in which we can vote in discrimination and have it stand.

So, I've decided to officially scrap my 101 List... oddly, it turns out it's exactly 1 year from when I started it.  I'm going to make new goals, but not a 101 list.  I just can't see far enough ahead right now to do 10001 days.

Leaving my old list here.  Will set a new Goal list to the top of my LJ.

( Old 101 List )

This morning I went, as I often do, to the coffee shop with some co-workers.  While I rarely buy anything, I enjoy the walk.  The short, two tiny-block walk.

On the way to the coffee shop a bird, over hang, tree, or some such hostile creature pooped/dropped/spit/threw gunk on my hair.  It was whitish and became crusty after a bit.

On the way back to the office, an acorn was hurled at us.  Seemed like it was thrown, but we couldn't spot a possible perpetrator other than a tree.  But it didn't just fall.  Heck it didn't even go DOWN.  It came somewhat sideways at us.  With force.  We suspect the tree or an armed squirrel.

Something is out to get me, and it's not even a zombie.

My apartment is being demolished!

Well, the insides at least!

This, is good, btw, because it means I don't have to do the move out clean!!!  Hip hip Huzzah! 

Rick linked me to this wonderful site:  http://wordsmith.org/anagram/

Totally NSFW... if you actually want to get any work done :-P  Otherwise, click away!


-A Riddle Envyingly Rises!

A week or two ago, I wrote about my experience with Fast Trak .  How I was being charged for a guy running a toll booth, who had a plate number similar to mine, although my CA plate hadn't even been issued at the time of the infraction.

Guess what?  Got another one in the mail!  Same guy, same toll, different day.  So, I called Fast Trak again this morning, and told them this needed to stop.  They said, no, you're just going to keep getting his tickets and have to call every time to clear it up. Obviously, I requested to talk to someone higher up but "they can't transfer me."  So, I'm waiting for a call.

Run to the old apt at lunch to check my mail.  A THIRD FAST TRAK VIOLATION!  That's 3 in 20 days!

GAH!

How can we vote in our first African-American president and at the same time vote discrimination into the laws in multiple states?

Americans, you are blind sheep.

I'm not gonna get married 'til gays can. If civil union is good enough for them, it's good enough for me.

Hate 'em, I do!  But, ah well.

Who supports McCain? 

My favorite part:  "Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism director, and Joseph Nye, the former chairman of the National Intelligence Council, have both suggested that Al Qaeda prefers Mr. McCain and might even try to use terror attacks in the coming days to tip the election to him."

Yippee.  Skippee.


While I'm at it, how is being a POW at all a qualification for being president?  I can see the patriotic, serving your country aspect of being a soldier.  But getting caught?  Uh, good job?

Linux makes my head explode!

But I WILL CONQUER IT!

Because it seems to be the topic of the day.


Did you hear the one about YesOnProp8 trying to extort businesses?

Also, I heard on NPR today that Black and Hispanic people as a group are more likely to vote for the gay marriage ban.  I don't get it?  How do they not see that this is discrimination just like racism?  The crazy Yes on 8 people are the same as the backwards people from generations ago who didn't think colored people should have the same rights as white people.


I hope anyone who votes to ban gay marriage has their own marriage destroyed by interlopers. 


I don't think I'll be able to watch as the results of the election on the 4th.  I'm going to try to distract myself until late late late, or the next morning when the results are final.  I don't think I can take the suspense!


Everyone out there, vote!!  (For Obama, that is.  :-P)

I signed up for Twitter at a friend's behest, but I don't get why I would need it.  I have messengers and LJ, won't twitter be redundant?  But we'll see. Maybe people want hourly updates on my life?  I have a feeling it will go like this:

Bored.
Still Bored.
Is work over yet?
OH DEAR GOD I"M FREAKING OUT
Hungry.
Bored.

But anyway, it seems some of you (I'm looking at YOU, deana_in_texas  ) use it, and perhaps can tell me how to get the most out of it.

I'm moving in with Rick.  Effective yesterday.

