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November 30, 2005
A Joke on Dangly Bits
A young woman was pulled over for speeding. As the Wisconsin State Trooper walked to her car window, flipping open his ticket book, she said, "I bet you are going to sell me a ticket to the State Troopers Ball."
He replied, "Wisconsin State Troopers don't have balls."
There was a moment of silence while she smiled, and he realized what he'd just said. He then closed his book, got back in his patrol car and left.
Posted by Kelli Little at 12:11 PM
November 29, 2005
Exposure to the Aftermath of Horror
I am of two minds.
I believe a child should maintain their innocence as long as life allows.
I believe a child should be exposed to life in all of its reality - especially the horror of it - at an early adolescent age.
I believe a child should maintain their innocence as long as life allows.
A child is - in many of the most important ways - perfect. Given the chance, a child will seek to explore their surroundings, their environment, and themselves without the fears that life begins to establish through this very same experimentation and exploration. They are born without misconceptions or preconceptions, without judgement or bias, without the mark of formed habits that restrict who and what they are at that very moment.
I believe a child should be exposed to life in all of its reality - especially the horror of it - at an early adolescent age.
Briefly, one of the most life-altering experiences I can think of was bearing myself as a post-war witness to the horrors, the atrocities that were committed within the then-U.S.S.R during WWI and WWII. (At that moment I developed a resounding fascination to near obsession with discovering what other covered nastiness existed - particularly in the USSR initially, but since then expanding to the world.) Raised in a secure household, I was an extremely naive adolescent when I travelled to Russia. The amount of devestation and sorrow and testament during that single trip was enough to change me in a very, very significant way, and set the seeds for open-mindedness that would later blossom in my budding adulthood.
In speaking with friends, they recount similar experiences, not necessarily as small kids, but somewhere down the road, a jolt that somehow kept them from shutting their senses off from reality while at the same moment understanding that there is much society does not wish you to see... but much that you should, nonetheless.
I know that people such as our current president are now too jaded to care, that exposure to similar sites, similar sounds - Hell, I even believe exposure to dead and decaying corpses caused by their decisions - would not alter them a whit. Too jaded, to hardened, too closed down - and without having once throughout their youth experiencing something of that magnitude, but something so simple.
On a similar rambling thought, a friend of mine at work spoke about his time spent in Japan, and how he went to the Hiroshima memorial church. Inside, and amongst many items, was a stone slab where someone had been sitting when the bomb went off. Their shadow is permanently marked into the stone.
How many of you knew the A-bomb could do that?
Posted by Kelli Little at 02:49 PM
November 21, 2005
Joe's Bday/My Weekend
Friday: I deep cleaned the house. From 8:30 a.m. til 4:30 p.m. I scrubbed like a mad woman. Relaxed that evening with
Saturday: That morning I gave
Went to To Shin Do.
Picked up the cake, all of the groceries, ran home and decorated and prepared and chopped and shit.
And then the party began. It was a lot of fun, very relaxing, and as
We were all too full from the hors devors to go out to dinner, so instead we just chilled until about 10. Then, the majority of us headed on out to The Ghetto in downtown Phoenix to attend a Serial Killer party, where Michael's friend was debuting. It was awesome there, too, and we danced until the not-so-wee hours of the morning. After a bit of Denny's, we got home about 4:30 a.m.
Sunday:
So, why was I awake four hours later? I have no idea. None. But it gave me a chance to hang out with our awesome friend Mr. Fresh before he headed back on up to Flagstaff. I tried to get to bed early, but it was 10:30 before I got there, and given that I had to get up an extra hour early today, it wasn't enough. Ah well. I'll sleep like the dead tonight, I'm sure.
And that was my weekend.
Monday:
Today I'm throwing a going away party for a co-worker of mine, who has decided to leave work and stay at home with her 18-month old son to give him proper care and attention, as he was just discovered to have some pretty severe disabilities. She's a good mommy.
