In Between Days

My friend Rob is an awesome DJ, and asked me to spread word of this-particularly to people he met recently (at Restaurant Week dinner or my birthday) and does not have email addresses for, but also, figured I would pimp it in general. I plan on going and it should be a good time. If you want to go & would like to coordinate before hand, let me know.

NYPK's 3-Year Anniversary party.
Visuals by Torx
Audio by Oremm [this is Rob]

Time: 9pm onward
Place: SUPERFRONT, 1432 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn. (A train to Nostrand Ave)
FREE Admission

all dreams must end

I am off to Washington (state) for a week. If you need me in the meantime, go cry about it. I am not sure how much internet access I'll have, so I will most likely be off LJ.

what is your favorite real OTP?
How about your favorite real OTP that is not together anymore?
For this excersize, real is defined as real people, really a couple. Celebs or people you know. You and your S.O. do not count.

( mine )

Iowa fails to hate gays

bluemilker & I are going to wait on line very early on sunday and get tickets and then we are going to see a Midsummer Nights Dream. Anyone want to come?

We will probably play games on line (Jesse, want to bring games you don't mind having outside?)and Shakespeare in the park is awesome and we are awesome and the more people who come, the more fun it will be.


Also, who's excited about the new Resident Evil movie? I am!

Elizabeth
1-I am using LJ because I am not sure what email address to use for you, please let me know?
2-Are you coming back to NY? NY loves you!
3-what was in the red pepper soup/how was it made...?

OK, I am going to see Stardust tonight with bluemilker. We are going at 10:30. If you want to come with us, IM or call or comment here or something. You could try just shouting that you do, but this unlikely to be effective unless you are secretly behind me..right now


*turns*

No, you aren't.

also
1.-GIP--tattoo from LA Ink. Sexy, cupcakey, awesome thing, what's not to like? (As a side note, why am I so okay with my own butchering of English and so opposed to other people's?)

2. Are people I like making plans to see Stardust in NY? Can I tag along? If not, can such a plan be made?

3. Monkeys

Poll #1031799 How Icon crazy are you
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Have you ever posted a reply just because you had the perfect icon to post with?

have you ever added to a reply or post so that you would have an appropriate icon to use?

Have you ever delayed a post or reply while you went and made or found an appropriate icon?

Have you ever not made a post or replied because you lacked an appropriate icon?

I made a chocolate cake with strawberries, blueberries, whipped cream and vanilla buttercream fro the 4th.

In terms of taste, I think we have a winner. It was the Hershey's Chocolate Cake recipe with some extra chocolate, and it was delicious. Even Ed liked it, and he normally is not a cake person.

I am really happy with how the berry arangements looked, but I tried to use whipped cream to decorate and it melted in the heat, and it was futile to try and smooth the frosting so I just went for swirly...or at least, I hope.

Two pics behind the cut (see, I can be kind to your friends page)
( here )

I made a cake!

Be harsh:

( more images and info behind cut )

What is the best chocolate cake recipe you know of?

And, if you have one, what is the best mocha frosting recipe you know of?

So, it's been a long time since I made icons, but there were some I just had to make so...
( Grey's Anatomy 3.07 )
( Heroes )

If you want to use any please comment & credit. Constructive criticism is always welcome, as is praise ;)

Grey's Anatomy, But I'm a Cheerleader, One Tree Hill
(cross posted)

Made icons for sharing. Want, take, comment, credit.

Grey's:
1. ( more ) 8.

But I'm a Cheerleader:
9. ( more )

One Tree Hill:
(made for contest)
11.

screencaps by me.
quotes:
1. Tegan and Sara, 2. Sublime, 6. Ani Difranco, 9. Melissa Ferrick, 10. Tattle Tale, 11. David Garza

Icons!
The idea is christmas/winter, although I'm also posting two One Tree Hill icons I made a while ago. Shuddup, I love that show.

The rest are almost entirely on theme. Edward Scissorhands and Nightmare Before Christmas. Because Tim Burton does it best. Unless "it" is planet of the apes. Or your mom.

So, yes, if you want to use it, take it save it use it enjoy. Please let me know. And I love credit.
( Nightmare Before Christmas )
( Edward Scissorhands )
( One Tree Hill )

So, I've been posting lots. Lots for me anyway. And now I am posting about politics it's crazy... blame skadi...
I am remembering the real reason I started avoiding political stuff...wasn't because I didn't care. It was because I did.

So, right, the point.
I read USA Today this morning in the dining hall. Front and back of the same page, I read two articles. One was about "Media soul-searching after Bush's victory"
It includes the happy information that more people get their information from Fox news than any other TV source, by a lot.
and it seems that
"... it's no secret that many people in the national media, perhaps a bit too willingly, believed preliminary exit polls that showed John Kerry was headed to the White House.[what does that mean? too willingly it was a really close election that could easily have been interpreted either way at that point, right] But when Bush subsequently won — and religion and morality ranked high among concerns of voters — it set off a chain of soul-searching in big-city newsrooms, especially in the media epicenter, New York."

Yes. What we need is more religion and morality in our news sources to make them less subjective and biased. Wow, how could we crazy New York liberals have missed that?


The other, more innocent looking one, was about controversy over showing "Saving Private Ryan" because the FCC has been cracking down.
It concluded...
"Meanwhile, as the Ryan uproar was unfolding, Jerry Falwell, 71, announced the formation of a new group that wants to "keep the momentum" going in the wake of the success of the 'values voter.' The Faith and Values Coalition is 'a 21st century resurrection of the Moral Majority,' Falwell says in a posting at www.falwell.com. The Moral Majority, popular in the '70s, was influential in helping put Ronald Reagan in the White House.

