Student Faux pas of the day: "Men have changed massively from 50 years ago. Men use to not care about the way they look and what they whore."

Nice.

This Sunday, I danced on a roof with a bunch of people near the Folsom Street Fair. There were wigs and cute shorts and whips and nudity all over. One of the songs was "Soccer Practice", which is definitely a new favorite. Here is another gem from the same artist. He has a very good message.

My friend has a tutoring thing today, starting at 9:30(PDT) this morning, so I had to leave in the morning with him. We got up around 7, freshened up, got coffee, and said bye at the BART station. I helped a guy buy a BART ticket, got mine, and rode the escalator to the platform. I saw "2 minutes" on the screen and thought, "oh, swee- oh, SFO, I need the other way" and began waiting. When the SFO train arrived, I watched the people get on. I saw a blue and gold jacket with a very tasteful "UWEC" on the back.

I so wanted to express solidarity, my Wisconsin pride. I made a new friend out here who is from Appleton. I showed the video of my dad talking "about the meat" and he said that my dad sounds like his dad. Then they heard me say, "I'm still going, so," and we cracked up at my accent. I totally have Wisconie Pride.

Update: This is amazing

This is a picture of my harvest. And a big EFF YOU to those out there who said I couldn't grow a tomato plant indoors :) More veggies to come! Hooray.

And I also wanted to write about the Republican National Convention, because I know at least Erica is interested. Some dude gave me his Club Level ticket so I could mingle with the masses. I was hoping I'd get on TV since I was one of the 5 brown people there. Sadly, I did not.

So, my reaction: They are crazy. Crazy about everything. At one point thousands of people in the crowd were chanting "drill, baby, drill" (or something to that effect) and it honestly made me feel like I was in the belly of hell. A lot of their issues I can at least see how they are misled to support, but this one is INSANE. I can't relate to it at all. Like, the way it was chanted was almost vindictive, defiant, and destructive over any virtue like logic and rationality. It made me think of "Wimp Factor". For those of you who read it, I know you have my back.

McCain and his wife are both pretty terrible speakers. Mrs. McCain recited the words like she was reading them, but she looked stunning, in my opinion...maybe because of all the work she's had done ;) She does a shit-ton of volunteer work across the world, which I really respect and love about her. I guess you have time for it when your daddy established Budweiser. I think they adopted two kids from her work, one of which was at the RNC. It's crazy because she is from Bangladesh, so kinda looks Indian, and I feel connected to her somehow :) I'm not sure what happened to the other adopted child...they mentioned there was one, but s/he wasn't present, and they didn't talk about it anymore. I almost barfed when she said, "all women look for men who will make good fathers".

McCain was a pretty bad speaker, too, but I do like how his style contrasts with Obama. He much more soft spoken, and even though he's not a good speaker, he kinda does come off like a grandpa. An insane grandpa, but still. I really wanted to puke when he said, "education is the civil rights issue of the 21st Century". Yeah, easy to say when you're a rich, white, sexist, straight male. His focus was mainly on his military service: shocker.

They are CRAZY about Palin. No one could say her name on stage without the crowd rushing to their feet and cheered like raving lunatics. It was really, really awkward. She is the perfect female politician for dude republicans (and even some dude democrats). Not intimidating and emasculating like Hillary Clinton because she's so young and inexperienced, knows her place well enough to emphasize her attractiveness and sexuality, and hates on women to be part of the Boys Club.

They are CRAZY about how many children they have. McCain and his wife-y brought it up a number of times that he has 7 kids and Palin has 5. And both times I remember it being brought up, the crowd cheered wildly. And they presented this total lie of their romance together. 30 years together isn't that impressive when you're 75 years old, btw. And they conveniently forgot to mention how he cheated on his first wife with her for a while before he ended his first marriage. Funny how they're able to overlook such glaring hypocrisy when it's their own lives their trying to sell.

Some other liberal got through the doors and screamed out "get out of Iraq!" while McCain was speaking. Obviously, they kicked her out, and I thought McCain actually dealt with it well. He said something like, "don't get caught up in the background noise". And the crowd started chanting, "U! S! A!...U! S! A!...U! S! A!...U! S! A!".

Actually, they chanted that a lot through the night, and it's not the way you or I would have chanted it, with pride and with hope. In fact, we never would have chanted it in response to any of these scenarios at all (did people chant "U! S! A!" at the DNC?). Their chantings struck me as taunting more than anything else. And it made me feel like these people are not the patriots that they want us to believe. They're just creepy.

Breaking News: I have altered my default hairstyle for the first time since early 2003. I have official bangs again and part my hair slightly to [my] the left. Photographs maybe someday. My camera is being a bitch.

How many hours I've been away from home is proportional to how many pairs of shoes and articles of clothing she has moved to the kitchen mat along with her toys :)

Every time I hear "Our next president of the United States, John McCain," I die a little inside.

I'm watching the Republican National Convention live on...I don't even know what network, because there's no logo on the screen. Anyway, all this conservative rhetoric and fervor and optimism is making me nauseous...and nervous. I can't imagine how I'm going to feel if McCain wins this election -- and let's be realistic. He might. This country is getting more and more conservative, and the religious right is taking a larger hold of media/politics/policy all the time.

I remember how I felt when Dubya lost in 2000...and in 2004. Disbelief. Absolute disbelief. I really don't want to go through that again. Come on, America. Do the right thing: Vote Obama.

The Republicans are saying that Americans can't learn anything from European social systems. The Republicans are saying that Americans need to drill in ANWR rather than decreasing our dependency on oil and doing our part to curb global warming. The Republicans want their wimminfolk to keep their legs shut, get back in the kitchen, and raise our babies right. The Republicans want Jesus to be a bigger part of our government and our lives.

I'm sorry, but after eight years of watching America go down the shitter one day at a time, I cannot tolerate this anymore. This year, I may have to take to my bed if a Republican gets elected. Please, America, don't let it come to that.

Once again the Republicans are doing an impeccable job of framing the Palin's-daughter-being-preggers issue, which I wish the Democrats would correct immediately. Say it with me: This is not about her child. THIS IS NOT ABOUT HER CHILD. Her child was never on the table. What is on the table is the blatant hypocrisy of an anti-choice, anti-contraception, anti-pre-marital-sex, anti-sex-education politician who wants you, the public, to do as she says, but when her family doesn't, she demands privacy and respect. What is on the table is the failure of abstinence-only education. What is on the table is that if abstinence-only education failed a young woman who should have been the poster child for the success of such education, it will never be successful to the public. What is on the table is that if Palin expects her child's pregnancy to be a private matter, she needs to expect that it be a private matter for everyone. What is on the table are Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates who want the benefit of a feminist political climate while blatantly opposing feminism. Good luck to them.

Under other circumstances I would never, ever, in a million years, say that a woman can't have kids and hold such a job. But with 5 kids and a Conservative Republican viewpoint of the role of women, the shoe fits in Palin's case. Certainly women who think more of women could do both. But she has shown that she does not. Seeing as she identifies her religious and social role in her family to be the primary caregiver to 5 kids, and help prepare for her child to have a child, she would not be afforded the time to do the job of VP. Surely her husband would be incapable of picking up the slack, being a Conservative Republican male, and all.

I'm done now. I think.

What do you think might have happened if Chelsea Clinton were pregnant at 17 in the White House?? Just curious on your thoughts about all this.

Also, what is up with the Palin kids' names?! Seriously, did she drop silverware and try to make a name for the sound it made or what?! I'm also annoyed that everyone and their mother assumes all Christians are Republicans.