<3

Guys aren't allowed to buy things for me!!!

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:38:29 GMT

And if you get me diamonds, I definitely definitely will NOT have sex with you!!!

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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:48:53 GMT

Lets start a conversation on wave :D

If you haven't already, add me to your contacts on google wave. I'm mariposa.mentirosa. I want to talk about writing ideas :D

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:44:16 GMT

I draw and write the same way: I begin with idle pencil strokes -- whatever pleases me -- yet my mind is devoid of any real intent. Eventually, I realize I've molded my innocent creation into something with form, and, at this point, I begin to refine it into something distinct.

Then I get bored ^^

350 rally

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:43:18 GMT

BBC's In pictures: Climate Action Day

From 350.org:
"What does the number 350 mean?

350 is the most important number in the world--it's what scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Two years ago, after leading climatologists observed rapid ice melt in the Arctic and other frightening signs of climate change, they issued a series of studies showing that the planet faced both human and natural disaster if atmospheric concentrations of CO2 remained above 350 parts per million.

Everyone from Al Gore to the U.N.’s top climate scientist has now embraced this goal as necessary for stabilizing the planet and preventing complete disaster. Now the trick is getting our leaders to pay attention and craft policies that will put the world on track to get to 350.
Is 350 scientifically possible?

Right now, mostly because we’ve burned so much fossil fuel, the atmospheric concentration of co2 is 390 ppm—that’s way too high, and it’s why ice is melting, drought is spreading, forests are dying. To bring that number down, the first task is to stop putting more carbon into the atmosphere. That means a very fast transition to sun and wind and other renewable forms of power. If we can stop pouring more carbon into the atmosphere, then forests and oceans will slowly suck some of it out of the air and return us to safe levels.
Is 350 politically possible?

It’s very hard. It means switching off fossil fuel much more quickly than governments and corporations have been planning. Our best chance to speed up that process will come in December in Copenhagen, when the world’s nations meet to agree on a new climate treaty. Right now, they’re not planning to do enough. But we can change that--if we mobilize the world to swift and bold climate action, which is what we're planning to do on October 24th."

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:11:55 GMT

I'm at college! All moved in :) My roomie is nice. Went to lunch with her. We're going to teach her and her bf to swim too :) Were going to swim tonight too -- but then we remembered about our floor meet at 9. Suck. :/ Oh well. I'm going to meet friends for dinner in a little at 5:30, and after the floor meet, watching Idle Hands at Mac D. Never seen this movie before. Tomorrow, classes begin at 10:10 for me. We're seeing 9 at 9:50 that night too. :) Going on a date soon too. :)

I actually miss my parents a little bit right now. I didn't until the ends of the semesters last year. I might call home and try to be a good daughter for once.

...woah mom just called.

Anyway, love you all! I'm happy for college :D My final week or so was pretty boring.

WWII!!

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:47:54 GMT

the awesome version
http://fatpita.net/images/image%20%281036%29.jpg

:D

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:47:13 GMT

I'm packing today, and tomorrow I go up to college. Yay :D Mom and I are meeting Nik for dinner tomorrow night :)

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:26:32 GMT

My hair is red!!! ahahahahaha

:)

computer animated music video

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:56:46 GMT

silly willy: hii
mr. pants: yoouuuuu
mr. pants: need to watch this
mr. pants: http://vimeo.com/5904993
silly willy: wow is cool so far
mr. pants: juuust wait
silly willy: is this a gay love song?
mr. pants: I think so lol
silly willy: uhm
silly willy: the cat just licked my toes
mr. pants: lol
mr. pants: roll with it?
silly willy: she's pretending she didn't by sniffing the ground nearby
silly willy: that was pretty neat :D :D **

** Referring to the video link. You should click and watch it. It's pretty neat :D It's also a gay love song. :)

SPINNERETTE

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:23:23 GMT

I <3 Brody Dalle of Spinnerette!! (formerly of The Distillers) new favorite female vocalist :P

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:30:31 GMT

happy birthday, caram!!

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:34:33 GMT

It's okay to be gay! -- now in India!

bbc

our friendly, lanky neighbor

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:17:08 GMT

[21:56] Henry: I heard that you and other Sarah had some fun times with my mom?

yes we did ;)

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:25:34 GMT

The clouds keep coming.

It's not even raining now, but this morning or later or eventually, the drops will come down. All of the sunshine we've been getting lately has been short lived. :/ I'm ready for my weeks of sunshine. I'm ready for a drought.

We slid under the fence surrounding springer and drew a unicorn pooping a rainbow, hippie quotes, and inspirational messages, and all of our graffiti was in chalk.

:)

I've been having a lot of deep and fulfilling conversations lately. I feel like something is missing on the off days. But right now, my little kitty has come to say "I love you" which she's been doing a lot. She's decided she really loves people since I came home from college.

