I don't give a fuck

Apparently people are protesting General Mills for their pro-gay marriage stance.
Go home you fucking idiots. First Chick-fil-A now this bullshit.
And fucking food manufacturers stop voicing your opinion on marriage like your opinion matters. Go make some Lucky Charms you cocksuckers.
If you want to inform me about genetically modified crops I might be willing to listen to your opinion.
I said "listen to" not "take into consideration" because all of you are full of shit and I'm not having any of it.

Language class continues to suck, most of the time moderately but sometimes severely enough to drive me to drink. PPD continues to be a thing, sometimes moderately and sometimes more than moderately. P has his first major cold and is a whiny and pathetic sick person, much like his mama. 

???
PPD.

Dear Sr. Teacher:

Don't give me that look. YES, I did not do my homework. NO, I did not "Do nothing all weekend..?"

I'd expect a language teacher to string together a better sentence than that but that's just me.

You might have noticed this whole massive power outage thing that is happening around these parts lately. We were involved in that. All weekend. Which means that instead of "nothing", I kept my four month old baby from dying, getting heat stroke or becoming seriously clinically dehydrated all weekend. That took a bit of doing considering that it clocked out at 116 degrees in our fifth floor apartment, and we had no drinkable water. 

Whatashame.
I'm not even going to ask how you had no drinkable water in a city in the United States of America.
Well, it is DC which as I understand and have in fact witnessed is like wandering into a post-apocalyptic nightmare.

Beyond that, which some would say is achievement enough, I also kept the four and six year old reasonably calm and relatively happy and emotionally comfortable even though they spent the better part of the weekend in a car or at a mall. This was pretty much a heroic enterprise.

Based on the literally five sentences of yours I've read I get the impression you're some kind of linguistics major in which case I suggest staying home with your spawn instead.
Oh. Apparently she's majoring in the Telugu language.
What the hell is that?
Well a quick Wikipedia search confirms it's a language spoken in India.

So, we're all aware by now that my dad died in 1999 and was pretty much a metaphorical and emotional casualty of the Vietnam War, right?

Yes.
I am well aware of this.

Well, apparently the VA did some lookin' into stuff and decided that he was a physical casualty of the Vietnam war too --

... He died in 1999.

there was a court case recently that establishes that the disease that he died from passively allowed to kill him committed suicide with died from was caused by his (hugenormous) exposure to Agent Orange during the war. 

I don't fully understand the point she was trying to get across with the crossed out shit.
I guess his disease was treatable and he decided to not treat it and therefore kill himself--
I know people who have been exposed to Agent Orange and 1. I can't blame them for wanting to die and 2. I don't think lung damage is treatable. 

(As are, I'm reasonably sure, most of my fertility/hormonal problems. Dioxin, gotta love it.)

Your fertility problems?
You have 3 kids. Shut up.

On Thursday, Patrick decided to randomly stop sleeping. Completely. I don't think he's been a sleep for longer than half an hour at a time since his nap Thursday afternoon. 

That's one of her spawn.

So. Here I sit, on what I'm reasonably sure is the world's most uncomfortable couch. I'm thirsty. My back aches. I need to pee. I'd like to watch a movie and clean up and do some errands and some work in Aperature. But I DO NOT DARE MOVE, because the baby might wake up and the screaming might start and I don't know if I can cope with it again. 

Oh wow imagine that kids are a responsibility.

 Yesterday in language class we wore Saris and flew kites and ate fantastic Indian food. Today in language classes we sung bajans and learned Indian classical dance.

AND I GOT PAID FOR IT.

I have the best job in ever.

Coooool maybe I should sign up.
Oh, apparently this is some sort of US foreign legion thing--
Does the US have a foreign legion?
I don't even know what the fuck is happening anymore.
Forget it. I'm going to bed.

