jiffy
I miss peanut butter. And graham crackers. I've been wanting to make a cheesecake, but there are no graham crackers to be had. I have yet to reduce myself to utilising digestives--I'm sure it will come eventually, but just not yet. [AND NO TOLLHOUSE CHOCOLATE CHIPS!]
Although, peanut butter ON graham crackers is mighty tastey.
I also miss UV. And tequila. And rum. Why can't this stuff be found cheaply here? Give me my 5 O'clock, Toro and Jim Beam. Boonesfarm & MD20/20. Mickey's, even. Natty Light, but not Beast.
Today is the first that I looked at headlines in over a week. These are what stuck out:
1. For want of a dentist
Maryland boy, 12, dies after bacteria from tooth spread to his brain
By Mary Otto
Updated: 2:20 p.m. ET Feb. 28, 2007
WASHINGTON - Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday.
A routine, $80 tooth extraction might have saved him.
If his mother had been insured
2. N.Y. city council rules n-word out of bounds
Nonbinding measure calls on all New Yorkers to stop using racial slur
NEW YORK - With supporters chanting "forwards, never backwards!" on the steps of City Hall, the City Council on Wednesday approved a symbolic resolution to ban a racial slur that has a painful history intertwined with slavery.
The nonbinding measure, approved unanimously, calls for New Yorkers to voluntarily stop using the word, which comes from a long past as a derogatory epithet against blacks but has more recently been adapted among entertainers and youths as a term of endearment.
"People are using it out of context," said Councilman Leroy Comrie, the sponsor of the bill. "People are also denigrating themselves by using the word, and disrespecting their history, disrespecting the history of a people and a country and also putting themselves in a negative light that we need to correct."
It's funny because the chat about the n-word has been coming up a lot in the last two weeks. I swear, I could strangle nearly every hip-hopper who has exported that word into the international market where people don't understand the context of the word, the mannner in which it's used [-er vs. -a, both still being a marked sign of stupidity], and won't listen to why it's a horrible, stupid term that shouldn't be perpetuated, especially internationally where the history and gravity isn't known and/or understood.
I hate what people think of American culture. It's hard to explain why the things are exported that are and that they are so just so someone else can make a [few million] bucks.
But it's also the reason to move home. Article one, especially. There are so many things to change. Too many people being overlooked, too many stupid policies and people acting a fool.
I'll move home, eventually. Just not yet.
Although, peanut butter ON graham crackers is mighty tastey.
I also miss UV. And tequila. And rum. Why can't this stuff be found cheaply here? Give me my 5 O'clock, Toro and Jim Beam. Boonesfarm & MD20/20. Mickey's, even. Natty Light, but not Beast.
Today is the first that I looked at headlines in over a week. These are what stuck out:
1. For want of a dentist
Maryland boy, 12, dies after bacteria from tooth spread to his brain
By Mary Otto
Updated: 2:20 p.m. ET Feb. 28, 2007
WASHINGTON - Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday.
A routine, $80 tooth extraction might have saved him.
If his mother had been insured
2. N.Y. city council rules n-word out of bounds
Nonbinding measure calls on all New Yorkers to stop using racial slur
NEW YORK - With supporters chanting "forwards, never backwards!" on the steps of City Hall, the City Council on Wednesday approved a symbolic resolution to ban a racial slur that has a painful history intertwined with slavery.
The nonbinding measure, approved unanimously, calls for New Yorkers to voluntarily stop using the word, which comes from a long past as a derogatory epithet against blacks but has more recently been adapted among entertainers and youths as a term of endearment.
"People are using it out of context," said Councilman Leroy Comrie, the sponsor of the bill. "People are also denigrating themselves by using the word, and disrespecting their history, disrespecting the history of a people and a country and also putting themselves in a negative light that we need to correct."
It's funny because the chat about the n-word has been coming up a lot in the last two weeks. I swear, I could strangle nearly every hip-hopper who has exported that word into the international market where people don't understand the context of the word, the mannner in which it's used [-er vs. -a, both still being a marked sign of stupidity], and won't listen to why it's a horrible, stupid term that shouldn't be perpetuated, especially internationally where the history and gravity isn't known and/or understood.
I hate what people think of American culture. It's hard to explain why the things are exported that are and that they are so just so someone else can make a [few million] bucks.
But it's also the reason to move home. Article one, especially. There are so many things to change. Too many people being overlooked, too many stupid policies and people acting a fool.
I'll move home, eventually. Just not yet.
1 Comments:
Colleen! move home with me! I know you want to! I'll make you all the peanut butter laced cheesecake you want! haha! I MISS YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
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