Yesterday we met the President of the IEEE in Taco Bell.

That was kinda cool.

I got a Fastrak violation.  (The auto toll thing.)  Totally bogus.  I wrote to them:

1) I didn't HAVE a CA license plate in August.

2) The plate in the picture is of a different license plate than the CA plate
I received in September.

3) Your system must be massively flawed to send a violation for a plate not
existent at the time of infraction.



They wrote back:

Dear FasTrak Customer,

Unfortunately, this license plate is not listed on your fastrak account. You
must complete section C on the back of the violation notice and return it to the
address listed below.

Thank you for using FasTrak.



Helpful, no?  The rep on the phone also had issues with me not having an account.  I had to tell her 3 times and yell at her that I didn't have an account.  Certainly not going to get one either!

Moving about a lot (across the country, and 3 different California apartments in as many months) was stressful in it's own way, but I wasn't as stressed then as I am now.  That I could deal with.  I moved forward almost everyday finding a job, and apt, getting set up.

But now that the immediate needs have been settled, I have to figure out my life.  And I'm kinda lost.  Or, just lost.  I want to teach.  Finally got that down.  But what I need to do in order to teach depends on WHERE.  What state do I want to teach in? How on earth am I suppose to decide where I will want to live in a year or two?

Now I just have to figure out in what capacity and how to go about that. 

A bit ago, I said that I would soon be updating/redoing my 101 list.  Obviously, that didn't happen.  There have been so many things that needed taken care of in the short term (well over 101!), that trying to figure out what I might want 3 years from now... forget it, not happening.  I'm don't know what life will be a week from now, so trying to look so far ahead seems futile.

For the past two months, it has been nothing but apartments, apartments, apartments.  Soon after I got kicked out (got the notice beginning of June), Rick's gf broke up with him and kicked him out, so we joined forces to find, move into, furnish (we both started with no furniture or household goods), and organize our apartments.  And that's what we've been doing ever since.

This weekend was the first time since then that we have taken a day to just have fun.  We had a fabulous Sunday at the Rosicrucian in San Jose, where we visited the Egyptian museum and saw a program at the planetarium.  Yay, nerd fun! :-)

But the evenings of this week, I'll be working on setting up my apt, still.  The rabbits area needs done, I need to reorganize my closets, need to organize my desk, need to find nightstands and return the crappy ones I have, etc.  Soon, soon, it'll be done, ready.  But then what?  I don't know anymore what I want from life long-term.  Do I still want to teach?  I think so, someday.  But when?  Not now.  And where?  In California?  Elsewhere?  I have no idea.

In the past two months I've gone backwards in my effort to make friends.  Not only have I not met any new people, but I haven't seen those friends I had made out here in Cali.  (Well, other than Rick.  And thank god for Rick.) So, that's a top priority. 

Gotta go, perhaps I'll chatter again later.

A page found outside work today:

Evening's Whisper, Twilight's Talk

Red door
White tile

Stand around
Wait awhile

Black nine
Black seven

Glimmer of hope
Doorway to heaven

Query sent
No reply

Time to go
Say good bye

Full moon
Jaundiced hangs

Low tonight
Love pangs


I had no idea what it was.  I thought it was very random.  facialticks swore it wasn't him, and I believed him... until he pointed out that 97 was my apt number.  LOL, and apparently I have a red door with a white tile.  (Yes, he went by my apt in order to do this.)  Poor thing, he was trying to creep me out, but I'm too oblivious.  HAHAHAHA

"Why" by facialticks

Why
Why is there a void where your soul should be?
Asked a lost little girl one day
Why is the sky blue?
She asked under a cloud of doubt
Why does the caged bird sing?
The question escapes her confined mind
The answer is quite simply love
Love that fills the void
Love that conquers our dark tomorrows
Love that sets us free

Another poem from Sean:

Syd is like a song
You can’t get out of your head
Until you are dead
(like all the farm animals stabbed by the pencil of an angry little girl L)