I try to so hard to make things work, and I can never make it work 100% of the time. I wonder if this is a bad thing?

Last night’s highlights:

1. Playing with Nick and the puggle at the pet store. Nick is so cute when interacting with animals, and the puggle was supremely cute as well.

2. Going bowling and failing.

3. Feeling my arteries cry “MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP” while eating at Fudds.

4. Almost beating everyone in Mario Party yet ultimately still failing once again.

5. Hugs for failing at life.

6. Extended goodbye kisses in the rain.

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In other news, one of my mentee’s interests on her Facebook profile is “PURPLE DRANK”. I am pleased.

Today’s highlights:

1. Sitting on my ass and doing nothing all morning while doing laundry so I could have clothes to wear to work this evening.

2. Driving 30 minutes to work and then being told that I was in fact on-call today when no one ever told me how to see if I was on-call or not. 30 minutes and a 1/4 tank of gas later, I am home and extremely upset.

3. My father, casually over dinner, tells me that we’re putting my grandparents in a nursing home this weekend. Whoops, apparently he forgot to tell me.

4. Nick is down at the shore visiting family and he can’t see me. Not his fault at all, of course, but still sad.

Dear Readers,

I haven’t done anything particularly sociable whatsoever since last Wednesday. I haven’t went out in days. I feel like I’m going to die.

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With that out of the way, despite having no life I am feeling much more confident in my retail selling abilities. I am ferocious. Don’t simply want to buy that shirt, I’ll annoy the shit out of you until you walk out with a pair of pants or a belt to go with it. Hopefully this means that the management doesn’t think I’m completely retarded anymore. Nick is coming down tomorrow. I miss him so much. It looks like we can’t be apart ever otherwise we just text each other about how much we miss each other/need each other. It’s adorable.

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Things I Love Right Now:

- The quiet simplicity of Nico.

- Looking up recipies to cook next year when I’ll have a kitchen.

- PIXAR’s Up. It’s a masterpiece.

- Pushing Daisies. It makes me squirm, it’s that cute.

Things I Hate Right Now:

- Nasty customers in EXPRESS.

- Making essentially no money.

- Money, in general.

- Cars and gasoline.

- My dwindling social life.

Taken from the GLAAD website.

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Call to Action

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

TAKE ACTION: Demand that KRXQ Radio Hosts Rob Williams and Arnie States Apologize for Encouraging Violence Against Transgender Children

Contact:
Cindi Creager
Director of National News
(646) 871-8019
creager@glaad.org

Richard Ferraro
Director of Public Relations
(646) 871-8011
ferraro@glaad.org

June 2, 2009— In a lengthy May 28 tirade on the Rob, Arnie & Dawn in the Morning radio show heard in Sacramento, California on KRXQ 98.5 FM and Reno, Nevada on KDOT 104.5 FM, hosts Rob Williams and Arnie States verbally attacked transgender children. While discussing a recent story about a transgender child in Omaha, Nebraska and her parents’ decision to support her transition, the two hosts spent more than 30 minutes explicitly promoting child abuse of and making cruel, dehumanizing and defamatory comments toward transgender children.

You can listen to the entire segment beginning at 4:48 by clicking this link:
http://robarnieanddawn.com/newsite/audiofiles/05.28.09%20Transgender%20Children%20In%20America.mp3

Among the comments made by the hosts:

ROB WILLIAMS [11:12]: This is a weird person who is demanding attention. And when it’s a child, all it takes is a hug, maybe some tough love or anything in between. When your little boy said, ‘Mommy, I want to walk around in a dress.’ You tell them no cause that’s not what boys do. But that’s not what we’re doing in this culture.

ARNIE STATES [13:27]: If my son, God forbid, if my son put on a pair of high heels, I would probably hit him with one of my shoes. I would throw a shoe at him. Because you know what? Boys don’t wear high heels. And in my house, they definitely don’t wear high heels.

ROB WILLIAMS [17:45]: Dawn, they are freaks. They are abnormal. Not because they’re girls trapped in boys bodies but because they have a mental disorder that needs to be somehow gotten out of them. That’s where therapy could help them.

