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geek girls don't cry
don't tell me i've got to be bummed about my breasts
I am all apologies. I had no idea my web page looked like shit if you were looking at it through Microsoft Internet Explorer. Damn. Damn. Damn. For those of you who never got to read "I Lived With John Travolta" it is now in a more readable, agreeable form. Same with the splash page. I just figured if it looked right on this piece of crap OS/2 box I have at my work desk it should look pretty decent anywhere. Ai ya.
I saw The Slums of Beverly Hills last night. Hmm… it was okay, but if you've seen Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore by Sarah Jacobsen, you've seen a better version of this film. It was okay in that "quirky teen" kind of coming-of-age film, but I really wanted it to be funnier, and I really wanted the body doubles to get, like, third billing in this film, since we were seeing headless boobies for a good 1/38th of the film.
Yes, that is an exact fraction based off the time spent in the film directly proportional to the time spent looking at boobies in the film, thank you very much.
I'm a little angry about the film, and I'll tell you why. It's not just this film, it's every film that has an awkward girl as it's heroine…
Sarah Jacobsen's film is about this girl and what happens to her. You watch her get a job, and interact with friends and boys and find out about sex and masturbation. In films like "Slums" and "Welcome to the Dollhouse" the teen becomes a bit of a hero, and the rest of the family are made to look like dorks. We are looking through the biased eyes of the fifteen year old, and we don't see the family as a whole. We are watching the girl who's thinking, "If only my family would all die and then I could be famous."
I think these films sometimes make the confused puberty-ridden teen a lot more heroic than she ever could be. These films tell you if you're awkward, you'd better be extraordinary or we don't really care about you.
I moved around a lot growing up, and I was awkward virgin girl in school and I had a weird family and I was lonely and I didn't know how to give myself an orgasm, but it didn't make me like everyone else. It didn't make me stronger than the average girl and able to handle any crisis that came my way. I would go into a crying shrieking fit if the President interrupted the "Facts of Life" to give a speech. These girls are so stoic that they handle situations with more dignity and respect than their parents.
The Geek Girl in today's indie film has to be so unattractive that you find them interesting to look at. She's got to be so awkward that she makes you feel good about your adolescence. She has to hate her body and she has to be teased by every member of her family. She has to hate the thought of one day being a woman. And this last point of mine is my biggest beef: She has to be molested or potentially molested or watch someone be molested by a family member or close family friend. Why is there always a molestation scene in the middle of a dysfunctional-family-teen-girl-comedy? Why? I'm tired of watching a film and before we even get into the plot I'm trying to decide which creepy uncle is going to feel up our heroine's tits? I've been programmed to dislike the heroine's family. And that's the part that really gets me… we're supposed to see her grow up and get stronger and learn about herself and then she always gets into this rape-type-scene and that's when we see her back down, run away, have a breakdown. That's where the Geek Girl is no longer a winner. She cannot triumph over sexual abuse.
It's like they took the best parts of our Judy Blume books when we were kids and added just enough sex jokes that it's now a taboo film when basically these films are about getting your tits and liking boys and trying to decide when you will go "all-the-way." If that's what it is, that's what it is, and put a funky March Violets song in the back and call it "Sixteen Candles" and be done with it. But if I'm supposed to feel like how I did when I was fourteen and this boy on the bus was trying to put his hand up my panties and I was so scared I sat still and cried— then why make me re-live it film after film after film if you don't have anything new to say, but you need to get the sex abuse element in your teen comedy/drama. Give the Geek Girl some power once in a while. If she can stand up to the whole school, she can stand up to Uncle Ed who likes to play horsey.
I'm tired of it. I just am. Treat it the way it is, or don't use it in your film. If you really need to tell the story of child sex abuse, read She's Come Undone. Then decide if you really want to tell that story. Then tell me if you really understand what it's like to be a Geek Girl. Read Girl.
We didn't all grow up with hilarious families where we rolled our eyes all the time at our wackiness. Not all Geek Girls are ugly. We don't all have uncontrollable breasts or no breasts or weird breasts. We don't all get our periods in front of the class. We didn't all have crushes on older, unattainable boys. We didn't just accept things with a solemn, adult understanding. We cried. We cried because we had no control over our bodies and our futures. Other people decided if we were cool. Other people decided what we had to wear, where we lived, where we went to school. A Geek Girl is at the constant mercy of how the Head Bitch Girl feels at recess that day, or at lunch. Don't tell me that after I get a little makeup on me, or I get a training bra that the boys will come a-running. Don't mess with my head and tell me that I wasn't pretty enough to be cool and "look-how-you-can-look-back-at-yourself-and-laugh."
I know a mockery when I see one, and if you can keep making fun of me at this age, I don't want to see your damn film.
I just get so upset because I want to root for these indie films. I want women filmmakers and writers to start making a mark in this industry. I just think they are going about it the wrong way. You don't make a Geek Girl superhuman so that she can be accepted by Film-Watching-America. You show her like she is… a young, delicate, confused girl who's about to experience some unforgettable things. She's about to decide who she is and what she wants to be. She's so concerned on what's going to happen to her, she doesn't hear the teasing anymore, it starts fading away. And one day she wakes up and realizes she hadn't heard it in a while, and how come she didn't notice that before? Show the evolution of the Geek Girl in a powerful, honest way. Yes, we should see her temper tantrums, her awkward attempts at sex, her pinings for the boy next door. But we don't have to see her abuse herself for popularity, get abused by popularity, and get abused by family. Abuse is now what makes a Geek Girl a Geek Girl. That's the movie industry's excuse. "Oh, well, she was diddled by her stepfather, so she's not right in the head." It was not something horrible that happened to us. We just always were a little different. We liked different things. We liked wearing our clothes a different way. It wasn't some horrible sexual incident that made us gawky. And even if there was sexual abuse and it makes you feel weird about your body and you don't know how to dress anymore because you don't want that to happen again, don't laugh at it. Don't point at it and say, "Look what that does to you. That's hilarious."