Posted by Kelli Little at 08:50 AM
November 17, 2005
Body's Natural Weight Regulators
Today I actually took time to read the news, despite being horrendously busy at work. In any case, I came across this article in the AZ Central News, and read something worth responding to. (The link will probably disappear overnight, since they archive things strangely online, so if you're interested in reading it, head to azcentral.com and search for the article entitled 'Appetite-Suppressing Hormone Discovered'.)
The article mentions that scientists have found a hormone produced in the human body that suppresses the appetite, and are now able to produce the hormone with safe effects on lab rats. The quote that seemed to beg for a response, however, is as follows:
"It is an unexpected but very, very intriguing finding," said Matthias Tschop of the University of Cincinnati, who reviewed the work. "It seems counterintuitive that Mother Nature would press on the brake and gas pedal at the same time."
I am not a scientist employed by a University, I will grant you that. However, to me it seems perfectly intuitive that 'Mother Nature' would have given two hormones that affect feelings of hunger to balance each other out. Given how humans evolutionarily speaking went through periods of food rationings followed by periods of the plentiful, it is only perfectly natural to assume our body would find a mechanism to respond to such things.
Not to mention our body seems to balance itself in every other area... take insulin and sugar levels, for instance.
There. I've said my piece.
Posted by Kelli Little at 03:28 PM
Sony Hits the Lawsuit Jackpot
Wow. Sony really fucked up, this time.
Holy shit.
Posted by Kelli Little at 03:21 PM
November 13, 2005
Baby Bunny for Julie
I know I promised a while ago to give Julie a bunny picture, but I'm just finally getting to it. So without further ado...
Posted by Kelli Little at 08:57 AM
November 12, 2005
Updating, dammit!
Per a single demand, I am now officially updating Haildestrukto with my nonsense. Ready? Begin.
Health Life:
It ended up that I managed to secure myself one whopper of a kidney infection. Why is it that I can go my entire life without a single noteable infection (beyond flus and colds, mind), and then *BAM* I get three, right straight in a row? I mean, fuck. The percocet's all tapped out, but thankfully it let me unconcious during the worst of the pain, and thanks to a little bundle of pills called 'Leviquin', I'm all better.
Work Life:
Work was extremely dull this week. Some busy times were to be had, and I am learning a new part of the job - which is both interesting and good, since it means I'm a step closer to actually taking my boss's position when she leaves - but otherwise? Yep, dull. Still, I had lunch with a few people I had briefly met over the coarse of these last three months, and they turned out to be relatively neat (and not in the tidy way), so it was nice in that aspect. I'll post a picture of one of them later: Carmelo makes a big, strapping Dorothy for Halloween.
Social Life:
Joe and I managed to catch a minor league hockey game with two of my friends from work on Wednesday. The game was absolutely boring, but it was definitely fun to hang out there with them. Last night I headed out to happy hour with - again - work buddies. It was interesting, to the point where I have finally convinced one guy that not matter what he throws at me, I won't accept. So instead he turned his attentions onto a girlfriend of mine. Heh. Thankfully she's a smart cookie - despite wanting sex after three years of not having it - and won't take a married man with two children.
To Shin Do Life:
I'm finally back in the relative swing of To Shin do, and this pleases me greatly. It's nice to have my body beaten up on a regular basis. Well, mostly. Somehow I managed to irritate my plantar tendon muscle thingies (in my feet, peoples) and now I'm having to ice my damn feet. Did I mention that while I like being cold, I don't like my feet being cold? It invokes the same response in me as being only mildly sick does: whiney about the fact that it's cumbersome and annoying, but little else. Not that I'm looking for a major injury, mind you. Hee. My plan is to attend every class until I complete all of my make-up sessions, and then go unlimited. Pray for my discipline and health, folks.
We haven't shaken any babies, chopped up any hookers, or drank any beer lately, I'm afraid, so the scintillating stories will have to wait.
Now that I think on it, maybe I should put in this disclaimer for folks who are reading this and don't know me: it's lingo, bitches, not actual reality.
There, I feel better.
Posted by Kelli Little at 08:22 AM