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lol remember gaia journals |
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It seems that nearly everyone whose profile displays their most recent journal entries hasn't written in theirs since 2005-06. surprised
update on life lol
-graduated college in may '07, anthropology major.
-had a short job digging holes with an archaeology company. paid pretty well even if it was a 90 mile commute each day.
-applied to a grad school, pleasepleasepleasebeacceptedplease
-on new meds starting today
-playing drums for a year or so now
-i can do some sweet yoyo tricks
-******** still on gaia
 Brushfire Fairytale · Tue Jan 22, 2008 @ 02:29am · 0 Comments |
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What happened to the layout? :O |
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The admins could take a cue from my profile layout next time they design something so ugly. At least my vomit theme isn't as hostile to one's eyes. gonk
Brushfire Fairytale · Wed Dec 21, 2005 @ 05:36pm · 1 Comments |
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My to-do list:
-Huge astrobiology paper DONE
-Political science final 12/15 DONE
-Party 12/17
-Another poli sci final 12/19
-History final 12/20
-Anthropology take-home final (3 essays at 4-5 pages each) due 12/20
-Anthropology notebook (good class notes plus a paragraph summarizing each reading) due 12/20
-Deal with administrative ******** in which they forgot to include one class on my schedule for next semester
-Finish up last-minute shopping
-Clean upstairs by 12/26
-Not die
Brushfire Fairytale · Fri Dec 16, 2005 @ 01:17am · 2 Comments |
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s**t is actually pretty tight right now. No longer worried about my political science midterm. We hardly took any notes most of the semester because my professor likes to deviate and talk about current events, but today we discussed everything we need to know for the test and I wrote it down religiously. And the group project for astrobiology isn't a total failure after all because I did a ******** of research and Holly is going to make us an artistic powerpoint. Don't get me wrong; I'm still way stressed out. Just a tiny bit more optimistic about school. Even though my grades were soooo much better the last three semesters. D:
I've been hooked on We heart Katamari lately. It's the most ridiculous game I've ever played (even more so than the first Katamari), and it makes absolutely no sense. But I love it. It just never gets old. It doesn't bore me like an RPG, and it's not overly fast-paced and dependent on coordination like a shooting game. It's just rolling around a big ball of junk. It's relaxing to play and doesn't use any buttons. Plus, it cracks me up and the music is awesome and the sound of picking up stuff is so satisfying that it makes you want to keep doing it. If you have a PS2 and like $30, buy this game. Or steal it, or something. surprised
A bunch of relatives came over for dinner tonight. It was fun. whee Maybe I'm lucky to have a family I don't hate. surprised
Oh man. I just checked out the Gaia storyline update and couldn't stop laughing. Maybe it's because it's 1 in the morning. But it's so wtf. xd I get a kick out of the weirdness in all of their little comic-things.
Tomorrow's election day, so I get to vote out those wacky republicans that keep raising Nassau County cops' pay every year and putting us into debt. And maybe they'll finally get those huge ******** campaign signs off every building, fence, street corner, and urinal. stressed
I'm so tired I could fall asleep on my keybbbbbbmfffffffffffffffffdgkjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Brushfire Fairytale · Tue Nov 08, 2005 @ 06:12am · 1 Comments |
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It's been forever since the last time I wrote in here. But yeah, I'm alive. D:
School is way stressful and I'm way lazy. I officially changed my major to anthropology, and I enjoy it muchly. But I haven't been trying nearly as hard this semester. Maybe if we had more assignments, I wouldn't get so comfortable. Now I have this huge ******** group project for my honors class due on wednesday and nobody in the group has met to discuss it yet. Oops. And midterms are eating up most of my time. Registration for next semester started a week ago, and by the time I get around to finalizing it, there will be no classes left. Yay. Ooh, and I lost my student ID and I can't afford to replace it. Maybe it's in my car.