For Christs' sake, give us a little respect.
I'm sorry I'm so cranky, but this has been on my mind since last night, and it's just been so many damn films in a row. Even the good films all have sex abuse or someone observing sex abuse or whatever. The Ice Storm, Eve's Bayou, Welcome to the Dollhouse…
It's funny that now that I'm an adult I'm searching for a younger character that I can identify with, someone that I feel lived my story… I'm looking for an answer to how I looked when I was a kid. I'm trying to find some sort of understanding and I'm furious that I cannot find it, and that it's not a simple answer and then I think, when I was younger, I just wanted to be one of the Goonies.
Those were the coolest kids in the world. They stayed best friends thoughout their grand adventure and they saved their families from financial ruin. They were the outcasts of their school (aside from the cheerleader, who is there to learn something about Geek Kids) but they weren't exploited for being different. When I was a kid, I wanted to be just like that.
momma, i'm comin' home
birthday cake and ulcers
So I'm off to Houston to visit my mom tomorrow. Or tonight. I haven't decided when I'm leaving. If it was up to my mother, I would have left yesterday to come and see her, but I do have a show tonight. But the A/C is out in my car, and with the weather the way it is lately, I know I'll be sweating. I'll probably leave in the morning.
It's my mother's birthday, and of course I'm coming home. I wouldn't miss her birthday for anything.
In case I don't get a chance to update when I get there, let me just do it now, since it is always the same every time I go. And I mean every time I go. It's scripted, and everyone is off-book. (There's little acting lingo for you guys, how's that?)
I'm Coming Home
Opening Credits: pamie is driving along in her car, singing at the top of her lungs. She has the occasional cigarette, and doesn't stop to pee. She completes the two hour drive.
Scene One: pamie walks in the front door. Dog attacks with happiness. Dad is asleep in living room chair. Mom is out at grocery store buying last-minutes stuff for dinner. No one has heard from Sister. pamie pees. Say hello to seventeen year old cat "Ginger" who now weighs four pounds.
Scene Two: Dad greets pamie, turns on History Channel. Mutes television to ask me questions, unmutes while I'm giving my answers (he cannot hear voices when the t.v. is on… my father says that he has a special kind of hearing loss. The doctor told him that he's lost the range of women's voices. He cannot hear our frequency. Since he lives in a house with up to three women, this is very, very, very convenient for him. "Damn these ears."
Scene Three: Mom comes home. Hugs. We go out on the porch to have a cigarette and talk about what's been happening.
Scene Four: Dad comes out to have a cigarette with us. We page sister to see what's taking her so long.
Scene Five: I go and tinker on Dad's $4000 Solitaire Machine. Dad explains to me that they don't need online service anymore because the web is boring and they don't know how to e-mail anyone. I shed a silent tear for the insane waste of technology, and then kiss the 20 inch monitor longingly.
Scene Six: Mom has fallen asleep in the living room waiting for Dad and I to come back from the Pentium argument. She will sleep for an hour and a half. I smoke a cigarette.
Scene Seven: I am reading a book. Cigarettes.
Scene Eight: Dad begins dinner, and wakes Mom up to have her help in the kitchen. Outside with cigarettes, I am convincing myself that I am nothing like Bridget Jones.
Scene Nine: Sister comes home, pissed and pouty that her day has been interrupted by family time. She goes into her old bedroom and plays loud music. She goes through my suitcase for clothes she wants. She starts doing the laundry that she brought from her apartment.
Scene Ten: Essential dinner ingredient missing. Mom, sister and pamie are sent to store.
Scene Eleven: The worse I look, the more old high school acquaintances I run into at the store.
Scene Twelve:
"You don't need that."
"Mom, yes I do, you don't know."
"Well, I'm not buying it for you."
"You'd buy it for pamie."
"I buy you stuff all the time."
"God, I hate everyone!"
Scene Thirteen:
"Just go wait in the goddam car and pamie and I will be out in a second."
"Fine. Get me a pack of cigarettes."
Scene Fourteen:
Get home, dad has remembered something else. Sister and I return to store. Sister refuses to go in, and blasts Tupac in the parking lot until I return with Sour Cream.
Scene Fifteen:
Dinner. Humiliation. Arguing. Sister is burping. Mother is mumbling and my dad can't hear her. Lots of repeating ourselves. Sister hates whatever meal is in front of her, and Dad is telling her that she liked it last time. Sister has made a pile out of her meat and is feeding it to the dog under the table. Mother is getting up over and over again to go back into the kitchen for something else that is not on the table (napkins, salt, spoons, etc.) Cat jumps on table. Dad yells at cat. Mom says not to yell at ancient cat, she could go at any time.
Mom and I get into an argument over Tourette's syndrome. She thinks that it is simply kids wanting attention and a good spanking would solve everything. My father chimes in saying that my generation is dissolving the core of all humanity in this country, and it all goes back to that wretched MTV. I try to have a political discussion with my father, but I end up getting so infuriated when he goes in about same-sex marriages being an insurance scam that I have to go refill my milk glass.
Cat vomits under table.
Scene Sixteen:
Sister has gone out with friends. She will come back to finish her laundry tomorrow. Parents and I sit around and talk and smoke, sometimes play a game of "You Don't Know Jack."
Dad gets tired, goes to sleep.
