I won a radio contest

Eggs-citing. I was station-surfing and heard the last bit of instructions for a contest: Link Tobey Maguire to George Clooney in less than six degrees. Being the puzzle freak that I am, I was thinking, and I realized that Tobey Maguire was in Cider House Rules with Charlize Theron, who was in Legend of Bagger Vance with Matt Damon, who was in Ocean's 11 with George Clooney. And I actually got through on my second try. And I actually won. And I actually sound like an idiot on the radio... especially since I didn't know what the prize was, and I had to ask.

Passes to an advanced screening of Spider-Man 3... not bad. Considering that I would've paid $11 anyway, so this saves me $11. But I'm telling you... if it were Kelly Clarkson tickets... I would've screamed.

It's Kelly Clarkson's birthday today. She's 25. I love her.

Why is the media portraying Seung-Hui Cho as a foreigner?

Okay, so I don't know this guy nor do I have any authority to assume anything about his life, but the media is ridiculous. First of all, almost all media outlets (except my beloved Wikipedia) are calling him Cho Seung-Hui instead of Seung-Hui Cho. Cho Seung-Hui may be his proper Korean name, but we're in the U.S. Just how people are naming him itself is a huge indicator of how the media is trying to spin this guy into some crazed foreigner instead of one of our own.

I saw headlines that said "Killer from South Korea"... well, it seems as if he immigrated here in 1992. He was eight... which means that he spent most of his life here and grew up just like any other American kid even if he wasn't technically a U.S. citizen. He's FROM Virginia.

Focusing on how he's "from Korea" or a "South Korean national" is really misleading. By all accounts, this was an American kid who probably laughed at The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and disgustedly changed the dial when he heard "La Macarena" on the radio... just like the fellow students that he murdered. Just because everybody wants to disassociate from him doesn't mean that it is responsible journalism to focus on how disparate he was from everybody else, either personality- or upbringing-wise. He was one of our own.

America... we need to wake up! We are spawning a generation of disturbed young individuals who cannot cope with their unhappiness. Kids who grow up seeing record-breaking massacres unfold on live television and become desensitized and maybe even think that they can become immortalized in infamy by being the next to one-up the previous guy. This wasn't a misunderstood international student from an unfamiliar culture. HE WAS AN AMERICAN! Take responsibility for these young adults that you are producing, and stop passing the buck to some other nation just because this psycho still maintained his citizenship there!

(I have nothing profound to conclude. Mostly I'm [selfishly] annoyed that anyone of Asian descent is still considered a foreigner in this country because I personally resent it. The end.)

In the event of an "accident"

I don't go to work fearing for my life or anything, but in case the situation escalates, here is my little note for people to find...

I have a tenant in my building (well, my only tenant) who is extremely unreliable. He has lied to me, he has pretended that he doesn't understand English (even though he does), he has tried to make me feel guilty for expecting timely payments (and more importantly, honesty... I know... how dare I expect such things?). Also, in this year alone (2007), two of his rent checks have bounced, and one time, he just paid me the rent (a lot) in cash. CASH. (Because... that's not sketchy.)

Well, yesterday we had a big argument (I claimed that he'd lied to me, and he claimed that I just didn't understand that situation and was being difficult). So he pretty much hates me (even though he told the manager at my store a few months ago that he wanted to marry me... but that was before he realized that I was serious landlord and not some submissive sex object to fulfill his disgusting geisha fantasies).

Anyway, I would like to make it clear that I have NEVER been threatened by this guy. I have never felt that I was in any danger. He has never touched me or harassed me. BUT... I am writing this because his son had just spent two nights in jail this week for beating his wife (who subsequently left him). And... people tend to learn that sort of behavior (I'm not saying from whom). And... if his son is capable of doing that to his wife... well... yeah. His son has always been nice to me but... yeah...

So in case something happens to me... just investigate those guys. (Not that I think that anything will happen to me because I have never felt that I was in any danger before. But if something does, that's the first place that people should look because obviously one of them is capable of meanness, and the other one doesn't like me.)

The end (of my overly dramatic and eye-roll-inducing paranoia).

I am isolated and lonely

According to the pastor at my friend's (absolutely wonderful and elegant and classy) wedding, we are all in a state of isolation and loneliness until we unite with somebody in matrimony.

Depressing. Yet hilarious. Haha.