Amateur Day

Today is the day we celebrate the Feast of St. Patrick, honoring his miraculous act of driving the snakes out of Ireland. Looks like he got all fossil evidence of them as well. THERE WERE NEVER SNAKES IN IRELAND!!!

Ok, fine, so it's a celebration of Irish culture. For everyone. Who isn't Irish. I hate this day and I am Irish.

It's almost 7:30 in the morning, and I've spent the last hour driving. Which was cool, up until the last 20 minutes when I got near to home and had to change my radio station over to a Philly one. There's three people talking about green, and being lucky, and trying to do an Irish accent. I guess it's ok to mock my culture. People tell me it's not a mockery and I say, fucker, take off the damn plastic shamrock necklace, put down the green beer you got in a Chili's fucking southwest restaurant and go the fuck home! And don't give me that "but everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day" bullshit. If I said everyone was black on Kwanzaa I'd get shot. If you're not Irish 365 days a year (366 this year), then you're not fucking Irish and no amount of "cultural appreciation" is going to get you there. And how many of these assholes actually know what Irish culture is? Ever read any Jonathan Swift? Listened to Aine Mogue lately? About when was the potato famine? What does Black Irish mean? What does IRA stand for? What's a Hibernian?

Yeah, that's what I thought, asshole. Sit down, shut up, and take off that fucking foam leprechaun hat.

Platypus

In Other News

People keep tellling me about how other people talk shit about me. I ignore much of it, but occasionally I hear something so ridiculous I have to react.

There's a trend at Mystic Realms of warning new people to stay away from me. Why is this? It's not like these are noble people trying to protect the noobs from some great evil. It's me. I'm a person. Not a whole lot of awful I can do, really. And if I am so bad, wouldn't people be able to figure that out on their own? Do they really need other people to help them see an asshole? Or is it that the more people actually bother to get to know me, the more they find out that I'm not a horrible person. Opinionated, yes. Bitter, yes, but less than I was and I keep working at it. Emotional, hell yes. And it's something I love about myself. Sarcastic, sure. And joke you if you can't take a fuck. I mean...

So far I've been given one name associated with this crap. And it's someone who's nice as pie to my face. But I've known she was like that for years, so I'm not surprised. I'm never surprised by some people. I'm willing to bet, though, that the majority of people who have something nasty to say about me have either never gotten to know me, or only knew me at a really low point in my life. Say, from 2000-2003.

Honestly, I don't much care anymore what people say about me. It just astounds me that adults would try to prevent other adults from making their own decisions. Am I that much of a threat? Why? Or is this just another repercussion of living in a country where our government is trying to ensure that we all get into heaven, so it's banning things that (some closed-minded) Christians say are bad for us? If they can do it, why can't the rest of us, right?

Platypus

I had to add this

Which 1990's Subculture Do You Belong To?

[Another Quiz by Kris
@ couplandesque.net]

It's quiz day, apparently

You are Brandi Svenning.

You've always been daddy's little girl, but even
you know when the time is right to push him
away and marry the man he hates.

"In the middle of her 700th lap, this embolism
popped in her head and she dropped dead. Right
in mid-backstroke."


Which Kevin Smith character are you (Ultimate Version)?
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Actually...I wouldn't marry someone my family disliked. At least, not my immediate family. Especially not Daddy.

This could go on for hours

How evil are you?

Ha! See? I'm not evil. Why are you all looking at me like that?

(no subject)

Industrial rock! Just like Marilyn Manson, you
know what you have to say and you just say it!
I like you very much...just be careful you
don't scare me away...


What genre of rock are you?
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And now making his second appearance in my journal...Marylin Manson! My mutha would be so proud!

Momentary pain

You are a fire shadow. The feathery glow of your
source makes you spritely and active. You love
to experience many things and you want to take
in the entire world. You are constantly
flickering, darting from one experience to the
next. You have heat, energy, magic, and
charisma and hold the power of beauty and
destruction. However, the dying of your embers
is a corrupting fear. Learn to accept that you
cannot possess so much raw energy
forever.(please rate my quiz cuz it took me for
freaking ever to create)


What Kind of Shadow Are You? (with gorgeous pics)
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This quiz asks some remarkably deep questions. I highly reccommend it, even to people who know quizzes are a waste of time.

(no subject)

You are the chinese element of Fire. People who
are under the element of fire are considerate,
sensitive and communicative. Fire, you are a
conjuror, and you hate boredom, butterfly
emoitions and you also crave excitement. The
color of fire is red and your symbol is the
phoenix. Summer is the season in which fire
shines and it's months are April/May. Your
weather condition is heat. Fire is the
direction south, and your day is Tuesday, while
your planet is Mars. Animals under your
element are usually winged. People under you
are the Hans. Your sense is taste, whereas
your taste is bitter, your sound is laughing
and your virtue is propriety. Your organ is
the heart. You were created by Wood and you
control Metal.


Which of the 5 Chinese Elements Are You?
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Now, by my birthday, my element is Metal. This would indicate that I am in control of myself, but a lot of folks will argue that.