30 November 2004

oh it's good to be home again...

When asked how being home for the first time was, Cody responded, "It was nice, hands down the best thing was the soft toilet paper. Here we use like pinecones and sandpaper. And believe you me it sucks."

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www.googlism.com

sofia is an effervescent blanc de blancs
sofia is a 747sp seen here during flight tests
sofia is remarkable in that it's both mild and full of flavor
sofia is partially docked in the hangar
sofia is one of the best players in the world
sofia is known for her superior backhand snaps and high speed down the line; captivating the attention of spectators
sofia is considered to be among the nation?s most attractive
sofia is happy
sofia is a princess
sofia is a unique hybrid of the azimuth
sofia is the new love addition to my life
sofia is updated quarterly in standard mode
sofia is the typical good girl down to the glasses though not overly geeky
sofia is a fleet of privately run blue minibuses
sofia is the former host of the popular travel show fuera de serie on univision and a goddess in many latin countries where the women are hot
sofia is probably the best place to start

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sean mahoney

sean mahoney is a natural entertainer
sean mahoney is delighted that longden is in houndsville as well
sean mahoney is not preparing a warm welcome for house democratic leader dick gephardt
sean mahoney is a rabid conservative who sees terrorist sympathizers in every school administration
sean mahoney is still living

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caley anderson

is not the antichrist

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28 November 2004

destiny's who?? i'm talking about that beyonce chic.

i think if i could be anyone in the whole world, right now i'd have to go with beyonce. seriously, have you SEEN the video for lose my breath? screw those other two chicks, i don't even know their names. and frankly, next to beyonce, they look like a bunch of prepubescent girls attempting to be sexy cheerleaders, which i find quite disturbing. all i really care about is beyonce having a dance-off with her bad self. good god! as if one beyonce isn't enough to blow your mind, then they have two!! i had to rub my eyes to make sure i wasn't seeing double. and her hair, it's got a mind of it's own. her hair alone could dance the pants off janet jackson. i am amazed. utterly amazed.

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27 November 2004

Gwenabe!


Gwenabe!
Originally uploaded by sothenodoubter.

Oh my gosh. Is that Gwen?? Dude, I think that's Gwen! It has got to be Gwen, it looks just like her!!!

Actually, for all of you who were fooled, that's Mel. She may not be Gwen, but she ain't no hollaback girl either.

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cutie patooties


DCP_1347
Originally uploaded by sothenodoubter.

so i just figured out how to do pictures!!! i thought i'd put this one up there.

this is caley, sometimes she sleeps with no pants on.

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Flickr

This is a test post from flickr, a fancy photo sharing thing.

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credit where credit's due

i never give sean any credit for being the sweet guy that he is. it's so easy for me to focus on petty shit (a trait i undoubtedly picked up from my wonderful father). the fact is, i couldn't ask for a sweeter boyfriend than sean. he's always consoling me and trying to make me happy and sometimes all he gets back is a mean look. i honestly don't know how he puts up with me and i'm so so so so SO lucky to have him. mushy, i know. but blame him, not me. he's the wonderful one.

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there is something worse...

did you know that there is something worse than having all your friends leave for college??? yeah i didn't think so either. but that was until i lost my driving privileges and am relegated to my house. what's far worse than your friends leaving is having them come back and not being able to see them. it's way worse. i promise.

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25 November 2004

um, okay?

sorry for bitching, but someone has to do it.

yeah so it's really awesome when someone says that they are going to call you later and later comes around and they haven't called you so you call them because you really want to talk to them and you talk for a little bit but not enough considering you've barely spoken for the last couple days and you are leaving - as in moving away for college - in less than two months and then they would rather eat their goddamn turkey sandwich than continue talking to you. all i'm saying is that better be a pretty fucking amazing turkey sandwich.

but whatever. it's a good thing that i don't give a fuck, cuz i ain't no hollaback girl.

