Below are the most recent 5 friends' journal entries.

Monday, November 16th, 2009
daintydewdrop	5:15p	"I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of the land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels. Never was there a clearer case of 'stealing the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in.' I am filled with unutterable loathing when I contemplate the religious pomp and show, together with the horrible inconsistencies, which every where surround me. We have men-stealers for ministers, women-whippers for missionaries, and cradle-plunderers for church members. The man who wields the blood-clotted cowskin during the week fills the pulpit on Sunday, and claims to be a minister of the meek and lowly Jesus. . . . The slave auctioneer’s bell and the church-going bell chime in with each other, and the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master. Revivals of religion and revivals in the slave-trade go hand in hand together. The slave prison and the church stand near each other. The clanking of fetters and the rattling of chains in the prison, and the pious psalm and solemn prayer in the church, may be heard at the same time. The dealers in the bodies and souls of men erect their stand in the presence of the pulpit, and they mutually help each other. The dealer gives his blood-stained gold to support the pulpit, and the pulpit, in return, covers his infernal business with the garb of Christianity. Here we have religion and robbery the allies of each other—devils dressed in angels’ robes, and hell presenting the semblance of paradise." - Frederick Douglas I hate it when people blame poor people and brown people for all the messes in this world. If you know anything, you know how ridiculous that is. "When I found out that there was an ACORN housing, I was just like, ‘My goodness. This is why we're in the foreclosure crisis and the mortgage crisis and let's study,'" - Hannah Giles (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
1_lost_child	2:40p	Oh, the sandwaicheee ...? Oh, the sandwaicheee was an autofill on this macbook I'm using. I don't know what it means or what it is, but I think I'm just a bit too scared to look it up right away. I haven't been the same since this video. Temple Pressure in my head every morning. Let me know if it blows your brains out, too! Current Mood: hm? eh. Current Music: Temple Pressure (Comment on this)
Monday, November 9th, 2009
daintydewdrop	8:46a	'Yes, that's a shame about you being poor – why have you not considered being rich?'" - Hadley Freeman No one can access the network drive at my work, which means that I can't work on any of the projects I have. :)  YES! I miss being able to just sit around and do whatever at work. (Comment on this)
kittehkat	3:08a	Me Speak Pretty Today Ok, so maybe this is a moot rant -- you tell me. I'd like to preface this with saying I live in Phoenix. We're essentially bilingual in accepted accents and spoken word. By this, I mean, for example, if you turn on local news, we have a large representation of American-English and Spanish language accent. When people are interviewed for their opinions, regardless of what accent is present, as long as they speak English clearly and do not mumble, they are allowed to say what they will without subtitles, even when the accent is extremely thick and follows non-traditional pronunciations. They let us figure it out. They make us listen. If the interviewee is speaking in Spanish, the news channel is more likely to merely include subtitles. We don't often believe in voice overs, it seems, I'd say (at least on the news channels I watch). I like it because it lets the speaker talk for themselves and reduces the misconception that people aren't worth hearing because they don't speak Proper English in America. Y'know? So, whenever I watch Food Network and Iron Chef Morimoto is on, I grow livid. The man is an accomplished chef trained in classic Japanese preparation with a seemingly phenomenal palette. So he's a native Japanese speaker with an extremely heavy accent, so what? He has a great vocabulary as far as what he needs to know and uses while talking about food. What's the problem? Apparently a lot. The man gets subtitled on just about every show he's on as he speaks English. He speaks clearly. Sometimes he hesitates, but as a non-native speaker, yeah, I can see that. Edit that out if you want. But the words he speaks are completely intelligible with minimal effort from the listener. Tonight, though, I was watching The Next Iron Chef, and you know what they did? They voiced over him! While he was speaking English! That's right, America -- neither can we use our aural skills to listen to other accents we're not used to, nor can an accent exist that does not fit well into acceptably American-English -- we are now subtitling English speakers in English. How isn't this almost derogatory to Morimoto? Unless he has asked for this service, I can't see it as being anything but offensive to both parties -- the speaker and the listeners. Can we get some subtitles on Bill O'Reilly, Anderson Cooper, and Jon Stewart, please? No? Why not? Oh, right. They speak with complete clarity, don't they…? Current Mood: angry (27 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
daintydewdrop	9:53p	I had my appointment to withdraw from the Honors College today. It was surprisingly uplifting. The advisor just asked me to give him a summary of my college experience thus far and what led to that decision, and then reassured me that I have a bright future ahead of me and that I'll go on to do bigger and better things than graduate from the honors college in pharmacy school and beyond. I seriously left feeling really good about myself, which was not expected AT ALL. Hence I waited so long even though the decision was made a little over a year ago. My parents don't know yet, though. And I have a feeling they won't be as nice about it. Yeah. I think every week until finals are over I have a test or a lab report due. Woohoo. However, next week I have Wednesday off, and no lab or recitation for my analytical biochem on Tuesday and Thursday. Which means I get to sleep in on Thursday! I'm super excited. I wore an awesome wig for halloween. Sadly, there are no pictures. There are, however, pictures of me with Nicole's purple bob wig, and Nicole wearing my wig. I had to take it off. It was itchy. Once I register for classes, I'll just be cruising along until finals. Except that I just remembered I need to write a personal statement to give to one of my professors that I asked for a letter of recommendation. Poo. Tatum's birthday was fun. I got to see a bunch of people I haven't seen since high school, and they're all pretty much just as awesome as they were then. Yay. Gael's housewarming. Her baby is adorable and I am so very happy for the way things have turned out for her. I know shit isn't perfect, or easy, but it could have been a lot worse. In some ways I envy her, actually. She has two kids, a dog, a great husband, and she's almost done with school. Best of all, she won't have to worry about whether or not she'll be able to afford to take maternity leave once her career has started because the babies are out of the way. Wouldn't it be awesome to not have to worry about that? The only way that could happen for me is if I don't have kids or move to Canada. Those who know me know that not having a career is not an option. Although I would love to be able to cook awesome food every day. If only there were more time ... I've decided to take next year off, so I'll apply for grad school next summer. Might need to take some extra classes at Rio or MCC too, just because they're pre-reqs for various schools. Hopefully I'll get a position as a pharmacy tech after I graduate. I also really want to tutor high school kids in lower income areas in science. Specifically girls, specifically chemistry and biology. We need more women in science, and I feel like I should help others who maybe weren't given the same gifts that I was. I grew up knowing science was my thing, with plenty of encouragement and great teachers. Not everyone has had that, and I want to be able to show kids that it's doable who might otherwise not even try. I don't know if I'll be good at tutoring, but it's something I really want to do. Looking at everything, life is pretty awesome right now. I feel really good about where things are going. I'm scared and stressed and frustrated, but at the same time it's like things are falling into place. Or have fallen. Or something. I don't understand what it means when someone tells me that he/she totally understood the material, but for some reason didn't do very well on the test. I mean, I know when I've said that in the past it was because I didn't really understand it and therefore couldn't see how unknowledgable I actually was. But I'm not saying that's what's happening. All I know is I got 104/100 on my last biophysical chem test, and feel pretty damn awesome about it. And 70/75 on my last advanced o-chem test. Oh and I'm getting nice A's in my other classes too ;)  Perhaps this is why I feel soooo damn gooood.  :D Alright, I'm done. I just got the familiar urge to write about something non-academic for awhile, as a break from writing a long-ass lab report. Unfortunately, the wine has worn off .... Current Mood: chipper (Comment on this)