Day 318-- Listomania

Hello, Friday.  

My head is absolutely buzzing which means it's time for my trusty inky pen and some paper for listomania.  I love lists.  I'm not super narcotic about finishing them, but they relieve my tension and organize all my buzzy little thoughts into coordinated columns.  Today's lists:

Things I want to do today:

1.) Go to Target to buy some Spring t-shirts, new bras, and maybe a Padres t-shirt. 

2.) Talk to Jo, though I already hit her voice mail

3.) Possibly see The Lady, a movie about the life of Aung San Suu Kyi in theaters today

4.) Maybe go to a bookstore

5.) Write down things I may want to buy myself on a little shopping spree, including salami, brie, some jam, a new box of Lady Grey tea, maybe a new camera, possible an iPhone before June, and some new candles

6.) Work on my blog post How to Lie to People, or, Comrades in the Service Industry

Things to research today:

1.) Do more research for my Fun Facts About Female Sexuality blog post

2.) Look into ordering my first GRE study book from Amazon

3.) Look into ordering a book about grad schools for communications in the Pacific Northwest

Things I have planned for the future:

1.) Do some adjustments to my Seattle/Portland trip to see the universities in Oregon

2.) See if I can stretch out my Bay Area trip one more day to see Jo and S---.  Hotels don't allow workers to take time off on weekends during the late sping/summer so it's going to be a bitch to do.  I'll try my best.

3.) Buy those San Diego Padres tickets for next weekend

4.) Possible write a review of The Ice Man Cometh

5.) Maybe post an entry for my Homemade Cafe Mocha Recipe

6.) Next meal ideas: I still have buttermilk so maybe another round of biscuits.  Maybe next weekend steak, green beans, and rice crispie treats.

Enjoyable things in the past 24 hours:

1.) Watching Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations in Turkey

2.) Long walk along the coast with the bf discussing woman's reproductive rights.  I view the issue of abortion not so much being an issue of ending life (which, come on, it is) but (1) a matter of reproductive choice and (2) that abortion is the END of the problem, and really we should focus on the BEGINNING of the problem which is availability of birth control and safe sex information.  Let's make each child wanted, for the idea that all pregnancies should led to birth is harmful for those unwanted children.  These children who are unwanted, perhaps from rape or incest, or perhaps in families who can't afford children or have abuse in the household--these children don't have a very high chance of being loved and cared for emotional nor financially, and have higher chances of growing up into the welfare system or prison system.  Children should be wanted for their sake, and for the betterment of society.  

He views abortion as an issue of ownership.  When life is killed by a person the government issues punishment for the person responsible, so where is the responsibility with abortion?  If it's not the mother's choice and not her responsibility of this future child's life and protection (and protection does include well-being) then it implies that the unborn child is the government's responsibility to protect--in other words, that child is government property. And that road of people being owned by the government is a dangerous path.  

3.) Researching all of the women who have ever won the Noble Prize.  44 woman have won the Noble Prize, and 16 women have won the Noble Peace Prize, the youngest winner was last year's Tawakel Karman who is 33 and the first Arab woman to win the prize, and only Madam Currey has won it twice though Françoise Barré-Sinoussi should have won it twice since she helped discover HIV (didn't win) but did win the prize for helping discover the HPV virus with cervical cancer. 

4.) Learning more about Mother Teresa and how she lost faith for a number of years, but will continue on the path of sainthood for her charitable work and evidence of miracles.  So far one miracle has been researched, resulting in her new title Blessed Mother Teresa.  One more miracle is needed for sainthood.

5.) Watching the trailer for the Bob Marley documentary, out on 4/20

6.) Listening to Damian Marley, Nas, and 50 Cent

7.) Rereading the meme Texts from Hillary. Sad it's over, but what a funny tumblr.  Love that Hillz added her own sense of humor of it. 

8.) Eating fried rice from Panda Express with potstickers. Yum!