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yo yo...there's a pizza place that i went to a few times in last month that i haven't been to since high school but it is really great, three boys from italy, in samsondale plaza. the people taht work tehre are all old school italian men. in the city and many pizza joints you see mexican people making the pizza, which bothers me. not that its the mexican people, cuz i have the same problem with the mexican place in nyack that has white teens making the food too. i like it to be authentic, and espeically when name is like "old school ray's italiano pizza from the homeland!"

Hi everyone. How's everyone doing? I'm doing well in New Orleans. Feel free to IM me to talk to me any time. I don't bite.

At Adam's request, I have (poorly) drawn my apartment using my computer. I doubt it's terribly to scale, but it's close I think. Hopefully I can figure out how to post it here. Here goes...

yo yo....so this past week was the hardest thing i ever had to go through, and was something ive been dreading for a while. We had to put simba to sleep this afternoon. Its so weird how quick things can change. Last thursday she was fine, trotting around the backyard and grazing. Then, that night she slipped and fell and couldnt stand back up. She just couldn't get her back legs up under her. The rest of the night she kept walking weird, kind of drifting towards the left, and constantly walking against walls and furniture and knocking things over and standing in corners. My mom and i took her to the hospital in the morning. When we got there she had a seizure, which was terribly scary to watch. The hardest part was just watching her face while seizing. The doctor there referred us to a neurologist in westchester so we took her there and it was discovered she had a large brain tumor on the front right of her brain, which explained her odd behavior the last few weeks(unusual barking). For the next few nights she was barely able to sleep and was on steroids to see if we could reduce the inflammation. we couldnt and her walking got worse. its just so terrible because you can see how she can't understand that she cant get up, so she'll just keep trying. Its not like she's a person and you can tell her to just lie down. she wasnt herself either, she wasnt afraid of the same things this past week. my mom vacuumed and she didnt care. i slept with her everynight cuz the thought of her trying to get up and just sitting there crying all night is just dreadful. i grew up with her and i guess you just feel like they will always be there. it kind of doesn't feel real yet. right now my mom is in the kitchen making my sisters lunch and any other night any minute i would expect to hear her footsteps in the kitchen to watch. the only thing we can be grateful for is that she couldnt have left in a better way...on her bed eating ham and cheese. i'm really going to miss her but i wont let her be forgotten

yo yo...some things that grind my gears

1. Erica Hill. She is a correspondent/sub anchor on AC 360 on cnn. She says about 6 sentences an episode and makes god knows how much. there is so much waste in tv its gut wrenching.

2. the styling of the chevy volt. don't get me wrong, i love the car, i think it will totally change the automotive industry, but the concept version looked about 100x better. the concept looked awesome and the production version pics that just came out make it look like a glorified malibu. yuck

3. going back to news channels, whenever they do that thing where the host of the next show gives a quick little preview of whats on their show next. It's so pointless because whenever their is a major issue they are always repeating the exact same things. For instance, im watching larry king, and anderson cooper said what's going to be on his show next, and its EXACTLY what the whole first half of larry king was about.

yo yo...everytime i see spiderman 3 on tv i get SO mad. it is just such a SHITTY SHITTY movie in SO many ways. the emo-ness, the cornyess, everything. i love venom and was so excited for the movie, and was so dissapointed. i would pretend the movie never came out if they remade spiderman 3. i would let it slide. i just can;t let myself believe that that final product of a 150 million dollar movie actually passed someones approval before being released. i feel like it was edited and then just shipped to theaters without approval by even an invalid. i feel ashamed FOR them

what up. i agree with adam, especially about the climate of political couldn't-give-a-shit in this country. honestly, even the average numbnuts can go on wikipedia and see all the candidates and their views, stacked side by side. use your brain, america.

oh, and karen: i write for cmj now, and for baeble, and on top of that have five very demanding classes including one where i have to scout music on second life for hours, and another where i have a fifteen page short story due in two weeks. on top of that i am still waiting tables, and running mass transit. i don't remember what the word "recreation" means. sorry if i haven't posted at madden lately.

what's new with all of you?

yo yo...ugh so there is another one of those presidential candidate forum. the election is 7 weeks away and they STILL haven;t debated each other yet. instead two pompous nobodys act all big cuz they asking senators stupid cookie cutter questions, that the candidates ramble on and done even answer directly, and there is no one there to call out their shenanigans. too many people are going to make up their minds before they actually start to debate each other, which will be a shame. i'm sure there were many people who voted in primaries who didnt see a debate, so if you dont have them till the end its likely people wont see them. what good is answering questions with no one on the other side?