So today I got into my first car accident.
It wasn't serious. Just a bad combination of sudden stops and icy roads. Technically I was the one at fault, though it was just one of those things that couldn't be helped. There was minimal damage to the gal's car that I hit and almost none to my car. In fact, it really wouldn't be a big deal at all if it weren't for one thing: the car I was driving wasn't actually mine.
It was my boss'.
To make matters even worse, two of her kids were with me in the car when it happened.
And just to add icing to this already-overly-frosted cake, my boss is out of town and unreachable for the immediate time being, so she doesn't even know about it yet.
I left a message on her voicemail for her to call me as soon as she got the message, but in all likelyhood, she won't get that message until she's already home and hears about the incident from one of the kids. If there's anything worse than hearing that you're kids got into an accident with your car, which was being driven by the person in charge of taking care of them, it's hearing about it from someone other than said employee first.
Gosh, I am so fired.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
How Cool Is This?
CREATE YOUR DEBUT YA COVER1 – Go to “Fake Name Generator” or click http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/
The name that appears is your author name.
2 – Go to “Random Word Generator” or clickhttp://www.websitestyle.com/parser/randomword.shtml
The word listed under “Random Verb” is your title.
3 – Go to “FlickrCC” or click http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/index.php
Type your title into the search box. The first photo that contains a person is your cover.
4 – Use Photoshop, Picnik, or similar to put it all together. Be sure to crop and/or zoom in.
5 – Post it to your site along with this text.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Vent Session
I can't believe he would do this. Just when I think I've shut him enough out of my life that he can't hurt me anymore, he has to prove me wrong.
All I've wanted for a really long time is this one thing, this one dream that has been getting me through the past five years. It was the perfect plan and I've been working my ass off to make it happen for two straight years now. It would get me the life I wanted, where I wanted it, and who I wanted it with.
It was dependent completely on me. I would raise the money, I would do the dirty work, I would go the distance, and I would be the one to live with the results. It seemed completely fool-proof.
But, in typical Cory fashion, he managed to find the one way that would ruin it all. And he doesn't even realize what he's doing or how impartant this is to me. Which, I guess to be fair, is partly my fault for shutting him out so completely so that he doesn't even know I have plans that he could ruin....
And me, being the good little daughter that I am, will probably never tell him. I'll let him think that everything's fine, because confronting him on it would just make him aware that he can still get to me. It would be tangible evidence that I'm not invulnerable to him.
Is that all that's holding me back from talking to him about it? Pride?
Am I really going to let pride be the thing to keep me from living my dream?
All I've wanted for a really long time is this one thing, this one dream that has been getting me through the past five years. It was the perfect plan and I've been working my ass off to make it happen for two straight years now. It would get me the life I wanted, where I wanted it, and who I wanted it with.
It was dependent completely on me. I would raise the money, I would do the dirty work, I would go the distance, and I would be the one to live with the results. It seemed completely fool-proof.
But, in typical Cory fashion, he managed to find the one way that would ruin it all. And he doesn't even realize what he's doing or how impartant this is to me. Which, I guess to be fair, is partly my fault for shutting him out so completely so that he doesn't even know I have plans that he could ruin....
And me, being the good little daughter that I am, will probably never tell him. I'll let him think that everything's fine, because confronting him on it would just make him aware that he can still get to me. It would be tangible evidence that I'm not invulnerable to him.
Is that all that's holding me back from talking to him about it? Pride?
Am I really going to let pride be the thing to keep me from living my dream?
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Wake Contest
Lisa McMann, the author of the ever-so-fabulous book Wake, has posted a contest that's really not as much of a contest as it is a generous give-away of many fabulous autographed YA books and ARCs.
If you haven't read Wake, here's the official summary:
"For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie's seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime.
She can't tell anybody about what she does -- they'd never believe her, or worse, they'd think she's a freak. So Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with an ability she doesn't want and can't control.
Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche. She is a participant...."
It's been a while since I read the book, but I definitely remember loving it. It was a fairly short read, but in a way that made the book work. The story wasn't so short that you didn't get a feel for the characters and it wasn't too long that the story was dragged out beyond where it was still interesting without being repetitive. The plotline was original and well developed and I would very much recommend it to anyone.
Fade, the next book, comes out in February of '09!
If you haven't read Wake, here's the official summary:
"For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie's seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime.
She can't tell anybody about what she does -- they'd never believe her, or worse, they'd think she's a freak. So Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with an ability she doesn't want and can't control.
Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche. She is a participant...."
It's been a while since I read the book, but I definitely remember loving it. It was a fairly short read, but in a way that made the book work. The story wasn't so short that you didn't get a feel for the characters and it wasn't too long that the story was dragged out beyond where it was still interesting without being repetitive. The plotline was original and well developed and I would very much recommend it to anyone.
Fade, the next book, comes out in February of '09!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Abortion
Everybody argues that abortion isn't really murder because the baby hasn't been born yet. Well, if you have to kill it to get rid of it, then it's murder. Simple as that.
So am I pro-life? Heck yes I am. The only time that I would consider abortion appropriate is if the mother's life is in danger because of the baby, and possibly in cases of rape. But both of those scenarios together still only make up less than 3% of all abortion cases. The other 97% are all pure irresponsibility on the part of the parents.
If you're going to have sex, at least use protection. It greatly reduces your chances of having a kid you don't want growing in your belly. Or in your girlfriend's belly.
