Oh wow it has been forever since we had ONE OF THESE.
Microfont and it changes my cursor into some sort of bizarre crosshair so I can't highlight the text.
Not that I can see the text to highlight it but whatever.

i just signed up for a product review site, i feel like that means i should unlock my posts!  

... What?
I just set my industry jobs in EVE Online so I feel that means I should update my blog!
What the fuck?

I think my brain is about to explode, so I obviously do the best thing ever..BLOG.

This is going to be a quick one I think. So a week ago I had a Skype conversation with my Media Writing professor who is currently in Lebanon. She was the cutest thing ever, and she said that she wants me to look into freelancing! EXCITING!! Okay, so anyway, there were a few things that she said that I really wanted to make sure that I had down.

Whatashame?
Just call her and ask again, Jesus.

Okay honestly. I am not in the mood or state or whatever to write a blog for the week. My lymph nods are so swollen I look like I have a triple chin and my whole body is like kssdhgjkwd.

This unexpected sickness has already ruined my plans of work for the week so I don't even know.

Also, my dad's sister died today. 

She can't blog this week but every single entry is about ten sentences long. It's not like this is a major investment, or anything.
I JUST CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO WRITE THESE FIVE SENTENCES ON THE EDGE OF A STAMP OKAY
because that's how small the font is--
never mind.
Also your dad's sister?
Dad's sister.
if only there was a word for that person.
Oh well.

That awkward moment when you realize that all of your blog posts are done on your phone and/or while on or waiting for a bus.

Go figure. 

... That awkward moment where you realize all your blog posts are done on a desktop.
What the fuck?
How is that an awkward moment?

Hello all, I think this will be a short post, just because my fingers are extremely cold and my nose keeps running.

I wanted to talk about the use of slurs in everyday conversation- particularly the use of "that's so gay." 

I seriously haven't heard someone describe something as "that's so gay" in like 5 or 6 years. I think collectively we're over it.
Like calling shit boss or rad or something.
I call shit rad all the time but most people aren't trapped in the early 90s so they don't say it.

I'm an ally of the LGBTQ community, and I am also the type of person who calls people out on their behaviors.

Stand the fuck back. A pretentious twat who's going to boss others around on Livejournal.

There is someone who I am acquaintances with that I follow on Twitter, as well as being friends with on Facebook.

(Btw the man sitting behind me is talking to his friend about the behaviors of gays and how it sickens him)

She has recently (or maybe it's been longer I just never noticed) continued to use "gay" as her word of choice to describe negative things. 

Don't be such a fag.
Jesus.
I'd never call a gay guy a fag, though.
Unless he was acting like one.

It bothers me, and I've mentioned it to her, but more often than not I get "well you're not gay, so why do you care" as a response. Things like that make me so mad. In order for minority communities to get support and equal rights, they usually need those from the majority to stand WITH them. Not for them, or blah blah. As a heterosexual woman, I have a privilege in that regard that a LGBTQ person might not have.

Basically, I'm just really bothered.

Ugh. 

As a heterosexual man I could give a shit about your moaning.

Shut up.

So, you may ask, what are you going to write about this week Irene?

Hi Irene.
I sure wasn't going to ask that, though.
In fact I was just thinking about something else entirely.

I wanted to write about this a while ago, but I kept getting ~inspired by other things so the topic was pushed back. This is also something that we talked about in my WGST (into to women and gender studies) class that I related to. 

WGST.
Women and Gender Studies.
T.
Women and Gender STudies.
Acronyms work that way.
Holy shit yeah they do. They work however the fuck you want them to.

I'm not sure what to call them...hecklers? Woo-ers? People (typically men) who want to make me feel as uncomfortable as possible?

I want you to feel bad about yourself but not because you're a woman.
It's because you're a bad person.

I'm talking about the times when I am walking somewhere, and some random person who I have never seen before, and probably will never see again, gets the urge to say something stupid at me. 

