Comment Win XI

The Marine who wrote this editorial is obviously insecure about himself and uses this as a flimsy reason to argue why women, who have been serving in combat already without the recognition, should not serve in combat. And I love this response. Made me LOL.

Comment Win X

From HuffPo.

What makes this even better is the Kristen Stewart bashing. Sorry but the chick cannot act.

Year in Review: 2012

Timeline 2012

January: brother is committed to a mental health facility for almost a week

February: start watching Attack of the Show

March: get into rear end car accident on way home during rain; pass CSET General Science I & II subtests; get into The Hunger Games series

April: see The Hunger Games movie with Grandmom (2x) and Uncle Rob

May: take and pass CSET Science subtest Biology/Life Science; see Wyatt at work on Memorial Day

June: turn 26; Mom wins tickets to Sea World from KOLA; celebrate Uncle Rob graduating Cal Poly Pomona; brother wrecks car in accident not his fault; Grandmom buys me new tires and gets free tickets to stuff

July: lay offs finish at work; Summer Olympics begin; start rewriting A Hero's Sojourn

August: my brother and I install our pool; The Hunger Games on DVD; fight with Eric

September: start applying to graduate school; attend Military Appreciation Picnic 2012 with fellow store employees; eight year Albertsons anniversary; make up with Eric

October: mad scientist for Halloween complete with eye patch; work at closing store

November: Thanksgiving with Mom, Andrew, and Uncle Rob; finish Statement of Purpose, only to realize I wrote it wrong because I didn't read; movie with Uncle Rob (Silver Linings Playbook); get new store director at work; receive my Certificate of Clearance from the CTC

December: decorate for Christmas for the first time in four years; lots of rain; Mom dogsits Summer at Grandmom's house; start reworking my SOP and Personal History; finish SOP; have New Year's Eve off

Year in Review: Entertainment

Entertainment that made an impression on my year...

TV

Revolution

Once Upon a Time

Adventure Time with Finn and Jake

Regular Show

The New Normal

Go On

Jessie

A.N.T. Farm

Austin and Ally

Dark Matters: Twisted But True

Summer Olympics

Merlin

Lost Girl

Movies

The Hunger Games

Silver Linings Playbook

The God Who Wasn't There

Winter's Bone

Poker House

The Burning Plain

Episode of Bardock

(I didn't see many new movies this year...or ones that didn't somehow star Jennifer Lawrence)

Books

The Hunger Games

Catching Fire

Mockingjay

Anthropology of an American Girl

God Is Not Great

Music

“Still Alive” and “Want You Gone” from Portal

“Call Me Maybe” - Carly Rae Jepsen

The Hunger Games soundtrack

“The Fighter” - Gym Class Heroes

“Underneath the Sycamore” - Death Cab for Cutie

“Easy” - Barenaked Ladies

“Rifle's Spiral” - The Shins

“Shoelaces (Morgan Page Remix)” - The Submarines

“Sophisticated” - Sarina Paris

“Good Time” and “Alligator Sky” - Owl City ft. Carly Rae Jepsen and Owl City

Every Last Bit

School was a mixed bag
I excelled academically (usually)
I floundered socially (mostly)
And yet I am fortunate to say and feel
That I never hated any of it

Lucky, I guess, that I was naturally curious
Seeking, wanting, needing, asking
Fed information by teachers, which never satiated my mind
Close to others who were like me
(Some just lazier, I guess)

School was awesome
Even into higher ed, Chaffey, and UCR
Though homework and exams made me feel otherwise
Made me stress, study, proofread a million times
But still were satisfying with a passing mark (or top billing)

So to give such a feeling (hope, inspiration, pride)
To someone else
That makes it all worthwhile, every last bit
Start to end, beginning to my present
Their beginning to their future

How I was inspired, how I will inspire
It doesn't end with school
We never stop learning
Hopefully they take away at least that
And my job will be worth it

Every last bit

CGS

date unrecorded.

Lonely Ambitions

The idle hum of the refrigerator
The tick-tocking of the clock
The faint beep of a faraway scanner
These are the sounds of loneliness
Faint voices, laughing, talking
The sunshine they soon will see
The breeze, the fresh air after the rain
While the rest of us work idly away
A job pays the bills, and these people are like family
But sometimes I think about when I will join the other side
And not be chained to baskets or a checkstand
My ambitions go further
So why don't I chase them away from here?

CGS

15 July 2012.
on lunch break between 3 and 4 pm.
breakroom.

Worst Things I Ever Ate (Or Drank)

vomit flavored Bertie Bott's jellybean
-while hanging out with friends at the park, 10th grade, after first semester finals

mycoprotein (fungus protein) nuggets
-unsure; enough said

red and white wine mixed with cheap vodka
-with Jon, which ended up with me being super sick for three days with every symptom on the Pepto Bismol bottle. Also, Sprite does not equal 7 Up.

soda with a dead fly
-While watching Teen Titans 2003 in the summer after eleventh grade

gum and Pringles
-summer after fifth grade, after swimming and while playing Goldeneye with my brother in our garage