Just Tommygirl

One day I will remember that I have this journal and sign in. I think it's because I don't really follow the communities involving wank over here...so I'm always just off in la, la land for the most part.

I'm so glad it's Friday. I'm ready for this week to be over. And I put in for Monday off though I haven't decided if I'll use it. But I can always come in on a scheduled day off. It's not so easy not to show up when I'm expected to be here.

Okay weird moment there as I tried to look at my user info page while reading friends list. It took me to livejournal and said "account deleted." Had momentary panic before remembering I'm not tommygirl on livejournal. Some evil person had beaten me to it and now it would be way too much work to ever switch.

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I keep forgetting I have this account. I have the fandomwank stuff friended, but I don't really ever read it...so I usually don't think to sign in here. But since some more people are migrating, I guess I should check it every once and awhile. For now, I'm still posting at livejournal though. Baby steps to blogging freedom.

I'm so very close to purchasing a copy of Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss for each of my co-workers.

I accept that not everyone in the world cares as much about proper grammar as I tend to, but it shouldn't take me all afternoon to edit a report. And why does it take this long, you ask? It's because people randomly add apostrophes to things. Apostrophes! It's not even commas or periods, but apostrophes, as though it's a test of some sort.

Mare looks sleepy today. Let's see if she's paying attention. ::randomly inserts apostrophe into middle of sentence::

New fall season of television gets underway this evening for me with the return of Prison Break. I'm totally the first to admit this show requires a huge capacity for not being bogged down by reality, but it has brothers who would do anything to help each other - even go to prison to break the other out - and I'm a sucker for that. Plus, it's highly addictive. And features hot boys.

Seriously, it's a lot like my soap operas in that while I'm watching it, I tend to wonder what the hell is wrong with me and mock the dialogue/plots, but I still watch every week. And love it. I have never claimed to be a picky television viewer.

Also this week Gossip Girl starts. I'm not sure what to think of that. I read the first three books from that series awhile ago, but I found it to be annoying. I figured I would watch the pilot and decide from there.

The only thing about the fall season coming back that upsets me is that USA's summer television shows this year rocked. Burn Notice and Psych were near perfect and I will miss them terribly.

I watched Bill Clinton on Oprah from Tuesday last night. I'm not really a fan of Oprah, mostly because I think she's all "me, me, me" even when doing good things and I'm also convinced she's out to take over the world one book club at a time.

It was interesting to see though the young girl who raised all that money for children in Africa. Because I do believe that one person can make a difference. Maybe not to the extent that this girl ended up achieving, but something good comes out of good.

As it used to be said on Joan of Arcadia, good ripples form.

Watching this did make me feel like I don't do enough for other people. I try to donate my time to causes, mostly because right now I'm poor (I work nonprofit, my pay just about covers rent), but I wonder if I'm doing enough. But the truth is, I'm far lazier than whatever prompts me toward good will.

Stupid Oprah show is making me think about things.

Life would be so much easier if stories wrote themselves, especially on days when I have headaches of doom.

This sort of thinking also applies to other things in life like cooking dinner, laundry, and exercise. Like if there could be a day when I could hire someone to work out for me and still reep the rewards...oh what a happy day that would be. Because I hate exercise. I hate it, but I do it because it's supposed to make me healthy and get me in shape.

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Somehow I managed to get my left leg covered in bug bites. And it itches. And I'm in a woe-is-me mood already. Feel free to slap me silly and remind me that there are far worse things going on in the world than bug bites.

I'll still complain though.

Sometimes I think I will watch almost anything if it airs on the History channel. Yesterday I watched this documentary on 9/11 Conspiracy Theories, which is weird for me because I usually have an aversion to all the 9/11 specials out there. I'm getting a bit better about them, but I lost a friend that day at the WTC and it's hard not to think about him whenever that stuff comes on. And that tends to take me to a place I don't particularly care for.

But I watched this and it's fascinating and mind boggling to see these people who have such *certainty* that 9/11 is full of conspiracy. And even when they're faced with proof that debunks their whole argument, they continue to maintain these crazy things.

On the one hand, I understand the urge to try to have something so insane make sense. To find reasons for what most of us consider unreasonable actions. And I even can see how our current President and his administration do nothing to make us trust them.

But people honestly believe that the WTC was a planned demolition? That it was a missle that hit the Pentagon even though there were many eyewitnesses to the plane hitting? Or that the United 93 calls were fakes, as though the loved ones they were talking to wouldn't recognize something like that? Or even better...that our government is even capable of keeping a huge secret like that and/or that there is NO ONE good working in any of the numerous jobs that would know about something like that?

I'm hardly one to say we should completely trust our government, especially not the current administration, but maybe a bit of skepticism about these theories would be a good thing.

What did make me mad was the way these people gathered on the anniversary of 9/11 at places and shouted out about their theories. There are people mourning. That is a grave site for thousands of people...that's not the place to be political.

Overall, it was fascinating, but I think these conspiracy theorists are a tad bit nutty.

