jetsam.

Monday, December 14th 2009
11:27pm:

Steven’s a fatty. That is all.
11:25pm:

I made cranberry pecan muffins the other day. Good stuff, by all accounts. Either they weren’t bad, or my all my friends love me enough to lie to me. Win-win is what that sounds like to me!

I usually don’t eat my own baked goods (better safe than sorry, I always say), but I did this time. Slightly less flour and more butter for more moistyness and less nutmeg on the topping next time around, I think.

Recipe can be found here.
11:15pm:

This is on the fifth floor of the library.

Looks like sign makers have a sense of humor too.
11:11pm:

I like driving to school. There’s a stretch on the 57 south that opens up onto Pomona and you can see for miles around. Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like the sky is just bluer up here. It’s a little distracting trying to take in the scenery and hit my exit at the same time.

~~I’ll pull over and take a picture one of these days.~~

Did it.

p.s. One of the most satisfying feelings in the world is to see huge amounts of traffic going the other way. Even if you’re stuck too, at least you know there are plenty of other suckers out there as well.
Wednesday, December 9th 2009
8:15pm|reblogged from Never fade away.:

shoutforjooy:

r3d:

syfy’s alice | the mad hatter

oh right, i saw alice the night you posted about forgetting to tape it. it’s a pretty horrible show, but the hatter and the prince are pretty darn good looking. except for the hatter’s rabbit teeth.
Thursday, December 3rd 2009
11:22pm|reblogged from Lorem Ipsum:
this ain't livin' | Glee: Mattress
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katoleary:

I have no doubt that some Glee viewers glossed over that scene and had no problem with it, and that others may have thought that it was perfectly acceptable because Terri was a manipulative liar. That Terri, in fact, deserved what she got, because Will’s such a good guy. A stand up, all-round, Nice Guy and how could his wife be so mean and evil and not appreciative?

Glee, you have just crossed a line you cannot come back from. I thought that line had already been crossed, but I was wrong. The minute you depicted domestic violence and cast the abuser as the hero of the piece, you went irrevocably to a Dark Place. There is no redemption from here; I don’t care how Will’s character is being set up and how he is supposed to be read, in this episode, he was a Wronged Man and a Tragic Hero who assaulted his wife.

Glee is a show that gets away with all manner of offensive shit because it’s entertaining. Meloukhia’s takedowns of it are consistently on-point.

If you watch Glee, please, please read this. Meloukhia captured exactly how I feel about it.

While Terri’s not perfect, she’s not a flat or simple character. Her fears and feelings were entirely understandable, and Will was wrong to focus on the “well, she lied to me” part and not on why she felt she had to to begin with. In a past episode, he said she had an “irrational fear that [he’s] going to leave [her].” Is it so irrational now?

ETA: I was glad to see that Emma understood where Terri was coming from and did not approve of Will’s actions.

I do not agree:
1. I think Terri is a flat character; she’s always been seen as the paranoid, needy, wife that always puts herself before her husband. It isn’t the most realistic portrayal of a person, but that’s her character.
2. Expecting “A Serious Conversation”, or a “touching scene” from Will in response to this shocker is to me nothing short of ridiculous. Will just had one of the largest joys in his life revealed as a lie; expecting him to react in a calm, rational manner is absurd.
3. “We had Terri in the kitchen, cooking (of course, that’s where women should be, right?) and Will stormed in.” Really? I think that’s reading a bit too far into the show. Simply showing a woman in a domestic area does not depict male chauvinism in the show. By this standard, having a male as the football coach is sexist and the crazy diva being black is racist.
4. ”[…] he physically and verbally assaulted his wife”. Yes, it was an intense scene, but this makes it sounds as if Will smacked Terri around while cursing her for good measure. This is essentially just a quibble on semantics, so I’ll stop here.
On a tangent: Do any of you guys feel uncomfortable disagreeing with issues like these? I always imagine myself bowing my head in shame while being chastised: “Well of course you don’t understand; you’re a man”.
Unfounded fear? Probably. But it doesn’t change the fact I feel like I should be ducking my head because there’s about to be some purse beatdown coming.
Monday, November 30th 2009
10:11pm:

cool kids.
10:06pm:

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Heartbreak Warfare - John Mayer

Good to know it’s all a game
Disappointment has a name; it’s heartbreak warfare.

I think my favorite part is how he gives a little optimism that things will get better. And then crushes it.

UCLA is an impressive campus. Everything about the buildings, classrooms, and facilities radiates privilege and prestige.
I used to say that your undergraduate school didn’t matter very much; that in the real world, experience counted for much more than the name of an institution on a diploma. I still believe it.
But the value of an education is more than its end result.

I’d like to experience a truly great education someday.
god help me. he knows i need it.

LOL AND I FORGOT MY TOWEL IN RENA’S DORM WHOOPS
Wednesday, November 18th 2009
8:32pm|reblogged from Lorem Ipsum:

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White Noise

bingoparaphernalia:

Useful.

I like this very much.

Sometimes it gets too quiet in my room.

tape ping pong balls over your eyes and prepare to trip balls.

pic related
8:23pm|reblogged from capricious:

what if

whitechucks:

you outgrow someone? you feel exasperated being in their presence, you’re tired of their company. is there any right in it at all to drop them, when in reality, they have done nothing wrong to you?

is it ever possible to move on from a friendship, and it would be acceptable?

I think it’d be much worse to pretend that you still care about them when you’ve already moved on. I don’t know about you, but I’d much rather hear that someone just doesn’t feel the same than find out later it’s all been a lie.

People do change, and they should understand that.

Whatever happens, I hope things work out for you.
Good luck.
Tuesday, November 17th 2009
10:18pm:

spent half of statistics writing. sorry for the silence; i’ll have stuff up tomorrow.
Thursday, November 5th 2009
5:09pm:

bot flies. enjoy.
Wednesday, November 4th 2009
6:14pm:
6:14pm:

saw vania reblog this so..

here’s the whole set for download: http://www.mediafire.com/?whzihqknmym
5:28pm:

experience the wonders of nature