Trippy Sneakers

I was reading an article in The New York Times, talking about how Reebok has made these new sneakers called EasyTone, which will make your legs and ass muscles better toned than regular walking shoes. The way they do this is by using muscle-activating shoes that are "engineered to create a sense of instability."

"Design elements like curved soles and Reebok’s 'balance pods' are said to force the wearer to engage stabilizing muscles further, resulting in additional toning for calf, hamstring and gluteal muscles."


Okay...I'll admit it. When I saw the title: "New Athletic Shoes Offer a Workout in Just the Wearing," I was interested. After reading the article..yeeah not so much. I'm already a big klutz. I trip and fall when there's nothing to trip and fall over. I don't need these shoes, which probably cost a lot and probably wouldn't wear because I'm used to non-sneakers now, to give me a sense of "instability" so I fall on my ass even more...unless I would be able to sue them or something for it. Then maybe I'd buy a pair. Why the hell would I pay a corporation, who's already ripping me off, more money to give me a pair of shoes that will make me seem MORE of a klutz? No thank you very much. I'd like to see someone play a sport with these retarded sneakers, flailing their arms around as they trip and fall while trying to hit a ball. Maybe then I'd watch sports. Maybe.

Late Night Talking

As you might have guessed, this nightly hysteria is all in due to my procrastinating self. I am actually working now, funnily enough; maybe it's because this is the final week of classes and I can afford to fuck this shit up haha. Let's just list the crap that I have to do left:
1. copy 12 more overdue cell biology labs from friend
2. make a power point for cell biology on cellular episodes associated with pancreatic cancer
3. write the nobel peace prize essay on ribosomes
4. write overdue paper for american novel course
5. rewrite first paper for american novel course
6. rewrite second paper for american novel course
7. write answers to response questions for american novel course
8. write paper on women being puppets and medals for men (ren. drama course)
9. rewrite paper on how women are stupid, manipulative, etc. (ren. drama course)
10. write a play based on sex and prudence for ren. drama
11. read all works from the semester for regional literature for final
12. go over endo notes with others so I don't actually fail the course (I'm not joking with that last part ~_~)
13. learn cell biology for future purposes (the final is a joke and the professor doesn't really teach much; the curriculum is honestly for 9th graders)

I think this list is pretty good; the first 3 are due on the 7th of course ^_^

Speaking of lists, I'd like to take the time to thank a couple of people in chronological order:
1. Gloria
2. Zingkanaat
3. Nick
4. Diane
5. Mother
6. Father

^_^

:D

I love my webcam now :D

Things that annoy me

1. Obvious white hairs on a person with black hair. It makes me want to yank them, even if its on someone else other than me.
2. People who are sick that are sitting near me and being distruptive in class. Gawd, hold your damn coughs in, you losers.
3. People who snort because they're sick, nerds, or lame.
4. People who laugh while looking at something (i.e. computer) while in a room (with computers) where the level of sound is pretty low.
5. People who blow their nose too many times in the same tissue.
6. People who pick their nose or teeth in public
7. This girl whos sitting next to me right now doing all of these. (omfg, i am never using that computer. NEVER)
8. People talking in class when the classroom is relatively quiet, acting as if no one can hear them.
9. Girls laughing like hyenas.
10. Girls using the words "like" and "oh my gawd" waay too many times.
11. People sitting in front of the computer, but not really using it when theres other people who want to use the computer (be considerate, lame-os)
12. When my nail breaks and its rough where it was ripped off.
13. People with painted nails, but its chipped or their nail grew and they never took the nail polish off or repainted them.
14. Ankle uggs.
15. When a professor puts up a hw assignment or a room change the day of the class that its due or the room is being changed.
16. Things that should be announced that aren't announced beforehand.
17. People stretching and looking like a monkey.
18. People who don't cover their mouths.
19. People with bad hair.
20. Girls with their pants too low
21. Boys with their pants too low.
22. Seeing other people's underwear when you shouldn't be seeing them (i.e. not in bed.)
23. Girls wearing too tight pants
24. Stupid professors/teachers
25. People who type with only their index fingers really slowly.
26. Mustaches/facial hair on girls
27. Emo-licious people.
28. People who expect you to cry and beg them not to leave when they're about to leave.
29. People not caring when I leave (lol :D)
30. People who caress their keyboards (like the girl next to me)
31. People who look into the computer screen like they're blind when what they're looking at is practically visible from where I'm sitting.
32. This girl sitting next to me.
33. Hair that isn't brushed that should be brushed.
34. People who look like they have germs and still touch everything (like the girl next to me)
35. Sitting next to people who look like they have germs.
36. People who are driving slow moving into your lane in front of you, even though you're sure that they could see that you were going fast, but now you can't because they're in front of you.
37. People driving at or under 60mph
38. People who chew on things that are not meant to be chewed on (i.e. the plastic bag that has tissues. like the girl next to me is chewing on)
39. Pens/pencils that are chewed up at the top
40. People who look like they need to take a shower.
41. People who don't do what I want them to be doing. (lol :D)
42. Ripped jeans.
43. Leggings with a short t-shirt (with their butt hanging out)
44.


more will come. lol

Recent times

Black friday was great; bought 3 vests. First 2 are black and from Guess and H&M. The third one from Express, but it's more of a puffy jacket vest than a regular one. speaking of which, the race distribution was interesting; a few went to H&M and the likes (the cheap places). Then there's the Guess and Express like stores... Koreans, Chinese, and Koreans.

