I went shopping today, because I needed more cups of fruit and such.

I decided I wanted some nuts. I don't like to get anything with peanuts, because peanuts always ruin a nut mix. Stupid filler peanuts.

I found this crazy nut-rition digestive health mix, with granolas and dried cranberries and cherries. It's too damn tasty, I'll have to keep buying it. Maybe. I don't like that the granolas are HFCS-tastic, I prefer my nuts and such to be nutty ... maybe with some honey. It's like eating cereal that they got the proportions wrong in, where there are more nuts and berries than there are granolas. It might go pretty well with some yogurt.

There are 3g fiber in a serving, I think almonds by themselves have 5gfiber... Ok, maybe not, calorie count says 1 serving of almonds has about 4g fiber. Oh well.

But before that, I found sparkling green tea ginger ale, so I bought it. I hate buying soda nowadays, because I realized that it never really made me feel all that great, and again with the HFCS bullshit, either way I realized that bottled drinks are generally too sugary, so I buy a soda, take a sip, and make the most entertaining faces ever. Either way, I buy the soda, maybe take two cups worth of it, and the rest either goes to someone else or sits around forever and a day.

It's very green tea-y, not like the lipton bottled green tea I used to drink. Then it's ginger ale-y. It's not bad, Dave thinks it would be better cold, I like it as is. Oh well.

And what with this rice rationing, I should probably have gone to buy rice two weeks ago. Pretty soon it will be vogue to be fat, and here I've lost around 1/4 of myself, I will have to go find it, so I can be fashionable. Darnit.

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I have a sudden urge to do something with my hair, which currently looks like this.

I need to get the ends trimmed, but I don't want it straightened. I'd like some sort of braid-y style.

I wouldn't mind feed-in cornrows or a kinky twist, or even Senegalese twist(is hair in Senegal really like that?), but I had pixie/box braids, and the Senegalese and kinky are a bit too similar. I think I just want some good old-fashioned cornrows, but I don't want the back to look like this. I also don't want to pay 70-80 dollars for the feed-ins, and have them look like the thing from that movie... alien v predator? i don't know. Not to say anything bad about this lady and her hairstyle, but that's what I feel like when there's a bit of side projection of braids from my head.

I thought about yarn twist, but again, that's almost too close to the box braids I had. I guess I'd go with the Senegalese, but my hair... doesn't bend for anyone, so any style I buy won't last more than 2 weeks... :/ I guess I could get something done tomorrow and scrape until after robot galaxy... I don't want to pay 80 dollars for two weeks of hair.

I broke my broken comb today, I buy at least one a month. It's $3USD a comb, and sure, it's three dollars a month, but damnit that adds up. Can't they make a sturdier comb? I really like the comb, it isn't harsh in my hair, and when it's not broken (or breaking), it makes combing a breeze, wet or dry. It is totally better than those damn 25 cent combs that are "unbreakable", but you can play Mary Had a Little Lamb on, because they are so darn stiff, or the ones that just bend. It won't break, but it certainly won't get through my hair. I wrote them a slightly sad email, the are supposed to send me a complementary replacement product, but like my necklace, it has not gotten here yet. And I ordered the matching shirt on the same day payment went through for the necklace, and the shirt got here 4 days later and came from CA! Grrr. If the mailperson has stolen them, I wouldn't be surprised. Maybe I should file a complaint, these would make the fourth or fifth thing I've expected and not received in a year, and damn if one of the things I actually paid for!

I went short shopping today, tried on some delightfully garish shorts in both green and pink, the pink were hideous, the green reminded me of my Aunt. Not sure why, go figure. I tried on normal shorts, but zomg they were totally way too short, and my legs! oh god my legs looked sooo creepy. :( So I bought uber-preppy polo shirts instead. I'd love a maxi dress, but they're cut moreso for people who can go without feminine shaping and support products. Stupid tiny no-boob people.

Dear god, I need This shirt. Now. It is the most delightful and awesome shade of purple EVER.

If I had a Afghan Hound, it could get a matching style...

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So there is this song called Japanese Boy by Aneka.

It's been stuck in my head, prompting a trip to the Tubes of You.



The dancing with the parasols... ZOMG it is totally awesome!

Though, fake-Japanese woman you TOTALLY know that would stir up shit these days. :(

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Along with the pretentiousness of "non-commercial" coffee-drinkers, there's the overlapping pretentiousness of people who are all 'zomg teh environments I am totally better than you because I buy carbon offsets and don't shop at walmartsez".

