i think it is official...
family guy has surpassed the simpsons as the funniest show on tv.
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bored.
avoiding work.
kinda over it.
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my soccer team won the championship for our division on saturday.
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my friend laura sent me this link. i thought i would share it:
Heard the story on NPR today about this guy who invited people to send him anonymous postcards with their secrets on them.
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
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crap. kentucky lost.
i played soccer for two hours on saturday morning. so awesome.
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The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take ANY word from the dictionary, alter it by adding subtracting, or changing ONE letter, and supply a NEW definition.
Here are this year's winners. None of them get through spellcheck.
1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
4. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
5. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
6. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
8. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
9. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.(This one got extra credit.)
11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these like, really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
13. Glibido: All talk and no action.
14. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
And the pick of the literature:
18. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
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i always thought that by your late-20s, you were supposed to have some sort of direction in life. some sort of sense of permanence and stability.
and yet, i dont feel that way, and i have little to offer those whom i love most.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
it's time to make my ncaa picks.
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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
International Women's Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women's groups around the world. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. When women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, come together to celebrate their Day, they can look back to a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development.
International Women's Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men. In ancient Greece, Lysistrata initiated a sexual strike against men in order to end war; during the French Revolution, Parisian women calling for "liberty, equality, fraternity" marched on Versailles to demand women's suffrage.
Few causes promoted by the United Nations have generated more intense and widespread support than the campaign to promote and protect the equal rights of women. The Charter of the United Nations, signed in San Francisco in 1945, was the first international agreement to proclaim gender equality as a fundamental human right. Since then, the Organization has helped create a historic legacy of internationally agreed strategies, standards, programmes and goals to advance the status of women worldwide.
Over the years, United Nations action for the advancement of women has taken four clear directions: promotion of legal measures; mobilization of public opinion and international action; training and research, including the compilation of gender desegregated statistics; and direct assistance to disadvantaged groups. Today a central organizing principle of the work of the United Nations is that no enduring solution to society's most threatening social, economic and political problems can be found without the full participation, and the full empowerment, of the world's women.
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Monday, February 28, 2005
i scored a goal on saturday. it was our only team goal and it wasnt even like a sucky fluke goal. it was super awesome.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2005
i hate when the insides of your pant cuffs get super dirty.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005
yea, so it has been raining a lot here.
Storms spawn landslides, twisters in California
Six dead in recent storms
Tuesday, February 22, 2005 Posted: 10:19 AM EST (1519 GMT)
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A deadly series of storms across California spawned everything from tornadoes to avalanches, flooding freeways with steady rain and sending rivers of mud crashing through homes.
At least six deaths have been blamed on the storm, including a woman buried by an avalanche north of Lake Tahoe and others who were victims of landslides, traffic accidents, falling trees and flooding.
Mudslides forced Amtrak officials to suspend service from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara at least through Tuesday. Service between Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo wasn't expected to resume until next Monday. During the weekend, Metrolink also had canceled rail service for parts of the area because of flooding.
Forecasters said Tuesday that the long-lived storm system would bring at least another inch of rain to Southern California but was losing strength and could move out of the region by Wednesday afternoon. A flash flood watch remained in effect Tuesday for much of Southern California.
"I think we've probably seen the worst of the storm," said Ted MacKenchnie, a National Weather Service meteorologist.
Dozens of homes were evacuated or red-tagged -- marked as uninhabitable -- because they were threatened by sliding hillsides, authorities said.
Northern California also was hit by severe thunderstorms, hail and at least two afternoon tornadoes in the Sacramento area that uprooted trees and damaged roofs and fences.
The California Highway Patrol reported more than 300 crashes in a 14-hour period in Southern California, compared with 50 to 75 accidents on a normal, dry day.
A section of the Hollywood Freeway in Los Angeles was shut down for several hours late Monday because it was flooded by as much as 5 feet of water.
The wild weather came from a series of storms that began battering the state on Thursday, dumping 6.5 inches of rain in downtown Los Angeles.
A total of 31.40 inches of rain has fallen since July 1, the start of the region's annual "water year" measuring period, the fifth wettest on record. The record is 38.18 inches, set in 1883-84.
The consecutive days of rain has proven too much for saturated hillsides in Southern California.
A mudslide ripped into the bedroom of a home in the San Fernando Valley, killing by burying him under four feet of mud.
