girlfiend

1. Right now I’m carrying about two extra pounds of boob weight. That’s right. Boob weight. They’re huge right now and hurty and it sucks because just thinking about exercise and the resulting bounce makes them hurt even more. I hate monthly fluctuations when my bras are all too tight. But this isn’t nearly as important as item number 2.

2. Happy birthday Mix. I’m going to out to buy the ingredients for the birthday cake now. If I mess it up you’ll eat it anyway, right? I hope all your birthday dreams come true.

Is the correct spelling “wackjob” (the spelling I traditionally use) or “whackjob?” A brief internet search has provided me with no answers.

For those of you who don’t follow Philly news, it just gets worse and worse. (Registration is required, but you can log in using the email address:sireia@juno.com and the password: password1)

An uproar ensues over needle-stick

An elementary school kid took one of her mom’s diabetic pinprick needles and poked a bunch of kids at school. One of those kids is HIV positive.

A ‘Fox’ is sought in child’s shooting

A child was shot outside of his school and his step-father, the intended target who was there to pick him up, took off and left him bleeding in the street.

Christine Ham, 15, was found murdered near the Schuylkill.

This poor girl was brutally murdered by her friends. It’s way too reminiscent of Jason Sweeney’s murder.

Ex-pastor wins appeal of her defrocking

BALTIMORE – A United Methodist appeals panel this morning overturned
the defrocking of Beth Stroud, the Germantown minister disciplined in
a December church trial because she is a “self-avowed, practicing
lesbian.”

“The verdict and the penalty are reversed and set aside,” said the
Rev. William Campbell, who headed the panel of four Methodist clergy
and five lay leaders. By an 8-1 vote, Campbell said, the panel ruled
that several key terms under which she was charged had not been
adequately defined.

Stroud immediately praised the decision, issued at the airport hotel
where her appeals hearing was held yesterday.

“This is just one step,” she told reporters. “But it gives me hope
that the United Methodist Church does have within it the resources to
do justice.”

Lawyers for the church said they would confer with the Eastern
Pennsylvania bishop, Marcus Matthews, about appealing the reversal to
the denomination’s highest court, the Judicial Council.

With conflicts over gay rights roiling in the 8.5 million-member
denomination, and much of American religion, the Stroud case has been
closely watched around the country. Her open challenge to the
Methodist ban on ordaining or appointing non-celibate homosexuals has
made her a cause celebre among gay-rights activists.

An estimated two-thirds of Methodists support the ban - which is based
on Scripture and church tradition - despite repeated efforts by a
dissident camp to repeal it.

In her December trial, a jury of 13 ministers stripped Stroud of her
ordination for “engaging in practices declared by the United Methodist
Church to be incompatible with Christian teachings.” The trial came
after she announced in a 2003 sermon at First United Methodist Church
of Germantown that she was living in a “covenant relationship” with
another woman.

The Germantown congregation, a haven of liberal sentiment, has
strongly supported Stroud and kept her on the staff, though as a lay
minister. Stroud said she would not resume her clergy functions until
all appeals are completed.

Is it really necessary for Boyfiend’s former not-quite-girlfriend (from more than ten years ago!) to check my blog multiple times a day? This woman either changed her URL or stopped blogging completely so I couldn’t read her blog, and once wrote in my comments that she wouldn’t read again, yet she stops by at least once in the morning and once in the afternoon. What the hell is up with that?

Although I suppose checking my stats wouldn’t be as fun if she wasn’t so weirdly obsessed with me. So keep reading, Ms. TJU. I’ll try to keep you entertained.

And speaking of necessary, why does my cat have to pee on things that aren’t the litter box just days after I thought to myself, “Phyllis hasn’t peed on anything in a while.” Why, Phyllis, why?

This is just wrong. I guess little Joey’s growing up.

A local ritzy suburban school district has decided after an initial interview that I’m a viable candidate for a formal interview. I’m sort of honored except for the part where I had to interview to be interviewed.

The Men’s Health article, that cites Philadelphia as the most depressed U.S. city can’t be right. I know that Philly doesn’t have the highest self-esteem, but how can Philly possibly be worse off than Detroit?

And really, Jersey City as the third happiest city?

Go visit Mix and leave him a comment. Tell him Girlfiend sent you. Michele Agnew does a more formal version of this here “comment game.”

Postsecret is amazing. I can’t believe I just found out about it now.

• Right now I’m watching the Lifetime movie Fifteen and Pregnant.). Coincidence?
• The broken cat, Howard, got his cast off. He’s walking around, but he’s not putting much weight on it. He mostly lays around, licking his paw and meowing pathetically.
• I spent about an hour cleaning my bedroom. I planned to switch my closet over- take the tank tops and shorts out from the boxes under the bed and replace it with the sweaters- but I found the boxes were nearly empty. I wonder where everything from last year went.
• When I finished putting the sweaters away I started to clean. After about fifteen minutes I called my house cleaner. She’s coming over tomorrow. I put the cleaning supplies away.
• I went to my aunt’s for a Passover seder last night. Everyone, except for my mother who lives in the same building, was there. Before we arrived my cousin made a remark that pissed my mother off and she left in a rage. After we’d been there for half an hour my cousin had to go to her apartment and apologize before my mom would return. The tension was palpable.
• I’m getting defensive emails from a kid about a comment I posted on his website. They’re funny.
• Yesterday I went to an invitation-only job fair to determine if I was worthy enough for an actual interview. I had a thirty minute interview with the district’s director of human resources and was told that I am qualified enough to return for round two.