I (sort of) got a job!

I got a job that will last about three weeks! I take an $8/hour pay cut from my last job, but it pays infinitely more than this one (which, if you didn't know, pays nothing). It's short term, but any money is better than no money. I get to work from home on my own schedule, so it's worth it for even a few bucks (and another line on my resume, which is proliferating by the minute). Plus, I learned how to sell my old casebooks on Half.com, and so have made a little dough that way. Things are starting to look up (and I'm starting to look around to see what else I can sell on the internet).

LOL Cats

You know those awful LOL Cats that I have a propensity to post? Because they are so irresistible? It turns out, I Can Has Cheezburger is an award winning website. Stunning. Sometimes I hate the world, and sometimes I love it. Today, I love it. If other intelligent, educated people read it, then dammit, so can I. Though, I suppose, I would anyway.

The Daily Coyote

The Daily Coyote is a tremendously terrific website about a woman in Wyoming raising an orphaned coyote. His name is Charlie, and he is ADORABLE, and the story is so heartwarming it will make your day, or days (since she puts up new photos every day).

Electronics for Kids (that should be oxymoronic)

From my treasure trove, the New York Times, an article about how kids these day vastly prefer electronic toys to traditional ones. I hate this trend, as do educators and pediatricians. But apparently, kids will have it no other way. And, basic electronic devices designed to emulate adult "toys" like cell phones and computers are insufficient. They must be relatively sophisticated and functional, or kids will reject them. To make it worse, they have come up with an acronym: KGOY, which stands for "Kids Getting Older Younger." I ask you, what if we just said "NO" to the kids? I think it's awful what we have fostered this in our children (and ourselves, but at least we"re grown ups). Toy companies are making big bucks, but our kids are becoming more ADD than ever. If you over stimulate them, they will never be easily entertained. Which is a virtue, I promise.

icanhascheezburger

If you know what that says and means, I feel better. A classmate, similarly bored during this HORRIBLE International Environmental Law class emailed me links to icanhascheezburger.com, which is also known as "Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures," which makes me die a little inside. But I was hooked, and I gawk at the new images nearly every day. Apparently, so is the rest of the world. I have seen references to this website and it's adorably funny cat images on two websites today alone. On the one hand, I feel a little better about being addicted to a website that is pretty grotesque since everyone else is too. On the other, what is wrong with all of us?!? Are we not an intelligent people? But ohhh....just look for yourself:




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Jeans, and a dream website

Last year sometime, I went to EVERY store in the mall that carries jeans. And I couldn't find a single pair that fit BOTH my non-waist and my extremely long legs. I finally found a rather expensive pair that were SO worth it because I wear them almost every single day (they are Red Engine, and made in the US). Today, I found something great. It's Zafu.com, and I for once in my life I can't wait to go out jeans shopping. Money be damned. Maybe this whole internet thing does have some good things lurking out there...

Facebook [dot com]

You can call me old, and I often feel old, but let's be honest. 25 is not that old. Anyway, because I am a big nerd, I have been more acutely aware of the new -isms that crop up among young people (to whom I am exposed because I have a nineteen year old sister, and yes, I go to keg parties at her house). The example that is the subject of this post: Facebook-isms. Walking up the stairs at the law school today, I hear a group of well-educated adults talking about the romantic status of their friends, and BP says, "Well, they were in [some town] this weekend and both of their relationship status' changed, so I think they broke up." Status, on Facebook. Half of the former relationship didn't call her to say, "wah wah I broke up with Jimmy," or something. Not even email. BP took affirmative action to find out by looking on bloody Facebook. Which I think is creepy, although I suppose I am becoming ever more guilty of this action myself. Another example of this disturbing new language: the expression "Facebooking." It's a verb now? "The other day, I was facebooking and I found this great thing where I could throw a sheep at Susie." Facebooking itself is the action that generates all these new things we do, like finding out if our friends are dating by looking online. Is this supposed to be progress? At least someone made a lot of money by making us all creepy people who won't use the phone or communicate face-to-face.

Note: MySpace is guilty of all of the same things as Facebook, and maybe more so since it's the older forum.

OMG, did you see on Susie's MySpace that Joanna is talking s*** about Mary? I, like, so can't believe that she did that. Joanna is such a b****, and I heard from Erin's MySpace that she slept with Bobby.

Whatever happened to privacy, and having some self respect for ourselves that we didn't broadcast all of this publicly?

My Creepy New Obsession (Diamonds, part 1)

Well, it's not that creepy. The NY Times was running a pretty blue ad (you know the blue) for the new Tiffany's website. So I had to click. But then all I wanted to look at were engagement rings (check out the Nova, but with a much smaller diamond...). Then, of course, I started thinking about fair trade diamonds. NOWHERE on the Tiffany's site could I find information about the origin of the diamonds. Lots and lots of info about how they are the best diamonds ever, but can they be if children died for them? Maybe that makes them better for some people. But not me. So today, I googled "Free trade diamond engagement ring." Zero results. Then, "Free trade diamond" "engagement ring." Five results. This is very disappointing. Anyhow, since I foresee this as being an ongoing obsession, here is a link to one useful article. If nothing else, I suppose it's good to have it archived. After all, if this is all I can find in the wake of the movie Blood Diamond, once that fades from the public view, I won't be able to find anything at all. And I must have a fair trade diamond engagement ring. I wonder if Tiffany's would set my own diamond?