Birthday fun!

Today I turned 24, and failed my first drivers license test. Comedy!

Today...

School starts again this week. :(
I got two new frogs. Skittle passed away (R.I.P lil homie) They are Addibisi and Alvarez (like the show Oz). Hopefully they will be around for a while.

I decided to be a vegetarian for a week. I don't understand why people don't eat meat. I MISS meat.

Today, I watched part one of Spike Lee's "When the Levees Broke". I found myself reliving that time period last year, and all the lost anger, frustrastion and disbelief returned. I sometimes hate this country. I don't know if that is healthy or not.

I want to see "Snake on a plane", but no one will go with me.

I can't wait until college football season starts. I am enjoying the pre-season and watching former 'SC players, but I can't wait to don my jersey in sports bars all over Chapel
Hill as I root for my trojans. I LOVE USC!!!!

Mc????

Ok, so I was killing time before picking my car up from the towing lot (which is a whole other story), so I ventured in to the local McDonalds. Or, at least I thought I did. Inside the doors, my McDonald's had been transformed into a chic bistro or cafe. The color scheme was dim, aside from the colorful food menu. There was no playplace, and there were no children in sight. Rather, the restaurant was being patronized by middle class couples, and chic-dressed 20 somethings. I had to pause, recognizing that I, myself was uncomfortable because I felt underdressed in a McDonalds. When did this happen? When did sweats, a bandana, a camisole and flip-flops become a fashion faux-pas in the fast food world?

The plastic booths that once lined the walls had been re-upholstered in earthy colors. Colorful sconces lighted the walls, and lamps hung from the ceilings over booth tables. The floor looked like ceramic tiles, and the counters for the bistro style bar stool seating was a fake wood grain. I ventured into the bathrooms and was impressed by the immaculately clean state. A few wet spots on the floor were the only pieces of evidence that other patrons had been there. I half expected a woman to be sitting by the counter, spraying patrons with perfume and handing out peppermints. It almost would have felt fitting.

So, what happened to my McDonald's? Was this merely a veneer, or has McDonald's fundementally changed? I don't know what the answer is, but I must admit, I felt strangely comforted when the woman next to me stated loudly, "Ugh, they did it again," and got up to turn in her incorrect order. That's the McDonald's that I know. "Have you had your Mistake today."

Veto

Ok, so what's with skinny jeans being the new thing? I was largely unaware of this until my sister brought it to my attention, and sure enough, there they are, in store fronts everywhere. Skinny jeans. As if American's weren't self conscious enough about their ever expanding waistlines, the fashion industry has seen fit to emphasize this by making jeans CALLED skinny jeans, which by nature, oinly look good on skinny people. As a black person who is not really all that large, but owns a healthy pair of thighs, skinny jeans would only serve to make me look disproportionately ridiculous. Certainly not skinny. I know that the center of the fashion universe is supposed to be Paris, and people in Paris I guess are skinny. Kudos to them. I need someone to market "normal jeans" or "healthy jeans". How about "American jeans"... the kind with a $5 coupon to McDonald's in the back pocket?