Scene Seventeen:
pamie and mom sit up very late outside smoking and talking.
Scene Eighteen:
Naked sleepy Bed-Head Dad comes out to yell at us that we are keeping him awake. I make the observation that he cannot hear the pitch of our voices when we stand next to him, but somehow sixty feet away and through a pane of glass we are disturbing his slumber. Dad does not find me funny, reminds me to stick with computers, goes back to sleep.
Scene Nineteen:
Mom and I decide to go in. We fall asleep watching Lethal Weapon 3. I wake up in the middle of the night to turn off all the lights and go to sleep in my old room (which consists of my sister's old furniture, my old bed, and my mother's forgotten old projects.)
Scene Twenty:
I leave first thing in the morning back for Austin because I have work/rehearsal. Mom stands at door, teary-eyed and making my stomach turn in knots. "It's never long enough," she says, and I feel guilty that we don't spend more time together. We make future plans to go out just the two of us that we both know will never happen, but it makes us feel better to know that plans have been made.
Closing credits:
I drive off, tears in my eyes and Radiohead in my tape deck.
It's like this every time. It never changes. Only the dinner meal. It's a routine, and everyone is comfortable with it. It happens about once a month, depending on who's birthday it is, or Mother's Day or Father's Day…
So, this is family living. This is being there for each other. I wouldn't trade the late-night talks for anything. My only regret is that there's never a time… except for the meal fiasco, where we are all in the same room. And then I think… that's probably a good thing. Families need their space, my family more so than most.
So, tonight, when I'm packing, I know to find a couple of good books, three packs of cigarettes, and a whole bag of patience.
It'll be good to be home.
mail is good fun
I have a headache. I've had one for about a week now and I'm tired of it. It starts right under my eyes and travels down to the base of my neck by the end of the day. I took off work early today to get some rest, but it's not seeming to help.
What did brighten my day, however, is the amount of mail I got over the weekend. Thanks, guys. I was just thinking the other day about what is it that keeps people coming, makes them want to read your site. Why do I go to sites every day hoping from an update from Melty or Ms. E? I love the privacy of it all… looking into someone's mind without them having to explain things slowly to you or you having to hear the same old stories again.
I enjoy writing this page because people I would never have met e-mail me to tell me what they thought ( my girlfriend piece was especially popular) and people that I do know tell me what they think of it all…(hi, guys!). It's my tiny magazine that I work on every day and it's something that makes me feel like I'm doing some writing everyday. Guestbooks make me uncomfortable, I know, because you feel compelled to put more of your own personal info on them than you'd like, but I like when people sign them, because they usually tell me more than they do when they are just sending a quick e-mail.
I also realized that I never told anyone too much about me, so to answer any questions:
I'm female.
I'm in my twenties.
I'm an Aries.
If you didn't know at least two of those facts by now, I'm pretty surprised.
In any event, this was merely my attempt to thank you guys for the great mail I've gotten lately. I like knowing that people are reading.
with two cats in the yard
I'm not a crazy cat lady.
I'm not.
Now that we're past that, it's time for me to tell you about my cats. I think it's important to tell you about them so that you understand a little bit about my home life, and that when I say my house feels crowded sometimes, you know all of the personalities in the house.
I have two cats.
Taylor and Lillith.
I've mentioned them before, but I never went into detail.
First off, I didn't name them. They came with the name. Somewhere in San Francisco lives their former owner. His name is David. I've lost his e-mail address, so I cannot tell him that his kitties are doing just fine. But if he happens to read this…
Let's start with Lillith…
Lillith: AKA Rose Petal, Spice Girl, Wiwl-wiff.
Age: 5 years.
Lillith is a grey cat. Often when people come into the house, they comment that my cat looks like the cat in Pet Sematary. That's because she has these sharp green eyes, and she always looks like she's slightly pissed at you. Lillith is a lap cat. She likes to be in your lap at all times. If she is not in your lap, she looks at you like you are being incredibly rude to her.
Sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night, she's sitting over my head, staring straight at me. That's kinda spooky.
She's the beta cat, and let's Taylor pretty much rule the roost.
She likes men more than women. Specifically, she likes my boyfriend more than she likes me.
Lillith wants to be the next Spice Girl. She's British. She is more elegant than anyone else in the house.
Lillith likes to rub the fur off her chin on anything hard. She has no fur on her chin.
Lillith does resemble in personality the Lillith of "Cheers" fame.
Lillith drinks out of the toilet bowl, which goes against all of her proper breeding and drives me insane.
She has a very skinny tail.
She has $100 worth of toys, but she prefers to chase the shadows on the floor.
When I exercise at home, she likes to bite me on the neck to get me to stop moving around.
Lillith is very good at looking innocent. I recently learned that it is her that goes into the trash can at night, but she puts the evidence over next to the sleeping Taylor, so in the morning he is framed. She's a smartie.
She has herpes in her right eye. I'm not kidding. Her eye weeps whenever the house gets particularly smoky. My boyfriend will tell you that I gave the cat herpes. He thinks that's really funny. Since I don't have herpes (human or feline) this is impossible. She picked it up before she belonged to me. Do not listen to by boyfriend's opinion on this subject. We have this oil that we can put in her eye when it gets particularly goopy, but it grosses me out to no end, since it's like an ointment that you have to put straight onto her eye and then rub in. Eww…
AKA: Taylor Dejardan, Taylor-tot, Squishy, "The Cat
With the Fur on His Face"
Taylor is a big tabby cat. Big. People think he's fat, but like Cartman, he's just big boned. Taylor's face is big and squished in. Taylor is a French Canadian Hockey Player. He cannot believe that the Pittsburgh Penguins did not do better this year. He really likes Doug Gilmour, but he is more like Felix Potvin (Felix the Cat).
