i've mostly stayed out of the hysteria surrounding H1N1, because that's just what it is - mass hysteria. every time Jeff and i drive past a medical clinic, it's stuffed with people waiting to get their vaccinations. every time we turn on the tv at work, there's another news story about someone who's died, or a mutation of the virus, or something about the vaccinations, or whatever. and it seems like every time i log on Facebook or check some of my regularly read blogs, someone else is singing from the rooftops about the virtues of this vaccination and how everyone should get it.

if someone asks me if i'm getting my H1N1 shot, i tell them "no". if they push the matter, it becomes a "fuck no". and if they push it further, i insult their genetic heritage.

that's my stance on H1N1.

now, don't get me wrong, if you want to go get your vaccination, that's fine. but it's like religion - just because one person believes in it, doesn't mean everyone does, and doesn't give someone the right to try to convert everyone (which, like with H1N1, has been done in the past by instigating mass panic).

this post was brought about because i was thinking about a woman that was ahead of us in line at the Sandwich Nazi yesterday. Salaam asked her what she'd been up to and she said she'd just gotten her H1N1 vaccination. Salaam (who is strongly opposed to the shots) asked her why she did that. her response? she's just doing what needs to be done, and anybody who doesn't get their shots is being irresponsible and not caring for society.

so Salaam looked over at me with this shit-eating grin on his face, and asked me if i was getting my H1N1 shot. to which i replied, with an equally shit-eating grin, "fuck no".

the woman looked at me like i'd kicked her dog.

and i just find it so sad that we, as a society, are being so brutally manipulated by a government pushing its own interests for the sake of lining its pockets with pharmaceutical money.

Jeff bought me a huge container of Cadbury Mini Fingers. my life is complete.

you know you've rolled one too many DKs when even the Battle of Light's Hope starts to get boring.

i find it really amusing when Yahoo writes a story about world-famouse violinist Joshua Bell but uses a picture of Tobin Bell (the actor best known as Jigsaw from the Saw franchise).

a while ago they wrote a story about Robbie Williams (the singer) and used a picture of Robin Williams (the actor).

some intern at Yahoo News needs to be facedesked.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/091028/entertainment/centertainment_us_bell

so now i'm bawling my fucking eyes out at work when i'm supposed to be drafting quotes, sending memos, doing shift reports, and generally just doing my fucking JOB.

i've made all these goddamn efforts to get the drama out of my life, to try and be fresh, and new, and healthy.

and now, what, you're going to post these snide, pissed off entries in your journal about me showing my true colors?

you know what?

YOU made me choose sides.

and i've chosen.

i'm DONE.

well i walk alone and i
i ride alone and you know
that's alright by me

see baby there ain't enough room in this world
for perfection like you
and monsters like me

in a time of darkness
you will look absurb and you will feel inert and you'll go
looking to blame somebody

see i used to think i'd get over everything

but everything just got
over me

i'm certain of it

this video made my day.

holy crap, how have you put up with me this long?

7 years today!

happy anniversary, babe!

for a moment i was all pissed off because i uploaded all of my Aion screenshots to Photobucket this morning, forgetting that Jeff has the firewall set up to block Photobucket... or, at least, the photobucket.com domain.  but when i checked the actual address for my Aion album, that comes up just fine, so i can post screenies after all.

oh, wait, Heather, you can't see Photobucket stuff can you?

bah, i'll just go check out Flickr.

EDIT:  nevermind, Flickr is blocked here too.

http://community.livejournal.com/what_a_crock/

that's it.  i'm buying a crock pot.

OMFG I FUCKING LOVE THIS GAME.

just hit level 6, we're an hour late for the pool party, and i'm STILL having trouble getting out of my chair.

this is just about the fucking coolest commercial ever made.

the poem is "Pioneers!  O Pioneers" by Walt Whitman.  it, too, is fucking amazing.  read the poem, watch the video.  you can say what you want about corporate America, but at least Levi's is attempting to bring a little culture back to the beast that is advertising.

the section of the poem used in the commercial (somewhat edited):

COME my tan-faced children,
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready,
Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes?
Pioneers! O pioneers!

For we cannot tarry here,
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

O you youths, Western youths,
So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,
Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

We debouch upon a newer mightier world, varied world,
Fresh and strong the world we seize,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAXpJSvW5mA

http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/logr/log_094.html

new section up on yitai .

i can't writing anything and it's driving me CRAZY!!!

whoever created that game Hammer Heads - the whack-a-gnome game over at Popcap - should either be kicked in the head or given a Nobel prize.  i'm not sure which yet.  i just know it's the most goddamn addicting game on the fucking PLANET.

seriously.  if you haven't played it before, download the 60 minute trial and just amuse yourself.  it's strangely therapeutic and stupidly addictive.

i want to say happy birthday, because it is your birthday, but i know you're not happy right now.

so i'll stick to saying i love you.

because like birthdays, that's pretty constant.

i am IN LOVE with this pocketwatch.

http://www.artofadornment.ca/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/1_33/products_id/237

for any steampunk fans, there are some pretty cool things on this site, though they're a bit more Victorian and a little less steampunk.

www.animalswithcasts.com

seriously.