razzles aren't all that great

no more classes, no more books... my undergraduate career is drawing to a close. rather unfathomable, no?

i have 3 finals on tuesday. joy!

weird alllll over the place.

a message from Planned Parenthood

"An Indiana mother recently accompanied her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend to one of Indiana's Planned Parenthood clinics, but they unwittingly walked into a so-called "crisis pregnancy center" run by an anti-abortion group, one that shared a parking lot with the real Planned Parenthood clinic and was designed expressly to lure Planned Parenthood patients and deceive them.

The group took down the girl's confidential personal information and told her to come back for her appointment, which they said would be in their "other office" (the real Planned Parenthood office nearby). When she arrived for her appointment, not only did the Planned Parenthood staff have no record of her, but the police were there. The "crisis pregnancy center" had called them, claiming that a minor was being forced to have an abortion against her will.

The "crisis pregnancy center" staff then proceeded to wage a campaign of intimidation and harassment over the following days, showing up at the girl's home and calling her father's workplace. Our clinic director reports that the girl was "scared to death to leave her house." They even went to her school and urged classmates to pressure her not to have an abortion.

The anti-choice movement is setting up these "crisis pregnancy centers" across the country. Some of them have neutral-sounding names and run ads that falsely promise the full range of reproductive health services, but they dispense anti-choice propaganda and intimidation instead. And according to a recent article in The New York Times, there are currently more of these centers in the U.S. than there are actual abortion providers. What's more, these centers have received $60 million in government grants. They're being funded by our tax dollars.

A bill has just been introduced in Congress to stop the fraudulent practices of fake clinics, but it desperately needs more support. Tell your representative to take a stand: anti-choice extremists must not get away with this any longer!

Go to: http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/fakeclinics"

so uh, ya interested in makin' a deal?

10 bux, baby, and it could all be yours
(this is about tshirts, not escorts, mind you. i keep the boy.)

ebay?

i think i'm gonna put some shirts up for sale on ebay. "my cat poops in a box" went over extremely well. if you'd like a shirt, just let me know. i can do whatever color and size you wish.

and if you don't have a cat or dislike cat poop, ha, no worries. i've got more...

there's a reason that felicity got cancelled

so i'm suddenly thinking about grad school. tfa got me thinking about how having a master's in education could be really helpful. i got shot down for tfa ps, which overall, is probably a good thing. jess didn't get it either and i toootally thought she would. who knows what they're looking for, especially when they came after me. whaaatever. stacey and kim got it though, so congrats to them :)

but yeah, with this rejection came the 'wow, you really have no idea what you're doing.' i keep encountering a bunch of nonprofit jobs that sound really cool, but require a master's in public health or something or the sort. i do believe that i'm interested in health education, but i suppose it's all about the benjamins. i'm already way in debt, and i know that this would fall on my shoulders.

of course, part of the allure of this is that i could do it in texas, still be with the boy, and not feel like i was compromising my own goals- all at the saaame time.

this is really hard, though. i don't want to be felicity, but i don't want to lose someone i love arbitrarily or out of sheer pride. oh, & i also don't want to be a grown-up.

booooooo.

"a closer walk"

as FLEFF draws to a close, i wonder what people saw, how many took advantage of its presence, and how did the films and presentations (if at all) change them.

today, i saw a film chronicling the worldwide AIDS epidemic. a film that asks "what kind of people are we?" the following statistics are from that film.

every 8 seconds, someone dies of AIDS. this means that today alone, 10,000 people will die from a preventable disease.

in south africa, today alone, 1,500 people will get that very disease.

already, 1/3 of pregnant women in some parts of africa have AIDS.

800,000 children were born with HIV in 2002; and 5,000,000 children have died since the beginning of the epidemic.

99% of the people in africa with AIDS won't have access to medical care and treatment.

and yet we barely move, we barely acknowledge, we thank god it's not happening to us. and so i ask, who is the us? who is the them?

where is the we?

no one did anything for april fool's day

the repubs want us to join with them on a free speech initiative. kendra says:
: i see their point, i guess i would feel differently if it had come from any other club but them
: well, except like the anime club
: that would just be ridiculous

ohhh anime lovers. will they ever get respect?

april flower bring may flowers...

and graduation

:O

eep!

and in boy town news:
johnny law got cancelled this month.

here are all of the episodes