Good night, and good luck...

uratowel @ 2009-07-03T18:47:00

2009-07-04T01:51:41Z

Severely moody.

uratowel @ 2009-06-18T19:53:00

2009-06-19T02:58:51Z

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.

uratowel @ 2009-05-18T20:29:00

2009-05-19T03:31:33Z

Haha I'm 29. I seem to remember making fun of 29 year olds when I first moved here.

I'm about to be 29... in 8 days

2009-05-11T03:22:36Z

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!

And the food just arrived

2009-05-03T03:32:29Z

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.

uratowel @ 2009-02-10T21:06:00

2009-02-11T05:10:55Z

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.

uratowel @ 2009-01-07T03:16:00

2009-01-07T11:18:29Z

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.

uratowel @ 2008-12-08T02:53:00

2008-12-08T10:58:35Z

Job posting "Writer Needed" on craigslist...

"Pay commiserate with experience"

Yeah, you do. You needed one yesterday.

uratowel @ 2008-12-06T11:41:00

2008-12-06T19:45:16Z

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...

>= (

uratowel @ 2008-11-11T17:58:00

2008-11-12T01:59:45Z

Are you fucking KIDDING me???

uratowel @ 2008-11-05T11:27:00

2008-11-05T19:30:52Z

Damn you, unelected "president" Bush

uratowel @ 2008-11-04T23:29:00

2008-11-05T08:19:16Z

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.

uratowel @ 2008-10-28T07:53:00

2008-10-28T14:54:33Z

Not that I didn't see this coming.

uratowel @ 2008-10-21T16:36:00

2008-10-21T23:41:57Z

That's what the SAW movies are about??

*cringes*

That's nauseating : (

uratowel @ 2008-10-17T01:34:00

2008-10-17T09:00:53Z

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?

uratowel @ 2008-10-12T04:08:00

2008-10-12T11:13:25Z

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?

uratowel @ 2008-10-02T15:03:00

2008-10-02T22:12:32Z

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!

uratowel @ 2008-09-30T19:47:00

2008-10-01T02:49:23Z

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.

uratowel @ 2008-09-29T23:53:00

2008-09-30T06:57:23Z

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!

By Contributing Author My Mom

2008-09-29T06:21:54Z

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.

uratowel @ 2008-09-26T18:53:00

2008-09-27T02:16:35Z

I hate debates. Well, let me clarify. I hate debates where one person speaks intelligently and the other speaks in meaningless sound bites which, depressingly enough, Americans seem to respond to... I'm looking at you, vote-against-your-own-economic-interests-every-time Kansas.

I am, however, kinda looking forward to the vice presidential debate. Has anybody else been anticipating Dan Quayle-ishness from the hockey mom?

But all that aside, I was going to watch the debate tonight and be extremely unhappy doing so. I get nervous for the smart people, because they're usually too dumb to respond to the unfair (and usually complete bullshit) attacks from the other side.

-Note: I am being deliberately vague here in my terms "smart" and "dumb" but let me make sure I am crystal clear on this- smart = Barack Obama, and dumb = John McCain. And you so freaking know it.

Then I realized, I don't have to watch the debate. I don't have to, because I am not a so-called "undecided" voter. I already know the fundamental differences between these two people, and there's nothing left to decide. If nothing else, two words should help all you "undecideds" out there, and this time I don't mean lithium and depakote.

Supreme Court

Or if that doesn't help, how about

Your Money

Be smart, people.

uratowel @ 2008-09-19T09:40:00

2008-09-19T16:46:10Z

This is for all you new people

uratowel @ 2008-09-17T15:53:00

2008-09-17T23:19:44Z

You know, the word "maverick" has several entries in my thesaurus. I would like to take this opportunity to remind some of you that one of them is "cowboy." Well, we all know what happens when a "cowboy" is "elected" president, don't we?

The economy goes to hell, we invade sovereign nations that didn't attack us, we torture people, we actually say- out loud, mind you- freedom fries, we don't take care of our soldiers, we spy on our own- it's warrantless now, not quite as fun as wireless but you didn't want your Fourth Amendment rights anyway- we reward greedy and incompetent corporations, we allow George Lucas to remake Star Wars again and again and yes, again, we give to the rich and keep on giving but joke's on all of us, right, because the "maverick" picked a woman to be his running mate! Nevermind the inescapable fact that were it not for us liberal non-cowboys, the woman would never have even been considered by the "maverick's" party.

Let me tell you something. The fact that this race is even close is disgraceful.

uratowel @ 2008-09-10T23:41:00

2008-09-11T06:44:36Z

And this is just because

If anybody feels like picking up a copy of the PCC Courier (that would be the Pasadena City College newspaper) tomorrow (and that would be Thursday) you might find something interesting in it.

uratowel @ 2008-09-10T23:36:00

2008-09-11T06:38:07Z

NO DOUBT