MAKE UP YOUR MIND

So like typical women, ONTD_Political is indecisive today.
Some yahoo, apparently, drove up to a Chick-fil-A and called the woman operating the drive-through an asshole for hating gays or some shit.
Anyway long story short the guy's boss at work caught wind of this and fired him.
ONTD_Political is very mad this man got fired.
I don't fully understand--
outside of the obvious "it's really none of the company's business what this guy does in his free time" argument, ignoring he very well could have signed a basic agreement to conduct himself in a certain way, I think ONTD_Political should be thrilled. Surely they all wish they could be as hard ass as this guy.
And it was a man being mean to a woman so surely you could throw in some sexism shit too.
THIS SHOULD BE A SLAM DUNK AGAINST THIS ASSHOLE.
Anyway, here we go some gay guy bitching.
Oh, apparently it's a girl.
Whatever, anyway.

I don't know. I think with me watching some good anime, I think it's helping me not feel so down. 

>2012
>good anime
Your choices are:
Fist of the North Star
that's about it.

I've been feeling kind of down all day today. I just sort of feel like I care too much for people and I'm not getting an equal amount back?

Yes, that's my problem.
I care too much about people.
Wow this blog.
Tons of post about her boyfriend--
Or someone, I guess. They appear to have one of those insufferable on again off again relationships and I can't keep up with this garbage.
Here's a post about how her mother pressed charges against her for aggravated assault--
You'd think I wouldn't be glossing over that but it really is that boring.

Chu woke me up this morning with news: he got a chance to get a possible job in Texas! Yay!

"Job in Texas" definitely shouldn't be followed by the word "yay".
Oh I can look at her resume.
Online.
A perfect stranger.
It's a .docx.
It's on Mediafire.

Don't get me wrong, I'm extremely happy for him but... I couldn't help but wonder and get scared yet again.

You know, I've been kinda down about my shitty job lately and my fear is it'll be my only job forever until I die and it sucks and I hate but it could be so much worse:
it could be exactly what it is but in Texas.

They're going to let me know tomorrow whether or not I got the job. What if I don't get it? What do I do then?

Surprisingly she didn't get it and the reason is exactly what you'd expect: she has a criminal record.
Oh, got her resume
aaaaand disturbingly she used the same template I did.
Welp--
time to fix that.

 From the moment I woke up this morning, I got ready for the interview. When I actually got there though, it was extremely early. I tried to get the person to call in the interview people but he said that it wasn't possible. And that the time is the time is the time. So I got there at noon - I had to wait till 2pm.

That's a pretty big faux pas. You never show up for an interview early.
But also you shouldn't be late.
You should be exactly on time.

Fine, whatever. I whipped out my notebook and continued to write. Eventually, it was time for the interview. It was annoyingly short, honestly, considering how long I waited. I mean, the interview could have gone a lot better than I thought mostly because I couldn't read the interviewer's body language.

Gee it's like management is trained for this kind of shit.

Complete pokerface. On top of that, I got an email from Target which pretty much said, "We're unable to offer a job." Argh.

Ohh Target sent me a letter telling me they weren't hiring me.
Guess I did one better--
incidentally, I always appreciate being rejected instead of just fucking nothing.
Like would it kill you assholes to send an automated email saying fuck off?
Nope, can't even do that.
No common courtesy anymore.
Oh I just noticed one of her accomplishments on her resume is her blog.
And she links it.
In her resume.
Her blog.
In her resume.
Think I should link my blog in my resume?
Oh she's 25.
I was going to guess like 18 or something but I guess 25 is cool too.

 I didn't really get a chance to talk about further about the job search last night or the other night. When I got the email, I was hanging out with Laura, Claudia, and Claudia's friend and... I had to pretty much keep a strong face without bursting into tears in public.

I need to switch to Gmail or something, speaking of. Yahoo's mail app sucks.
Sucks so hard it doesn't even work.
What's the most important thing in an email app?
Well, being able to fucking read your email.

I really don't know how to fucking feel right now when GoDaddy sent me a rejection letter.

GoDaddy sent me a rejection letter that was basically "you seem like a good teacher but I don't think you have qualifications to handle servers."
Fuck you, GoDaddy. I successfully navigated Blackboard for 4 years. I'm basically a computer scientist.

 More and more lately, I've been ditching class. It's not like I don't do the work or anything. It's just that... the end of the semester is coming up really quick and I think I have only 2 actual finals. One is coming up and the other one, I think, is next week. The rest are just presentations and a website.

