Tequila Sunrise

Gah. Up early to babysit following a bad night of sleep Thursday night. Addisyn is lucky that she's so damn cute and that I love her otherwise I wouldn't be doing this!

Since the little twerp is napping...since 730, I might as well just waste some time blogging.

I was a total Julia Child on Thursday and Friday. It is my gma's 80th birthday party today so I had to help cook appetizers and shit. Only drew blood once the whole time, using something that was supposed to prevent me from cutting myself. Go figure. It was one of those things that looks like a pick and you stab the food and then cut, only as I was stabbing it it slid and stabbed me. Le sight.

Oh! Here is the Rickie Weeks picture I made!
I feel bad for being happy he's out, just not that bad.

Oh! The little poop factory is awake now. I'm so mean. I wrapped her up, rocked her and then laid her on the floor to sleep cause I didn't want to have to hold her the whole time. Such a smiley pants! Well I'm glad someone is willing to crack big smiles right after she wakes up! Aww....

I guess I should attend to her. Though she seems pretty content just laying by me, munching on her hands.

Adios!

Typical Saturday night...

Yay! My Jezzy is fixed! Must have been a common problem because when I told the Geek at Best Buy what was wrong with her it was wham bam thank you ma'am and she was fixed. Apparently it has something to do with the built in web cam.

Since I had to wander around Best Buy while something was being installed, I happened across a CD that I had to buy. A Red Hot Chili Peppers one, naturally. Which one? Blood, Sugar, Sex and Magik. Or what I like to call a typical Saturday night! 'Cept that whole blood part...
Kidding! Dur.

Holy buckets! It's raining cats and dogs! Good thing I don't have much of anything to do today. Well I do have three jobs to apply to and the basement to clean. Make that four jobs...I need to send a letter to the local weeklies saying heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyy want a cheap freelancer? Here I am! Yesterday I spent part of the day looking for jobs and watching Sponge Bob half naked. Ok I wasn't half naked. I was completely naked.

Since Jezebel is fixed I can finally make my pretty photo compositions! Here is one that represents my distaste in Jeff Suppan, again.
He needs to not be terrible. Oh! I should make one about Rickie and how I'm happy he isn't playing because it means more playing time for Craigy!

Ok. I gotta go be productive.

Beef Lo Mein!

No Más

Ay! No more college for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Well unless I go and get a Master's which I'm really not seriously thinking about doing right now.

Anyway. All done! I done gone got me a degree. Well so I assume. I don't plan on failing any classes.

Now the million dollar question is what am I to do with myself. I'm giving myself until August to hopefully land a job or find one sort of better suited to me then the frigg-ass grocery store. But if I don't then money is money and it's back to asking my most favoritests phrase ever: "paper or plastic?"

I got plans of sending out letters to the local newspapers to say hey if you need a freelancer at any time, give me a call yo. And I'm thinking about starting a website-another blog actually, I'm not gonna pay for a website!- for photography. Showcase some stuff, ya know, shit like that. I figure it can't hurt. I'm trying to sweet talk my mom into sweet talking her bosses into hiring me out to go take pictures of houses and buildings to showcase what they do for pretty much nothing. I got the time so I might as well cover all my bases.

I think so far the best job I've applied to that I really, really, really would love to get is a researcher for a congressional magazine in DC. I love research! I don't know why but I enjoy doing it. That would be badass.

Alright well-oh! No! Wait! I do have something else to say! Rickie Weeks is out for the season! Under normal circumstances this is not something one would be happy about but 1) I do not like Rickie Weeks and 2) That means Craig Counsell is going to be getting more playing time! I do feel a little bad since this year he wasn't quite sucking with the force of a shop vac, I'd call it more of a dirt devil level of suckyness but I still don't really like him. Point number 2 also makes it a little better.

Ok now I think I'm done.

Au River.

3...2...1

Sweeeeet Mary! Mother of Gooooooooooooood! I'm almost done with my college careeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer!

Ok now I'm paralyzed in fear. What the frisnick am I supposed to do now?! Get a real job? I'm trying! I'm trying! Shit am I trying.

My last final is today! Well, I gotta go on Friday because when I was giving my presentation I broke the computer and yeah...I was pissed off! I stood up there for like ten minutes, face red as hell cause I was embarrassed that I had broke the computer and everyone was staring at me. Stupid technology! So I've devised a new plan so that doesn't happen again. Cause if it does I'll curl up in a ball and cry.