But I say "I love you" regularly as is.

ALSO anti-discrimination bill is going through DE senate for gays! Anyone interested in calling senators with me???

Mousavi vs. Ahmadinejad

Sun, 31 May 2009 14:45:17 GMT

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8075603.stm

This article reads like Mousavi's entire platform revolves around women's rights. I love him. :D :D

Also, the state of women's rights in Iran:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7600670.stm

Thu, 14 May 2009 02:30:14 GMT

Anyone interested in starting a mini book club? Ami and I are in.

Tue, 12 May 2009 16:04:01 GMT

Building a web page! Yayyy

I love creating things :D :D

evolution in action

Mon, 11 May 2009 22:41:19 GMT

BBC Earth News: Evolution is Slowing Snails Down

So fucking cool. XD Scientists in Chile have found a correlation between the survival rate of snails and their metabolism. Natural selection is pressuring garden snails to have more efficient metabolisms.

hee

And I love snails :D

Eat it, kohai :D

Mon, 11 May 2009 03:42:32 GMT

holyfuckingshit distance never hurt so much

but I'm learning

"
As for the last little blurb. We are all inexperienced at love. If people ever actually get around to figuring it out I think humanity will have lost something ineffably vital to our existence. My point is, you feel like you have no fucking clue what you're doing right? good. me too. it's normal, it's called being in love and it's wonderful. Even the times that suck are wonderful; if nothing else, be glad that you are alive to feel. It's a cheesy movie, but Equilibrium does have some valid points =P."

I love him.

obsession

Sun, 03 May 2009 18:48:08 GMT

Hate comes with all of the opposite feelings of love. Disgust when you see your object of animosity, a desire to inflict pain, destroy, a deep loathing, that burning, weighted frustration. And then there's this obsessive passion. Love has that one too actually.

Alissa had to work HC duty, so she was stranded in her dorm. I showed up with a couple of movies that never got watched (we've seen five in three days, so lol yesterday became our break), and Ellie showed up too. We kept Alissa company. Every once in a while, she'd have to go off on an HC run to check up on the floor mates. Ellie and I talked about all of the people we realized we hated from our London crowd. But I guess we don't really hate them that much. I'm just pissed off by their existence, and I have no need to be around them ever, so I just don't. Simple problem. My life is happy. I have other people.

But shiiit I do hate someone. I remembered about an argument I got into with one of my friends earlier that day. Holyshit. Essentially, he feels that, as a woman, I am only capable of so much, and I am limited by the competency of the man I get hitched with. My influence over this individual is the extent of the influence I have over the world, because, again, as a woman, I can't do anything in this society. Are you fucking shitting me? Exactly what year do we live in? But no, he's entirely serious, and he tells me I live outside of reality, and everything I say is bullshit. What the fuck? It's sickening because I never knew he felt this way, and his opinions blatantly deny my existence. How can I hang around with someone who can't respect me as an equal no matter what I accomplish?

I talked to Nik, and he told me about how hate is an obsession just like love and how I shouldn't hate. It's intuitive, really. And I have a choice about these things. I can't be friends, and to be enemies is to hate, so... eradicate from my life.

*exhale*

Time to go work on my philosophy paper now. I finished my linear exam yesterday, and once my paper is done, I just have some studying to do. Study, finish up my final four work shifts, two exams, and then I go home.

Will miss Nik.

But I love you all, so I'm happy to go home and see friends :D :D Really miss Brendan and my brother, and I feel obligated to look out for those two too.

release me from my dirty cage

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:18:36 GMT

Yum. Free cone day at Ben & Jerry's. Almost makes up for Free Rita's Waterice Day, whenever that was supposed to happen. The texts that I got from Zach were: "Can I buy you a free had cream @ 6?" and then "Free come day? what do you mean what is this?" Ohhh myyyy :P

Room selection this Friday! Yayyy. Except not really. I was hoping I could "go back into the pool" for a new double next year because I had no desire to room with someone I knew after this semester's fantastic explosion, but apparently this concept is entirely beyond the comprehension of the lady organizing room selections. She was like, "like make a book where people write about themselves, and then people can just choose who they want to room with?" Like... a compatibility questionnaire like every other college? Aside from the fact that her interpretation of what I was saying is totally sketch. >< It'd be so awkward to pick roomies like that. Ellie and I are in the same boat, wanting to go into a random double, but not with each other even tho we're the most low key people imaginable. Eh. Skidmore ><<< why you so retarded ><<< but is cool

Oh ya, and happy belated 4/20! We used to be the number one reefer school according to Princeton review. loooooool I was told there would be tents, but it was a miserable day, so everyone was getting high out of sight in the comfort of their hot boxed rooms. (I still don't do pot). My math teacher thought it was Friday and let us out early. lool? No complaints. And I got in a fight with ex who was creeping on me a little. :(

I go home May 9th. Let me know when you go home! My birthday is May 13, so I'm caught in college people limbo, because I'm no longer with college people, but not everyone is home. *sad sad* Miss you guys lots. :( And holyshit this semester is so close to being over!! Time to be even more sparkly shiny with my classes than normal :P

Time to pretend to do work. Adios & love, all :P

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:15:45 GMT

Happy Passover!!!

