Bright and Shiny Idols

2004-03-20T14:50:00.000-05:00

You are the weakest link
Ha ha!
You've been dissed, Horse Teeth!
Goodbye!

2004-03-13T04:18:00.000-05:00

I actually just found a better place to blog, so I've pretty much decided to abandon this place. At least there, I get cool and funky colors.
That took all of what? Four days?
If your are at all interested, go here---->
http://brightstuff.mindsay.com/
Later!

2004-03-13T04:04:00.000-05:00

It's been confirmed.
My cat, my beautiful Baby, is dying.
I've been advised to put her down.
I spent most of last night crying and wondering how I'm going to handle this, making arrangements (what I am going to do with her remains)...
More later...I don't want to think about it...

2004-03-12T16:25:00.000-05:00

Revenge of the no-necked black bitch

Apparently, the kid who gave me that lovely moniker will be attending a hearing to have him permanently ousted from the school and my life.

There IS justice in this world!

I'll have to defer to Samantha on "Sex In the City" about this one--- some kids are assholes.

Un-PC of me, for sure, but look deep down in your heart. I'm sure that there's at least one little tyke that you know who is an asshole.

My father used to say that all children were angels of God.

I prefer to believe that many of them are actually the minions of Satan, but that's just me...

2004-03-11T19:13:00.000-05:00

Baby did a bad, bad thing!

I do shamelessly bad things sometimes and I don’t regret it.
In fact I sometimes enjoy doing these things WAY too much.
Have you ever gleefully indulged in being a baddie? I have, and it made me feel all the better for it.
I even got my friends in on the action.
After all, it was a well-deserved action to indulge in.
Does that make me an even BIGGER baddie?
Well, most probably…
…and oh, how I revel in it!
As the saying goes, " Revenge IS best served COLD!"
Nolite bastardes carborundorum!

2004-03-11T18:47:00.000-05:00

My cat is very ill.

After about a month of watching her get thinner and thinner as she periodically vomited up white mucus, I finally took a day off to take her to the vet.

Apparently, my baby, my dearest 12 year old princessa…she may have kidney failure and a slight heart murmur…
Sigh…

To even consider the fact that I may have to put her down…I feel as if I was considering putting my dear child to sleep.

Really--- I quite understand those of you who do not understand what the love of a pet is like--- I can almost hear the headshakers saying, “It’s JUST a CAT!”

When I got her as a kitten, I was experiencing a devastating low in my life. I was just graduating from college and was severely depressed. I remember nights of crying myself to sleep from loneliness and some indiscernible and unreasonable fear…

Back then, I still lived with my mother.
One day, out of the blue, she says that we should get a cat. She was watching some documentary about cats and became enamored with the idea.

We took a trip to North Shore Animal League, a shelter that adopted out cats and dogs.

I remember seeing them for the first time...their little mouths...
They were skinny little things...
Talk about love at first sight!

I remember that some people wanted to only adopt one of them so they told us that they would give one to us in the parking lot, but by some stroke of luck (for us, of course), they decided to not adopt either one. They were both from the same litter--- brother and sister, if you will--- so the folks at the shelter were reluctant to separate them.

That day, we came back with two very precocious, very beautiful 4 week-old kittens.

Emotionally, I was instantly healed.

Zoom back to the present…
My male cat was diagnosed with feline diabetes over a year ago (he gets two doses of insulin a day, via syringe), and now my baby…kidney failure.

What happens now?

I’m waiting to hear from the vet--- the tests come in tomorrow.
As I understand it, I may have two options:
Option 1: If the failure is not in the advanced stage, she can continue to live by eating a special diet and getting an IV drip to re-hydrate her.
Option 2: If the failure is advanced, I may have to put her down.

How would you handle this?

How CAN I handle this???

If it wasn’t for the support of my loved ones, I’d be a hot mess.

Really…I am absolutely petrified…

2004-03-09T17:37:00.000-05:00

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2004-03-09T17:16:00.000-05:00

Part one of things that rot:

Jobs---
try working in the ghetto sometime where you're surrounded by the true effects of crack on a daily basis. Yes, friends, I am a teacher. Trust me, you haven't lived until a 9 year old cusses you out and calls you a "No-neck black bitch".

In this, my second year of teaching, I am slowly losing all hope for mankind.

I work in an area that has been indelibly pock-marked by crack, which hit the area in the early 90's. The fact of the matter is that now, all of those crack babes are now crack kids who are violent, disaffected, angry children--- all of them are quite ready and poised to kick the living shit out of every other child in your class for no known reason.

In my class, I have a student who is the child of a prostitute. His mama showed up with gold teeth glittering in all their shiny glory the other day. Cute, huh?

In a matter of months, he has attacked EVERY one of my students.

Administration's solution?

Put him back in the classroom where he can attack the kids more.

Yeah... I love my job.

2004-03-08T17:09:00.000-05:00

The Passion of the Christians by one lapsed Catholic girl

Good grief!
Should I say "Good LORD!"?

I went to see this film yesterday.

Being raised a Catholic, the whole violent spiel of "The Passion" itself is not such a big deal. The violence was actually expected.

What Gibson himself indulges in is much more than a celebration of blood.
As others have noted and as I concur, Gibson's rendition of the passion play seems to almost gleefully and sadistically indulge in a frenzy of blood letting and flesh tearing.

Never mind that Gibson's rendition of the Gospels are inaccurate.
I mean, what WAS the deal with that bald midget that Satan/Satana was cradling???

Hmmm...

Oh, and the whole finger wagging of blood libel IS in there, folks, albeit in Aramaic and untranslated in the subtitles. Not that I can understand Aramaic, but apparently (as confirmed by others), it's there.

For shame.

Those silly enough to point the finger at Jews should really think about the whole thing. I mean IF (and this is a big IF!) the Jews DID "kill" Jesus, Christians should be thankful--- for without the death and the resurrection, there WOULD BE NO CHRISTIANITY!!! DUH!

If a Christian is to believe in the divinity of God, then they should also understand that the death of Jesus was part and parcel of the plan.

Get it together, ya'll. Even Judas played a part in the creation of your religion.

2004-03-08T15:52:00.000-05:00

Behold! Bright and Shiny Idols abound!
Here, I'll discuss all that glitters and rots about this mortal coil, more aptly called "life".
Really, when you think about it, this blogging business is nothing more than a public wank--- minus the interference of the skin beneath your hands.
I'll be visiting ya'll directly...