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Friday, February 10th, 2006
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4695320.stm
Finally!, we agree on something.
now they need to ask
1 who would Jesus bomb?, or give arms to illegally to use against his own people? I'm always amazed how quickly people go on with their lives and their indifference when we know that Saddam used to be buddy buddy with us.
2 who would jesus want to live in poverty, or starve, or let die of AIDS because condoms are "bad"? This activist woman who has visited Iraq thirty-some times since the 70's lectured at Northern on Tuesday. She is awesome and educated in every respect.. I respect that she still believes in nonviolence and everything. But, she is a hard-core Catholic - a professor at Loyola i believe. The Catholic missionaries that she travels with and supports will not condone the distriubtion of contraception - especially condoms - in preventing the spread of AIDS. How can you not say that religion is responsible for the spread of the disease, they aren't having sex, but they're about 1 degree removed.
Its bothersome ultimately because I initially resepected religious beliefs of others in hopes that they respect mine. The idea of mutual respect only works when you aren't harming anyone but yourself. When huge populations are dying though because of Catholics' inaction, it makes it sooo so difficult. Why do you have to be like this, religious folks? Don't bitch about us not letting you practice freely when you don't keep to yourselves.
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DO IT DO IT NOW
1. Name:
2. Age:
3. Fave Color:
4. Fave Movie:
5. Fave Song:
6. Fave Band:
7. Most Embarassing Moment:
8. Are you a virgin?
HERE COMES THE FUN ... ... ...
1. Are we friends?
2. Do you have a crush on me?
3. Would you kiss me?
4. ...with tongue?
5. Would you enjoy it?
6. Would you ever ask me out?
7. Would you make a move on me in a movie theater?
8. Would you hold me if I was crying?
9. Would you take care of me when I'm sick?
10. Do you want to tell me something that you couldn't before?
11. If I gave you my phone number, would you call me?
12. If you heard a rumor about me, would you defend me?
13. Do you talk about me?
14. Do you think I'm a good person?
15. Would you let me sleep with you?
16. Would you take me to a romantic walk on the beach and let me lay with you?
17. Do you think I'm hot?
18. If you could change anything about me -would you?
19. Will you post this so I can fill it out for you?
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| Time: | 1:04 am. |
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Three viewings of the Vagina Monologues in three days (with Jen-derless performing no less) is too much. Let me explain. Jen, the unelected, unoffical, unwanted Vice President of NIUs Women's Alliance talks about explicit personal sexual encounters during meetings.. Hearing her perform in the VM makes you want to vomit in your lap. (Second part of the explanation, she's transgendered - and willingly calls herself Jenderless) However, total earnings from three nights: $674.00. :)
I love the monologue on childbirth. They compare the vagina to the heart; how it can stretch to let you in and change shape to let you out, and it can break and bleed and heal like a heart can. Also, the reclaiming Cunt as an empowerment phrase monologue will always unsettle the prudes in the house.
Unfortunate news...
A friend of Brian's from Harper recently was found dead in Lake Michigan after she'd been missing. Its been deemd a suicide, on account of a suicide note, but this girl never suggested she was unhappy and as such its very eerie news. Brian is being asked by Harper Honors to give some sort of remembrance discussion and he's really stressed.
My 21st birthday went well. I had a surprise party while at home and my roommates got me enough booze to get ten men trashed. Interestingly, it doesn't do much for me anymore. Not because of the empty calories, but I just get sick feeling. Caffiene, now that's a rush. I think DeKalb needs a lil caffiene bar.
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
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Friday, December 17th, 2004
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Name: Meghan
Birth date: Feb. 28th 1984
Birthplace: Arlington Heights, IL
Current location: suburbia, USA
Eye color: Green and brown
Hair color: Dark Brown
Right or Left: Talk on the phone with my left
Zodiac Sign: Pisces
LAYER TWO: ON THE INSIDE
Your heritage: Romanian and Irish
Shoes you wore today?: brown Vans
Your weakness: H&M, stepmom’s “snowballs” (they’re a holiday cookie)
Your fears: cramped spaces and the dark
Your perfect pizza: spinach/ sausage deep dish
LAYER THREE: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW
Your most overused phrase on AIM: oh
Your thoughts waking up: they differ depending on my dream
Your best physical feature: my eyes?
