Why is it that UCLA becomes infinitely helpful AFTER I graduate?

“Trying to eat healthy at McDonald’s is like taking part in a gangbang while trying to stay a virgin.”

I’m really dreary and also a bit devastated, right now, because I can’t believe how many people still question the validity of global climate change. They still question the science behind it, despite the fact that the international community of climate scientists has warned us that anthropogenic climate change is happening. They’re so damn certain that it’s some kind of sinister scheme.

The most common argument I’ve seen lately, aside from “but climate change is natural!” is that global warming is all a ploy to get us poor victimized consumers to “buy green.” Who the shit ever said buying “green” products was the way to combat warming? Just don’t buy. Don’t waste. Quell your voracious appetite — the solution is not about replacing one type of consumption for another. But it’s so hard to get it past some people’s heads when this destructive mindset is what they’ve been indoctrinated with for so long. Gah, I really need to stay out of Facebook debates, where I’ve been seeing most of this corporatist sponsored trash. The best claim I’ve seen yet: “It’s not beyond human intellect for people to live on Venus.” First of all, fine by me if you go live on Venus, but leave me out. I like my Earth. Second, it may not be beyond human intellect to entertain such fantasies, but it is against physics. Effin’ kids.

I really wanted to go off about this whole topic at work today when someone started scoffing at the idea of warming, saying instead the earth was cooling, based on some new data that the temperature of the oceans is getting lower. But this isn’t the time or place for debate, and straining my relationship with my coworkers is probably not the wisest choice for an employee still on probation.

As for the data on ocean cooling — so what? Thousands of years ago, a sudden melting of glaciers cooled down the oceans, shut down thermohaline circulation and caused the Younger Dryas. Why did the glaciers melt? Warming. No shit? The Younger Dryas has been the go-to argument for climage change naysayers, but you can’t use it against warming yet deny the very same processes that put it into effect when the evidence becomes inconvenient.

So fuck you. Everyone who, in the face of all the facts and evidence and science, still refuses to accept reality. Just so you can justify your wasteful habits. Shame on you.

If you have a problem with anything I’m saying here, let me know. Then let’s meet in person and discuss the issue thoroughly, using facts and science, leaving politics out of it.

They just wanted to post a story that said ‘fag.’

http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=britmarathon030508&prov=reuters&type=lgns

So I like google searching everyone’s contact information. This way I know if maybe something is out of place, and on rare occasion, I’ll get to see what the people I’m talking to look like. I just got off the phone with someone who does public relations for her company, but according to a google search, she’s also a jazz singer. How cool is that?

Which brings me to a personal point: I’ve been seriously wanting to do something like that — something meaningful outside of work, whether it be public service, physical fitness, or artistic expression. I’m working on one of the three but even with that I’ve been lagging the last two weeks. I think I might start watercolors and get back into playing the guitar. It’d also be nice if one of the legal aid foundations I contacted to decides they want me.

“But don’t forget that most men without property would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich, than face the reality of being poor. “

I don’t recall if I ever posted about the upper div political philosophy class I took last year, but if I haven’t said this already: I love love love love love my professor. She’s seriously one of the most intelligent people I’ve ever met, yet is also incredibly down-to-earth and friendly. Just this morning I e-mailed her asking if she would be open to discussing the possibility of writing me a letter and she said yes, for me just to come to her when I have all my materials together. Not only that, but the response was unbelievably fast. Ahh, thank you. The work day has become so much more bearable. This good news follows a depressing past two days wherein I unsuccessfully tried to reach my writing professor by phone, leaving him a message and a an e-mail and getting no response. I hope he simply hasn’t checked yet. I plan on bugging him just one more time before moving on to someone else. I really should have gotten to know more teachers.