>I expect men to do 100% of the courting to woo me
>IT'S SEXIST AND THREATENING WHEN MEN APPROACH ME
seriously guys why the fuck are you dating white women?
I cannot imagine what would possess someone to do that.

This topic is soooo complicated, and rooted in gender and I barely have a grasp on it myself. I just wanted to talk about how uncomfortable it makes me.

What are you supposed to do when someone wolf whistles at you? 

1. This never happened you disgusting bacon ham disaster and
2. Shut up if, by your own admission, you don't even know what the fuck you're talking about.

So the question I have is, is this actually about me? Or is it about these men and boys asserting their societal power that they have? How many times do women actually respond to hecklers, to tell them that they are completely disgusted by their lewdness?

I'm sorry if this makes no sense, and this is something that I'll probably continue to discuss and analyze later. 

I have a cunt sensor.
It goes off on a near constant basis and my objective in life is to not talk to or even make eye contact with cunts.

 Anyway.. I decided to write this blog post about Steve Jobs.

He was the CEO/co-founder of Apple, and did lots of stuff with Pixar, and he was a philanthropist. 

He wasn't a philanthropist.
In fact he was pretty much the opposite of a philanthropist. 
I'm not even being down on the guy. Objectively he didn't give a shit about humanity.
I respect that but people shouldn't be acting like a combo Jesus and Buddha died.

He died yesterday after battling pancreatic cancer for many years.

Sooooooooooo. You may ask, "okay Irene, why are you writing about this?"

Well, dear reader, my answer is coming. 

You're writing about this because you're an unoriginal twat without a single shred of creativity in the vacuous expanse known as your skull so you can't help but post about the latest headline.

My boyfriend (aww so cute awww) works for Apple. He was privileged enough to get some training over at Apple headquarters ..about a year back. He had a brief encounter with Jobs like in a cafeteria or something ( I think he like watched in awe as Jobs grabbed a parfait or a fruit cup) and I think that's totally awesome.

He basically idolizes Jobs- which, in my opinion, is pretty okay. 

If you're going to idolize someone you better make sure they either never existed or have been dead so long and their life so greatly mythologized they're basically fictional characters.
I mean why idolize Jobs? Sure he was rich but look at the guy. That's about all he had going for him.
Unlike Julius Caesar who was so badass they named a month after him and people still talk about him 2000 years later (or maybe that's just me) and he probably banged brown girls two at a time.
I mean holy shit there's an example to follow.
I don't idolize Caesar, though. That's silly. I just consider him a great American.
Because I voted for him for president.

There are far worse people that someone could want to base their life work on. 

List of people to base your life philosophy on:
Julius Caesar
Marcus Aurelius
Niccolo Machiavelli
Miyamoto Musashi
after that it's a descending level of unimportance.

Okay, so now you may be like "blah blah stop flailing about your boyfriend irene, no one cares."

I guess I'll run over to my point haha. 

Literally no one cares.

So, me being the most wonderful, amazing and humble girlfriend ever.. I was trying to figure out how I could help. My dude was pretty devastated over Jobs' death, so I did the obvious thing-- changed my facebook status. 

17. Do not fear death.
-- Miyamoto Musashi.
He has a 21 point action plan to not being a twat and that's 17.
Why does no one listen to this guy?
Oh wait they do. It's required reading in the military and business school.

I changed it to a pretty nifty quote from Jobs that I thought was adequate enough for the situation (if you have spare time, just look up some quotes from this man. AMAZING)

You know that awkward moment (ahaha) when you meet someone enough times that they friend you on facebook? And you're not actually friends so it's kind of weird?

No.

No? Oh.

Well, this guy.. That I have some mutual friends with from high school commented on my status with a crudely edited version of my quote, talking about how expensive Apple products were and how they were a waste of money.

So I did the obvious thing, deleted the comment.

...He said the same thing again, which I promptly deleted. So he changed his status to what he kept repeating on mine.

