I don't believe Twilight deserves even half the hype and popularity it does. I get pissed when I think about how much fame, money, and adoration Meyers gets for something a 14-year-old could have written (and has). Seriously, when I read about the storyline, it sounded like about five different Sailormoon fanfictions I had read before (I was totally reading them for their guilty-pleasure value). I wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow a 15-year-old sued Meyers for plagiarizing her alternate universe story about Serena and Darien, except she probably worships Meyers and is busy working out her Twidildo.

Is there a moody, broody vampire that's been around for hundreds of years? Yes/No

Is there a fragile beauty who is mysteriously drawn to him, in spite (or because of :O!!) his dangerousness? Yes/No

Is the vampire drawn to our fragile beauty for inexplicable and unquantifiable reasons? Yes/No

Is the beauty completely helpless and unable to defend herself, thus always relying on her man and/or his associates to rescue her (thereby both entertaining my secret rescue fantasies and enraging my inner feminazi)? Yes/No

Does the storyline involve an ancient feud/rivalry with vampire slayers and/or werewolves? Yes/No

Is there a plotline where he attempts to leave her for her own safety but can't bear to be apart from her? Yes/No


All that is missing is a plea for moar reviews before she posts new chapters.

Disclaimer: I've got nothing against people who recognize it for what it is: guilty-pleasure material. People who say the Twilight movies deserve Oscars, that Robert Pattinson didn't get an Oscar because the committee is too stuck up (seriously), that Twilight will someday be taught in classrooms alongside Shakespeare, should die. I would laugh, but I can only cry because I know they are being completely serious.

Suggested reading material from me for the non-brain-dead (in no particular order):
Animal Farm
Bad Monkeys
My Year of Meats
Fahrenheit 451
I Am America (And So Can You!)
American Gods
His Dark Materials trilogy
The Good Women of China



P.S. spell-check thinks I spelled Darien wrong. Bitch, please.

I think I'm pretty funny.

I drove a POS van (I still love you, Franklin) for about 3 years, so when I drive my Lancer, I feel like a fuckin' pimp. Please stop ruining that feeling for me.

1. I fucking hate when people brake as they are coming to an intersection. It happens all the damn time. It's either green (refresher: it means go) or it's not, in which case you stop. If you cannot stop safely in time, you book it across the intersection before you get smoked. That's how it works. This is especially for the idiot today who was braking at an intersection while the pedestrian counter for the cross street was still counting down. Do you think the light will turn green for the other street while the counter is still telling people it's okay to cross?

2. If no one is around and you want to turn left at an intersection where there is a 'no left turns' sign, be my guest, because I couldn't give less of a shit. Don't do it at a really busy intersection on a weekday afternoon with a fuckload of cars clearly behind you. The left turn sign is there for a reason. It may mean (a) it's one-way only, and unfortunately that way is not yours or (b) you will fucking hold up all the traffic behind you.

3. Some numbnuts figures that since the light is going to turn green soon, it's okay to slowly creep up until you are already almost halfway across the intersection. That way, when it does turn green you can leave the rest of us suckers behind eating your dust, amirite? I envy your two-second headstart on me. That is, until five seconds later when I overtake you because you are driving a fucking Astrovan. Creeping up a tiny bit to get the sensor to notice you are there or whatever is fine, but to the former: I hope you learn a lesson from some car that is racing the yellow light.


Also to the (very young-looking) parents that let their kids cross the street during the green light: you are one of the many reasons why people should take a test before they can have children.

Lately I've been reading a lot of makeup and hair product reviews because I'm updating or replacing some of my stuff. There's kind of a growing stigma about things like parabens, silicones in your shampoo, etc. so here be some articles from Beauty Brains, a group of cosmetic scientists, that addresses that.

Is Pantene Good or Bad for My Hair?

Should Your Shower Stay Sulfate-Free?

The Perils of Parabens

Of course, if you are really concerned about this kind of thing, you should probably do some extra reading from a variety sources. Personally, I really like the Brains because they seem to try to give an unbiased opinion based in science/logic.

Sidestory: I saw a review for blush that someone gave a 1 because it had "imidazolidinyl urea" which she said releases formaldehyde which gives you cancer, and that she totally threw it away and went back to her Shiseido blush. Another reviewer was about to give a great review for it, but once she saw the first one she gave it a 1, too.
A. Everything gives you fucking cancer.
B. Imidazolidinyl urea is one of the most common preservatives used in cosmetics.
C. Some of the reading I dug up suggested that it releases it only if heated (to what temperature, I don't know).
D. If you are super adamant about cancer/formaldehyde-releasing shit/animal testing not being in your makeup, you should probably just stop wearing makeup.

SPRING '09
Math 100 - Precalculus
Bus 254 - Managerial Accounting I 
WL 201 - East & West World Literature 

SUMMER '09
Math 157 - Calculus
Bus 312 - Introduction to Finance
Bus 303 - Business, Society, and Ethics
Buec 232 - Data and Decisions I

FALL '09
Bus 207 - Managerial Economics
Bus 336 - Data and Decisions II
Bus 393 - Commercial Law

SPRING '10
Bus 316 - Derivative Securities
Bus 374 or 381 - Organization Theory or Introduction to Human Resource Management
Bus 315 - Investments
Bus 403 - Seminar in Business and Society

SUMMER '10
Bus 478 - Seminar in Administrative Policy
Bus 410 - Financial Institutions
Bus 417 - Security Analysis


Haven't factored in any co-ops or certifications I might pursue, either D:

Sometimes, I want to just burrow and cocoon in my blankets until Apocalypse arrives.

Dear SFU,

That's not fucking funny.