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poor amy winehouse

Amy Winehouse is so sad. I think she has a really good voice, and brought a nice revival of older genres, and I think it sucks that she has thrown her life away to drugs. I'm sure she won't live too many more years. I recently read that she might be confined to a wheelchair if she doesn't stop smoking crack, because she has emphysema or something ridiculous like that. She's 24. That's only three years older than me. I hope I don't have emphysema by the time I'm 24, haha.

Last night, Ashley and I were watching some of her latest performances on YouTube where she was high/drunk out of her mind and you could barely understand what she was saying. We even saw one where she did a line of coke in the middle of a performance (she got it from somewhere up her sleeve) and people in the crowd actually cheered. Ashley thinks it's really funny, and I do too to some extent, but I also think it's really sad. I can't believe we applaud performances like that. Like so many other young talents, she really sold out to drugs. We also watched an interview from when she was 19, still had a brain, still had a little body fat, and didn't have that beehive hairdo yet. It's crazy to see how much she has changed.

freaking awesome night

Last night was phenomenal. I went out with my friend Courtney to bars on Franklin Street, and we ended up talking to Bobby Frasor and Tyler Hansbrough for like 15 minutes on two separate occasions like normal human beings! (They are star basketball players, in case you didn't know.) It was so awesome. All of these sluts were throwing themselves at them and buying them drinks, and we kept it classy and just were friendly and fun, and they definitely respected us a lot more for it. I'm sure he enjoyed meeting someone more on his level ;). And, like an hour and a half after we met Bobby for the first time, I said, "You probably forgot my name by now, right?" But he said, "No, Angela, and Courtney." Hahaha! We were shocked and amazed and so excited. Bobby Frasor knows my name. No big deal. I hope we see him out again soon. :)

dinner time at the house

Last night was my night to cook dinner. I made burritos with beef, black beans, corn, salsa, and cheese, and then had "Mexican fiesta rice" on the side. It was a hit and everybody liked it, including me! Haha.

Tonight Ashley is making a pasta salad, which I want to eat RIGHT NOW, but she told me I have to wait until it gets cold in the refrigerator because she just finished it and it's currently hot. Man. I'm hungry. But I can wait, I GUESS. Haha.

I need to put another coat of paint on this little bedside table I'm painting, which I planned on doing tonight, but I think I might just wait until the weekend. I'm tired. And I should finish sanding my desk tonight instead. I'm going to stain it a dark cherry color to match my dresser.

Ok, I'm going to go check on the pasta salad and see if it managed to get cold in like 5 minutes. Haha.

money!

I just picked up my paycheck from my cashier job. I was expecting a pretty big one, because I thought I worked a lot during that pay period, but unfortunately it was smaller than expected. Bummer. This whole paying-rent thing is making saving for Argentina (or even just saving for the school year to come) really hard. But I guess it's only June. I'm sure it will all work out just fine. I guess I just thought I'd be half rich by now since I've been working 6 days a week. Haha. But I really can't complain. I have all of my needs met (and more) and my bank account is slowly growing.

I think I'll definitely have to work a little bit during the school year, but that's ok. It's been nice not doing that and concentrating on my studies these past 3 years, but this semester I'm taking a slightly lighter course load (or so I hope--I'm taking a couple really hard classes like econometrics and a couple easy ones like Italian 101). So anyway, working shouldn't affect my grades too badly.

abs

Earlier this month when my grandmother was visiting from Buffalo, NY, she and my mom and I were sitting around a table looking at the Sunday ads from the newspaper. I was looking at a Target ad when I saw a girl that looked like this posing with an exercise ball:


I asked my mom and grandma, "When you guys were younger, were girls so obsessed with having a nice stomach?" It seems to me that every girl I know is always trying to do crunches and go to the gym and eat less and less in order to have these treasured "ABS."

My mom replied, "We didn't even know girls had abs."

Hahaha. I thought that was so classic. And so true. How many women do you really know who have a stomach like that? Even girls I know who are constantly working out usually don't look like that. I can only think of one girl I know who has defined abs, and that's because she's on the university soccer team and is really active all the time. And why do you think that is?

I think it's because we aren't supposed to look like that. Ashley was telling me that every woman naturally has that patch of fat on their tummy below their belly button to protect their uterus. Makes a lot of sense. Just in case you get bumped around a little, you will still be able to have children. So, it also makes a lot of sense why it is so hard to get rid of, and why women have to literally fight their bodies to get rid of it. It's because we are supposed to have a little fat there.

So, I started thinking, if it's supposed to be there, then I'm not in such a hurry to get rid of it. I'd rather look healthy and not overly muscular.

big brother is watching

Margie and Heath were talking about the RFID "Real IDs" that NC has implemented on our drivers licenses, and which apparently will be on all state licenses very soon. They are so creepy. This sounds way too much like "1984" to me. This 2-D hologram chip on the back of our licenses, which I am looking at in my hand right now, is apparently big enough to hold an encyclopedia set worth of information. It holds all of the information on the front of our licenses, our SSN, picture, and tax information, and I hear they also want to put things like fingerprint data and retina scans on it too. Awesome. (Not.) Basically, now they can track our every move, and a lot of people that commented on articles I read about it expressed a greater concern that the system where the government keeps all of this information could be easily hacked into. Someone wrote that Homeland Security databases have been hacked into over 800 times in the past 2 years. Anyway, read this article about it.

Sadly, I found surprisingly little information about it online. I wish more people were aware of what the government is trying to do here. Well, at least Obama is against this "Real ID Act." I am conservative when it comes to economics, but liberal on most other issues. I'm pretty well split between McCain and Obama when it comes to the issues, but I'm pretty sure Obama's going to win anyway. Maybe he will be against making a national ID.