oh yeah, forgot to mention that our fridge now looks like some raging alcoholic took over our house. [we like to call this raging alcoholic "melissa."]

okay, hi, i need to blog.

yesterday was muuuuucho fun. went out for mel's birthday dinner. her birthday is actually the day after thanksgiving, but of course no one will be here so we decided to celebrate a week earlier and take her out to pat & oscar's for dinner. mmm...yum food. but LOTS of it. oh well. dinner was great. ;D then headed over to vons & sav-on to wander down the alcohol aisle looking for stuff we wanted to get. melissa said she wanted to get drunk! aaahhhahaha!! so whatever, we're in sav-on and all of a sudden, sanaz comes galloping up to me and mel on this wooden stick horse that plays cowboy music. pretty funny, man. so i told her i'd pay her $5 if she'd gallop down the alcohol aisle in front of helen and this frat boy. and she did. hahahahahaa...ahhh, that was funny. so then we go home and wait for bruce to come over so he can buy the alcohol for us. and he does and he did. and then the party started!! big mike and jon came over too. we started off playing go fish but changed the rules so it was go drink! but then got bored of that pretty quick so we started playing helen's game - the ring of fire. which, actually, there's no ring and no fire, so...yeah. it was still hilarious though. i'm too lazy to describe the rules, but it basically involved lots of drinking. and several prank calls to poor poor grace. grace, we are so sorry. it was helen's idea. ;D helen called first and pretended to be this mean neighbor from across the way complaining about the noise. which, for the record, even *i* thought was a little mean. but whatever. jon called next and just said "hello hello hello" in this weird voice. then it was me and the stupid "is your refrigerator running?" joke which i didn't even get to say because grace answered "yes, it is, and i can't catch it" and i said "oh, okay. bye." and then the FUNNIEST was when big mike called and said "HELLO! THIS IS OFFICER SEYMOUR BUTTS FROM THE SAN DIEGO POLICE DEPARTMENT. WHO IS THIS?" he said it like, ten times and it just got funnier and funnier each time. poor big mike. ended up getting sick. but boy did that boy drink a lot. he drank even when it was a girls only drink. he was pretty darn funny though. jon also asked melissa twice how big her boobs were. hahahahaha...poor mel couldn't keep a straight face and lost. anyway, afterwards, we played charades. i know i've said this to my roommates like three times already, but i think the funniest was when i told big mike to do yoshi. he pointed to his tongue and then threw his arms straight out. the guys did get it and mike was like, "yeah, i didn't really feel like laying any eggs." la la la...and then...what else... jon and big mike were pretty trashed so we made them sleep over.

and that was our friday night!! ;D going bowling tonight, so bye!

hahahahaha...chatting with jen...

chenni jen: today was such a crap day
chenni jen: one of those days
chenni jen: where you just wake up feeling like crap
chenni jen: which makes you look like crap
chenni jen: and then you scowl at everyone
chenni jen: so then they feel like crap too
chenni jen: long crap chain
lilith chick: spreading the crap, are you?
chenni jen: yup
chenni jen: at this point, i'm actually taking pride in it
lilith chick: as you rightly should
lilith chick: the world needs someone to counterbalance all those people who spread joy
lilith chick: that someone is you
lilith chick: you spread the crap
chenni jen: it's nice to know i have a specific role
chenni jen: my reason for living, etc etc

later...

chenni jen: so what are you doing?
chenni jen: besides trying to find your aim in life
lilith chick: ohmygod jen
lilith chick: i read your last sentence
lilith chick: and when i saw the word "aim"
lilith chick: i thought of instant messenger
lilith chick: and didn't get your meaning right away
chenni jen: HAHAHAHAHAHAA
chenni jen: I KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO SAY THAT
lilith chick: my "aim" in life?! what does she mean??

