cause there aint no loans for sitting yo ass at home

icegreen @ 2009-12-28T20:35:00

2009-12-29T01:35:31Z

Earmarks in Obama’s 2009 budget
Obama is tone deaf to earmarks.. our tax dollars..

$1,049,000 for control of Mormon Crickets in Utah
$200,000 to fund tattoo removal clinic in California
$190,000 for the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Wyoming
$2,673,000 for the Wood Education and Research Center
$300,000 to promote women’s sports in Boston
$206,000 to promote “wool research”
$2,192,000 for the Center for Grape Genetics, Geneva, NY
$1,791,000 to Swine Odor & Manure Management Research, Iowa
$45,000 for weed removal in Berkshire, MA
$469,000 for a fruit fly facility in Hawaii
$800,000 for oyster rehabilitation in Michigan
$4,545,000 for wood utilization research in Michigan
$75,000 to create a “totally teen zone” for teens in Albany, Georgia
$300,000 for research on migrating loons
$900,000 for Chicago planetarium pushed by Rahm Emanuel
$190,000 to buy trolleys in Puerto Rico
$380,000 for lighthouse renovation in Maine
$7,800,000 for sea turtle research in Hawaii
$2,600,000 to monitor the population of Hawaii Monk Seals
$1,500,000 for research on pelagic fisheries in Hawaii
$650,000 for beaver research and management in Mississippi and North Carolina
$1,700,000 for a honey bee factory in the Rio Grande Valley

icegreen @ 2009-12-28T12:59:00

2009-12-28T17:59:40Z

Letters to the Editor – Democrat and Chronicle
December 13, 2009

Money can’t solve schools

With the latest release of U.S. News and World Report rankings of high schools it becomes sadly clear to New Yorkers that in one of the highest taxed states, something is awry. We know we have always paid high taxes in New York, but we generally believe that our educational systems are the best in the land and that other services are also better. This is not true.

In looking at the top 25 lists of high schools, only two are from New York and those are in New York City. Florida, which is a state always associated with low taxes and bad educational system, has three on the list.

I think the message is that throwing money at the problem is not the answer – a position much different than N.Y. school administrators or teachers would take.

Chandra Jefferson, Rochester, N.Y.

icegreen @ 2009-12-27T16:30:00

2009-12-27T21:30:18Z

NAUGHTY, BUT STILL NICE: Just in time for Christmas: the world's first-ever "green technology sex toy". The 70-euro (US$100), 8-inch "Earth Angel" vibrator doesn't use polluting disposable batteries, but is rather a wind-up, recycled unit designed to be environmentally friendly. "You just flip out the handle, grab a hold of it there, and you just wind it," said Janice O'Connor, co-founder of Ireland-based Caden Enterprises. "So for four minutes of doing that, you should generate enough power to give you 30 minutes of full-on, right-to-the top vibrations." (AFP) ...Four minutes of hand cranking generates 30 minutes of vibrations? So what else is new?

icegreen @ 2009-12-01T11:51:00

2009-12-01T19:51:02Z

She says she wants to live in a movie
I say I want someone else to stand behind me
And write it all down
'cause I can't be bothered doing it myself.
And I don't want the responsibility of
proving its importance.

BNL

icegreen @ 2009-12-01T02:41:00

2009-12-01T07:41:12Z

"I know you're confused right now" - Jaime
"What are you?" - Dan
"I'm confused" - Jaime

icegreen @ 2009-10-30T14:44:00

2009-10-30T21:48:24Z

I have come a ridiculously long way in the last 3 years... found it in my e-mail by coincidence. The next three years will be transformative, too.

"i just had sex with zach shafer. it wasnt good. it was a year of trying to nail him my senior year for that. a year ago i was a different creature. all of a sudden, he flips out, and is like, i need to be home, my dads gonna flip out, and he disappeared. a year ago i was so enamored with him. hes fat. disgusts me as well. he had to have been coked up on something. he was supposed to call me beautiful, or something. he didnt."

"a year ago i thought he was the most amazing creature in the universe. he has too much money and time. hes a waste. for some reason, i seem to think i can still spread my legs like a 16 year old whore. im just not that mentality anymore"

"only i dont feel comfortable with monogamy either, ben told me he loved me, and since i have been flipping out in so many directions, tonights stupid episode with zach shaffer being one of them"

"i feel immoral, and dirty, and i am the one who persisted, and zach was the one who resisted. i get a strangely negative feeling when i have sex outside of monogamous relationships, yet i have always pursued the worst feeling in the world"

"im not a normal creature. how did all of this fuckedupedness happen over monogamy? is this even real? do people look at me and think, thats the girl with the problem with monogamy? they have to see a normal creature"