Taylor is very strong. He can take a slice of pizza down from your hand into his mouth. When he swats you it makes a great "smack" noise. Taylor rarely scratches, but he can bite pretty hard.
Taylor is not a lap cat. He's not even a "sit-near-you" cat. He likes to sit under the futon and watch our feet. He lays on his back with his legs spread.
Taylor likes catnip a lot. A whole lot.
He thinks that he can become invisible.
Taylor has an eating disorder. He binge eats. He waits until he thinks you've gone to bed and then eats everything in his bowl. You can't stop him.
He'll eat anything. The cat will sometimes eat chips, fruit, cheese, bread (he loves bread)— especially french rolls.
Taylor eats the carpet. I cannot get him to stop. He loves to sit and munch on the rug. I don't know why.
Taylor likes to sit on folded clothes.
You can pet his head and neck, but that's it.
He likes to sit on whatever you're reading, or whatever he thinks you may read in the future.
Taylor often pretends that he's my boyfriend. He sits where my boyfriend does on the couch and sits really tall like he wants me to bring him a slice of pizza and some beer.
Taylor will chase bugs and get lost. He hates wind. Wind freaks him out. He keeps looking around to see who just walked by, but he doesn't see anyone.
Taylor rarely makes a sound, except to say hello, and "feed me."
They are both good at saying my name. "Paaaam!"
They once packed me a lunch. I make pork chops, which is their absolute favorite, and one day when I got to work, I opened my bag and there was a chewed up pork chop inside. Somehow they got into my bag, dropped off the chop, and closed the bag. They care about my well-being.
Taylor chases Lillith, but Lillith never chases Taylor.
Taylor cannot stand Pearl Jam.
Lillith likes Radiohead.
Taylor doesn't like me to sing to him.
Lillith does.
Taylor will knock glasses over to drink out of them.
Lillith gets her head stuck in the glass.
They both jump into the empty bathtub and get lost.
They are afraid of cockroaches, but they like to eat crickets.
When the litter box gets full and I forget to change it, they leave little crumbs of kitty litter on the rim of the toilet.
Go on, tell me I'm crazy, but these cats are just as much roommates as anyone else. Except they won't get a damn job.
I suddenly get this feeling like you're going, "Oh, and I used to like her so much. She just did a cat page." So I'll tell you the truth. I'm still a little sad (see yesterday, and I'm a little drunk off Vodka. I wanted something to cheer me up, and I also wanted you to know where Squishy came from. I just need a damn hug. Damn. I'm gonna go smoke.
i have a beautiful cervix
and other stories from my gynecologist
pamie is a little sad.
I took my boyfriend to the airport this morning. He's visiting the fam for a week.
This afternoon I went to the gyno. I hate getting my annual. I end up feeling very violated. It's all over so fast. Wam, bam, here's your co-pay bill. No hugging, no snuggling, no lollipop.
I feel that after you spread your legs you should at least get a sucker.
For those of you who never go, and for those of you who will never need to go, here's the experience in five easy steps:
1. Something metallic and wet pulls at you.
2. Something sharp and small pokes at you.
3. Something sharp pokes further in you.
4. Metallic wet thing gets smaller and goes away.
5. Fingers poke around while pushing down on your stomach
You have to understand that I started out by going to the University doctors. They don't care how you feel. They don't care what's hurting you. They want you on the pill and they want you out of their office. Then they want you to come back every year.
My first gyno was pretty good. She explained what was happening to me, and aside from that awkward moment during the breast exam where she was flopping my titties around and asking me how my GPA was going, she was pretty good at making me feel comfortable. She was aware of my body to a degree that I didn't feel uncomfortable telling her about my problems.
She said I had a beautiful cervix. That made me feel proud, since it's a natural beauty.I've never spent money on creams or anything to improve its appearance. I can only assume it's pretty, since I've never seen it myself, but I'm planning on putting that on my resume one day. If nothing else, I'll get an internship at Annie Sprinkle's office.
The next gyno left me in such a state that I still haven't recovered. First of all she was cross-eyed, which makes me nervous to begin with, since she's sticking sharp objects between my legs. Then she starts making fun of my family's medical history, which I won't go into right now. Just know that at one point she made a joke that it was a wonder my father wasn't dead. So as you could imagine I was just anxious as hell to get naked in front of her.
Here's the worst part… I'm on my back, legs in the air, feet in the stirrups, and she starts calling to my cervix like she's playing Ollie Ollie Oxen Free. "Come on, Miss Cervix! Where are you? Oh! There she is! Hello!"
Did I mention I had the flu?
Christ, I was humiliated. I just wanted to go home, but we were only on step two (see above) and it was going to be a few more steps. She whistled "Heigh Ho" and sang a couple of tunes while she completed my pap smear and then told me I was free to go.
She left the room and I cried for five minutes. A crazy woman had just looked inside my body, and she didn't even notice that I had a beautiful cervix. I had it all dolled up for her, too. With a little bow.
Today's doctor didn't mention my cervix as a beautiful thing. In fact, she was worried about it because I was so sensitive. I'm starting to worry that my cervix is losing it's sex appeal at an unusually early age. I wonder if there's some sort of exercise I could do.
Then I realize that I'm trying to impress my gynecologist, and I think that's going a bit too far to be liked.
Besides, how can you impress someone in a paper vest and a sheet?
