Swine flu, really?

Oh my God, this hype. All flu's are swine flus or chicken flus. That's where flus come from!

I saw Anderson Cooper interviewing some teenager about her swine flu survival story. She was like "yeah I got sick last thursday, I had a fever of 103, and I felt bad."

"It's been 4 days. How do you feel now?"

"Fine"


...... that's because it's just a new strain of regular influenza. It will probably be pandemic because it's new and you don't have antibodies against it. "Pandemic" just means lots of people get it. There is a flu pandemic every 8-10 years. Do you remember getting the flu like 10 years ago? Yeah. I know I did. I think I was in third grade, I threw up a lot, but I didn't get an interview with Anderson Cooper.

Alerting the public like this just makes more people think they're sick with the latest killer virus. Is there a word for the opposite of placebo effect?

Real Women Have Vaginas

If I hear "Real women have curves" one more time... I swear to god....

The Stars Don't Shine For You No More

What do you say when someone tells you that they miss it how you used to manipulate the reality around them? When someone tells you that you made them shine. You made them light up like a Starry Night and you're Van Gogh? It sounds so strange coming from someone I stopped giving a damn about 4 or 5 months ago.

Curious. So perceptive but the emotional capacity of a brick. Oh well, that's spilled milk. Or really there was never even milk in the glass to begin with. Just anticipation without action. And then boredom.

And closed chapters.

I've got more important things to occupy me now. A more important person, who's unbreaking me. Somehow.