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It’s been an uneventful day. The worst part has been having to stand in line waiting for a guy to finish photocopying an entire textbook. He was such a pain in my ass

I’m completely enamoured with television these days.

Tuesday is Scrubs. Tat turned me onto Scrubs. I love her for it, except I loathe it also since I said I would never watch it. Oh how far I have fallen! This week’s epsiode was hilarious. Next week Tom Cavanaugh guest stars again! I can’t wait At ten I get to watch Rescue Me which is Dennis Leary’s subversive new drama about a fucked up firefighter in New York. Tons of 9/11 imagery, of course. Leary’s character is actually followed around by his dead cousin Jimmy (as in a ghost) who died in the attack. I’ve only seen one episode but I liked it a lot.

Wednesday I have Lost which keeps getting better! It’s creepy and I like how the chick is the convict instead of one of the big, beefy guys. Different = yay. I also have CSI: NY. It started off scary, I hope it gets better :O

Finally, on Thursday is the original CSI, which I love to death. I got hooked over the summer and I can’t get enough anymore.

Ya, I should be doing homework and reading shit for school, but who can do that when there’s so much good stuff on television now??

Do you know what’s really difficult to write? Several things are very difficult to write. Some I have attempted, others I have yet had the pleasure. Regardless, it’s a fucking pain in the ass when you can’t even articulate basic human emotion through written word.

Shopping lists can be hard to write. “I need Miracle Whip” can turn very easily into “I want bacon bits and a large tub of chocolate chip ice cream”. The perception of want and need can get so skewed. For instance, today I was happily click on my little stumbleupon toolbar when I hit this, loved it and went browsing through all of them and then decided “God’s teeth, I need a digital camera!” I was luckily brought down from this impulse-buy-induced coma by “common sense” and a lack of transportation. Plus, I don’t want to get dressed again. I just got home from work.

Suicide notes are probably hard to write. I’ve never written one. Nor have I ever expressed the desire to write one, not even a “practice” one. Jesus, could you imagine a conversation with your mother if she came across your practice goodbye note?

Mom: What’s this?
Me: Uhh .. a suicide note?
Mom: Is it yours?
Me: Uhh .. no?
Mom: It has your name on it.
Me: I probably shouldn’t have signed it yet, huh?
Mom: …

You know what else is hard to write? A love scene! You need a special talent to write really hawt, sweaty, dog-in-heat sex with taste and decorum. Everyone thinks they can though!!! If they didn’t, there would be a huge spike in the quality of romance novels and they wouldn’t be considered so trashy. Those are just the ladies who have been lucky enough to get published. Poor, hapless sods like myself head over to adultfanfiction.net to air out our nasty drawers and get down in the gutter with our favourite book/movie/celebrity character.

Fanfic writers often start out as fanfic readers who read mountains of the stuff and go through bad stuff and good stuff, really good stuff and awful, down-right filthy, horrible, wouldn’t-read-it-if-I-were-constipated-on-the-john fanfic and eventually, they read so much fanfic they think they can write it! Here, I am using the royal “they” but really I’m just talking about me. I am they, in this case. So here I am, writing my little heart out, fulfiilling tiny fantasies that other fanfic writers haven’t only because the ’ship is so riddled with the same lame-ass cliches that every good writer has by now abandoned it for a sicker or sexier ’ship and I can’t write a love scene!!

Everytime I start a sentence, an image pops up into my mind, the same one of a boulder, the sea and the characters have been transformed into a pirate and a sea wench and anything the characters do will be performed by pirate and sea wench on said boulder in my mind’s eye and I’m left feeling like I’ve turned anything actually good into a stupid romance novel that deserves to buried at the back of Goodwill with old Archie comics.

How detrimental to society is banning books? I’ve never really thought about it, but to be banned is a really serious offense. I mean, you need to either scare or intimidate quite a few people (or a select few very important people) in order to get your butt banned. Doing it to books is just ludicrous ludacrous luda- DAMN YOU HIP HOP!! :O preposterous!