Someone who I didn't know said "dude, too soon." And he said "it's never too soon."

DO YOU HEAR THAT? MY POINT, IT'S COMING! 

I like how this is the one time you can't hurry the point along.

Okay, so I totally understand how people can end up weighing certain people's deaths above others...and that's not cool. But I just don't understand how someone can be so mindless and just idiotic about a death. 

What Jobs leave in his wake, anyway?
Caesar and Aurelius left entire empires in their wake.
Machiavelli left an entire branch of Western philosophy.
Musashi left an entire branch of a religion and a philosophy.
What'd Jobs leave?
Some overpriced crap.
He didn't innovate a fucking thing. He was a good businessman and that's all.

This is kind of funny just because my build up for this entry has been so long, and I am so irritated I can't even say much about it.

I dunno.... ANGRY IRENE IS ANGRY.

People are just weird. Ugh.

Also, in case anyone was wondering, I think I missed my bus. :(((  

No that's cool thanks for wasting my fucking time.
Guy said a mean thing about a dead guy's company and you're mad at him now.
A guy neither of you have ever met and indeed will never meet.
Maybe I'm weird but I can honestly say I've only been upset at maybe three famous peoples' deaths and that never advanced further than "whatashame. He was a good man... What a rotten way to die."
I imagine when Clint Eastwood or William Gibson dies it'll elicit that response from me.
"This is terrible."
I'm not sure William Gibson counts as famous, actually.
I bet only nerds like me would recognize him if they saw him on the street.
He wrote Neuromancer and Burning Chrome you ignorant plebs read a book sometime Jesus Christ.
Anyway time to go now because this is boring goodbyeeeeee

LAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUREEEEEEEEN

HELLO LAUREN.

So I lost my AC adapter to my large hard drive somewhere. 

lol externals 

Holy hell y'all.

A group from the UN might come to "monitor" voting.

I'm about 90% certain at this moment that Mitt Romney will not win this election.

He will, however, steal it and get away with it

Yes, because the UN is 100% interested in fixing the election.
If anyone would want to rig the election in Obama's favor it'd be the UN.
I guarantee Mittens would not be half as proactive with war than Obama.
That is pretty much the purpose of the UN, incidentally.

Nope.

Still think The Mentalist is quite possibly the most plot-contrived crime drama on television today with the most absurd villain around.

Like - haate it.

The Mentalist was awesome.
At least, the first season was. Fuck you. That show was hardcore.

I'm planning to go to a MtG release thing this weekend, if only so I can get out of the house for reasons outside of A) work B) errands C) emergencies. Plus in all honesty, I miss socializing with other nerds - I don't get to see many of my friends very often and one of the super-close ones rarely, if ever keeps in contact. I imagine this is a "too busy" deal but I also recognize that she's incredibly introverted.

MAGIC THE GATHERING GUYS
I'M A NERD AND A GIRL TEE HEE xP

My LJ is still Russian.

My dog is anorexic.

One of my former college classmates committed suicide.

My friends are mildly manic-depressive but probably not as much as me.

It's ~snowing~

This is the first entry in about ten I understood.
Blogs.
Also you talk like your Livejournal being in Russian is a problem. Didn't you pick the language?
Why would you set it to a language you can't read?

Man I forget how this series goes from completely strange crack to outright bloody violence to some kind of zen-esque philosophy.

I KNOW RIGHT HOW ABOUT SOME ANIME

see, I can't support NASCAR or funny cars any NASCAR-related activities

I mean - price of gas going up, price of oil affecting many things, so on and so on

how the hell much gas and oil is being wasted per race when there's a souped-up vehicle going 200 mph/for over 200 laps?

... They don't use the same gas you do, dipshit.
They use 100 octane.
Also talk about a drop in the fucking bucket, holy shit.
Yeah, all those anime DVDs that had to be shipped across country?
That's okay but NASCAR I ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT SUPPORT.
Just admit the reason you don't support is it because it's boring as fuck and move on.