Don't ever tell anyone you're a comedian if they ask what you do at night. They just want to hear a joke. The place I was at today was called "A Woman's Place" and when the doctor came in I asked her, "Do you guys ever jokingly refer to this place as 'the kitchen?'" And she just looked at me. "You know," I said, "A Woman's Place? Do you call it 'barefoot and pregnant?'"
She goes, "That's not funny." And I was like, "It's just a joke, you know about how far we've come and all." And she's like, "My husband wouldn't find that funny." And I was like, "You're a very lucky lady." And then she started putting on her gloves and cleaning the speculum so I shutup. She asked for a joke, man.
Tip for future patients: if they have that seat where you sit down and then they tip you back to put your calves in the stirrups, be careful. Going back I felt like a cowboy slapping my legs up in the air… but she didn't tell me when I was coming down, and I was talking to her and I slowly started sinking and my butt fell down from the chair with my legs over my head. Oh yeah, I looked real cool.
And I still didn't get a lollipop.
girls that jam
wherein we discuss my shortcomings as a glamourpuss
There's something very appealing about a girl that knows how to rock out.
I am not one of those girls, but I do have respect for those that do. The girls that can sing, the girls that can write, the girls that can make your spine do that tingly thing.
I've always wanted to do that.
I want to be the girl with the "too-cool" look that makes you want to know her better, that makes her instantly unattainable and unforgettable.
I want to stop the air in the room when I walk in.
I want to be asked to dance by a total stranger because he just "had to." I want a drink bought for me by the "gentleman at the end of the bar." I want a door opened for me and a jacket thrown over a puddle for me. I want to get pinned. I want a coming out ball for me.
I want to be the girl "with the most cake."
Women with a presence. Man, that's an amazing thing, isn't it? When you sit back and want to absorb them. You wish they knew who you were, and inside…deep deep inside… you wish their knees would bend for your affection. That they craved you like you crave them. That they find you so intoxicating.
I've always wanted to be That Girl.
That Girl knows how to have a man love her. She makes him beg for love. She knows how to have a lover's fight with style and class and oh-so-much-bitch-factor that even the pets are crying when she makes her perfect, perfect, perfect exit.
That Girl never needs a tissue.
That Girl has her cigarettes lit for her, unless she wants to light them all.
That Girl has a voice that digs at your knees.
That Girl has perfect skin, perfect hair, and a body that makes you blink. She has never thought twice about skinny-dipping, and has never apologized for you seeing her in a swimsuit.
Women hate That Girl, and she never notices. She never notices, because they never ever let on. To hate That Girl is admitting that you are not, and will never be That Girl.
She is strong, except when she wants someone to hold her. She is outspoken, except when she can get someone else to take the blame. She is accused, and she accepts the gossip. As long as they are talking about her somehow, she's still important. She's still That Girl.
Maybe you've never spoken to That Girl. You just want to look at her. You just want to listen to her. Smell her. Maybe she knows you're there, maybe she doesn't. It doesn't really matter, because you are just watching a part of her world. She seems to almost see you, but then– she looks away.
I will never be That Girl.
And a good part of me doesn't want to. She has a lot of responsibility. She has to keep making herself remarkable. Watchable. Desirable.
I just have to be funny and pay my rent.
That Girl has to spend lots of money on a night life. I'm broke.
I can eat Chocolate Fudge Brownie Frozen Yogurt in my boxer shorts and Pittsburgh Steelers shirt I swiped from my boyfriend.
That Girl wouldn't be caught dead in her boyfriend's shirt.
I could never slap someone. I could never tell a horrible lie. I could never use someone to attain perfection. I could never leave my friends behind. I can hardly leave my cats alone for the weekend.
That Girl has crying fits that are followed by nights of amazing passion. I have crying fits that are followed by hours of splashing cold water on my puffy face, while soaking the sleeve of my flannel pajama in snot with my boyfriend going, "Man, are you okay?"
That Girl never has bad breath. That Girl has never had to leave the room to change a tampon. That Girl has never called a man and hung up when he answered the phone. She has never punished herself after eating a Death By Chocolate.
Or she has never eaten chocolate.
That Girl knows nothing about the internet, except that there maybe a few pages out there about her. That Girl never reads the poems you leave for her.
That Girl is starting to get on my nerves.
I can't imagine being aware of yourself all the time. I sing "Sesame Street" songs while I'm brushing my teeth. I break into a dance at the line at Taco Cabana if the song moves me. I trip and I fall all the time. That Girl couldn't do that. But I can.
I'm That Other Girl. And I'm very happy about it. I'm a clumsy, dorky, funny, short girl. No glamour, 100% fun. And although I don't stop a room when I walk in, chances are they may remember me after I've walked out.
no room at the inn
"I hate my sister.
She's such a bitch.
She acts as if she doesn't even know that I exist…"
So it's a little crowded around my place right now.
I've got a friend staying with me until her apartment becomes available in a couple of weeks and her soon-to-be-husband stays over on the weekends when he drives up to visit. He will be here on Thursday to stay until the apartment opens up.
so that's two guests.
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The two compositions are slightly different although similar so an exact comparison is difficult, Dougie.
The Canon with the wider angle lens shows up more of the scene as it were with more sky and more height in the mountainside.
The Fuji with the slightly more telephoto lens takes in less and pulls the viaduct towards you, reducing apparent distance.
But what is so impressive is the quality of the image with the Fuji, the detail in both near and distance quite excellent.
I think you must be well pleased with this result from the Fuji, certainly from the quality of capture, but I guess how much of the scene you wish to 'get in' must be up to oneself.
Perhaps there is an even wider lens for the Fuji?
I shall come back later to see what others feel.