Your bedtime: early morning
Your most missed memory: what? That makes no sense.
LAYER FOUR: YOUR PICK
Pepsi or Coke: they both fuck your insides up, big time. I just do the h2o.
McDonald's or Burger King: I don’t eat that stuff either
Single or Group Dates: Brian?
Adidas or Nike: This test is so mainstream. I like Doc Martens and my birkys
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: green tea and sugar
Chocolate or Vanilla: vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: green tea and sugar
LAYER FIVE: DO YOU?
Smoke: grass if anything
Cuss: Je’th’sus Christ!
Take a shower everyday: sometimes. It saves the water for my grandkids.
Think you've been in love: A few times
Believe in yourself: Sure
Get motion sickness: No… well on planes I get scared sick. It doesn’t make sense, they’re too heavy.
Think you're attractive: Sure
Think you're a health freak: Occasionally, but I need to harness that
Get along with your parents: When we aren’t being ungrateful of each other
Like thunderstorms: Yes!
Play an instrument: acoustic guitar
LAYER SIX: IN THE PAST MONTH HAVE YOU…
Drank alcohol: Yes
Done a drug: No
Gone on a date: I guess
Gone to the mall: I’m American
Been on stage: Gave a rousing presentation on the Environmental Liberation Front
Eaten an entire box of Oreos: I don’t like chocolate
Eaten sushi: No
Been dumped: No
Gone skating: No
Gone skinny dipping: No
Dyed your hair: No
Stolen anything: No
LAYER SEVEN: HAVE YOU EVER
Been caught "doing something": Yes
Been called a tease?: Yes, falsely so
Gotten beaten up: Maybe by my brother
Shoplifted: Yes, a pair of thick cotton socks when Kmart was going out of business – I’m wearing them right now, how ironical
LAYER EIGHT: GETTING OLDER
Age you hope to be married: 25 is ideal
Numbers of children: As many as my body and my husband can afford
How do you want to die: While I’m unconscious
What do you want to be when you grow up: Maybe a lawyer or working with a non-profit
What country would you most like to visit: Africa (Bush said it was a country.)
LAYER NINE: IN A GUY
Best eye color?: blue
Best hair color?: brown
Short or Long Hair: grown out and disheveled
Height: Not important
Best first date location: His place, with a dinner (home-cooked) and wine
LAYER TEN: IN THE NUMBERS
Number of people I could trust with my life: 5 or so
Number of CD's I own: 350 or so
Number of piercings: 3 former piercings, 2 ears and one labret
Number of tattoos: None
Number of times my name has appeared in the newspaper: I don’t know… 2 times in the Northern Star (NIU’s student daily) plus an editorial
Number of scars on my body: My thumbnail is dented from when I was little
Number of things in my past I regret: the number of times I cheated on my previous boyfriend
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2004
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| Time: | 12:17 am. |
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"If you want to have gay sex or visit a library, tonight is probably your last night to do it."
- Jon Stewart, Nov. 3rd
Key factors concerning the massive turnout of "moral value voters"
Biblical verses condemning homosexuality: Less than 7 (translations and context of these are unclear)
Biblical verses condemning abortion: 0
Biblical verses condemning gay marriage: 0
Biblical verses condemning stem-cell research: 0
Key factors concerning the administration they elected into office
Biblical verses about duty to the poor: More than 70
Biblical verses condemning war: More than 70
Biblical verses exalting peace: More than 100
Biblical verses condemning falsehood: More than 100
Biblical verses condemning hypocrisy: More than 200
I'll admit a condemnation of abortion is "iffy", you could argue killing innocent life qualifies. Even so, killing innocent Iraqis would fall under that heading.
I just don't understand why so many voters care what homosexuals do, especially if they aren't being married in that religious institution. Gay marriage would be an entirely governmental license, and probably wouldn't even carry the "gay" title. It's just marriage. Really what business is it of Christians, one of many religions/ beliefs in America, how others live their lives if it isn't infringing on their rights?
Someone answer that please. I'm doing a paper on the Christian Right. An evangelical friend of my roommate just uses the Bible to defend his position and thats only averting the question that transcends Christianity.
