One Abnormal Girl

I'm gonna look cool

So I finally ordered a pair of these.  Close-quartered apartment living + writing/reading/thinking = frustration.  I also got a nice white noise app for my phone, which has also been helping, but my little earbuds are just not enough to drown out the children environment.  (Seriously, this is not a playground.)

I just hope they ship fast.  I’d been using an iPod stereo as my computer speakers, and about a year ago the knob responsible for the power and volume stopped working.  Luckily it came with a small remote that still worked, but yesterday I dropped it in my cereal, and of course it’s not working anymore.  I fiddled with the knob enough to get it to turn on again, but the volume is too low, and my efforts to take it apart and look at it were foiled by my screwdriver shaft being too thick to get to the screws.  Even once I get it open, though, I’m sure I can’t fix it.  It’s a shame, because the sound is excellent for such a compact device, and it would really, really pain me to trash it when technically it still works fine.  In fact, I’d probably just store it just like my old Canon camera, taking it with me from apartment to apartment.  Thanks, companies of the world, for making piece of shit equipment that only lasts a year before taking up space in a landfill.  Do you know how many millions of people there are, trashing up the planet?  Stop making things that break.

In other news, we should all cross-dress more.

Commercials that feature DRINKING SPIT FROM SOMEONE’S MOUTH do not encourage me in any way to buy the product.

So on Sunday I was watching 60 Minutes at the parents’ house, and they ran a story about a man who was sentenced to be put to death for murdering a woman because he was, at the time, judged fit for trial. But they are trying to earn him an appeal because he’s fairly insane now, and there’s ample evidence that he was insane at the time, too, and the attorneys just never argued for it.They interviewed the woman’s sister, who after all this time was, of course, still upset about it.

Sister: But I know I should forgive him. It is the Christian way to be forgiving.
Interviewer: But you still think he should be put to death?
Sister: Yes, I still think he should die for what he did.

*headdesk*

I think when she said “Christian” she meant “hypocrite.” Jesus isn’t presumed to have said “Forgive them, for they know not what they do, but please strike ‘em down anyway, ’cause I’m real pissed right now.”

>O The desire for vengeance is only human, and I can’t blame her for that, but please don’t think you’re being forgiving and Christ-like at the same time.