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I’m all for free speech, free thought etc. but i just read this article about Paul McCartney and PETA (people for the ethical treatment of anmials)…apparantly PETA is conducting an anti-milk campaign and going to schools and telling kids to stop drinking milk because it will give you pimples, and “handing out trading cards to school-age children that feature characters including “Phlegmy Phil,” “Chubby Charlie,” “Windy Wendy,” and “Spotty Sue,” which tell children that they too will suffer from the ailments listed is they drink milk.”

It’s one thing to try to expose the mistreatment of animals and try to change people’s views on eating meat. I can understand that. Show pictures of beef cattle in factory farms, and chickens with their beaks cut off in tiny cages that they can’t move in. Fine. But when you are purposely misleading children about your “cause” that is just wrong. And what alternatives are you offering these poor kids, who are going to run home and refuse to drink milk with their dinner. Did you hand out trading cards that say “Oscar Osteoporosis” because that’s what you’re going to get if you don’t drink milk. Or what about “Rotten Teeth Rodney” because they now drink carbonated beverages that leech the little calcium they are still getting out of their teeth. Where are the studies showing that drinking milk causes pimples? Because when I’m at school I don’t drink milk, and I have the same number of pimples that I have when I’m home and my mom makes me drink milk.

Kids are so impressionable that you could just as easily show them the “horrors” of being a milk cow and make them stop drinking milk. This deliberate deception really pisses me off.

And what is so bad about being a milk cow. Danielle worked at a farm over the summer. Cows came from their pen thing into the milking parlor, machines were hooked up, machines were unhooked, cows went back into pen thing. Oh the horror. While she said she can see how people might not think that being in a pen is good, as opposed to being out to pasture, she said the cows are treated really well and that it’s not cruel. And don’t you know that if you don’t milk the cows and they don’t have a baby to feed they will die.. ok i don’t know if they will DIE, but it’s really bad for their health to not be milked. So what is the problem with milk?

I really tend not to agree with the practices PETA uses to try to change opinions. This one really pissed me off. ARG i’m just so frustrated i don’t even know what to say about it.

now on a funnier PETA related note (dunno what it is with all these PETA articles i’ve found) they’re mad at britney spears because she wants to use cheetas on stage for her MTV performance tomorrow:
“The New York Post reports the spotted cats are supposedly going to be prowling the stage around the scantily-clad popster (and self-proclaimed virgin) (HAHAHA) as she wails her new hip-hop-flavored tune, “I’m A Slave 4 U,” while simulating an orgasm on stage à la Madonna.”
“While it won’t be quite as dramatic as Russell Crowe fending off those striped felines in Gladiator, and the cheetahs won’t be harmed (except if you count Britney’s singing)(HAHAHAHA), PETA believes the use of wild animals for stage trickery is cruel. ” – bolded emphasis added to text in the article, italics are my comments haha

long weekend. yay i guess. last night went to amy’s for their “small intimate gathering”. it was cool. there were some girls there from geneseo who ended up being really annoying. further proves my theory that i don’t like anyone at this school. but my stomach started to hurt around 11:30 and danielle couldn’t breath cuz of her allergies, so we came back home so she could take meds and i could go to bed. my stomach still hurts. i get hungry, and then i eat, and then my stomach hurts. blah. and – tragedy – i’m out of sweettarts.

i also have become a sims addict once again. played for 3 hrs yesterday and 3 hrs today. as i said to carolyn “i am jack’s wasted life” hahah

more proof my internet sucks. i’ve been sending adrienne a video file for 3 hours, and i still have 116 minutes left to send. yah so it took a long time last year, but it was only about 45 min to send her a video. crappy geneseo computer service.

at breakfast today, college tv network (music videos all day long with some news and sports thrown in) played Econoline’s “you don’t know what it’s like” video. i was looking, waiting to see what it was, and then i saw trevor and was like HOLY SHIT THEY’RE PLAYING EC! haha needless to say my eyes were glued to the tv until it was over. the EC show is saturday, dunno if Joe talked to Dan yet about it. whatever, going to go either way.

i wacked my head in the shower today.. i’m on a roll. i think i might have a bruise.

i wrote a note to Nestle about their sweettart flavors, since they instituted Green apple in place of lime. Lime is THE best flavor. I also complained about the blue ones cuz they taste like ass. Well I got a reply:

“Thank you for contacting us about your experience with SWEETARTS (she spelled it wrong.)

We regret your dissatisfaction with the flavor of this product. Your comments regarding your preferences are important to us and will be shared with the appropriate personnel for their review.

Once again, we thank you for the information you reported to us, for it helps us in the constant
evaluation of our production processes, product acceptance, and overall quality.