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2004
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You're Mother Night!
by Kurt Vonnegut
Nobody knows what to believe about you, and you know least of all. You
spent most of your time convinced that the ends justify the means, but your means were,
well, downright mean! And the end is nigh. Meanwhile all you want is to travel back in
time, if not to change, then to just delight in the way it used to be. You are who you
pretend to be. Oh yes, you're the great pretender.
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.
Vonnegut is the shit, this is scarily coincidental.
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Thursday, March 4th, 2004
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2004
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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
- John Stuart Mill
it's important to know what's right and be willing to fight for it, in the intellectual sense. :) pulling hair doesn't solve anything
i watched a news program this afternoon on wttw about 'Christian Zionists'.. they're all about Christ, but also for the state of Israel's sole occupation of the west bank. wtf you might say, since most people only think THEIR people will be 'saved'. why would american christians GO to Isreal and adopt jewish settlements and work for the Jews?
Turns out that the CZ are only working for the Israelis so that the end of the bibles' prophesies are fulfilled - something about all the Jews returning home, etc. What a bunch of weirdos. for one, the jews getting their holy land back should be by the jews efforts (and this won't ever happen since the palestinians deserve a slice of the land), but also the CZ's motives aren't really "Christian-like". kind of ruins all the effort. whatever, i just wish people would put aside their beliefs and respect each other. :)
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Thursday, February 19th, 2004
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Monday, October 20th, 2003
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I haven't written for a long-ass time. Mostly because I don't want to bore everyone.. :-P
Northern IL is so much better this year. They upgraded me to a suite with a bath. (I still can't find a bathtub, but whatever.) All my roommates are over 21 - yeh! - so getting the booze is slightly easier than before and I have reason to STAY on weekends. And, our football team is 7-0! Not that I'm a sports fan by any means.
Everyone on my floor is quiet as all hell, but they're fun to chill with. Quick question, there's this guy down the hall who tells me, via IM, that he's just gotten out of the shower and is in his boxers followed by a *stickin out tongue*. You tell me, is he being goofy or something else?
ps. If anyone can figure out how to work this "skype" thing, I'd welcome anything you've got to say!
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2003
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For those girls (& boys of course - i won't discriminate) interested, my sn is CamusBamoos ... :) thx.
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| Time: | 10:58 pm. |
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I don't know a whole lot about the other girls in your circle, but I happen to enjoy the outdoors. Last summer I went to a moe. concert down along the Illinois river, just camping all weekend, and it was great getting away from everything.
Backpacking, while I've never gone for a week or so, is something I wanted to do this summer. It really bothers me that women weren't invited to go along to this Montana trip. Jesus, would that terrain be a great hike. I don't know why it wouldn't be a fun experience all around. Gettin dirty and enjoying a week or so with some friends [I've not quite gotten to know yet].
I am not a male, so I'm probably not going to hear the real reasons. ...But, if any of the girls are interested, I'd love to host a weekend backpacking trip.. maybe to Wisconsin, if Montana isn't a possibility.
Thanks for listening! :)
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2003
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ENTRY 1.
So, I'm looking into this "vegan lifestyle". Brenda Davis, a knowledgable [fuckin'] lady friend of my philosophy teacher spoke to a small crowd this past Sunday night. She convinced me that the oil used to soak/ boil mickey D's freedom fries is no worse than chemical weapons - just as toxic to the body, over a few dozen years of course.
Advantages to VEG: Probably won't perish at age 43 from cardiac arrest; Will spare a few chickens from hanging upside down for days, with their legs in clamps, only to die.
Disadvantages to VEG: Obvious (no more succulent, blood-filled steaks); I don't enjoy vegetables.
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This past weekend was fabulous. Friday evening I spent at the Palatine train station - my former photography teacher was having a reception for his exhibit, accompanied by complete strangers playing jazz. Good times all around. Saturday, while hectic during the day, couldn't have ended more perfectly. I brought/ dragged Brian to see a favorite musical artist of mine, Ani DiFranco, play at this ornate, old theater in Joliet. [To anyone driving along Rt. 53, Romeoville is not where you wanna stop & stretch.] The concert was different than I was expecting, since in recent years her sound has gotten more experimental, with a lot of jazz elements. Someone coulda told me that there'd be no band. But, it was more intimate & I got to hear some very very funky GET-ar. Sunday's events aren't worth mentioning - thank you Brian though for coming with to my stepmom's folks.
21 days until I leave this corn field.
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