Ooh. My car. It's been in the shop for about a week. My friend Melanie crashed into it right before the anthropology club's camping trip, which squished my passenger door in. After a long battle with the insurance company, they agreed to fork over the $4000 needed to get it all fixed. We got a rental car, but I'm too young to drive it so mom just let me drive the convertible instead. I'm ******** spoiled. D:
Oh yeah. I'm in the anthropology club with a bunch of awesome nerds. We have our own little crowd, complete with parties, late-night meetups at the diner, and even some drama. We went to the renaissance faire back in September, did the camping thing (which was surprisingly fun after all), and this friday we should be going to the Sex Museum in the city. surprised Looking forward to it.
Halloween was lame this year. We only bought two bags of candy, and ended up eating most of it because no trick-or-treaters ever come around here anymore. My dad told me to go throw eggs at the house around the block with all the annoying dogs that bark at 5 in the morning. We hate the people who live there too. So I put on my Khrushchev mask and some black gloves and made a mess of their house and their SUV. I bet it must have been fun to deal with that once it all dried. Otherwise, Halloween was unexciting. But I went to a sweet costume party on the 29th with my anthroclub friends and like...30 people that I didn't know. My costume rocked. I was a dude with an enormous iridescent jellyfish eating his head. I saved the big jellyfish so I can hang it from the ceiling as some kind of decoration. whee Oh, and Gaia officially rocks for reissuing bunny slippers, even if they are green and kinda evil. whee
My birthday is on the 12th. Send me s**t. surprised Actually, it's better that you don't because I'm still having my quarter-life crisis and I don't like getting old. My dad's taking me to see ZZ Top on thursday. Which is simultaneously awesome and depressing because they rock hard but nobody under 40 likes them. Still gonna be fun though. :3 Otherwise, I dunno what I'm doing for my birthday. Not much. All I know is that I'm probably getting a new camera. And I've had the urge to go surfing lately so it would be fun to have a wetsuit so I wouldn't freeze out there. Can't think of anything else that I really want/need, except for maybe another didgeridoo so I can bug the neighbors. I suppose I could ask for personalized naked pictures of female Gaians, but I'm too lazy to make a quest out of it and publicize it. surprised I guess on saturday I'll just treat myself to a pumpkin spice frappuccino and go out to dinner with the parents and then sleep.
Ooh. Yeah. And I went to Hawaii at the end of august. It was way awesome and now I reallyreallyreally want to move there. The whole way of life is completely different from here, and I could certainly get used to it.
Not much else to say except I'm really tired and I have to wake up at a reasonable hour tomorrow so I can maybe do some studying or some research for that group project before class and still have time for my bike ride. So I'm going to haul my a** to bed now. Peace. surprised
Brushfire Fairytale · Mon Nov 07, 2005 @ 05:10am · 1 Comments |
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I almost never write in this thing anymore. D:
1/3 of the summer has passed, and I've done nothing. No job, no self-improvement, no nothing. This month should be better though. 3nodding
Went to see War of the Worlds last night. ******** scary. D: I want one of them tripod thingies.
I can't get this blue paint off my legs no matter how hard I try. Yeah, I've been painting the walls/ceiling in my parents' room for the past week, and I suck at it so it's messy.
Brushfire Fairytale · Sat Jul 02, 2005 @ 07:05pm · 0 Comments |
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The 14 characteristics of Fascism
by Dr. Lawrence Britt
Free Inquiry magazine, Spring 2003
Dr. Britt, a political scientist, studied the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile). He found the regimes all had 14 things in common, and he calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. ]
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism -- Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights -- Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to 'look the other way' or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause -- The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial, ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
4. Supremacy of the Military -- Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
5. Rampant Sexism -- The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and antigay legislation and national policy.
6. Controlled Mass Media -- Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or through sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in wartime, is very common.
7. Obsession with National Security -- Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined -- Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.
9. Corporate Power is Protected -- The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
10. Labor Power is Suppressed -- Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely or are severely suppressed.
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts -- Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment -- Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses, and even forego civil liberties, in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption -- Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions, and who use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
14. Fraudulent Elections -- Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against (or even the assassination of) opposition candidates, the use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and the manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
Brushfire Fairytale · Fri Jun 03, 2005 @ 08:49pm · 0 Comments |
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