I notice more and more that there are "turn off your computer for a day" campaigns.
If I weren't in school and had my own place/job/etc, I'm pretty sure my computer wouldn't be on for a day more often than not. My telly would probably be off as well, since people OBVIOUSLY need to turn off the tellys and go outside since, as everyone knows, Americans are fucking humongous because zomg we are lardasses. :( (maybe the feds should take 15 dollars from the stimulus checks and buy every citizen this)

Oh noes, it's earth day! Turn off your computars! Yes, I will turn it off and fail my classes. Thanks.

The dining hall on campus is doing away with trays this week as a "we want to see if people waste less food, so it's better for the environment" shill. I almost rather understand that, and I guess it's better than those damn creepy carrot signs, but if they've already paid for the trays, what are they going to do, auction them off? Are they going to take the trays out of everywhere on campus? Or just in one of them, because it is all you can eat. Hrm. It seems fishy, but probably because I am very distrusting of the school. I guess it makes sense to be in the all you can eat place, because you're only paying for going in, and not the amount of food you are eating...but if you get something and don't like it (as I do often), that's just another unwieldy plate to balance on the way back.

Maybe they're trying to train us all to be like those wait-persons that balance 15 plates across their body.

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that drinking Starbucks coffee, regardless of not you actually like the COFFEE, makes you a corporate whore. Even though the coffee is 7-11 coffee, there apparently isn't much difference between being a Starbucks-coffee-drinking-corporate-whore and a 7-11-coffee-drinking-corporate-whore. Go figure. I'll have to go to the yardsale and buy the espresso machine and the 4 cup manual brewer... so I won't be so darn copro-tacular. (yes, I do mean the prefix Copro-.) Then I can grow my own free-range 10,000,000% organic not-harvested-by-small-children-or-animals-or-illegal-immigrants free-trade(can't forget that!) no-preservatives-added roasted-5-femtoseconds-before-brewing-in-a-uselessly-expensive-roaster-and-then-ground-for-10-femtoseconds-in-a-uselessly-expensive-grinder coffee. Or better yet, I can go to one of the MANY local shops that are totally full of themselves, and get a cup of coffee there. Yes, that is what I will do.

Instead of asserting my pretention by going to 7-11 because it is closer and their coffee is cheap-ish and not half bad, or going to Starbucks and paying 2.15 for not 2.15 worth of coffee, I will start walking to all of the far away-local-indie-stuck up-superiority complex-ZOMGAH CORPORATIONS ARE EVILE-tacular shops. The kind where I need to be wearing something made of hemp to get in, and have a combo of at least 15 anti-(bush/war/corporation) pro-band save-the-pandas salvar-la-bahia bumperstickers on my super-duper gas-guzzling heap from the 1960s.

Also, some people have fucking obnoxious laughter.

I'm 99% sure that after this semester, when most everyone has graduated, I will probably just disappear. It'll be like high school all over again. I'm fucking tired of "zomg I am better than you"/"zomg it is not really like that"/"zomg i am sooooo awesome(and not in the healthy self-esteem sort of way)" bullshit. I'm really tired of just rolling my eyes and not saying anything. Though, now that I think about it, I'll still have my nutang... that I plan to keep, so if people cared enough, they could stalk me... but I probably wouldn't reply. Oh well.

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I figure now is an opportune time to use this title, it's been swimming about for a while.

The rampant "popularity" of these "n Confessions of a (profession) worker" sorts of post-things were interesting at first, and now they are just old and played out. :( I don't care what Bob down at "John's boobie shack" has to confess about the mammography industry.

So here is a confession that is more of a gripe.

It always annoys/bothers me when I see people, and they are all "zomg you has weight loss?"

There's something always so... disturbing about it. I'm not sure if it's that people are paying attention to me and my person, or that there's always this eerie congratulatory vibe under it... I don't know, but I'm not fond of it.

Maybe I got too used to my mom going on about how I was fat and blahblahblah.

Anyway. No matter who does it, it bothers me. Sure, from two years ago I am markedly smaller. From recently, no. Most people have seen me in more recent times than two years ago, so my size shouldn't be a topic of discussion. (another thing that bothers me, the usage of "did you lose/gain?" I don't know, did I? What am I losing/gaining? There's something terribly cultish about that form of speech.)

I think I'm going to start answering whenever someone asks if I've lost weight I'm going to answer with either taking off something like a bag or such "why yes, yes I have" or answering "well, yesterday I was n, today I am n+/-1, so yes/no, yes I have/no I haven't". Maybe I'll reply with "yes, I've been looking for it, do you know where it managed to get off to?"

I mean, people like to get into "zomg you are looking good" was I looking bad before? Was this weight that has somehow gone missing making me hideous? It confuses me. :(

It's like all of the people who were telling me that my mom was insane, judging my value as a person by my weight, but then they are doing the same thing... blah.

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