In order to celebrate the end of the year, and as a belated birthday gift to me from my roommate, BREWERS GAME TONIGHT! What up! Ye-yah punks! Going to see my fellas! If you're able to watch the game then do so because let me tell ya, we are making it on TV tonight. Oh yes Clarice we are! I can't say what our plans are since we're going for the "wow" factor. My mom knows since she came down here the other day and I had to show someone. It should be good. Yes indeedly do.

Eek. I should be studying. Want to know some mass communication's law? Alright! Here's a little diddy for you. Porno is not a legal term. Its intent is for sexual arousal. Obscenity is a legal term, has no first amendment protection and you aren't gonna find in on the airwaves. Also it is hard to define something as obscene. Indecency is also a legal term, a shade less then obscenity and also you really aren't going to see much of it in broadcast except that there are safe harbor laws! Yes! In the great country of America we protect indecent material so you can get your TV shows with all the explicits between the hours of 10pm and 6am! Only it isn't good PR so most of the time you aren't gonna see it.

PS did you know that back in the 60s-70s before the Miller v. California Supreme Court decision the justices used to watch spankables in the Court basement? Yeah! They did it cause they were getting so many cases about indecent vs. obscene. Talk about your tax money at work! But then the decision as handed down and the porno nights ended.

Also in WI you can only close a public meeting for five reasons. Guesses? Anyone? no? talking with counsel, negotiation of property and labor, personnel matters and talking about crime detection and prevention. Interesting to note that at both the Fed and state level there are no statutes about open meetings in congress.

Oh, this rambling is testing my brain in a fun way! Sorry if anyone actually read this hoping for something good...which then why read this blog to start out with if that is your intent? oooh and there goes the self esteem...right. Yeah. Uh huh.

Can you put a gag order on the press? Mmm yes but have fun meeting the criteria. Nebraska Press Test! 1) pretrial coverage would be intense and pervasive 2) no alternative measures could offset the coverage and 3) the order would really help prevent prejudicial influence. See the one that is the sticking point is number two. You can always sequestion the jury, screen jurors, warn the jury or haul in one from a different town.

I could go in to FCC v. Pacifica and how if ties in with Red Lion v. FCC and Miami Herald v. Tornillo but I'll spare you since I know that one real good since I wrote a term paper about Miami Herald.... But it is interesting to note that there is a right of reply in broadcast for political candidates but there isn't one in print.

Did you know that "puffery" is a legal term? First off, number one word I want to hear a Supreme Court Justice say behind the phrase "sexual arousal" or something to that effect.

Right...I think I've went on long enough about comm. law. I don't mind learning about it but I'm sure others do. So...

Hasta la pesto pasta!

Tweeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

Yeah. I did just link my twitter to this.

Recognize!

Right. Maybe then I'll update my twitter more, who knows?

Unconventional Warfare

I killed a wasp today using nothing but febreze, shower cleaner, a chopstick and this cunning wit.

Weelllll...my roommate helped.

...and I probably could have just used a flyswatter.

Let me set the scene. We have double windows, you know the deal where you have to slide open one then slide open another to get to the screen. So Briana has a hole in her screen and a wasp got in. She shut the window and was going to leave it like that until he either found his way out or died. He'd been trapped for a day or so and today I decided I'd get rid of him. I was feeling feisty. Normally I don't get near anything that stings when I don't have full body armor on. I first went after him with some light chemical warfare, febreze. Slide the window open and squirt, squirt! Didn't really do much. Squirted him some more. Kind of paralyzed him. Good. Then Briana whipped out the shower cleaner, the nuclear weapon in our arson. She doused him and he certainly didn't care much for that. I got a chopstick and figured in his drugged state it would be safe to poke him. I knocked him down and Briana sprayed him again. Oh, then the sad part started. No longer was the blast going to kill him, no. It was the fallout from the radiation that was taking him down. I felt bad after watching him struggle for a while so I put him out of his agony. I stabbed him with the chopstick ala Last Samurai.

When I said afterwards to Briana how accomplishing my day was with killing a wasp with febreze and a chopstick, it made me think of Frank from MASH. I don't know what episode it was but he was talking to Hawkeye and he said something like "well big deal! I once killed a gopher with a stick!" Yeah.

GAHHHHHHH. I hate this time of year. I have got way too much shit to get done. But the good thing is I've got an alright jump on things. But the added stress of graduating does not help any. Life used to be so much better when I could sleep.

Oh. And I'm totally on twitter now. It is more so I can look at what other people are doing, i.e. FS Wisconsin, then for me to actually tweet. But I don't know. Perhaps when it really takes off or if anyone ever reads it I'll do it more. I don't really like the word twitter because it makes me think of Bambi and twitterpatting.

Right. Back to reading. Boo.