the everyday adventures of sabrina

shut the hell up, perez hilton

11 September 2007 at 07:21 sabrina Comments off

dear popular media outlets and entertainment “journalists”:

you can pick on a lot of things to do with britney spears’ appearance at the mtv video music awards.

you can pick on her hair, which clearly needs some TLC and a pair of scissors.
you can pick on her vacant facial expression in this photo.
you can pick on lip-syncing.
you can pick on tacky costumes.
you can pick on insufficiently practiced dance routines.
you can even pick on the music if you want to pretend to a higher journalistic plane than this.

but you cannot say that she is fat. she’s not. she’s not emaciated, but she’s not fat. she’s not “too heavy,” as your article says. she’s not a slob. her arms are toned, her boobs are not falling out of the bra, she has a defined waist, she has nice thighs, and she has a nice belly. she’s not fat. quit making such a fuss as though she weighs a hundred and eighty pounds and could barely wash off the cheeto-dust from her fingers before going on stage just because you can’t see every rib in her upper chest like hilary swank. britney spears is not fat! you are being ridiculous!

no love,
–s.

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je tue le temps

10 September 2007 at 22:32 sabrina Comments off

so this evening after work i meandered up to 810 N Dearborn and fait l’examen, and now i’ve managed to get myself all registered for classes at the Alliance Française de Chicago. so starting next week, twice a week, i’ll go wear a beret and smoke gauloises and make snooty remarks about the english. and if i’m really lucky, i’ll remember what the hell the imparfait de l’indicatif is used for.

after registering, i walked home, which was not a bad walk at all (about three miles), except for the part where i was wearing cute but very thin-soled ballet flats (which are perfectly comfy so long as your chief activity is wandering around a carpeted office, and not, say, broken sidewalk, for walking over which one might want a shoe with more arch support than a thin piece of suede). also, next time, maybe not so much with the scenic foot tour of cabrini-green.

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well, i’m still not signing up for fucking myspace

9 September 2007 at 18:19 sabrina Comments off

so someone, like, friended, or whatever the appropriate verb is, me on facebook, thus inviting me to sign up, and so, despite having lost my .edu email address possession (cough kinda cough) apparently that’s no longer a restriction, therefore i signed up. (i feel like such a trendwhore. only, given my very lateness to facebook, a really incompetent one….)

i promptly clicked to see who else from my high school graduating class was on there, looked at their profile pictures, and realized we’re all old now, and closed the browser tab with extreme prejudice.

dammit. i can’t be old! i’m hip and with it! i have funny-colored hair! i have a sweet pair of red patent mary janes! i listen to indie rock! i … dammit!

i’m going to sulk over here in the corner and, like, do some retirement planning. stupid kids and their stupid facebook. dammit.

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FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC

4 September 2007 at 21:38 sabrina Comments off

warning: sabrina’s got her cranky pants on today.

this is JUST the news i wanted to hear about vote on the the goddamn mass transit funding bill in the goddamn illinois house.

A plan to raise taxes to help Chicago-area mass transit systems has failed in the Illinois House. …

The plan called for increasing sales taxes in Cook County and the five surrounding “collar” counties. It also would have raised a real estate tax in Chicago.

hey, G-Rod… thanks a lot for withholding your support and repeated insistence that you’d veto, making sure that cook county couldn’t raise its own goddamn sales taxes to fund its own goddamn mass transit, so the whole goddamn state didn’t have to chip in. now, instead of paying an (average) extra $35 per year in taxes, i can pay an extra $150 per year for my transit pass, which will now access far, far fewer buses and much crappier trains. oh, it isn’t fair for the poor drivers to have to pay to support transit they don’t even use… fuck that shit! transit indirectly serves everyone in this whole goddamn region, especially the drivers! every time my car isn’t out there taking up space on the kennedy, that’s your asses being served! every time some teenaged kid schlepps his ass after school from Lane Tech to a White Hen downtown, making seven bucks an hour so you can get your coffee, that’s transit serving your lazy cheap ass! if White Hen has to start paying ten bucks an hour just to get people who are willing to spend four hours on the goddamn el every goddamn day, YOUR CHEAP BAD COFFEE JUST GOT MORE EXPENSIVE, so SUCK IT UP just like how you told us transit riders to suck this up.

i hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon, you goddamn intellectually lazy, selfish, shortsighted fucking morons!

p.s. and for you suburban morons who are all pointing and laughing and saying we deserve to have the cta collapse due to our clear mismanagement:

Without new funding, Metra plans to divert $60 million of its capital budget to fund operations this year, which would reduce the amount the agency can spend on track maintenance and equipment.

hey, diverting capital funds to operations — that always works out well. just look at the CTA! y’all have fun with that!

p.p.s. Hey Los Angeles — enjoy the Olympics! we’ll just catch it on tv. it’s cool… illinois is just rolling in cash, we didn’t need that tax and tourism revenue anyways.

p.p.p.s. rod blagojevich, it’ll be a cold goddamn day in hell before i vote to elect you for so much as Sangamon County Dogcatcher.

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