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[pacificpikachu]

Hooray, heading down to San Francisco tomorrow! Turns out it's just easier and much, much cheaper to buy tickets for the bus at the bus station. You would think they would encourage buying tickets online for booking reasons, but...whatever. I'm really looking forward to it! As long as I don't have a weird, creepy, or annoying seatmate, I think I'll like the bus ride down there, too. Four hours of uninterrupted music, DS playing, possibly drawing or writing, staring wistfully out the window? Count me in!

I am concerned that I won't write while I'm down there, but I am at 38K, so theoretically even if I didn't write anything over the weekend I could still finish without dying of stress too much. I would rather get up to 43K (minimum) - 45K (ideal) by the end of Monday, though. :D

Watched a creepy and unsettling documentary on snuff films that KK linked me to. *Shudder* Of course, it was disturbing (especially conceptually--people seeking out graphic REAL murder videos?) even to my relatively imperturbable self and then I vowed to stay away from excessively morbid things for at least a day or two as a result, and yet, what am I doing? Instead of sleeping at 2:30 AM? Yep. Reading Wikipedia articles on creepy things. At least it won't mess with my sleep when it's just Wikipedia articles no matter how downright sick they are.

Did you guys hear about Sarah Palin doing an interview while turkeys were being slaughtered in the background? (I'm not even kidding--look it up on Youtube.) I just...can't even...articulate my thoughts on this.

"Hi I'm Sarah Palin and I'm going to ramble about inane shit while turkeys are killed and bled out in the background and even smile as it's happening and talk about how I'M in charge of the turkey for Thanksgiving this year! And this is when I'm pardoning a turkey as well! I'm sooo compassionate!"

That woman is the direct opposite of everything I stand for. She is the anti-Kristin, which is sort of like the anti-Christ but even worse because at least the anti-Christ is badass and interesting instead of... Animal-murdering, anti-choice, TAKE THE BIBLE LITERALLY, anti-sex education, pro-war, anti-environment, nonsense babbling, utterly annoying, hockey mom who gives her many children the dumbest names ever Sarah Palin. D: Seeing as I'm not big on the whole killing thing, I think she should just be exiled somewhere where they are no other living beings for her to mess with and given nothing but soggy vegetables and perhaps some blended aborted fetus to eat for the rest of her life.

Okay, I'm obviously in a weird mood.

I apologize for the lack of comments lately! I keep reading entries and then just leaving them open so I can comment on them later, and it generally takes me like...two days before I get sick of having the tab open and finally get my thoughts together in a more coherent state and write them down. I am reading everything and I definitely do care, I just...am weird and keep procrastinating on things that do not deserve to be procrastinated on. :< Sorry about that! I think half the time I want to write a comment but then I realize that what I want to say is vague and not conducive to words and really, really unhelpful and uninteresting. But you guys are all amazing and I adore you all a great deal, so don't feel unloved please.

Comments

[mei-san.livejournal.com]

YAY for riding the bus! I'm quite the public transportation fan -__-; LOL that sounds almost like a roadtrip (music, looking out the window..etc) except for..not really? Hey, going to SF is always exciting ^___^

You know, Sarah Paulin was obvious a poor candidate for McCain's campaign, and I'm just a tiny bit happy that she was chosen so it kinda works against McCain, in a way.

And thanks for all your kind and thoughtful comments!!

[wao.livejournal.com]

What a coincidence, I was spacing out on the bus ride home today and in some corner of my mind I was rather... how does one say it, not really appalled but having a sort of "ok I normally ignore this but whut" reaction; there was a TV show on the bus TV (we have annoying TVs on many buses and I keep thanking myself I won't be here for Christmas. Probably) showing how one common local dish, chicken rice is made... starting from teh chickens onwards. I'm not a proper vegetarian (I eat meat outside when it's mostly a bother to find a proper veg meal, especially as I can't eat a bunch of popular greens) and I normally don't get too bothered by this sort of thing, but putting animal issues aside entirely I don't know how the presenter didn't feel how surreal it was going from chicks to confused chickens to... yellow things in pots. I've seen far worse films/images - I took a short "module" on vegetarianism 2 years ago, and the teacher went all out - but for some reason, seeing all that on a little screen in a bus and it's supposed to be the theme of a show....