I think everyone should read at least one banned book in their lifetime. Here’s a list of a hundred:

1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
2. Daddy�s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
4. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
8. Forever by Judy Blume
9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
10. Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
11. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
12. My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
14. The Giver by Lois Lowry
15. It�s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
16. Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
17. A Day No Pigs Would Dieby Robert Newton Peck
18. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
19. Sex by Madonna
20. Earth�s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
21. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
22. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L�Engle
23. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
24. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
25. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
26. The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
27. The Witches by Roald Dahl
28. The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
29. Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
30. The Goats by Brock Cole
31. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
32. Blubber by Judy Blume
33. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
34. Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
35. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
36. Final Exit by Derek Humphry
37. The Handmaid�s Tale by Margaret Atwood
38. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
39. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
40. What�s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
42. Beloved by Toni Morrison
43. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
44. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
45. Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
46. Deenie by Judy Blume
47. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
48. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
49. The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
50. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
51. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
52. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
53. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
54. Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
55. Cujo by Stephen King
56. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
57. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
58. Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
59. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
60. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
61. What�s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
62. Are You There, God? It�s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
63. Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
64. Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
65. Fade by Robert Cormier
66. Guess What? by Mem Fox
67. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
68. The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
69. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
71. Native Son by Richard Wright
72. Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women�s Fantasies by Nancy Friday
73. Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
74. Jack by A.M. Homes
75. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
76. Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
77. Carrie by Stephen King
78. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
79. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
80. Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
81. Family Secrets by Norma Klein
82. Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
83. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
84. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
85. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
86. Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
87. Private Parts by Howard Stern
88. Where�s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
89. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
90. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
91. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
92. Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
93. Sex Education by Jenny Davis
94. The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
95. Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
96. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
97. View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
98. The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
99. The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
100. Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

Yay! I have my mojo back! Yes, indeed! I have finally made a successful layout that I enjoy. Yes, it’s Green Day. The images came from their official site, which is surprisingly easy to navigate and highly useful for images. Most bands, they have photos but they’re these tiny postage stamp images that you can do nothing with. Not with Green Day. They spread the photographic luurve.

The reason I chose GD (since I’m not a huge fan) is because I honestly like their new single (American Idiot) and the video for it cause I am absolutely transfixed by Billie Joe’s tiny little pencil thin legs! I don’t even think I’m sexually attracted to him (although he’s a cute little motherfucker) but I enjoy him so he is now on the website.

Now I’m off to finish working on the affiliate links cause those are all messed up.

< edit> Well, I have finished fucking with the affiliate list. If you happened to be one of those affiliates but you are no longer on the list, or you emailed me not to long ago, please send me another email (troubledwaters (at) gmail.com) cause I’m a retard and I am prone to human error. Now I’m off to go do something about my throat (which still hurts, btw).

It’s inevitable that I fall sick again. :angry: My throat is constricted and my right ear feels like it’s under deep water. I believe I have an ear infection, which I haven’t had in eons, if ever. It’s a pain in my ass and I wish it never happened cause I need to go to class today.

This morning I had a weird, sleep-deprived dream around 4am. It reminded me of the movie ‘Lean on Me’ even though I’ve never seen it. It was scary. Children were involved and more than one died.

Jesus, I’m so not lucid right now. :O

Well, I still have yet to receive the tattoo :angry: I’m getting antsy. I really want to see what it looks like.

Last night I went to see alexisonfire with Toast. It was a great night. From Fiction, Closet Monster and Moneen opened for them and got the crowd really riled up. What was even cooler was we (Toast and I) were discussing From Fiction earlier that evening and how a guy from our program is in it. Sure enough, when we get to the concert, they’re opening for alexisonfire. Pretty sweet deal for them. Neither of us have decided whether we’ll actually mention we saw him at the concert. He passed by us a couple of times, so I guess he saw us. Whether he noticed us is an entirely different matter.

I bought a Moneen shirt. I wish I had bought an alexisonfire shirt too