Oh the pain of dealing with someone that I just want to shake sense into. Our IT consultant drives me crazy. He's a good guy as long as we avoid anything politically minded because he's very Republican, in that he thinks Bush is "one of our better Presidents" and thinks Al Gore has made up global warming to make Bush look bad.

WHAT?

And I just don't know how to respond to someone like that. It's crazy. Fine, I might be able to swallow the first one (not really) because that could be considered more subjective (not really)...but Al Gore made up global warming? And I know this guy has brains so how the hell can he believe that?

I'm just...boggled.

How? What? Huh?

And I would think that I would be fairly safe at my job. I work for a non-profit focused on getting single drivers off the road to cut down on pollution. And yet this guy thinks global warming isn't real...oh the pain.

Okay, with help from others, I think I finally have this semagic thing figured out for all four of my journals. I'm not sure how often I'll use this feature for all of them, but it's nice to know I have that option.

Now I must go cook dinner, shower, and try to do some writing this evening. My goal for the week is to try for at least a half hour each night.

I'm trying to figure out this multiple posting thing.

I went book shopping this afternoon after lunch with a few friends. And then we watched The Two Coreys. Oh wow. I used to have a crush on Corey Haim and now I feel *dirty* about it.

And I really want to write some Dean Winchester fic, but I can't decide what to do...am I in an AU mood? Do I just want to write some post season finale fic? Should I just focus on the numerous fics waiting to be finished?

::fingers crossed that this works::

Living La Vida Loca is the subtitle of this journal because I didn't want it to be the same as my other ones, but I'm completely lame and couldn't think of anything better. I'm not necessarily a Ricky Martin fan. In fact, he creeps me out a bit. I'm a bit skeptical of anyone who claims to be so zen and centered. It's not natural unless you're the Dalai Lama.

Still...I found myself dancing and singing along on my drive to work when "Livin' La Vida Loca" came on the radio. I'm sure other drivers thought I was insane and that is probably a fair assessment.

Why is it that Republicans I know make no sense? They talk in circles and when you point it out, they get mad.

And good LORD how I hate the psuedo-we're-so-moral crap that they try to spout, especially when it comes to a woman having control over her body. I was reading an article and this guy basically came right out and said that birth control is wrong because a woman should be PUNISHED for having sex for any other reason than reproducing. On the one hand, at least this loser is honest about why he is against birth control rather than hiding behind "it's like abortion" (which it's not) and morality. But I just...my mind boggles that there are still people who think women can't enjoy sex because that's for men. Women are just babymakers.

Really, this is why I don't want to have kids. What if I gave birth to a Republican? Then I'm continuing the problem.

My co-workers are testing my patience today. One of them decided to preach to me about Emergency Contraception. I am the WRONG girl to do this with as I know my stuff and volunteer at a women's center and one of my great passions is making sure women retain their rights.

She refused to hear me out, even though I told her I could get her scientific proof of what I'm saying. She responds to me - "Science isn't the final answer for everything."

Uh, yes it is.

And for the record: Emergency Contraception (Day After Pill as some call it) is NOT an abortion. it's no type of abortion. If you were already pregnant, it would not affect your pregnancy except to make you really sick. It's actually a larger dosage of the birth control pill. It's a preventative measure, which I would think people who claim to be "pro-life" would be all for.

The pill she was thinking of was the RU one and that's a different discussion entirely.

Argh.

Why must I hear these things?

My electricity was out...AGAIN. This is the fourth time in less than one week. And it's always out for six or seven hours at a time. And then nothing gets accomplished all day because there isn't much that I can do except for read or sleep or escape into the world.

And I had to work this weekend.

Fun times. Really.

Sometimes being an adult sucks a whole lot. I don't recall having great anxiety about bills and going into work on weekends to make sure things got done when I was a kid. Back then my greatest worries were making sure that I got back from the beach in time for Reading Rainbow.

Even better? Yesterday while doing my volunteer escorting at a women's center, I was called a horrible genocidal maniac (because I was escorting a black woman into the clinic to keep her from being verbally abused by another black woman). Wow! I'm a genocidal maniac! Does that come on t-shirts?

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Don't mind me. I'll stop complaining and go read some of the recs of MCR fic that Steph gave me. Cute bandom boys being schmoopy just might cure my anger with the world. Also going to find some torrents of Fallen since my electricity was out and therefore my dvr did not record the episodes.

So how was your weekend?

With everything going on with Livejournal's down time and the ongoing concern over what the TOS will be, I've been trying to cover my bases with fandom. Much love to arby_m because I now have the account here. So I'm Tommygirl. If I have you friended, it's because I either recognize your username from livejournal and/or I found you interesting.

I can also be found:

Livejournal: I'm Storydivagirl - continues to be my main fannish journal

Insane Journal: I'm Tommygirl - I'm slowly using it to back things up.

Greatest Journal: I'm Dastardlyspoon - Greatestjournal is where I tend to go when Livejournal is down, but otherwise, I don't use it a whole lot.