Ugh.

[apocalypsos]

-- Is it really bad that I'm planning my tomorrow night around the grand opening thingy at the cafe? They're having soft jazz and passing around paninis and I'm going to curl up with a good book and a chai and achieve my moment of zen.

-- Reading all the stories on the torture memos is depressing me. I kinda want to punch all of the people involved in carrying that out in the teeth.

-- I'm still dealing with COBRA bullshit at work. We finally got all of the paperwork sorted out and I'm supposed to send them in a payment to cover this month. Hey, guess what? They didn't tell me how much to send. *eyeroll*

-- I want to go clothes shopping in the WORST way. Working on the current story idea has me looking up rockabilly dresses, which I adore but can never afford so I don't even own any, and window shopping for characters is just no fun.

-- 5 Massive Hit Songs That Almost Didn't Get Released

-- Last summer, an Iraqi woman named Dalal, imprisoned to (reportedly) compel her brother to come in for questioning, was raped and impregnated by prison guards, then killed by her brother for it. I fucking hate the world.

-- Wee meerkats!

-- PUT ON PANTS. Vanessa Hudgens, I don't think much of you except that you look very pretty, but that does not exempt you from wearing pants.

-- Congenital amputee Kyle Maynard's long road to Saturday's MMA debut That's amazing.

-- Spider silk is already tougher and lighter than steel, and now scientists have made it three times stronger by adding small amounts of metal. Next up, turning a nerdy high school student into a costumed superhero. Stay tuned!

Comments

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Last summer, an Iraqi woman named Dalal, imprisoned to (reportedly) compel her brother to come in for questioning, was raped and impregnated by prison guards, then killed by her brother for it.

...............................x_x

[scary-being-me.livejournal.com]

More and more, I think we should round up every religious extremist in the world, of every religion, and shoot them in the head.

The average IQ of the species would jump 20 points.

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

It took me a little over a month and a half to sort out my COBRA problems and I had no insurance coverage for three weeks (the insurance went retroactive to the first of the month once they finally admitted I'd paid them and was covered, but I was pulling out my hair for those three weeks.) I know you live in a different state than I do (I'm in MA), I hope the program is run better in your state than in mine, where it's run by a slow-moving bureaucracy. I got the initial COBRA info from HR at the company that laid me off, there was a telephone number for questions and problems on the paperwork they gave me -- if you have a phone number for what ever company runs COBRA in your state, don't wait to use it (and take down names!) Good luck!

[beanarie.livejournal.com]

She wrote asking him for help and those same guards let him stroll in and murder her. I don't even... There are no words.