don't even read about sports... and volleyball?? Come on... >= ( Current Mood: aggravated (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
5:58 pm	Are you fucking KIDDING me??? Current Mood: incredulous Current Music: "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
11:27 am	Damn you, unelected "president" Bush Current Mood: pissed off (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
11:29 pm	Am I happy? Sure. It's a quick, easy answer to the broadest question of the evening. My candidate won. But there's also a deep sadness that I can't shake, and only part of it has to do with the likely passage of the disgraceful Prop 8. In 2000, my first presidential election, I also won. But that was taken from me, and you, by a greedy, small-minded, willfully ignorant idiot and his cronies. This is the second time I have had to watch John McCain lose, and just like in 2000, I couldn't watch when he accepted his loss. There are differences, of course. I can, and have argued that the senator did not have to adopt the very strategies that the idiot used against him in 2000 for his 2008 bid for the White House. I have also clearly stated my feelings on his unsettling-ly political pick of Sarah Palin. I have heard throughout the campaign that this is not the same man from 2000. I believe that. I also believe that the McCain from 2000, after eight years watching the appalling and heartbreaking incompetence of this administration, broke. Can I blame him? Not for breaking, no. I can, and did, for the way he behaved afterward, and maybe I will again, in a couple days. But in 2000, we all lost. In eight years some of us lost our homes, some of us lost our jobs, some of us lost our souls, and some of us lost people we love. That sense of loss returned sharply for me tonight. So while I'm happy, and maybe I've even caught a little bit of that hope that's been going around, tonight I was also reminded of the grief I still have over what should have never been. Current Mood: confused (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
7:53 am	Not that I didn't see this coming. Current Mood: cold Current Music: tea kettle (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
4:36 pm	That's what the SAW movies are about?? *cringes* That's nauseating : ( Current Mood: yucky (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, October 17th, 2008
1:34 am	Some people are just stupid. Yes, I said it. I meant it, too. People are people. It is not about tradition. Tradition is not what holds our society together. Most often it is the tool we use to tear society, and us, apart. So all the people out there screaming about tradition, and sanctity of marriage - You are stupid. Shut up, and stay home Nov. 4. Watch the Daily Show to see about undecided voters, they're funnier than me. This makes me cry. Why aren't we saving the polar bears? Current Mood: sad (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 12th, 2008
4:08 am	I totally kicked my ingrown toenail's ass just now. ... And now that I've painted that picture for myself and you all, uh, sorry? Goodnight? Current Mood: sore (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
3:03 pm	I don't like her, but Sarah Palin should at least be allowed onto the stage before her own party trips all over itself finding invalid excuses for her performance in the HASN'T-TAKEN-PLACE-YET debate. For frick's sake, assholes, she's on YOUR team! Current Mood: migraine-y (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
7:47 pm	Not that I believe she should have a political career, but this is a valid point and it's one I've been thinking all along. John McCain really is a douchebag, unfortunately. Current Mood: busy (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, September 29th, 2008
11:53 pm	I've been trying to tell you people - Get all those golden parachuted unemployed assholes back here and have them bail out the still employed assholes. My money is supposed to be going to save the polar bears! Current Mood: bitchy (Comment on this)
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
11:20 pm	By Contributing Author My Mom Sarah Palin With each passing day, and each new opportunity to hear the unscripted views of Sarah Palin, my disappointment with her and with the judgment of the man who selected her grows. Her latest comments about why she didn't have a passport until very recently really bothered me. She couldn’t travel because she needed to work. Like she says about herself, I needed to work since I was 14. And like she says about herself, I often resented other kids whose parents gave them money to back pack around the world. In college she entered beauty pageants and took part in sports, She could have joined a college mission to help out in a third world country. She could have tutored immigrants. She could have joined the international relations club and sponsored cultural awareness programs. As an adult, she could have done something - anything - to interact with people of other cultures. She didn't. She made her choices. There is no right or wrong, but being self insulated from the world outside one's community is a choice. It isn't about not having rich parents. All of us make choices. However, implying that an interest in travel and in international relations is a choice that can only be made by rich kids is a new low. Someone who makes choices to avoid international contacts should not be a heartbeat away from being the leader of the free world. Current Mood: contribute-y Current Music: two twits strumming guitars... yes, still (Comment on this)