Presidential Drag Queens

Mom's friend Rich sent these to me :-)

Colin Powell

Jimmy Carter

John Kerry

Idiot Bush!

Damn the man

Who created cinnamon rolls! McDonalds in
the past year added cinnamonmelts to
their menu and lately I've been ordering
that for breakfast when I'm at Penn Station
going to NJ! Bad idea I know but damn the
cinnamonmelts are GOOD! I will just do
a little more walking ;-)

Yesterday I stopped by Cains place for a
short visit. We watched a show called
America's Most Hated Family! It was
about a church group/cult in Westboro,
Kansas (I think?) that preaches "God
Hates Fags!" and that they rejoice when
soldiers die over in Iraq because it is
"God's Will." Very interesting, tight-knit
group of narrow minded individual who
when confronted with their illogical belief
systems often balk with replies like "I
don't want to talk about it anymore." Or
"that's a silly question." Or even better,
"Any real human being on this earth would
know the bible backwards and forward."
This group isn't even interested in re-
cruiting new members, just interested in
picketing, blaming the Jews for Christ's
death. The church leader/pastor is one
angry man with too much power among
his followers. If you get a chance to catch
this program, I recommend you do because
this group makes the mormons look like
saints!

On a different note, Cain offered to let
Jack and I use his apt for a month. He's
leaving next Tues and returns March 8th.
This is PURR-fect timing! It buys Jack
& me an additional 3 weeks! Now I can
get my deposit back and use it for a new
apt in March/April. Part of me wants to
stay in Manhattan but only if the rent
is affordable and that the apt has SPACE.
Otherwise, it has to be Queens!

Today my Uncle David is having Gall-bladder
surgery. I hope things go by without any
trouble. My uncle David is such a good guy.
When I was little he would play 'Pretend'
with me. I wanted to be Wonder Woman, I
think I made him into Spiderman, I can't
recall the details, only his willingness to
entertain me when I was small and often
easily bored (same holds true today for
my ability to become bored/restless fast-
its the ADD).

This week is the beginning of a new
semester at the school where I student
teach. Its nice because I'm being exposed
to 3 different new classes. Plus my
coorperating teacher is actually using my
suggestion of a reward system for class
room management. With kids you have to
give them an incentive. School is like work.
When we go to work, we get paid or some
kind of reward. I think the same applies
to kids. A reward or possibility of a reward
helps kids to stay focus on a task when
they stray from the intended goal. It really
helped me when I worked at MSD.

Man, its rainy here, makes everything look
so bleak, bah!

Apple Pie never tasted so good!

Last Saturday nite, Szymanksi, Blondie and I all met up for a slice of the awesome sour cream apple walnut pie. I don't even like apple pies but this was DAMN and I mean DAMN good pie! If youre ever in NYC, you must try the Little Pie Company or better yet, order online and have them send you one at home. You'll be glad you did!

Poor Blondie, deal with the education beauracies in order to start her student teaching in LI. She will have to commute 2 hours each way! And she has to jump through so many hoops in order to start. She was very aggravated by this and we let her stew.

Later Blondie headed home and we went to visit Cain. We were gonna play pool but time escaped us. It was good to see him. He offered me some good advice. Later I met Szymanski's friend Asha and Robyn. I just loved Robyn. She is one cool lady. She lives in NJ, works fulltime and takes classes part time. She has a girlfriend and two cats. One cat is deaf-blind and the other one I think is just deaf. Robyn is so vivacious that I was glued to everything she had to say! I hope our path cross again down the road.

Yesterday I puttered around 125th st, brought a new winter hat, I think I lost mine a few weeks ago. The same goes for my gloves. Picked up a few other items and came home. Made Jack and me fried chicken with cheddar cheese shells, yummy. We also watched the movie Zathura. What a great movie! It kicks Jumanji's ass! Way better, a lot of fun!

As for moving, its still up in the air if Jack and I will stay at my apt for one more month or move out Feb 15th? We have to decide soon. Right now tho, it's a new work week, I'm ready for it!

Jesse L Martin

Whee!
I forgot to mentioned yesterday that they were filming right on the corner of the street where I live. Szymanski dragged me over to see the set and surprise surprise, it was Law and Order's Jesse L. Martin a.k.a. Detective Green being filmed on the corner of 124th and Broadway. How cool is that? Ironically the director was the same guy from the L&O CI that I was an extra for. He always seems to wear a bright orange winter coat.