The Canon was shot at f/4 the Fuji at f/8 so more depth from the aperture. The wider lens a 21mm equivalent is out in the Autumn I'll be having it Fuji make great lenses they made the lenses for the Hasselblad X-Pan, need I say more.
Thanks for your comment Ronnie and your time.
It occurred to me that this new system might not support filters, so I am wondering how the Fuji will cope with rather bland white skies which I always find with my cheaper Canon G9 are washed out and even more featureless.
I don't know to what extent you use filters but I would miss having my ND Grad quite often if I relied on my Canon for landscapes.
Or have I got things all wrong again?
I use my Lee's on The Fuji it has a live view facility in the viewfinder, so you see through the lens and the filter just like your Nikon. You can bracket on the G9 and combine in PS, which gives you sky and land exposed properly.
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Green more vibrant with the fuji but just over the top in my opinion but without seeing them side by side I would probably not have noticed the difference.
Presumably you bought the fuji so that you would not have to lug your canon gear yet you are carrying both systems
Both excellent shot although as you say slightly different compositions.
I haven't had internet for a long time, I'm travelling. So I just found your first upload of this beautiful place. I must say I prefer the earlier image. You had better light that day and it highlighted areas beautifully. Like the composition better too in the earliest. But still todays is a great shot.........Sandy
The quality of the Fuji shines through and it seems particularly good at the greens where the tonality seems to be better than the Canon. However, the canon seems to have it beat in terms of contrast and detail in the shadow areas, the latter being a little bit flatter in the Fuji image. Looks like a very good buy though.
The 'longer' lens accounts for the apparently greater distant detail in the Fuji version; only a crop from the Canon image would settle the matter, though it's largely academic in truth. The slight difference in lighting can be ignored, while the additional saturation in this version strikes me as scarcely significant.
While I'm a distinct fan of bigger cameras I feel that the smaller sensors of CSCs have made tremendous strides in quality; I'm likely to leave my Nikon behind next holiday. But this Fuji is simply outstanding.
Another week of excellence, Dougie. I even enjoyed the humorous animals
Thanks Bill a fine considered answer and I have to say I agree, I'm well pleased with the Fuji, roll on the new lenses.
Impressive - detail and textures plus very natural greens.
Looking at both images the Fuji has done very well here Dougie. The fuji's colour looks a little more vibrant and the detail very slightly softer but they compare very closely for quality. I noticed that the Fuji image lacks the sky of the earlier shot which I assume was to avoid that washed out white look.
Lack of sky was the longer lens my widest available, if I stood back more boulders and more tree. I wanted the viaduct in the shot too.
I was searching the image why it should be Fuji - couldn't find what you mean.... then I read the words. Congratulations to your new toy. Googled it - wow!
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The most critical factor in deciding whether you can build a home on a piece of rural property is determining whether you can build a septic system that will support it. Well, that's assuming that electricity and water aren't an issue, but whereas those utilities hopefully already exist at or near the property (or can be extended there if needed), it may not be possible to install a suitable septic system to support your planned home.
I'll be honest: this city boy had no idea how a septic system worked until a couple months ago. I just assumed it was like a giant port-o-john that someone came and sucked out with a truck every once in a while. But it's much more involved: all of the waste water from your house goes into a holding tank, where the poop and other nasty stuff sinks to the bottom, and the soaps and other fats float to the top. The water in the middle then flows out into a field of "fingers", which used to be just pipes with holes in them run through gravel, but nowadays are typically "chambers" which serve the same purpose.
The upshot is that the bad stuff stays in the system and breaks down by itself, but most of the water flows back out into the ground. That field is usually about 60 by 100 feet for a typical 3-bedroom house, which means you need a good deal of area to put the system, and that area needs good drainage so that the whole thing doesn't back up and fail. In Indiana, the county health department makes the determination of what type of septic system is needed for a particular piece of land and a particular size of home.
In order to make this determination, they need a soil test to be performed by a licensed soil scientist. The soil test involves digging several holes of a small diameter up to five feet deep. The scientist will inspect the color and constitution of the soil, at 6-inch intervals, all the way until either 5 feet or a "limiting layer", which typically is bedrock or some other material that water can't flow through. He'll then write up a report with this info and send it to the health department.
If the "limiting layer" is too shallow (less than about 3 feet into the soil), you aren't building a septic system there and you can't build a house there. Well, at least not without spending $20k+ on a highly-engineered system. If it's more than 42 inches or so, you're good to go: you may end up needing to add some fill dirt to the top of your field, but there's probably enough stuff there to work with.
However there are other factors that are involved, such as the permeability of the soil and whether there's a natural water table. In fact it's possible that the soil is too permeable, in which case water flows back into the ground too quickly without having time to be broken down by the natural microbes in your system.
At any rate, if your conditions are less than ideal but you still have enough soil to work with, you may need a mound system, which is about twice as expensive as a regular field system. While a regular system might run you around $5k, a mound system could be $10k. Many systems these days also have "perimeter drains" to help ensure water keeps moving correctly.
The upshot of all of this is that determining whether a septic system can support the type of house you want to build is probably the most involved and site-specific criterion you'll be faced with, and it's mostly out of your control. You don't pick where you want the home to go and then fit a septic system wherever you can; you figure out where the septic system can go and then build the home next to it.
So, we're faced with a chicken-and-egg problem: you don't want to buy land without knowing you can build a suitable septic system, but the seller can't just get a "generic soil test" since they don't know what type of home the buyer will want and where on the land they want it. The solution to this is a contingent offer to buy: when you actually make a formal offer for the land, you'll make it contingent on the soil test being acceptible for your purposes.