"i dont know what im doing with my life, i have no control over any situation. it doesnt seem to matter. the areas that matter to me- relationships, my weight, school, all three things that could use a little discipline, arent getting any"

"zach put my address in his little acura mapquest thing and he spelled my name wrong. JAMIE blinking on the screen. i didnt bother to correct him. i knew what i was doing. maybe i would hope he wouldn't blow me off as his usual pattern of socializing"

"what is god trying to communicate to me? should i be trying to communicate to him? dear god, i wish i werent such a whore, dear god, please help me find meaningful sex."

icegreen @ 2009-09-29T14:25:00

2009-09-29T18:25:48Z

sometimes i get overly theoretical and don't know if dan and i are meant to be
and i wonder
but damn we make good nasty

icegreen @ 2009-05-10T22:46:00

2009-05-11T02:46:28Z

I am picking a scab. I always liked to pick scabs when I was a kid. And I have never known when to stop.

icegreen @ 2009-04-15T17:02:00

2009-04-15T21:02:51Z

someone just used comquats to describe me.

–adjective
passing the bounds of what is usual or considered proper; unconventional; bizarre.

perfect.

icegreen @ 2009-01-20T18:06:00

2009-01-20T23:06:17Z

"the world is your oyster jaime, you just have to figure out what you want from it."
hioe hioe!

icegreen @ 2009-01-05T00:14:00

2009-01-05T05:31:13Z

my preoccupation with beauty. if i am beautiful enough and thin enough for ryan, then 5 pounds doesnt even matter. i dont love my body any more when i weigh 125 pounds than 130 pounds, i just reap off the vainglory of other people staring at me. but why do i need the affirmation of strangers staring at me if i am content with knowing that ryan cares about me? i should not need this meaningless affirmation if i am content with my worth to him. i dont want to let these issues be because without my weight struggles i would not know how to define myself as a person. my weight has always defined me and taken up much of my time. it is one area which i always want to be discontent in some way. either i am overweight and bloated and disgusting, or average weight and hoping for more loss or wanting to eat more and not gain, or i am underweight and still not satisfied. complete ludacris. i still cant believe that i started recording my weight in the 8th grade. i wasnt even done developing yet and i was trying to control my size. i remember trying out for field hockey and trying to limit my diet to a package of skittles a day. eating them so slowly and then going home to binge. i remember the last pair of childrens pants i bought from old navy and wanting always to fit into them! i wouldnt throw them out for years after i couldnt button them! a size 16 in childrens! how did things become so distorted at such a young age?

I'm going to say it a million times until I get it. What makes me beautiful is not my face. Or my waist. And it isn't what makes other people beautiful, either, while I'm at it.

icegreen @ 2008-07-04T16:33:00

2008-07-04T20:54:31Z

im so glad that when i ran into mike garbato at the hudson wegmans when he was working there, i was in a bathing suit, a long shirt/short dress thing (green), and a green head scarf, with a hello kitty bandaid, looking strung out, dazed, tan, and searching for my prescriptions. and then wandering down the goya aisle, seeing him again, and then once more for ice cream. i was at first embarrassed, and then empowered that he got to see me as one miss jaime lasda, a true ms jaime lasda, not the made up version in a pushup bra, which is also jaime lasda, but it is jaime lasda on behalf of mike garbato jaime lasda. so i am somewhat sarcastic, but ultimately sincere, when i say that i am so glad that i saw him that way.

icegreen @ 2006-04-08T22:06:00

2006-04-09T02:24:05Z

i have begun using mens shaving cream and cologne.
if i must be a manless creature, if i cant smell it next to me at night as i go to bed, i will smell it on me each night as i go to bed.
all of the girl shaving creams are things you can eat- strawberry mouse, chocolate raspberry, whipped butter
i dont need one more thing to eat, people.
other countries die of starvation while americans literally eat themselves to death.
i worry about the size of the fat cells in my body and my representation of health as a direct ratio of how many minutes it takes my heartrate to fall back to resting heartbeat after exercising
and tonight after i was fetus in the bathtub,
i saw my body, 50 years from now, my mind might not be agile and certainly my thighs wont be
50 years from now, i will idolize the capabilities of that my body possessed in my twenties
mrs geer - "your body is completely normal"
me -"yes, but."
and it plays over and over in my mind. my body is completely normal. i have become so terrified of deviating from the norm towards the obesity side that the only way i can feel ordinary is by being superordinary on the other side of deviance.
i greedily accepted a bag of peanut m & ms she offered. delicious revelation.

icegreen @ 2005-03-04T15:20:00

2005-03-04T20:20:24Z

i do not have any groceries in my fridge. kigger left me a stick of butter without my noticing, so it made my fridge feel happy to know it could keep something cool.