tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-98540462011-04-21T09:50:37.225-10:00Bitchitude: A way of life; mastering the art of owning one's inner bitch; eloquent execution of attitude and bitchdom without lowering one's self to the level of societal sheep.BTude a.k.a. GlassHoppahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14874578942431220086noreply@blogger.comBlogger331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9854046.post-1150012422064822922006-06-10T21:53:00.000-10:002006-06-10T21:55:36.420-10:00

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Blogger drove me over the edge with their "we're too big for our britches service," so we broke down and hooked up WordPress on one of our servers. We're moving on OUT!Please update your bookmarks, blogmarks, blogrolls, click whore folders, and any stray links ;) This blog will stay put for redirect purposes, but will no longer be updated at this locale! Follow me here, my darlings:http://

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Welcome to number ten in the series, "Get My Ass Outta’ This Class!"DB and I are officially on Spring Break! Wooo Hooo! I will be looking skyward at these leaves for most of the next week, and when I’m not, we’ll be out snorkeling, lounging, and drinking it up (sorry, I don’t have a recent photo of my favorite sandy haunt, but will update with a photo next week :) Non-sandNsun plans include a

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I need the practice, so sit down, cozy up, nuke some popcorn, and listen closely… I…I am… I am going…I am going to…I am going to be…I am going to be a…I am going to be a… (ready for the kicker?)I am going to be a grandmother.Me, that’s right. Me… and all of my 39 years are going to be a grandmother. W T F.This should be a wonderful moment of merriment and celebration… Yes?No. I am only 39 years

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Pimpin’ You, Pimpin’ Me…For those of you I’ve already thanked, Mahalo again, and my gratitude to Suzanne @ Contemblogging, Cara @ To Whom it May Concern, and their most helpful readers this morning who showed up in the name of research, to cut yet another slice out of the “ta’ go” total! Golf Widow @ Ministry of Silly Walks brings the weekend to a delightful close, with another successful bump

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Welcome to number nine in the series, "Get My Ass Outta’ This Class!"My perfect attendance record is officially toast! I played hooky, ditched school, skipped school (ok, I’m not so badass, it was only half a day, but a much needed one!)DB was sicker ‘an a sad dawg, and I wasn’t feeling so hot—but damnit if it isn’t MORE work and time consuming to not go, than to have stayed! We had to hunt

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It’s a great day when the mailman delivers one of those lovely brown mystery boxes. Today, he brought me a box from Chicago. One-upping the Chicago address, was the tempestuous comedian, Andy Martello’s address… What could it be?!? (This is where you ohhh and ahhh in wonder with me…ohhh, ahhh). Squeals of delight could be heard emitting from this treasure, as the box ventured down the hard trek

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Welcome to number eight in the series, "Get My Ass Outta’ This Class!"If you have not yet responded to my research survey (c’mon it’s homework!) click this [ research: b.c./a.d. vs. c.e./b.c.e. ] and follow the instructions there—thank you! 52 down, 48 to go! 94 down, 6 ta' go! Made it past the halfway hump (some pun intended!)I did mention, that I’d leave this here until I got 100 responses,

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Pimpin’ You, Pimpin’ Me… How does that sound for an update to shameless plugz? I can’t keep whoring away with Andy’s “Virtual Mutual Masturbation” line, so I had to get creative and come up with one of my own… sheesh—he always gets the good stuff! Drop me your thoughts!Updated: 03.15.2005. If you have not yet responded to my research survey (c’mon it’s homework!) click this [ research: b.c./a.d.

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Update: 03.16.2005: 31 down, 69 to go! 94 down, 6 ta' go! Bloggers rock! Oh and Andy, damnit, I think it's a penguin tale response you win... or something! Of course, if you did what Becky, at April Fool did by pimping out her blog in the name of research, and the responses she garnered from her crew of readers--we could negotiate! Thank you to everyone who has responded to date! The diversity

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Welcome to number seven in the series, "Get My Ass Outta’ This Class!"Read this with the theme to Jaws washing through the back of your minds—duhduh, duh-duh, duhduh-duhduh-duhduh…Just when you think it is safe to go back in the water (or start to) a huge tsunami of a wave, followed by a clamping of enormous jaws come sinking down into your fool head… Oh yes, it’s all bitchitude this week!

