I have not been too keen on updating my blogger, but I have been updating my tumblr.
Look for me here: http://itmustjustbethecolors.tumblr.com/ instead !
Look for me here: http://itmustjustbethecolors.tumblr.com/ instead !
Monday, November 8, 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010
Green Polo Dirty Pants
My favorite bum on Broad St. outside of my office makes my mornings.
He always has the same thuggish ruggish outfit on.. ripped green polo shirt, awfully dirty beigeish off white pants, white high top shoes, and dirty brown baseball cap. I'm not sure what he does with his time other then attempt to sell newspapers and convince me to buy him a cup of coffee. We shared a snickerdoodle cookie the other day, and he seemed so pleased by the taste of sugar. He always gets really excited when I roll up onto the sidewalk on my bike.."YOOOU RODE HER TODAY!" He seems so beaten down and exhausted, beaty eyes, and a broken out face. Little man takes care of my bike everyday. I just want to give him the biggest hug and feed him daily.
^Things I will miss about Columbus. (all the bums know me and take care of my bike)
He always has the same thuggish ruggish outfit on.. ripped green polo shirt, awfully dirty beigeish off white pants, white high top shoes, and dirty brown baseball cap. I'm not sure what he does with his time other then attempt to sell newspapers and convince me to buy him a cup of coffee. We shared a snickerdoodle cookie the other day, and he seemed so pleased by the taste of sugar. He always gets really excited when I roll up onto the sidewalk on my bike.."YOOOU RODE HER TODAY!" He seems so beaten down and exhausted, beaty eyes, and a broken out face. Little man takes care of my bike everyday. I just want to give him the biggest hug and feed him daily.
^Things I will miss about Columbus. (all the bums know me and take care of my bike)
AMEN PRAISE HIM
Love this editorial in the NY Time I came across today:
Xenophobia: Fear-Mongering for American Votes
Published: August 5, 2010
Leading Republicans have gotten chilly toward the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which guarantees citizenship to people born in the United States. Senators Mitch McConnell, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Jeff Sessions and Jon Kyl have been suggesting that the country should take a look at it, re-examine it, think it over, hold hearings. They seem worried that maybe we got something wrong nearly 150 years ago, after fighting the Civil War, freeing enslaved Africans and declaring that they and their descendants were not property or partial persons, but free and full Americans.
As statements of core values go, the 14th Amendment is a keeper. It decreed, belatedly, that citizenship is not a question of race, color, beliefs, wealth, political status or bloodline. It cannot fall prey to political whims or debates over who is worthy to be an American. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” it says, “are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
People like Mr. Sessions, who pride themselves on getting the Constitution just right (on, say, guns), are finding this language too confusing. “I’m not sure exactly what the drafters of the amendment had in mind,” said Mr. Sessions, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, “but I doubt it was that somebody could fly in from Brazil and have a child and fly back home with that child, and that child is forever an American citizen.”
It’s true that air travel was not a big focus in 1868, but this is not about a horde of pregnant jet-setting Brazilians, if, indeed, such a thing even exists. The targets are Mexicans, and the other mostly Spanish-speaking people who are the subjects of a spurious campaign against “anchor babies” — children of illegal immigrants supposedly brought forth to invade and occupy.
Usually alarms about scary foreign infants are made by one-note zealots like Tom Tancredo of Colorado. But it’s a bipartisan temptation. Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, who berated Republicans this week about abandoning their principles over birthright citizenship, did so himself in a 1993 bill for which he later apologized.
Thankfully, the Constitution is sturdy. The birthright-deniers will not easily rewrite it or legislate around it. More than a century of jurisprudence stands against their claim that the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” (an exception for diplomats’ children and members of sovereign Indian tribes) also alienates undocumented children.
The proponents of changing the 14th Amendment also would have to acknowledge the big-government colossus that new rules would require, burdening all parents to prove their children’s status. New battalions of attorneys would gain full employment to fight over thousands of newborns rendered stateless each year, an instant, permanent underclass. Then there’s the obsolescence of all those civics texts, old movies, patriotic picture books and red-white-and-blue songs.
The United States has never had a neat, painless way to add newcomers. But our most shameful moments have involved the exclusion of groups, often those that do our hardest labor: Indians, African-Americans, Chinese, Irish, Italians, Catholics, Jews, Poles, Japanese-Americans, Hispanics. America has stood proudest when it dared to stretch the definition of who “we” are.
As a result, this is still the most welcoming country for immigrants. A few politicians chumming for votes in an off-year election cannot be allowed to destroy that.
Xenophobia: Fear-Mongering for American Votes
Published: August 5, 2010
Leading Republicans have gotten chilly toward the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which guarantees citizenship to people born in the United States. Senators Mitch McConnell, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Jeff Sessions and Jon Kyl have been suggesting that the country should take a look at it, re-examine it, think it over, hold hearings. They seem worried that maybe we got something wrong nearly 150 years ago, after fighting the Civil War, freeing enslaved Africans and declaring that they and their descendants were not property or partial persons, but free and full Americans.
As statements of core values go, the 14th Amendment is a keeper. It decreed, belatedly, that citizenship is not a question of race, color, beliefs, wealth, political status or bloodline. It cannot fall prey to political whims or debates over who is worthy to be an American. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” it says, “are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
People like Mr. Sessions, who pride themselves on getting the Constitution just right (on, say, guns), are finding this language too confusing. “I’m not sure exactly what the drafters of the amendment had in mind,” said Mr. Sessions, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, “but I doubt it was that somebody could fly in from Brazil and have a child and fly back home with that child, and that child is forever an American citizen.”
