still awake

even though my mind is blank

spammers go to hell

STOP SPAMMING MY BLOG. so fucking annoying. what is up with these companies and people? the moment i post an entry some idiot spams a comment. grrrrrr.

i noticed a spam protection setting through blogger, but unfortunately my dad's chinese windows translates everything! i have no idea where to find it. i'll just have to live with spam until i get on a regular computer.

buzzing or no buzzing

i am in constant paranoia that a mosquito or two is trying to jab its proboscis into my skin to draw blood. i have at least 12 (and counting) huge, red hot wheals because i'm allergic to these damn insect bites. in addition to not being able to break down ethanol, my body can't seem to properly break down the mosquito saliva proteins. apparently only female mosquitoes bite.
interesting mosquito FAQ's (now i appreciate SF's coldness. 'squitoes are "become lethargic at 60o F and cannot function below 50o F.")

bleary-eyed in houston

my blogging will be limited for the next month or as long as i am in houston. my mom and dad both use dial-up internet via netzero. one has to be very patient and tolerate ads covering 60% of the monitor. at least it's better than nothing!

anne bought a trashy magazine-cosmo-to keep her distracted. she'd been helping mom out for the last couple weeks. i will be taking over anne's post for the next few days, then we will switch. i just arrived at 6am today (still very sleepy). so instead of reading a serious book, i flipped through cosmo this afternoon. well, according to the beauty dictators thin, arched eyebrows are out! the newly preceived beauty for this season is thicker, less arched brows (insert eyes rolling). this is actually good for me, as my eyebrows have been thick and shapeless for years. i'm finally going to fit in. (ha!) the zine even had "do" and "don't" pix of stars' eyebrows. i'm sure when a couple years ago the beauty experts deemed thin barely-there brows the thing to have, the current "dont's" were the past "do's." freakin' silly. also, cowboy boots are trendy, as are round-toed platforms. i knew those useless extremely pointy eye-sore shoes wouldnt last. looking at cosmo is like leafing through tabloids- pure silly fun and entertainment. well i did learn how to tell if my man was lying to me. yes, i can see why anne purchased this for entertainment in our time of adversity.

how about using money wasted in iraq for Katrina victims?

in the news, i've been seeing headlines questioning why it's taking the US government so long to aid and relocate the victims of hurricane katrina. how come one on the world's richest countries is asking for aid elsewhere? why has bush been so slow to react (well that's obvious--he's a lout). i don't see why it is such a fucking dilemma to assist these hurricane victims properly. by just cutting one days cost in iraq could save countless of lives in the US!! our government is so fucking delinquent. citing the institute for public policy, the US government spends about 5.6 BILLION dollars a month in iraq. that's about $187million a day. imagine all the food, medical aid, and transportation that money could provide for the people of new orleans (not to mention other social programs). here's is a nice running calculator of the total cost of this fucked up war. the bottom line is, why do we keep interfering with affairs abroad when we can't help our own people? international issues are important but i'll just reiterate that nagging adage: "if you can't help yourself first, then how can you help others?"