not not politics

you know when two people first meet and they're all smitten and cutesy and can't stop smiling and gazing into each other's eyes? mmm. the honeymoon phase.
we're not there yet.
so far, all you know about me is that i have PMDD (think PMS, but worse) and i'm into grammar. BUT you're in luck, because you will learn even more about me in this post! and that's a good thing. if i weren't me, i'd certainly want to know more about me too.

i'll even break it down for you:
1) i can't stand apathy
2) i am very into politics, but i (try to) refrain from writing or talking about it, mostly because people are stupid (in my opinion)
3) feminists are hysterical

alright, so, it's 2008 and unless you've been living in a hole under a bridge in a faraway unknown land, you've seen/heard some stuff about the upcoming US presidential election. my brother is sick of it already, but i was a poli sci/econ double major, so i live for this crap. i know not many people do, and that just bugs me. i was talking to my friend janine via g-chat (during after-work hours of course) and we decided that we don't even care who you support (cough barack obama cough) as long as you support SOMEONE, and as long as your support is based on real issues and not anything superficial like gender, race, or religion. it's obviously easier to look at what you can SEE, instead of what you KNOW, but come on! it's our president.

so you can probably figure out by now that this entry is political, but don't worry, i don't think i'll be writing a lot about it. sigh of relief comes from my one reader (JG... aahahah) .. i tend not to discuss politics with most people because they take the 2 things they've heard from someone else and try to pass it off as their own opinion, then they have no way of backing it up and i end up getting mad.

which leads me to my point: feminists are hysterical. hahaha that really doesn't lead me to this point at all. and that's not actually my point, but whatever. if you haven't heard, the Kennedys (Caroline, Sen. Ted Kennedy) are backing Obama. Hillary, Edwards and Obama have all been courting the Kennedy endorsement, and Obama got it (probably because Bill Clinton annoyed everyone by trying to play the race card). anyway, janine has informed me that the New York State chapter of NOW (National Organization for Women) said that this endorsement is "the ultimate betrayal" ... oh it gets better, because the betrayal is "felt by women everywhere!" so my grandma in Vietnam feels really betrayed by Teddie right now. and ANYONE else who has done wrong is now off the hook, because this is the ULTIMATE betrayal. this includes murderers, rapists, pedophiles, Judas, and Benedict Arnold. y'all are good to go.

it's one thing to fight for equality and opportunity, but to support a woman JUST BECAUSE she's a woman is another thing. sexism is wrong, but isn't condemning everyone who doesn't support Hillary because she's a woman also sexism? NOW-NY isn't doing anything but confirming beliefs that feminists are hysterical.

GObama.

(yes i realize this post is scattered and confusing, but i tried to squeeze everything political into one post)

here's the press release if you want to read it:

“Women have just experienced the ultimate betrayal. Senator Kennedy’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton’s opponent in the Democratic presidential primary campaign has really hit women hard. Women have forgiven Kennedy, stuck up for him, stood by him, hushed the fact that he was late in his support of Title IX, the ERA, the Family Leave and Medical Act to name a few. Women have buried their anger that his support for the compromises in No Child Left Behind and the Medicare bogus drug benefit brought us the passage of these flawed bills. We have thanked him for his ardent support of many civil rights bills, BUT women are always waiting in the wings.

“And now the greatest betrayal! We are repaid with his abandonment! He’s picked the new guy over us. He’s joined the list of progressive white men who can’t or won’t handle the prospect of a woman president who is Hillary Clinton (they will of course say they support a woman president, just not “this” one). ‘They’ are Howard Dean and Jim Dean (Yup! That’s Howard’s brother) who run DFA (that’s the group and list from the Dean campaign that we women helped start and grow). They are Alternet, Progressive Democrats of America, democrats.com, Kucinich lovers and all the other groups that take women’s money, say they’ll do feminist and women’s rights issues one of these days, and conveniently forget to mention women and children when they talk about poverty or human needs or America’s future or whatever.

“This latest move by Kennedy, is so telling about the status of and respect for women’s rights, women’s voices, women’s equality, women’s authority and our ability – indeed, our obligation - to promote and earn and deserve and elect, unabashedly, a President that is the first woman after centuries of men who ‘know what’s best for us.’”

Boston, California.

People are ridiculously stupid. It amazes and amuses me every day.

I had the pleasure of enjoying a visit from Miss Samantha Dolgin two weekends ago. We spent the day shopping, here's what went down at one of our final stops.
Scene: skate/streetwear shop
All the chicks who work in this store are obviously no older than 18 or 19, and Sam starts talking to them about Boston while we are waiting to pay. One girl is interested in how hard they are with ID's but her friend, wow. This chick wanted to know more than just how hard they were on ID's, she needed a geography lesson. Some gems..

"Wow...I've never been to Boston, what's the weather like there?"
"Its pretty similar to here actually, but colder."
"Oh Shit! It's colder? I thought it was mad warm there."
"Nah.... its pretty windy"
"Is it like, a city city?"
"Uh...yeah."
"Oh shit! do you have to drive everywhere?"
-friend cuts in..."Its like a smaller New York, they have trains"
"Well I never knew, I mean..the furthest i've been is Virginia"


Oh really? The farthest you've been is virginia? Well then OF COURSE you havent been to boston. Its way farther than Virginia. The weather there is practically tropical. Silly me.

