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Wandering confused lady has a caregiver tonight. Now, if Parkinson's Guy doesn't fall and CHF guy doesn't have concentrator problems, cool!

http://ping.fm/Fdmx4 Sisters On The Fly

Working Poor Happiness is when your co-worker very kindly shares their taco bell with you. :-)

http://ping.fm/Zha96?aid=33051&id=159945489966 Please check these fellows out. Spread the word, or adopt!

http://ping.fm/bP4rB 10 red flags when looking for a cat boarder.

I feel that my "career" is twofold, as a mother and a writer in that order. My job is the night shift caregiver gig. I'm very over it.

"I love my career and my family, but I hate my job and my life."--Step Fletcher (Protagonist, Orson Scott Card's Lost Boys)

I Write Like David Foster Wallace http://ping.fm/aD7VD

I Write Like James Joyce http://ping.fm/5dhpv

Craptastic--I can't believe it's already a quarter to six. Another action packed night of work awaits...damn.

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Could What is on Your Purse Kill You? - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com http://ping.fm/xyyJd

Fifty Ugliest Cars of the Past 50 Years: A Half-Century of Automotive Eyesores - BusinessWeek http://ping.fm/RUTwH

How Antibiotic Resistance Works - Live Science | e! Science News http://ping.fm/Gcklw

Low levels of antibiotics cause multidrug resistance in 'superbugs' | e! Science News http://ping.fm/G4vIN

I wish I was friends with a massage therapist who owed me a favor. Helping unsteady residents off the floor + taking old TV to curb = OUCH!

Cracking The Code | Mark's Daily Apple http://ping.fm/4r9xj

http://ping.fm/dVj8Z Time to target the senate on this!

I officially hate this "lite" version of BOC's "Burning For You" featured in this Lincoln Town Car ad. It is a sign of the the Apocalypse!

I swear some cats understand exactly what you say. I referred to Lafayette as the "little interruption" and he gave the most indignant meow.

Finally had to oust Lafayette from my lap, where he was washing himself. Have to take son over to community college to meet with adviser. :)

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http://ping.fm/cZeFm repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse can surface later.

Cool! Interstellar disaster stuff on "Unfolding Universe."

Animal Anarchy: What Am I? http://ping.fm/xmh5u

Late Night at the Horror Hotel: New Hires at the Horror Hotel?? http://ping.fm/JTIiB

Dear Facebook Sidebar: No, I am NOT going to "like" the "Twilight Saga" no matter how many times you thrust it at me! Now cut it out!

Got another shelf out of the storage room & over to the storage unit, donated my old hockey equipment to the Y, and still so much to do.

I don't have really bad arthritis in my hands, luckily, but all this moving I've been doing has been making the joints quite stiff. Crunchy!

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Horror Blogger's Meme

I am not a horror blogger. My blog being horrible does not make me one. But I love horror and I love memes. So I'm doing this one which was created by Pax Romano of Billy Loves Stu, who is a very cool person and is a horror blogger. His blog is not horrible. He describes his meme thusly:

"a Meme for horror bloggers to complete so that the next time someone stumbles across the electronic journal of a burgeoning Pauline Kael, or Stephen King-wanna-be; the reader might get a better idea of where this bloody blogger is coming from."

Well, I am kind of a Stephen King wannabe. But I am not (I repeat) a horror blogger. I hope no actual horror bloggers take exception to a usurper such as myself enjoying this. For the most part, horror bloggers are cool people. But unfortunately there are some who are elitist snobs who seem to have the attitude that only certain select individuals are good enough to join their amazing secret society. If one of them happens upon this and gets upset because I am not a true horror blogger, too fucking bad. May they not be one of the first to be eaten by Cthulhu when the stars are right.

Everyone knows, after all, that its best to be eaten first.

Here is the meme.

1: In Ten Words or Less, Describe Your Blog:

A steaming pile of crap spewed by a certified psycho.

2: During What Cinematic Era Where you Born?

                                            A: The Classic Horror Era (late 30's to 40's)

                                            B: The Atomic Monster/Nuclear Angst Era (the late 40's through 50's)

                                            C: The Psycho Era ( Early 60's)

                                            D: The Rosemary's Baby Era (Mid to Late 60's)

                                            E: The Exorcism Era (Early to mid 70's)

                                            F: The Halloween Era (Late 70's to Early 80's)

                                            G: The Slasher Era (Mid to late 80's)

                                            H: The Self Referential/Post Modern Era (1990 to 1999) 

 The Rosemary's Baby/Viet Nam era. I was born in 1965.

                                    

3: The Carrie Compatibility Question:

                                           (gay men and straight women - make your choice from section A)

                                           A: Billy Nolan or Tommy Ross, who would you take to the prom?

                                           (straight guys and lesbians - make your choice from section B)

                                           B: Sue Snell or Chris Hargensen, who would you take to the prom?

Tommy Ross. He's a nicer guy.

4: You have been given an ungodly amount of money, and total control of a major motion picture studio - what would your dream Horror project be?

to turn my own writing into film--duh!

5: What horror film "franchise" that others have embraced, left you cold?

Twatlight! 

Need I say more?

6:  Is Michael Bay the Antichrist?

Maybe not the Antichrist but he does seem the antithesis to a movie that is based on anything but a desire to earn money.

7: Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Frankenstein Monster - which one of these classic villains scares you, and why?

The Wolf Man. I'm afraid of big dogs. Seriously.