Today was my first day back to teaching undergrads, unfortunately I was in the wrong classroom, and spent 15 minutes trying to find my students. When I finally did, the classroom I was assigned to does not have any type of media console or LCD Projector which made my powerpoint useless. It seems to be the 1st day of class "curse." But anyways it was great to see so many familar faces. I have 4 to 6 new students as well.

As you know, Heath Ledger died yesterday, possible suicide? They have made a final ruling on the cause of death. Its a shame because he was so young! How could someone that famous and good looking feel so alone that they have no other choice? Although maybe it was an accidently overdose??

1 reason why I love UPToWN

This afternoon Szymanski and I hit a dollar
store in Northern Harlem and we spotted
this guy here, the newest spokesperson
4 Scots Toilet Paper!
A lot of the stores off of Broadway
have cats that greet the consumers.
I love NY!

A case of the NASTIES!

Hmph! This morning on my way to
Penn Station from my apt, I boarded
the 1 train which was packed like sardines
in a tin can. Then at 96th st, I got off to
switch to the 2/3 train (express) and ofc
it was just as packed but I saw an opening
in one of the cars and boarded. Meanwhile
a dipshit guy was standing by the entrance
of the train and was standing in a way
that blocked me unnecessarily, sorta puffed himself up. I moved in
anyways because
people have to make room for other people.
He had the nerve, the nerve! To elbow me
into my chest directly! Ooooh no he didn't!
But he did. And I told him quite loudly
don't you EVER elbow me in the chest
again. Then he tried to play the "angry
black man" muttering, saying nasty things
to me while reading his newspaper (which
was actually in this other ladys face
because there's NO ROOM 2 spread ur
arms out to read!- that's just selfish!).
Then I let him have it, told him if he
elbowed me again, I was gonna make sure
I elbowed his FACE! Then I added that if
you want SPACE to read ur newspaper
you take a cab but otherwise SHUT UP!
Funny thing was I didn't even have my
hearing aid on so I never knew what he
said but I knew what he was aiming to
say. Other men on the train started to
intervene and I was able to move away
from him. But I wasn't gonna let him bully
me. I don't care what color you are, you
DON'T elbow a woman in the chest,
period! He's lucky Jack wasn't there or he
wouldve knocked this guy into next week.
Well this week has been going pretty
good. Went back to student teaching and
now I'm headed to NJ for my students
some of them didn't finish their final
exam videos so I'm meeting w/2 of them
today.
My sleeping habits was thrown off
schedule during the break so I'm having
a hard time getting back to my
"working" sleeping schedule. Next week
all of my jobs start back up.
Over the break I realized I've gotten
a major case of the blues. One thing I
hate about depression is, sometimes it
can sneak up on you and you don't even
realize it. I think I mistakened my
depression as just being tired and
overworked. And in some ways that's
true but in other ways I was also
feeling more sensitive than usual. The
past few days I've been feeling more
even, less moody. Its still there but not
as intense.
Also finding out about my friends mother
who passed away only compounded my
depression. Plus I'm currently re-defining
two relationships I have with two
different people. To make it more healthy
all around. I have a bad habit of trying to
please everyone else instead of myself.
Now I'm trying to strike a balance that
works for me and my relationships. I think sometimes I forget
relationships like
everything else in life its not static
but rather fluid, evolving, changing. Its
just hard for me to figure out how to go
about re-defining these 2 important
relationships by doing so in a fashion
that works for me instead of against me.

I have a hard time

Saying goodbye to people who have died.

Recently I learned of an old close friend of
mine, who's Mother died Dec 3rd. I admit I'm
very sad she died before I got to see her. I
let the years go by, and always chalked up
to money limitations in why I didn't visit
my dear friend & her family. In HS her Mother
when I stayed at her home. Stayed up late
at night, both of us insomanics, talking
as one kindred spirit to the other. She had
a warm reassuring southern voice and charm
that made you want to lean in further to
soak up more. She was a true Lady and
I'm gonna miss her, especially if I go back
down 4 a visit. Which I so badly want 2 do.
Its gonna be hard. I've been there several
times over the years. I still know the 1st
floor of the house layout, room for room.

So in other news, I've been packing up. I
figure now is better than later when my
schedule is more hetic.

