Um.....Ew.

I must first disclose that I have a subscription to PlayGirl (lots of shirtless, not as many pantless men). In the Amature section on October's issue, there is a 40-something year old from dear old JC. I had a laugh sesion with the roommmates because damn if that wasn't the funniest thing I have seen in a long time.

Boned Again

Campus health care was already so/so, but now the free HIV testing on campus has be done away with. Students without cars now have to go off campus to clinics that are extremely difficult to get to if you don't have transportation. I thought it was a new step in HIV awareness campaign to get younger people to go get tested. It seems a little contradicting to me.

NEW PICTURES!!!

Some.... Just some of the many from at home. Check them out at the Fickr. Oh yeah, baby.

Croikey!!!

A sad day for animal scientists everywhere. Steve Irwin, the crocodile hunter, has passed into the great wilderness beyond. Apparently, while filming off the coast of Australia in the great barrier reef, his heart was punctured by a stingray. Of all the things it could have been, I never expected a stingray. I was expecting the "most poisonous something in the world!" or a "huge croc!". Sad day. It's ok to shed a tear.

The U is Silent

My Cultural anthropology teacher says nu-cu-lar and not nu-CLE-ar. It drives me nuts. How do you get to be a person going for their PhD with out pronouncing this word correctly? I can't listen to him. I clench my teeth too much.

And Then There Were None

A chapter in the book of George has come to a close. I have taken the piercings out of my back. I just got tired of people I didn't know coming up and touching me. I mean seriously. It was very FCUKING annoying.

It's a Glass full of YUM!!

I REALLY like the new 7Up. I'm not really sure it is all that different or natural, but I still LOVE it.

Tsunami Who?

I had a very strange dream last night about a tsunami that hit Waikiki and made its way to my house. There was also a lesbian chef and a strange reporter for Time magazine who also happened to be a car salesman.

Well, the tsunami part got me thinking. I live at sea level about a mile in from the ocean. MAybe I live 10 ft. above sea level. At most. When the earthquake occured off Tonga, Oahu was placed under a tsunami warning. This is where I got concerned. The warning was only anounced on the news at super early in the morning once. The little tsunami siren we have which could wake up Jesus indicates you turn to the am station and listen for the weather announcements. I didn't know about it until I woke up and the warning had been lifted. It didn't go off. I asked Kristen about it later that day and she told me they don't crank that sucker until the water on the shore is retreating in a threatening manner. Now, we are over due for a hurricane or a tsunami or some major ocean related natural disaster by at least 10 years. Don't you think it would be a good thing to have an earlier warning system, especially somewhere as populated as the state of Hawaii, namely Oahu? I mean, nothing happened this time but it could have and we wouldn't have had time to move up the mountain.

PS~ I never had tsunami nightmares until I moved here.

AMAZING!!!

I forgot to water my plants for four days and I thought they were goners. I watered them yesterday before school and by the time I got home, they were lush and perky again. AMAZING!

That's my news... What's yours?

Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act

So here's the short version. Disgusted by the picketing of soldiers funerals by the Westboro Baptist Church, Congress passed the "Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act". Basically you can't hold demonstrations within 300 ft. of the entrances to our national cemetaries 1 hour before of after a fallen soldier's funeral. Penalties include up to 1 year in prison and a $1,000 fine.

I have discussion questions for this for my speech project as I am presenting this for my current events project. I got four of them easily, but had trouble with two of them. Tell me what you think.

Discussion questions:
1. Do you think Congress's decision to prohibit demonstrations at military funerals at national cemeteries is a violation of the First Amendment?
2. If Congress passed an act designed to protect fallen soldier's funerals, do you think all funerals should be protected?
3. Do you think messages such as the Westboro Baptist Church's should be protected under the First Amendment?
4. Do you think the Westboro Baptist Church would have had such an impact with their message if the government had left them alone?
5. The WBC has very focused religious beliefs which include a message which is offensive to the majority of the populace. Do you believe the Act has gray area in protecting some for religion while prohibiting others from practicing theirs?
6. Do you think the penalties for picketing at soldier’s funerals will stop groups who are as radical as this group is?

Tiles

I noticed this morning my bathroom tiles don't really have a pattern. I mean, they have the little circle thingys, but the the way the circles are arranged are not in a pattern. It bothers me a little.

New Pics up on flickr. Check it out.

So...

So my boss always asks me to sit on her lap when we are drinking together and tells me how threesomes are fun. Her boyfriend is always asking me about my sexual preferences and if I have any weird sex habits (because I work at two separate jobs with each of them). Should I be concernacous?

Technological Feat

Kristen and I set up wireless access today. We pasworded it and everything. We are quite pleased with ourselves condidering I know jack and she knows shit about computers.

It was my last final today. I am now officially into my seniorness of college. YAY ME!!!! DRINKY TONIGHT (right now actually)!!!

It's Harder to Get Alcohol Now That I'm 21

Since I've turned the ripe old age of 21, I have found it to be increasingly difficult to go into clubs or buy alcohol. I got used to the people saying "pull your hair back and smile" or some variation of that. I have gotten worse though. I gat twenty questions from one bouncer at a college bar on why I don't have a Hawaii DL. He mad me step to the side and wasn't going to let me in. Today at the grocery store I was buying my tequilla when the lady says to me "It doesn't match the liquor book, but my manager said it was ok." I mean, WTF? Is this normal? Has anyone else experiened being refused service because somebody with a power trip thought your DL was fake? I'm checking mine against our liquor book at work tomorrow to see what is up. It's starting to piss me off.

