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In between my recording for The Little Death, I had an audition today.... for someone I have dreamed of singing for. This is good... This means things are happening, and I'm heading the right direction..... But what to do when you feel you sang your best, and you just might not be what they're looking for???

EAT LOTS OF TOLL HOUSE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES!!!

Yes, eating your weight in cookies works both for pre and POST audition stress. I highly recommend it. Matt's also been low on the iron lately, so I've been making bacon in the morning, and batches of cheeseburgers at night... In conclusion, I'm a total lard ass. Yay!

But in other seriousness, maybe I should make a new "dream gig" list.... that could be kind of fun, right?

In other news, I made it a point this week to Pimp my Google so to speak. I'm totally sporting a new "homepage theme" - plaid- way springy and chic. I also added labels to my e-mails (and they're color-coded) and even MORE exciting, I finally got around to filtering all those annoying e-mails from i-tunes and Jet Blue and stuff...apparently that's called BACN. Anyways, it's all going into a separate color coded folder bypassing my Inbox. Translation: more time for cookies!

Ok, on to the Melly Meat:

Apparently depressed women tend to have more sex than "happy" women, yay sex for validation!!! Except the data was collected from 107 (really??) women in Australia, and because the top editors of Cosmo are Satan's concubine, they will use this data to shame their readers into thinking that they don't really enjoy sex because it feels good, but because they are depressed, and the only way one could possible feel better about oneself is to buy more expensive shit.....

Check out this new vibe that gets all hot and stuff when you get all ummmm hot and stuff....

This French ad kind of makes me want to NOT shave my legs for a month,"Ladies please use" - fuck you French guy. This article completely embodies sexism in the media. Women subject themselves to heinous amounts of torture in the name of beauty to attain some ridiculous idea of pre-pubsescent hairlessness.. that's all fine if you're into it, but the average dude on the street isn't running off to get his balls waxed, he's just not... So why do we have to accept the natural state of the male (smelly and somewhat hairy) but pretend that we are not hairy, or have ever sweat/farted/shat ever. Equality, bitches.

I usually hate the WaPo, but this article on the F word was actually kind of great.

And speaking of WaPo, Laura Sessions Stepp is at it again...and as much as I'm real glad she's "reclaiming" the kitchen, I kind of wish she'd stay in it and shut the hell up...perhaps close her head in the oven while she's at it.

Also, a great interview via Gizmodo with a guy who created his robot girlfriend/wife?? and hopes to start a new sexuality. It's kind of amazing.... I also completely disagree with this article...perhaps because I'm a Geek Girl, and my computer is totes my other bf. I remember when Matt got his new 'puter for Christmas, and there was one day we spent lounging around in bed with three laptops!!! Most relationships wouldn't be able to bounce back from something like that. We're strictly monogamous with our notebooks now, but man, we were a couple of crazy kids then!


And finally, for really realz now, there was a time in my life that I thought I wanted to be an academic, so I kind of related to this. I read a paper today forwarded by my friend/musical collaborator David T. Little (who has a kick ass blog post out today via the NYC Opera on his soldier songs - READ).... anywhoo, this paper read like any normal academic paper... great thesis... lost of bullshit, head drop, snore snore, until I read this:

The essay you have just seen is completely meaningless and was randomly generated by the Postmodernism Generator. To generate another essay, follow this link. If you liked this particular essay and would like to return to it, follow this link for a bookmarkable page.

If you are in need of a good paper, follow this link. Yay for postmodernism!!!!

Werd