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Good Company

After final exams I went to dinner at La Cantina with my lab partner Rachel. I have known her for a whole semester now but we are usually so busy we can't small talk when we meet to study. We both have toddlers and full time jobs and school.


It was a great night with delicious homestyle Italian food, some good Pinot Noir and a reaffirmation that I can always make room for one more interesting and engaging person in my life.

People are so twacked

http://www.cuddleparty.com/ I heard about this on the radio this morning. I think it is revolting!

I would rather go to a barefoot walk on scorpions party than a Cuddle Party.

Liver and onions I will miss you

As I study the cardiovascular system and organs I have learned things about the liver organ. The liver is basically a giant filter. I did already know this but seeing the actual photos and movies has made it so much more vivid.


I love Pate, Liver and Onions and Foie Gras, but I may have to bid them adieu. I am not sure I can enjoy it the same way without feeling like I am eating the equivalent of the filter in my aquarium.


The same goes for high fat food, there is nothing like actually seeing a doctor pull a giant rope of fat out of a clogged artery to make you reconsider your double cheeseburger.

Hallmark The Ambivalent Section

I was discussing with a friend of mine yesterday how hard it is to buy a card for someone and all of the options are way too gushy, mushy and over the top. I am uncomfortable buying a card for someone that pledges unconditional love. I know I sound jaded, but unconditional?

I think there should be a line of cards labelled lukewarm, ambivalent, obligated, Like but not love.

Happy Mothers Day

Thanks for bringing me light and joy every day.

Old Mother Hubbard

ttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24537885&GT1=43001

This lady is pregnant with her 18th child.Whenever I see this family on tv all I can hear is Andrew Dice Clay saying his old Mother Hubbard Limerick. There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children her uterus fell out.

She is always smiling too. I can barely handle two children. Eighteen fucking children? How do you spend quality time with 18 children?

Yeah, this is my mothers day post. I know, I am so sentimental. Bite me.

For people who can't afford the Gap

I think the slogan for Old Navy should be "For people who can't afford the Gap". I am not clothing obsessed, I generally stick with what I would consider middle class designers like Liz Clairborne , Gap and occasionally Talbots.I do like to browse at Donna Karen , Sigrid Olsen (who is a fellow Monsterrat Alum I must brag)and Ralph Lauren and Brooks Brothers but I never buy there, I can't justify my income to their price ratio. This year I have had to get more creative about where and what I can buy.

I have basically had to replace my entire wardrobe twice in the past two years due to weight loss and it has been a real challenge.I am starting to really like Old Navy. The people that work there are actually happy and friendly (see previous rants about the douche bags at Abacrombie and Pretentiousness). They don't care if your kids sing Somewhere Beyond the Sea at top volume.The clothes are cute and they have a huge selection. They even carry plus sized and petties, I have the annoying luck to need tiny pants and humongous shirts.They are not as well made as the gap stuff but are decent.

Target has cute kid clothes and gross adult stuff, Walmart is just, well too Walmarty.For the longest time I refused to donate my old Liz Clairborne suits even though they were about 5 sizes too big. They were beautiful and I worked my ass off to buy them. I felt like a real grownup when I wore them too. My mother in law literally had to come help nudge me into finally getting all those clothes together.

I really do not have any suits now and it will probably be another year or two before I can purchase a nice one. I have decided I really do not need to dress like a grownup anymore, dressing like me is a lot easier on the wallet. Plus my main work wardrobe will soon be scrubs and Birkenstocks! I cannot wait.

My Daddy's ipod

Since I was very small I have been exposed to a lot of music. I remember hearing Stevie Wonder and Tom Waits and dancing with my little sister in the den. I have a huge interest in music and my stereo, ipod and even sometimes my record player are always running. I have a huge vinyl collection of cheesy 80's music.

I am very skatty and lose stuff all the time. I lost my ipod nano and was so bummed out. My dad gave me his ipod and it is preloaded with almost 2000 songs.
It has been so fun listening to it, his music choices are so similar to mine. The eclectic jumps we both take from Rage Against the Machine to Sublime to Bob Dylan, then the Beach Boys Pet sounds over to Rascal Flatts. I am always amazed when people dismiss and entire genre of music "Oh country sucks" because there are so many similar veins that tie the music together.

When I hear certain albums I am immediately transported back to the first time I heard it. Foreigner's waiting for a girl like you, I was in the bathtub playing with my sea wea dolls.
Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers...I remember listening to it as a toddler and playing with the real zipper on the album cover. I remember listening to Supertramp Breakfast in America on a big clunky 8 track. First kiss-Bullet the blue sky, lost virginity- The Cure Disintegration

I want to now set up an ipod swap program so I can hear other peoples life story broken into 3 minutes bites!

Lolitta? Or are americans completely hypocritical

What is the big deal here? This picture is beautiful. She is totally covered up and her parents were at the shoot. The shoot was done by Anne Leibowitz.

Are we Americans now so pathetic that we cast stones at any teen star when they start becoming sexual?

I wonder if we had more accepted nudity here if Americans would chill out a bit. I mean god forbid a women breastfeeding accidentally expose her nipple. Women shield their kids eyes and give dirty looks.

I think Americans place way too may taboos on the human body. As a result we seem very confused and overreact to any perceived exposure of flesh.

I have friends who panic if their kid sees them changing. What message is that sending their child?

I wonder how a culture as supposedly liberal as our can have such hypocrisy when it comes to some skin or an accidental nipple slip.