And in Orange County's rural Silverado Canyon area east of Irvine, boulders crashed into an apartment and crushed 16-year-old girl Caitlin Oto. "If you saw the damage up there, it almost looks like the houses exploded, the way it went completely through the homes," said Capt. Stephen Miller of the Orange County Fire Authority.
In Northern California, 45-year-old Gerilyn Marie Ewing, of Reno, Nev., was killed by an avalanche Sunday while skiing between the Sugar Bowl and Squaw Valley ski resorts north of Lake Tahoe. Up to 20 inches of snow had fallen in the area since Thursday.
Harbor Patrol officers had to battle high waves and wind early Monday off the coast of Santa Barbara to rescue a man whose sailboat was adrift with no mast and no engine power. They couldn't get close enough to pull him from the vessel, so they had him jump overboard and then dove in after him.
"You couldn't see what was coming. We were holding on for dear life," said Officer Jan Martinez. "The waves were coming at such close intervals we'd push up through one, then come down just as another one was breaking on us."
In Glendale, a foothill community north of Los Angeles, about 30 people in 11 homes were evacuated early Monday because of mudslides and flooding.
And in the coastal community of La Conchita, where a landslide killed 10 people last month, six of the 39 people still living in the town elected to leave because of the heavy rain and a steady flow of mud on the bluffs behind the town, said Capt. Bill Flannigan of the Ventura County Sheriff's Department. However, no major new slides were reported in the county.
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Monday, February 14, 2005
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!
i went to soccer practice for valentine's day. it was good. i got to play with the "better" players. i got my ass kicked, but it was awesome.
then, bine wrote me a nice poem:
Dear Zoki,
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Zoki is sweet
and I like you.
Happy Valentine's day.
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!
Posted by: Sabs 2005/2/15
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Friday, February 11, 2005
i am going to take advantage of this journal to vent a little on my morning visit to the kaiser-permanente office in glendale.
two weeks ago, i went to the office for my annual check-up and was told, when making the appointment, that i would need to fast for 14 hours for labs. the appointment was changed to an afternoon appointment. so, i was told by my doctor to come back any morning for the labwork. he told me that i could just walk into the lab with the order.
i get to the office this morning and no one told me there was an additional copay for labwork outside of the doctor's appointment copay. i get to the lab and they tell me that i need to register again to pay this stupid copay for labs. so by this time, i havent eaten since 6:30 PM the night before and i am starving. i am really cranky with the receptionist regarding the inefficiency and stupidity of this process.
now, instead of a 10 minute lab visit - the whole thing takes me 50 minutes. 50 minutes for a blood draw!!!
then, i almost fainted in the lab when he was drawing my blood because i hate needles.
what is so dumb about this whole thing is that if you see the doctor - you stand in line to register (and the line is always at least 15 minutes long) - and if at the visit, the doctor says, "you need to get labs" - you have to go stand in the registration line again for the same visit!!!! and if you elect to not stand in line again and have them bill you, then they charge you an extra $13 for administration.
it is totally inefficient and not customer friendly.
thanks. i am done now.
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Monday, February 07, 2005
my head hurts. :(
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Thursday, February 03, 2005
i am sick again. i am sick of being sick. the last time i was sick, i actually worked. but yesterday, i made the executive decision to take a sick day from work.
i spent the whole day looped on cough medicine and watching 31 days of oscar on tcm. they were saluting the nominees for best supporting actress. i watched, "since you've been gone", "stella dallas", "i remember mama", "imitation of life" and parts of "parenthood".
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oh my. how i love a small world!
"hi Zoki!! guess what?? I was thinking of you today too!! and here's why:
so I'm shooting the x-games and me and this other guy are the two snowboard photographers, so we shoot all the snowboard events. We've hung out a little in the production trailer and stuff, but haven't really gotten a chance to talk all that much. so we go eat dinner. Over dinner I ask him where he's from. "Twin Cities area" he says. "Oh yeah, where?" I say. "have you ever heard of Egan, Minnesota?" he says? "uhhhhh... do you know a girl named Zoki?" I say. "Woah!" he says. "I know her from friendster!" and then I remember you telling me about meeting the snowboard photographer and stuff!! so yeah, now I'm friends with Mark Kohlman, too."
Posted by: dlehlphoto
rad!
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Wednesday, January 26, 2005
my mom called me at 6:30 AM to tell me about this:
"3 die in California train derailment
Wednesday, January 26, 2005 Posted: 10:33 AM EST (1533 GMT)
GLENDALE, California (CNN) -- A commuter train derailment killed at least three people Wednesday when two trains apparently sideswiped each other in a Los Angeles suburb, Los Angeles fire officials said.