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i'm sorry, i just don't like them

top 5 reasons why i don't like jeep wranglers:

5) they are too boxy (what can i say? i drive a vw beetle)
4) they are LOUD
3) they don't have real windows
2) it's a bumpy ride
1) it's impossible to get in and out of with grace

top 5 reasons why i like jeep wranglers

5) my boyfriend loves his
4) my boyfriend loves his
3) my boyfriend loves his
2) my boyfriend loves his
1) my boyfriend loves his

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24 November 2004

getting closer to being a real college student

i finished registering for classes at berkeley today! for anyone who might find me remotely interesting, here is my schedule:

Monday: History Lecture 11 - 2, English Lecture 12 - 1, Freshman Seminar on Hydrogen Fuel 4 - 5
Tuesday: Poli Sci Lecture 9:30 to 11, History Discussion 12 - 2
Wednesday: History Lecture 11 - 12, Multicultural Literary Perspectives 12 - 1
Thursday: Poli Sci lecture 9:30 - 11, Film for Nonmajors Lecture 3 - 6
Friday: History Lecture 11 - 12, Film Discussion 3 - 5

Print that out and keep it in your pocket so that you'll know where I am at all hours of the day.

P.S. Caley - I'm totally taking 15 credits. Haha :)

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love, angel, music, baby

if you want some feel good 80's throwback dance music, then Gwen's new album is most definitely for you. i went to circuit city to get it yesterday and i've been listening to it nonstop (p.s. circuit city is the place to buy cds. love, angel, music, babe was only 8.99 and i think the new u2 album is 8.99 there too. circuit city rocks). L.A.M.B. takes off from where Rock Steady left off. The first half the CD is surprisingly different than the second half. The cd starts off very hip-hop inspired with tracks produced by Dr. Dre, the Neptunes and Andre 3000 (under the guise of Johnny Vulture). The Neptunes, "Hollaback Girl," is my favorite song right now. It's got a fatty beat that the neptunes are so well known for. Right up there is "Bubble Pop Electric," produced and co-written by Johnny Vulture. It's super catchy and super fun song that would make a really good next single. The latter half of the cd is blatantly 80s inspired, especially the tracks produced by Tony. If you didn't know any better, you'd swear the songs were straight out of the 80s. Under any other circumstance, 80s throwback would be a very very bad thing and i simply wouldn't stand for it. But afterall, Gwen's genius results in pure danceable enjoyment. The only song that hasn't quite grown on me is "Harajuku Girls." There's just too much talking in it and japanese. It's pretty obvious that gwen has developed some kind of obession with all things japanese. Other than having an entire song dedicated to them, Harajuku girls are mentioned in at least 2 other songs.

All in all, love angel music baby is better than i was anticipating. Gwen's songs are really sexed-up and catchy. She really stretchs the capabilities of her voice and her musical style. She's come a long way from just a girl and i have to say i like where she's ended up.

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22 November 2004

some guys are actually cool

i awoke from my mid-day slumber to this message from cody on my computer:

cstarknaked: hey lady
cstarknaked: well your obviously out enjoying the finer things in life, like boobs, reading, and dancing, and quite possibly cookie dough so peace out


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wow

yeah, cascadia can really kiss my bootylicious behind because i just witnessed a classmate crush some green pill that he didn't even know what it was, roll up a dollar bill and snort that shit right in the middle of class. yeah. cascadia community college, as in community of drug dealers and drug users.

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procastination, sofia is thy name

it's one thing to be a slacker ib student, because inevitably you are still doing way more work than kids in regular classes and still somehow getting a's in your classes. it's another thing to be a former slacker ib student who got a's in almost all her classes (damn math) and is now in community college, still slacking and getting a B (which i'm convinced stands for "best"). should i be ashamed that i'm doing mediocre in a mediocre class? should i be embarrassed that my intense ib training hasn't set me apart as a student in my class? should i be ashamed that i no longer do the readings in this class (not unlike my entire year of senior ib history)?????

ehm. i think not. because i'm going to berkeley in january and cascadia can kiss my bootylicious behind.

word.

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21 November 2004

do well and doubt not

person of the moment: absolutely and without a doubt the beautiful and talented melanie mueller

mel is my most favorite partner in all things no doubt and the better gwenabe of the two of us. she dressed up as gwen for halloween and i swear to you i was practically swooning she looked so real. wait, i was swooning.

top 5 best things about mel (in no particular order)

1) Wonder Woman - She's a girl's girl, but without all the annoying fuss and frilliness and she can certainly hold her own with the guys.