Even using protection though, you're still taking a chance that something is going to slip through. So to make it easy on everybody, just don't have sex when you're not in a situation where you would be able to have the kid. Like if you're still in high school or you're not married and wouldn't have a supporting spouse to stick with you through it.
Seriously, it pisses me off every time I think about all those kids that could be living regular lives, but instead were killed in the womb because of human stupidity.
So am I pro-life? Heck yes I am. The only time that I would consider abortion appropriate is if the mother's life is in danger because of the baby, and possibly in cases of rape. But both of those scenarios together still only make up less than 3% of all abortion cases. The other 97% are all pure irresponsibility on the part of the parents.
If you're going to have sex, at least use protection. It greatly reduces your chances of having a kid you don't want growing in your belly. Or in your girlfriend's belly.
Even using protection though, you're still taking a chance that something is going to slip through. So to make it easy on everybody, just don't have sex when you're not in a situation where you would be able to have the kid. Like if you're still in high school or you're not married and wouldn't have a supporting spouse to stick with you through it.
Seriously, it pisses me off every time I think about all those kids that could be living regular lives, but instead were killed in the womb because of human stupidity.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Animal experimentation
Instead of using human subjects for our experimentation, we use the creatures that have a "lower quality of life" than humans. The morality of this has been debated since the beginning and I still can't decide which side I stand on.
On the one hand, the experiments have definitely benefitted us, especially in medical research as well as psychological research. We've developed several new treatments for diseases through genetic research involving animals that were previously thought to be intractable defects. AIDS research is also making progress with the help of our furry friends.
But are the benefits enough to justify it? I mean, it's not like the animals have a say in the matter. Who are we to decide that they should be the ones to die through this experimentation when they get little to no benefit from it in the end? All these diseases that animal experimentation is helping us find treatments for are human diseases. We're the ones with the problems, so we shouldn't drag every other life form on the planet into it. They've done nothing to us and we should return the favor.
The main argument that justifies using animals for experimenting is that animals have a lower quality of life than humans. I would agree with this to an extent. But then there are the severely mentally subnormal humans and anencephalic infants (infants born without a brain) that would arguably have an even lower quality of life than most animals. Yet it's still generally considered immoral to test on these people. Why is that? Is it because they have human parents? Is it our own inability to accept one of our own as less than a monkey?
Which brings up another question. How do you define the quality of life? What gives one species a higher quality of life than another? And if you go for the whole evolution theory, then really the only thing that separates us from them is a few random mutations in the DNA.
So I think I disagree with most animal experimentation, but at the same time I'm not sure I'm entirely willing to give up all the medical benefits it gives us. Any thoughts?
On the one hand, the experiments have definitely benefitted us, especially in medical research as well as psychological research. We've developed several new treatments for diseases through genetic research involving animals that were previously thought to be intractable defects. AIDS research is also making progress with the help of our furry friends.
But are the benefits enough to justify it? I mean, it's not like the animals have a say in the matter. Who are we to decide that they should be the ones to die through this experimentation when they get little to no benefit from it in the end? All these diseases that animal experimentation is helping us find treatments for are human diseases. We're the ones with the problems, so we shouldn't drag every other life form on the planet into it. They've done nothing to us and we should return the favor.
The main argument that justifies using animals for experimenting is that animals have a lower quality of life than humans. I would agree with this to an extent. But then there are the severely mentally subnormal humans and anencephalic infants (infants born without a brain) that would arguably have an even lower quality of life than most animals. Yet it's still generally considered immoral to test on these people. Why is that? Is it because they have human parents? Is it our own inability to accept one of our own as less than a monkey?
Which brings up another question. How do you define the quality of life? What gives one species a higher quality of life than another? And if you go for the whole evolution theory, then really the only thing that separates us from them is a few random mutations in the DNA.
So I think I disagree with most animal experimentation, but at the same time I'm not sure I'm entirely willing to give up all the medical benefits it gives us. Any thoughts?
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Heart transplant
No, not for me. For my car. Or at least, that's what it had better be.
It turns out that my car is finding itself in need of a new catalytic converter (among other things), which I'm told by the mechanic will cost fifteen hundred dollars just to get the part, plus a couple hundred for labor.
Now, I'm not a car expert. I don't even know what a catalytic converter is except that it has something to do with cleaning the air or something. But if I'm paying seventeen hundred for this thing, it had better be the freaking heart of the car.
Now, I seriously doubt that it's the heart because the car still runs. The only reason I even found out that it needed this part replaced was because it failed the emission test. So as long as I don't get pulled over, there shouldn't be a problem, right?
I really hope so. Because have you ever heard of a teenager that has seventeen hundred just on hand?
Unfortunately, I am not an exception.
It turns out that my car is finding itself in need of a new catalytic converter (among other things), which I'm told by the mechanic will cost fifteen hundred dollars just to get the part, plus a couple hundred for labor.
Now, I'm not a car expert. I don't even know what a catalytic converter is except that it has something to do with cleaning the air or something. But if I'm paying seventeen hundred for this thing, it had better be the freaking heart of the car.
Now, I seriously doubt that it's the heart because the car still runs. The only reason I even found out that it needed this part replaced was because it failed the emission test. So as long as I don't get pulled over, there shouldn't be a problem, right?
I really hope so. Because have you ever heard of a teenager that has seventeen hundred just on hand?
Unfortunately, I am not an exception.
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