1) bureaucracy
2) standardized testing (who has two thumbs and decided not to take the SAT or ACT? this girl)

• you are not a number, nor should you be represented by one!

3) mandatory drug testing when I am involved

• which is not to say that I would be in trouble from these drug tests, because I wouldn’t; rather, I resent the implication that I am in some way guilty until proven innocent

4) bad wifi connections
5) people who put “lol i dont read” on their Facebook profiles. READ A BOOK!

happy friday! i’m going to see satc tonight and learn how to play some new songs on my geetar tomorrow. yay!

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copious amounts of cowbell

   

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so this is a rap we made up during office hours.

i challenge you, xangans, to add to it, edit it, film it, drop it with beats, whatev! make something of this.

xanga is the best there ain’t no test 
’cause we up sky high we rise above the rest

we’re rhyming ’cause xanga’s oh so fine
one or two eprops? we’ll give it nine

you gotta post a lot if you wanna be true
so if you ain’t got it, keep posting boo

’cause your myspace is wack and your facebook is crack 
but xanga is back ’cause we bringin sexy back yo

now listen other sites may have stuff like featured
but it’s only on xanga where you really read it

blue orange red yellow and green
’cause you know where you’re at when that’s on your screen

what up homie gs you got natalia here
you forget your password don’t shed a tear
just drop me a line and i’ll get back fast
but if you mess with me i’ll ban your WOOOOOOOOOOO

now we got eugenia from the 352
on fridays you can see her in her orange and blue
’cause she takes care of the office just like our mama
and she never puts up with the xanga drama

if you ever need a change up yer username// better come to me, cuz that’s my game

[you have to yell out butter at some point]

step off the welcome wagon don’t worry ’bout gangstas
’cause we got your back, we your crew of xangstas

if you need a theologian go to dan’s cafe
’cause he only asks questions, got nothin’ to say

p.s. you get bonus points for rhyming “eprop” with anything but “treetop” or “bebop”

POST-IDOL CHAT HERE!

10 (maybe 10:30, depending on who I call afterward) until whenever we get tired of talking

BE THERE!
…i mean here!

“hey…”

No TV show has ever made me freak out in that way before. My heart was in my throat for the entire last ten minutes of the episode.

AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

grande doubleshots on ice are delicious!

they never look as good as they do in that picture, though. quelle dommage.

Halloween 1990: Melania (bird), Mom (mom), Kat (Super…girl?), Natalia (“Ariel from when she was a bride at the end of the movie but not just a regular bride or just Ariel because bride dresses do not stay dry in the sea”)

Thank you, Mom, for always tolerating my pop culture neuroticisms.

seriously, you guys, my mom is awesome. i could go into much more detail but you can just read it all in my book someday.

P.S. she and my dad spawned four bloggers (and one to-be-blogger once he turns 13 – hi COPPA!).

subhed: Why I’m Glad I’m A Loyal Xangan
subsubhed: I Hope My Legacy Will Include More Than My Favorite Quotes and Wall-to-Wall Conversations

Last year at OU, I lived across the soccer fields from a big apartment complex that held a couple hundred people. Last weekend, two people died unexpectedly in that complex. And, of course, the first response by the reporter was to look for them on Facebook. If you check out that article, you’ll see that the two people were reduced to a laundry list of what they’d posted on their profiles:

“He also loved movies. He wrote that the Die Hard series, Edward Scissorhands and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective were some of his favorites. Star Wars, he wrote, wasn’t too bad, either. And he apparently couldn’t get enough of the National Geographic Channel.”

“You had such a great spirit and always made me laugh. I will miss you, one woman wrote [on the girl's wall]“.

Sorry, what?

The NYTimes published a lovely article last October about how many users don’t use the site in a serious way and post information jokingly. To take information like that seriously is simply sloppy, careless journalism.

Let’s see what would happen if I suddenly perished:

“Natalia was excited about carrying around bottles of water because New York summer was on its way for the late commuter. The Hours was one of her favorite books, she said, but she vastly preferred the last five pages to the rest of the novel. She is survived by her apparent wife, an Ohio woman, and had, at one point, cited her religion as ‘cupcakes’.”

“Deez nutz,” her sister wrote to her. “I love New Yoooooooooooooork!” a friend wrote on her wall. “And tacos.”

I suppose what I’m trying to say is that a) your Facebook profile should not be a final representation of who you were as a person and b) I’m glad I’ll have something to show for my life when all is said and done (ugh, cliches). If something should happen to me, please direct all news outlets to my Xanga, lest anyone really believe that I pray to a cupcake goddess nightly and my wall-to-wall discussions with siblings are anything worth taking seriously.