2) Honesty is a damn good policy - Mel will always tell you what you need to hear, even if it isn't what you want to hear. And the beauty of it all is she's nice about it without being disingenuous. More people should try that one out once in a while.

3) She's funny as hell - i've had near death experiences induced by her hilarious wit.

4) Active Listener - She'll listen to you bitch and make you feel glad that you did.

5) SHE'S SO DAMN CUTE.

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19 November 2004

all i want is not to need you now

i never thought i'd get to this point, but it seems that i have. i have finally arrived at the point where i feel like i am ready to leave. i have a hunch that this will be just a short phase induced by exasperating loneliness, but hey it's not such a bad place to be. i'm just so ready to have friends again. my world is very small and lonely right now. i suppose i should have seen it coming. community college was not the best idea considering i don't like most normal people. i was completely naive about having a boyfriend in high school. i expect far too much from him. afterall, he isn't even 18 yet. as much as i want to deny it, we are in such different places right now and maybe we always will be?? i don't i know i am just so torn. i don't want to leave my home and my family and sean, but at the same time i'm just so ready for change. i'm done with this horrible limbo - no longer in high school and not quite in college. i just need to belong somewhere, people to hang out with, my own life.

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18 November 2004

ding dong

hot track of the moment: Barbara Streisand's cover of "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead"

I'm telling you, either I'm the youngest old person, or this track really is some hot shit. If you can download it, do it!

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extra room

someone up at the hotmail hq must really like me, because my inbox was increased to 250 MB!!! what on earth did i do to deserve such generosity from a complete stranger? it must have been something really really good.

so now that i've been granted all this space, what to do? i certainly can't spend all my time sending myself e-mails, so you all should send me emails. tons and tons of emails.

sistahso@hotmail.com

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as far as peanuts go, i'll stick with planter's

there are few things in this world that i hate more than packing peanuts:

Jessica Simpson
bastard guys who kiss their girlfriend's friend
when someone repeatedly tells you that they will call you and they don't
keg beer ~shudder~
community college
taking the trash out at work
people who talk very loudly during concerts
country music
George W. Bush

but seriously, back to the packing peanuts. THERE MUST BE A BETTER WAY.

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14 November 2004

drink yourself stupid

if there is anything to be learned about being the sole sober person, it is the fact that no one, not even those who claim to love you most, will watch out for you except for yourself. in fact, the people who claim to love you most will probably be the people you will have to watch after, in addition to yourself. that, my friends, is the power of the ignorant fluid. and they call it ignorant fluid for a reason.

oh and another thing i learned is that someone who is ridiculously high is much more helpful than a passed out drunk. so i should stop ragging on the stoners. at least they are conscious.

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11 November 2004

the dollar spot

so i've discovered that i'll pretty much buy anything that only costs a dollar. it doesn't really matter if i need it or not or even if it's useful at that present time. the mere fact that it costs only a dollar will convince me to buy it. isn't that awful? it is both awful and precisely the reason that i love target. they have "the dollar spot" where everything is...well a dollar. like today, i got underwear that has the tootsie pops logo on it. i don't really need underwear, but it was only a dollar and had a cool logo on it. but i guess that's not really a good example because i have an underwear obsession. i love to buy underwear, especially from target.

actually, i take back everything i just said. i will buy pretty much anything that is at target.

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i heart dcfc

guess who got to see death cab for cutie tuesday night at the paramount? yeah, that would be yours truly. uh huh, uh huh, uh huh uh huh uh huh.

i was able to tear sean away from his overwhelmingly busy high school schedule by buying him a ticket (a consolation prize for the premature and unfortunate end of his football season). we decided to make like old people and sit rather than stand in the crowd, which grew to considerable size after the opening act, pretty girls make graves, who were awful, terribly awful. never see them in concert. you will want to kill yourself, because they should really leave their genre to the yeah yeah yeahs, cuz at least they know what they're doing and karen o is the fucking shiznit.

