Yeah… I am starting over

I am going to start blogging again, I will need something to keep me sane once baby number two gets here FINALLY! I thought about starting a new blog, or just erasing all my old posts and starting completely over, but I have decided not to. The blog from now on will be going in a slightly different direction, but I still a sarcastic, foul mouthed be-otch and it’s bound to come out anyway :). I have some new “old” interests that I have started with again, mainly “suzy homemaker” type activities such as knitting, sewing, cooking. Boring crap I will torture you with anyway! Though I am sure I don’t have an avid readers, I feel like giving an update about my life (besides, this will give new people a sense of knowing me!). I am going to have ANOTHER little girl this month (my due date is the 23rd). We are stationed at Fort Sam Houston at the moment, but we are going back to Fort Hood in July YES!!!!! I am currently a fat cow… but I plan on being back to normal by the summer. I am sure you will hear me bitching about this in the months to come. I have decided to start blogging again mainly because I am a typical bored housewife with nothing better to do, but you can’t judge me because you have nothing better to do but read my rants! Anyway, I don’t have anything really interesting to write about right now, so I am going to stop wasting space tonight. Hopefully I will have something more interesting to write about tomorrow… but I doubt it.

Hmmmm, Mr. horn

So if you don’t know who Mr. Horn is or what in the Hell I am talking about, you can google it because I haven’t the energy to update you. I just want to give a short opinion on this case. I am all for gun rights, of course, I am at the very end of the right side, uber-conservative. But something I read about this case has me going, huh…. Granted I only read one story about it, but this is America and I can act like I know every fact when in fact I know nothing at all. ANYWAY, it said the assumed burglars were shot in the back and killed….. but Mr. Horn said (and the jury accepted this) that he shot them when they entered his yard and threatened him. I don’t know anyone who would threatened someone, with a gun nonetheless, with their back turned. Unless you are a sixteen year old girl enforcing the deadly hairflip. Though in that case, shooting her in the back would be nothing less than fucking hilarious. That is all.

Shave your effin eyebrows?

I am so fucking sick of public school systems. Yeah I know, it’s been over four years since the Hell commonly referred to as “high school”, but I read something today that took straight back to it and throughly pissed me off. Here’s the article:

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A Portland high school is raising eyebrows with its brow grooming policy: shave ‘em or go home.

Some students at Centennial High School have shaved vertical lines into their eyebrows in a trend recently made popular by hip-hop star Soulja Boy. School officials say the mark looks like a gang symbol.

Centennial administrators are telling students with the lines that they can’t return to school until they shave their eyebrows off. Assistant Principal Mark Porterfield said the students are not suspended, but they are not allowed in school until they cooperate.

Four students have been sent home. One returned with a bandage covering the shaved brow.

Police say gangs have co-opted the trend for their own use, with one gang’s members marking themselves by shaving one line into an eyebrow and three lines in the other to symbolize 13.

“We don’t dictate policy for any schools,” Officer David Schmidt of the East Multnomah County Gang Enforcement Team said. “We just tell them what we see the latest trends are. This is a way for them to identify each other. In a school setting, it intimidates other kids.”

Andy Gonzalez, a junior at Centennial with one vertical line shaved down his brow, was studying for a test when a security guard approached him and said, “If you’re going to come to school like that, don’t come at all.”

Gonzalez, 17, says he isn’t in a gang and shaved the lines to look cool and impress girls. But he says he’d be humiliated if he had to shave his brows off.

Centennial implemented the rules about the eyebrows after other area high schools did, but other schools say they only look for the markings of the 13 style.

Now, I am not going to put lines in my eyebrows to look “cool” but who in the Hell do they think they are to deny that to someone who wants to? Individuality is so constricted nowadays that I fear conformity will be entirely forced upon youths in public schools. It’s bullshit and no one should stand for it. I agree that they should try to look out for the gang signs, but not persecute every person that may have a form of the trend. It may mean something entirely different. You have to learn to LISTEN to these kids, and then maybe you won’t have to worry so much about gangs and troubled youth. Lay the blame where it fucking belongs. Anyway, my related story is something that happen to me in high school. My senior year, the first two weeks, I was sent to the Principal’s office 5 times for dress code violations. Was I wearing skimpy slut clothes? Belly shirts and mini skirts? No, I left that to the popular crowd, walking around like trash, but they never got in trouble. No, I was sent to the office because I was “punk”, different. The last one was almost the last straw, I almost quit school right there, say fuck it. My mother had to talk me out of it, but I made sure Mr. Grissom understood what I had to say first. I was wearing a Marilyn Manson shirt. Therefore I must worship the devil! He said my shirt offended people. Fuck them. This is what I listen to. I told him what if that cross on her shirt offends me, are you going to make her change? (I am Christian, I just use to listen to that kind of music. ) Of course not, because even though God isn’t allowed in school you are allowed to force a Christian based dress code upon me. Well, I refused to take the shirt off, though I did turn it inside out. Basically what they are teaching us today in schools is you can’t be an individual, you have to fit in or get the Hell out. You aren’t important enough to listen to, you have to be a rah rah cheerleader, etc to be heard. Well, here’s to all of the girls…. still enjoying our hometown? I’ll tip you next time you ring me up at the grocery store.