The coalition, he says, will be 'enlisting and training millions of Americans to become partners in this exciting task of bringing this nation back to the moral values of faith and family on which it was founded.'"

Ok. I can understand that gay marriage, stem-cell research, abortions etc. are things people have opinions about. I believe that those who disagree with me are wrong and that I am right, but I don't think there's a definite right and wrong (side note: yes, that's a whole big issue, moral objectivism, and it isn’t really my point. To see a debate about it, including what I think [and if you feel the need to, you can contribute even though the post is old] go look at Justin's journal here) But right...these are debatable issues.
But.
This country was not founded on "moral values of faith and family"--It just wasn't. I mean according to our recorded history (also slightly off topic would be a good old-fashioned "history is bunk " debate.) Kind of the opposite actually. Most pilgrims came here to have freedom of religion, to go to a place where the state did not try to dictate over their faith. And then there's that whole "All men are created equal" etc etc idea this country was founded on. And since "family values" to Jerry Falwell means denying roughly 10% of the population rights that the other 90(ish)% of the country (over 18, varying based on state) can take for granted. Yes, you may too young to get married, but you will grow older. Denying the...137? legal rights granted by marriage to 1/10th of the country is not treating all people equally, it is not allowing them liberty or the pursuit of happiness.
So yea. That would be sort of the exact opposite. I am not a history, law, or poli-sci person. If you are, and want to help me out with this or show me how I’m wrong go ahead.
I guess I am underneath my pessimism and apathy someone who really does believe that there is some justice, some regulation. That people can't just...lie...in a newspaper and it's ok. It isn't okay! How can this be allowed?

I hate how much this gets to me. I hate that since two weeks ago I have been miserable because of a stupid fucking election. But every time I read or hear something like this, my stomach sinks and I want to cry. I just...I can't believe how much people can hate, put a good name on it, and get it printed like it's just fine. It isn't. Debatable issues aside, spin, etc. this is just a lie. A lie in a national newspaper that people will read and believe. And feel good about. Because "moral values of faith and family" sounds much better than "gay-hating" or "forcing ideas from religious beliefs onto people not of that religion, or who don't interpret that religion that way."

I'm sorry. I’m not as articulate about this as Dustin and Sarah. And Keith. I don't post this kind of thing. but Sarah told me to. And this is what is going on in my life now, because this is what is making me cry right now.

I can't bring myself to use it, but if anyone else wants to...

I just kinda wanted to post it mostly.

*disclaimer: do not be fooled by tone at end of entry. I am in general crazy happy these days, and I like my friends*

I love Halloween. It is far and away my favorite holiday, whereas the next one up, thanksgiving is my least favorite. Compare.
Halloween is about
1-Being out at night looking at the moon
2-Free candy
3-Pumpkins
4-monsters, zombies, vampires, anything that might exist in WoD etc
5-People dressing up in clothes I might wear normally
6-black nail polish, spiderweb stockings, glow in the dark glitter to name just a few of the great things they sell in every drugstore
7-black cats
8- I mentioned candy, right?
9-Dressing up. I really love that part.

so that's a pretty awesome list of things
Thanksgiving is about:
1)Eating Turkey (I'm vegetarian)

2)Spending time with family (we go to my mom's bf's parent's house. So...not so much)
3)Football (a big whatever to that one)
4)Eating so much you feel sick (I don't get that)
5)Slaughtering Native Americans and being traitorous lying bastards.
[we can go with making peace with the native americans, but that's lies, so then it is just about lying, I guess]
6)Pumpkin Pie (I like that one)

So, Halloween wins. And think of Halloween movies vs. Thanksgiving movies. Which would you rather spend an evening watching?

So right. i love Halloween. And part of me still hopes for some magic in it.
Then I have this other thing. In about 6th grade I determined Halloween was the date by which I knew who were my friends for that year. This has pretty much been a good measurement every time.

So when I don't have something to do with lots of my friends, or really much to do at all, I'm a sad sad Sasha. And when i have no costume idea cuz I was going to be pirates with Dustin and Sarah but now they only want to do things during the day sunday and I will probably be doing hw then, and if I go anywhere going without them...So yea. It's the 28th. And I have nothing. No plans, no costume, no confidence.

So I was going to leave for NY friday after class ended at 4

Then I figured, "hey, I have nothing to do when I get home, why not stay and have dinner?"

Then the laundry machines in my dorm were being replaced so I couldn't do laundry before I left. So I thought, "Hey, why not stay Friday night and do laundry?" So I stayed and had Thai and ran into many people from Haverford and then went to my dorm and did laundry til 3 am and watched Fullmetal Alchemist. So I ended up sleeping til about 2, then finishing up laundry, and putting it away and stuff. And it was five pm and I hadn't eaten so we got dinner. And I almost fell asleep. So I gave up and went to TLA and went back to my dorm. I ran into two more people in the course of this. Both of whom were surprising to see. So I slept a lot.

So I was coming home today, Sunday, having missed Ayla's birthday party cuz I suck. I was supposed to be in by 3 so I could help my mom get ready for her reading.

I got in at 6 Sunday. Rather than 7 Friday.

Without my wallet.

Interesting part starts here?
You see, (after having accidentally gotten a sandwich i couldn't eat cuz they put chicken on it and a smoothie I spilled, so having no food) I was on the R5 to go catch Chinatown bus. I went to pull out my wallet.

And I didn't have it. That was the worst feeling...I was already on the train...I was about to start crying. i was so late, and I only had $1 and no bank card or ID or anything. I couldn't even get back into my dorm room to get it cuz I need my ID to get into the building.
And I called Ed.
I love Ed. Ed took the train into Philly and gave me the last of the money in his account so I could get home.

I have the best boyfriend ever.

And I am an idiot.

That is all.