ANYWAY!!!!!!! Death Cab was fucking AWESOME. I can't remember what they opened with, only that it was not from Transatlanticism. From the aforementioned album they played (in no particular order): sound of settling, lack of color, tiny vessels (which i never liked until i heard it live), license and registration, we looked like giants, the lightness, new year, expo '86, and even transatlanticism! I just realized it, but the only song off that album that they didn't play was death of an interior decorator, which just happens to be my favorite song. figures. but i still love ben. i wanted to get there hella early so that i could be in front because i'm very short and would not be able to see otherwise. but if for no other reason, i wanted to be up front so that ben gibbard could sweat on me. as you can imagine, sean was not too keen on that idea.

as always, death cab was in immaculate form. their drumming sounded like studio, if you didn't know any better (or were ashlee simpson) you'd think the drumming was pre-recorded. the lighting was surprisingly different and highly effective. they had lights on the sides of the stage that lit up the filigreed walls on either side of the stage. one of the coolest moments was when they played "movie script ending" and there was one bright light shining out right behind the drum, so there was the silohuette of the bass drum and the bright light so it totally looked like a train coming down a tunnel (and for those of you who don't know the song...the drums are supposed to sound like a train and ben is singing about how the sound that the train is always making). it made me grin with glee and i wondered if anyone else was picking up on their nuance.

another outstanding song was "photobooth." it was a really rocked out version, which i had never heard before. i've heard acoustic photobooth, studio photobooth and now rocked out photobooth. however, my favorite song of the set was a song i had never heard before, and i couldn't really understand any of the lyrics so i couldn't search for the song. i have since discovered that the song is called "amputations" and it is a totally awesome song with a totally sweet drumline.

inbetween songs, ben talked about the election and how disappointed he was. they played the song they made for the move on cd and dedicated it to 2008.

the best part of the whole night, though, was the encore, because they brought out fucking eddie vedder. EDDIE VEDDER. eddie vedder came out on stage and played a song with them. he sang AND had a hella tight guitar solo. sean and i were freaking out like little kids. we got to see death cab for cutie play with eddie vedder. how wild is that. afterward, ben said "I wish I could tell my 14 year old self what my 28 year old self is doing."

all in all, it was a really fantastic concert. death cab always delivers.

here are some links to much better reviews of the concert

Seattle Times

Seattle PI

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09 November 2004

what is that smell?

something in my room smells kind of strange. i'm not quite sure what it is but i suppose i'll have to sniff it out at some point or another. my guess is it's the remnants of yesterday's tuna sandwich. i'll try throwing that away and if the smell persists i'm probably in big trouble.

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cancer...and i don't mean the crab

great. i'm convinced that i'm going to get cancer of the stomach because yesterday i was a complete idiot and was so desperate for sugar then when i found a huge box filled with little blue packets of equal i didn't hesistate to dump FOUR into my tea. yeah don't ask me why we have a huge box filled with carcinogenic sugar substitute. and don't ask me why i didn't think twice about the information that said "as sweet as 2 tablespoons of sugar!" but instead proceeded to utilize four bags. i suppose i shouldn't be surprised when they find a tumor the size of a small dog in my stomach.

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08 November 2004

radio killed the video star

...if by video star i mean sofie. Did you know that there is NO good music played on the radio? I've been driving my mom's car lately and it doesn't have a CD player, so I'm forced to listen to the radio. NPR is great in the morning but after being talked at in school and at work, I just want to hear something good that I can sing along to. But noooooooooooo. It's just the same crap over and over again, followed by commericals and more crap. That is the evil of concentrated media ownership and record label payola. MTV is running this rap shit and they don't even play music on their channel anymore.

But you know what, it's all going to be okay, because tomorrow, I am going to go buy the new Handsome Boy Modeling School cd and it is going to be musical bliss. It will be fantastic, because I can go out and buy it and....not be able to listen to it in the car because THERE IS NO CD PLAYER. FUCK (BUSH).

Oh but there is one saving grace in radio. And that's oldies stations. Have you ever thought about how on oldies stations you know the words to all the songs? And it's not even like they're playing the same songs over and over again. Think about how many lyrics you have just sitting around in your brain.

