I WANT THIS.

It truly is amazing the collectible stuff that's on eBay ... can I haz unlimited monies?

"Handle every stressful situation like a dog.
If you can't eat it or play with it,
Just pee on it and walk away."

I love her. (When we're 800 miles apart, that is)

So I have this pair of jeans. I love them. I got them a few years ago for $20 at Old Navy and, truth be told, I regretted buying them a week later. I must have been bloated when I got them because they were too big and just didn't fit right like they had in the dressing room.

I ran out of clean pants one day and so put them on with a t-shirt and Converse and ran out the door without even looking in the mirror. I felt gross the entire day because I thought I looked horrible in them. Then my friend posted pictures from that night and I realized that I didn't look as bad as I thought I did! The jeans then became part of my regular rotation and were elevated to "favorite pair" sometime last year.

When I got to DC, I of course brought them along. I also have lost weight these past three months. As I mentioned, these jeans were big on me from the get-go but I could normally get by with just wearing a belt with them. Now, I can still wear them with a belt but the fit is changing and I'm not happy about it.

I know that it's time for me to update my jean wardrobe, but I just know that I will never find a pair of jeans like these! Especially for so cheap! And especially because Old Navy revamped their entire jean line a few months after. I'm almost tempted to coerce my mom into taking them apart and modifying the pattern (so they would actually fit) and then just buying denim and sewing them myself.

I try not to judge. Really, I do. Give what you want to get, right? But when your makeup is that overdone and your boobs are hanging out of your shirt that much and I can see your cooch as plain as day, no matter if it's clothed or not, I will judge you. Hard. If you treat yourself as an object, how do you think other people are going to treat you?

idea: Mistakes happen, it's a fact of life. It's how you rebound that makes all the difference.

quote: "DC and the Hill is basically a bunch of functioning alcoholics. You sort of have to be in order to survive this town."

place: the EEOB. God, how I wish my life were more like The West Wing so I could be in that building all the time. Even with all the construction going on inside and out, it's fabulous.

person: Tom Manatos. I want to be the female, Republican version of him. Hey, working for a high-ranking member is the first step, right?

Sitting in the living room, watching The Wedding Singer, eating cheese curds and drinking a Spotted Cow with my best friends. I love this place sfm!

Coaxed the apartment to watch Blind Dating last night and OMG. Chris Pine is not Italian no matter what, but the movie was so cute! And definitely lol-tastic. The "running free" part at the beginning was awesome.

Wedding in a few hours - bottle of Boones Farm in between - reception will be amazing. :D

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Don't forget! Christmas card post here!!!

IT'S (almost) CHRISTMAS TIME!!!


(Art by hack_benjamin22 for the amazing fic The One-Eyed Man Is King by acetamide. It's also my current desktop background.)

And you know what Christmas means? Christmas cards!!! Leave a comment to this entry - comments are screened - and you'll get one. I can't make any promises on them being homemade, especially since my Stampin' Up representative moved away this summer, but it'll still be filled with love and holiday cheer!

&hearts


EDIT: In the event you don't celebrate Christmas, I can also make/get Hanukkah cards, Kwanzaa cards, and even Festivus cards if you so choose. Just let me know when you leave your address. :)

Poll #1483744 Tonight's Plans
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What should I do tonight?

In other news, I've figured out my hot-button issues: entitlement spending and the national debt. Too bad I'm not an economist by any stretch of the imagination.

Things I realized today:

- Veteran's Day is a federal holiday. I intern in a federal office. Therefore, I don't have to work on Wednesday! WOOHOO!
- Tax policy is simultaneously fascinating and boring (yeah, I can't figure it out either ... )
- I have five weeks left in DC. FIVE WEEKS! Please don't let it end. Please?
- I'm flying on Friday the 13th. Mother Effer.

Yep, that's it. Oh, except I'm super tired for absolutely no reason at all. I have been for the past few days. Saturday, I chalked it up to the glass of wine I had, but there's no excuse for yesterday or today. I really hope I'm not getting sick.

Attended oral arguments at the Supreme Court yesterday: Shady Grove v. Allstate

As much as I may disagree with her judicial philosophy, Sonia Sotamayor is pretty freakin' amazing. Comparing her presence on the Court yesterday to Sam Alito's (he definitely fell asleep in the middle of the respondent's arguments), it was obvious who was the better pick. Ruthie kicked some ass, too, with her questions.

After lunch, we met with Ed Meese which was also pretty cool. I called my parents afterward and they started freaking out that i met someone from the Reagan Administration. God, I love DC!

Internship tomorrow, Pentagon tour on Thursday - all I need to do is meet Aaron Schock and this will be THE PERFECT week.

I'm doing it. Some of of it may be substantive, most of it will not. Such is life!

Also, I updated my layout. While it's lacking my beloved tag cloud, it's much more minimalist and much more streamlined and I love it. Many thanks to knotloved!!!

I'm going to a Halloween party on Saturday night. Problem is: I don't have a costume. Second problem: I don't want to spend a whole lot of money. Ideas?

Last year I was Sarah Palin and a geologist (I went to two different costume parties). The year before that, I was a Mod Girl with 60s-style make-up and a houndstooth newsboy cap. The year before that, I was Ginger Spice, complete with red wig and super short leather mini-skirt.

