there was a young woman from boobville ...

A guy allows his daughter to skip her last day of fourth grade to come see Obama at a town hall, and when her dad gets up to ask a question and mentions his daughter, Obama writes her an absence note.

... I adore Obama's giddiness at getting his first question from Helen Thomas. Awww.

-- The owner of T-Shirt Hell commits an astoundingly epic flounce. I DECIDED AGAINST BEING A MILLIONAIRE JUST TO PISS YOU PEOPLE OFF! Or something. Heh. It almost makes me pray my bonuses and tax return come through sooner so I can pick up a couple of shirts I've been wanting, except not, because I'll bet they'll still be there on February 11.

-- Spotted everywhere, it seems: Greatest ever letter of complaint. Everybody appears to be losing it at the cookie. HEE.

-- Lost In Translation: 20 Baffling Foreign Movie Posters

-- Baby giraffe and baby sloth pictures. I can't decide who's cuter, although I'm leaning towards the baby sloth simply because it looks like it's smiling gleefully most of the time.

-- I caught part of an episode of Leverage the other day, and while I will sit down and watch it because it looked fun and I like Christian, I still can't get over the fact the blond chick is Pilot Inspektor's mom. Heh.

-- I have nowhere to go today and I still feel like crap and the weather is more than a little ridiculous out there, so the cat and I are curled up on the couch together with the electric blanket and the laptop and I'm pretty sure neither one of us are leaving for anything other than food, the bathroom, fire, or unexpected apocalypse.

-- If I get both of my bonuses AND I get to keep my tax return rather than it going towards my college loans, I'm splurging on something. Not sure what yet. Maybe I'll throw some money at redoing my spare bedroom. I keep meaning to, but I'm always so broke it's not even worth it. Eh, it probably won't happen anyway. I'm definitely not THAT lucky.

EDIT: ( For those of you who've ever lived in the DC metro area, this clip of Obama might ring true. ;) )

Obama takes oath of office once again from Roberts because of flub at inauguration.

Great! Now the really crazycakes conservatives can go back to complaining about the stupid birth certificate. Yes, still.

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I am curled up on the couch with my wee little netbook writing and watching Top Chef reruns. God, I love this thing.

You guys, I am so stressed out. If I could afford to go pay for a massage, I totally would. It's not about money or my job, not right now anyway, just the writing. I want to get this book done in the worst way. I started it about this time last year and I think I'm having such a hard time getting my ass in gear to finish because I'm ashamed it's taken me this long to finish. I know I can do better. I will do better. There is no reason I can't finish 300k this year. NONE. Hmph.

I think I would get more done if Rahm Emanuel came to my house when I'm feeling lazy, called me a lazy motherfucker, and glared at me until I finished the chapters I need to finish.

But now it's back! And I have three things that make me happy right now:

1. President Barack Obama's first public act in office Wednesday was to institute new limits on lobbyists in his White House and to freeze the salaries of high-paid aides, in a nod to the country's economic turmoil.

2. In one of his first acts in office, President Obama has ordered the U.S. government to suspend prosecutions of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for 120 days, military officials said Tuesday.

3. White House officials tell CNN Obama Chief Staff of Staff Rahm Emanuel sent a memo Tuesday to all agencies and departments of the federal government. The memo halts further consideration of pending regulations throughout the government until a legal and policy review can be conducted by the Obama administration.

First day and they're so busy gettin' their White House on they haven't even gotten the president a computer:



Awwwww. Look at his poor empty desk. :)

(Does anybody have the link to that site where they're keeping track of all the promises Obama made on the campaign trail and if he's fulfilling them? I forget to bookmark it and I want to keep it around.) (EDIT: Never mind! Found it!)

... you've got to admit -- how freaking adorable is this First Family right here?

I was looking for something else on Cafepress and there are already "Impeach Obama" things for sale.

Are you fucking SERIOUS? He hasn't even DONE anything yet. I'm honestly tempted to email one of the sellers and ask them exactly why we're supposed to be impeaching him when he hasn't even been sworn in yet.

EDIT: Does anybody remember the name of that site where you can loan a little bit of money to a small business owner in another country? I've been wracking my brain because I want to do my something-nice-for-the-holidays and I thought that would be cool.

Oh, my God, the crack about his middle finger. *dies*

( Cut for length, and to spare anybody who's sick of election stuff.  )

Damn it, I'm supposed to be writing. *sigh*

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I have still not written anything today, but I think I just really needed to crash after seven straight twelve-hour workdays. So I've spent most of today on my couch either sleeping or goofing off on the internet or reading awesome smut.

However, now I have no excuse so I'd better get to it.

Oh, and also, I was going to go back over my Yuletide submission and add any fandoms that needed writers, but there's one I offered to write that's on the list and I would ADORE to write it (since I can pretty much guarantee what the prompt is) so I'm just going to step away from the website before I do anything. :)

'Cause, seriously, I've never voted for the winning guy before. I'm still a little dazed. Voting works? Who knew?!

That said, I don't expect perfection. I don't expect Obama not to do things that'll make me cringe or say things that'll make me roll my eyes or screw up. It's guaranteed he's going to fuck up something eventually. It's not going to be all teddy bears and unicorns with rainbows shooting out of their asses, especially considering the crappy state of the country he's being handed.

I'm registered Independent. I always register Independent, because as much as I lean ridiculously heavily Democrat and have yet to vote for a Republican I want to remind myself to give both sides a fair look. The problem is that since I started voting in 2004 (I really didn't start getting interested in politics until after Bush started fucking things up, alas) there hasn't really been a Republican candidate who's made me feel even half as hopeful that their actions might help me and others as much as Obama does. I always walk away from most Republican interviews and political ads and the like feeling as if if they thought they could afford to ignore a poor single woman like me, they would. And God forbid I mention being an atheist. Or loving my gay friends and family members and wanting them to have equal rights. Or that while there's almost no circumstances in which I'd get an abortion I'm sure as hell not cruel enough to close that option for any other woman.

All of THAT said, that's fucking adorable.