YES

Religious checker of CNN that I am, I have no idea how I missed this... but Jaycee Lee Dugard has been FOUND ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I saw the article title about "girl missing since 1991 found," I just got this feeling, thinking "what if it's her?"... and then I opened the article and alternately began to cry, clap and squeal. My poor sister is probably terrified. But all I can say now is...

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOO-HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! etc.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I started looking at missing persons cases when I was... oh, 15, maybe? And everyone has "their case," and this was mine. I don't know why. But she just stuck with me, and I am so so so so happy that she is okay. My birthday is next Tuesday, and what a great early birthday present this is! I just can't believe it. =)

wow, it's been awhile

Not too much to say here. School starts soon, which is exciting.

You know what's not exciting (and I have been meaning to post about this for quite awhile?) I was watching E! the one night, and they had a missing/murdered persons countdown. Good concept, right? Always nice to get some names/pictures/stories out there. Well... not so good. Because the title of this countdown was:

"Young, Beautiful, and Vanished."

Yes... that's right... old, ugly people (and also, apparently, all men) need not apply. This is exactly what I was talking about when I did my speech on media bias in missing persons cases. I better get some plastic surgery and start praying that nothing happens to me, because I'm young (for now) and a woman, but I'm sure I don't fit their idea of beautiful. Can we please have a sequel called "Various Ages, Average to Below Average Looks, and Vanished?"

mini-vacation fun

Well, I am on another vacation... a short one, but a fun one. I'm visiting my sister, who happens to live in the same town as the college I'll be starting at in the spring (I'm switching campuses in the same university system.) I've been here since Saturday, and I'm leaving early tomorrow. We're having an awesome time. The campus here is so beautiful... it's exactly what you would think a college would look like. We even found some buildings that my sister, who went here, never knew about... with very ominous names. So we concocted our own theories about the sinister happenings that would take place in such buildings, until we went home and Googled them to find out they were perfectly innocent buildings. Or so they say...

Also, useless people who make me feel bad about myself even when they are not around me should stop. And maybe they shouldn't be able to "make me" feel bad... but they do, and I hate it. They should also stop making me second-guess myself. I usually do the right thing, and I did this time, and I know that. So all of those people can go far, far away. Please.

=)