In our case, we had 10 days from the time the offer was accepted to have a soil test completed. Indiana has an online registry of available soil scientists so I just found one who was close-by and made an appointment. We showed him where we wanted to build the house, he took the necessary samples at several locations, and a few days later sent his report to us and the county health department. It cost about $250.
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The AAS is pleased to announce that the Society's first Lancelot M. Berkeley - New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy is being awarded to William J. Borucki and David G. Koch for leading the successful Kepler space mission, which is discovering new exoplanets while making major advancements in the search for terrestrial planets around other stars. Borucki and Koch, both at NASA's Ames Research Center, are PI and deputy PI, respectively, of the Kepler mission.
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Smarter, smaller, faster: From cars to computers, it's the future. It's also the new paradigm of clinical research at Memorial Sloan Kettering, where we've taken transformative steps to bring novel therapies to more patients more quickly.
Paul Sabbatini, Deputy Physician-in-Chief for Clinical Research, has been leading the endeavor. A physician-scientist who cares for women with ovarian cancer, Dr. Sabbatini was appointed in 2013 to support a coordinated effort to expand and streamline MSK's clinical research program.
"Most of the approaches that doctors use to treat cancer today are the direct result of successful clinical trials in the past," he says. But the times — and our understanding of the biology of cancer — are changing radically. With that, clinical research is also evolving.
"The historical way to develop cancer treatments was built on an inflexible sequence of clinical trials," Dr. Sabbatini says. "This methodical progression from phase I to phase III trials advanced the field, but progress has been slower than we would have liked, and in many instances there have been only incremental improvements." And while clinical trials remain the best way to improve treatments, the rigid trial paradigm has become outmoded in many contexts. "What we need to rethink is the large clinical trial with long follow-up looking for small improvements," he explains.
In a new era of precision medicine, increasing numbers of patients can be enrolled in trials of therapeutic agents targeting specific mutations or pathways present in their individual tumors, independent of the type of cancer with which they were diagnosed. This means that new cancer drugs can be tested in smaller trials with fewer patients.
"The key to these trials is that we have become much more nimble in confirming responses early on. In a phase I trial we're able not only to evaluate safety and get the correct dose but also to get a real hint of efficacy," says Dr. Sabbatini. "You get answers and you get them quickly."
To bring these novel therapies to patients more efficiently, Dr. Sabbatini and his colleagues doubled the capacity of the Research Council, which is responsible for the scientific review of trials, and created a second Institutional Review Board (IRB). The IRBs are responsible for approving, monitoring, and reviewing all biomedical research involving human subjects.
"We've also created a system in which we can track where protocols are in the approval pipeline," says Dr. Sabbatini. "We have someone dedicated to reviewing that and intervening when protocols fall off track. And in selected protocols, we've seen the time-to-activation numbers [which measure how long it takes to get a drug or therapy into a clinical trial] fall. We still have work to do, but that's our focus as we go forward."
The Center for Mechanism-Based Therapies (CMBT) provides a venue in which investigators and doctors can begin to align patients that have particular targets with specific drugs.
"In the CMBT we are now able to bring developmental therapeutics [led by physician-scientist Richard D. Carvajal], immunotherapeutics [led by physician-scientist Jedd D. Wolchok], and cellular therapeutics [led by physician-scientist Renier J. Brentjens] under one roof," Dr. Sabbatini explains.
"Quite literally, the CMBT gathers a large group of people in one room — we meet every Thursday — and provides a venue for discussion for investigators who have phase I trial ideas or concepts, or for pharmaceutical companies that want to partner with us in developing concepts or trials," he says. "It's been very successful both in improving efficiencies of trial conduct and in getting our scientists and clinicians involved in early drug development, which is where we think we can have the most impact."
The hub of operations of MSK's clinical research program is the Office of Clinical Research, led by Executive Director Collette Houston. Her staff is responsible for managing all aspects of clinical trial protocols. "This means the development of protocols from initiation through completion, quality assurance, and everything in between," Ms. Houston says. The "in between" includes informatics, education, training of the staff that conduct the research, and committee reviews. In addition, her office is responsible for contracting, research billing, multicenter trial management, and research support services to help clinical departments manage their activities.
Dr. Carvajal, Director of the Developmental Therapeutics Program, explains that the program is primarily the small- molecule arm of MSK's drug development efforts, looking at what have come to be called targeted therapies. Dr. Wolchok's program studies novel agents that modulate the immune system's response to cancer. And Dr. Brentjens' program works on a form of gene therapy in which patients' own immune cells are genetically manipulated to directly attack tumors.Dr. Carvajal, a member of the Melanoma and Immunotherapeutics Service in the Department of Medicine, is charged with developing and increasing early-phase clinical trials at MSK. He says that historically, patients would be referred to phase I trials only when their oncologists had run out of standard options. But not anymore.
"Because of molecular profiling and having more-precise understandings about the unique biology of individual tumors, we are now able to identify patients with tumors harboring alterations in gene X, to understand the effects of these alterations on tumor growth, and then to match patients directly to trials studying agents that address each specific molecular event," he says.
As researchers are better able to assemble these genetic profiles — correlating the biology of tumors to treatments — they are seeing dramatic responses in patients who previously have experienced disease growth after a number of prior therapies and who have opted to join an early-stage trial. "So even if there are standard options available," says Dr. Carvajal, "sometimes we'll recommend to patients that perhaps we should consider this particular clinical trial."
Twelve physicians with disease-specific and specialized drug development expertise — along with specially trained phase I clinical and treatment research nurses, technicians, and research and administrative staff — make up the Developmental Therapeutics Program. Each physician has a particular drug development focus, such as cancer metabolics, epigenetics, stem cell targeting, cell cycle targeting, cell signaling pathways, novel chemotherapeutics, resistance mechanisms, or DNA damage repair.