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Welcome to number six in the series, "Get My Ass Outta’ This Class!"It’s a cruel, cruel world! Aside from having to begin preparations on two research papers (Hawai`ian Studies and English), while spending most of my Friday through Monday weekend, basking in the glory of Epicurus and his views on mental and physical pains and pleasures. Honestly, I’m debating the best verbiage of how to describe

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In lieu of the late installment of “back to school,” I am proffering these oh so shameless plugz, or Andy’s now, plagiarized blog marketing term of “Virtual Mutual Masturbation” to tide you over in the meantime…Have you ever felt that twinge of discomfort, the angst of potentially nearing the loss of your job, and not sure why? Have you ever identified yourself as a victim of workplace bullying?

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It’s that time of year already… yeah, that one, the one that includes the figurative shadow of the big, bad, money-grubbing taxman. I’m not sure why it bothers me… I did get a decent refund. Never mind the fact I forgot about a 401k I had to dip into this time last year, and never mind the fact my college got my loan checks in December and sent me a 1098, dated 12/31/2004. I daresay I

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Welcome to number five in the series, "Get My Ass Outta This Class!"Is it safe to peek out of the void that has consumed all my free time, yet? Actually, I spent last weekend eyeball deep in books, papers, and a man who kept nudging my mountain of study material off the couch. It all works out, yes, really—I actually got to spend 1+ day this week out of the bookzone!Bitchitude: Of course, I had

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The new template is here! The new template is here! I think I’m dubbing it “da’ lime and de’ coconut…” What say you? :) I just love it, love it, and love it! And yes, to the blogosphere, it’s so totally me! I do that (look up there, yes that) at the beach and at home! Always a trail of something in my wake… haha Riika of Silver Logic sloughed through the muck of blogger templatedom and

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Welcome to number four in the series, "Get My Ass Outta This Class!" I would never have believed it, had I not experienced it with my entire self; ears and eyes included! She (freak shrink professor) showed her colors earlier this week; she lowered herself both personally AND more importantly professionally. It appears that not only does she truly appreciate a clean slate from which to mold

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As promised... the fruit of your participation! You can pick up the published copy of the VDay Edition of GAFWM [at MBC...] Happy Valentine's Day! A busted prophylactic and a flower, do not a Valentine, make. We all savor the elation that an unexpected (expected) token of affection brings us on this (overly-commercialized) day of love. Then there are those of us who dread Cupid and his arrow

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Welcome to number three in the series, "Get My Ass Outta This Class!" Week 3 and my part-time status escalated to the full-blown 12-credit semester! I have but one thing to say, I’m tired! Did I recall that returning to college, as an aging adult with a mission to change careers was something I wanted to do voluntarily, Ahhh, yes. Yes it was! I came home both days and passed out quite literally

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Let’s all flush our toilets at 12pm today in honor of Thomas Crapper. No, really! Marjo Moore takes a walk on the crappy side… yeah, seriously! Take heed: Marjo also has a special link – if you have enemies or dire dorks you’d like to pay back – take a moment to locate the hidden ‘don’t click’ link – I swear they will regret it! Disclaimer: I am not responsible for the mental scarring – send all

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In light of my recent bender, I thought I would share a more PC story with the public at large (I'm just polite that way!) Public - meet diagnostic narrative number two in the series "Get My Ass Outta This Class!" Aside from the fact I have to offer up some incredibly reflective life events, you will find yourself surfing away with a better knowledge of what it means to have a physical

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My political frame of mind is one in its own, I admit. When I see shit like THIS I have no qualms about stepping up to the plate and speaking my piece. I am truly embarrassed and ashamed to say I ever lived in the State of Washington. I am horrified at the rampant ignorance these spoiled pukes displayed in their blatant presentation of said ignorance. I can only equate this to the graphic

