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Name: Annie
Location: Orange County, California, United States
Birthday: 11/21/1982
Gender: Female
Interests: Ohhhh, I just blither about, really, and if something interesting happens to come up I often take full advantage of it. Or not. I'm really into livestock, however. Not in a dirty way, of course. I'm just really in tune with nature.
Expertise: Reading. I know how to read at college level.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Construction
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Member Since:
5/16/2003
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| So I forgot the password to my xanga once again, and made a new blog. But then I came back here and decided to try my password one more time to see if it would work, and it did! Unfortunately, the damage has been done and I like my new blog much better, so I think that it is finally time for me to say fare thee well to you, xanga. We've had a good time together, but I've found someone younger, who understands me more.
http://blueberrydot.vox.com
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| UMMMMM OK. So this older white guy just walked into the office, and the second he saw me, he put his hands together, BOWED TO ME, and said "Hi, I'm here to pick up a package."
What in the - I am seriously bewildered. At first I thought maybe I had imagined it, or maybe I had been sleeping at the time and only dreamed it, but no. I am not fucking with you, my gentle readers, I know what I saw. That guy definitely bowed to me before he addressed me. I'm not sure what I should even be feeling right now. Should I be flattered? Offended? Pleased that he recognized that I am a personage that deserves to be bowed to before I am addressed? I didn't know that white people were starting to do this. Do you think it's maybe some sort of passing fad, like Kabbalah? Seriously, right after he did it, it took a herculean effort for me to not immediately say "Yo....what was up with that?" I'm thinking maybe he has recently made an extended stay in an Asian country where, of course, bowing is de rigueur and the height of chic, and maybe he just hasn't shaken the habit yet. It's like when people come back from studying abroad in France and start calling french fries "les frites" and tacking on "enfin!" or "mais oui!" at the end of all their sentences, thus annoying the shit out of all the Amerocentric neanderthals that they are now, unfortch, residing with again.
I wonder if this will become a widespread phenomenon, like what learning certain key phrases in a wide array of Asian languages and busting them out whenever one comes across anyone who looks remotely Asian has become for 20-something yellow fever-stricken douchebags everywhere. Perhaps I should just embrace it. I guess I prefer the bowing to the inevitable "DO MA MAI!" that comes right after I tell everyone who is not Vietnamese that I am Vietnamese. However, bowing is not really our "thing." The Vietnamese are really more into head nodding than full on bowing-with-hands-together. We are all about efficiency. | | |
| Ok, Jeopardy really has to get rid of the "getting to know you" portion of the show, because it is f'ing AGONIZING. It is so, so awful. If you've never seen the "getting to know you" part of Jeopardy, it's when Alex Trebek spends a few seconds of quality time with each contestant asking them where they're from, what they do, etc, which is fine - I have no problem with that. The problem is, after the polite cordialities are over, the contestants are all forced to tell some sort of "funny" or interesting anecdote about themselves that they have prepared in advance, and it's the most awkward thing EVER. They all try to be funny or witty but it's just either incredibly stupid, or much, much more boring than the contestant thought it was going to be. For instance. In the last episode of Jeopardy that I saw (which happened to be the Teen Tournament), Alex Trebek was herding a contestant towards her anecdote by going, "So I hear you have a lot of nicknames...?" And she's like, "Yeah, my friends actually call me Garnish." And Alex goes, "Garnish, really? What' the story behind that one?" And she answered, "It's because one time, we were in a restaurant, and I ate the garnish on my plate...and my friends...thought it was really funny." Jesus Christ. And they're ALL LIKE THIS!!!! They ALWAYS attempt to tell some story that they think is HILARIOUS, and it just ends up making them look like severely unsocialized rejects. Look, we know that it wasn't your sense of humor that got you to Jeopardy, ok? You don't all have to be goddamn comedians. PAINFUL.
Speaking of the Jeopardy Teen Tournament, I watched one of the episodes where for the Final Jeopardy, the question was something like, "What two foreign countries are the most popular vacation destinations for Americans?" And the COMPLETE moron in the middle wrote down, "London and Paris." Can someone enroll this dumbass in a geography course?? The question said COUNTRIES, not CITIES, you TWIT. I know you're just in high school, but surely by now you must have learned to distinguish a country from a CITY. The thing that is so astounding about this was that this is the final Jeopardy round, the one where they show you the question and then you have like 20 seconds or something to write down your answer. You get to write down your answer. I can understand if this question had been asked during the first two rounds of Jeopardy, and she pressed her little button or whatevs, and the words "London and Paris" flew out of her mouth automatically before she could stop them. I have seen many a Jeopardy ace felled from just such a brain fart. It happens. Sometimes the pressure of the hectic Jeopardy pace can get to you, you panic, and you blurt out a totally ridiculous answer that you realize is wrong the second it leaves your mouth. It's forgiveable. But this is Final Jeopardy. You have tons of time to write that shit down before the Jeopardy jingle ends!!! What's worse was when her answer was read out by Alex Trebek, I expected him to keel over from a heart attack, or at least shred her to pieces in a pretentious, but totally rightful, fit of rage, but it didn't happen. What's the matter, Alex? You have never before been loath to unleash the self-righteous tool within and make a contestant feel like he/she does not deserve to live. What is Jeopardy, really, without Alex's condescending inclination of his head while he says, "Nooooo I'm sorryyyyy, the answer was 'Papua New Guinea.'"
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| Claire's industrial strength curls are getting more ridiculous by the episode. I mean, there is this one episode when she gets burned to a crisp by this radioactive guy and her entire face basically melts off and her clothes are charred to shit but her curls are STILL FUCKING INTACT!!!!!!!!! Are you kidding me, Heroes?? Hair is the FIRST thing that burns!!!!!!!! Trust me, I've leaned over enough Bunsen burners in chemistry classes to know just how quickly that shit goes up in flames. How does your FACE MELT OFF, yet your hair still look like an ad for Paul Mitchell?? It is so obvious that dudes are running this show. A woman would have more sense.
Also, I wasn't going to say anything, but the hair people need to start putting Claire in ponytails when she is in her cheerleading outfit. Everyone KNOWS cheerleaders have to wear their hair in ponytails. How are you supposed to do a double back tuck if your gigantic mass of hair is flying all over the damn place? THINK ABOUT IT, NBC, damn.
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| Ok so now that the Heroes dvd is out, I am FINALLY watching the show! Initial thoughts: Peter is DREAMY. Also, what is with Claire always having her damn hair curled? Even the day after she witnesses her former best friend being brutally murdered, she shows up with her hair curled and sprayed within an inch of its life. I'm ASSUMING she took a shower to get all the blood off her, etc, so she would have had to have done an entirely new curling session to get it that way, and don't even try to tell me that's a natural curl because I know the work of a 2 inch ceramic barrel when I see it. Give it a rest, Claire.
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