POOOTENTIAL EMPLOOOOOYEEEEERS
WELCOME
I, however, missed two classes in my entire college history.
One was due to the weather (and by "weather" I mean "peoples' inability to drive in the weather") and the second was due to it being a really douchey day for pussy sensitivity.

Yesterday was kind of a clusterfuck. Chu was feeling well enough to go to Tempe Marketplace so we did. He got his Street Fighter x Tekken game and yet again, the buses were fucking up.

Gee imagine that a Korean guy who plays fighting games.
Next thing you'll be telling me he plays Starcraft and the worst, grindiest MMOs ever.

While I was waiting for class to start and when I was in class, we had a lockdown drill. Naturally, Arizona passed a law which allows students to carry concealed weapons onto campuses and it was voted in last year. Oh. Okay. I'm not sure why then they even bother to have lockdowns since these people here are so ~confident their guns are going to be used for self-defense. Great. 

I remember when I was at Atlanta Airport last year they decided to scare the fuck out of everyone by having some kind of terror response drill and not tell anyone--
scare the fuck out of everyone, that is, except for me. I was wedged safely between an entire Indian family an a morbidly obese man. When the bullets start flying I'm sitting still.
And a biology attack?
Bitch please. I taught at a shitty high school. I'm basically immune to the Marburg Virus.

Chu rented the game, "Heavy Rain", and he's been playing it (he just finished it) and needless to say, it's really intense. I wouldn't recommend it if you don't do well under pressure. 

ALL THEM QUICK TIME EVENTS HELP.
Definitely don't play Saints Row 3 if you find Heavy Rain too intense, incidentally.
This is the game that actively rewards you for going ludicrous speeds while being in the wrong lane on the highway.
I like to get that really fast motorcycle and upgrade it all the way then do that.
LET ME SHOW YOU SPEED.

Anyway, I had a nightmare last night because of one of the scenes. I won't go into detail because it's just horrific and I'm worried more about myself the more I think about it.

In Saints Row 3 you can beat people to death with a giant purple dildo.
You have the option to not use that weapon but frankly given that it is an option why the fuck wouldn't you take it?

I can't believe Whitney Houston is dead.

You update your blog way too much.
I clicked the back button about a thousand times and I'm only up to Whitney Houston dying?
Most blogs would have the common decency to have ended by now or at least be from 8 years ago where it was high school territory and I can just say "yep, you were an asshole then, too" and call it quits.
Here she's bitching about her class schedule and it looks--
pretty average, really. I've had way fucking worse schedules.
Wow this fucking blog.
I have seen some boring blogs in my time but this one is really up there.
Would you believe me if I told you this was by far the most interesting her blog gets?
Because it is.
You know not to say anything too positive here but by this point in Victorygreywolf's blog I would have rethought posting this entry at least 10 times for fear he'd hunt me down and kill me.
His blog was shit but at least it was crazy shit.
The only thing I've rethought while writing this entry was whether or not I was actually awake.
Jesus Christ it feels like I've taken about a dozen sleeping pills. I think I've finally found the first no pill sleep aid.
Okay I'm going to take some sleeping pills and then read this again in a bit.
This might be overdose territory so if I die I just want everyone to know it was an accident.
Also rereading my entry for typos (which I do now) I'd like to draw some more attention to the Victorgreywolf thing: I just compared Victorygreywolf to you and he came out above you.
In terms of blogging we are now:

Victorgreywolf
YOU
Meanest Mom

And I'm not even sure Meanest Mom counts anymore because she quit.
Not because she realized what a cunt she is and decided to join a Buddhist Monastery but you know I"ll take what I can get.
Maybe Meanest Mom came out of retirement.
What a terrible thought.
No she didn't.
THAT WAS A CLOSE ONE, OKAY.
I think we're safe, guys.
If she comes out of retirement I won't even know what to do besides make an entry about it.
It's like in FFXI when you gain a level but then die and promptly lose the level you just gained--
even though you hadn't had time to properly adjust to the new level of awesome you still feel like you took a step back.
I don't even know what the fuck I'm talking about anymore. I just felt like I should pad this entry out more than usual because the blogger sure as fuck wasn't helping any.
I guarantee a certain amount of content on my blog.
It might not be good but at least you're getting it.