Abortion as art??!!!

For now I am just going to post the article I just read. I will comment on it later since I have to pick my daughter up from school. It’s so effin wrong.

Art major Aliza Shvarts ‘08 wants to make a statement.

Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.

The goal in creating the art exhibition, Shvarts said, was to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body. But her project has already provoked more than just debate, inciting, for instance, outcry at a forum for fellow senior art majors held last week. And when told about Shvarts’ project, students on both ends of the abortion debate have expressed shock . saying the project does everything from violate moral code to trivialize abortion.

But Shvarts insists her concept was not designed for “shock value.”

“I hope it inspires some sort of discourse,” Shvarts said. “Sure, some people will be upset with the message and will not agree with it, but it’s not the intention of the piece to scandalize anyone.”

The “fabricators,” or donors, of the sperm were not paid for their services, but Shvarts required them to periodically take tests for sexually transmitted diseases. She said she was not concerned about any medical effects the forced miscarriages may have had on her body. The abortifacient drugs she took were legal and herbal, she said, and she did not feel the need to consult a doctor about her repeated miscarriages.

Shvarts declined to specify the number of sperm donors she used, as well as the number of times she inseminated herself.

Art major Juan Castillo ‘08 said that although he was intrigued by the creativity and beauty of her senior project, not everyone was as thrilled as he was by the concept and the means by which she attained the result.

“I really loved the idea of this project, but a lot other people didn’t,” Castillo said. “I think that most people were very resistant to thinking about what the project was really about. [The senior-art-project forum] stopped being a conversation on the work itself.”

Although Shvarts said she does not remember the class being quite as hostile as Castillo described, she said she believes it is the nature of her piece to “provoke inquiry.”

“I believe strongly that art should be a medium for politics and ideologies, not just a commodity,” Shvarts said. “I think that I’m creating a project that lives up to the standard of what art is supposed to be.”

The display of Schvarts’ project will feature a large cube suspended from the ceiling of a room in the gallery of Green Hall. Schvarts will wrap hundreds of feet of plastic sheeting around this cube; lined between layers of the sheeting will be the blood from Schvarts’ self-induced miscarriages mixed with Vaseline in order to prevent the blood from drying and to extend the blood throughout the plastic sheeting.

Schvarts will then project recorded videos onto the four sides of the cube. These videos, captured on a VHS camcorder, will show her experiencing miscarriages in her bathrooom tub, she said. Similar videos will be projected onto the walls of the room.

School of Art lecturer Pia Lindman, Schvarts’ senior-project advisor, could not be reached for comment Wednesday night.

Few people outside of Yale’s undergraduate art department have heard about Shvarts’ exhibition. Members of two campus abortion-activist groups . Choose Life at Yale, a pro-life group, and the Reproductive Rights Action League of Yale, a pro-choice group . said they were not previously aware of Schvarts’ project.

Alice Buttrick ‘10, an officer of RALY, said the group was in no way involved with the art exhibition and had no official opinion on the matter.

Sara Rahman ‘09 said, in her opinion, Shvarts is abusing her constitutional right to do what she chooses with her body.

“[Shvarts' exhibit] turns what is a serious decision for women into an absurdism,” Rahman said. “It discounts the gravity of the situation that is abortion.”

CLAY member Jonathan Serrato ‘09 said he does not think CLAY has an official response to Schvarts’ exhibition. But personally, Serrato said he found the concept of the senior art project “surprising” and unethical.

“I feel that she’s manipulating life for the benefit of her art, and I definitely don’t support it,” Serrato said. “I think it’s morally wrong.”

Shvarts emphasized that she is not ashamed of her exhibition, and she has become increasingly comfortable discussing her miscarriage experiences with her peers.

“It was a private and personal endeavor, but also a transparent one for the most part,” Shvarts said. “This isn’t something I’ve been hiding.”

The official reception for the Undergraduate Senior Art Show will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on April 25. The exhibition will be on public display from April 22 to May 1. The art exhibition is set to premiere alongside the projects of other art seniors this Tuesday, April 22 at the gallery of Holcombe T. Green Jr. Hall on Chapel Street.

Hilary Clinton I DO NOT LIKE YOU!!!!!!

So stop sending me effin emails. I am sick of your stalker tactics on getting votes. I know I know, I could be VERY important to you campaign. Everyone listens to me and does what I say. Which is why I have decided to tell everyone to tell YOU to get FUCKED! Because I do not like you

For the newbies that have no idea what I am talking about, there’s a post, maybe a few back about an email I got from the Hilary Clinton Campaign. Read that. .