And they worry about public schools...

your retarted

i have a serious problem with people who cannot spell and/or use proper grammar. go ahead and call me a nerd, dork, loser, spelling/grammar nazi... but i'll call you a fucking dumbass. it amazes me that people who go to Tufts, Harvard... actually, if you got into any college you should be able to differentiate between "your" and "you're" .. when did we cover this, the third grade?? if there's an apostrophe then "re" that means YOU ARE. as in YOU ARE STUPID. if there is no apostrophe-"re" then it's your, like YOUR STUPIDITY APPALLS ME. you OWN your stupidity. get it? it's possessive. it kills me a little bit every time i see someone confuse these two. it hurts me inside.

also, then and than. "if i'm smarter than you, then you're really stupid" this is a very intelligent sentence. save it for future reference. their/there is another case. oh did you want an explanation? look it up! i'm not your elementary school grammar book.

definitely. it's spelled DEFINITELY. not definately. "definitely" means "yes, for sure, it's definite." not "yes, for sure, it's definate." what the fuck is DEFINATE. i've seen so many butchered spellings of this word it makes me want to cry. definately. deffinitely. deffinately. cacophony.

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this nerdy, dorky, loser-ish, spelling/grammar nazi-esque entry has been brought to you by my ovaries. i'm having the worst cramps in history and i'm sorry to have to write my first actual blog on such a boring topic, but hey, it's my blog and i can do whatever the fuck i want. which, btw, i write "im" "its" "well" "were" ... instead of the proper ways with the apostrophes. when you've gotten so good at grammar, the rules don't apply to you.

later bitches

superbowl here we come .....

There's nothing worse than being a Boston fan in New York. Then again its fun to see them squirm.


GO PATS!!!!!!!


More later...

Greetings from Blogger # 2

sup kiiiids,

JG, aka my bff, aka my long-distance-partner-in-crime, has done a splendid job of an intro, so i figure i wont need to write much more. she has already spoken about how we met (aforementioned apple juice incident. troof.) so maybe ill talk about how this blog came to be:

emails back and forth about our keen observations on the latest episode of gossip girl. thats right folks, youve stumbled upon the worldly and cosmopolitan culture jackpot. in all seriousness, we like TV, having fun, good food, pretending that we are still in college (although myself being a part-time 22 year-old cougar, i still occasionally frequent college bars) (okay this is actually just based on a single incident, but i like my new nickname "coogz"), g-chatting all day @ work (just kidding if you are my boss), new england sports, music, etc... also world events and politics. if theyre on perezhilton. just kidding. we also have hilarious luck with guys, which sort of makes me wish i were anonymous on this thing so i could write without discretion. but maybe i will anyway. Ooooh la la.

the path of this blog is still yet to be determined (we get distracted easily), but who needs direction anyway?? just know that we are very funny and amusing (at least to each other), and we will probably talk/complain about things of which you can relate. so stay tuned!

you know you love me,
KL, girl who doesnt think its played out to try to sound like gossip girl, even though it really kind of is. definitely is. definitely maybe

Once upon a juicebox...

So I have not yet edited the layout of this blog or even given a second thought to what exactly it would be about. However, new year, new blog... seems entirely appropriate to me.

I know we're all on the same page with this.

So, apple juice you ask? What exactly about this fruity concoction makes it worthy of a blog title? It seems only fitting that our very first entry explain this title and the history of your two faithful authors. Myself and miss Kim Le. And thats pronounced 'LAY' people, get it right.

I've known kim, or Kiem as we affectionately refer to her, since second grade. She had that little bowl haircut and I didn't know that spandex stirrup pants were not acceptable for every day wear. Needless to say we became fast friends. Kim and I spent many many afternoons playing barbie and teaching her (Kim not Barbie) how to not be afraid of my dog (who by the why is tiny and harmless). Then, one day in the cafeteria, we were eating lunch together like good little second graders do, when we decided to partake in a game of "lets fill our cheeks with apple juice and pretend to spit it at each other". What can i say, second graders are easily amused.

The game got quite intense and in a moment of spastic second grade excitement I ::gasp:: actually spit my apple juice on Kiem. Not just ON her, but directly onto her face. Apple juice in her eyeballs, dripping down her nose, and ruining her makeup....had she been wearing makeup. Now, we are in the cafeteria and it is mighty crowded, so immediately my first thought is 'Oh no, Kim, are you ok?'

HA, just kidding.

My first thought was actually. 'Shiet I am going to get in so much trouble when she tells on me'. Cause dont forget, thats what little kids do. They tell. So i turned to my apple juice soaked friend and said

"If you don't tell on me I'll be your best friend forever"

Apparently she liked that deal. Because not only did she not tell, but I did not get in trouble....and here we are. Blogging together. Laughing together. Sharing together. And you know what? Apple juice love really does conquer all. And yeah, I had to ask Kim how to spell conquer. Deal with it.