When did my government get so overtly corrupt? :/

When did Marcus Aurelius stop being Emperor--
March of 180 I think.
So March 180.
Commodus on.
Well then Pertinax staged a successful coup and he wasn't a bad guy.
Just a little bit inept and too far thinking.
As in none of his plans survived him for long.
So 180.

i hate being underemployed at a company where they should damn well know better

i hate feeling like a failure

Yeah--
time to get a better job, then.

Christ my grocery store job was such shit. I can't even begin to tell you how much better my current job is.
...i need to actually remember to bring this ff7 sticker to my coworker

...i never liked ff7

>not like Final Fantasy 7
DO YOU EVEN
PLAY VIDEO GAMES

I really, really really like the story in this game. I mean - it is epic. Groose, who starts out as your generic bully, gets inherently more badass towards the end and he is possibly like, the most awesome of awesome right now. Pompadour included. And Link - even between games there are obviously different Links because well, they are different Links.

...
How the fuck do you miss the point of the plot of a Zelda game I mean seriously
They're "different" Links because they're really the reincarnation of the same dude--
BECAUSE ZELDA
WISHED
THAT SHE AND LINK COULD BE TOGETHER FOREVER
AND THAT'S HOW HER WISH WAS ANSWERED?
It's called a tragedy and fuck you never mind.
EVERYTHING COOL IS WASTED ON THE FANFIC GENERATION.

Majora's Mask just got 10x more disturbing.

It was already very, very very disturbing.

... Did you see the box?
I mean not to be a dick but come the fuck on.
Holy fuck this blog.
I just spent about an hour writing nothing because I either had no clue what she was talking about or reading her bitch about Zelda.
What the fuck is this, anyway?

TIME TO GROOOOW THE FUCK UP

So you've decided to post to ONTD_P.
Why would you make such a monumentally stupid choice with your life?
You could do literally anything with your time.
Literally anything.
I know what some people are thinking: "Livejournal is fun. This wasn't a waste of my time." Ignoring the fact if you think Livejournal is fun you're an aberration begging for the apocalypse this falls handily into the "my time is free" fallacy. You could maximize your enjoyment by doing something much less annoying with your time.
Like writing fanfiction and emphatically not posting it to the internet, thereby saving me hassle.
But nope, here we are.
This blog is called ♥ Kerri ♥.
♥ Kerri ♥.
That's the internet equivalent of dotting your Is with hearts.
Some of the girls in the class I teach now do that but they're 16 so I cut them some slack.
Some but not a lot because come the fuck on.

So... Am I missing something, or does iTunes not offer full series sets? Like, as far as I can tell, Buffy and The West Wing would cost me $280 each.

HAHAHAHA WOW BUYING DVDs

Not that I'm planning on buying them, because I own the box sets, but I was just curious. Great way for them to earn money, if they don't sell series as sets, I have to say... 

Yes, just what Apple needs more of.
Also thanks a pant load for cutting all my music off halfway through the song, iTunes. I really appreciate that. Almost makes me wonder why I bothered backing my shit up in the first place--
ha, ha just kidding I'm never buying from iTunes again. Not that I bought from iTunes regularly anyway but you know you maybe lost 5 whole dollars a year from me.
Good job, assholes.

So... My little sister turned 29 today. My baby sister, that is. It just make me realise how close we were born together... Kristy was born in Sept of '82, and Toni in October of '83. I was in January of '81. So not even three full years between the three of us. o_O 

And still dotting your Is with hearts.

Shipping Ollie and his sister, y/y? 

Incest fanfic
why the fuck not

Also, if you haven't already heard it, Skyfall, the new Bond theme, sung by Adele. 

Welppppp.
I know what I'm not seeing now.