Still mulling over thesis ideas. Tmw will meet Blondie 2 have her show
me one of Columbia U library where she found articles for one of her
research papers.

Jigsaw Puzzles

Since I can remember I've always been a fan of jigsaw puzzles. At the house I grew up in, jigsaw puzzles often would begin in the kitchen or dining room. Which usually led it to be moved onto a fold out card table. The card table would be placed stragetically in the living room so people could work on it over time.

Over the recent break in PA, I brought a cheapie 550 piece jigsaw puzzle of the solar system. Which Jack joked that it looks like "the Solar System during rush hour" because of the placements of the planets, as well as their sizes, adding distortion of what the picture was. Basically instead of the typical paper print, it had the kind of hologram, with the lines. Kinda like on those cheap pins that look like margarita glasses that you get free from a bar or spring break event. The same kind of texture and effect was this puzzle surface. Sometimes it didnt help me because I couldn't see the colors effectively. But no matter, I worked on it for about 5 days here and there. Finished it on NYE. It was nice doing one.

So while I'm taking a break from researching possible thesis ideas, I decided to google "jigsaw puzzles' and what I came across was fascinating to me :)

Jigsaw invention is credited [from wikipedia] "to John Spilsbury, a London mapmaker and engraver, is credited with commercialising jigsaw puzzles around 1760[1]." It started out as wooden based and usually for children. Not until the Depression did jigsaw popularity sky rocketted. Check out "Who Does Jigsaws Puzzles?" from jigsaw-puzzle.org. I'm intriqued to learn more about the variety which I didn't know existed. For example a 2-D Globe Puzzle (from Wikipedia)- Another type of jigsaw puzzle, a kind of cross between 2-D and 3-D puzzles, is a globe puzzle. Like a 2-D puzzle, a globe puzzle is made of cardboard and forms a single layer. Like a 3-D puzzle, the final form is a three-dimensional shape. Most globe puzzles have designs representing spherical shapes such as the Earth, the Moon, and historical globes of the Earth.

I brought a 2nd puzzle as well before leaving PA. This puzzle is a picture of the famous "Leg Lamp" from the movie A Christmas Story. I didn't bring it with me. Thinking, best to wait till Jack & I move. Butttttt today at Barnes N Nobles I spotted one of the Family Guy. How could I resist?

45+ roommates

(I started this yesterday- and ended up putting it in the draft folder
to finish today)

Well I'm sitting at HSBC, waiting for a copy of the cashiers check I
gave L when I moved in Sept 06. Unfortunately the newest roommate has
created so much stress in my home environment that Jack and I decided to
move out. We're looking for a place in Queens somewhere.

Anyways out of boredom I decided to make a list of roommates ive had
since age 15 at MSSD till now and its well over 45 people. Looking back
I feel the best roommates I had were...

At MSSD (High School)
MaryNance
Neeky
Hildur

During my College days
Sorry

When I worked in MD @ MSD
Mona Lisa from the Pananma

Since moving to NYC, Ricky was the best!

Who I wished I had been a better roommate to would be
Knob, I left her often in a roach infected, falling down apt bc I was so
caught up in my own drama of trying to fix a broken relationship with my
EX! She deserved better.
And to Zee, again due to my own drama, of the breakup with my EX. And I
didn't keep up with the cleaning and care of the apt.. I always felt it
hurt my friendship with Zee and even tho she says she forgave me, it
still bothers me.

Today its about 18 degrees, I'm on my way back to the same HSBC bank
because as usual the system was down. That's the story of their life...
To pick up the documents I need.

I've had a major falling out with Szymanski and I'm not sure it can be
repaired at this point? Ofc I care for her but not at the cost of my own
well being or of Jacks either.

Tmw I will see Blondie, much needed visit to get my mind off of heavier
matters. Sometimes life piles snowballs of stress and lately I feel
slammed by these snowballs. It will pass. It always does.

I'm hoping Blondie and I go to DPHH, I haven't gone in FOREVER! And I'm
not too tired, finally!

I had a weird dream last night that Jack said to me, I want 3 or more
kids. And for some weird reason I gushed back, "me too..." Jesus 3 kids?
Hmm I want to be married 1st b4 having even 1! Maybe its symbolic, that
we both want 3 things in the future, just what they are, I'm not sure?

No New Years resolutions for me. Every day I believe its up to the
individual to be a better person regardless of

A cat can love a rat!