There's Only One Georgia

Soooo... The Advertising slogan generator. Fun times. Try it. I've gottn fun things like "Happiness is a Cigar Called Cock" and "Absolut Georgia". Also fun times I've gotten are "The Georgia effect", "Ding-Dong! Georgia Calling!", "Wait Till We Get Our Georgia On You.", and "Feel the Georgia." Try it. Have a good time. Just don't waste TOO much time.

Fun PETA Story

I know some of you are familiar with how much I love (loathe)People Emulating Toad's Arses, I would like to share my recent encounter. The encounter today, with a lone guy on campus with a poster and a megaphone. This crazy fucker was sitting there saying how the labs on campuses do vivisection and how all the animal research on campus is morally and ethically wrong. Just terrible. No anethesia. At all. Live, conscious dissection.
I don't know about his friends, but this guy with the megaphone has NEVER been in either research lab on campus where there are animals (there are two). The people in the animal science department have been in both. Now unless we've suddenly bypassed all the regulations we HAVE to go through to get approval to do research on campus, which includes organizations that monitor the care and treatments of animals, this "research is not happening. Personally I think some of the activists on campus just got bored and decided to protest about something and decided to "stop animal research on this campus". And get rid of the animal science program and lots of money into the university. I mean, where do they think we get veterinarians from?

Rusty Spikes SUCK

So we were rectally palpating cows (exactly what it sounds like) when I jumped off the fence onto a strategically places rusty gate spike impaling my right ass cheek. Since my last tetanus shot was in 1991, I got one on Monday. In case you forgot your last tetanus shot, THEY SUCK! My left arm is now so sore I can hardly lift it let alone do anything useful with it. I would like to share with your some fun facts about tetanus.

FUN FACTS!

Tetanus is caused by an anaerobic bacteria, Clostridium tetani. The bacteria does not normally pose a problem to us because we live in an oxygenated world. RUST causes oxygen to be bound and forms a very nice anaerobic environment for the bacteria. Additionally, punctures are the best growth environment for the bacteria because scrapes are exposed to oxygen.

The first noticeable signs of tetanus are convulsive spasms of skeletal muscle. These are usually deep and painful. Eventually a tightening of the muscles occur causing the characteristic lockjaw effect. Symptoms are acute and often fatal.

Records from 5th century BC contain descriptions of tetanus, but it was Carle and Rattone in 1884 who first produced a case by infecting animals with pus from a fatal human case. Animal cases were reproduced by soild in 1889.

A passive vaccine was produced in 1897 and used on soldiers in World War I. Tetanus toxoid, the common vaccine, was produced in 1924 and first widely used in WWII.

Although the bacteria is sensitive to heat and cannot survive in oxygen, the spores are resistant to antibiotics, heat (icluding steam autoclaving), and many chemical agents.

The spores are often found in the bowels of most domesticated animals including, but not limited to, horses, cattle, cats, and dogs. The spores are also often found in manure treated soil and contaminated heroin.

The bacteria produces two exotoxins, tetanolysin and tetanospasmin. Tetanospasmin is the neurotoxin that manifests the physical symptons of tetanus. Per weight,it is one of the most deadly toxins, requiring only 2.5 nanograms/kg body weight to be fatal. The function of tetanolysin is not yet known.

The Tetanus toxoid vaccine is a series of 3 or 4 (depending on age) Td, Tdap, DTaP or DT shots. They are given with diptheria vaccine. After the series of 3 or 4 shots, a booster is needed every 10 year. Most series are given in children by DTaP or DT by the age of 18 mo. After age 7, vaccines should be given as Tdap or Td.

Side effects of the vaccine are local aching, swelling, stiffness, and arthritic type pains. Occasionally fever and systemic pains may occur. Rare effects are muscle wasting and severe systemic reactions.

FUN THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU ARE NOT REACTING WELL TO YOUR TETANUS SHOT!!

Watch Star Trek: The Next Generation for four hours in a row.

Write stupid fact sheets on Tetanus.

Talk to your plants (by the way, all my plants except the catnip are doing VERY well).

Thing about ways to get more whole wheat into your diet.

Look stupid at your aerobics class because you can't move your left arm during kickboxing.

Organic Chemistry.

Make celery sticks.

Eat celery sticks.

Call mom and talk about how if polio made a comeback, dear seester would be ok because she got vaccinated but I probably wouldn't be because I probably didn't get the vaccine.

Talk about the recent outbreak of mumps as well.

Also have a talk about the guy that just died of flesh eating bacteria. Another woman is sick and they are saying it probably isn't from all that raw sewage they pumped into the Ala Wai which goes straight into the ocean. Ok, right, whatever.

NEW PICTURES!!!

Slowly but surely I have been puting pictures of Tabitha's visit out here on the web. It is taking a while since I have over a hundred and her visit isn't even over yet. Crazy. Insane.

Comment My Foot

Dear seester, could you please change the comments on my blog to a system that works? Or tell me how? I'll do something that makes you icky, like clean up something bloody or pussing. Like a dead body. Have any dead bodies you need disposed of?

Comment My Foot

Dear seester, could you please change the comments on my blog to a system that works? Or tell me how? I'll do something that makes you icky, like clean up something bloody or pussing. Like a dead body. Have any dead bodies you need disposed of?