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 About This Blog A blog about my life, universe, etc. At any given time you might find something endlessly interesting or just me ruminating on something else, which no one (not even myself) finds interesting. That's the way blogs go, I suppose. Anyway, I was eleventh in line, and you weren't. Hah! About Me Name: Sarah Age: 26 Residence: Columbus, OH Religion: LDS Political Score: 5.00/-2.15 Job: Temp @ JPMorgan Chase College: Ohio State University Majors: Political Science, International Studies High School: Home Educated Hobbies: Reading, standing in line for things, writing, research Resume: HotJobs Email: lloannna@gmail.com About My Family My mom is a lawyer in Pickerington; my stepdad and dad are computer guys, and my stepmom (who works with my dad) is an engineer. My sisters are, in order of age, a photographer, an artist, and a person too young to have her own website. My brothers are, in order of age, living up north, and again, a person too young to have a website. At some point soon I'll be collecting links for my aunts, uncle, and cousins. ^_^ Message Services (Please see the notes below the Comment Policy before sending me a message) AIM: lloannna ICQ: 29395930 Yahoo: lloannna My CafePress Designs Even More CafePress Designs Star Wars: Episode 3 Line (Hollywood) My Star Wars Line page   NaNoWriMo 2007: My Novel: Cipere Lumen  NaNoWriMo 2006: My Novel: The Manatee Conspiracy  NaNoWriMo 2005: My Novel: Beyond the Cliffs of Kefira   NaNoWriMo 2004: My Novel: sul Okyar tir taTz'ileea  Worthy Causes Fight the INDUCE Act LDS Foundation - Humanitarian Projects Starlight Children's Foundation    Sponsored Links 
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Thursday, December 06, 2007
Faith in America - the speech Liveblogging the Romney speech, yay. -- President Bush (the first one) looks good for a ninety year old. -- I did not realize that the first Governor Romney was a friend of the Bush family. Apparently he worked on the Points of Light thing. -- Dude, Mitt is going grey. We're turning all our best politicians into old men years before their time, anymore (the crummy ones, who stay corrupt city councilmen, obviously not so much.) -- Everyone likes everyone at this level of politics. I swear it's like watching a fraternity reunion sometimes. -- World War II versus the Baby Boomers. Heh. -- Islam, China, Government Spending, Foreign Oil, and Family Breakdown. I think they must have done polls to determine which five issues to talk about all the time: the message control is tighter than ever this year. -- Woot! Quoting John Adams, yay! -- Dude. Has it really been almost 50 years since Kennedy's speech? -- I just realized that journalists must have had this speech at least an hour ahead of time. The captions are perfect. -- I love this: "A President must serve only the common cause of the people of the United States." Apparently the audience does, too. -- "Some people believe that such a confession will sink my candidacy." -- "These are not bases for criticism, but a test of our tolerance." -- "No candidate should become the spokesman for his faith" is now the MSNBC headline (a second ago it was "I believe in my Mormon faith and endeavor to live by it.") -- A President Romney would be much more pleasant to listen to than President Bush has been. We should have more public speaking classes in this country. -- Apparently Romney feels okay with losing the atheist vote. -- Not to mention the ACLU endorsement. -- "But I will not separate us from the God who gave us Liberty." Dude, it's like they're channeling the Enlightenment. Someone must have been reading a lot of old pamphlets. Especially the Adams party (Madison, Sam Adams, etc.) -- "We believe every single human being is a child of God." -- Again with the quoting of John Adams. -- He's reused Thompson's claim about no other people having sacrificed more lives "for liberty." (it's arguable, though I wish they'd stop saying it.) -- "America must never falter in holding high the banner of freedom." Doesn't want the non-interventionist vote, either. -- MSNBC is using the Adams quote "Freedom and religion endure together or perish alone" as their headline, and attributing it to Romney. Heh. -- He just referenced Anne Hutchinson! And Roger Williams! And Brigham Young! In one paragraph! It's actually... totally appropriate, given the banishment/journey for religious freedom thing. -- "Not as a matter of policy, but as a matter of right." Thank you. -- Ooh, a hit on European secularism. And established religion. -- And hating on jihad-as-violent-conversion. Good. Makes me think he might actually know the difference (it's not always clear with some of the candidates) between that and the word jihad, which means lots of things. -- "We do not insist on a single strain of religion." -- I am SO sure they pulled out the 1765-1800 Adams archives for this. I suppose it's to be expected, the man was governor of Massachusetts, after all. -- "Any believer in religious freedom has a friend and ally in me." -- There should be a moratorium on standing ovations. They make crummy television and are an invitation for candidates to make themselves look stupid. -- Related: I am SO glad Romney doesn't grin like an idiot when he's pleased with something (cf. Les Miles.) MSNBC mostly likes it. Labels: mormon, politics, Presidential race, religion, romney . | 0 comments | Monday, December 03, 2007