Then it's off to Grand Lux whilst wearing the sexiness. All for Jon, *sigh* rofl.
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Racist comment of the day:

I'm in the car with Diane, and there's a car next to us on a turn only lane trying to go straight. He's black. "Wow, first they can't read english, now they can't read signs"
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Visited the cats today, man they're so cute. Then again, they take after their human dad ^_^

P.S.--I got comments from (a) possible individual(s) about how she/they are jealous of my "curvacious body" lmao

Funny Convo

Yeah, so i had this conversation on msn with a friend, and i found it so amusing that i just had to post it. It started off talking about how Leos and Aquariuses and how they're very compatible...and it led to this:

I'm AngelWings and my friend is - -

- - says:
i've seen one thing that i disagree with
"Aquarius could bring spirituality to Leo’s life."
that will never happen O_O
lol

AngelWings says:
u have brought god and faith into my life ^^
i'm going to go to church every day

- - says:
bleeeeeegh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AngelWings says:
and hate gay people and abortions and liberals

- - says:
*covers self in black makeup and worships satan*

AngelWings says:
and have glow in dark crucifixes hanging all over my room
i'm going to take off these heathen anime wallscrolls and get a big painting of jesus ^^

- - says:
lol
very nice
=P

AngelWings says:
oh oh
and i'm gonna get us matching "I <3 jesus" t-shirts

- - says:
omg

AngelWings says:
with a picture of jesus on there with thumbs up

- - says:
this joke ends now O_O

AngelWings says:
xD

- - says:
lol

AngelWings says:
and then i'm gonna change my email address to "JESUSLOVESYOU@hotmail.com"

- - says:
haha

AngelWings says:
so that everyone will be reminded that jesus loves them too whenever i sign on ^^

- - says:
the very day that happens...

AngelWings says:
and i'm gonna throw away all of my books
and fill it with bibles
but only in english
because god only loves americans
^^

- - says:
the aquarious/leo stuff becomes completely discredited
lol
well..
that's true
we do own
xD

AngelWings says:
lol
and then i'm going to thank you for going to the army because god wants the u.s. to destroy iraq in search of holy oil ^^
which we will use to light the candles upon the alters of GOD
and then the kkk will rise again ^^
*waves american flag*
^^

- - says:
lmao
cute
very cute

AngelWings says:
^.^

- - says:
y'know, i think you know more about these politics than i do

AngelWings says:
thats because god tells it to me through the bible ^^

- - says:
of course
lol
lol, i'm just like...

AngelWings says:
like the commandment that says that you should not hate your neighbor
the iraquis are hating on us because they won't give us their oil and their souls ^^

- - says:
"yeah, i'm in the army now! I'ma be a friggin' Ranger! Solid Snake, bitchessss!!"

AngelWings says:
so we're just helping them realize that god is good ^^
by killing them all ^^