Normally I have enough clothes and creativity to just raid my closet and throw something together, but that was before I moved to DC (leaving about half my normal clothes at home) and before suits and internship clothes became the vast majority of my wardrobe.

I don't really want a fandom costume because no one that's going to be at this party even knows what fandom is, I'm assuming. Also, it's a bunch of PoliSci geeks - there will probably be a good number of political costumes without me dressing as Palin again. Any help would be much, much appreciated.

I think it's a good policy in general, but it would never work in the US. The United States prides itself on being a free nation with a government that respects the choices of the individual. Regardless of whether you believe the nation is succeeding in that mission, mandatory social service is in direct conflict with that freedom. The United States' all-volunteer army is what makes it unique! Yes, the majority of foot soldiers are middle and lower income, but the same social-stratification is present in any business in America. It's a part of capitalism. Love it or leave it, yo.

My current life is one big Mean Girls parody.


Except it's not really all that funny.


And I'm Cady.




FML. When does Regina get hit by a bus?

People I have seen on Metro/MetroBus this week:

- fat!Leonard Nimoy (again)
- girl!Bones (short brown hair, adorable hazel eyes, semi-grumpy expression - I like to think she got off at Med Center, since she was going in the opposite direction of GW hospital but she wasn't in scrubs, so who knows?)
- a Barbie doll law student and her classmate (I just couldn't take her seriously, despite overhearing her spout all these laws and regulations)
- the cutest German Dad and his son riding to school/work together (the Dad works at Kaiser Permanente downtown)
- a less socially awkward Sheldon Cooper look-alike (although he kept pulling up his socks ... neurotic, much?)


Part of me wants to head down to Georgetown today to do some shopping, but it's so crappy and cold and rainy outside. I think I'll just finish reading Thank You For Smoking, perhaps catch up on FlashForward, and apply for new_voyages. Yep, that sounds like a productive day.

tiny_increments's Halloween party:

aforestgrew dressed as James Patterson.
alldoubtaboutit dressed as Camilla Parker-Bowles when she becomes Queen.
asouthernthing dressed as Mde. Lachienne Foutue d'Enfer -- you don't wanna know.
ayeellelleye dressed as a assistant webpage designer, and it suited them all too well.
bonesyandjimmy dressed as Anna Nicole Smith.
burning_spirit dressed as Sybil - except that Sybil didn't show but the other 29 personalities did.
candesgirl dressed as the Governor of Massachusetts.
collegeanna19 didn't even show up and doesn't get any candy.
felonazcorp dressed as the Honest Power Ranger.
fletcherism dressed as a new member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Happy Watcher.
gentlest_sin dressed as Optimus Prime, though it looked more like Angelina Jolie - tarred and feathered.
gqmarf dressed as Josephine Baker but the banana "skirt" didn't survive the night.
greenabsinthe dressed as Mary-Kate Olsen with her very own conjoined Ashley.
heyheyitsjane dressed as a computer.
jazzonia dressed as the Vicomte des Boules-Velues.
kareke dressed as a sleeve.
knivey dressed as Guy Fawkes but the exploding barrel of dynamite didn't go down too well.
lillbet dressed as a character from Harry Potter and the Mystic of Star.
lyss_monaghan dressed as Adam-the-first-man but the fig-leaf was far too big.
majestic_shriek dressed as a pirate.
mangotrills dressed as a horse.
marcasite dressed as a Level 3 barbarian.
meliossa dressed as Jack the Ripper in a time machine, complete with gory knives.
mosellegreen dressed as James Patterson's father.
obstinatrix dressed as Gerald Ford.
pixelmayhem dressed as a ghost, and it suited them disturbingly well.
plasticprincess dressed as a third baseman for the Royals.
queen_lothiriel dressed as the love child of Martin Sheen and Julia Roberts.
remadi dressed as Ivan the Terrible of Russia.
samedifference_ dressed as Nosferatu the Supreme Vampire.
uncja dressed as Mary Queen of Scots ... without her head. Most convincing.
vitawash24 dressed as the King of Solomon Islands.
woogling dressed as a HonoluluDot Com employee.

Throw your own party at the Hallomeme!
Created by sigma7: More info here.

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
tiny_increments goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as The Tenth Doctor.
alldoubtaboutit gives you 16 white banana-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
ayeellelleye gives you 2 softly glowing cinnamon-flavoured nuggets.
fletcherism tricks you! You lose 7 pieces of candy!
jazzonia gives you 1 light green spearmint-flavoured wafers.
kareke gives you 1 light blue spearmint-flavoured pieces of taffy.
knivey gives you 14 orange vanilla-flavoured gummy worms.
lillbet tricks you! You lose 12 pieces of candy!
plasticprincess tricks you! You get a 3.5-inch floppy disc.
remadi gives you 3 teal mint-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
vitawash24 tricks you! You get a block of wood.
tiny_increments ends up with 18 pieces of candy, a 3.5-inch floppy disc, and a block of wood.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

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from ayeellelleye

1. If you're on my friends list, I want to know 35 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine.
2. Comment here with your answers and repost the questionnaire on your own journal.

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OMG, there are leopard and zebra print "Designer" Snuggies now. I weep for America's future.