2008 Primary Theme Stuff  There are a lot of cute designs on CafePress that directly relate to the Primary theme for 2008 ("I am a child of God," Pslam 82:6.) Some are even in Spanish, which is pretty awesome, if you ask me. Makes me want to make one in Russian. But there's a shortage of designs for boys. The "Soy un nino del Dios" design I linked to above does come in an English version, but that's about it; I tried creating a version of my "I am my father's daughter" design for boys, but it was just too girly for my tastes, and I didn't really know what a "manly" look would be anyway. There are some designs out there which boys might like (you have to wade through the adoption-related ones, though.) But really, it seems like the "Child of God" idea leans towards girly designs. I wonder why that is? I'll probably post specific designs later on this week. It will be fun, I swear. Labels: art, culture, design, LDS, mormon, Primary, religion, teaching . | 0 comments | Saturday, December 01, 2007
I really need a job. Okay, this is just me whining here. Move along if you just don't want to hear it. Because I really need a job. I need a job in the sense of "I had this babysitting gig last month and they paid me $75 and through intrigue and miserly behavior I managed to stretch it out till today when I had to buy conditioner and now I've got quarters." I need a job in the sense of I designed, like, thirty things on CafePress in a week and a half, and practically jumped out of my seat and sang when my commission total rose above $25 (I should get a check in February.) I need a job in the sense of I am now so depressed that looking at my long list of company HR sites to visit makes me want to convert to Catholicism and become the kind of nun who lives in a cloister and makes bead crafts. I've sent resumes and brilliant, agonizingly enthusiastic, I spent half an hour re-reading this to make sure it didn't sound desperate cover letters out by the dozen, and other than two OSU administrators who (likely as not) remember me from my time as a student, I haven't had any response at all. Oh, I forgot the auto you stink email from McGraw-Hill, which came about thirty hours after I hit "submit." I was grateful for that message, by the way. There are jobs which OSU's HR site thinks I'm still up for, which have been in "Application Referred" status since August. The only job I've been offered was an 8-day mail room spot from a temp agency, and I had to turn it down because they required Sunday work. I have the HR websites for the top 40 Columbus employers (yes, Daddy, including all the governments -- even Southwestern City Schools is on there,) as well as Craigslist, CareerBuilder, Monster and Jobster on my daily rounds. I email resumes for legal assistant and student adviser and administrative lackey and pretty much everything else, except for call centers and food service (and those are excluded only because I know I won't last long.) I've started looking at Lansing jobs. I'm considering Salt Lake City. I'm fasting and praying for a job this weekend, and pretending that my self-centered attitude doesn't make me feel guilty. I can't make myself fall asleep at night anymore, and I'm about an inch away from deleting my resume and moving into a cardboard box on High Street out of sheer frustration. Glargh. I really, really, really need a job. Labels: bleh, despair, desperation, future, working . | 1 comments | Tuesday, November 27, 2007
CafePress Madness, Part Three (The Danger Zone) So we started out with my lovely non-political, geeky, happy, writerly, snuggly goodness type designs. Yay. Unless you get offended by made-up swearing or are a Wolverines fan, you're probably not miffed. Then we took a look at my LDS designs. If you are an "OMG Cultist! UR so going to Hell!" type, go away. If you're LDS, you might find them cute (or hideous, whatever,) and the rest of you probably don't care much. Phew. But now we have my authentically make-people-mad-for-the-next-year stuff. Half of which I came up with either because I was annoyed or amused by something I saw somewhere. Word to you folks who are going to send me nasty letters: I don't think any of the Democrats are Satan. I don't think that Hillary is in league with the devil. I do think it's a sad commentary on our political culture that the "Hillary/Satan 08" design, which I came