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[27 Aug 2006|09:06pm] |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060827/ap_on_he_me/the_hpv_talk_1
"HPV Vaccine creates parental challenge"
Atrocious. The HPV vaccine has finally been approved, and people are still fighting it? Everybody needs to be concerned, and to protect themselves, if only to spare the MENTAL grief, let alone the physical complications. It's like the article says, you don't put away money for college once the kids are already in college. The vast, vast majority of people will be sexually active at some time in their lives. It only takes one partner to contract HPV, or any STD for that matter. My Gyn even told me about one of her elderly patients whose husband is now deceased. The patient has now developed cervical cancer because her Husband Dearest fooled around during the war. There is no reason not to vaccinate young girls (and boys, hopefully, in the near future) against a potentially life-threatening, and most certainly distressing situation.
Protect yourself; Tell Someone.
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[21 Jul 2006|01:41pm] |
" As many of you know, I'm in the field of education, and in so doing, literature and the written word are of the utmost importance. Even though I don't agree with many books out there, many newspapers and magazines, and many other things which appear in printed media, I am not in any way for censorship of ideas or the willful destruction of such things. Book-burnings, whether they are perpetrated by anti-intellectuals of the past or by modern people who think Dianetics is crap, the Left Behind series is offensive and Ann Coulter is an abomination, are an action that I would never condone and could under no circumstances ever see a need for. Any person dedicated to the ideals of free speech and freedom of information would have to agree with me on this point.
And so I would like to come out and make my stand here: I advocate never using wood in campfires, fireplaces, bonfires, or any other type of fire ever again.
Printed media and its massive production, from the late renaissance up until the modern age, has relied almost entirely on paper derived from wood pulp for its production. One could truly say that every piece of wood is a potential book that could win a Pulitzer Prize, or a potential newspaper that might inform millions of important world events.
Burning wood, or rather burning "undeveloped books," therefore, is tantamount to saying that you're a Nazi and that you would wish that free speech and the free exchange of information and ideas should stop.
If you really are an advocate for free speech, free press, and for the ability of humans to engage in meaningful dialogue over issues of importance and to educate themselves and others through the distribution of information and the skills of the written arts, you will stand with me and oppose those Nazis who would rather have roasted marshmallows for their "convenience" and "tastiness" on their summer camp-outs than a free exchange of ideas."
More here http://alfrecht.livejournal.com/174851.html
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[06 Jun 2006|04:45pm] |
KIEV, Ukraine - A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in the Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal's enclosure, a zoo official said Monday.
“The man shouted, ‘God will save me, if he exists,’ lowered himself by a rope into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went up to the lions,” the official said.
“A lioness went straight for him, knocked him down and severed his carotid artery.”
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[22 May 2006|11:21pm] |
Current love: Feist
In particular: Mushaboom, Inside+Out. Look her up.
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[09 May 2006|11:20am] |
My face feels swollen, and as if it's missing four large teeth.
Oh. Right.
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[20 Apr 2006|12:02am] |
I think...yes.
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) interobang
I've reached a new time in my life, and I think it's fitting that I make a new livejournal. Even though I must have 800 by now.
Add it, I'll go through and add who I can as I go.
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[19 Apr 2006|03:24am] |
A story I wrote. It's not my usual word-wanking, so we'll see how I do with plot. Some of you may find one of the names telling (and not yours, Erin -- it was the first name that popped into my head and I'm not saying anything about you XD <33 ). Not all of the events happened or happened just so, but the mood is true.
( If you can't stand the heat... )
Plus, it needs a new title.
(Now! With New and Improved Non-Eye-Bleeding Format!)
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[15 Apr 2006|10:23pm] |
I'm beginning to believe that someone who's hurt me so much doesn't deserve my waiting. I won't be looking, but I won't be looking back.
I mailed back all of his things. Every item given out of love instead spoke of a betrayal of my heart.
I refuse to exude desperation.
Instead I think I'll take a trip to Japan this summer.
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[15 Apr 2006|12:15am] |
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Does anybody know where I can get some feather-shaped candy? I've seen chocolate in the shape of leaves, but I don't know if there's feathers.
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[26 Mar 2006|09:45pm] |
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Does anyone else ever have the urge to simply never see again the people they once called "friend"?
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[17 Mar 2006|12:34am] |
"On Wednesday, March 1st, 2006, in Annapolis at a hearing on the proposed Constitutional Amendment to prohibit gay marriage, Jamie Raskin, professor of law at AU, was requested to testify.
At the end of his testimony, Republican Senator Nancy Jacobs said: "Mr. Raskin, my Bible says marriage is only between a man and a woman. What do you have to say about that?"
Raskin replied: "Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible."
The room erupted into applause."
http://www.raskin06.com/
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[04 Mar 2006|11:34pm] |
I bought a ticket to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I hope it's as good as last year's (two years ago?).
Anyone else going?
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[03 Mar 2006|02:05am] |
Is there something weird about rollerblading? Don't people rollerblade anymore?
On that note, I've begun rollerblading between my parking garage and my classes. It's good for me.
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[09 Feb 2006|03:41am] |
Sometimes, at three in the morning, I tend to get very productive. I sort drawers, do dishes, do general cleaning. I write all my papers and finish all my readings. I do little workouts and stretches. It's all very strange, and probably a little unhealthy.
I don't get much sleep anymore.
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[08 Feb 2006|02:14am] |
3.
And yes, I know how it feels to want to be saved.
Edit: oh, shit, that wasn't a cry for help or anything. It was a line I read in The Baltimore Review and though it was pretty.
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[19 Jan 2006|01:03am] |
This month has had some beautiful weather.
This week I've had so much homework.
Today I put in my two week's at the game store -- I have too much homework to have five hours taken out of my day. Unfortunate. I won't miss pushing those awful cards.
Tonight I dropped dried mint into my chai as I wrote assigned poetry. I'm not really a fan of the art -- my first and third writings are very nearly wry.
I'm feeling some refreshing wave of motivation. Drive is something I grew unaccustomed to, these past few years, and it is welcomed back with ready arms.
Is it okay if I want to be a wife?
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[28 Dec 2005|01:15am] |
This hotel has posters for peace concerts, mood-lit elevators, and some place called the "Creative Room."
The ice machine is behind a door with "FROZEN CUBES OF WATER ARE IN HERE" emblazoned across it.
They have fresh-baked cookies at 8 and 3.
One of my walls is red, and room service is delivered from the cafe next door.
I did not bring enough drugs.
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[25 Dec 2005|03:02pm] |
I am in San Francisco. It is raining and beautiful. My hotel room has giant red pillows and a view of sloping streets and an antique store and Japanese restuarant, both in old old buildings.
We're seeing Swan Lake tomorrow.
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[21 Dec 2005|01:59am] |
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10545387
"To be sure, Darwin's theory of evolution is imperfect. However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every point should not be used as a pretext to thrust an untestable alternative hypothesis grounded in religion into the science classroom or to misrepresent well-established scientific propositions."
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