ROB WILLIAMS [18:15]: Or because they were molested. You know a lot of times these transgenders were molested. And you need to work with them on that. The point is you don’t allow the behavior. You cure the cause!

ARNIE STATES [21:30]: You got a boy saying, ‘I wanna wear dresses.’ I’m going to look at him and go, ‘You know what? You’re a little idiot! You little dumbass! Look, you are a boy! Boys don’t wear dresses.’

ARNIE STATES [29:22]: You know, my favorite part about hearing these stories about the kids in high school, who the entire high school caters around, lets the boy wear the dress. I look forward to when they go out into society and society beats them down. And they end up in therapy.

To her credit, co-host Dawn Rossi stood up to Williams and States during the segment.
Despite her apparent lack of familiarity with transgender issues, Rossi repeatedly defended transgender people and made an on-air apology for her colleagues’ defamatory remarks.

TAKE ACTION NOW!
Please contact KRXQ management in Sacramento, California, where the show is produced and demand that radio show hosts Rob Williams and Arnie States publicly apologize. Call on KRXQ to hold Williams and States accountable for their remarks and establish clear standards to ensure their media platform will not be used to condone or promote violence against any parts of the communities they serve.

John Geary
Vice President & General Manager
KRXQ-FM
(916) 339-4209
jgeary@entercom.com

Arnie States
On Air Personality
KRXQ-FM
(916) 334-7777
rad@robarnieanddawn.com

Rob Williams
On Air Personality
KRXQ-FM
(916) 334-7777
rwilliams@entercom.com

Please use the share page functionality at the top of this page to alert any of your friends and others who may also wish to take action. When contacting KRXQ, please ensure that your emails and phone calls are civil and respectful and do not engage in the kind of name-calling or abusive behavior.

About GLAAD
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. For more information, please visit www.glaad.org.

About GLAAD
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. For more information, please visit www.glaad.org.

I decided to make the trek into New York yesterday to see Jenny Owen Youngs/Jukebox The Ghost yesterday, which ended up being a quite ridiculous adventure. I got in around 4:18 and immediately headed down to the park in an attempt to see if I could still get into all of the academic buildings despite not being enrolled for the summer session. I got into Kimmel with no problems, so this is apparently the case. I updated my Facebook from the computers in the lobby and then learned that Rommie was in the park, so I went and sat with him for awhile, which was quite nice. Laura then got back from work, and I went to her dorm room at UHall and loitered there for a little while. Then we went uptown as she had to go look at an apartment and I had to meet Maeve at work while simultaneously meeting Maggie and another Laura around Penn Station. We were soon reunited and then went downtown where I got dumplings to eat and we consumed a six pack of beer next to a ghetto basketball court on Eldridge Street. It was very hoodrat of us (or romantic?), pictures I’m sure will hit Facebook in the near future. We then made our way over to Bowery Ballroom for Jenny/everyone else. Jenny had a good show, but honestly the originality was kind of gone. She apologized for cursing (gasp!) and didn’t have silly in-between song banter anymore. I was not pleased. Jukebox The Ghost was excellent though, I may see them again as they’re doing a free show in Union Square at the end of June. 

After this, NYU Laura and her friend had to get back up to Union Square and chose to walk, so Maggie, Maeve, and Laura decided to descend into the bowels of hell (the JMZ train at Bowery) to make our way up to 34th Street. Easier said than done. Of course after waiting 20 minutes for a strangely urine-soaked J train to arrive, we took it to Fulton to realize that the A train wasn’t going uptown from that station. We then proceeded to walk across the station (a long walk) to the 2 train which we waited another 20-30 minutes for and then decided to go local. Goddamnit. 

We finally reached midtown around 1:45 and then decided that it was definitely a good time for McDonalds. Chicken nuggets for all. We then met her dad at the Daily News building and he drove us home. We almost hit a deer back in NJ on the way to my house. I gasped. I got home at 4:00 AM and passed out.

Good day, good day.