02 April 2003

back from the dead

flying high on an airplane again
cigarette shakes in my hand
i cant believe what They said...
told that damn lie again
told us a lie and it true
so played out for you
tear at the wires all the time
but it just keeps coming out...

can i drift with you tonite
on these could-be-clouds around me
would you tell her that i said its alright
alright...
alright now,
-

spent all last night
in the terminal-lounge
cant be held accountable.

27 October 2002

quote of the week
"Well, if it was the best, so what?"
-john lennon

16 October 2002

a billion and one uses
duct tape is listed in my Top 5 Greastest Inventions of All Time...here is but another reason why...


**dont wanna know where this is from

14 October 2002

captured like fireflies
a dream without meaning
shot past the whirlpool
like space outta nowhere
back as a rebel
in one of mikey's poems
dare neglegt the baby tantrum
scolded high noon

13 October 2002

dag nab it
i haven't been keeping up with my internet adventures well...just read that mighty girl is geting married...shit im depressed...

24 September 2002

too funny...

You Know You're a Nova Scotian When:

1. Your Idea Of A Traffic Jam Is Ten Cars Waiting To Pass A Tractor On The Highway

2. "Vacation" Means Going To MonctonFor The Weekend.

3. You Measure Distance In Hours

4. You Know Several People Who Have Hit Deer More Than Once

5. You Often Switch From "Heat" To "A/C" In The Same Day

6. You Use A Down Comforter In The Summer

7. Your Grandparents Drive At 100 Km/H Through 13 Feet Of Snow During A
Raging Blizzard, Without Flinching.

8. You See People Wearing Hunting Clothes At Social Events

9. You Install Security Lights On Your House And Garage And Leave Both Unlocked

10. You Think Of The Major Food Groups As Deer Meat, Fish And Keith's

11. You Carry Jumper Cables In Your Car And Your Wife Knows How To Use Them

12. There Are 7 Empty Cars Running In The Parking Lot At The Canadian
Tire Store At Any Given Time

13. You Design Your Kids Halloween Costume To Fit Over A Snowsuit

14. Driving Is Better In The Winter Because The Potholes Are Filled With Snow

15. You Think Lingerie Is Tube Socks And Flannel Pajamas

16. You Know All 4 Seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, And Construction

17. It Takes You 3 Hours To Go To The Store For One Item Even When
You're In A Hurry, Because You Have To Stop And Talk To Everyone In Town

And Finally, You Know You Live In Nova ScotiaWhen:

18. You Actually Understand These Jokes And Forward Them To All Your
Friends From Nova Scotia


...i wanna meet someone from nova scotia...

31 August 2002

hazardous to your health
As a seventh grade student, Claire Nelson learned that di(ethylhexyl)adepate (DEHA), considered a carcinogen, is found in plastic wrap. She also learned that the FDA had never studied the effect of microwave cooking on plastic-wrapped food. Claire began to wonder: "Can cancer-causing particles seep into food covered with household plastic wrap while it is being microwaved?"

Three years later, with encouragement from her high school science teacher, Claire set out to test what the FDA had not. Although she had an idea for studying the effect of microwave radiation on plastic-wrapped food, she did not have the equipment. Eventually, Jon Wilkes at the National Center for Toxicological Research in Jefferson, Arkansas, agreed to help her. The research center, which is affiliated with the FDA, let her use its facilities to perform her experiments, which involved microwaving plastic wrap in virgin olive oil.

Claire tested four different plastic wraps and "found not just the carcinogens but also xenoestrogen was migrating [into the oil]...." Xenoestrogens are linked to low sperm counts in men and to breast cancer in women.

Throughout her junior and senior years, Claire made a couple of trips each week to the research center, which was 25 miles from her home, to work on her experiment. An article in Options reported that "her analysis found that DEHA was migrating into the oil at between 200 parts and 500 parts per million. The FDA standard is 0.05 parts per billion." Her summarized results have been published in science journals.

Claire Nelson received the American Chemical Society's top science prize for students during her junior year and fourth place at the International Science and Engineering Fair (Fort Worth, Texas) as a senior.

"Carcinogens -- At 10,000,000 Times FDA Limits" Options May 2000. Published by People Against Cancer, 515-972-4444.

On Channel 2 (Huntsville, AL) they had a Dr. Edward Fujimoto from Castle Hospital on the program. He is the manager of the Wellness Program at the hospital.

He was talking about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat and plastics releases dioxins into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Dioxins are carcinogens and highly toxic to the cells of our bodies.

Instead, he recommends using glass, Corning Ware, or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results without the dioxins. So such things as TV dinners, instant saimin and soups, etc., should be REMOVED from their container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It is far safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He said we might remember when some of the fast food restaurants
moved away from the foam containers to paper.

The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

22 August 2002

yak!
"if theres nothing on the line, it don't mean anything"

**compliments of my roommate

19 August 2002

end of year
its that time of year again...everyone goes back to school, off somewhere in the great blue yonder, and i stay...this is MY college town...

14 August 2002

yippee!
if you live in SF, DC, or NYC (or visit there and get a ticket so that you curse the place forever), you now have a savior...

parking tickets dot com

**from the lovely kat (in SF)
mi amore
another spectalur article by the glorious Margaret Berry...meticulusly pointing out the obvious, or should be obvious and we all seem the convienently "forget"

Don't be Rude: Part II
calculated affair
i just watched my ex and my friend (whom she dated right afterward) verbally abuse each other...picture a porixide blonde and a cool grubby 30 something having it out...and me in the corner smoking laughing my ass off...untill they ask me something...do i agree? hey, man, leave me outta this one...don't worry dave, you won, hands down...

08 August 2002

:)
life on prozac

04 August 2002

Frisco
yesterday morning i emarked on a road trip to san fransisco, via sacramento. awesome drive. mustard hills and salemander skies. then SF. i fucking love that town. went out with kat and sean. got obscenely drunk. yakked going back over the bay bridge. fun, fun. this morning was berkely and smelly people. and an awesome shopping spree @ amoeba. then back home. i think i spent more time in the car then in the city, actually i know i did. but, what the fuck, right?

01 August 2002

hiatus
things have been kinda slow since i got fired...i'm taking a sabbatical from working...been working fairly steadily since i was 14...time for a break...

27 July 2002

F@#K!!!
yesterday i got fired...today i bought a labtop...and a digital camera...

23 July 2002

better than ice cream
i am undecided on this one...i'm either really freaked out or feeling kinda mushy...kinda like jell-o...mmmm, jell-o...

**from mighty girl

22 July 2002

whatchamacallit
do you remember the candy bar named this? and those silly commercials they used to have...i can hear the faint ringing of the catch tune..."whatchamacallit!"...always reminded me of evil elves dancing around in my sleep...

18 July 2002

silly rabbit
the most fun since play-doh...

bad bunny

**from mighty girl

17 July 2002

"quote"
"i dont know, i don't care, and it doesn't make any difference"
-Jack Kerouac