Sincerely,
Wendy Elkins
Consumer Response Representative”

I’m on a roll, because I also got a response from Resnet about our slow internet connection:

The problem is that we have around 2400 people trying to use the equivalent of 24 cable modems. In addition, many are downloading MP3s and movies which are bandwidth intensive. We are working on getting more bandwidth but it does cost a lot of money. We are currently paying $60,000 for our 6 Mb/s connection. Because of a new state contract, we will be able to spend the same amount of money and get more bandwidth. However, it will not be enough to give everybody the equivalent of a cable modem. Since the price of ResNet is rolled into the room cost, we would have to raise the rate for rooms significantly to provide “cable modem” speeds to each room.

We are in the process of using a “packet shaper” to reduce or eliminate “unnecessary traffic”. Some of this traffic is the music sharing and movie sharing. If we don’t do this, we can’t use the web.

now if i could only get answers about our townhouse. was going to go look at it after class today, ask a worker (if they happened to still be working) if I could see inside ours, but it was storming so those plans got cancelled.

long weekend this weekend. eric is coming up tonight again, gonna get dinner. saturday we were invited to go to some club type thing in rochester, and amy and them are having a house warming kind of party too, so dunno what we’re going to do yet. geeze ive been here a week and have a more active social life than i have the past 3 years.

i got hit in the head by a pine cone. haha yeah funny. me danielle and katie walked to the convenience store to buy stuff, we walk back and are going towards the steps to our building and i hear a noise, and then something klunks me on the head, and then falls to the ground. a pine cone. haha it was weird. what are the chances.

i also remembered that freshman year i put a postit note in the back of the top shelf in my closet in Genesee. I didn’t think they actually cleaned the rooms, so I left the note there with the date on it, so that eventually someone would find it. They remodeled Genesee last year, so I’m assuming they found it.

 

carolyn got hit in the head with a wine box, so it must be a trend lately…

i’m so fucking in love with bono….acoustic version of Stuck in a moment.. arg to die for.

i really hate the slowness of my internet, which i know i posted already. but its totally terrible. so i sent a mean email to the manager/network something or another of CIT. i’m full of mean emails to geneseo staff.

and speaking of geneseo staff and emails, some residence life person emailed all the townhouse residents about towel bars. apparantly people who are ALREADY IN the townhouses are complaining that the towel bars in the bedrooms are in a bad place. so they wanted feed back from these people if they should move the towel bars in the houses that aren’t finished, and if so, where would be better, etc. ok so #1 NO BODY who is already in the townhouse should be complaining about ANYTHING! And if you don’t like where the damn towel bar is located, how about we switch places, and you come live in here, and we can all go happily live in your townhouse. #2 Who the hell cares where the towel bars are anyway? I never expected there to be towel bars in the bedrooms, I figured bathroom towel bars. #3 If this stupid trivial issue of towel bar placement is going to delay finishing my house, i’m going to take that towel bar and shove it up your fucking ass. I also can’t believe they had the nerve to send the email to all the people who are stuck in this shit hole called Blake.

we were tempted to send an email back to the lady saying “we dont give a shit where you put the towel bar, just finish the damn house”

danielle and i went to check out today’s progress. it seems like they actually did some work. the door still isn’t finished being painted yet, but we went behind the barrier to look in the windows. There are screens on the windows now, the furniture was out of the boxes, the fridge was in its place etc. the AC units are in i guess too, thats what bill said. So progress finally! now they have to wait for info about the towel bars tho 😛

let me just say first off, i hate my internet at school, because it is slower than a phone modem. it is slower than like a 14.4 modem. i get download rates of like .4k/s which is absurd. it took me about 5 minutes to load the blogger page so i could type all this out.

well tuesday i woke up went to my 8:30 and it was cancelled. yah great. came back, went back to sleep. went to creative writing at 2…decided i dont want to be in the class anymore, after 3 years of trying to get in. so i dropped that. then i went to talk to dr allen about doing research with him since my old research proff left. he signed me up for a directed study so i get 3 credits, which puts me back up to 15 after dropping creative writing. tomorrow i have no classes now, because 8:30 proff still wont be here, and i have no afternoon class anymore.

meanwhile my VCR broke. the tape is stuck in there, and we can’t get it out. i think it’s more broken then just that tho. arg

well first day of classes today! yay. not. let’s take a look at the events of recent days.