Thanks for the comments, friends

I'm getting so popular, holy shit-- two (or three, I dunno) entries ago: another comment.
Can't keep me down.
Anyway here's some cunt.

Fired up the Wii last night in a fit of boredom, figuring I'd finish Skyward Sword since I bought the Wii for it.

Saw Link standing in the water temple and remembered why I quit in the first place, and put in Twilight Princess instead.

Water temples, man. What is it about the water temple in every game? It's not even the puzzle. I got stuck on that stupid skeleton guy at the bottom of some sort of shaft and I don't feel like fighting him again because he kept kicking my ass. Not a boss. Just some enemy dude.

Wow.
Getting stuck in a Zelda game over combat.
They're not hard games, you know.

Chrome is telling me I can't go to gmail because "The site's security certificate is signed using a weak signature algorithm!"

Which, okay, funny, Google is angry with its own security certificate. But then I open up Firefox and cruise LJ and it pops open a new tab because Facebook wants me to do an anon survey.

...I don't have a Facebook. Chrome on my Mac doesn't have any problems opening gmail.

Ugh. It's like every time I turn around there's something new going hinky with my PC.

HURRRRRRR
URURRRRRURURURURURRRRR

I don't know if there's a legit problem or it's just LJ being gross like it sometimes is, since none of my scanners picked up anything nasty aside from a few tracking cookies.

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

So instead of studying for the bar, I played ME3 and finished it. 

Wow, lawyer and Mass Effect fan.
And your blog is entitled "Feminist Popcorn".
You've just got it going on all the way around.
Holy shit.
This blog is boring as fuck. I can't believe how many entries I've skipped over and I haven't even had a thought about it. Wow, posts about your fish tank this is really riveting shit!

But srsly, his. In an article about the game. Way to overlook 50% of the human population (or 20% of Sheps, as of ME2). I also got used to law school, where a lot of books seem to use the neutral "she" instead of "he." Seeing "he" is pretty jarring, especially when I've got 120+ hours invested in "she."

>She
>neutral
>2012
No, sorry.
You have only yourself to blame for this development, FEMINIST Popcorn.

Seriously, is a singular they all that hard to come by?

English doesn't have one.
I'd expect a lawyer to know this.
I still use "she" because I give not one fuck but it even sounds antiquated to me and I'm using it.
It's either she, he (which would be grammatically incorrect), they (even worse) or he/she (nope).
It's like one of those grammar rules that hasn't been updated yet but really needs updating but no one wants to deal with the ramifications of adding an entire pronoun class that hasn't existed in English.

A post on abstinence-only education and the, frankly, baffling belief that waiting until marriage means that sex is the reason to get married dredged up this memory for me.

zzzzzzzzzzz--

I was a teenager-- high school, anywhere between 14 and 19, old enough to be perturbed but young enough to be driven around by my mother. I don't know how we reached the topic, but I suggested that cohabiting before marriage was a good idea because how else will you know if you're compatible? Like, what if you're neat and they're a slob? That's totally grounds for divorce! Clearly the solution is to find these things out beforehand.

Recent research indicates marriage is more likely to end in divorce if you cohabit (or "live together" if you're feeling less pretentious).
Further research indicates your marriage is 500% less likely to end in divorce if you marry a brown girl while being a white man.
It also posts a measly 4% decrease if you marry an Asian woman although I suspect the primary reason for that is because you dumb fucks are doing it way wrong and marrying what wisemen call ABCs (America Born Chinese). I suspect if the average idiot did it properly that combo would be posting similar numbers.
What I'm trying to say is science isn't finding anything a wiseman doesn't already know.

My mother disagreed, and told me "why would you buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?" Meaning, why would a man buy a cow. A woman would buy the cow, because women think differently from men.

I'll never forget that moment, because it shot straight from my ears to my gut and coiled low in my belly like molten lead. 

It's a metaphor.

1) I was a cow.
2) Men only want me because of sex.
3) If I am to marry, I must entrap a man with the power of my pussy.
4) If they can get the sex without being coerced into marriage, they will never marry me.