I dunno, it was just extremely, extremely weird at the very least. Even I would draw the line at it, although I suppose I soudn rather suspicious having seen all those things and not turning completely veg, even though my mum is.

Also I think I can totally see where you're coming from with Sarah Palin - let's just say my mum and I finally agree 100% on something, she's just beyond words and in the realm of wide-eyed desperate handwringing. I just hope the press leave her alone so nobody pays undue attention to her and hopefully she silently fades away... it sounds awfully mean I know, but I frankly think it's better for her too.

[hitchi.livejournal.com]

LOL @ Sarah Palin rant. =D

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

Have fun in San Fran!

Yeah, Sarah Palin is pretty much A World of No. I'm not sure I've ever disliked a politician as much as I've disliked her. -_-

I apologize for the lack of comments lately! I keep reading entries and then just leaving them open so I can comment on them later, and it generally takes me like...two days before I get sick of having the tab open and finally get my thoughts together in a more coherent state and write them down. I am reading everything and I definitely do care, I just...am weird and keep procrastinating on things that do not deserve to be procrastinated on. :< Sorry about that! I think half the time I want to write a comment but then I realize that what I want to say is vague and not conducive to words and really, really unhelpful and uninteresting. But you guys are all amazing and I adore you all a great deal, so don't feel unloved please.

This is exactly how I feel lately. XD

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

The bus ended up being rather boring really and there wasn't enough room for me to do anything other than listen to music and play DS, but still--it wasn't too expensive and I got to go to SF again so yay for the bus! :D (Now I get to go to SF on Thursday, too, and I'm looking forward to that as well. I never seem to tire of San Francisco, though I don't think I'd want to live there long term or anything.)

I agree about Sarah Palin. She's embarrassing and annoying, but at least his plan backfired and his stupid decision ended up going against him. :D

You're welcome! I try to comment whenever I can and when I have something to say, but I just wanted to warn everyone that my commenting has become rather lazy lately.

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

It is strange when you think about it; and I think people don't think about it enough, personally, but you know how pro-animal rights I am. But, yes, especially because I've been a vegetarian my whole life, looking at the turkeys and chickens and beef and whatnot in the supermarket is a rather strange thing for me, as someone who keeps chickens as pets and sees live cows and turkeys all the time. Even though I've seen a ton of the horrible graphic footage of the slaughter, it just seems so strange that it goes from being this living thing walking around to just a hunk of strange-looking flesh in a refrigerator at the supermarket that people then buy and eat.

And that you don't eat a whole lot of meat is good. While ultimately I think people should move away from eating meat altogether because of the moral problems with it, if everyone just cut back quite a bit (or, heck, even a little) the world would be a much better place for a lot of animals. And it would probably be better health-wise for people, too.

Sarah Palin is just awful. Even with most politicians I don't like I feel a decent amount of respect for them, but Palin, Bush, and Cheney are the major exceptions. I hope she fades away soon as well, though I'm afraid people are talking about her running for President in 2012. One part of my almost wants her to run, just because I don't think she'd stand a chance and that would leave the spot open for another Democrat to take over (or for Obama to serve another term, which, if this upcoming term goes well, would be amazing).

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

Here it is! http://www.supernovatube.com/play.php?viewkey=558e3779ecc84d72a6d8 It is fairly disturbing even by my pretty ironclad sensibilities (I read and watch programs about serial killers all the time), though, so consider yourself warned. It'll make you feel pretty horrible about humanity.

I would be majorly angry and possibly trying to get into Canada or some other country if McCain and Palin had won. D: UGHHHH

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

Sarah Palin is not my friend. XDDD

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

I did, thank you!

Same here. D: I do hate Bush and Cheney quite a lot, but Palin is just...NO.

Hahaha, I'm glad you understand! Hopefully we'll start getting better with comments soon and stop being procrastinators.