This song is amazing. It sort of creeps up on you, imo. Her voice is lyrical and haunting, and then you have the solid depth that usually accompanies a Bond theme. I may or may not have listened to it a few times today. :P 

I guess I can interrupt what I'm listening to for this.
Wow this is really not what I want to hear from a Bond theme.
What, is Bond getting sensitive on me?
Fucking
why does everything have to be for the fanfic audience now?
Why can't Bond just be about being a cool spy and violence and banging chicks?
Can there be nothing cool anymore?

Sigh. Work is so depressing right now! We were really busy, so they've pulled my group to go back on the phones. On the one hand, this is good - commission and overtime, which is something that I'm always for, of course. On the other hand, this sucks. :/ It reminds me of why I was so burned out a few months ago - the constant dealing with people who are kind of entitled (see the guy who demanded I credit him $150 because he's been without internet and email for one day. ONE DAY.)

Pretty sure if I told my cellphone provider the bill was just ONE DAY late they'd hit me with a fine.

Hm.

I know because I'm Canadian I might be missing some stuff about the Romney platform as opposed to the Obama one.

But is 'I'll give the wealthy tax cuts and that'll create jobs, yay!' really about the only idea that he's suggested?

No he said some other shit.
I'm just glad I have work Tuesday.
I found the one school in the state that has school on Election Day/Veterans Day and I'm going.
Oh sorry bro can't vote gotta go to work.
Oh shit I'm gone from like 9:30-6 can't quite make it sorry mate gotta do this thing--
I'm sure Mittens would understand. I can't be the 46% that are victims or whatever he said and I'm sure Obama would understand because someone has to pay for this welfare state.
Incidentally why does the state tax me?
The state pays me.

I keep seeing stuff about how what Obama is doing isn't working, yadda yadda yadda, but I haven't come across any articles that indicate what he should be doing differently, or what the Republicans will do. 

Give me total control of the state for 15 years and I'll fix everything.

I keep seeing stuff that goes on and on about jobs and how the economy is the driving factor, but then all the comments that I see on articles out there that support the Republicans seem to focus on..less spending,  

I mean Mittens is probably going to be a shitty president too (assuming he gets elected) but that is generally smart. To not spend money you don't have, that is.

Except normally job creation requires more spending... 

>Job creation requires spending
No it doesn't you fucking idiot haven't you ever heard of a free market?

Is there something obvious that I'm missing?

Yeah. If you make it affordable for businesses (protip: your definition of affordable and a corporation's definition of affordable differ) to do business in the US they won't go to China.
The only problem is everyone is living in a fantasy world of magic and unicorns if they think those jobs are coming back.
Because they're not.
So instead we should be focusing on new industries and new opportunities but we're not because OH SHIT THE ECONOMY SUCKS.
Can't take risks with all the money we don't have.
So your options are spend more money we don't have on make work jobs that contribute precisely dick (Obama's solution) or let the stranglehold of the weak and lazy wealthy strengthen to bring back jobs that aren't coming and won't provide a quality of life for anyone that'll do them.
Seriously is this shit that confusing for you retards?
No wonder the economy is so fucked up. It's filled with people like you.

Harry Potter retrospective. Sigh. This fandom will always hold a piece of my heart - a lot of these scenes still give me chills. <3 nbsp="nbsp" p="p">

This woman is in her 30s. I want everyone to remember this.

Trigger warnings for general discussion of the Penn State child abuse scandal. 

I've firmly attached my labels.

Is Sandusky the biggest culprit in all of this? Absolutely. Does he deserve to have the most of our scorn and hatred? Absolutely. Are people such as Joe Paterno and others who kept things quiet deserving of our scorn and punishemnt? Absolutely. 

Taking the controversial stance here, I see.

It infuriates me to see people bleating about the poor players, the poor school, poor 'Joepa's legacy', etc etc etc.

What part of cover up of child abuse do these people not GET? 

Really the Penn State fans should be thankful I wasn't in charge.
"Well this cancer seems to cut right to the core. Better burn it all to the ground to be safe."
I feel there's enough blame to go around, too. Time to liquidate the entire athletic department and don't let me catch wind that other departments knew about this, too.