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toasty update

so i found out today that two-stamping quizno's girl is in rehab for 45 days. that explains why she wasn't there on sunday to ring up my regular veggie on wheat, chips and a drink...to ask me how work is going at Claudia's and to tell me all about her precarious living situation with some guy friend at a noisy apartment where she frequently wakes up to random men sleeping on the floor. i almost miss her sad face covered in too much makeup and dark eye liner and i have almost forgotten the one time she made my sandwich and put dressing on it (~gag~). So much for my lesbian love. ~sigh~

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07 November 2004

mmmmm....toasty

I am APPALLED that the people at the Quizon's next to my work, where I get lunch every Sunday and sporadically during the week, do not know my order yet (regular veggie on wheat no dressing, onions or peppers). And I just realized that I forgot to get my Quizno's card stamped. DAMNIT. Hey, ten stamps and I get 5 bucks off my next purchase. I've befriended the one Quizno's chick who isn't hispanic and she gives me two stamps even though I think I'm only supposed to get one. Sad, I don't even know two-stamping-Quizno-girl's name. She is nice and goes to SAS. Anyway, back to the other Quiznos ladies. So they don't know my order. But perhaps the worse offense is the fact that they do NOT EVER SMILE. These women are like androids, I'm telling you. Perhaps it is their lack of mastery of the english language that makes them frown so. Who knows? All i know is that I would enjoy my regular veggie on wheet no dressing onion or peppers WITH guac, chips and a drink, if it were served with a smile. :c)

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06 November 2004

sofia = boots and miniskirts

i have this huge desire to buy tan knee high lace up suede boots and traipse around in miniskirts! Doesn't that sound like fun? I've never really been the biggest proponent of mainstream fashion...but these boots are driving me nuts! I want a pair so bad and it's turning me into the biggest fashion whore ever. Sad but true. I suppose we all have our guilty pleasures.

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hova da god and mos def

Jay-Z has recently replaced Busta Rhymes as my all time favorite rapper. Hova da god for reals. I have every intention to see Fade to Black if for no other reason than to see Beyonce shake her jelly at Hova at MSG (that's madison square garden...not monosodium glutamate). H to the Izzo. If you don't have The Black Album or Jay-Z MTV Unplugged, don't tell a soul under penalty of death by embarrassment and go out and buy it immediately. I'm so sincere.

If you want intellectual rap with a punch of rock, get Mos Def's New Danger (actually don't tell anyone you don't own that either and just go out and buy it). "The Rape Over" is pure genius. Here are some lyrics: "Old white men is runnin this rap shit/ corporate forces is running this rap shit....MTV is running this rap shit, Viacomm is running this rap shit, AOL and Time Warner running this rap shit." He gets to the heart of all evil: concentrated corporate media ownership. And you thought rap was all about sex and bling.

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05 November 2004

self fulfilled prophecy

Yeah, so it did end up being one of the worst birthdays in all of birthday history. Okay, I guess it wasn't that bad...no one died, I didn't die, all my limbs are intact, etc. But George Bush was reelected president, and that's almost as bad if not worse than the other things I mentioned. All i can say is that I am gravely disappointed with our country. Gay marriage banned in ELEVEN states??? What century are we liviing in? I'm not going to editorialize because it's exhausting. My ass is so sore from climbing up and down a ladder at work that I wouldn't be able to get on my soap box. Yeah, I climbed a ladder for three hours yesterday at work. And I thought working at Claudia's (formerly) floral, gifts and home furnishings would be easy. Well generally it is, but I had to put things up on display ledges and hang oversized ornaments from the ceiling. We had Christmas up before Halloween. In fact, we had Halloween, Thanksgiving AND Christmas up before Halloween. And the weirder thing is, as far as the retail world is concerned, we put our Christmas stuff up LATE. It's madness, I tell you, pure madness. But yeah, so I spend three hours climbing up a ladder, hanging up 4 foot tall ornaments (I shit you not, if you live around here, you should seriously come check it out and marvel and the ingenuity of man). I had to do all this because Claudia is allegedly scared of heights. I'm beginning to think it's all a ploy to get me to do all the grunt work. I'm not so much miffed about ladder climbing, because I think it did my ass some good. What I'm miffed about is the fact that Claudia had me do all that and she didn't even take the trash and recycling out. Shizah! But complaints aside, my job is pretty low key and easy. It's certianly better than flipping burgers or pissing people off as a telemarketer. Whenever you're hating your life, it's always good to think that there could be worse things. Unless you're a telemarketer.

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