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[pacificpikachu]

UGH. So, today I get out of the library (where we went for Animal Science today), and walk towards the cafeteria for lunch, and what a lovely sight greets me!

Signs with dead fetuses on them! Joy! My favorite thing to see right before lunch! And with incorrect "ages" on them, too! Nice going, pro-lifers. My mom's a labor and delivery nurse; while I may hate babies and be utterly squicked by pregnancy, I DO know at least a little about development, and those were NOT eight-week-old fetuses. LIARS. They had signs with obviously third-trimester abortions on them, and they'd say things like "THIS IS A TEN-WEEK-OLD FETUS." Uh, no it isn't. Anyone with even a rudimentary grasp on Biology should be able to tell that.

They were attempting to hand me pamphlets more or less all day (seeing as I had to walk that route several times). I was so angry I just stormed past each time. They had CHILDREN handing out these pamphlets. Guh, the least they can do is spare their children from these things.

Oh, and you know what? Comparing abortion to the Holocaust is just disgusting and insulting and wrong. They're NOTHING alike, and anyone even drawing that comparison automatically gets demoted to the very lowest regions of my Respect-o-Meter. That is NOT RIGHT at all.

It was kind of hilarious, though, because just as I was going out of the library and into the pro-life shark territory, KK walked up, and we made mutual "D:" faces at each other. It was just...funny timing.

Anyway, this whole thing made me so mad I had trouble concentrating in Calculus. I wanted to say something to them so badly, but I know no amount of my logical arguments will get through to these people. *Sigh*

LOL, KK and I figured out how to bypass the filter of the "Research Computers" in the computer lab at the library. We went up there so she could print something, and then I looked over and she was reading some article on Torchwood. I laughed and facepalmed, and then we proceeded to attempt to get on LiveJournal for no other reason than seeing if we could. When we went to the main page, it didn't work, but by going to a community or a specific user, it would go through. That was easy. It's so ridiculous that our COLLEGE blocks FaceBook, LJ, MySpace, Ebay, etc. I can understand the need to, but it still seems so...dumb.

I got more packages today! I swear, opening the mailbox to find a bunch of packages there for me is sooo satisfying. Do you guys get all excited when you get things in the mail? Of course, it was even more adorable Pokémon stuff. ♥ Go figure. :B My beanbag where I put most of my larger plushes that I had at dad's was overfilled, but somehow turning it over fixed the whole problem and now all seventeen plush that reside on it fit there. I'm waiting for a few more packages, and once those arrive I'll finally take some new room pictures. I really want to show off my collection!

I just requested that Celga ship my Densuke plush to me. ♥ Some people collect ball jointed dolls, some collect antiques, I collect...cute fluffy things. I'm such a sucker for cute fluffy things. ;3;

Started downloading Kaiji! I have so many things on my To Watch list and who knows when I'll get to them (PRINCESS TUTU I WILL WATCH YOU SOMETIME SOON, I SWEAR T__T), but at least downloading it is a good step in the right direction. :D

I keep randomly browsing Tegaki and wishing I had a tablet. I might have to look into getting one once all my big conventions for the year are done with~ I feel so retro doing drawings only by hand.

I just found my Wolf's Rain AMV again! Not that I lost it before, but I hadn't thought about it in a while. It's...actually better than I remembered it being. I mean, it's not GREAT or anything, but it's decent! The timing is slightly off at a few points, but to be honest, I'm kind of tempted to enter it in a small convention AMV contest if an opportunity arises. There's no way it could compete on a big-con level because it's pretty mediocre, but...it's better than a lot of the stuff that goes into small convention AMV contests, anyway, and it might stand a chance!

I may post it here if I can compress it down to a size that is...uh, not 4GB. I have no idea why it's still so big, but my compression attempts all failed miserably. I need to ask one of my AMV editor con friends about compression... Or look up guides online or something. I want it to still be pretty, but be a more manageable size, like 70MB or so.

For extra credit in Zoology tomorrow, I'm going to what I think is a lecture on evolution versus creationism. So, uh, possible rant again tomorrow. >3

Man, I had a brilliant idea for this really haunting/poetic Pokémon fanfic while I was trying to go to sleep last night. I'm beginning to realize mentally telling myself a bedtime story to get myself to sleep is NOT a good idea, seeing as I always come up with something cool and then I want to write it. Immediately.

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[bjango.livejournal.com]

If you ever get that AMV compressed, you should upload it so we can all see it! >w<.

