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I hate hadiths

Hate, hate hate.

skirting against the system

I snail-mailed my state taxes (Illinois and Maryland) nearly 8 months late (or 4, if you count the automatic extensions), and I've already received my Maryland tax refund.

This $9 is dedicated to…food.

a legend might die tonight

Co-founder of the Crips, Tookie is set to die in less than 6 hours.

I know little of him, but I think Nancy Grace is more deserving of the sentence. The line crossed is when a legal ‘expert’ asks if the suspect seems guilty enough without a second's thought to evidence of evidence being destroyed.

My moral high horse is a chinchilla. Whatevs. I'm going on two hours of sleep and have been surprisingly productive. And by the time I go to sleep, Asma will be waking. One of us pulled a total all-nighter.

two points on the plight of man, men, and humanity

I read a quaint and ‘offensive’ article yesterday in a magazine with the word ‘Designer’ or ‘Designer’ in it (one of those lifestyle things).

The article was exposing some sort of underground movement of men [in America] sitting down to pee. The feel of the article, unless I mistook the meaning, was that it was somehow less macho to pee sitting down. But that it was ‘ok’ and not the end of the world.

And it got me to thinking of the stupidity of it. The article, the stigma, whatever. The whole idea that it's more feminine is like saying men can't find anything cute.

Yes, I pee sitting down sometimes, more often at home than anywhere else. Want to know my feminine reasons?

  • Splash-up. Unless I'm blessed with a forceful stream, a fraction of what hits the toilet/urinal tends to come back out. If you're wearing shorts or underwear, that's a bit unpleasant.
  • Misfire. Yes, even the best of us might occasionally miss the target. But it underlies the final point:
  • Golden ponds. You know, the kind you find in at least 50% of public restrooms, pools of misfires of the day (or whenever the bathroom floors were last clean) from a seemingly easy target. The urinal is elevated to make it easier to not miss. And yet…

In short, men are free to dirty up the bathroom for everyone, because it's masculine. Ode to irresponsible genitals.

Which brings me to my next point: what is wrong with sex education? How do conservatives have the audacity to say that children shouldn't learn about sex in school?

I won't say that anything and everything should be taught, but at the very least, for the sake of humanity, if these parents won't teach their children about their body and reproductive health, they should know that this is how babies are born and how some diseases can be spread.

It is immoral and irresponsible to deny everyone a chance to learn about and be prepared for some elementary human nature.

Humans are stupid and petty. Bunnies are not.

While I was gone, Papaya and Elton took to terrorizing Asma. The end result was them tearing open the 40 lb. feedbag three times (twice when it was removed from their fenced-off area). Why they started doing that on the day I left, after two or three weeks of the bag sitting there for the taking, is something we'll never understand.

Another mystery was how exactly they got over the 14" fence. Asma texted me, ‘I think both bunnies learned how to jump the fence’, which was cute, but not possible.

This morning, I heard some suspicious sounds and opened the babies' room to find Papaya on the wrong side of the fence while Elton looked on in his dumb and adorable way. I was trying to think of an easy way to get Papaya back – she absolutely hates being handled – when I saw the most unbelievable thing.

The cute little bundle of puff, by all accounts lazy and not so adventurous, stopped a moment, then propelled herself over the fence.

I was shocked. I'd never seen or suspected her to jump like that. Elton was always the one who managed to climb onto the low coffee table and bookshelf in the room while Papaya would just lie around. She is very impressive. Totally worthy of Ripley's.

I'll be scared if she can clear the now 28" fence.

It'd be so nice to lie down now.

i like my neighborhood,
i like my gun.
driving my little car,
i am your girl and i will protect you.

hi everyone.

To those who know, I again apologize for being shitty with keeping in touch.