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:28:33 GMT

Fuck. So I may have made the hugest mistake of my life, but I don't really want to talk about that now. I'll just add another coat of black lacquer and wait with the rain. phhhh

New topic: I want to build a website and also host art on it as a portfolio. Do you have any ideas for a name? I want something creative and expressive. I'm using 110mb for hosting.

American Clean Energy and Energy Security Act

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:52:38 GMT

Economy & environmental legislation. And now we're experiencing the consequences of our overwhelming lobbying efforts early last month, and it feels good. :D Yum.

The Tedisco/Scott Murphy election in NY is so fucking close. It happened last Tuesday, and we still don't know who won. I believe the final count prior to absentee ballots was such that Murphy had an 80 vote lead. When each of the candidates had over 77,000 votes, 80 is a pretty fucking small margin. It could go either way. Murphy is the unknown in a predominantly Republican area. Despite how amazing he is, we're amazed at the progress he's made.

It could go either way so easily.

But I need to work and maybe sleep off a little more mono. *hugs*

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:06:44 GMT

Yayyy religion

Or rather, I can excuse the rationality behind this because it agrees with me -- and that's clearly what counts. :D :D (not really, guys ><< but there is still a valid point in this)

God will not intervene to prevent humanity from wreaking disastrous damage to the environment, the Archbishop of Canterbury has warned. I love the fact that environmentalism is becoming an increasingly mainstream topic. This fact was evidenced in part by the overwhelming absence of hippie-types at Powershift. We might be unusually passionate about our concerns, but so is anyone else who gives a fuck in the realm of politics. This in itself is a sad concept -- the fact that to give a fuck even to the smallest degree such that you'd go out and vote is unique. So, while not everyone may listen to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the influence of religion is undeniably powerful to some, and those some may now become responsible individuals.

Also, I give a fuck.

Two days ago, I called Tedisco's Albany office. There's an impending district election in NY, and Steph is organizing a small faction of Skidmore's EAC (environmental action coalition). Tedisco is the opposition. Each of us have been calling on different days, saying we represent different demographics (but not lying -- ie: I am representing a group of new female voters) with two goals in mind. We want to learn the specifics of his platforms including whether he intends to support our agendas. We also want him and his campaign office to feel pressured to give a shit about the things that we give a shit about because so many callers are asking about environmental issues. I call him the opposition because we attended Scott Murphy's Q & A on campus, and he is kick ass. Not only is he an incredibly competent businessman, but he loves what Obama is doing, supports green jobs, carbon reduction, legislation to end mountain-top coal mining, etc, etc. The only downside is that he supports nuclear energy which we can lobby about once he's been elected. He was an unknown relative to Tedisco, but he's been steadily gaining in the polls. We have hope. :D :D

Philosophy. I suppose this takes me back to the subject of religion. I love my philosophy class. :D :D Last week, we read and discussed articles by Nagel, specifically "What is it like to be a bat?" which refutes the concept of physicalism and asserts that there exists some consciousness independent of the brain. Our class is small, but we have an interesting variety of people. And this piece is particularly interesting because I disagree with it passionately. I would argue that to state that you have elements of your identity which lack roots in your corporeal body is the same thing as asserting the existence of a soul, even though it is not stated explicitly. On a very fundamental level, I disagree with this by principle of being atheist. But Ryan and I brought neuroscience into play. I mean, it's one thing to argue that, in the future, we may have science to explain the phenomenon of experience, but... you don't even have to do it because we know enough now. I can excuse Einstein for coming up with thought experiments independent of concrete empirical experiments, but Nagel is no neurologist. He doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about. We can explain why people have unique perceptions of reality through the brain, and we don't need an abstract idea such as a consciousness independent of the brain to help us explain what we don't understand. We might not be able to stare at the individual twistings and variations of neurons and be able to read what it means to the person in question the same way we'd read a book, but we can explain thoughts, perceptions, experiences, ideas, etc. And maybe some day we would even be able through some algorithm to compute what the nondiscrete distances between synaptic terminals, and lengths, and densities, and hormonal interactions mean in real time. But we don't need to reach that state to refute the necessity of a consciousness independent of the brain because it can all be explained biologically.

So cool.

And today we focused on Descartes who is even more hardcore than Nagel. He 'proves' that the mind is different and more powerful than the body and later the explicit existence of the soul, God, etc. Thank you for your Cartesian coordinates, but...

I want to learn about Existentialism.

Also, new anime: anyone heard of/watched Karas? And I finished Rah-Xephon.