The number of passengers and how many were injured in the derailment in Glendale, California, is not yet known.
Videotape shows Metrolink passenger train cars on their sides with shattered windows and the metal sheeting peeled backward and crushed inward.
The footage also shows several overtuned orange Union Pacific rail cars.
Firefighters are struggling to reach Metrolink passengers believed to be trapped, placing ladders against the debris to get into the cars.
There is no official information on how many people may still be inside."
...because i live in glendale and she was worried about my commute to work.
that is the nice thing about having parents that live two hours ahead of you...they can warn you of potential commute problems for events that make it onto cnn news.
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Tuesday, January 18, 2005
hi. i just got back from a week in sacramento, followed by a weekend in tahoe.
until i catch up, entertain yourself with this website:
http://streetstyle.drjays.com/showgallery.php?cat=503&password
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some Serbian humor...
'Twas the night before Bozic and all through the kuca,
I sensed the smell of posna sarma and rakija vruca.
By the dimnjak the opanci were hung kind-a krivo,
In hopes that Sveti Nikola would soon bring me some pivo.
My Tata was in his soba and he was snoring pretty hard,
I guess he was tired from stealing the tree from my neighbor's backyard.
My Mama was in the basement cooking like a fool,
Adding just the right amount of Vegeta to her corba pasulj.
When out on the lawn there arose such a galama,
My dad yelled from his room "Pa, sta je sa vama!"
There was a knocking on the front door with such a loud barrage,
I yelled through the window "This is a Serbian house...come in through the garage!"
Standing in the garage right next to my car,
Was my drunk Ujka Rade coming home from the bar.
"Ajde, idi spavaj" I told him with might, Nobody was going to ruin my chances of seeing Deda Mraz tonight.
About two hours later I heard a noise down the stairs,
I jumped from my krevet to see who was there.
Standing by the tree and eating some leftover pizza,
Was good ol' Deda Mraz reeking of homemade sljivovica.
He was all dressed in red and big as an ox,
He wore some brown papuce along with black socks.
Smelling like a gipsy that's been drinking for days,
He wasn't what I expected...I was actually amazed.
"U picku materinu, kako mrzim ovaj posao," he said,
And then I think he muttered something about his wife and how he wished she was dead.
He started putting the presents under the tree with absolutely no desire,
They were all wrapped up kinda sh*tty with the paper bags from Meijer's.
A package of 12 carape for me and another pack of 12 for my brother,
About 3 pairs of gace for my dad and a can of turska kafa for my mother.
This Serbian Santa was crooked...he was nothing like the fable,
I should've known it when he swiped my pack of smokes that I left on the table.
I yelled out "Hej!" and Deda Mraz turned around like a car,
He quickly took off one papuca and threw it at me like a ninja star.
The look in his eyes was nothing but fright,
He said "Ma, jebi se u dupe" and dashed out of sight.
Up through the dimnjak I heard a loud shriek,
Deda Mraz had just farted like some wild bik.
He got in his fijaker, specially made for hladne zime,
And he yelled at his jelene, ime po ime.
"Napred Marko i Bobane, Petre i Gorane, Hajde Jovan i Nenad, Pavle i Zoran..."
And then he yelled, "Hajdemo brze, moramo poc',
SRECNA NOVA GODINA i SVIMA LAKU NOC!!!"
SRETAN BOZIC
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after much soul searching, i have finally established my new year's resolution for 2005 -
to stop swearing so much at other drivers on the road
- this is actually really hard to accomplish when it rains in la.
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Friday, December 31, 2004
happy new year to you....
and happy birthday to me.
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Tuesday, December 21, 2004
i really do hate new year's eve.
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Friday, December 17, 2004
i was wearing a very cute beanie (toque) today that my friend siofan made me. i had just returned to the office from outside
and our CEO saw me in the hall and smiled. she told me that although cute, it wasnt really professional and that there were two board members in the office today.
i explained that i had just walked in from being outside...and was on my way to get something and forgot to take it off. (kinda like you need to adjust before taking off a jacket.)
then, i saw one of the board members talking to her in the hall and he was wearing a rumpled shirt, very ripped and worn looking jeans and flip flops!!!
suddenly my beanie seemed very professional to me. at least it covers up mussy hair.
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Friday, December 10, 2004
thanks to mia hamm for being one of the many females out there who made the phrase "[plays, runs, rides, kicks, shoots] like a girl" nothing short of a compliment.
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