Electric Lib

LOL Cats

Oh, too funny. I was skeptical of LOL Cats at first, but I gave in to the hilariousness. But it may be a generational humor, you have been warned.

Suckered In..

Wow, so I guess advertising on websites really does work... I was reading Perez (yet another thing I was suckered into... God, people are too good at what they do), and I saw an ad for some cute dresses on the sidebar and I clicked it!

Advertising is funny like that, you can't tell directly if people are responding to your ads (in the majority of cases), but the products sales tell all. Interesting.

God Overload

I'm about to watch a documentary called "God Grew Tired of Us" about three Sudanese refugees, and perhaps because the title has "God" in it, the advertisers thought it would be a good vehicle to promote their super American-Christian-values films through the previews. What a wonderful contrast, right? God gave up on Sudan and Africa to help us win football games and host movie-theatre like sermons. Awesome.

A Lemony Hell

So, it is confirmed--I am my mother's daughter. I am getting all organized to leave school tomorrow and like the smart person I am, I figured I should clean before I leave for a month so that I have somewhere sparkly and spotless to come back to. However, my vacuum is essentially useless (I do not know why) and I lost my broom head a while ago. I don't have the wasteful, but ever so effective swiffer and there are no mops to be found. I do, however, possess the ultimate swiss army knife of cleaning tools (according to my mother), lemon pledge, anti-dust formula. When used on floors, as it often was in my abode growing up, it has been known to hurl speeding children across rooms and to launch unsuspecting adults into a whirling, balance catching frenzy. But that's only one of the fun, exciting features of lemon scented pledge. Although its main purpose is to clean, it has many other great benefits, such as the nauseating, head-splitting headache you'll get from its fumes. It's especially potent in small, enclosed areas, such as dorm rooms. It may kill a thousand brain cells or so, but hey, who needs 'em? Would you really trade a super clean floor for a little ol' healthy brain and chemical free body?

Anyhoo, that is my rant on pledge. I didn't make it through the whole room before I realized it was a tedious and poinltess task to rid my floor of all the pebbles that cold weather drags in. And I spent so much time working on the floor, that I might vomit if I try to dust the rest of the room. This will have to do. I guess my room will only be dusted twice this year, instead of three times (once before every break! Yep, mother would love that).

And lastly, I shall end on my favorite dust related quote, spoken by my dear oldest sister Melis, in response to my complaint that mom was making me dust all the horizontal surfaces in the house:

"You know Lib, dust accumulates on vertical surfaces too."

(It's a good thing school is over, because this pledge actually is making me stupider, I almost mispelled every word in that last sentence).

Update: I'm breathing straight toxins right now. Damn you, pledge!

Hilarious Times

Underfunded Schools Forced to Cut Past Tense...

Man Finally Put in Charge of Struggling Feminist Movement

And last, but not least hilarious....

Marched Against Racism--And It Worked

(Thanks for pointing those out Martha!)

Free Rice

My friend Anne directed me towards this ridiculously addictive site called Free Rice that tests you on vocab and for every right word, donates 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program. I have donated 1,000 grains in about five minutes, and I feel 1,000 times smarter. I'll be a walking thesaurus in no time. Try it!