It’s true that air travel was not a big focus in 1868, but this is not about a horde of pregnant jet-setting Brazilians, if, indeed, such a thing even exists. The targets are Mexicans, and the other mostly Spanish-speaking people who are the subjects of a spurious campaign against “anchor babies” — children of illegal immigrants supposedly brought forth to invade and occupy.
Usually alarms about scary foreign infants are made by one-note zealots like Tom Tancredo of Colorado. But it’s a bipartisan temptation. Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, who berated Republicans this week about abandoning their principles over birthright citizenship, did so himself in a 1993 bill for which he later apologized.
Thankfully, the Constitution is sturdy. The birthright-deniers will not easily rewrite it or legislate around it. More than a century of jurisprudence stands against their claim that the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” (an exception for diplomats’ children and members of sovereign Indian tribes) also alienates undocumented children.
The proponents of changing the 14th Amendment also would have to acknowledge the big-government colossus that new rules would require, burdening all parents to prove their children’s status. New battalions of attorneys would gain full employment to fight over thousands of newborns rendered stateless each year, an instant, permanent underclass. Then there’s the obsolescence of all those civics texts, old movies, patriotic picture books and red-white-and-blue songs.
The United States has never had a neat, painless way to add newcomers. But our most shameful moments have involved the exclusion of groups, often those that do our hardest labor: Indians, African-Americans, Chinese, Irish, Italians, Catholics, Jews, Poles, Japanese-Americans, Hispanics. America has stood proudest when it dared to stretch the definition of who “we” are.
As a result, this is still the most welcoming country for immigrants. A few politicians chumming for votes in an off-year election cannot be allowed to destroy that.
Friday, July 30, 2010
Horrible No Good
Very bad day.
And it is only 10:53 am.
Offended one of the most important people in my life for being careless, sensitive, and chatty.
Didn't make it to my 8 am dentist appointment.
Got lost for 30 minutes.
Had to pay for parking.
Found out the tooth I thought I had gotten filled, has not been filled, so I have to rush out of work at noon to have it filled so the Peace Corps can finally dentally clear me.
Losing more work, and more $$.
Feeling super selfish, bitchy, and not myself lately.
Juuuuust hoping this day looks up.
And it is only 10:53 am.
Offended one of the most important people in my life for being careless, sensitive, and chatty.
Didn't make it to my 8 am dentist appointment.
Got lost for 30 minutes.
Had to pay for parking.
Found out the tooth I thought I had gotten filled, has not been filled, so I have to rush out of work at noon to have it filled so the Peace Corps can finally dentally clear me.
Losing more work, and more $$.
Feeling super selfish, bitchy, and not myself lately.
Juuuuust hoping this day looks up.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Blood On The Tracks
The above article can be found here: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/07/23/blood_on_the_tracks
Totally worth browsing through. Beautiful and Haunting.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Boogers
No point thoughts:
Super mega zombie status.
Should probably do work, but blogger sounds more exciting to me at the moment.
Everything bagels and aimlessly walking around in perfect weather with April.
Two pieces of my heart left my leetle home yesterday and I am feeling a bit incomplete knowing that when I get home they won't be waiting for me on my futon.
Working for someone you respect and admire makes such a significant difference then when you work with someone who typically says, "I aint gone none." My boss makes me want to be a better human.
On a health / work out kick starting today. (Right? Right)
August will be complete with: packing, age 23, packing, selling things, packing, reality, packing, new york, english muffin pizzas, adventures in the phat rabbit, packing, going away parties, eating and experiencing all things ohio before my dramatic life change.
Congratualtions to my best friend, nenna for landing the au-pair job she has been searching for! Next up, a work visa. (goot luck!!) So excited for your new experiences, adventures, and stories.
.......Ideas on how I can discretely sleep on the job are welcome.
Super mega zombie status.
Should probably do work, but blogger sounds more exciting to me at the moment.
Everything bagels and aimlessly walking around in perfect weather with April.
Two pieces of my heart left my leetle home yesterday and I am feeling a bit incomplete knowing that when I get home they won't be waiting for me on my futon.
Working for someone you respect and admire makes such a significant difference then when you work with someone who typically says, "I aint gone none." My boss makes me want to be a better human.
On a health / work out kick starting today. (Right? Right)
August will be complete with: packing, age 23, packing, selling things, packing, reality, packing, new york, english muffin pizzas, adventures in the phat rabbit, packing, going away parties, eating and experiencing all things ohio before my dramatic life change.
Congratualtions to my best friend, nenna for landing the au-pair job she has been searching for! Next up, a work visa. (goot luck!!) So excited for your new experiences, adventures, and stories.
.......Ideas on how I can discretely sleep on the job are welcome.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
California, Ohio, and New York
That is going to be my week/weekend. Dave, my best friend from Fullerton, CA and Lisa, my bffl sm 4l (lolz) from Long Island will be in town as of tomorrow. Their presence will improve my quality of life by at least 90%. This is what I do while bored at work:
Thorougly looking forward to english muffin pizzas, giggle-gaggles all through the night, plenty of beer and whiskey, best friend sleepovers, and night time bike rides. This is exactly what I need right now. And a perfect early birthday / going away present.
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