up with on a lark, is my highest-selling logo to date, and it's only been there for 9 days. The Spoiler Free one, which had been king, has been up for over three years now. Sigh. On the other hand, this makes me think there's probably a market for crazy candidate hate out there. Depending on how much more desperate I become, you may soon see nutty anti-SuchandSuch slogans on this post. I mostly think it's funny. I am an (increasingly marginally) pro-Mitt person, though that's always subject to change. With my political designs in particular, I'm often responding to ugliness in what other people have done. I hate, hate, hate a lot of the political designs on CafePress: they use poorly chosen images, they pick nasty fonts, they don't seem to care about readability, and they're often pretty insulting. My conspiracy t-shirt is probably the most direct commentary on what I've seen there. Oh, and I'm totally freaked out about the idea of us going more than thirty years with the same two families occupying either the Presidency or the Vice-Presidency. No American under the age of 45 has ever voted in a US Presidential election where neither a Bush nor a Clinton was on the ballot. That's just creepy. So I made the "28 More Years" ones. By the way, for the curious, the shop-builder that I use only lets you link to individual products (instead of whole stores.) You can get to the full list of things with each design by clicking the item, though (there's a link on the next page.) So it's not like I only made, say, a single tile coaster with the "Faith" logo, and just the black shirt for the Cylon Overlord one. That would be crazy, and inefficient, and wouldn't explain all the hours I spent making alternate versions of each design to fit on all the different products. Phew. Labels: art, culture, design, politics, Presidential race, projects, romney, working . | 0 comments | CafePress Madness, Part Two So in my last post I put up all my easy-to-figure-out, non-controversial, not-likely-to-garner-evil-comments designs. That was simple enough. Now to enter the murkier waters of... LDS themed designs!! Stupid anti-Mormon comments won't even get a polite response from me this time, people. As you can see, there are all kinds of fun designs -- I have two CTR ("Choose the Right") logos, some funky (almost?) ugly art with the text of Moses 1:39, an "I Am A Child of God" sort of logo specifically for girls and women (I'm still trying to come up with a "manly" looking one for the guys,) an FHE (family home evening) logo that I'm really rather proud of, a faith one that I mostly did out of a desire to make a good-looking sun (I don't think I'm quite there yet...), and a sort of sloppy yet hopefully cool block with the text of the 13th article of faith. There will probably be more designs added to this collection over time -- the system I'm using will, niftily enough, update this post automatically with any changes. Yay! I wasn't kidding when I said I needed a job, though. Nine designs (technically, the tenth -- the Moses 1:39 one -- has been floating around waiting for me to use it for about two years.) One week. Yeesh. Oh, and there's one more post coming! [edited to add: I also have a Christmas design in there! Not specifically LDS, but I wanted to keep all my "religious" stuff in one post... yeah.] Labels: art, bible, book of mormon, christmas, church, culture, design, LDS, mormon, Primary, religion, scriptures, working . | 1 comments | CafePress Madness, Part One So, in a bout of desperate "I don't have a job and I have lots of energy and I need to do SOMEthing" mania, I've been creating designs for CafePress. Lots of designs. Lots and lots and LOTS of designs. Except for the "I Heart Rebel Scum," "Spoiler Free", and "Follow Me To Primary" designs, all of these were created in the last eight days. Those are all my non-LDS, non-political designs: my Ohio State stuff (referring to Jim Tressel,) one for Pickerington (after I noticed that I didn't like any of the other Pickerington designs,) four writing-related ones for NaNoWriMo (the Latin one means "I joined, I wrote, I won,") one literature one (I heart Orwell!), one photo I took in Salt Lake City, and the geek collection: three Battlestar Galactica designs, one Star Wars design (rebel scum, get it?) and one generic geekery Spoiler Free one, which until this week was my highest-selling design ever. More on my other designs in a bit. Suffice to say I really need a job. Labels: art, culture, design, football, NaNoWriMo, working . | 0 comments | Saturday, October 13, 2007
2008 Election Does anyone else wish that we could see a Lieberman/Someone-Like-Cheney-Was-Circa-1992 ticket? Anyone? Sigh. I can't come up with a setup as good as the VP opponent set we got in 2000, out of this bunch. I don't like or admire anyone running. How depressing is that. (Yes, this is what I'm doing on a Friday night. That's pretty depressing, too...) Labels: politics, Presidential race . | 0 comments | Saturday, July 21, 2007
