contraceptives in third world countries. [07 Jan 2010|10:18am] schneckerock my brother rented some alien movie called District 9 and chris decided he wanted to see it before it got sent back. I walked in about 20-ish minutes into it. the general setting is that a mother ship gets stalled over a city in south africa, and the government takes the aliens down and sets them up with some shacks to live in as a humanitarian effort. this is 20 years later, and the whole area is a slum because no one really wants anything to do with the aliens. right when I walk in, you see a guy filming a documentary of sorts.. he's a social worker to the aliens, and he's talking about how "we don't want them reproducing" and he goes on to destoy their, um gestational pods (or whatever they are) right there on the film, and right in front of the adult aliens who are likely the parents involved. I found it kind of ironic, taking place in africa, where the same thing is effectively happening to humans. you've got entire populations being oppressed by their own governments, and then outsiders come along and say, hey we've got something for you! nope, not food. birth control! I've been through classes where nobody can figure out why these people are still having babies. I dunno, maybe it's because they don't want their entire population to die out in a generation or less? I mean, as horrible as it may be to watch your kids starve to death, there's probably some hope left somewhere in these people that there will be better times ahead, maybe not for them or their kids, but maybe their kids' kids? I can imagine knowing that 2 out of every 3 kids born will die before reaching adulthood (I made that number up, btw, as an example) might make people want to have more kids, not less. maybe that's just my speculation, but the fact that their governments have been unsuccessful in eradicating them entirely just yet seems to agree with me. 5 comments|post comment

dope up & wait it out [07 Jan 2010|03:01am] corrie soon this cough will go away. 1 comment|post comment

deathfinale [06 Jan 2010|02:25am] corrie i'm back! finishing off the 20 days of death series 4 comments|post comment

Life after school [03 Jan 2010|08:01pm] ithryn germaine linus dietrich ingrid Dad Mom box fox tttttttt fvgffffffffffffffffffffffffffff hhhhhhhhhhhhh n nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn xc mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ahhhhhh bgh nnhg gg g ggg g g g g vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv fffffffffffffffffffff xcz ______ This was written by Germaine while I was away from the computer - the nonsensical part being when the brothers entered the room. Peals of laughter ensued. Now my son is telling me this is a letter to me, and that it's about me "graduating with your letters." He also said he wants to write his sister a letter, "and it'll be called go in the kitchen and eat your food." Life after school! After almost two years of solid 6- to 7-day weeks, working three 12 hour shifts a week and attending school the rest of the days. I've still felt busy still, though, but more busy with the wife and kids. We're cleaning house (something we weren't able to do in the brutality of my final semester), running lots of errands, and doing more arts and crafts and projects. And trying to play four-player Super Mario Wii (I say trying because I'm playing with a two-year-old who drags behind and a four-year-old who charges ahead and makes you get stuck behind walls and die). My wife's homeschooling efforts (hey, I did science with them a couple times!) took an informal Christmas break, so we're starting tomorrow and I'll be able to help. Still, it's extremely nice "only" having work. Gonna start looking at houses, too. This is Linus, with him telling me the words and me telling him the letters: ____ ijk eat your food byebye post comment

but the name is kinda gross. [03 Jan 2010|05:50pm] schneckerock this place just opened up about half an hour away. it's the only place like this in our area, and conveniently located next to trader joes, which we go to all the time anyway :) I don't know that I need anything right now, but I'm gonna go check it out for future reference. actually, I might have talked chris into getting one of these. 1 comment|post comment

[30 Dec 2009|01:15am] porphyria [ music | "Nine in the Afternoon"-Panic! at the Disco ] It's been a long time... 4 comments|post comment

*points at icon* [27 Dec 2009|05:40pm] schneckerock I have used this as my default for a long time on my other journal.... I never knew where it came from, just stole it from another user. well, chris happened upon it at threadless.com. and ordered me the t-shirt! I'm wearing it now :) 6 comments|post comment

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