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

I will! I'm actually working on that right now. :D I...keep going back and forth on it, as far as quality goes, though (it's somewhere between the lower and higher end of utter mediocrity, but I'm not sure which it is. XD)

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. It makes me so angry. YEAH, BECAUSE A CLUMP OF CELLS IS EXACTLY LIKE KILLING A FULLY-FORMED HUMAN BEING WITH FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND A WHOLE LIFE. D< I'm sorry--but abortion is one of the few issues I just...will not budge on at all.

They do it because they don't want people misusing the computer lab, which is supposed to be for research only. It's still annoying, though--what if I was blogging on something for a class? What if I was talking to a professor or fellow student on Facebook about a class?

Mail is so much love! \o/ If I wasn't so bad at sending things out in a timely fashion, I'd totally send people stuff all the time.

[loika.livejournal.com]

LOL, the system my school follows blocks everything. If it's categorised under "blogs", it's blocked. If it's "uncategorised", it's blocked. Recently they probably discovered my hits to my domain when I check my email there, and now it's under "uncategorised" and blocked too. It's getting to the point where it's pretty much impossible to use the internet at school to even do legitimate research, LOL. Funnily enough though, although stuff like GMAIL is blocked, DeviantART isn't. I don't really get the logic behind that, but oh well.

Do get a tablet! 8DDDDD I recently got converted into Tegaki by a friend. Well, I had an account since when it started, but just never used it. XD; I want to see more of your art~ ♥

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, it's amazing how paranoid schools can be about the internet. Your site is obviously a deeply threatening and terrible site, don'tchaknow?

Then again, I used to read very R-rated Gravitation roleplays during class when I was fifteen (mostly for laughs), so perhaps their paranoia at the high school level is a little justified. Certainly not colleges, though. :/

I'm definitely going to look into it! Before Fanime and Anime Expo, I just have to be careful with money because of hotels/cosplay/food/dealer's room expenses. 8D Do you have any recommendations on which tablet to get?

[loika.livejournal.com]

Well, I have a Graphire4 Wacom tablet, but I think they're stopping sales with that model. You can look into Wacom's Intuos if you feel that you have money to burn, but I'll recommend their new Bamboo series which is replacing the Graphire. It's still around the same price as Graphire which means it's fairly cheap if you get the smallest size (which is enough), and it's got improvements, so you're getting a better deal. It's a pretty hot design too; my friend bought one earlier this year. 8) So yeah, go for Bamboo if you can~

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

Okay! Thanks for the advice--it's really helpful! ♥ And you do think the smallest size is fine to work with? If so, that'll make things easier. :D I do draw fairly small most of the time IRL.

[loika.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think there's always that temptation to go with something bigger because you think "oh ... I don't know about a small size, it probably won't be enough", but don't fall into that trap. ;D I think a small size is perfectly fine to work with, and it's convenient that it's so small because it doesn't take up much room on my desk, ahahahaha. XD

[astralvulpes.livejournal.com]

Haha, reminds me of this anti-abortion poem/thing someone sent me.

It's written from the baby's point of view inside the uterus, and says stuff like, "Mommy, at 6 weeks old I can hear your voice and blah blah blah," or some crap that obviously isn't correct.

I mean, come now, if you're going to support an argument, at least have good solid evidence and quit playing the guilt card. XD

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

I've seen that! In fact, there's a hilarious video rendition of it. The fetus sounds freaky.



D: It's terrifying!

[shipaholic.livejournal.com]

"All babies want to be borned!"

I'm glad we never had pro-life nutters on my campus.

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

"All babies want to be borned!"

Juno FTW! XD

[shipaholic.livejournal.com]

Yes! "Silencio, old man!"

And is that Owen Harper in your icon? 'Cause he FTW too. :)

At least the pro-lifer in Juno was quite sweet and silly... and on her own. More RL pro-lifers should be like that.

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you haven't, too. I hope none show up in the future, too!

[fishnow.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Yeah, those people came and put up huge 15 feet signs full of pictures of dead babies last year =_= right outside of our cafeteria - I'm sorry, that's just gonna piss people off, not help your cause.

And then, to be fucking retarded, they sent some up IN THE SCIENCE SECTION OF OUR CAMPUS. That's just asking to have your throats torn into. We don't put up with that crap xD

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

No kidding! Using yucky images as shock value is just ridiculous. Just because something is 'icky' doesn't mean we shouldn't have the right to do it--I mean, plenty of necessary/important things in our lives are disgusting. And putting them outside of cafeterias? Even worse. .__.;

Hahaha, I'm sure the science department appreciated that! XD I'm a science major, and I know *I* don't!