Ergo, men are scum.

It means a comparison without using "like" or "as".
She was just comparing you to a cow.
She wasn't calling you a cow, Jesus.

In retrospect, it makes me wonder: who is this cow roaming around that you can milk? Who owns her? Why do they let you milk their cow for free? Why wouldn't you want to buy the cow and feed it grass so you can sell the milk as organic at a huge mark-up? Also wouldn't the cow already have a kid if she's producing milk, rendering the whole "wait until marriage" thing moot anyway? Who wants to marry a cow?

WHY AM I A COW.

... So there you have it?
Women.

I finished my paper on threats against women online and the Virginia v. Black standard, and double-checked my citations. Since it's about threats I pulled on my long Internet memory to quote quite a lot of threatening language, and just when I clicked a link on Feministe-- BAM my computer goes haywire. It wants to run reinstall.exe and won't let me do squat. So I reboot and am asked, in the boring standard dialogue box I see a few times a week when Firefox crashes, if I want to scan my computer. Yeah whatever, stop messing with me, Windows.

Then I notice that all the errors are... wrong. "Hard drive speed reduced." "Ram slowed." Uuuuuh, what? Then I see the "buy now" button.

Awwwww fuck.

Long story short, my computer is out of commission until someone more computer savvy gets a look at it.

Reboot in safe mode with networking and run Malwarebytes you ignorant cunt.
This is the part that slays me about lawyers. So big and important until some actual work needs doing.
I say burn the lot of you.

None of the tips for fixing the System Scan malware work (i.e., I can't open safe mode).

You can't
"open"
safe mode.
Are you sure you know what you're doing?

Since I was barred from my game and my buddies were out for the afternoon, I went shopping for a chair. It didn't fit in my car, so the guy I've been talking to suggests: "maybe... you could get your husband to help?" I ignore that because how rude can you get and say, "I'll get it later." "Do you have a bigger car at home? Maybe your husband's?" "I don't have one." A bigger car or a husband. "Really?" "Really." and then a bit later "a pretty girl like you with a degree living alone? Where have all the men gone?" "I dunno, I don't swing that way."

I know he was scoping me out. I don't know why I am so irresistible to guys in retail.

Cooooooooool.

  I have a weird annoyance with the idea that humans are special in SFF for their boldness of spirit or whatever. 

SCIFI FANTASY GUYS DON'T WORRY I GOT YOUR LITFAG ACRONYMS COVERED.

They are the boldest, the most resilient, the most noble! In Mass Effect, it's their "genetic diversity."

Humanity suffered a population bottleneck that has left us with four major lineages. For the amount of time we've been on this planet, we are an incredibly non-diverse species as compared to others.

Oh want a scifi fantasy story where humanity isn't known for its youthful feel and dynamic view of the world?
You need only peer into the grim darkness of the far future.

We're not like cheetahs, which have such little genetic diversity that a case of the sniffles could wipe out the entire population, but as far as genetic diversity goes, we're a bunch of inbred cousins poised on the precipice of an epidemic or climate change. Yeah, we're adaptable. We're good survivors. This is because we're sapient tool-users, not due to some innate biology.

>not due to some innate biology
>the fact we are sapient is due to biology
your entire argument is undermined by a very glaring hole in your argument, esquire. 

The idea that humans are the most diverse species in the galaxy means that the other sapient races are facing down eradication at every turn. This year's outbreak of influenza? BAM! There goes an entire civilization. Like colony collapse among honey bees, the Tasmanian devil's contagious facial cancer, the bats being wiped out by a fungus-- all what happens when you don't have enough genetic diversity.

...
Assuming the aliens evolved in a similar setting to our own, of course.
Like the Eldar in Warhammer 40,000 have been around so long they've far evolved beyond fearing disease and the like and so therefore have become a very homogenous people.
There are reasons genetic diversity can go away and in fact we're starting to see it in our own species.
I guess I should cut you some slack because you're a lawyer, not an evolutionary biologist but then again neither am I yet I manage to open my mouth and not sound like a prattling twat.
Must be some sort of innate ability I have.