hello! blogging from campus again. done with classes for today; just killing time before i head over to the fmla meeting. psst...i'm breaking library rules - i'm eating m&m's! *mock gasp of horror*

hey, guess what guess what! the guardian did a story on our title IX rally yesterday and i was in it! well, not the story, but they had a picture of us demonstrating and i was in that! i'm like, smack dab in the middle of the picture carrying my "DEMAND EQUALITY IN SPORTS" [with the "O" in "sports" made into the woman's symbol] with a weird, crazy grin on my face. and i look so short! oh, here it is: ucsd guardian. it's the picture in the upper left hand corner. you know what's sad? i actually had to look at my hands and think for a moment before i typed "left."

hmm...what else to blog about? nothing much really. heat wave this week has been wonderful! i love it!! love it love it love it! it's the end of november and everyone's running around with tank tops and skirts on! well, except guys, of course. i think the heat wave is dying down though. yesterday was the hottest day; figures that that would be when our demonstration was. we were out there around 830 am and it was already sweltering. it was still hot today but not as bad. very nice actually. sunny and just...perfect. ;D

psst. i'm still wearing my "save title IX" t-shirt. ;D

title IX demonstration went so well today!! made lots of noise and pissed off people inside the hotel we were rallying outside of. ;D got a lot of honks from cars passing by too. but of course, the most important thing was that the commissioners knew we were there and that, from what i understand, were a little afraid of us. ;D

and geena davis was there too! knew she would be, but still exciting nonetheless! and like all superhuman celebrity movie stars, she didn't even break a sweat in the sweltering heat while the rest of us were swimming in our own perspiration. i mean, we were all wearing a t-shirt and jeans and she was wearing this suit with a black jacket and a white collared shirt with black pants. and it was crazy hot today. but no, she's not like normal human beings - she doesn't sweat; gorgeous movie stars like her would never dare do something so dirty. it's not really fair. =/ anyway, she spoke outside during the women's sports foundation rally and then again inside as an official testimony. she was pretty cute and really funny; i liked her. ;D

i was really impressed with some of the other speakers too. a father who extolled title IX for bringing him and his daughter closer together through sports. it sounds a little hokey, but think about it - most men these days have been raised to love sports, probably by their own fathers. this sounds sort of obvious, but most men bond through sports. and now, with the help of title IX, more girls are playing sports which allows fathers to bond with their sons AND daughters. there was another man that spoke whose speech i really liked. he didn't even have any daughters (just two sons) but realized that title IX doesn't just affect women; it affects his sons as well. he wants his sons to be raised in a society where they look at people equally, where gender stereotypes won't be so ingrained into them as they still are nowadays in most people. i dunno, i just thought his presentation was so great, i really liked it.

all in all, it was a great demonstration. my first one! ;D

ohmygoodness. making signs for title IX demonstration tomorrow. on bright fluorescent pink poster boards that are completely blinding me. hopefully will not cause major traffic accidents tomorrow while waving blinding pink signs. oh well. it's all for title IX!! ;D

okay, i know i said i have to work on my outline, but i just added like, ten words to a sentence so i feel that i've made some progress so i feel justified in taking a quick blog break. yes yes, i know that doesn't really count as progress, but i don't care what you think.

i just wanted to blog because it really surprises me some of the comments i get from people i don't know. i mean, not that the comments themselves are shocking, just that i'm actually getting comments from strangers which is, i don't know, something i didn't really expect. i guess i still can't grasp the whole concept of my blog being available for the entire internet world to see. i just keep thinking that the same five people i know are the only ones reading my blog. anyway, hello to alan and pea who were the last two people to comment! (yes, ha, i realized you commented too, but i know you so you don't count. ;D)

and something pea said made me think. i've been blabbing about title IX and our demonstration for it for the last few blogs and i didn't even explain what title IX is. it basically states that, in federally funded institutious (i.e. public schools/universities), educational programs cannot discriminate on the basis of gender. so, basically, public schools MUST provide women with an equal opportunity to participate in sports as men as well as equality on other aspects (equal treatment in regards to equipment, supplies, scheduling of games & practice times, coaches, locker rooms, publicity, etc).