Harry Potter 7 A few, mildly spoilerish thoughts about Harry Potter 7. Note: I received my book at approximately 12:20am, having woken up at 7am the previous morning, driven across three states, and not even stopped to go to the restroom before walking into the bookstore to claim my spot in line. I got home around 12:45, got the car unloaded and my PJs on by 1:15am, and finished the book at 7:15am. So, six hours again, thanks to not needing to stop to do the dishes. Now for some spoiler space. SPOILERS!! SPOILERS!! IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW, THEN YOU SHOULD GO AWAY! SPOILERS!! SPOILERS!! HEREIN LIE DETAILS OF THE LAST HARRY POTTER BOOK! IF YOU LEARN SOMETHING YOU DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW, DON'T COME CRYING TO ME!!! SPOILERS!! SPOILERS!! If you're still reading... Apparently the 'shipping wars weren't only important to the fans. I have to admit, I didn't have a ton invested; the fact that she was careful to spell it out was... amusing. ^_^ I take back all the nasty things I thought about the people who thought Snape was good for reasons I thought were stupid. Snape-Loved-Lily people: it wasn't in the books, but it was in JK's heart. I commend your mind reading skills, and/or lucky joint wishful thinking with the author. If I'd written the books, I wouldn't have done it, but she did, and that's what counts. However, I mock relentlessly all those who were convinced Snape was Evil From The Get-Go. Here I go, mocking you now: BWAAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA! Ahem, that wasn't very nice. And yet... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!!! On his own side, indeed! At least "scar" was in the last line, right? Fanfiction makes serial fiction much more difficult to stay in love with. In particular, I kind of like the "Psychic Serpent" and "Roman Holiday" renditions of HP5-HP7 better than Rowling's. Sigh. I find myself not needing things to be as prettily wrapped (with the satin bow, etc.) as I thought I needed them -- to say nothing of how much Rowling apparently wanted to provide them. Dude. 19 years later? I really didn't need to have the matter of who becomes a teacher at the school spelled out like that (by the by, it was who I suspected it'd be: she doesn't want to show married teachers, it seems, and there was one "good" kid singled out as inherently unromantic and unlikely to reproduce from the very beginning of the very first book.) The Red Hen collection was more on target than I was, and deserves an A-/B+ (and that's only because she was so very far off on a Certain Ship, the matter of Grindlewald, and alas, the Battle of Hogwarts.) Dude, she even predicted the vision quest! I thought she was loony, but there it was! My predictions, which I splashed all over the place, were about fifty percent right. I am particularly proud of my assertions at the Volokh Conspiracy, especially the bit about students not dying unless they got in the way of something they were told to stay out of (I'm going to get sniffly the next time I read Chamber of Secrets.) I was, however, unspeakably lousy at predicting the deaths of adults, and basically only got Dumbledore, Pettigrew, and Voldemort's eventual fates correct. On the other hand, every major character under 18 who I was *sure* would survive, did. And I don't follow birthday notice updates. OH YEAH! And while my dream of Red Hen's Secret Agent Percy was totally ruined, he still came out all right in the end! WOOOOOOOOOT! Sad about the lack of "good" Slytherin kids, though. Sheesh. And let's just not talk about how hard it would be to rebuild that society, given how it'd been ripped to shreds, because apparently JK Rowling doesn't much care about that stuff. I bet the "last chapter" she'd had written up forever was that little short one (another of the Red Hen predictions, actually.) It makes sense, her saying she was trying to make the rest of the books "live up to" that. Firefox doesn't know how to spell "Voldemort," "Pettigrew," "Dumbledore," "Snape," OR "sheesh." What the heck is up with that? Labels: Harry Potter, Harry Potter 7, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows . | 3 comments | Saturday, June 02, 2007
