Rotten

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

HAWLY-days!

For me, every season has a distinct smell. Leaving my house the other day, I smelled the coldness and memories from last winter came up. It could very well be a smell caused by the concrete or what not, but it is also very mental.
I cannot wait for the holidays, as always. I know halloween is coming up too soon, and I don't know what I Will be. But I don't really look forward to any other holiday as much as I do Christmas.

Photos of my christmas tree *<:)

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Hypocracy

So two weeks ago an organization came to our school called the Pulitzer Center, and right now their main focus is to provide access to water for those people without it. I am totally for the rights of these less fortunate people having something so basic and necessary like water, however the group that came to my Human Rights Class started off the speech with a 'statistic' that made me furious. "Unclean water kills more people that HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis do, combined." I was fed up. HIV/AIDS organization groups come to our school EVERY YEAR and tell us that HIV/AIDS has so many deaths, and it is the most important thing, and all of these statistics that are bullfuckingshit. It's pathetic that living in such an 'uncensored' area can result in so much bias and falseness. I knew this statistic about water wasn't true. I felt it, it irritated me to the point that I did not take the organization seriously any longer. YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS: I was on the Pulitzer Center website for homework earlier this week, and found this:
"Correction: The original post incorrectly stated that the total deaths from water and sanitation related disease is "more than the toll from HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined." The statement is true only for children under 14, not adults (see Safer Water, Better Health (WHO) and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria). Corrections were made August 27, 2010."

Do people who really act so passionately toward the topic memorize 'facts' and spread them? Did nobody make them aware that there had been a correction made a month before?
The whole time during their report on the crisis of water, they were talking about the exaggerations made, one website for example that rounds the 850,000,000 people that don't have access to clean water to ONE BILLION, for the sensationalism of the big number "ONE BILLION."
HYPOCRITES. I refuse t be a sheep in this big herd. People manipulating, I feel as if I'm being controlled by bullshit. I'm not having it.

Today, the Pulitzer Center came to visit us again, a different journalist this time, and another man that had previously come. He was asking the class how we would report an article. I was biting my lip to not say anything, but with no ands raised, he was forced to call on people.
And I had no choice. He picked me. And I blew up his spot.

Don't come and talk about your job as a journalist and all of the fake information out there and on the Internet, when you and your organization are doing just that.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Coffee

A little detail in life that let's me finish my day sane... most of the time. Cute cafes with good coffee. Meeting up for chats, coffee and cigarettes.
CCC

^ Took dat in a smoke cafe in Barcelona.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Smoker's Club Tour

I'm so HYPE for my girl's Juliet's birthday tomooorrrooww
Smokers Club Tour in Tribeca is going to be poppin
Oh and Special Guests include Mac Miller. My life is complete.

Mondays

Mondays are the worst, because I do not remember the last time I went through a Monday without a nap. But naps are deadly and mess up my sleeping patterns for the week. But at least I no longer feel exhausted from the rain and my longer school schedule. I'm still adjusting to this whole school thing.