- - says:
lol
omg

AngelWings says:
<3<3<3<3<3<3> love and peace for all ^^








don't hate ^^

Oh Damn T_T

Dat Mai
Arbitrary Lines
Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons is a work that is denounced by many as a bunch of gibberish. It may seem that way, as the combination of words and sentences do not follow the conventions of modern English. The deviance from normal conventions that Stein practices is a means to show to the readers the true ambiguity of language, how words are what we make it to be, how the understanding of language is very highly malleable. By creating a work seemingly devoid of logic, Stein brings her readers to a different realm—a dimension where the senses prevail over common sense. In this way, she recreates an experience akin to where people first learn a language with which there is no comparison and points out man’s instinctual mechanism of attempting to piece everything together to create a proper whole.
Stein expresses these ideas through a variety of ways throughout Tender Buttons. On the micro scale, she plays with the preconceived similarities and differences between words that are embedded in our minds. This is a means for her to slowly loosen the barriers between like or unlike things, depending on one’s point of view. With the boundaries between two words broken down, she uses them interchangeably in sentences, thereby blending words together even further. To ease the extreme transition from what we understand to something almost entirely different, she utilizes a patterned writing scheme to have the passages flow. Under each category in Tender Buttons, there is a range from a sentence to a large passage that attempts to define the subject of interest with the distorted language. These derived uses of words break down the walls of logic and recreate it using what feels right, one of Stein’s intentions with Tender Buttons. On the macro scale, she slowly strings ideas together to create a whole. The creation of cohesive passages and sections in the work can only be attainable through the fitting together of words and ideas. Stein’s decision to separate the passages into different groups, as opposed to just having a book full of uncategorized passages, pushes the idea of an innate necessity of man to have everything they know to fit into a large whole.
Stein breaks down small and seemingly insignificant boundaries between words to ease readers to the eventual mess of words to come. It should not come as a surprise that her first passage of choice, “A Carafe, That is a Blind Glass,” does just that. In this passage, Stein brings two different objects closer together through the focus of similarities between a carafe and a glass while knowing that they are different from each other: “A kind in glass and a cousin, a spectacle and nothing strange…The difference is spreading” (3). A carafe is like a cousin of the glass in that they both serve the same function, and that it is not and oddity next to a glass. This is a prime example of Stein’s method of melding words together; the carafe and glass are no longer different. The bit about the spreading difference is representative of the small inkling of logic that helps us to differentiate between the two. Another instance where Stein makes attempts to place two words into the same category is in her “Roast Beef”: “Why should ancient lambs be goats and young colts and never beef…” (23). She asks for the reason why lambs cannot be beef; after all, they are both cooked and consumed. In our minds, lamb is lamb and beef is beef; those are two different kinds of meat. The difference between lamb and beef just got smaller. A third example of the broken boundaries between words is when Stein describes a chicken as a “pheasant and chicken…” (35). In our minds, a pheasant and a chicken are not the same—one is a game bird and the other is a fame animal. Then why does Stein define a chicken as both? It is quite possible that the similarities she draws from them lead to the claim—both are birds and both are eaten, possibly tasting similarly. This brings us to question ourselves as to whether or not the names and meanings given to everything are appropriate when the things we see as different are actually the same.
The next step above the breaking of boundaries is the mixing of definitions between the mesh of like words. A passage describing a chicken says that it is “alas a dirty word…alas a dirty bird” (35). Chicken as a dirty word is probably a reference to other languages, where the word “chicken” is a slang term for prostitute. She then follows a train of thought where the slang term for chicken and the actual bird are interchangeable, making a chicken a dirty bird. The slang term and actual animal don’t have anything in common, but their meanings are continual since they are one and the same word; at least, that is a probable logic behind this play on words. Another passage where Stein intermingles definitions of words with each other can be found in her “Glazed Glitter”: “There can be breakages in Japanese” (3). Japanese doesn’t break, so what could she be meaning? Japanese people come from Japan and Japan is an Asian country; it is possible to replace it with another one—China would make a plausible substitute for the word. The rewritten sentence would then be read as “there can be breakages in China,” making sense to our ears. The superimposing of definitions of one word onto another, similar one gives Stein more leeway with the chaotic sentences that appear, forcing readers to hold onto something else if not their sense of logic.
When things cease to make sense, people will try to latch onto anything that feels right to them in hopes that the act will bring them closer to the jumble of words if not to the hidden meanings. Stein offers a form of release by following a writing scheme that flows well, akin to poetry. In “Rooms,” Stein makes a point of lying that is seemingly undecipherable, but with poetic motion: “Lying in a conundrum, lying so makes the springs restless, lying so is a reduction, not lying is so arrangeable” (47). Starting from the second time the word lying is mentioned, a repetition in the format is observed; the format seen is in the form of “lying so etc.” The poem like sentence starts and ends highly similar phrases, which offers a sentence like feel where the beginning and ending is important with the middle section being just including information that stems from the beginning. When Stein writes “Vegetables,” she starts off with a pyramid like scheme: “What is cut. What is cut by it. What is cut by it in” (34). The sentences are all fragments that don’t say anything, but it sounds right in some way; the progression from one small fragment to additional words to slowly make it more sensible enables the readers to wait for the moment everything comes together later on. It creates a sense of anticipation that allows readers to get lost in the senses. Stein’s “Milk” contains a line containing the phrase “guessing again and golfing again…” (30). The meaning may be lost on us, but the emphasis on the “g” sound in the alliteration allows for easy acceptance of the phrase. When meaning is no longer a viable choice, an appeal to the senses is the next best thing to man; that way there is comfort to be found in the foreign language.
Even though Stein manipulates the barriers of language, she inevitable falls into the habit of categorizing things despite her attempts at doing the opposite. Why are there three sections labeled “Objects,” “Food,” and “Room?” It is also interesting that each section contains passages whose titles appropriately match the section. What is globally considered to be objects are found in “Objects” and it extends to the other sections as well. Man will innately put things together on a large scale no matter what. Stein’s choice or lack of in creating these walls shows just that. Even with the redefinition of language, it is impossible to let go of the natural sensibilities of man to organize everything.
Stein blends words together and mixes around their meanings to create syntax so farfetched from the norm that all if not most forms of traditional logic would fail to define what is written. With that, Stein brings us back to our raw, instinctual nature by using prose-like structure in her writing to keep us attracted to the coded message in the pages of Tender Buttons. Though indefinable, the categories they fall under show the human inability to completely separate from the idea that certain things “belong to” certain labels. Stein uses these mechanisms to explore a completely new experience for herself and her readers and to point out man’s instinctual need to put things together on some level.