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My car is fixed, hurrah. I'm going to pick it up tomorrow morning and turn in my weird little rental car. Thank heavens. I am so looking forward to being back in my car. They took care of the oil change as well since it was close to time, so I don't have to worry about that for a few months.

Work today has been full of stupid. A house with nine kids and so many disturbing things I had a hard time picking the primary allegation. A woman sobbing into my phone about how she had been clean for nine months but she had to give up her child because she couldn't handle him anymore. What seems like two hundred faxes from Houston PD about incidents from September. A guy who told the judge in his custody hearing that he was videotaping his daughter having sex. It was a very whiskey tango foxtrot kind of day. It makes me want to run away.

I am also so irate about this IEX crap they are using for schedules and leave calendars. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I don't think I'm ever going to work a job where this kind of crap is handled in a reasonable way.

Tonight I bake cake, and hopefully watch bad movies.

State of the Union 2007 - if you aren't drinking, you're probably crying

Did Shrub really just say "we need to balance the federal budget" in the State of the Union? The man who took us from a government in the black to a government with the worst debt in our history?

Oh. My. God. The audacity. The audacity of this man saying our commitment to Social Security is a "duty of conscience." The audacity of this man saying that we should be committed to the education of our children. Affordable health care? Is he joking? These are issues Shrub doesn't give a damn about. His idea that $4,500 a year would mean a family of four could afford health insurance is so cracked out I think I stopped breathing. Whiskey tango foxtrot?

Let me tell you doubling the Border Patrol isn't going to do shit. I wonder if he really believes in this temporary worker visa program. Clean coal technology, bio-diesel, reducing gasoline use... Aww, he still can't really say nuclear to save his life. Clearly, he is making a lot of concessions in this speech and you can see it makes him queasy.

Oh he wants his judges. Hahah he has a duty to nominate qualified judges but he sure doesn't do that.

Here we go, addressing the Iraq war - fuck you fuck you fuck you and your fear mongering. This makes me so angry I can't even verbalize it. This is not a damned Crusade! Nice digs at Iran, bucko. Twenty thousand more soldiers, fuck. You know, if you want this so bad, you send your daughters, the kids of your golfing buddies, your wife, your brother... I support my damned troops. I don't support you, your cracker jack plans or your war on terror bullshit. You've made it so it is almost impossible to address these issues with your rhetoric, your fear mongering, your bombast and blindness. You've only made others hate us more.

You don't give a fuck about Belarus, poor people, Dafur or African kids with AIDS, Shrub. You know it, and I know it. I'm sure your speechwriter thought it would make you look good though.

Good lord Dikembe is tall.

(My Middle East peace policy is as follows: since no one can play nicely or share, no one gets to have it. Several thousand years and multiple civilizations is too long for this insanity. You can build oil derricks with robots on a big ocean of radioactive glass. Then we will resettle everyone on different planets with only stone tools.)

Laura Bush is looking especially Stepford tonight. Cheney looks like a vulture, or perhaps the Emperor from Star Wars. That man scares me. Why does everyone dress so badly at these things? Hillary has a Marge Simpson-esque strong of pearls, which is kind of charming in a weird way but still bizarre. Shrub picked a bad tie for this thing. I can see lots of people not clapping. I can see a lot of grim faces in the ranks. But it is nice to see his cheering section is small this time around. (And I just howled with laughter watching all those Congresswomen run for the bathroom.)

Texas Capitol Gift Shop!

How did I not know the Capitol had gift shop? I really want all the ornaments now, a stuffed armadillo and a giant First Republic flag throw. Oh, and a bluebonnet pendant. Aww. I love my state.

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My enormous accomplishment of the evening - chocolate butter cake with dark cherries and a chocolate cherry ganache glaze. I am so cool. I love my new cake pan.