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Tue, 18 Jan 2005 04:24:53 GMT

Got this from a free Vedic site.

My "personalized" monthly report for January:
Aspect Karma Index Score Comment
Health -53.20 Challenging
Finance -74.92 Challenging
Relationship -75.10 Challenging
Children 1.71 Challenging
Profession -79.57 Challenging

This would be amusing if it wasn't so true right now.

Tue, 11 Jan 2005 05:37:32 GMT

For future reference:
Do not watch Blue Velvet right before going to bed.

I had the most disturbing dreams last night.

Sat, 01 Jan 2005 08:05:50 GMT

Tonight while at dinner, Robert reminded me of a dream I told him about this weekend. Sunday night, while at his mother's house, I dreamed that we ran to a town that was sunken in, with surrounding mountains. Then we got on a train.

Robert said we were going on vacation to a beach resort in Malaysia. In the dream, I remember thinking Malaysia is in the Middle East, there's no beach there. It's a desert [While I do not know much about Malaysia, I do know it's in Southeast Asia]. I wish I could remember more of the dream. I do know I had multiple dreams that night.

While we were discussing it before, I thought it might have to do with him being shipped there. But with the tsunami, it's one strange coincidence.

Tonight, we ate out and then watched fireworks. We both worked today, so we were both too tired to do anything much when arrived home. As I write this, he's passed out on the couch. I guess I should mention the passing of the year. I don't know what 2005 will bring. So far my resolutions are to exercise more, watch more films, write in my journal more often, save more money, and once again to try to be organized.

Where are all the dead animals? Sri Lanka asks

Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:38:43 GMT

Interesting...

COLOMBO, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned -- the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast, but they can't find any dead animals.

Giant waves washed floodwaters up to 3 km (2 miles) inland at Yala National Park in the ravaged southeast, Sri Lanka's biggest wildlife reserve and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards.

"The strange thing is we haven't recorded any dead animals," H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of the national Wildlife Department, told Reuters on Wednesday.

"No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit," he added. "I think animals can sense disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening."

At least 40 tourists, including nine Japanese, were drowned.

The tsunami was triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, which sent waves up to 5-metres (15-feet) high crashing onto Sri Lanka's southern, eastern and northern seaboard, flooding whole towns and villages, destroying hotels and causing widespread destruction

I need a break

Thu, 23 Dec 2004 05:01:08 GMT

One more day, and then I'm "off" for two weeks. At first, I was disappointed that I won't be earning any money during that time, but after these past few days, I need a break. Maybe not a two-week one, but one nonetheless.

If you ever work with kids, take off the week before Winter break. It is hell. I don't know if there is crack in their candy canes, but...ugh. Today, I had a group of girls try to convince me that this other girl was faking a medical condition, when she wasn't. Yeah.

I have high school tomorrow. I'm hoping the older kids are immune to the holiday bug, but I'm not optimistic this holiday season.

What happened

Wed, 22 Dec 2004 03:29:46 GMT

So, I ended up talking to the guidance counselor. At the end of the day, she had me phone CPS and then I made a written report. She asked me for the number on the sheet and then commented that she's dialed it so often, she should know it by heart by now. I was nervous but it wasn't that bad. The guidance counselor told me I was perceptive for noticing his back wasn't touching the chair. She told me I did the right thing and then told me a tale involving a little girl covered in welts the day after her birthday.

I was not positive about the kids name, but I told them I could ID him from a photo. (There's pictures throughout the classroom with names and they have a class photobook), but for some reason, they brought me into the classroom after school was done.

The other teacher was mysteriously absent; she took the afternoon off. I am positive now, she didn't report it. The kids mom is/was a teacher, because the guidance counselor recognized the last name as teaching somewhere else. So perhaps that was the reason.

There's still some doubts in my mind. I'm still hoping it was just an "accident," even though, it isn't natural to throw a five year-old to the floor so hard, he's in pain the next day. I hope I did the right thing. Either way, I won't ever find out what happened.