now, the single biggest misconception of title IX is that it cuts men's sports in order to make things "equal." this is FALSE. title IX does not require some kind of quota to be kept. all it states is that things MUST be equal between men and women. this means that if the men's baseball team gets to practice on a nice field, so does the women's softball team. this DOESN'T mean that if there isn't a women's softball team, the men's baseball team must be cut. universities and high schools are completely misinterpreting title IX and using it as a scapegoat when they want to cut teams with a lesser revenue than the god-like, untouchable sport of football.

okay, this "quick" blog break is turning out to be not so quick. is it a little scary that i've spent more time tonight blogging than actually working? oh well. whatever.

i am so tired and unmotivated. really need to work on my outline for psych and the law but i could care less about it. yes, it's just an outline, but it's graded and if we get a good grade, then we don't have to do the paper which is a really good thing in my case because the paper is due the same day as my cognitive psych final. despite having said all that, i'm still having trouble seeing the long-term benefits of focusing and working really hard on this outline. i'm going to pull an all-nighter to work on it but i just feel like it's going to end up really crappy anyway just because i really don't give a crap about it. i just used the word crap twice in a sentence. see how tired i am? it's not even that i'm sleepy, i'm just tired.

just as a side note, sdsu's campus SUCKS. we got lost and drove past frat row like three times. and corinne (the fmla president) is really quite a funny girl. she believes she and john mayer are destined to be together and that he wrote the song "neon" just for her ("she's always buzzing just like neon, neon. who knows how long, how long, how long she can go before she burns away") mostly just because she feels like she's going to have a nervous breakdown any second now (okay, well, that part's not so funny).

anyway. the fmla event today was really cool. we got nicky mccrimmon, the point guard for the la sparks (from the wnba), to come down and give a talk. she was super cool. very laid back and down to earth and really taught us a lot about some of the injustices that women athletes in the united states still face AND about a lot of the progress they've made recently (although, still not enough, apparently). she asked us how many of us knew that the los angeles sparks were two-time champions. two people raised their hands. then she asked us how many of us knew that the los angeles lakers were three-time champions. everyone raised their hands. she also told us that many of the women on the wnba can't make a living off playing basketball like all of the men on the nba can. many of the wnba players have to supplement their incomes by taking part-time jobs; she's a substitute teacher and part-time coach. now, really, could you imagine shaquille o'neal or, i dunno, kobe bryant as substitute teachers? i don't think so. and how many times do people complain about the skyrocketing salaries of professional athletes? i mean, really, can we not take some of that and give it to the women athletes? you know, the ones who are actually WINNING games?! men can lose games and people will still go to watch them. women will win games and no one pays attention. doesn't make sense.

okay, this ranting has to stop. i need to work on my outline.

but i really don't want to.

HAH!! kicked ASS on my developmental psychology midterm! kicked major booty ass!! finally, some good news!

gah! GAH!! vaughn walked after sydney, he walked after her like he was going to stop her and tell her he loved her and he walked after her pretty far until she like, disappeared around a corner and then he just stopped. he just stopped!! why?! why?!?! why couldn't he have walked farther?! c'mon!! tell sydney you love her, dammit!! even her own MOTHER, an assassin behind bars who hasn't seen sydney in like, twenty years - even SHE knows that you love her!! don't get back with your ugly girlfriend alice! no! no no no. sydney killed a man for you! or at least she thought she was. okay. i need to rewind the tape and watch again so that i can get angry all over again. or at least try to justify vaughn's actions so i'm not as angry. okay.

and is it just me or is sark getting cuter and cuter? is it wrong for me to want sydney with both sark and vaughn? (yes, i realize it is after my crazy rant on how vaughn should've told sydney he loved her. okay, so in an alternate, evil universe, sark and sydney would be kind of cute together.)

okay...this is REALLY quite stupid because no one who reads my blogs watches alias so i'm basically ranting to...no one. well, sanaz reads my blogs and i've gotten her hooked on alias so she knows what i'm talking about but it's still stupid because she was sitting right next to me when we were watching tonight and we had the exact same reaction. "KEEP WALKING, YOU IDIOT!!"

mwahaha...i've gotten sanaz addicted to alias.

first sanaz, soon the world!!