8: Tell me about a scene from a NON HORROR Film that scares the crap out of you:

At my advanced age, its embarrassing to admit that I'm afraid of being in pitch darkness. I'm also claustrophobic. And I'm afraid of suffocation. The scene in Titanic where Rose and Jack are trying to save that kid and they go below decks and the water is pouring in. I keep thinking how dark it would be if the lights go out, and to be trapped in the tight corridor with the water pouring in--GAAAAHHHH! I am never going on a motherfuckin' boat! Besides, I get seasick.

9: Baby Jane Hudson invites you over to her house for lunch.  What do you bring?

A nice bottle of wine and some GHB to lace it with. Not because I want to molest her, but because while she's whacked out on GHB, I'd rescue Blanche.

10: So, between you and me, do you have any ulterior motives for blogging?  Come, on you can tell me, it will be our little secret, I won't tell a soul. 

Mostly to blow off steam and get out some of the shit that's on my mind that I don't have a therapist for right now. But shamefully, it's also because I'm a very lonely person who tends to be misunderstood and though the hope has mostly died, I feel that somewhere out there, there may just be someone who gets where I'm coming from and would actually want to be my friend. Not just a superficial friend but a real one.

11: What would you have brought to Rosemary Woodhouse's baby shower?

Hoofmaker salve maybe. It's best for man and beast.

12: Godzilla vs The Cloverfield Monster, who wins?

Godzira! Godzira! Godzira!

13: If you found out that Rob Zombie was reading your blog, what would you post in hopes that he read it?

Rob, you rule! Well, I've never seen your films but your music rules. And your artwork rules. If I ever get to make a film, I want you to make the sound track. I love you!

14: What is your favorite NON HORROR FILM, and why?

There are a lot of them, just like there are a lot of horror films. I can't really pick a favorite.

15: If blogging technology did not exist, what would you be doing?

Writing my shitty opinions in a journal and trying to get magazines to publish my shit that wasn't just worthless spewing.

Take that, lab report. I owned you! Well, I won't know for sure until I get the grade, but for the moment, you are owned.

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Enough pharting around figuring out what goddess I am and whether I should smite everyone. I need to make a semi-important call.

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Dear Facebook Sidebar ads: No, I'm not going to "like" your ad for "Sending your kids back to school" no matter how much you put it there!

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Jump on the Anti-Gay Short Bus

The NOM short bus is currently touring the country spreading its homophobic message. Amanda Hess writes about it here.

MissaA said: The bus looks angry…

Psycho says:
@MissaA: That bus also looks stooooopid!
I'm heterosexual and morons like this make me wish I was gay. They're the sort who seem to think you can catch "gay cooties" and "turn queer."
Why heterosexuals would be threatened by gay marriage is completely beyond me.

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Women Don't Attend Concerts for the Music--We Do It For the Groping

 A response to another post by Amanda Hess on the Sexist, in relation to a remark by a loser--I mean, groper. Oh...they're the same thing. 

Here is a selection from the article:

Izzy gropes to teach girls a lesson! “Any girl that goes crowd surfing either wants to be groped or is too fucking stupid to realize that that’s all that’s going to happen and deserves to get groped for her stupidity,” he writes. Here, groping is seen as a punishment for women who have an expectation of personal safety at rock concerts. But which came first—the man who groped the woman, or the woman who was too fucking stupid to realize that the man was going to grope her, forcing him to grope her? The world may never know.

Here is the Psycho Response:

Gropers are losers. Period. No more can be said about them. There is no defense for such creepy, vile behavior.
Regarding going to concerts, wow, I guess I'm naive. Imagine, all this time I thought I was going to have a good time, listen to some music, dance a bit, in my younger day maybe have a toke, as I got older, maybe have a beer. But nooooo. I was, in fact, there because I was asking to be groped. Because a woman can't be a fan of Pantera (Rest in peace, Dimebag Darrell) or AC/DC or whomever. If she is at a concert, she is obviously a slag who is asking for it.

Groping Is Sexual Assault

 A response to a post by Amanda Hess on "The Sexist."

Nobody should be groping anybody who is not a willing participant. Men should not be groping unwilling people, male or female. And women should not feel that they can get a free pass to grope men (or other women.) The laws need to be tougher on this type of sexual assault, it sounds like. Probably a lot of people don't report it out of embarrassment, figuring "it was just a grab, the cops will just laugh at me." But it is a form of sexual assault.
It is a positive thing for women to take some form of self-defense training to give themselves confidence to fend off such attacks.
There was an incident back in my youth where I was talking to a friend while standing on the sidewalk and a man drove up across the street from us, parked his truck, jumped out and started masturbating. We ignored him and he got back into the truck and drove away. This type gets off on people expressing horror or disgust at his actions. Even though it was not as upsetting as being groped against my will (which has happened) it still left me with a "dirty" feeling like I needed to bathe in Clorox while scrubbing the top layer of skin away with a Brillo pad. (No, I did not do this.)
Re: "Rick Magnus" I don't know if you're a misogynist, a troll, or both. But you're certainly a jerk.

A good, healthy breakfast of leftover Chinese food should be just the thing to kick-start the fun of doing a microbiology report!

Will allow self to play silly games AFTER completing lab report. Will have to flog self if self does not get busy soon!

Another 95 degree scorcher ahead. Yuck. Blah. Must remember to turn swamp cooler from vent to cool before temps reach blazing.

Need to work on my last beastly lab report for my microbiology class. There's still another 3 weeks of class but no more reports after this!