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On questioning the blogosphere: I’ve been questioning a particularly female aspect of the Internet since my immersion in the blogosphere. I have to say, that while surfing other blogs, I noticed a distinct trend in women’s blogs that clearly reflects, well, to put it bluntly, something they (that woman) is not. Specifically, I’m referring to the blogstops with the pinup toons, albeit, I won’t

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I can proudly announce (or can I?) that I have in fact been dubbed il Professore’s techno-pet on Day 1 of Week 2. Pay no mind to the fact, that I don’t know jack about Macs and am not a hardware guru; I am apparently the only one with enough knowledge to walk him through the technical aspects of his own curriculum software applications. Pay no mind to the whiplash turns of the head from every

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I have to admit, class was the easy part; I managed to make it through week one of my Spring 2005 semester unscathed… mostly! One-point-two-five hours of unadulterated peace and calm. I had little more to do than refresh my aging brain cells in the proper mechanics of grammar and a spur of the moment, five hundred handwritten word essay in a mere 35 minutes. The “getting there” part was the bitch

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I’m currently compiling data for an article highlighting the best and worst Valentine Day gifts and I need willing victims, research rats, and verbose readers to share the tale of how thoughtless a prior or current gift-giver was! If you have been the unlucky or pissed off recipient of a thoughtless, cheap, gaudy, tacky, or unwanted gift from your Valentine or anyone else, enter it and a quick

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Calling all traffic whores who have yet to sign up for this mind-sucking, time-wasting, new surf for traffic gig... Ok, I know most of the traffic whores have already done this, but if you're a little slow this week, get to clicking! Update: BlogClicker informs me that in the near future (I'm sworn to secrecy as to sharing the exact date), they will be offering: Comments option (but not

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Ask and you shall receive. (Will I go to hell for saying that out loud?) You’ve all decided you either love me or hate me, with the latter being the lesser, this virginal blogger is moving in and calling blogspot home. My reasons for existence in blogdom are multi-fold; I didn’t necessarily want to journal my way through life, but I’m getting comfortable in this outlet for various oddities of

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Momma said, “look both ways before you cross the street.” Yes, indeed. When I received the news that dearest friend ‘A’ had been hit by a car moments after stepping off public transportation, the first words out of my own mouth were “I know your momma taught you better than that!” Sometime during her upbringing, I was certain her Momma also instilled the age-old adage about leaving the house in

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Isn’t it ironic how quickly time flies, times change, and is in a continuous flux of uncertainty at any given moment? I spent this day last year freezing my self-righteous ass off in Seattle, preparing for my move to the islands. I spent the next six months working some very long days, as I have for the past decade in the IT industry – a career bestowed upon me by a mere fluke of dumb luck, a

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Tick-tock, tick-tock, down winds the clock. Yes, amazingly enough the holidays come but once a year. What was that? You don't have time? Time is a luxury m'dear, and Santa waits for no one! Long past are the days of hustling through over-eager crowds, racing through the boutiques and department stores just to end up in a struggle with the little ol' blue-haired lady for that one last item on

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Year after year, the sound of dropping coins echo at the entrance to your favorite department store. It's that time of the season when doorstop charities are on the prowl, ringing their incessant bells. As if the clangs of the tin bells aren't enough to divert you to another entrance, the wave of guilt washing over your psyche will. Mind you, I'm not averse to dropping my hard-earned coin in the

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I am not Black (African-American, Negro), or brown, or Hispanic (Mexican, Cuban or Spaniard). I am not a Pacific Islander (Samoan, Tongan), Asian (Chinese, Japanese or otherwise) nor am I an Indian or Inuit... I am plain vanilla - White (not of Hispanic origin). That is unless you can see the layers of umpteen numbers of different tones of brown in my tan lines. I am not transgender, lesbian,

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