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I remarked upon a person, a bit ago, eating raisins and drinking grape juice. Does it not occur to you that there's a more direct way to do that? Say, eating a grape? Idk, just seems like a waste of effort on somebody's part (galactic energy, let's say) to separate the juice from the flesh and then eat them both.

Neighbor guy is outside washing off the carport again. At least it's not raining right now (though it's humid enough that it could and you probably wouldn't notice).

Michelle Trachtenberg in next week's TV guide? Really hot. They got a great shot of her in there. I usually just think she's pretty, you know, cutesy; they've got her all up with the smokey eyes and such. I was trying to pull the picture off of the TV guide website, but it's not up yet.

I'm being bitched at to get a job now that volleyball's over (as is school), but all the ones I want aren't working out. The one at the YMCA needed me to be 21 (as do many of even the grocery store positions--you can't do anything but push shopping carts around or bag stuff until you're old because all the stores sell alcohol now), the one at the bank needed money handling experience (which, while I'm good with money, I don't actually have time records backing me up on), the grocery store we shop at (because I figure if I'm going to get a shitty job, might as well get one where I might get a discount my family can use) isn't hiring, etc., etc. Tis frustrating, this.

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IL all this outrage at Obama saying Auschwitz when he meant Buchenwald when he was talking about how his great-uncle was one of the Americans in the army who did the liberating and came back all PTSD'd. A, the man probably just couldn't come up with the name Buchenwald. It's not like that's one you hear all that often. B, along the same lines, if he'd thrown the name Buchenwald out there, how many people do you think would have jumped immediately on the mental bandwagon to concentration camp? Even if he did it on purpose, the point of the story wasn't a history lesson in the family of the great and all-powerful Obama, but to talk about how the issue of dealing with people coming back from the war is one that we've known about forever--hell, I could tell you my own family stories about the Civil War and great-x-whatever grandfather and/or siblings (okay, so I'd probably have to ask my mother's help in telling you the family stories) coming back 6 months late not knowing where they'd been for the missing time, they were so screwed up after it--and even though we know tons more about what the problem is and neuropsychology/biology as a whole, we're still really no closer to fixing the issue because war's a bitch. C, who cares?

But LOL, I could have told you that Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviets. I wish I'd have been there when he said that, because I would have laughed and laughed; Castro mentioned that his supporting Obama would only hurt him in his candidacy because of the whole Communism thing, and here's Obama himself putting one of his relatives squarely on the side of the reds.