Qualities to Look For (don't ask me where the hell this came from)

In the name of being completely random (and maybe to drop some not-so-obvious hints), my roommate, Jessica, has inspired me to write up a list of things that I look for in a Perfect Guy. These are in the order that I thought of them, so the closer you get to the end means that those are probably the most important because I had to think of them harder.

Loves me
I love him
The Standard LDS Answers (i.e. testimony, priesthood, good dad, etc., blah blah and so forth)
Will be goofy at appropriate times
Doesn't mind if I'm goofy at appropriate times
Indulges in my love of Harry Potter, fantasy, anime, country music, rock music, oldies music, adventure movies, CSI, 24, sports, and complete random weirdness
I'm willing to do the same
I can stand his brand of weirdness
He's tough and protective
I feel protected around him (driving a VW Beetle automatically decreases his credibility - yesterday I passed a guy driving a Bug and I was driving my Chevy. I could feel my own masculinity rise about 50 points. It was the strangest thing. Hopefully it's nothing I have to see my bishop about...)
While on the subject of cars, the only way he would drive a Honda, Hyundai, Mazda, Metro or any of those sorts of tin-can cars is if his parents gave it to him and he didn't have to pay insurance. If he actually paid money for the thing, just, no.)
I have to feel protected around him. (If I'm tougher than he is, that'll be a complete sham)
I can completely and totally freak out when I make what seems to be the biggest mistake that I've ever made (like that time when...erm, wait, my parole officer says I can't publish that. ^_^)
Will understand my jokes (Sarcasm (sar-cas-m) noun: wit that can be above the witless, can sometimes be hurtful, but only if it's true)
Doesn't mind if I throw out a "damn" or a "hell" or something else every once in a while (The "F" word is strictly off limits. Anything else is fair game)
He will throw his own around at times (very important for basketball games)
Doesn't sweat the small stuff (like stuff in movies, music, etc. The word "offended" should never enter his vocabulary)
Respects my family
Can hold his own with my dad (half the male populace just dropped out of the race)
Respects his own mother (experience with former roommates' brothers has taught me this)
I was friends with him before I was friends with his family (see addendum above. The weirder his family compared to him, the better. It'll make me feel right at home)
I can listen to Big & Rich and Gretchen Wilson when my bizarre redneck side comes out to play and he won't make a big deal out of it (if he does make a fuss, I'll find something to make fun of him about)

Okay, well, the well of randomness has dried up, but I suppose I should save this for my own future reference (I'll make a pocket version or something)

Love from,
Jenny Wildcat

Nothing is Sacred Anymore

I just ran across an appalling piece of information on LeakyNews.com (my favorite site for Harry Potter news). Here's the entry: http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/#article:8392 (with a link to the article) Melissa Anelli, the Big Cheese of TLC, has requested that the comments be kept clean and civil, which means I had to relegate my commmentary to LiveJournal.

Now, this is the work of a college columnist, which group I count myself a part of, and I must say, this was one poorly written piece of crap. Besides being a dark satire ("dark" being an undestatement), this talking ape with a computer has no idea what he has done by publishing this. It goes beyond the limits of journalistic propriety and is just someting liberal weenies write because they are running out of creative ways to protest government (weed, Woodstock and free love is, like, soooo 60s). College liberals are worse because it's easy to be a democrat with no morals and a college student. There's no set of checks and balances to speak of and they get to do what they want. College conservatives, on the other hand, are kept on a short leash (this I know all too well). He's getting a pass to publish such crap because it demeans America and everything America stands for. Such commentary is always welcome on a college campus because it "sticks it to the Man!" (Wait until we all find out that the "Man" is a porcupine).

This is terribly disturbing, not only because I was disturbed by the -- actions -- he purports that Ron and Hermione will take in the seventh book, but because he suggests that terrorists capture JK Rowling and do what they do best. I say that Mr. Lin volunteer for the position he suggests JK Rowling takes and see how much he's laughing then. I have no patience with such stupidity and ignorance. Why can't we get all these dink heads and lock them in a steel room with copies of thier favorites "1984" and "The Communist Manifesto" and they can really talk politics where the rest of us don't have to listen to them.

I could write him and his editor a letter, but that would further fuel his overbloated ego and I really don't want to get in a debate with a bunch of monkeys. Free speech is free speech until you say something that Hillary Clinton doesn't like. Then it's a blantant attack on character and you owe someone an apology.

Viva Hypocrisy! Without it, the media would cease to exist.

Love from,
Jenny Wildcat