My opinion of the choice

OK I've always liked Hillary Clinton, really I have. I chose to support Obama as a political decision and didn't like when she attacked or pandered, but overall I've liked her.

What I would like her to do right now is to hold a press conference. I would like her to hold one informing her supporters and everyone else that she is insulted by McCain's choice for vice president. If they think they can throw some random chick on the ballot and expect to win over those who supported Clinton, they should be smacked. Not only that, but they had a litany of better choices than this joke of a politician, and they chose to set the bar low yet again. Hillary should show that she genuinely throws her support behind Obama and condemn the bottle of spray tan that is standing next to John McCain. No foreign policy experience (or even interest), her husband works for BP, she is under investigation by the ethics committee and a month ago when asked, she didn't even know what the Vice President did every day. What is this?!

Following the rules whilst bending them.

This counts as yesterday.

Dang used up my one thought.

oB-og

Tomorrow I return to my life as a collegiate student. I will try this year to spend more time not sitting around and thinking, seeing as I found this detrimental to my overall education. We'll see if this year continues the pattern...I'll link this blog to a blog in May sometime to see how it went.

Banksy

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

~Banksy

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A list about tights.

The advantages of wearing black nylons to work:

1. You can wear a skirt of any length since you're almost wearing pants, too.
2. Looks classy as long as it doesn't look unclassy.
3. Forget to shave your legs? Doesn't really matter.
4. You can go to work with paint on your legs from a late night with a canvas and no one will ever know.

Best reason-
5. If you need to wear any sort of crimefighting outfit underneath your suit, that's the best route to go so that it doesn't look too suspicious. Fo' sho. Unless of course you dress like a whore like a certain Wonder Woman I know.

I would watch it in syndication on TNT and Cartoon Network.

If a television producer came and knocked on my door, and asked, what TV show do you want us to make? A show that would make you sit down and watch every episode and buy the DVD set, what would it be?

It would be this show. Always.

Movietimes.

Step back for a minute and think.

Would your life make a good movie? If not, then you've got it pretty good I think.

I use a very similar technique

This is a really great tutorial

How to Draw Anything (in 1 Step)

I wear my sunglasses during the day

So for my last week of work I've been moved up to the big cubicle. Promoted, as I like to say...even though I really just gave my cube to my replacement. The point is, this office has a window, which is super great. I, unlike most people here with windows, have chosen to open my blinds. However there is the small problem of the sun which, generally, is very bright.

Thus I am spending the rest of the week wearing sunglasses at my desk. At least in the morning when it's shining this direction anyway.

10 points for Claire.

Hairzcutt

I think I'm going to go chop my hair off again tonight. No idea what I'll do.

This is probably one of those things I should give more thought to.

Mr. Jones Goes to Crazytown - a mix in 3 parts from 3 persepectives.

ADA and I decided that we would burn each other mixes on Christmas, Easter, and both our birthdays. Since I had a recent birthday, I decided to make a concept album for him. This is it, feel free to figure it out, I'd welcome the interest.

1. All the Trees of the Field Will Clap their Hands (Sufjan Stevens)
2. Can't Get it Right Today (Joe Purdy)
3. Flying High (Jem)
4. The Last Time (Gnarls Barkley)
5. Psychobabble (Frou Frou)
6. Mad World (Tears for Fears)
7. Ballad of A Thin Man (Bob Dylan)
8. Me & Mr. Jones (Amy Winehouse)
9. Yer Blues (the Beatles)
10. Mad World (Michael Andrews & Gary Jules)
11. Don't Speak (No Doubt)
12. Mr. Pitiful (Matt Costa)
13. It's All Over But the Crying (Garbage)
14. Exit Music [for a Film] (Vitamin String Quartet, originally Radiohead)
15. Mad World (Alex Parks)
16. Feeling Good (Muse)

Scene from a birthday

[Younger brother walks past room, wearing T-shirt. Plaid pajama bottoms. Bear slippers. Leather football helmet. Ski goggles. He is walking like a cartoon. It is 4 in the afternoon]

Me: What are you wearing?

Him: [Stops and turns abruptly. Puts on corniest grin possible] It's my birthday! And I'm not leaving the house for the rest of the night! So I can wear whatever I want! (thumbs up)

Me: When are your friends getting here?

Him: In an hour or so. [continues cartoon walk]

My little brother turned 13 today. Things stayed about the same.

A Bitter Ode to the Beta Girl

A beta girl is often the second in that awful girl hierarchy that I avoid at all costs.

She is second to the alpha, and is proud to be there. She will agree with whatever the alpha says or does, her most commonly uttered phrases are "yeah", "I agree", and making sure that she blames herself before she imposes on anyone else who she considers to be above her. Once broken away from the classic schoolyard clique, she may have multiple alphas.

While she is subordinate to the alpha(s), she sees herself as very much above any gammas, deltas, or unaffiliated members of the group. If there is a clear omega, she probably resents that member more than any other member of the group and is the first to exclude them from anything.

The alpha will often get bored or irritated with the beta, preferring to transfer their attentions to other members of the group. This may result in a new beta, or the old beta fighting to get her alpha back. Without an alpha, betas will either create an alpha out of a gamma or become an omega. Rarely do they become alphas.

Betas have no favorite songs or movies and will usually vote for the majority. Any attention garnered is coveted and jealously guarded. They rarely if ever do things alone. When asked to do something that they feel may make them look ridiculous, betas will belittle it or insist that they "just couldn't do a thing like that".

You think they don't exist to this extreme, but they do. There are very few people I've met who I would even consider a beta, and even fewer who meet even most of what I've written. But they're out there, and it's odd.

A rolling punch gathers the guy from Hi-C

I'm not a big fan of rolling with the punches. I prefer to hit back.

I, however, am really not as Schwarzeneggerly strong as I sometimes pretend to be...sometimes I'm content with just letting the world know that I am being hit very hard.

Mickey may be due for a comeback

It's a good year to have big ears.

For serious, Barack Obama and Michael Phelps have wicked big ears. And it's awesome.

year long car rides

You know what's even worse than coming up with a comeback on the car ride home?

Coming up with a really brilliant comeback like a year later when no one else even remembers the conversation.

Seriously you guys, if I had a time machine, you would have gotten owned probably.

timeline

It's kind of unsettling to go through a photographic timeline of someone's life. They get very old very quickly.

Done, done done done done!

After today I never have to wake up that early for work ever again.

And if anyone asks me to...I'll punch them.

3 things that kind of bother me

• Turn signal lights that blink too quickly.
• Dear Abby (the younger).
• Cuticles.

Comic.

A note

Note to future Claire:

Never work this much again. Unless it's something really cool like anti-gravity painter. That would be sweet.

That's just unsettling.

I think it's ok sometimes to trust a skinny chef.

But NEVER trust a dentist with bad teeth.