Sun, 12 Dec 2004 03:33:53 GMT

I watched AMW tonight. The (first?) case about the serial killer seemed kind of interesting. They were asking people to watch out for a guy who quotes folklore. I wish I had caught the beginning of it. Also, it's odd because the deaths happened in Wichita and I was planning on looking up that 'word', because I wanted to make sense of its reference in Happy Campers. I actually was thinking about it earlier today.

Monday, I have my paralegal final. I didn't do so well on the last test, so I really need to study for this one. I'm taking the day off Monday, so I can cram. I hope I do okay on it, although I think I will.

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 00:03:34 GMT

Check out cnn...Bush just got arrested...

Thanksgiving

Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:00:30 GMT

I went to Rob's mother's house for a few days. His mother stayed up till three in the morning cooking and baking for Thanksgiving. She sure did make a lot for four adults and two preschool-age kids and almost all of it was very good. She made four types of breads, apple pie, blueberry pie, blue cheese mashed potatoes, avocado and cucumber salad...etc and they made things I don't eat like leg of lamb and turkey. Rob's sister made a few dishes too. On Friday, when everyone else was working or was in daycare, I had some of the leftovers including the alcohol. I got smashed. I had cognac, burgundy, strawberry-flavored rum and two beers. I watched the Fifth Element and Terminator 2 from their film collection, then I watched Andrei Rublyov, which I had rented. It was nice. Rob was suppose to come back at 2, but he had to work overtime. The sad thing is, he hardly has any hours this week, while (hopefully) I'm going to be working every day this week. I really need the money. Anyway, I better get to bed, so I can wake up early.

Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:46:41 GMT

Today while shopping, someone was whistling off-tune, and they were doing it loud enough that you could hear them from the other side of the store. And they kept doing it! Aaah!

Tue, 16 Nov 2004 04:02:31 GMT

What an absolutely shitty day.

Sun, 14 Nov 2004 18:11:34 GMT

My mom had Rob and me go with her with her democratic group to paint an inner-city school in Baltimore that had paint chirped. Rob and I talked with one girl he knew from a previous class. She was okay, but many of the Democrats there were pretty condescending toward the black community. (Although to be fair, Rob and I had a huge laugh at the Shake-N-Bake Chicken field trip being offered to students with perfect attendance and good behavior) The reason why perhaps: in the hallway there was a giant Bush-Cheney sign hanging up. Although, one small Kerry sign was found in the sink of a history class. Hmm.

Sat, 13 Nov 2004 01:03:33 GMT

Wow...before today, I never knew that it was common for kids to fail/be held back a year for kindergarden...

First Day

Fri, 12 Nov 2004 02:04:26 GMT

I have my first day of work tomorrow as a substitute. Full day of supervising/teaching kindergarten by myself. Wish me luck. I think I'll need it.

Wed, 10 Nov 2004 05:58:34 GMT

Things are going much better now, I seem to be having a string of luck except for the fact that a shipment of various Alice in Wonderland videos never arrived. Grrr. Although, of course things just might be average right now and the shitty week I had last week might have effected my judgment. My family is taking me gambling tomorrow, so I'm hoping this luck stays, however I'm not toohopeful. Of course if Kerry won, I could go to a casino in Maryland (in a few years), but no, I'm going to West Virginia instead.

Only the Rich Need Apply

Fri, 05 Nov 2004 04:22:51 GMT

FOR FUTURE REFERENCE: Immigrants wanting to live and invest in Canada must have a net worth of $662,000 and be ready to put up at least $331,000. Those wishing to start a business must have a net worth of $248,000.

And I probably shouldn't mention that it's hard for the average American to immigrate to most European places and that France will take almost your entire paycheck for taxes....

And why do people keep mentioning they want to move to European countries that have religious climates just as bad as here, Europe isn't one homogeneous blob. And why doesn't anyone ever mention Mexico? That's where I would go if I had to leave.

Thu, 04 Nov 2004 04:21:41 GMT

How Maryland went, County by County

Wed, 03 Nov 2004 06:12:17 GMT

Bored, so I decided to take another look at Bush and Kerry's natal charts by looking specifically at their transits.