Another significant area in the evolving clinical research landscape at MSK is basket trials. These trials study a drug with a specific mechanism of action that may potentially work regardless of the type of cancer a patient has. So instead of starting with multiple clinical trials in different diseases, investigators begin with one trial — the basket — and one or more targets, and allow patients with different cancers to enroll. If one group shows a good response, physicians can expand the group to immediately assess whether other patients would also benefit.On the flip side, if a group is not showing evidence of effectiveness, the trial can be closed and patients can move on to consider other therapies. This can happen quickly, so patients do not lose valuable time receiving a treatment that isn't working. "We can make decisions much, much sooner than if we used the traditional trial model," explains Dr. Sabbatini.
"More and more, we're going to see that drugs will go from phase I directly to phase III clinical trials in terms of the developmental path," Dr. Carvajal says. "Because we're now not only looking at toxicity and dosage in these contemporary phase I studies, but also assessing efficacy. We are going to see a decrease in the number of phase II trials conducted. It's no longer enough just to show we can give a drug at a certain dose safely; we have to show that it does something to help our patients."
Both men speak movingly of the patients who participate. "It's truly humbling for us to look at our patients, who are dealing with a serious illness, with many choices to make with regard to therapy, and see how many are willing to enroll in these trials," says Dr. Sabbatini.
"This is a real partnership among patients, physicians, and our entire clinical research team," says Dr. Carvajal. "Patients are very selfless. We do this, of course, in the hope that we're going to help them — and often we do. And patients do it in the hope that they will be helped. But they also do it because they know they'll help people in the future."


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Baird, power play boost Rayz
And the welcomed sight of Jason Baird, goal scorer, wasn't a bad fringe benefit.
Baird scored his first two goals of the season as Corpus Christi rallied to beat the New Mexico Scorpions 5-3 on Saturday night at the American Bank Center.
The victory was the second straight for the Rayz (6-6, 12 points), who remained four points behind Laredo for first place in the Central Hockey League's Southeast Division.
The Rayz, who entered the game, with the second-worst power play in the 17-team CHL, got a jolt on the man advantage. Corpus Christi scored a season-high three times on the power play to come back from a 3-1 deficit midway during the second period.
"It's good to get that confidence going," Baird said. "Now when we go out there, we know we can score (on the power play) so hopefully it keeps going. If we can get one or two each night, it makes us that much better.
Veteran center Matt Turek also tallied twice, including the winner on the power play at the 12:30 mark of the third period, when he knocked a rebound past New Mexico goalie Walter Bartholamaeus from in close. In fact, all three of Corpus Christi's man-advantage scores came from within five feet of the net.
"You've got to score those to win hockey games," Rayz coach Ken McRae said. "Those are goals you have to score if you want to be successful, ugly goals if you want to call them that. It was all about getting pucks through to the net and crashing the net."
The Rayz trailed 3-2 near the midpoint of the third period, but got the tying goal from a guy who hadn't found the back of the net in quite some time. Baird, the fiery power forward who missed almost all of last season with a severe knee injury, probably couldn't have picked a perfect moment to score for the first time since Oct. 21, 2005, the night of last year's opener at Austin.
Baird, at the right of the net, chopped in a rebound at 7:51 to score on home ice for the first time since the 2004-05 season finale. He then punctuated the goal with a fist-pumping celebration as he skated back to the bench.
"When you don't score a goal for a year, I was pretty happy to be able to score one tonight, especially in front of the home crowd," Baird said. "It was exciting for me to finally burst the bubble and get that first one. Hopefully now it'll come a little easier for me than it did the first (11) games."
Through the first two periods, the Rayz dominated play for long stretches and outshot New Mexico 30-16, but found themselves trailing largely because of Bartholamaeus, who stopped several prime chances by the Rayz.
After what he called an unsatisfactory first period, McRae credited the third line of center Connor Hughes and wings Blair Stayzer and Adam Powell for helping turn the tide with some big hits and strong forechecking in the New Mexico zone.
"Hughes, Stayzer and Powell did a heck of a job in the second period to get us in that right frame of mind," McRae said. "They set the tone big time. They had four or five straight shifts where they dominated down low and drew that penalty that got us the second goal and continued with that.
"We had to battle back and the guys did a good job of sticking up for each other. When I talk about covering for each other, good teams do that. We bailed each other out as a team tonight."
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For Rayz owner Doug Frank, Saturday's game was his first against New Mexico since he sold the Scorpions last year. Frank owned the team from the spring of 2001 until selling after he put the Scorpions on hiatus for 2005-06 while a new rink was being built in suburban Albuquerque.
While he found himself cheering against New Mexico for the first time since he was a season-ticket holder of the then-IceRays during their early years, it wasn't strange by any means.
"It was easy tonight," Frank said. "I didn't have a 'win one for the Gipper' speech. I just came in and reminded the guys that we couldn't lose this game. No speeches, I just let them know."
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Genetically modified plants could be produced more cheaply and easily using a method announced last week by scientists from Zeneca, the British biotechnology company. The patented technique uses microscopic crystals of silicon carbide to punch holes in plant cells so that foreign DNA can enter.
One attraction of Zeneca's method, revealed at a conference on plant biotechnology in Colorado, is its simplicity. The scientists just mix silicon carbide crystals in water with tiny loops of genetic material containing the DNA to be inserted, and the plant cells that will receive it. 'You just swish it around for 60 seconds,' says Jim Dunwell, head of the Anglo-American development team. The crystals are just 1 micrometre in diameter and 20 micrometres long.
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