saturday. moved into the asbestos filled shit hole. eric came to visit, went to the bar with my townhouse mates. had a decent time.
sunday. waited in line with danielle to get books. went to Uni Police (UP) to get parking permit but no, had to wait til monday. did absolutely nothing the entire rest of the day. went to dinner at letchworth dining hall. my dinner cost 7$. they changed the meal plan system around, so that now you can get an option for all you can eat meals. I guess, you get 14 meals a week, and its pay one price, eat whatever you want. That’s all fine, you can only use those in the big dining halls though apparantly. Then you also get a-la carte points, which is like the old meal plan, you pay for what you eat, I guess. And you can get that at the Union or the Hub. Fine. Well I have a freaking 100$ meal plan since I figured I’d be in the house with the kitchen. I don’t have the meal thing on my card, only a-la carte points, I GUESS. Well since I don’t have the meals, my dinner cost me 7$ because they just automatically charge you at the big dining halls a set price no matter what you eat. It’s not pay for what you eat, even though they take it out of your a-la cart money, DONT ASK ME WHY. I have no idea what is going on with that. But we’ve figured out now, we can only eat at the Union, cuz they aren’t ripping us off (as much). then we had a townhouse complex meeting for those of us stuck in Blake. They had no answers. So that prompted a mean email from me to the residence life people. i requested a meeting with the contractor, since all the answers to any questions are “it’s not us, its the contractor”.
monday. got up, showered in the most impossible shower. it was a hand held shower head, fine, but there was no way of attaching it up above you. You have to hold it constantly. then I went to UP to get my parking permit. then i had to walk all the way back to my car to move it cuz i was in a faculty lot. had to park across campus cuz there is no parking near Blake. then had to walk back onto campus to go to class. classes went fine. don’t think they’ll be as bad as i imagined. we’ll see. only 2 lit reviews to write, they are due on the same day as well. 2 overlapping exam days too, which sucks.

but anyway. should be reading and stuff now, but i’m not. i’m hungry.

i live in an asbestos filled shit hole. its called blake hall in geneseo. its our temporary housing. i had never been in this building until today. it’s crap. no wonder they’re going to knock it down. i have no clue why anyone would volunteer to live in this building. there was a film of asbestos dust all over everything. we’re missing 4 ceiling tiles. i guess that means the mice and rats can come down from inbetween floors during the night and eat our food. ug ug ug, i hate it. i hate it.

insomnia. “when you have insomnia nothing is real. everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.”

can’t sleep can’t sleep. i’m tired all day long, but when it comes time to sleep, can’t. i almost fell asleep in the dentist chair, with metal things shoved in my mouth. but i get in bed, can’t sleep. i was laying in bed for 45 min, after watching tv and reading. not sleeping, so i got up came on the comp. the cords to my blinds are hanging in the window and i keep seeing them out of the corner of my eye and i think its someone walking in the street. but its not, every time, its still just the cords.

the brightness of my screen is hurting my eyes, but last time i was on comp in the dark and turned the brightness down i never got it back to the correct level. it bugs me if my blacks aren’t really black.

maybe i’ll play sims for a while. i have nothing to do, and can’t sleep. tired of laying there. i could work on my hedwig redesign….maybe.

bored. i don’t even have anything to say. the tea party show was tuesday. i don’t really feel like talking about it. lets just say band=excellent, 2 screaming teenie bopper girls behind me=very very bad, the unnecessarily long wait=extremely irritating. all in all i was pretty pissed off the entire night. but found out about an econoline show there on sept 8th. gonna come home from that, and it gives me a chance to pack up my car with townhouse stuff since we get to move in on the 10th…until that date gets pushed back again. wouldn’t really be surprised.

but yeah, saturday is back to school. that gives us all of sunday to be bored out of our minds until classes start monday. i haven’t started packing at all yet…my mom has gotten together bathroom stuff, towels etc…but haven’t gone through my clothes, haven’t wrapped up my posters etc. i need to figure out what i’m doing with my cds, cuz the cd holder i usually take to school has overflowed. the one that is holding all the cds i don’t listen to won’t hold the ones i do, so can’t even switch it around…gotta figure that out. i’m also supposed to type out the lyrics to 2 sunna bsides for my site and for some ppl who’ve asked me, but i haven’t gotten around to that either. i’m so lazy its not even funny. I did, however, vacuum and wash my car today, and my mom is going to dye my hair tonight if christa doesn’t call. and lets hope she doesn’t. i just don’t have time, cuz my laziness sucks it all up.

i finally put up the pictures from my non-party. the ones that i’m in (3 of them) and 3 pictures from june 30th are up on this site. the rest of the non-party pics are up on the fab four site. so go look at those, and dont make fun of how bad i look in them. make fun of eric, cuz he looks funny in the pics of him lol.

phone is ringing, better not be for me. i highly doubt it is.