Family Business 1. I found someone who's quoted Grandpa Parker: Wreath Laying at Frank Ryan's Grave". The lines following the mention of "The New York Jewish International Brigader Max Parker" are almost a word-for-word rendition of what Grandpa said about the day he was captured, in the Al Tocar Diana recordings/booklet. 2. I've found the booklet online! It's a PDF and it's a little messy, but it's free. They've also got the album in MP3 format for sale. 3. I'm in the process of ordering copies of the video interviews done with Grandma Parker in 1986, and the librarian at NYU is looking to see if a CD has been made of the 1960s interview with Grandpa that they have a reel-to-reel master of. I'm also trying to find out if the "Molly" Parker that is stated to be in several photographs in an SCW collection is actually Grandma Parker (I think it is -- they were taken in Los Angeles, in 1982, and a Max Parker is also listed in one of them.) 4. There's a list of American Jewish volunteers in the SCW out there that lists Grandpa Parker as "Max A. Parker." I didn't think he had a middle name? 5. There are only a few days left to order graduation photos of me. I'm still sorting out the distribution of the ones Mom bought, but she only bought the one pose. Anyone who wants a copy should email me before Sunday night, as Monday's the ordering deadline. I think that's all I've got at the moment. . | 0 comments | Sunday, April 01, 2007
Law School Admissions: Essay Prep So, I'm working out some basic positions before I actually go ahead and write my law school admissions essays. This is not just background information/positioning, however: I tend to get mildly freaked out by the chapters in law school prep books which bear titles and themes such as: "We lawyers all hate it here, please get an MBA instead." This stuff is supposed to make me feel better after encountering naysaying; it's very narrowly focused apologetics, essentially. I'm not posting because I need to post something (though I do) or to brag about how swell my thought processes are, but rather in hopes of getting comments from the learned blogging community (which is heavily populated by lawyers.) So, feel free to comment. Why do I want to go to law school? (philosophy) Labels: applications, law school, law school admissions, school, writing . | 2 comments | Friday, March 23, 2007
So, it's done... I've actually, really, truly, here's-your-diploma-now-listen-to-a-speech graduated. I swear, it's true.  I've made the following sentiment my signature at LUN: A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ^_^ More to follow later. Labels: graduation, Ohio State, school . | 0 comments | Saturday, March 03, 2007
What Romney Actually Said People are annoyed (I was at first, too) about what Mitt Romney may or may not have said during his CPAC speech, which immediately preceded a speech in which Ann Coulter embarrassed herself, conservatives, and the entire human genome (as is her custom.) Some have said his comments were along the lines of "woohoo! Ann Coulter's on right now, yeehaw I loves me some Ann Coulter!" Others have said no, he said something more like "Haha, they're scheduling that crazy loon to talk after me, I just love it when they get gentle, loving moderates to talk more often!!" I invite you to judge for yourselves which is the more accurate paraphrase. It's in the second paragraph of this 8-page PDF. ^_^ EDIT: note, I'm still looking for audio/video to see what he said, as opposed to what he planned to say. It seems that liberal commentators all heard "yay for Coulter" and pro-Romney commentators heard something close to the planned remarks. I'll update this post if I find anything. Labels: coulter, politics, romney . | 2 comments | Monday, January 08, 2007
Let's sing Ohio's praise... Even at grossly inappropriate, bizarre, and/or giggle-inducing moments. Yes, yes, I know, the big game is tonight, and yay for national championships (though an even bigger yay for Big 10 championships, which can't be gamed by journalists nearly as well as the BCS is.) I too hope the Buckeyes win, and indeed at this very moment I sit waiting for word from my Political Science advisor (at Ohio State) about graduating (from Ohio State) this March, and moreover I am currently wearing a VERY scarlet t-shirt from my year in Block "O", which reads "TRESSEL'S TROOPS." But I must stress that any time I find myself singing along to the prelude hymns at church, and realize halfway through the first tune that the organist is playing Carmen Ohio, well... let's just say that even die-hard Buckeyes ought to recognize that there is a time and place for everything, and church is not really the place for expressing your collegiate athletics fandom. I mean, she wasn't even trying very hard to disguise the tune -- the family sitting behind us also picked up on it right away, and in fact their younger daughter and I (quietly) finished the chorus out loud, after we stopped giggling. Of course, the child in my class who used our "draw something nice" time to color a page which was not just OSU-themed (I'm so glad Crayola's "basic colors" now includes grey,) but also featured the names of our two local high school teams, too, would do well to realize that, too. On the other hand, he's 7 years old, so I'm going to cut him a bit more slack than the grown-ups. Labels: BCS, Buckeyes, church, LDS, Ohio State . | 1 comments | Because only so many people can be eleventh in line. 
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