[libraire.livejournal.com]

Ugh, people are so...frustrating sometimes D:

AHHH, I've been wanting a tablet lately too. *____* It'd make Tegaki easier to go around.

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

Agreed. D: Ughhh.

WE SHOULD SHOP FOR ONE TOGETHER! Tegaki has inspired me! Except I probably won't be able to afford one for another six months, but...uh... .__.; If you hear about any particularly good but affordable ones, let me know. :D

[visualise-this.livejournal.com]

I could get on to Livejournal at NU. They did not block it! Blocked everything else though...

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they didn't block LJ at NU for a long time! I think they did actually block it for a while during my Senior year, though. (Or was it my Junior year? Can't remember.)

I used to read some rather...uhhh, R-rated stuff during class, though, on LiveJournal. Mostly just to see if I could do it. XD

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

Damn, try going to a Catholic school in Cornland. You see that shit EVERYWHERE. -_- It's not always people demonstrating, but there's always crap in my school against TEH EVOL ABORTIONS!!11 (I find most of my classmates duly brainwashed in this regard) and I swear to God, every few miles of highway you find some anti-abortion billboard with something written like "Abortion stops a beating heart!!" (To which I once replied, "So does hunting, but I'm pretty sure 3/4s of the hicks who put up these things are members of the NRA.") and "At blahblah weeks, your babies has FINGERPRINTS! At blahblah2 weeks, your baby can HEAR! At blahblah3 weeks, your baby can PREFORM BRAIN SURGERY WHILE PLAYING HOCKEY ON TOP OF A TRAIN WITH ONE HAND TIED BEHIND HIS BACK AND WIN JUST IN TIME TO LEAP DOWN AND SAVE A KITTEN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TRACKS FROM ONCOMING DOOM...WHILE DEFUSING A DEADLY BOMB WITH HIS TONGUE!"

Heeey, Torchwood! =D

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

I COMPLETELY BELIEVE IT. I'm so thankful to be in California, where we're pretty liberal most of the time. Still, there are still fundies out and about, waiting to rally against anything even slightly progressive.

Someone on cf_hardcore (yes, I'm a member there) posted about how they saw that billboard, but there was a ♥ symbol instead of actually saying 'heart.' So initially they read it as "Abortion stops a beating" with a happy little heart after it. For some reason, that cracks me up. So apt!

I know--I can't believe the lies the pro-lifers spout sometimes. Hahaha, your description made me laugh. It's completely true.

(KK/archaneah is obsessed with Torchwood! You should talk to her about it! :D She's always complaining about lack of people to fangirl it with~)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_tehriah/]

omfg. ofmg. My campus does that too. IT MAKES ME SICK. My mother was an OB nurse for yeeeeeeeeeeeears, why do they assume no one knows the difference between ten weeks and thirty?

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

I KNOW, IT'S AWFUL. And the lies are so insane and blatant. I can't believe more people don't call them on that crap. D:

Hey, your mom was an OB nurse, too? I can't remember if you ever told me that! :D (If you did, it was like...seven years ago and I can't remember.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_tehriah/]

SHE WAS! Ages ago though, she's been an ER nurse ever since.

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

Oooh, cool! Personally, I think ER sounds more exciting and interesting, but I'm terrified of babies sooo--just a bit biased there. XD

[archaneah.livejournal.com]

Don't even get me STARTED on the holocaust again... It could go on for days this time, as there aren't classes to distract me now. D:

That pissed me off SO much, dude.

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

I know, I know. I feel the same way. D: At least you don't need to convince me of anything, so there's no actual reason to go off for days. I could do the same, though. I can't believe the pro-lifers for having the nerve to draw that kind of comparison. It's really disgusting.

[toggy.livejournal.com]

You have just made me so happy that I'm going to an ultra liberal school instead of the Catholic one. There's a disturbing number of people at my current high school that don't even believe in evolution. ARGH.
And your mom's a labor and delivery nurse? That's awesome! My mom's a nurse midwife!

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad that you're going to an ultra liberal school, too. Dealing with that type of crazy brainwashing day after day after day would get tiresome quickly.

It always shocks me when people don't believe in evolution. Maybe it's just because I'm a science major, but to me evolution seems so obvious that denying it just doesn't seem...sane. I actually attended an evolution versus creationism seminar today, so I'll be writing about that shortly.

Really? Cool! I actually have a baby/pregnant woman phobia so it's rather ironic, but it's still great that we have that in common. Even if I don't care for it, it's a very important job, and my mom enjoys it!