i can't change the world, but i can change the world in me.

Well, I just got back from my vacation, and it was magical. Seriously... Delaware is beautiful. I loved all of the beach houses, and the little shops, and pretty much everything (except the five a.m. fire alarm.) I'd like to live there someday.

Also! Before I left! I went to the Salman Rushdie lecture, and it was so fun and cool. I got to go to a little banquet thing beforehand, and I met him and he asked me about my writing. He was very nice and funny. Did you know there's some kind of weird movie about him, where God kills him at the end!? I didn't know that until then. I'll have to find that movie someday.

Also, about legalizing marijuana to help the economy...

NO NO NO NO NO

So let's imagine the world if pot becomes legal. Well, the environment will be shot, but that's okay, because we'll be saving the economy!! But uh-oh, wait. What if that doesn't work? Will we be legalizing heroin and cocaine next? When my sister graduated college, she had a tough time finding a job. When I graduate, will my only job option be pot dealer? Or maybe I can start a career in the food industry to cater to all of the people with munchies. But wait-- if everyone else is off smoking pot, they probably won't show up to work, or they'll come to work stoned and be realllly productive... by which I mean, they'll probably sit in the corner and laugh.

I've heard the argument that pot should be legal because cigarettes are, and "pot isn't any worse." Does anyone really think that cigarettes are legal because they're safe? I hope not. I think most people are aware of how dangerous smoking is. Cigarettes are only legal because the tobacco industry is big business. The government is not particularly interested in keeping us safe, as this new idea to save the economy has proved. And hey, if everyone is all mellowed out in their pot-induced comas, they can do whatever they want, and we won't even notice. Be useful. Don't get sucked into this. I am scared to see what will happen if this becomes reality.

you get right under my skin...

I am not going to blame myself for the things people have done to me.

I will not let them do these things again.

I promise.

please please please get a life

So I just saw a commercial for the latest season of Toddlers and Tiaras, and it had some quote about how watching the show makes someone feel like a good mother. Needless to say, my eyes rolled so far back into my head that I have gone blind, and typing this is difficult. Yes, because spending time with your beloved child, and spending money on them, and sharing an activity you both enjoy... that clearly makes you such a bad mother. I could understand a dumb quote like that after watching a particularly heinous episode of Wife Swap, or Jon & Kate, or maybe one of those nanny shows... but Toddlers and Tiaras? And why do you need a show to tell you that you're a good mother, anyway? My new quote these days has become "If you have to ask...", and I feel like this kind of applies here. More like "If you have to use a random show to decide whether or not you're a good mother..."

Also, I have another complaint, and I don't really care if this makes me seem jealous, because I know I'm not. But seriously? If all you can do is spend your whole life bragging about where you went to college, or an award you won twenty years ago (unless it's the Nobel Peace Prize, I suppose), or some famous person you met in an airport... I have to start to wonder if you've ever done anything else. Feel free to mention those things in conversation, and possibly expand on them a bit, but don't spend all day, every day talking about those things. You don't look cool, you just look boring and self-centered.

That's all for now...