But instead I am going to talk about Fifty Shades of Grey, because a whole bunch of my coworkers are reading it and I am becoming increasingly disturbed by this phenomenon. 

I know right the writing fucking sucks.
I can't believe you idiots keep eating this shit up.
What do I mean "I can't believe it"?
I perfectly well believe it.
These books are not just bad writing. These books are a cesspool of misogyny and rape culture and abuse, and pretty much the epitome of why people think that people who like BDSM are fucked up and that there's a lot wrong with it.
That's--
Uhh--
People who are into BDSM are people, too.
That's--
Some kind of discrimination I'm sure.

There is something wrong with this picture. This is not funny. This is not just bad writing. This is dangerous. How do I know? Because I hear my coworkers talking at work - and they are smart, funny, intelligent women, and they think these books are amazing!

OH NO PEOPLE HAVE FANTASIES THAT DIFFER FROM MINE!

It's one thing to not think that the writing is bad, it's another to not recognize an abusive asshole when you read about him/see him. It's another to find this character hot, because while the protest is often that women would ~see the difference~ outside of a book, I'm not at all confident that they would. 

There we have it. "Women are stupid" straight from a woman's mouth.
Personally I trust women to be intelligent and be able to clearly discern between fantasy and reality.
I'm not sexist, unlike this self loathing woman.

So, George Zimmerman was arrested and charged with 2nd degree murder. I am pleased. I sincerely hope that this plays out for justice for the Martin family. I am crossing my fingers for compelling evidence and a jury that will be willing to examine the case beyond the SYG law.

Reading reactions on Twitter was...a bit frustrating, to be honest.

1. Casey Anthony. When are people going to let this go? There is no definitive proof, and that is why she walked. Nothing was produced that proved that she had had anything to do with her daughter's death.

Death 'round the clock, I say.

Reading the information about that case made me wonder over and over how people could think that she should have been convicted. Yes, it's pretty damn suspicious, but a lot of innocent people have been wrongfully convicted because they looked pretty damn suspicious. That's why these safeguards are in place.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
- Plato
ARE YOU SMARTER THAN PLATO?

 So the newest information regarding the Trayvon Martin case says that he and Zimmerman got into a 'scuffle' and that Zimmerman told the police that he 'acted in self defense'.

A few points.

a) Zimmerman is the one who started this whole chain of events by following - against police instruction - Trayvon with no other reason beyond 'he looked suspicious' (or black)

b) Trayvon is not here to defend himself whatsoever because he's, you know, dead. As such we have no idea who initiated the physical contact. I'm sure Zimmerman's story is that Trayvon somehow initiated it, though.

Didn't you just excuse Casey Anthony on similar grounds?
Surely you are interested in justice and not just in seeing your rainbow coalition protected?
If you are not for justice you are its bitter enemy.

c) At the end of the day, Zimmerman had a firearm and Trayvon did not. (For the record, this is why I hate guns.)

>Not arming yourself while wandering through the hood
welp.

To be honest, I really don't care if Trayvon got sick of Zimmerman following him and jumped him - the fact remains that Zimmerman had no reason to be suspicious of the boy, was warned not to follow him, and shot and killed him when he was unarmed. That's murder, in my mind. 

I wonder whatever happened to that case?
I should check.
No wait don't care. Just remembered.

Writing about this now, since I didn't get to it last night.

Ahh, I just love the smell of misogyny in the morning, don't you? Or not.

Seanan McGuire is the author of Feed and many other wonderful books, and she has a new book coming out on March 6th. 

That book is legit.
If you haven't read it you should.
I'll admit when it comes to writers my book shelf is 99% male authors but she gets a pass.
There's also a woman Warhammer author that's pretty new and she's been doing some pretty awesome audio dramas. I think she even wrote Butcher's Nails which is probably in my top 10 favorite Warhammer stories.
Those two get a pass at least.
I DUNNO ABOUT OTHERS.
HEH WOMEN.