Jupiter sextile Ascendant tells Kerry that he needs to hold onto past contacts and pluto opposing saturn warns of losses and suppressed emotions. Yeah, he has Jupiter in the tenth, but that just means that this is a time of his life that he will never forget, not that he will win. I doubt Kerry's going to pull through.

As for Bush, his transits are a lot more "interesting." With Jupiter squaring his Sun and conjuncting his moon and natal jupiter, he's going to be feeling like King of the World for the next two months. I don't know how anyone could have predicted a Bush loss without taking those aspects into consideration. For the new year, with Neptune hitting his Moon and Pluto trining his MC, he's going to feel that he needs to make changes for everyone for the "common good," and with Uranus opposing his Mars, he's going to take risks. That Pluto aspect will make him very powerful, drawing people to him and Neptune will let him empathize with others. He will seem like a new person. Perhaps his Saturn return knocked some sense into him, but I would watch out...

I don't see any obvious war aspects for the next year, he's going for a more "ideological war." Putting in Supreme Court Court justices won't be the main issue, he's going to take it to the "people."

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I believe this means trouble for abortion and gay rights. Support for gay marriage statistically is low among Hispanics and even lower among blacks, two typically Democratic groups. (That isn't to say whites aren't all "pro-gay", it's usually split equally in most places, usually by religion. Also, this isn't taking into account that many gay rights "supporters" objectify and patronize gays) Bush's handlers know that the issue isn't enough to pull most of them into the Republican party, but as a referendum, it would be successful. I believe that abortion rights would be next to be attacked. The only key to stopping him would be to hit those two groups but feminist and gay rights groups are too white-centric, that I doubt it would be successful. I've read articles where black homosexuals said they felt used by white gay activists, that they would let them march in their parades, etc... but when it came down to doing the same for them, they could have cared less. If they can't reach them, how can they get the anti-folks? Besides the fact, how do you make someone change their convictions?

Wed, 03 Nov 2004 04:43:21 GMT

My boyfriend is a registered Democrat in a heavily Republican area so his polling place, a few towns over, was a 40 minute drive. Is it common to have to drive a long while to your polling place?

Blah

Tue, 02 Nov 2004 06:02:03 GMT

We did an informal survey in class tonight...most of the people said they aren't going to vote tomorrow (or rather today).

Kerry Draft?

Mon, 01 Nov 2004 20:08:49 GMT

Question: Kerry said that he wants to expand the military by 40,000 soldiers for Iraq, without removing troops from Europe. Also, he wants to make service mandatory for high school students...how is he going to accomplish that without a draft? Is there anywhere where Kerry specifically says that he will NOT issue a draft if he is elected?

Livers

Sat, 30 Oct 2004 05:28:48 GMT

I did my interpretation of a mystery chart a few day ago. I ended it with "Jupiter and Sun Opposing the Ascendant, did this person destroy their liver or what?" It turned out to be Laura Bush's. That gave me a good laugh at one in the morning. If only I had said that the person likes to surround himself/herself with people who are trying to destroy their livers...

Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:24:46 GMT

I have my teaching appointment tomorrow. I'm a bit nervous about that, but I think it will go okay.

Went thrifting today, only drawback is that shopping carts are limited, and the clothes really do start to weigh down after awhile. You would be surprised.

I have not been able to sleep well recently. Stayed up all night last night and now, I'm completely out of it. I really want to find my camera, I had Rob bring it over for me a few days ago, and I have no clue at all where it could be. Hopefully, I'll fall asleep early tonight, but I doubt it.

Canceled class

Mon, 18 Oct 2004 23:03:23 GMT

Guess who's class was canceled at the last minute?

Good news: One more week to work on my brief.

Bad news: It's already done. I'm going to be stuck in a computer lab for three hours; I'm wearing a sweater, and it's like 90 degrees in here.

Sun, 17 Oct 2004 18:38:57 GMT

Writing legal briefs is not fun. It's going to be a long day.