Giving 'Til It Hurts

OK, Matt you asked for it you got it! You really should be careful what you ask me, I'll give it to you. . .

First, the thesis stuff. My advisor told me she can't read what I don't give her. Duly noted! I have spent hours on my lit review chapter over the last week and seem to have gotten nowhere. I started with around 30 pages and by the time I did a "light edit" I was down to 18. I did another edit and added some stuff; it got even slimmer. How does that happen? I keep adding bits and pieces but all it seems to do is make things less intelligible. I'm back up to 22 pages, but help us all if I throw another edit on it; wailing and gnashing of teeth will insue.

The Thumb? Tasty! It hurts but in a "loose tooth" kind of way. I can tell the nail is peeling away from the base since all the black Ork-blood is starting to ooze out. It is just a matter of time before I find a bloody thumb nail stuck to the side of my face when I wake up. Close your eyes if you don't like a rainbow of color. It looks better in person but here's a taste of the good stuff.

The Monkey on My Back

I got an email from a friend giving me shit about my sporadic posts. Sorry! This is why they will remain sporadic: I am turning in my first chapter of my thesis tomorrow, followed by another chapter every other week until the first of May. Bottom line? I don't love you any more. I have taken a mistress. Get over yourself. We were never that close anyway. It was a casual thing. . . Ok, my thesis is out of earshot. I still love you, but she is a lot bigger than me and forces me to do and say things I normally wouldn't. . . oops here she comes again.

I hate you, stop calling me.

Tomato, Tomatoe

It is amusing that Silvio Berlusconi has been in the American news as much as he has recently. Sure he has compared himself to Jesus. Yes, it is true his solution for the poor is, "get a job!" He placed hundred of judges and lawmakers in positions of influence that have served him and silenced a mass of allegations against him. Bottom line is he is bad for Italy.

Compare that to Geedub: The second horseman of the apocalypse (riding proudly behind Cheney). Wars, illegal detentions, illegal wire taps, corporate malfeasance, selling of American sovereignty to the highest bidder, stealing social benefits from most everyone except those that deserve it least, alienating all but the "elite" countries in the world. . .Is it necessary to go on? All of the things Bush has done and it takes a miracle to get any kind of press on it. The, so called "Liberal," media blithely ignores it, and so does the general public.

A-ha, though, lets focus on how bad Berlusconi is.

No Lie, Berlusconi is bad for Italy, but Bush is bad for the world.

Dumb Bunny Pt 2

I had two beers the entire night (a five hour period). The last one was consumed around 8:30 so I know that wasn't where culpability lay.

I stay up until 1:30am or 2:00am every night so I am pretty sure that midnight hadn't made me overly tired.

Well, whatever the reason, last night I failed to remove my hand as I shut the door of my car. Two things happened at that moment: First, an intense and piercing pain rang through my hand like a phone without mute. Pain, the likes I have only experienced three other times in my life -more on that in a minute. Second, a gut wrenching realization that I had just locked the door and to extract my hand I was going to have to fumble through my pockets to find my keys.

The only other times I felt such sharp and intense pain was: Freshman year high school, laying on the wrestling mat with a broken collar bone; landing with my elbow in my side on the last snowboard run of the day and breaking two ribs; and, feeling my meniscus cartilage rip away from itself playing flag football two years ago. Most of the time pain is a mild irritant but on those previous occasions pain was as close to a fine pitch of perfection as it gets. Last night was right up there with 'em.

After a very fitful night, with next to no sleep, I figured I should go to the doctor to have my now swollen and purple thumb checked out.

"Ah, yes you see that there? It's a fracture. Nothing much we can do other than immobilize it, but here's a splint and some Motrin. Have a good day then."

This thing hurts like hell and I walk a way with Motrin!? They could have at least bought me a bottle of Kilbeggan or Jameson to take the edge off. But alas I had to do that myself.

Note to self... remove hand prior to shutting door.

Killing Time

South Dakota's governor just signed legislation to stop almost all abortions because he says the government should protect the "vulnerable and most helpless" in society. The legislation says that life begins at conception and that abortion, therefore, ends a human life. What a complete crock of bullshit.

If the government of South Dakota was really concerned with protecting human life why don't they outlaw sending troops from their state to Iraq? According to Minnesota Public Radio, South Dakota ranks 8th in the US for the sheer numbers of soldiers supplied to the Iraq war. Last time I checked, members of the military are killing people and they are being killed at alarmingly high rates in the Middle East.

What about the death penalty? South Dakota currently has four inmates scheduled to die by execution. By its very definition "death penalty" includes the taking of a human life. Don't give me some half assed excuse that they are trying to protect human life when they are perpetuating the termination of it.

If life is sacred to these hypocritical politicians why do they choose to focus on only certain types of life? As far as I am concerned no life is sacred. Not some ball of fetal matter and not some asshole sitting on death row. But you know what? I am not a legislator passing laws based on politics and not on any real moral convictions.

Flippin' and a Floppin'

NY Times Headline:In India, Bush Urges Americans to Welcome Global Competition

Wasn't he against China entering the freemarket only a year ago?

Dumb Bunny

I am just now getting my computer back up and running after some idiot (namely me) installed a virus/spyware laden program on it. I had everything backed up so at least I didn't loose anything important. However, when will I learn that freedom isn't free?