It was a day of unexepected happenings. I should be happy. Somehow I'm not. An epiphany of sorts, a forgotten something recalled.....

I'll remember it anyways.

Since I hear posting pictures of oneself increases site views.....

So many ideas to write about, so little time to write them. Plus it involves some research, and alas, things such as school and writings to be published must take priority. Here's a few drabbles of life anyways.

~~It takes losing something to realize it's true value, especially when you  get it back after a long, long time of not having it. When its something that one usually takes for granted, but something that is as commonly used as, lets say, water.....and then you lose it? Holy crap, the world just seems to stop. And then you want to cry when you get it back.....now I'm not making any sense.

~~I don't watch anime anymore-again, that time thing. Plus I've just outgrown it all. But I still do read Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles. The genius and imagination of CLAMP astounds and confounds me all at once.

~~I need a job. Seasonal Christmas apps, where art thou?

--Quit complaining about gas at $104 a barrel. (Current price this week, right? Or today....). Imagine $500 a barrel. 4 words: oil peaks. Our future. I think it could happen. Do you? Oil is a 'finite commodity' after all....

--Tina Fey rocked as Sarah Palin. She has got to be the best SNL impersonator ever. I think the media may love Sarah Palin as much as they like Obama....and if they don't. Well. Does anyone hear that strange echo of a word? It sounds an awful lot like sexism.

--This song is getting to be slightly painful to hear. Enough said.

--Stories shall be done soon.....inquiry letters are due to be sent out in the next few months. Or several. Any kind of work produced by the human mind can always, always get better.

--Its getting to be a pet peeve of mine, the insults the presidential candidates are hurling at each other. I can't listen to a single speech from either of them without hearing why the other guys sucks and you are so much more fabulous. I am not going to vote for you based on how crappy the other guy's policies are, but at how well you promise to change this country for the better. And the only way I will know that is if you tell me exactly the exact plan, not make promises without the 'how' those promises will be kept. But we don't get to hear the 'how', cause they are both too busy tearing the other down with detailed tirades. Ugh.

--I've started drinking mochas from Starbucks. Which is the only reason I'm still up writing these drabbles of nonsense.I find myself thinking "Sleep? Nah, I don't need that.....too much mental alertness, too much work to get done!" oh boy......I will so regret this in tomorrow, when I'm nodding off during class.

 

This is a rather detached discussion of this topic. I'd rather ask people's opinions about this subject than express my own...

Anyways. America's Best Dance Crew has been my only reason for watching MTV at all, and I didn't much to watch the VMA's this year because no one I really cared about was performing now that Taylor Swift has bewitched Joe, except maybe the Jonas Brothers, and that’s only because they have a decent song or two, only they sound a bit much like they're trying to mimick Maroon 5, but are still too young to pull off the same musical effect.  But I digress. I didn't watch it on TV at all, but did hear about the little-fussed about insult hurled at the Jonas Brothers, by none other than this year's host, Russell Brand. I'd never heard the name before, but he's apparently popular in England. And according to him, the Jonas Brother's are a bunch of sissy's for not using their fame and fortune to get any...girls. All because of a silly little abstinence ring and the proclaimed promise to wait for marriage before any sexual activity. I say! Americans and their prudish mannerisms! Ahem.  Anyways, that little insult might have gone unnoticed (except maybe by the hordes of teeny boppers enraged because their like totally favorite band in the WORLD was just like, made fun of!), then Jordin Sparks stormed on the stage, an barely concealed expression of anger on her face, and lashed out to the audience 'Not every guy and girl wants to be a slut.' What possessed the MTV teleprompter writer to put that in the script? Also, has  a male version of the word 'slut' been invented yet?

Since its the VMA's, of course all manners of insults and sexual, ah, insinuations are going to be made-their echoes bounce around the rafters as much as the music does. But I was under the opinion that what people do or do not do in their bedrooms is a strictly private matter. Unless you make a sex tape. But this makes me think about the whole issue of promise rings and abstinence promises: are they really effective at all? Not that, of course, I'm not doubting the Jonas Brothers' of their fortitude in this issue......but in this age of teen pregnancy at the highest its ever been in recorded social issues history-along with the ages of girls getting pregnant dropping to younger and younger ages-and of courses, STD'S/STI'S on the continual rise amongst sexually active teens...can something as simple as a few words and a ring of metal around one finger stand up against peer expectations of how one should behave, or what you just want to do? There's sex ed, of course; but strangely enough STD'S/STI's are at their highest, along with teen pregnancy. Which is surely a cause to wonder at its effectiveness....and then there's abstinence. Which  seemingly also hasn't done much to stop these problems, either.

If you want to avoid getting blown to little blood bits by a bomb or shot in the face, then don't enter the battlefield, right? No sort of promise to yourself or the legions of adoring fans are going to keep anyone from doing what they want.

Condoms are 99.9% effective. What’s not to like about that, other than that itsy bitsy 0.01% ? I prefer the 100% guarantee of just staying out of the battlefield completely. But that’s me. What do you think of abstinence and promise rings? Think they can work? Something needs to work.

 

 Edit: I watched a rerun of the show yesterday, and it turns out Mr. Brand apologized on stage after Jordin Sparks snappy comeback. And.....Kanye West's performance was AWESOME. He definitly took a cue from the Beijing Olympics with the drummer and the glow-in-the-dark details. Which only made it even more awesome. But then, its Kanye...how could it not be? ahahah....