That's just the scientific problem. I see it a lot in fantasy with elves. "Humans are so adaptable, not like us old sticks in the mud!" Really? Really? Elves usually have magic and floating cities or other grand floaty architecture if they're living in trees, and you expect me to believe that elves didn't adapt?

...
The point is they didn't have to adapt--
because they had magic, you know?
Magic makes shit easier, like being able to shoot fire out of your hands?
You don't need to learn to make fire then.
Also are you seriously trying to make a scientific argument in a universe where magic exists?
"Wow the Warp in Warhammer is so unrealistic!"
WOW GEE YOU ARE SO RIGHT A REALM OF MAGIC IS UNREALISTIC.
YOU FOUND THE ONE PROBLEM WITH THE STORY OF WARHAMMER.

That Elfus erectus was putting up tree houses and zinging spells around before they had language? Yeah yeah, it's fantasy and elves didn't evolve.

Considering most the elves in the scifi and fantasy I've encountered were literally created by a deity that is still around to interact with mortals pretty much proves they didn't evolve.

 Whatever. I would think a society with grand magic would be way more adaptable than humans in the face of catastrophe-- in case of an earthquake I'll take the floating city above standing in a doorway any day (this ties in with my "magic is technology! Treat it like a technological innovation!" rant which I'm sure other people have touched on more eloquently than I could).

... Which is why the catastrophes that face elves is never something simple like an earthquake.
It's like the birth of Slaanesh or losing favor with the deity that created them or something.

If you have a sapient tool-user, chances are, they have most of the same quality humans have. And the more abstract the tool-use, the more adaptable they are: see bonobos versus sea otters. And on that score, humans are definitely not the most noble of possible other races. That honor would have to go to the bonobo, which domesticated itself and solves its problems with peace and love instead of murder. The very idea that we're the most noble is, frankly, depressing.

Yeah but when your choices in a game are humans, some kind of faggy elves who betray you at a moment's notice, some blue people with vagina noses or like green soccer hooligans it's pretty easy to pick out the side you're intended to root for.

Granted, a nebulous quality like "nobility" isn't something that can be quantified like genetic diversity, so it's just this grumble in the back of my head regarding world-building. I think it all mostly annoys me because it's an excuse to completely homogenize whatever other you're discussing, be they elves or aliens. They are all the same, they lack the spark of humanity. And that's just lazy.

That's because you're basically creating an alien species that has human-like qualities.
If you give elves all of the same qualities that make humans humans why not just make more humans?
By this point you're focused on superficial details like "oh they have pointy ears" and who gives a fuck then?

Perhaps one of the most amazing things about Mass Effect is realizing how many celestial objects are actually in the Milky Way. I feel pretty knowledgeable, I know a lot about space, but I never had any idea some of those things were in the Milky Way-- like the Horsehead Nebula.

>pretty knowledgeable about the Milky Way
>didn't know one of its hallmark features existed
No, cool.

When you learn about celestial objects you learn about things like "galaxies" and "nebulae" in such a way that, at least for me, lead one to believe that they're separate things. A galaxy is a spinny collection of stars and activity. A nebula is a floaty blob of gas.

... That's what you learned, maybe, but meanwhile I paid attention a bit in school and happen to know nebulae are often contained in galaxies.
The galaxy is a lot bigger than you seem to give it credit for.

Realizing that nebulae are bits of floaty gas inside galaxies turned my entire conception of space upside down. And I grew up on this sort of space-related edutainment. If you look for information on the Horsehead Nebula, it'll tell you that it's in Orion, but it doesn't say that Orion is in the Milky Way. This would make logical sense since we can see it with the naked eye, but again, that's not how we're taught about space-- especially since you can also see a band of the Milky Way, so clearly the things not in that band aren't in the Milky Way, right?

You're a moron.
Here, let me break this shit down for you:
space is vast.
So vast, in fact, that your pitiful concepts of distance and time are so inconsequential they're meaningless.
The Milky Way galaxy is home to so many fucking solar systems it'd make your head spin.
Whining about sexism--
whining about rape in a story without a TRIGGER WARNING--

OMG PRINCESS LUNA ON MLP.

The wait was so worth it.

My Little Pony.
Fuck off, entry over.