Thanksgiving

Hi:

Food shopping is weirdly comforting for me. I ended carrying all the groceries home though. I measured them, and it turned out I carried 18.5 pounds.

I have to stop yanking the tips of my hair (never whole strands). I even tried clipping hair with split ends, but that took longer than I thought.

I'm doing the bowling thing on my birthday, but I have to call and rent a lane first. Also, I am not sure what people want to do for food. There is food there, and it's standard Italian sandwiches and pizzas.

I was late three times this week. Oh well, I am working late.

It doesn't make my day reading some letter to the editor making the riots in France seem like proof that 'all them Islams' are fundamentalists and will never intergrate. Totally wrung out of any context of, oh, joblessness, police brutality, being raised in France but not considered French, along with Islamists urging disengagement (sometimes outright war) with secular society. Because when no one is admitting to the club, any club looks good. Completely yoinked the events in Chechnya, I/P, Afghanistan too. See, the guy was implying some literalist group mind (and lets face it, some folks are surprised when Christian literalists don't agree on stuff). It pisses me off the same why folks go on about 'pro-Israel people controlling our government OMG!!1!!"

I got my own complaints about neo-conservatives, policies of the State of Israel, Islamists, social conservatives (economic conservatives I take on a case-by-case basis), and religious literalists and fanatics of many types*. However, I tend to assume that they are not the only problem.**

If there is one commonality among different people (aside from mortality), it's the capacity to do really dumb shit.

(Also, the guy had a Spanish name. *sarcasm on* No one ever stereotypes people with Spanish names, or howl about them not asslimiating***.

*-I'd include the nuttier fringes of Harry/Hermione shipping, but they aren't running for office, starting wars or blowing up buildings.

**-'Brotherhood of man' is the most inaccurate phrase ever. Have these people met actual siblings?

***-And now I am hearing "We are ze Borg Francaise, you will be assilimated."

I slept early yesterday, mainly because of a headache plaguing me all that day. All that really got me was waking up to see a sunrise peeking out.

But I had a good night that night and tonight. I made myself steak tips (that was on sale), brocolli, an attempt at grilled peppers, onions, and mushrooms, tomatoes and baby spinach. I threw them all together in a salad. It was pretty good. The leftovers were my lunch and supper. I learned that with some pans that needed washing, I could cook.

I got a call for a customer service position. Actually, more of a technical support position for a company that runs a variety of people search (roommates, dates, etc) websites. It might be interesting.

I tried to get that darn 2-variable intelligence test, but I keep getting a 503.