Oh damn it, not them too...

Another report from the Wall Street Journal: Asian women are jumping on the weight-loss bandwagon. But they don't want to go to the gym. They want to go to the pharmacy.
Several women in Asian countries said that they want to be "thinner, but not muscular like American women". They want to be slim and streamlined without "looking like Demi Moore."
Wait...aren't Asian women typically already slim and streamlined without being muscular? You mean you're five-five, 116 pounds, and you want to slim down but you don't want to add muscle? *blinkblink*
Now my head hurts. Sooner or later, it's going to shoot straight overseas. American women are already struggling to emulate the sleek, slender Asian body, and the Asian women want more of what they already have, and then it's going to all mix, and Americans will stop going to the gym and stop lifting weights and fill up on diet pills, slimming gels, and drugs even more than they are now... *methodically tears out hair*
The world is so fucked up. I want to leave.

Guess November is vacation month

I just filled out time off request sheets for the day of the New Model Army concert and the two following days, as well as for the three days before Thanksgiving. Ray and I are also going to keep in mind vacation plans for the end of next March -- he was planning on his usual Italy, and I have Ireland to think about. Ray told me point blank that if it came down to me going to Ireland with my friends or not, I should go, absolutely go; he would change his plans in a heartbeat because he really wants me to see the splendor of Europe. I haven't even confirmed with Adam or Beca or anything, but now that I've settled it with Ray, I do want to go. But that's something I'll need to discuss with people.

Makes me want to go to Spain now, and Sicily, it really does.

Emilie, I love your friends...

I just had to share this...really...I mean, like I'm not already hyperventilating from all the good humor today... *falls off chair*
http://www.deadjournal.com/users/moronqueen/321608.html

Can I take a vacation from humanity?

Holy shit, I was right! They're doing a movie based on Arnold's political campaign for governor! *runs screaming*

Oh...and Helena Bonham Carter had Tim Burton's baby. It's a boy. I didn't even know they were dating. The things you learn...

And now this: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20031009/D7U2R58G1.html
Okay, so the tiger won't be killed. Poor Roy, though.

And next...

"I told you so, I told you so, I told you so...
Oh God, I love the world..."

Not right now I don't...

The Vatican has the most skewed, fekked-up view of contraceptives and sex that I have ever heard of and now I'm pissed at them but have decided not to waste any time or brainpower on being pissed because I can't change anything.
I drank too much coffee and now I'm dizzy. *guzzles water*
I miss my two giddy wayward friends and I want to see them -- I have a present for Bonnie and a message for Clyde.
I miss Manhattan. I miss Sag Harbor. I miss a lot of things, especially my sanity. I don't know where it went. *hears roar of train, then squish* Oh...crap...oh, well.

Almost time to go home. I want a new pseudo-leather jacket (can't afford a real one). There's a new store next to Metro Center station. I go shop and feel better because it will be cheap but good. Then I get to go home and cover a certain someone in chocolate ice cream kisses.

Maybe I do love the world.

Maybe.